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Explores the present state of theorizing about the political practices of the intersections of feminisms & ethnicity, & raises the larger question of the political practices of difference, or the ways the intersections of multiple identities can be translated into political practice. The way that this issue has emerged is traced, from both the political practice of the Canadian women's movement & the intellectual challenge of postmodernism. Following a brief examination of Canadian feminist writings on the analysis of intersections of gender & ethnicity, political practices of intersectionality are explored through the question of citizenship & the relationship between the public & private spheres. Although some interesting arguments are to be found in the literature about the potential for the development of coalition politics that take account of difference but also of common citizenship, it is not at all clear that this will be the direction that will be taken by the politics of the women's movement in Canada. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

En esta investigación pretendemos indagar en las funciones que ejerció la polémica en el discurso del diario La Nación en el marco de su caracterización de los gobiernos de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015). Nuestro modo de abordaje es el análisis del discurso, asentado en términos teóricos en las ideas de la Escuela Francesa de Análisis del Discurso, la Semántica Argumentativa y los aportes del Enfoque Dialógico de la Argumentación y la Polifonía. A partir de allí, nos concentramos específicamente en el análisis de la escena de enunciación y en el plano argumentativo, de modo que nos enfocamos en la materia verbal de los textos para dar con los destinatarios interpelados, las cadenas tópico argumentativas construidas, las operaciones polémicas de refutación y la construcción que el diario hizo del kirchnerismo en tanto objeto discursivo a lo largo de diversas coyunturas/acontecimientos. Nuestra investigación se inserta en la discusión sobre la disputa entre medios hegemónicos y partidos políticos por la representación. Partimos del supuesto según el cual La Nación edificó un discurso polémico -es decir dicotomizador, polarizador y descalificador del adversario- cuyo diferendo refiere, en última instancia, al desacuerdo entre populismo y democracia procedimental, y que al configurarse de tal modo contribuyó a la construcción de un colectivo de identificación antagónico al kirchnerismo. Pondremos a prueba la hipótesis que afirma que el diario no configuró un discurso homogéneo, más bien lo contrario: para lograr acaparar una amplia franja de sectores sociales y alcanzar más destinatarios debió diversificar su discurso permitiendo la coexistencia de un abanico de corrientes del espectro de la derecha que encontraban en el kirchnerismo un adversario común.

Elements of a structural theory of ethnic segregation & assimilation are formulated, substantiated by various studies from 1963 to 1982 of nonimmigrant minorities in the Danish & German parts of Schleswig, Denmark. A list of definitions of culture, ethnicity, assimilation, acculturation, & segregation is given. Axioms concerning the structure, values, & interactions within a society are proposed. Theorems are formulated, eg: community organizations (church, family, clubs, etc) are the cores of ethnic identification; integration in the LF is the primary cause of assimilation; & the greater the SS difference, the less the social integration of an ethnic group. Most of these theorems are evidenced in studies of the German & Danish minorities in north & south Schleswig. Ethnic minorities tend to have difficulty recognizing themselves in structural analyses, which exclude or diminish the individual's view of his own ethnicity. While introspection can be effectively combined with structural analysis, ethnic minorities can be well-researched from an external, structural position. This approach is highly recommended to ethnic minorities to further understand & shape their own societies. 1 Figure, 23 References. D. Graves.

A key issue for interest groups and policymakers is the ways through which organized interests voice their interests and influence public policy. This article combines two perspectives on interest group representation to explain patterns of interest group access to different political arenas. From a resource exchange perspective, it argues that access to different political arenas is discrete as it is determined by the match between the supply and demands of interest groups and gatekeepers-politicians, bureaucrats, and reporters. From a partly competing perspective, it is argued that access is cumulative and converges around wealthy and professionalized groups. Based on a large-scale investigation of group presence in Danish political arenas, the analyses show a pattern of privileged pluralism. This describes a system where multiple political arenas provide opportunities for multiple interests but where unequally distributed resources produce cumulative effects (i.e., the same groups have high levels of arena access). Adapted from the source document.

