This essay raises the issue of historians’ responsibility to communities that they study. While some purported version history has been central Kremlin’s justifications for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, region’s historians have failed make a stand this misuse history. Moreover, in many instances endorsed and disseminated narratives about Ukraine’s past present. Aiming explain anti-Ukrain...

Dominant Eurocentric social work practices and knowledges have been critiqued for perpetuating colonial perspectives, underlining control aspects of work, advancing individualism, ignoring a holistic understanding issues, overlooking collective approaches. Alternative practice examples are being documented but less attention has paid to education. A phenomenological study with 15 Canadian educa...

The author discusses the fate of the Foreign Intelligence Department of the GDR, which he headed for over thirty years, and of its colleagues and agents since the reunification of Germany ten years ago. There was no transformation of this service after the implosion of socialism; instead, it was liquidated, and criminal prosecutions followed which continue to this day. The author describes how ...

OBJECTIVE To describe a case study of community-based intervention, developed in a constructionist-emancipatory framework to control STD/AIDS. METHODS Descriptive study developed in the town of Manacapuru, in the state of Amazonas, from 1997 to 2004, focusing on procedures designed in collaboration with government agents, health professionals and the community. Data on the dynamics of prostit...

In 1951 William Addison began his history of the English spa by noting that the vast literature on the medical and chemical properties of mineral waters "would as effectively defy analysis as the waters themselves, apparently, invite it" .' Addison, like most later historians, chose to see the spa mainly as a phenomenon of social history, of changes in manners, morals, and amusements.2 Yet our ...

The growing popularity of Agile methods motivates our interest in its value foundations, publicized in information technology (IT) community discourse. IT community discourses provide key functions of interpretation, legitimization and mobilization. Conceptualized as organizing visions, these community discourses provide knowledge about how an IT innovation, such as Agile, should be applied in ...