Negotiating Respect

Negotiating Respect
Author: Brendan Jamal Thornton
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-01-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813065305

Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T. Christian Literary Award Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Christianity—the Caribbean’s fastest growing religious movement—in the Dominican Republic. Based on fieldwork in a barrio of Villa Altagracia, Brendan Jamal Thornton examines the everyday practices of Pentecostal community members and the complex ways in which they negotiate legitimacy, recognition, and spiritual authority within the context of religious pluralism and Catholic cultural supremacy. Probing gender, faith, and identity from an anthropological perspective, he considers in detail the lives of young male churchgoers and their struggles with conversion and life in the streets. Thornton shows that conversion offers both spiritual and practical social value because it provides a strategic avenue for prestige and an acceptable way to transcend personal history. Through an exploration of the church and its relationship to barrio institutions like youth gangs and Dominican vodú, he further draws out the meaningful nuances of lived religion providing new insights into the social organization of belief and the significance of Pentecostal growth and popularity globally. The result is a fresh perspective on religious pluralism and contemporary religious and cultural change. A volume in the series Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Negotiating

Negotiating
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0744060400

Improve your negotiation skills and land the deal, promotion or project. Negotiation skills are essential for managing teams, persuading others and finding win-win solutions. This practical guide gives you the tools you need to improve your negotiation tactics. Whether you’re new to negotiating or eager to enhance your existing skills, this is the guide for you. Inside you’ll find: • Practical, “how-to” approach that teaches you the skills you need to run a project successfully. • New spreads on negotiation online rather than face to face. • Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists and “Ask yourself” features show you how to make an impact. • Tables, illustrations, “in-focus” panels and real-life case studies demonstrate and explain problem-solving, and how to build confidence and get results. The illustrated guide to negotiating is the perfect tool for managers and business leaders. The slim, compact format allows you to use this book as an on-hand reference whenever you need advice on mitigating decision traps and impasses. You’ll discover how to improve your negotiating skills by defining your style, preparing properly and designing your meeting structure, plus how to build relationships, develop trust, negotiate fairly, and tips on negotiating styles. This business management book is packed with step-by-step instructions, tips and checklists to show you how to persuade in business! Tables, illustrations and real-life case studies further explain how to build confidence and get results. Whether it’s negotiating, managing people or improving your leadership skills, DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style.

With Respect to Sex

With Respect to Sex
Author: Gayatri Reddy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2010-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226707547

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India—individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.

Negotiating Globally

Negotiating Globally
Author: Jeanne M. Brett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118572254

When it was first published in 2001, Negotiating Globally quickly became the basic reference for managers who needed to learn how to negotiate successfully across boundaries of national culture. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition preserves the structure of the acclaimed first edition and improves upon it, making it even easier to learn how to navigate national culture when negotiating deals, resolving disputes, and making decisions in teams. Rather than offering country-specific protocol and customs, Negotiating Globally provides a general framework to help negotiators anticipate and manage cultural differences. This new edition incorporates the lessons of the latest research with new emphasis on executing a negotiation strategy and negotiating conflict in multicultural teams. The well-received chapter on “Government At and Around the Table” has been expanded and updated with new examples that span the globe. In this comprehensive resource, Jeanne M. Brett describes how to develop a negotiation planning document and shows how to execute the plan. She provides a model that explains how the cultural environment affects negotiators’ interests, priorities, and strategies. She provides benchmarks for distinguishing good deals from poor ones and good negotiators from poor ones. The book explains how resolving disputes is different from making deals and how negotiation strategy can be used in multicultural teams. Negotiating Globally challenges negotiators to expand their repertoire of strategies so that they will be able to close deals, resolve disputes, and get teams to make decisions.

Negotiating Opportunities

Negotiating Opportunities
Author: Jessica McCrory Calarco
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 019063443X

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.

