Susan James
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3742129 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan James |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | James |
| ASSINATURA | JAMES S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2902-0860 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
CLASP Model for Inclusive Classrooms
Inclusive education seeks to ensure equitable access, meaningful participation, and learner dignity within mainstream classrooms. Despite strong policy commitments such as UNESCO's inclusive education framework and India's National Education Policy (NEP, 2020), classroom-level implementation for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and specific learning difficulties (SLD) remains uneven, particularly in resource-constra…
Acquiring intuitive knowledge
In this response to Steven Nadler’s paper, I ask whether Spinoza views the transition from rational to intuitive knowledge as an individual or a collective project and conclude that it is largely a collective one. For Spinoza, our individual capacity to reason is underwritten by a social practice, an art of reasoning, which licences the rational conclusions on which intuitive knowledge rests. Equally, the pursuit of intuitive knowledge rests on a…
Models of contact
Martin Lenz has given us a powerful and thought-provoking critique of an historiographical orthodoxy. It is often taken more or less for granted that the leading philosophers of the seventeenth cen
Development of localised information on Dementia Services and Support for Clinicians and Community Members of the Central Coast NSW Australia
The Central Coast Dementia Alliance (the Alliance) formed in 2017 when it was evident that there was a lack of understanding of dementia, support and guidance for those living with dementia, their families, friends and carers on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia. The Alliance is made up of local community members with a lived experience of dementia, members from a number of healthcare organisations such as hospital and community government servic…
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2…
Learning to Live More Equitably
Although seventeenth‐century societies fell far short of contemporary standards of justice, early modern philosophers thought deeply about what social justice consists in. At a theoretical level, they aimed to articulate distributive principles. At a practical level, they asked what qualities we need to possess in order to make just judgments. In the first part of this article, I discuss two interpretations of the conception of equity on which ju…
Apprenticeship, employer engagement and vocational formation
With successive changes to apprenticeship policy, shifting emphasis on the amount of involvement of employers in engaging and delivering apprenticeship, and an over-reliance on further education to fill the gaps in the midst of its own storm, this article explores the successful ingredients for employer engagement in apprenticeship and vocational formation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with employers and apprentices from five busines…
Rights Talk,” Abortion, and the Media
This article provides empirical data on the public discourse surrounding abortion in Saskatchewan. Through an analysis of newspaper articles from two time periods—the dawn of the Charter era and three decades after Morgentaler—this article considers how abortion is framed in these accounts and whether, when “rights” terminology is employed, rights are presented as absolute or limited. This article adds to the empirical body of work documenting th…
Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy
The political rhetoric of parity of esteem
The vocational and academic routes that make up the English education system have different purposes, for different stakeholders, with different outcomes; they can be complementary routes but are not analogous. Consequently, calls for parity of esteem belie the fundamental intention and importance of each. While these calls have persisted for over 70 years, parity between the two routes has not been achieved. This paper questions whether the term…
Spinoza
Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology
Community psychology's history has traditionally been described within the context of U.S. history, silencing contributions from people of color from the Americas, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. In a MA /PhD specialization in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Psychologies, and Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are attempting to steer into critical dialogues about modernity, coloniality, and decoloniali…
Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty, and poor child health in northern Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: The importance of fathers in ensuring child health in rural developing populations is questioned by anthropologists and population health scientists. Existing literature focuses on paternal death and child mortality. A relative lack of studies consider alternative forms of father absence and/or more subtle health outcomes. Here we determine the frequency and form of father absence in northern Tanzania, and its relationship to househol…
Indigenous Epistemology Explored through Yoruba Orisha Traditions in the African Diaspora
This article analyzes an Indigenous epistemology explored through Yoruba Orisha traditions in the African diaspora. It also emphasizes the discordance between Euro-American psychology and African American women’s feminism. In particular, it presents decolonial woman-centered spriritual practices and the possibilities inherent in cosmovivencia. As an example, it draws from a symposium hosted by Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute …
Sending children to school
Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental strategies, and that such strategies emerge first in relatively wealthy families within populations undergoing 'modernization'. However, most research focuses on fertility reduction rather than shifting parental investment, and few studies consider how parental decisions regarding educational investme…
Counselor empathy or “Having a heart to help”? An ethnographic investigation of Chinese clients' experience of counseling
Current understanding of counselor empathy is almost entirely based on Western culture. Clients'; perceptions of counselor empathy are scarcely investigated within any non-Western group. Using ethnographic interviews, this study explored the concept of counselor empathy from Chinese counseling clients'; perspectives by exploring their experiences of therapeutic relationships. Although informants did not commonly and explicitly consider counselor …
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Mindfulness as Clinical Training
Mindfulness training is increasingly being recommended as a strategy for fostering therapeutic effectiveness. We used a qualitative methodology to explore the potential utility of mindfulness training in helping beginning MSW students develop clinical intervention skills. Students reported that the training helped them manage distractions and anxiety, facilitated their ability to attend and respond to the client, and encouraged them to be more se…
