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From Practice to Praxis: Advancing Anthropological Practice Through Black Feminist Methods
No full textBlack Feminist methods provide a framework for understanding and challenging the intersecting systems of oppression that shape Black women’s lives. By centering Black women’s voices and lived realities, these methods resist dominant narratives and create space for alternative knowledges. Drawing on the work of pioneering Black anthropologists, contemporary scholars use Black Feminist methods to generate knowledge outside of white theory and explore Blackness, womanhood, and multiple truths. The application of Black Feminist methods in anthropology has gained relevance in analyzing cultural phenomena through an intersectional perspective. These methods are essential for practicing anthropologists dedicated to advancing equity. They are performed through centering day-to-day experiences, asking identity-forming questions, advancing Afro-futurism, building solidarity, exploring ongoing imperialistic control of Black American culture, and developing scholarship that counters colonial practices. Expanding methodological practices by including Black Feminist approaches creates a more equitable world. Practicing anthropologists should build on the guidance in the literature and use these methods to detach Blackness from white frameworks and reposition belonging
Principles versus rules based standards: Differential impact on accounting quality and relevance
No full textThis research explores the transition from rules-based to principles-based accounting standards, particularly focusing on the implementation of ASC 606, and its impact on the quality and value relevance of financial reporting. The study draws on the debate between the detailed, prescriptive nature of rules-based standards versus the flexible, judgment-reliant principles-based standards. Through a comprehensive empirical analysis, it finds that the adoption of ASC 606 has led to a significant improvement in accounting quality, supporting the theory that principles-based standards, which emphasize reflecting the economic substance of transactions, result in more accurate and informative financial statements. Additionally, the paper reveals that this transition has varied effects across different industries, with the most pronounced improvements in sectors characterized by complex customer contracts and multiple performance obligations. The research further indicates an increase in the value relevance of financial reporting post-ASC 606 adoption, suggesting that financial statements now provide more relevant information for investors, thereby enhancing market efficiency. These findings contribute to the ongoing discourse on the optimal approach to financial reporting standards, highlighting the benefits of principles-based standards while also acknowledging the need for strong regulatory frameworks and professional judgment to mitigate the risks of earnings management and ensure high-quality financial reporting
The Power of Puppetry as an Arts-Based Tool for Health and Disability Communication Research
No full textIn this article, we argue that using puppetry as a tool for arts-based research can enhance existing health and disability communication scholarship. We position interdisciplinary puppetry research alongside concepts and theories of interest to communication scholars, including entertainment education, embodiment and performance, communicated narrative sense-making, and dialogue. Then, we share an illustrative case study from our research with the nonprofit organization, MicheLee Puppets. Drawing from interviews with five puppeteers, we describe how the Live Puppet Chat program created unexpected opportunities to connect with neurodiverse spectators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our “crystalized” narrative and thematic analysis demonstrates how puppeteers used puppet-objects to facilitate dialogue with chat participants. This involved (a) suspending disbelief, (b) suspending judgment, (c) communicating through the lens of (neurodiverse) empowerment, and (c) improvising for empowerment
(Re)Appraising Our Archival Identity: Demystifying the Process and Changing the Dialogue about Promotion and Tenure for Academic Archivists
No full textWithin the archival discourse, there has been minimal research or dialogue about the processes and experiences for academic archivists associated with earning promotion and tenure. Recent reviews of the literature suggest that this topic remains largely unexplored in archivists’ professional and scholarly conversations, despite its pivotal influence on job security, advancement, and identity for those working in academia. This article intends to explain and demystify the procedures and best practices for navigating promotion and tenure by providing guidance and insight for archivists throughout their careers. Furthermore, the authors aim to expose the culture of silence surrounding the promotion and tenure process for archivists while also underscoring the power dynamics involved in evaluation activities. This research explores how these actions have impacted historically underserved and marginalized groups and encourages our archives community to counter these forces through professional awareness and by embracing and applying diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility principles. The authors advocate for a framework that solidifies, clarifies, and encourages increased transparency in the promotion and tenure process and offer profession-wide recommendations to help make this change. Finally, this article serves as a call to action for rethinking our professional identity by championing our collective contributions to the higher education landscape and distinguishing the specialized expertise of archivists from that of our librarian colleagues in the academy
