 | | | | Psychological Crisis as a Factor in Identity Formation A window to the formation of personal identity is the experience of personal crisis. This window may open following or during grief over a significant loss or anticipated loss and grief over the death of a significant other, parental divorce or abandonment, or after a moral compromise, or other trauma in which the sense of personal identity is challenged. The following describe circumstances that leave the individual most vulnerable to Identity Re-Formation: |
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| Tamang Gendered Subjectivities in a Migrating World This paper explores the continuities and transformations wrought in Tamang systems of sex and gender by the recent extensive wage outmigration, mostly of men. That is, it is about what is happening to the material prospects for Tamang men and women, as well as in Tamang constructions of gendered value. Although both men and women are experiencing dramatic experiential changes, the greater challenges to self-worth are confronting women, whether they are left behind in the villages, migrate halfway to live in Kathmandu, or travel themselves to work and live internationally. As these women and... |
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| Enhancing Women's Political Fortunes in Ghana: Is a 50/50 Campaign Realistic The 50/50 Campaign as a tool for enhancing women's political participation has gained currency in recent time. Its call for equal participation of women and men in politics and public office has reinvigorated various activisms globally. This paper examines the Campaign within the context of Ghanaian women's political fortunes. Contesting its feasibility against a background of women's poor performance at national elections and political appointments, it argues that the success stories in countries such as Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda and South Africa are inspirational. Historically, Ghana... |
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| Norway, religion and the United Nations In this article, we will describe the lengthy process of implementing international standards of freedom of religion and UN standards in a liberal, secular democracy with a taken-for-granted Lutheran cultural heritage. We will also explore the complex role of religion in Norwegian foreign policy and see how religious actors and religious values are handled. |
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| 'Kirtan's Downfall': The Sadhaka Kirtaniya, Cultural Nationalism and Gender in Early Twentieth-century Bengal This article studies the relationship between the discourse of Bengali cultural nationalism and the devotional song genre of padavali kirtan in the early twentieth century. Prominent in the work of padavali kirtan enthusiasts amongst the Bengali elite—the bhadralok—was the promotion of the image of a religiously devout and musically skilled musician, referred to as the sadhaka kirtaniya. The advancement of the sadhaka kirtaniya as a cultural template was based on non-cosmopolitan, male performers of the genre who began to perform and teach in Kolkata at the turn of the twentieth century.... |
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| African women are demanding for political inclusion not because they are merely women but because they have capacity and qualify for such recognition Historical accounts have evidence that Women have proven their Mettle when saddled with the responsibility of leading a society. From Biblical accounts of women like Queen Sheba, Esther et al, down to the Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Queen Amina of Zauzau and the Longest British serving monarch; Queen Elizabeth II, these women were given rare chance to succeed on the throne antecedently held by men. Most of them inherited a society in turmoil and were able to restore sovereignty and order to the land. These women succeeded not because of they were merely women but because they were given this... |
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| Colonialism An introduction to the concept for education students |
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