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Global Governance: The Strategy of Governance, Social Welfare, and Exclusion?

31 Friday Jul 2015

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Global Governance could be an umbrella term for all activities to end global social problems such as poverty, war and etc but what is compromised or gained under this umbrella? Would what is gained or compromised be ‘just’ to us? Would it be a step towards institutionalization of power and resources or would it be a step towards equality and justice?   This is the question that the following post rather pessimistically view and analyze this term … Enjoy!

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Foucault once described governmentalityin the sense of power not only in terms of hierarchical, top-down power of the state. He widens our understanding of power to also include the forms of social control in disciplinary institutions (schools, hospitals, psychiatric institutions, etc.), as well as the forms of knowledge. Power can manifest itself positively by producing knowledge and certain discourses that get internalised by individuals and guide the behaviour of populations. This leads to more efficient forms of social control, as knowledge enables individuals to govern themselves. In recent years this sense has extended into the global arena.

Global governance as a term has been bandied about by academics and policy makers in think tanks across the world for years. Global Governance or world governance is a movement towards political integration of transnational actors aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affect more than one state or region. It tends to…

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Inside Out- Reflection!

31 Friday Jul 2015

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Anger, Anger Management, connection, Core emotions, culture, Disgust, Emotional Regulation, emotions, Fear, Inside Out, Life Hardship, Movie, Pete Docter, relational definition of joy, Self-regulation, Social construction, Training your Dragon, transition

Inside Out is a funny, witty, and clever movie portraying the role of human emotions in a very touching sensible story. The story is about a life of a girl who is facing a significant transition in her life.

“Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl, but her world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. Riley’s emotions — led by Joy (Amy Poehler) — try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. However, the stress of the move brings Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to the forefront. When Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley’s mind, the only emotions left in Headquarters are Anger, Fear, and Disgust”.

The core emotions of human beings are Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. These emotions are learned emotions; these emotions exhibit themselves in one’s life based on one’s experiences and learning in relationships.  The emotions, in this movie, are beautifully externalized. Emotions act independently and co-dependently with other emotions. Emotions are triggered/ activated due to a major change in one’s life.  The interactions between emotions are utterly amusing and amazingly constructed.

In a process of helping a person regain her/his well-being, emotions play a big role. Emotions are expressions of life. What one learns through social interactions is translated to the formation of various forms of emotions. One’s relational learning has gradually become associated with specific emotions which get expressed in daily interactions with others and ourselves.

Inside Out is not only about Riley’s journey of adaptation with a new life, it is also about collaborative work of emotions. In this journey, the core emotions learn new things about each other, they learn the necessity and usefulness of each in one’s life. They learn to work together to respond to particular situations more positively.

The moment that Joy learns Sadness has usefulness is priceless. The moment that Anger, Fear and Disgust have to run Riley’s headquarters is superb as they have to compensate for other emotions such as Joy and Sadness.

The screen players of Inside Out have done a great job in the characterization of the core emotions.  Throughout the movie, these messages are implicitly echoed: the core emotions are trainable; they are constructed in a specific context; they are changeable; they are flexible and playful; they are interchangeable; they are responses to specific conditions in life. No emotion is fixed.

It is a very optimistic movie as it shows us to work with our own emotions and regulate/train/tame them in creative ways that make us re-connected with self and others.

If the goal of one’s life is to re-bounce from disconnection and if it is to re-connect with self and others, this movie illustrates this perfectly.  I wonder if this movie is shown at schools and I could just imagine what effects it would have on children and perhaps their parents.

Happy to see Pete Docter and his crew brought this invisible and covert subject to life in this great animation movie!  If you haven’t seen it, it is highly recommended.

Happy possibilities,

Tahereh Barati

 

 

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Don’t Get Stuck in Your Story ~ Revise!

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

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I listen to , have appreciation for and work with people’s narratives of self on a daily basis. The following post is intriguing as it suggests what to do when one single narrative of self is taking more space than other narratives of self in one’s life. Our life is multi-storied. We have multi-narratives of self constructed in our relationships with others.

I would like to invite you to think of ways of making bridges between conflicted narratives and discovering new narratives of self. Our life narratives are constantly shaped and reshaped through our conversations with others.  So keep the conversation going. Enjoy!

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The Enlightenment Project: Critics of Technology and Reason!

21 Tuesday Jul 2015

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I enjoyed reading this article as it described beautifully two streams/schools of thinking in human developments.  Enjoy!

