Considering the intermingling of problems in today’s multi-crisis environment, this text explores the possibilities of intertwining social work and pastoral care. In the search for effective ...approaches, we find dynamic patterns in the activities of the Royová (Roy) sisters. Their diaconal work is an important source for social work history illustrating how social work took the form of diaconal (charity) work with a rich pastoral reach at the time. Their activities represent a natural link between Christian anthropology and social work. This study mainly investigates the Christian (spiritual) basis of the social and charitable activities of the Royová sisters, the beginnings of the institutionalisation of social and charitable work in Slovakia and Serbia through the organisations founded by the Royová sisters, the Christian-social interpersonal contribution of the Roy sisters to the development of Slovak and European social work personified by their cooperation with several personalities of social and charitable work at the international, national, and local levels, and the contribution of the Roy sisters in the creation of women’s, volunteer, and international roots of social and charitable work in Slovakia and Europe. In their responses to the needs of their environment, we find significant stimuli for pastoral theology, which is supposed to respond to the needs of the multi-crisis environment of today.
This article examines the functions of feminism in the critical reception of Kristina Sandberg’s Maj-Trilogy, published 2010-2014. Detailing the evaluative patterns of reviews, it is shown that ...critics’ increased attention to feminist politics and women’s history in the novels was tied to a de-aestheticizing rhetoric, exemplifying gender hierarchies on the literary field. However, the trilogy’s critical and commercial success is also shown to be based on conception of the women’s cause and feminist writing traditions. Connecting these points, the article argues that a principal function of feminism on the contemporary Swedish book market is to make varying evaluative principles visible, and to bridge the boundaries of cultural, political and social fields.
The Theatricality of Grief Wilson, Harry Robert
Performance research,
06/2019, Letnik:
24, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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Roland Barthes's influential book on photography Camera Lucida has been discussed by Michael Fried as an exercise in 'anti-theatrical critical thought', for its celebration of the accidental, ...non-intentional, detail and the naïve non-performance of the photographed subject (see Fried 2008). However, in Barthes's comparison between photography and theatre in the book he evokes Samuel Weber's definition of theatricality as an interruption of the Aristotelean movement toward a 'meaningful goal' (Weber 2004: 46). Barthes explores the photograph's 'foreclosure of the Tragic' that 'excludes all purification, all catharsis', writing that nothing in the photograph 'can transform my grief into mourning' (Barthes 1993: 90). In these remarks Barthes sets up a distinction between the self-affirming cultural practice of mourning and the more painful, ongoing affective realm of grief. In 2017 I staged After Camera Lucida, a practice-as-research performance at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow that responded to the concepts, methods and form of Barthes's book through my own personal experience of losing my mother when I was 14. This article critically reflects on After Camera Lucida, contextualising the performance through Barthes's ideas, Weber's concept of theatricality and recent scholarly work between theatre studies, visual studies and film. The article explores the ways that After Camera Lucida practised the suspension of mourning and catharsis as a particularly theatrical a/effect and how the slowing down of movement and time in the work explored a radical theatricality circulating between bodies, spaces and images.The article is punctuated by photographic documentation of the performance from Glasgow-based artist Julia-Kristina Bauer.
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