Jack R Friedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 96799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack R Friedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack R |
| FAMILY NAME | Friedman |
| SIGNATURE | FRIEDMAN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2109-4259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin
Sandoval-Solis, S., S. Paladino, L. E. Garza-Diaz, L. F. Nava, J. R. Friedman, J. Ortiz-Partida, S. Plassin, G. Gomez-Quiroga, J. A. Koch, J. Fleming, B. A. Lane, S. Wineland, A. Mirchi, R. Saiz-Rodriguez, and T. Neeson. 2022. Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin. Ecology and Society 27(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12944-270120
Analogies and Natural Cycles in Climate Change Skepticism
This paper examines the “natural cycles” explanation of climate change skepticism found among some Oklahomans. Natural cycles skepticism rejects the anthropogenic cause of climate change and asserts that observed weather changes are the result of the Earth's natural cycles. This explanation is a folk model, a type of cultural model, of the climate that makes analogic comparisons between present and past weather patterns. In this paper, we use ins…
American Indian Landowners, Leasemen, and Bureaucrats: Property, Paper, and the Poli-Technics of Dispossession in Southwestern Oklahoma
Drawing from a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence, this article examines historic and contemporary land tenure issues within a single county in southwestern Oklahoma. Specifically, we look at the way in which bureaucratic control has created a system that, while originally and ostensible intended to protect the “rights” of American Indian landowners, in fact functions to restrict, undermine, and redirect “access” to those lands, of…
The Experience of Cancer in American Indians Living in Oklahoma
Many cancers in American Indians (AIs) are not diagnosed early leading to effects on physical, social, and emotional well-being or quality of life (QOL). Little research has been done on QOL of AIs in Oklahoma. This study examined the experience of living with cancer of AIs in Oklahoma to gain greater understanding of QOL issues and provide a basis for interventions to improve QOL. Twenty AIs diagnosed with cancer and receiving care in Oklahoma p…
What’s good for the soil is good for the soul: Scientific farming, environmental subjectivities, and the ethics of stewardship in southwestern Oklahoma
A world crazier than us: Vanishing social contexts and the consequences for psychiatric practice in contemporary Romania
Since the end of Communism, mental health care in Romania has increasingly sought to align its practices with idealized models of Western psychiatric practice. Much of this realignment has been made possible by accessing and integrating new pharmaceuticals into psychiatric hospital settings. Less straightforward have been the painful attempts to create a system modeled on international standards for training and certifying psychotherapists. Unfor…
Thoughts on Inactivity and an Ethnography of “Nothing: Comparing Meanings of “Inactivity” in R omanian and A merican Mental Health Care
Drawing from research in clinical mental health settings in the U nited S tates and R omania, this article considers “inactivity” as an object of study. While the “recovery movement” in the U nited S tates has attempted to combat inactivity among people with mental illnesses, many clinicians remain ambivalent, seeing inactivity both as problematic and as therapeutic. In R omanian psychiatric hospitals, inactivity is viewed as both the treatment f…
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, and Working Class Culture by David A. Kideckel
"The "Social Case: Illness, Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization in Postsocialist Romania
In this article, I examine the use of an ad hoc medical category-the "social case"-by psychiatrists in contemporary Romania. "Social cases" receive intensive psychiatric care, usually through long institutional stays, remaining hospitalized because psychiatrists perceive them as too poor and, thus, "unfit" to survive without the welfare assistance provided by institutionalization. The "social case" label emerges at the intersection of (1) plans b…
Shame and the Experience of Ambivalence on the Margins of the Global: Pathologizing the Past and Present in Romania's Industrial Wastelands
This article examines shame in a context of political-economic decline (Jiu Valley, Romania). I argue that shame, which is traditionally associated with a "shrinking" feeling and social control, can take on a dual resonance for people situated in socioeconomic conditions of moral disorder. Shame can act as both a personal experience of self-defeat as well as acting as a medium for critiquing the very system of socioeconomic norms and cultural val…
