Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This critical/interpretive study examines dialectics of domination and resistance as they are experienced and expressed by a small social movement organization (SMO). The study considers the role narrative plays in maintaining organizational identification. Narratives suggest that members experience at least three dialectical tensions as they challenge the dominant meaning and power structures in the local Catholic diocese. Rather than seeking unanimity of opinion, this SMO manages and maintains these tensions during regular organizational dialogues.

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Proceeding

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Throughout the 1980s and 90s in Japan, discussions of internationalization were frequent in relation to many different institutions of society, including education. A prominent example was the targeting of 100,000 foreign students in higher education, a goal finally reached in 2003.
Globalization has changed the way that Japanese higher education institutions view internationalization by bringing forward considerations of their role as knowledge institutions. Renewed emphasis on research, scientific knowledge production, and human capital formation for international competition have led Japanese universities to seek more network linkages with international partner institutions. A challenge to the accepted practices of allowing those actors (faculty and students) who are most inclined to pursue international connections and opportunities autonomously is apparent in a move toward a more integrated internationalization. This involves struggles over the codification of international practices within the university. This paper reviews the uses of internationalization and globalization in Japanese universities, illustrating their strong ideological bases.
Concurrently, the advent of a new law governing public universities, set to take effect in April of 2004, entails that they become IAIs (Independent Administrative Institutions) and ostensibly more transparent and accountable in funding and outcomes. While the public universities are only a minority of the higher education institutions in Japan, they have a disproportionate influence due to their elite status. I conclude that that the problem of change deriving from internationalization and globalization in Japanese universities is not that it is ideological but that it is bureaucratically driven and not openly ideological.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In her analysis of the dialectical structure of reproductive consciousness, Mary O’Brien argued that the physical labor involved in women’s reproductive experiences affirms women’s connections with their children and integration into the human species, whereas men’s discontinuous experiences negate such connections and integration. Patriarchy enables the reconciliation of this negation for men, by allowing them to claim ownership of the products of women’s reproductive labor. Drawing on interview data with 18 postpartum women, this paper re-examines O’Brien’s central argument in conjunction with empirical data. The findings support O’Brien’s assertions that (1) work is viewed by some women as an essential component of childbearing, and (2) childbearing results in a sense of greater connectedness and integration into the human species for some women. However, women also emphasized the importance of another element of childbearing – an indescribable, in-comprehensible, experiential component – that is missing from O’Brien’s analysis and much feminist literature on reproduction. It is argued that placing this experiential element of childbearing at the center of feminist work can further our understanding of reproductive experiences and enhance current debates over the appropriate role of men in childbearing.