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One does not need to look far to find critical appraisals of the Enlightenment Project of progressive reason. There is along tradition of critiques that either support returns to religious ideologies and practice, or who would return us to even older forms of cultural diagnosis. In the last century two well known critiques from the Left and Right sides of the spectrum stand out: that of Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment from leftist stance, and on the right the work of fascist scholar Carl Schmidt. Both agreed that what they saw in the Enlightenment project was not itself Reason, but a complex of ideas associated under what has come down to us as the Liberal Tradition or Progressivism in thought, politics, and economics. Both sides would also agree that foremost in this strange twist of commonality was the agreement that modernity was leading humans not toward enlightenment but rather…

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Henry Miller: Quote of the Day!

19 Sunday Jul 2015

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Portrait of the author Henry Miller (1891 - 1980), wearing a white shirt, California, mid twentieth century. (Photo by Larry Colwell/Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.
… [Boris] is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not Time, but Timelessness. We must get in step, a lock step, toward the prison of death. There is no escape. The weather will not change.
… It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

– Henry Miller,  Tropic of…

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Technocapitalism: Corporatism as Business Governance of Society!

19 Sunday Jul 2015

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Luis Suarez-Villa. Technocapitalism: A Critical Perspective on Technological Innovation and Corporatism: Critical Extracts and Notes

Corporatism is the power of business corporations over society. The corporate colonization of our social relations, of our identity as humans, and of life itself is an ongoing enterprise: it colonizes human society, nature, and the planet, corporatism degrades us, turning our most precious human qualities into commodities. This degradation of human values is not grounded in technology, in and of itself. It is grounded in the character of a new kind of corporatism and its authoritarian control over technology. It is a new kind of corporatism that is more clever, rapacious, and invasive than any previous form and that is imperial in its quest for power and profit as it tries to control any and all aspects of the public domain.1

Technocapitalism is defined as a new form of capitalism that is heavily grounded…

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Photos – Beautiful Ontario-2!

12 Sunday Jul 2015

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Canada, Lakes, Landscape photography, Nature Photography, Ontario, Parks, photography

This gallery contains 24 photos.

Here are a few of my photos taken in Ontario, Canada!  

Photos- Beautiful Ontario 1!

10 Friday Jul 2015

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Badlands, Canada, Kayaks, landscape, Magnolia, nature, Ontario, Outdoor, Parks, photography

Here are a few of my pics taken in Spring 2015, Ontario, Canada.

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Invitation to Participate in my PhD Project!

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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Invitation to Participate in my PhD Project!

I am interested in hearing your stories of resilience. Do you have stories of moments when you encountered with a significant difference between yourself and another person? I would like to ask you questions to learn how you faced your differences and how your relationship progressed.

I will have conversations with you to learn about what you did concerning the difference and how you maintained your relationship with the other person. The other person could be anyone with whom you experience conflict; it could be a person in your immediate or extended family, or a person at work (colleague or manager or client/customer), or a person in a social/ political group and association to which you belong.

I believe that people have ‘inside knowledge’ in sorting out their differences with others in informal ways. I would like to document the inside knowledge people from all walks of life who are willing to share with me. I would like to involve you in new kinds of conversation on this topic.

This inquiry is a very friendly, reflective, and conversational process. We will focus on how you maintained, saved, and transformed your relationship with another person. This inquiry does not presuppose any particular model. It is an open-ended process to allow you to reflect. It is also designed to reach people, not a specific population or category of issues or people.

There is a mini- survey designed to gain your acceptance as a participant of this project followed by phone or email communication where we will set up a time for our conversation either in- person or via Skype.

In addition to your consideration, I’d appreciate if you would post this note, forward it, distribute it at events, keep copies in your office, and invite others to join this process. I ask that you help invite others to share in this opportunity to have their resilient success stories heard. I’d love to hear from you as well as from your friends and colleagues who are willing to participate in this project.

Please see the below link and respond to a few questions to begin the process.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9JGRVBG

Thank you very much,

Tahereh Barati,  PhD student

 

 

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The Betrayal of Leaders: Reading the Interviews with Deleuze and Guattari!

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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What we hold against psychoanalysis is that it resorts to a pious conception, based on lack and castration, a sort of negative theology that involves infinite resignation. It is against this that we propose a positive conception of desire, desire that produces, not desire that is lacking in something.

– Deleuze & Guattari, Chaosophy

“Leaders betray, that’s obvious. But why do those who are led continue to listen to them,” says Felix Guattari.1

How many times I’ve asked myself that question. Too many times and the answers seem to be perplexing and mysterious. Guattari himself will answer it this way, with another question: “Wouldn’t that be the result of an unconscious complicity, of an interiorization of the repression, operating on several levels, from power to bureaucratic, from bureaucrats to militants, and from militants to the masses themselves?” (p. 70) Unconscious complicity? Willing slaves of our own thwarted desires? Unaware of…

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