Shock and subjectivity in the age of globalization: Marginalization, exclusion, and the problem of resistance
This article considers the nature of `shock' as both an experiential category and as a strategy used in the processes of globalization. I examine the trope of shock in the lives of coal miners in Romania's Jiu Valley region. The argument contrasts two definitions of shock - the `mimetic' view and the `productive' view (the latter embodied in Ferenczi's notion of Erschütterung) - and shows that, while the strategic goals of globalizing economic in…
Furtive Selves: Proletarian Contradictions, Self-Presentation, and the Party in 1950s Romania
This paper examines the special challenges faced by working-class people in writing convincing autobiographical self-presentations for membership to the Romanian Workers' Party during the early 1950s. Special attention is paid to the nature of the verification process [ verificare ] required for existing and new members of the Party. I argue that the experience of one's self as always-already proletarian made the process of writing one's autobiog…
"The "Social Case: Illness, Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization in Postsocialist Romania
In this article, I examine the use of an ad hoc medical category-the "social case"-by psychiatrists in contemporary Romania. "Social cases" receive intensive psychiatric care, usually through long institutional stays, remaining hospitalized because psychiatrists perceive them as too poor and, thus, "unfit" to survive without the welfare assistance provided by institutionalization. The "social case" label emerges at the intersection of (1) plans b…
Shock and subjectivity in the age of globalization: Marginalization, exclusion, and the problem of resistance
This article considers the nature of `shock' as both an experiential category and as a strategy used in the processes of globalization. I examine the trope of shock in the lives of coal miners in Romania's Jiu Valley region. The argument contrasts two definitions of shock - the `mimetic' view and the `productive' view (the latter embodied in Ferenczi's notion of Erschütterung) - and shows that, while the strategic goals of globalizing economic in…
Shame and the Experience of Ambivalence on the Margins of the Global: Pathologizing the Past and Present in Romania's Industrial Wastelands
This article examines shame in a context of political-economic decline (Jiu Valley, Romania). I argue that shame, which is traditionally associated with a "shrinking" feeling and social control, can take on a dual resonance for people situated in socioeconomic conditions of moral disorder. Shame can act as both a personal experience of self-defeat as well as acting as a medium for critiquing the very system of socioeconomic norms and cultural val…
A world crazier than us: Vanishing social contexts and the consequences for psychiatric practice in contemporary Romania
Since the end of Communism, mental health care in Romania has increasingly sought to align its practices with idealized models of Western psychiatric practice. Much of this realignment has been made possible by accessing and integrating new pharmaceuticals into psychiatric hospital settings. Less straightforward have been the painful attempts to create a system modeled on international standards for training and certifying psychotherapists. Unfor…
Furtive Selves: Proletarian Contradictions, Self-Presentation, and the Party in 1950s Romania
This paper examines the special challenges faced by working-class people in writing convincing autobiographical self-presentations for membership to the Romanian Workers' Party during the early 1950s. Special attention is paid to the nature of the verification process [ verificare ] required for existing and new members of the Party. I argue that the experience of one's self as always-already proletarian made the process of writing one's autobiog…
What’s good for the soil is good for the soul: Scientific farming, environmental subjectivities, and the ethics of stewardship in southwestern Oklahoma
Furtive Selves: Proletarian Contradictions, Self-Presentation, and the Party in 1950s Romania
This paper examines the special challenges faced by working-class people in writing convincing autobiographical self-presentations for membership to the Romanian Workers' Party during the early 1950s. Special attention is paid to the nature of the verification process [ verificare ] required for existing and new members of the Party. I argue that the experience of one's self as always-already proletarian made the process of writing one's autobiog…
Shame and the Experience of Ambivalence on the Margins of the Global: Pathologizing the Past and Present in Romania's Industrial Wastelands
