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.B. Tauris ). Fehrenbach , H. ( 2015 ), ‘ From Aid to Intimacy: The Humanitarian Origins and Media Culture of International Adoption ’, in Paulmann , J. (ed.), Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid in the Twentieth Century ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ), pp
-to-father) support groups which operate alongside the female groups. Within these platforms, best nutritional practices are discussed in conjunction with social norms which foreground beliefs and practices related to health, feeding and nutrition in the first place. Some of these norms being discussed and reconsidered are gender roles in the community and household. Adhering to some of the gender-positive discussions in the groups, men are increasingly building more intimacy with their wives and children, supporting the education of girls, and encouraging access to biomedical
, E. and Aijazi , O. ( 2019 ), ‘ “We Were Controlled, We Were Not Allowed to Express Our Sexuality, Our Intimacy Was Suppressed”: Sexual Violence Experienced by Boys ’, in Drumbl , M. and Barrett , J. C. (eds), Research Handbook on Child Soldiers ( Cheltenham
compositions to enhance Americans’ ability to relate with people from afar. Concentrating his camera on women, children, and the elderly, Hine positioned the groups and individuals in his pictures in such a way as to disarm and to generate positive feelings. Often repeated is the figure of the pieta. For a predominantly Christian America, the apparent intimacy and careful attention suggested by a Madonna and child image signaled virtue and preeminent importance of a mother’s care. Hine’s pictures often conveyed tenderness and protection among adults and children. He also
, of course, that many children are active consumers in their own right). A key line running through Vivian Zelizer’s book The Purchase of Intimacy (2005) is that we take the relationship between economics and intimacy seriously and see household economics as a social process through which household relationships are constructed. 31 As Charlotte Faircloth also insists, contemporary parenting is a
positivity and intimacy are implied. The positive connotations of ‘friendships’ are integral to the way Facebook’s architecture structures positive sentiments. Friendship also implies a degree of intimacy whereby users wish to ‘share’ the personal in semi-public spaces. A user sharing the ‘personal’ again benefits the corporate agenda of Facebook, which is then able to capture intimate information that can be instantly
” and its “Glorious New Era” under the CCP. Like a debutante at its ball, China was stepping out into international society to be admired by all, and demanding recognition. Confronting China’s rise from the intimacy of their own homes, Americans appear to have become warier towards China. 29 US media coverage of scandals surrounding an underage Chinese gymnast who denied an American a medal, and a lip-syncing girl during the opening events, contributed to an American view of the Chinese as cheats. To add insult to injury, China won the most gold medals at its
presence in the region. That policy, however, may make long-term solutions to regional problems more difficult to come by, particularly from the need to find a multilateral solution for the routing of oil lines to eastern Asia as well as to Europe.11 The potential danger of the American intimacy with Uzbekistan is that ‘the inertia and the logic of events may tempt the Bush administration to let a temporary expedient grow into an enduring policy shift’.12 In other words, propping up Uzbekistan as a regional hegemon not only would fail to address, but would actually
with his post-9/11 bid for a special relationship with the United States as a non-member member-state of the military organisation, NATO, that was initially designed to contain the Russian empire. Russia’s territorial intimacy with Europe is reinforced as enlargement brings the EU and NATO closer to, and even into, Russian territory through 235 2504Chap12 7/4/03 12:42 pm Page 236 Institutions of security governance the enclave of Kaliningrad, where Moscow’s demands for special transit rights will have to be addressed by the time the Baltic countries became EU
the fact that only they have been able to portray themselves as an authentic alternative to corrupt, inefficient and sometimes repressive regimes. According to Ayubi: A wide variety of groups are attracted to the Islamist thesis because . . . [it] imparts a certain sense of intimacy and assurance, and because they