What we know and what we need to know about graduate skills
The expansion of higher education has led to more graduates in the UK labour market. Despite government expectations, this expansion has not boosted national economic competitiveness. This article argues that current understanding of the impact of graduates' skills is limited by methodological and conceptual narrowness in current research and that a broader research agenda is required. This agenda needs to cover not just the supply but also the d…
A Bermuda triangle of policy? ‘Bad jobs’, skills policy and incentives to learn at the bottom end of the labour market
A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by ‘bad jobs’ and the evidence for the existence of a set of mutually reinforcing factors that reduces the incentives acting on individuals in such work, and in many…
Delivering Flexibility
This article provides a comparative analysis of changes in numerical and functional labour flexibility in the French and the UK food processing industry. Based upon case study data, it explores the interaction between competitive pressures and institutional and regulatory structures and their impact on workplace practices. The findings indicate that, faced with a similar competitive environment, firms in both countries have sought to increase lab…
Portuguese Immigrant Families
Portuguese immigrants to North America represent a large ethnic group with unique family therapy needs. The present study investigates acculturation and the family lives of Portuguese (Azorean) immigrants in Canada. Methods of analytic induction and constant comparison from grounded theory were used to examine transcripts of interviews with 21 Azorean immigrant women and 28 Azorean immigrant men. A model emerged wherein (a) immigration and accult…
Problemas de Nervos
This article outlines research on a previous unstudied form of suffering specific to the Portugese immigrant community: problemas de nervos. Thirty-two Portuguese immigrant women (in Waterloo, ON and Boston, MA) were interviewed and each completed a questionnaire. Cluster analysis demonstrated that problemas de nervos has many meanings. The study profiled symptoms, causes and therapies associated with four variations of this culture-specific form…
Too much pressure? Retailer power and occupational health and safety in the food processing industry
This article examines the impact of supply chain pressures on the UK food processing industry and the implications for occupational health and safety. Based upon case studies in three meat processing plants, the research found that although the number of accidents is declining, little progress has been made in dealing with the widespread ill-health problems associated with largely repetitive and, in some cases, heavy work regimes. Supermarkets pl…
Culture-General and Culture-Specific Approaches to Counselling
The radicalized self
Passion and Action
Too much pressure? Retailer power and occupational health and safety in the food processing industry
This article examines the impact of supply chain pressures on the UK food processing industry and the implications for occupational health and safety. Based upon case studies in three meat processing plants, the research found that although the number of accidents is declining, little progress has been made in dealing with the widespread ill-health problems associated with largely repetitive and, in some cases, heavy work regimes. Supermarkets pl…
What we know and what we need to know about graduate skills
The expansion of higher education has led to more graduates in the UK labour market. Despite government expectations, this expansion has not boosted national economic competitiveness. This article argues that current understanding of the impact of graduates' skills is limited by methodological and conceptual narrowness in current research and that a broader research agenda is required. This agenda needs to cover not just the supply but also the d…
Sending children to school
Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental strategies, and that such strategies emerge first in relatively wealthy families within populations undergoing 'modernization'. However, most research focuses on fertility reduction rather than shifting parental investment, and few studies consider how parental decisions regarding educational investme…
Portuguese Immigrant Families
Portuguese immigrants to North America represent a large ethnic group with unique family therapy needs. The present study investigates acculturation and the family lives of Portuguese (Azorean) immigrants in Canada. Methods of analytic induction and constant comparison from grounded theory were used to examine transcripts of interviews with 21 Azorean immigrant women and 28 Azorean immigrant men. A model emerged wherein (a) immigration and accult…
A Bermuda triangle of policy? ‘Bad jobs’, skills policy and incentives to learn at the bottom end of the labour market
A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by ‘bad jobs’ and the evidence for the existence of a set of mutually reinforcing factors that reduces the incentives acting on individuals in such work, and in many…
Engaging the Struggle for Decolonial Approaches to Teaching Community Psychology
Community psychology's history has traditionally been described within the context of U.S. history, silencing contributions from people of color from the Americas, Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Africa. In a MA /PhD specialization in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Psychologies, and Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are attempting to steer into critical dialogues about modernity, coloniality, and decoloniali…
Marital, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of sojourner adjustment
Sojourner adjustment
The Power of Spinoza
As a constructive alternative to the exclusionary binaries of Cartesian philosophy, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens turn to Spinoza. Spinoza's understanding of the body as in relation takes the focus of philosophical thought from the homo-geneous subject to the heterogeneity of the social, and the focus of politics from individual rights to collective responsibility. The implications for feminism are radical; Spinoza enables a reconceptualizatio…
Spinoza
Enhancing agency and empowerment in agricultural development projects
Development interventions increasingly include women's empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but evaluating their impact has been stymied by the lack of measures that are comparable across interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of 11 mixed-methods impact evaluations of agricultural development projects from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that were part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2…
Acculturative stress of missionaries
Indigenous Epistemology Explored through Yoruba Orisha Traditions in the African Diaspora