Despite growing scholarly interest in the identities and experiences of girls, little attention has been paid to the identities and experiences of rural girls, and in particular how girls' subjectivities are discursively constituted in rural spaces. Using interviews and focus group discussions with girls and young women who attended a girls' empowerment program, this paper draws on feminist poststructuralism and positioning theory to examine how rural gendered subjectivities are constructed and negotiated by girls and young women within the social, spatial, and discursive boundaries of a rural Canadian community. I examine how the girls and young women positioned themselves and were positioned by others as "small town girl" and "country girl" subjects, and how rural positionality was accomplished through invoking real and imagined notions of more urban "others." It is through these contrasts to urban subjecthood that the variability of rural positionality is made visible. The findings of this study complicate and extend the dominant narrative of the urban-rural binary, and gendered identities and performances within rural spaces, by demonstrating the plurality of feminine rural subjectivity. This study offers new applications for the role of girls' empowerment programs in shaping girls' identities, experiences, and perspectives.

This ethnographic study examines the meaning of "diversity" in a rural community, along with related issues of social identity. Data collected through participant observation, public documents, and interviews has shown that as in most places, "diversity" is typically defined in Montgomery County, Virginia in terms of ethnic differences. However, conflict and tensions within the county usually occur not between ethnic groups, but between the public associated with the university here, Virginia Tech, and the public of "rural" community members not associated with the university. Furthermore, there is little interaction between these two polarized publics. The dissertation shows how boundaries between them are created and sustained partly by discursive productions of categories like "rural" and "Appalachian" and partly by institutionalized mechanisms such as tracking in schools that redefine social differences as "natural" and unchangeable. However, these practices are functional for each group too, since they serve to maintain groups' identities. While democratic dialogue could produce new understandings and alter the polarized relations between the groups, it could also be threatening to those involved because either group could become subsumed by the other. One possibility for furthering the democratic project is to work through schools to develop multicultural education that enables students to be critically reflective of their own publics. Such awareness could allow publics to define themselves in less rigid ways, opening possibilities for interpublic dialogue. But if the discursive practices operating in the community that separate groups are left intact, there is little hope that critical reflection learned in schools will be sustained as students grow up and enter the adult community. ; Ph. D.

Institusi bale gambang-baruk iaitu sebuah institusi penting yang berperanan sebagai pusat perayaan dan menjadi sumber dalam konteks sosialisasi, selain sebagai pusat ritual dan pemujaan, amalan mistik dan perbomohan, serta benteng pertahanan kampung tradisi dalam kalangan etnik Bidayuh, Sarawak. Objektif kajian ini bertujuan untuk menilai fungsi dan peranan institusi bale gambang-baruk sebagai pusat adat, pusat perayaan dan pusat sosial tradisional masyarakat Bidayuh. Aspek ini akan melibatkan penelitian perayaaan tradisional dan proses ritual yang diadakan. Metodologi penyelidikan kualitatif digunakan dengan pengumpulan data dibuat menggunakan sumber premier, iaitu melalui kajian penulis di lapangan, dengan penyelidikan secara penglibatan dan pemerhatian di beberapa buah kampung Bidayuh, iaitu di Kampung Gumbang, Kampung Opar dan Kampung Pichi yang masih mengekalkan amalan ini walaupun mengalami arus pemodenan. Hasil kajian yang dilakukan ini membuktikan bale gambang-baruk masih dijadikan sebagai pusat adat, perayaan dan sosialisasi Bidayuh. Hal ini dilakukan sebagai kesinambungan budaya tradisi walaupun terdapat beberapa bentuk yang terdapat dalam perayaan ini mempunyai unsur-unsur modenisasi. Misalnya, penglibatan wakil rakyat, agensi kerajaan dan badan budaya masyarakat Bidayuh sendiri. Dalam konteks kontemporari ini, ia menjadi sebahagian daripada produk pelancongan etnik Bidayuh khususnya dan Sarawak amnya. Ternyata institusi baruk memberikan ruang kepada penglibatan dan kesedaran dalam masyarakat Bidayuh untuk mengekalkan identiti dan memartabat warisan mereka yang kian pupus oleh proses globalisasi. Bale gambang-baruk institution is an important institution as a center of celebration and a resource in the context of socialization, as well as a center of ritual and worship, mystical practices as well as a traditional village fort among the Bidayuh ethnic group in Sarawak. The objective of this study is to evaluate the function and role of the bale gambang-baruk as a centre of cultural and traditional festival social centre of the Bidayuh community. This aspect will involve the study of traditional celebrations and ritual processes held in the bale gambang-baruk. Qualitative research methodology is used with data collection made using premier sources, namely through the author's study in the field, with research by involvement and observation in several Bidayuh villages, namely in Kampung Gumbang, Kampung Opar and Kampung Pichin which still uphold these practices despite the currents of modernization. The results of this study prove that bale gambang-baruk is still used as a centre for Bidayuh customs, celebrations and socialization. This is done as a continuation of traditional culture although there are some forms found in this celebration contain elements of modernization. For example, the involvement of elected representatives, government agencies, and cultural bodies of the Bidayuh community itself, in the effort to preserve and promote this institution. In this contemporary context it has become part of the tourism products of the Bidayuh ethnic in particular and Sarawak in general. Apparently, the new institutions provide space for involvement and awareness in the Bidayuh community to maintain their identity and dignify their heritage which is becoming extinct by the process of globalization.

