4 THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF DISABILITY While disabled people in mining communities worked, sought medical care and received welfare, they also existed in a complex web of social relations. Such social relations were varied and complex, were determined by a broad array of social, cultural and other factors and had profound consequences for experiences and understandings of disability. But just as existing social relations helped influence the experiences of disabled people, so disability brought about new social relations between individuals, groups and agencies
’ rights and education opportunities, does not sufficiently engage with the expectations of appropriate masculinity, which create ‘demand’. They suggest that these gendered expectations are themselves contributing to the continuation of inter-group conflict in the region through cattle raiding for the purpose of acquiring ‘bride price’. As such, the article echoes the call from Pacoma et al. to the importance of local understandings and meanings embedded in social relations of conflict and disaster settings. It also indicates the extent to which the discourses of
the community’s social fabric, and to an extent, it damages a community’s norms, values and social relations, thereby affecting sustainable peace, stability and prosperity ( Colletta and Cullen, 2000 ; Jacoby, 2012 ). In conflict-affected settings, ties with diverse social actors are valuable assets to access and use (often) scarce resources. The engagements and interactions built during the stay in the refugee settlement contribute to the formation of the refugees’ lived experiences
’ projects, traveled towards the postal locker of the federal agency where Marc Rockbrune worked, and his collection contains fragments for the study of these local uses of media. As a result, the Rockbrune collection helps gauge how the CIDA visual productions were used in classrooms, where the teaching and learning visual practices occurred. The regularity of the subscriptions managed by Rockbrune’s service, the teaching of the materials within the structure of public schools, the attention to the social relations within which the pictures were taken, their publication
Introduction Recent interventions in visual theory claim the camera affords the disenfranchised a form of political participation through the civil space opened up by the medium, a space where creator, subject, and spectator intersect ( Azoulay, 2008 ; de Laat, 2019 ). Beyond merely being a technology for producing pictures, the camera is understood as mediating social relations, and as such is an inherently political medium. Crucial to this formulation is visibility: being seen enables participation in a political community, even if only through a
renewed discussions. Existing technical and ethical guidelines have been rewritten to address the audiences and creators of social media and they have been distributed more widely. The principles and advice revolve around the composition, clarity and interest of the pictures, and warn against alterations of visual assets ( CRC, 2018b : 86). They gauge the appropriateness of the content in the light of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( MCoS, 2017 : 4). When it comes to social relations around the images, they underline the importance of proper consent and
collaborate with the state’ ( Vlassenroot and Raeymaekers, 2008 : 50). Governance is not a static ‘thing’, but a negotiated process between politicians, customary authorities, ethnic associations, social movements, armed groups, churches, multinational corporations, the national army and international and national NGOs. These negotiation arenas are informal: ‘embedded in social relations’ ( Hagmann and Péclard, 2010 : 551). In order to operate, MSF needs to build up and maintain an extensive network to communicate with, and receive security reassurances from, relevant
, Epistemologies, and Social Relations’ , GeoJournal , 80 : 4 , 477 – 90 . Calhoun , C. ( 2010 ), The Idea of Emergency: Humanitarian Action and Global (Dis) order ( New York : Zone Books ). Carter , S. , Green , J
incorporating a range of elements. In the broadest sense it refers to intelligence resulting in self-controlled public acts. But it also refers to elements of wisdom and trickery, caution, cleverness, prudence. It is the capacity to gain a clear understanding of situations and the capability to surround oneself with a network of profit-generating social relations. Alexis Kagame, Rwanda’s foremost intellectual, typifies ubwenge as ‘cultural wisdom’ ( Kagame, 1956 : 220). Despite the negative connotations it carries when looked at from outside the Rwandan socio
. Lindley , A. ( 2010 ), The Early Morning Phonecall: Somali Refugees’ Remittances ( New York : Berghahn Books ). Lokot , M. ( 2018 ), ‘ “Blood Doesn’t Become Water”? Syrian Social Relations during Displacement ’, Journal of Refugee Studies , doi: 10