This article analyzes an Indigenous epistemology explored through Yoruba Orisha traditions in the African diaspora. It also emphasizes the discordance between Euro-American psychology and African American women’s feminism. In particular, it presents decolonial woman-centered spriritual practices and the possibilities inherent in cosmovivencia. As an example, it draws from a symposium hosted by Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute …
Problemas de Nervos
This article outlines research on a previous unstudied form of suffering specific to the Portugese immigrant community: problemas de nervos. Thirty-two Portuguese immigrant women (in Waterloo, ON and Boston, MA) were interviewed and each completed a questionnaire. Cluster analysis demonstrated that problemas de nervos has many meanings. The study profiled symptoms, causes and therapies associated with four variations of this culture-specific form…
An Inquiry Into the “Agonies” (Agonias) of Portuguese Immigrants From the Azores
Previous research has found that psychiatric symptom expression is inextricably linked with culture and that psychiatric categories do not necessarily reflect the experiences of people from other cultures. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study explored the Portuguese culture-specific phenomenon agonias (meaning “the agonies”). Fifty (21 males and 29 females) Portuguese immigrants from the Azores were interviewed concerning their immigrat…
Early Modern French Thought
By Michael Moriarty. Oxford University Press, 2003. xii+271 pp. Hb £50.00. A philosophy that paid no attention to the obscurity of the self might be intriguing, but it would be difficult to sympathize with. Steeped as we are in the work of those ‘masters of suspicion’, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud, one of the themes that most fascinates us is the emergence of a conception of decentred subjectivity. Efforts to trace the history of this phenomenon hav…
Power and Difference
The Future of Feminist Differences
Clinical issues in social network therapy for clients with schizophrenia
Philosophy and Methodology in the Social Sciences
XIII—Certain and Less Certain Knowledge
XIII*—Certain and Less Certain Knowledge Susan James Susan James Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar *Meeting of the Aristotelian Society held at 5/7 Tavistock Place, London WC1, on Monday, 11 May, 1987 at 6.00 p.m. Author Notes Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 227–242, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/87.1.227 Published: 09 September 2015
The Content of Social Explanation
Book synopsis: This is a study of the central questions of explanation in the social sciences, and a defence of 'holism' against 'individualism'. In the first half of the book Susan James sets out very clearly the philosophical background to this controversy. She locates its source not at the analytical level at which most of the debate is usually conducted but at a more fundamental, moral level, in different conceptions of the human individual. …
Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory
Clinical issues in social network therapy for clients with schizophrenia
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
This is the first comprehensive evaluation of Charles Taylor's work and a major contribution to leading questions in philosophy and the human sciences as they face an increasingly pluralistic age. Charles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary moral and political philosophers: in an era of specialisation he is one of the few thinkers who has developed a comprehensive philosophy which speaks to the conditions of the modern world in a w…
The Future of Feminist Differences
Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. The concept of substance in seventeenth‐century metaphysics
Power and Difference
The Uses of the Imaginary
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
The Power of Spinoza
As a constructive alternative to the exclusionary binaries of Cartesian philosophy, Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens turn to Spinoza. Spinoza's understanding of the body as in relation takes the focus of philosophical thought from the homo-geneous subject to the heterogeneity of the social, and the focus of politics from individual rights to collective responsibility. The implications for feminism are radical; Spinoza enables a reconceptualizatio…
Passion and Action
Surplus Suffering
Disease definition and its diagnosis occur in historical, socio-cultural and gendered contexts (Clarke, 2000). Bodily or emotional signs noted in one time, place and context can be seen as normal, yet in another context are perceived as pathological or sinful. Power, too, is implicated in whether signs experienced by lay persons become diagnosable and, thus, legitimately described within the medical realm and/or whether they are deemed to be spir…
Cultural diversity and mental health
Agonias
Sojourner adjustment
Feminisms
Throughout the twentieth century, the feminist movement has been made up of shifting and more or less closely connected groups, united by the conviction that women are unfairly disadvantaged by comparison with men. While this minimal consensus contributes to an understanding of feminism as an enduring position, it exists alongside great internal diversity. The normative conception of disadvantage around which consensus revolves stands in need of …
The radicalized self
Marital, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of sojourner adjustment
Acculturative stress of missionaries
An Inquiry Into the “Agonies” (Agonias) of Portuguese Immigrants From the Azores
Previous research has found that psychiatric symptom expression is inextricably linked with culture and that psychiatric categories do not necessarily reflect the experiences of people from other cultures. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this study explored the Portuguese culture-specific phenomenon agonias (meaning “the agonies”). Fifty (21 males and 29 females) Portuguese immigrants from the Azores were interviewed concerning their immigrat…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the central topics and changing shape of philosophical inquiry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. During this period, philosophers initiated and responded to major intellectual developments in natural…
Reconciling Rules with Context
In psychotherapy practice, a complex relationship exists between clients, culture and values. By drawing on psychology, philosophy and anthropology, we developed an interdisciplinary ethical framework for cultural psychotherapy. The framework, which reflects a hermeneutic approach, avoids the excesses of both an ‘objective’ view of ethics (and its relation to selfhood) and the social constructionist view, which tends towards relativism. To take t…
Negotiating Public and Professional Interests
Lost in the Fray
(2006). Lost in the Fray: State HIV/AIDS Policies in South Africa and their Impact on Women. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement: Vol. 27, Africa Confronts Development, pp. 195-210
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