We all play games at work - but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it provides an interpretation of why people act the way they do at work as an expression of game playing. It offers an insight into how people try to adapt and fit in at work by looking at how value is attached to certain identities through the lens of class and gender. The figure of the 'chav', the 'emotional woman', 'The Grafter', and 'Mrs. Bucket', are explored in detail as representations of what kinds of people are permitted, or not, to fit in at work. These identities are topical, and may even be familiar to readers, but the author's analysis of them challenges why they exist, what function these identities serve at work, and who is able to deploy and inscribe them as part of the games people play at work.

This paper attempts to describe the conditions necessary for the furthering of democracy in Turkey by focusing on a certain conception of democratic legitimacy that goes beyond formal arrangements. It argues that the effective participation of citizens in democratic procedures is necessary for the consolidation of democracy in public life. To defend this argument, the theoretical background developed in deliberative models of democracy is followed. The quality of 'talk', as a constitutive feature of democracy, is explored by following the critical perspectives in deliberative theory that focus on the discursive mechanisms of exclusion and on power relations intrinsic to deliberative procedures. For this purpose, the deliberative processes in a series of 'working group meetings', carried out as a part of the Local Agenda 21 project, are analysed. The democratic capacity of deliberative experiences and public dialogue is analysed by examining the inclusion/exclusion of opposing ideas, different identities and discourse styles during these working groups meetings.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of socially supportive relationships between co-workers in fostering organisational identification (OID). Adopting a Social Identity Theory perspective, the study investigates how employees' ethnic self-identification (ESI) may influence co-worker social support (CWSS)–OID relationship depending on whether they are indigenes or non-indigenes.Design/methodology/approachRegression analysis was used to examine the relationship between CWSS (independent variable) and OID (dependent variable) at different levels of ESI (moderator variable). Data were collected from 1,525 employees from public and private employers in Nigeria.FindingsFindings supported a positive relationship between CWSS and OID that is moderated by an employee's ESI. Specifically, the study finds that ESI matters in the strength of CWSS–OID relationship such that the relationship is weaker for indigenes compared to non-indigenes.Practical implicationsAs organisations develop policies that increase the representation of various ethnic groups or other forms of social identities at work, there is need to create an environment that fosters socially supportive relationships among co-workers.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by adding a level of boundary conditions to the overall findings that workplace relationships are important for OID. The study also addresses how employees of different ethnic groups are influenced by the ethnicity of the context prevailing where an organisation is located.