Adverse childhood experiences and insecure attachment: The indirect effects of dissociation and emotion regulation difficulties
No full textObjective: Difficulties with dissociation and emotion regulation are well-documented reactions to early adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Although findings identify dissociation and emotion dysregulation as explaining the relationship between various forms of ACEs and adult psychopathology, less is known about their combined effect in the relationship between ACEs and insecure attachment in adulthood. This study examined the indirect effects of dissociation and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early adverse experiences and insecure attachment traits. Method: Participants (N = 260) completed an online questionnaire measuring ACEs, dissociation, emotion regulation difficulties, and anxious and avoidant attachment. Results: Results indicated that, after controlling for mental health treatment, dissociation and emotion regulation difficulties explained the relationship between ACEs and insecure (anxious and avoidant) attachment. Emotion regulation difficulties were not a significant predictor of avoidant attachment. Conclusion: Findings provide support for greater research on mediating factors in the maintenance of insecure attachment across development and potential implications of dissociation and emotion regulation in clinical and nonclinical populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved
Butterfly: A Choreographic Translation of Beauty among Horror
No full textFifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen entered the gates of the “model camp” Terezin, Hitler’s “gift to the Jews.” Terezin was created to fool outsiders into thinking Jews were being treated humanely. Most adults who entered this camp were artists and scholars, so culture flourished in this ghetto amidst starvation, disease, and death. After dark, the adults encouraged the children to draw and write to moderate the chaos that surrounded them. These innocent and honest depictions allow us to see through the eyes of a child what life was like in Terezin. Through these artistic expressions, their voices reach us across the chasm of a great crime in human history, leaving a remarkable legacy. After coming across this book of poems and drawings created by children of the Holocaust concentration camp, Terezin, I felt compelled, as an artist-scholar, to share their words through movement. This non-verbal format offers a deep understanding and kinetic response to how art transported the victims to a world beyond the horrific crime in which they were living
Theater Review: A Heated Summer for Williams in Central Florida
No full textAppearing for the first time in print, Tennessee Williams’s moving poem “The Final Day of Your Life” describes the playwright’s last visit with Frank Merlo, his life companion of nearly fifteen years. Midcentury discrimination kept their loving, turbulent same-sex relationship out of the public eye, but in private Williams could pen his conflicted grief in straightforward language. Inside the issue, scholars explore a little-known painting by Williams and highlight new biographical material, and a treasure trove of essays on inventive stage productions show the playwright’s work reflecting and shaping cultural contexts on two continents
Theatre and Its Audiences: Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis
No full textWritten in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences. Proposing that the pandemic forced a re-evaluation of what it means to be an audience, and combining historical and current cultural sector perspectives, the book reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK. Helen Freshwater examines the ways in which developments in technology, architecture and forms of communication have influenced what is expected by and of audiences, reflecting changes in theatre\u27s cultural status and place in our lives. Drawing on the first-hand experiences of festival director and performance practitioner Kate Craddock, it also contends that practitioners now need to turn their attention to care, access and sustainability, arguing that the pandemic taught us, above all, that it is possible to do things differently. Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, Theatre and its Audiences offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here
Debating Global Development
No full textAlthough global development and the alleviation of poverty are universal goals, experts frequently disagree heatedly about how to achieve them. The debates go on: Is liberalization the best way to stimulate economic growth, or should the state take a more active role? Is foreign aid effective in strengthening low-income countries? How should we deal with the challenges associated with poverty, such as climate change, civil war, hunger, and health crises? What entities are most capable of addressing these challenges effectively? Debating Global Development introduces the theory and practice of development by examining fifteen such controversies in the field. Presenting strong, evidence-based arguments on all sides of each controversy, the book encourages readers to think critically and to construct their own well-grounded opinions