This article examines shame in a context of political-economic decline (Jiu Valley, Romania). I argue that shame, which is traditionally associated with a "shrinking" feeling and social control, can take on a dual resonance for people situated in socioeconomic conditions of moral disorder. Shame can act as both a personal experience of self-defeat as well as acting as a medium for critiquing the very system of socioeconomic norms and cultural val…
Shock and subjectivity in the age of globalization: Marginalization, exclusion, and the problem of resistance
This article considers the nature of `shock' as both an experiential category and as a strategy used in the processes of globalization. I examine the trope of shock in the lives of coal miners in Romania's Jiu Valley region. The argument contrasts two definitions of shock - the `mimetic' view and the `productive' view (the latter embodied in Ferenczi's notion of Erschütterung) - and shows that, while the strategic goals of globalizing economic in…
"The "Social Case: Illness, Psychiatry, and Deinstitutionalization in Postsocialist Romania
In this article, I examine the use of an ad hoc medical category-the "social case"-by psychiatrists in contemporary Romania. "Social cases" receive intensive psychiatric care, usually through long institutional stays, remaining hospitalized because psychiatrists perceive them as too poor and, thus, "unfit" to survive without the welfare assistance provided by institutionalization. The "social case" label emerges at the intersection of (1) plans b…
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, and Working Class Culture by David A. Kideckel
Thoughts on Inactivity and an Ethnography of “Nothing: Comparing Meanings of “Inactivity” in R omanian and A merican Mental Health Care
Drawing from research in clinical mental health settings in the U nited S tates and R omania, this article considers “inactivity” as an object of study. While the “recovery movement” in the U nited S tates has attempted to combat inactivity among people with mental illnesses, many clinicians remain ambivalent, seeing inactivity both as problematic and as therapeutic. In R omanian psychiatric hospitals, inactivity is viewed as both the treatment f…
What’s good for the soil is good for the soul: Scientific farming, environmental subjectivities, and the ethics of stewardship in southwestern Oklahoma
A world crazier than us: Vanishing social contexts and the consequences for psychiatric practice in contemporary Romania
Since the end of Communism, mental health care in Romania has increasingly sought to align its practices with idealized models of Western psychiatric practice. Much of this realignment has been made possible by accessing and integrating new pharmaceuticals into psychiatric hospital settings. Less straightforward have been the painful attempts to create a system modeled on international standards for training and certifying psychotherapists. Unfor…
The Experience of Cancer in American Indians Living in Oklahoma
Many cancers in American Indians (AIs) are not diagnosed early leading to effects on physical, social, and emotional well-being or quality of life (QOL). Little research has been done on QOL of AIs in Oklahoma. This study examined the experience of living with cancer of AIs in Oklahoma to gain greater understanding of QOL issues and provide a basis for interventions to improve QOL. Twenty AIs diagnosed with cancer and receiving care in Oklahoma p…
American Indian Landowners, Leasemen, and Bureaucrats: Property, Paper, and the Poli-Technics of Dispossession in Southwestern Oklahoma
Drawing from a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence, this article examines historic and contemporary land tenure issues within a single county in southwestern Oklahoma. Specifically, we look at the way in which bureaucratic control has created a system that, while originally and ostensible intended to protect the “rights” of American Indian landowners, in fact functions to restrict, undermine, and redirect “access” to those lands, of…
Analogies and Natural Cycles in Climate Change Skepticism
This paper examines the “natural cycles” explanation of climate change skepticism found among some Oklahomans. Natural cycles skepticism rejects the anthropogenic cause of climate change and asserts that observed weather changes are the result of the Earth's natural cycles. This explanation is a folk model, a type of cultural model, of the climate that makes analogic comparisons between present and past weather patterns. In this paper, we use ins…
Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin
Sandoval-Solis, S., S. Paladino, L. E. Garza-Diaz, L. F. Nava, J. R. Friedman, J. Ortiz-Partida, S. Plassin, G. Gomez-Quiroga, J. A. Koch, J. Fleming, B. A. Lane, S. Wineland, A. Mirchi, R. Saiz-Rodriguez, and T. Neeson. 2022. Environmental flows in the Rio Grande - Rio Bravo basin. Ecology and Society 27(1):20. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12944-270120
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