DK Essential Managers: Negotiating

DK Essential Managers: Negotiating
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1465440674

A practical guide to negotiating which will give you the information and skills to succeed. Find out how to improve your negotiating skills by defining your style, preparing properly, and designing your meeting structure. You'll learn to build relationships, develop trust, and negotiate fairly. This book includes tips, dos and don'ts, and "In Focus" features on what to do in a particular situation, plus real-life case studies that demonstrate how to manage an impasse, persuade others, and close the deal. Read it cover-to-cover, or dip in and out of topics for quick reference. Handy tips in eBook format--take it wherever your work takes you.

Respect

Respect
Author: Courtney Macavinta
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2005-06-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1575428806

This smart, savvy book helps teen girls get respect and hold on to is no matter what—at home, at school, with their friends, and in the world. Tips, activities, writing exercises, and quotes from teens keep readers involved. This “big sister” style inspires trust. Girls learn respect is connected to everything, every girl deserves respect, and respect is always within reach because it starts on the inside. This book is your guide to getting respect and keeping it.

Negotiating Toward Truth

Negotiating Toward Truth
Author: George David Miller
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004458980

For far too many people for far too many years, schooling has been a debilitating, demoralizing, and ultimately dehumanizing experience. Make-shift, half-hearted, and watered-down reform measures have proved ineffective. Reform throws out the bath water, but keeps the baby. Radicalism recognizes not a baby but a beast lurks in the bath water and throws both out. This dramatic redefinition of schooling examines four models of dynamism as provided by Nietzsche, Whitehead, Dewey, and Freire. Nietzsche's af-firmation of dynamism is marred by his elitism. Whitehead understands that inert cripple schooling. Without dialogue, ideas remain inert. Dewey misunderstands thinking and does not grasp its inherent double movement: toward order and disorder. Freire's pedagogy is transcended, with emphasis on negotiation between prime values. The final chapter expounds a radical pedagogy of dynamism. Miller argues that teaching and learning are not separate acts, but form a continuum. Within the teaching-learning continuum, all participants are spontaneous and receptive and seek to overcome fear of process, ambiguity, and doubt. The key to radical schooling is a pro-active stance toward creativity that allows for a dynamic integration of difference in dialogue. Negotiating Toward Truth is a call to arms for all educators. The book asks us to look closely what is in the bath water and to have the courage to throw the beast out with the bath water.

Negotiating the Sacred II

Negotiating the Sacred II
Author: Elizabeth Burns Coleman
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1921536276

Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent laws of repression and codes of moral and ethical propriety have compelled artists to live and create with occupational hazards like uncertain audience response, self-censorship and accusations of deliberate misinterpretation of cultural production looming over their heads. Yet, in recent years, issues surrounding the rights of minority cultures to recognition and respect have raised new questions about the contemporariness of the construct of blasphemy and sacrilege. Controversies over the aesthetic representation of the sacred, the exhibition of the sacred as art, and the public display of sacrilegious or blasphemous works have given rise to heated debates and have invited us to reflect on binaries like artistic and religious sensibilities, tolerance and philistinism, the sacred and the profane, deification and vilification. Endeavouring to move beyond 'simplistic' points about the rights to freedom of expression and sacrosanctity, this collection explores how differences between conceptions of the sacred can be negotiated. It recognises that blasphemy may be justified as a form of political criticism, as well as a sincere expression of spirituality. But it also recognises that within a pluralistic society, blasphemy in the arts can do an enormous amount of harm, as it may also impair relations within and between societies. This collection evolved out a two-day conference called 'Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts' held at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University in November 2005. This is the second volume in a series of five conferences and edited collections on the theme 'Negotiating the Sacred'. The first conference, 'Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society' was held at The Australian National University's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research in 2004, and published as an edited collection by ANU E Press in 2006. Other conferences in the series have included Religion, Medicine and the Body (ANU, 2006), Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum (ANU, 2007), and Governing the Family (Monash University, 2008). Together, the series represents a major contribution to ongoing debates on the political demands arising from religious pluralism in multicultural societies.