Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is a 'call' for kindness often associated with Jacinda Ardern and the Covid-19 response. But how do 'ordinary' people experience and understand kindness? What do their understandings and the tensions within these reveal about the call to kindness? In 2019, we ran a Ropū Whai Whakaaro/Values-Based Practice course in Auckland with 21 community participants. As part of the five-week course, six women aged from 31 to 65 years did a group project on the value of kindness. Analysis of their discussions, presentation and individual interviews suggested a kindness 'trajectory' that was simultaneously held in community and undercut by social forces. Kindness was described as something people 'do' beginning with children who are 'innately' kind, and if practised regularly could flow in all directions. It was portrayed as having radical potential to include and transform, but participants spoke of themselves as imperfect practitioners. We conclude by returning to the call for kindness and, inspired by our participants, suggest that kindness, while in some sense risky and extraordinary, is a practice worth cultivating.
{"title":"Investigating the Call to Kindness: A Study with Community Participants in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Sarah Nutbrown","doi":"10.22381/kc9320212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9320212","url":null,"abstract":"Here in Aotearoa New Zealand there is a 'call' for kindness often associated with Jacinda Ardern and the Covid-19 response. But how do 'ordinary' people experience and understand kindness? What do their understandings and the tensions within these reveal about the call to kindness? In 2019, we ran a Ropū Whai Whakaaro/Values-Based Practice course in Auckland with 21 community participants. As part of the five-week course, six women aged from 31 to 65 years did a group project on the value of kindness. Analysis of their discussions, presentation and individual interviews suggested a kindness 'trajectory' that was simultaneously held in community and undercut by social forces. Kindness was described as something people 'do' beginning with children who are 'innately' kind, and if practised regularly could flow in all directions. It was portrayed as having radical potential to include and transform, but participants spoke of themselves as imperfect practitioners. We conclude by returning to the call for kindness and, inspired by our participants, suggest that kindness, while in some sense risky and extraordinary, is a practice worth cultivating.","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justice in the Living Market: Subjectivation Processes in Neoliberalism","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc9120215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9120215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kindness as Water in the University","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc93202111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc93202111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Humanities: Pursuing New Discourses and New Institutions for Life on Earth","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc9120213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9120213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Idea of Care for Reason in Chinese Philosophy and Its Influence on German Enlightenment: The Reception of Confucianism in the Moral Philosophy of Christian Wolff","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc9220211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9220211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varieties of Ethics in Academia: Rationalities of Scientific Responsibility in the (German) March for Science","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc9120212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9120212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kindness in Court in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"","doi":"10.22381/kc9320214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc9320214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in mass infections of the populations worldwide During the pandemic, the prevailing value of social justice in the social public service system has been under threat by the conduct of herd immunity and resurgence of social Darwinism During the COVID-19 pandemic, the most adverse impacts have been on the lives of people with disabilities, threatened by possible infection, and experiencing the suspension of rehabilitation, education, and unemployment China has made great efforts to support its 85 million people with disabilities and drafted a few emergency response plans to deal with their concerns, after chaos in the initial stage of the outbreak The paper argues that a social system concerning ethic of care should be improved for people with disabilities and thus move to a more just society
{"title":"An Ethic of Care for People with Disabilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Towards Greater Social Justice","authors":"Wangqian Fu","doi":"10.22381/kc8320209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc8320209","url":null,"abstract":"The global COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in mass infections of the populations worldwide During the pandemic, the prevailing value of social justice in the social public service system has been under threat by the conduct of herd immunity and resurgence of social Darwinism During the COVID-19 pandemic, the most adverse impacts have been on the lives of people with disabilities, threatened by possible infection, and experiencing the suspension of rehabilitation, education, and unemployment China has made great efforts to support its 85 million people with disabilities and drafted a few emergency response plans to deal with their concerns, after chaos in the initial stage of the outbreak The paper argues that a social system concerning ethic of care should be improved for people with disabilities and thus move to a more just society","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68370358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present contribution addresses the complex interaction between creative and affective responses to the COVID-19 crises in higher educational practices Looking authoethnographically at my teaching practice, I diffract my reading by means of an Italian novel, the plot of which occurs during an historical epidemic I end up formulating questions about the relationship between creativity, technology and affects in the post-pandemic university How universities decide to use the knowledge that they have gained during the COVID-19 disruption of academic life remains to be discovered
{"title":"Plague, Pedagogy and Pleasure: Creative Interventions in Higher Education","authors":"Tatiana Chemi","doi":"10.22381/kc8320206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc8320206","url":null,"abstract":"The present contribution addresses the complex interaction between creative and affective responses to the COVID-19 crises in higher educational practices Looking authoethnographically at my teaching practice, I diffract my reading by means of an Italian novel, the plot of which occurs during an historical epidemic I end up formulating questions about the relationship between creativity, technology and affects in the post-pandemic university How universities decide to use the knowledge that they have gained during the COVID-19 disruption of academic life remains to be discovered","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68369662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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