And, of course, in Gaza, where the density and length of the siege, the despair of any change by the people there (the majority of whom are refugees from 1948), and the silence on their collective predicament, is legendary.
This chapter concerns mutual aid, self-help (MASH) and support groups composed of people with a similar health concern who exchange a variety of types of support through face-to-face interaction, using their experiential knowledge to gain an understanding of their personal and collective predicament and of ways of coping with it.
Before long, we will collectively begin to appreciate that the future of our societies, and indeed of humanity itself, depends on finding a better, collective solution to this predicament.
For the one and a half million Palestinian citizens living in Gaza, ways to absorb and describe their daily predicament - these collective and individual experiences of extreme violence - had already been used up by the two years of siege that preceded this week's carnage.
Workers' collective insight into their common predicament and the need to overcome it through collective revolutionary action generates a self-understanding which, when acted upon, gets realized.
His tragedies probe the human predicament, exploring personal and collective guilt (Las tres justicias en una [c. 1637; Three Judgments at a Blow]), the bathos of limited vision and lack of communication (El pintor de su deshonra [c.
The predicament is a classic collective action problem.
A growing part of the precariat perceives a common predicament, realising that this is a collective experience due to structural features of the economic and political system.
Edward Said said that the intellectual's duty was "first distilling then articulating the predicaments that disfigure modernity – mass deportation, imprisonment, population transfer, collective dispossession and forced immigration".
Warnings from advocates that the situation is deteriorating at an alarming rate have been met with a collective political silence towards those without a place to call home – an unimaginable predicament to many.
One could, as many feminists do, understand one's gender identity as a predicament shared by all with the same ascribed identity, and thus as a basis for collective action to change the very basis of one's gender identity.
