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Concerning ‘Neglect’: Perspectives on the Prioritisation of Mental Health Conditions in Protracted Displacement Contexts
No full text‘Neglect’ is a lucrative concept attracting billions of US dollars in research and development funding and transforming what is prioritised in global health. Stemming from a wider project aiming to improve healthcare at the intersection of gender and protracted displacement amongst Somali and Congolese internally displaced people and refugees, this article unpacks conceptualisations of ‘neglect’ in relation to mental health. Drawing on interviews with people with professional mental health expertise and/or lived experience of displacement, this article makes three contributions. First, we argue that ‘neglect’ must be considered in the context of competing health priorities and health-seeking behaviours, particularly given the additional challenges associated with disruption to social care networks in protracted displacement contexts. Second, we illustrate ‘neglect’ in light of our respondents’ distinctions between overt bodily expressions of distress that are socially disruptive and more internalised expressions of distress that are more socially containable. Third, we unpack the intersectional ‘neglect’ of women and girls by sexual violence’s distinctive confluence of social withdrawal with strategies of containment to avoid social disruption
Entanglement of “trauma” spaces: How people, place, and objects co-produce the mental, therapeutic, and physical space(s) in trauma-informed design
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Trauma-informed design (TID) is emerging as an interdisciplinary collaboration between architecture and psychology, unified in the goal of improving the psychological well-being of individuals impacted by trauma. Designing clinical spaces to be trauma informed is increasingly regarded as key in trauma recovery, with the scholarship evidencing the important role the built environment can have in mental health (Shepley and Sachs 2020). Although these advancements have successfully (re)positioned architecture as a therapeutic intervention within mental health, TID aims to replicate what is already known to work through readymade anthropocentric methods (Gildersleeve and Guyotte 2019). Subsequently, TID fails to grapple with the complexity and rhizomatic nature of trauma/ trauma recovery and cannot attend to the human-non-human entanglement that potentiates trauma healing. New Materialism opens innovative spaces in architectural theory and practice that put TID to work and answer the related questions of: what are the effects of matter and materiality on mental health experiencing (Larsen, Bøe, and Topor 2020), and how is materiality done and undone in “trauma” spaces? Understanding the role of materiality can help us comprehend how mental health experience happens in place with matter and respond accordingly.
This article argues for a New Materialist turn that shatters the core “human” tenets of TID by reconceptualising it as a dynamic process of “becoming” trauma-informed that simultaneously drives the “unbecoming” of trauma. The site of this inquiry is a private mental health practice for women and children in Melbourne, Australia. The case example challenges dominant, anthropocentric assumptions of TID by iteratively and multimodally mapping the intra-agentic movements (Barad 2014) of a parent-child dyad interconnected to place and objects across two psychotherapy sessions. What are revealed are the multitudinous relational potentialities of materiality and matter that drive the movements of doing trauma healing and undoing trauma within a dyad-TID-trauma space assemblage
Preliminary investigations on the chipped stone industry of the Copper Age settlement of Malnaş Băi (Málnásfürdő)-Füvenyestető (Covasna County, Romania)
Get PDFThe chipped stone collection unearthed during the 2014-2016 archaeological excavations from the Copper Age settlement at Malnaş Băi was analysed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The aims were to differentiate between the processing technologies of the local rocks and of the long-distance raw materials and to assess the technological traditions that characterise their production. The elemental composition of a selected sample set of the artefacts determined using Prompt Gamma Activation analysis (PGAA) verified the presence of both local and long-distance raw materials. In addition, the PGAA results corroborated that differentiation in both categories requires further field work and comparison. Attribute analysis, typology and use-wear investigations were employed for identifying the main features of the lithic industry in each class of raw materials. These results showed that it might be possible to differentiate between two technological traditions. One of them is represented by the on-site production of small blades made of obsidian, in the Tiszapolgár and Bodrogkeresztúr specific technology. As the PGAA proved, this raw material is a long-distance commodity, but the technological structure of the assemblage suggests its local processing. The other tradition, visible in the flint (also a long-distance material, though not knapped on-site) and local raw materials, is more characteristic for the Copper Age from the east of Carpathian Mountains, meaning the production of medium-long blades through the punch technique. As for the retouching technology and the use of implements, no differentiation based on raw materials could be observed. These preliminary investigations on the chipped stone artefacts from Malnaş Băi allowed the identification of long-distance transfer of lithic materials and technologies and to address their role in the large networks that existed during the Copper Age
Remixing Britishness: Affect and National Pride in the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Get PDFDuring the London 2012 Opening Olympic Ceremony, emotional moments such as the torch relay and the celebration of the National Health Service affected many viewers. Such a spectacle of national history and culture was wide-sweeping and is still remembered today as a moment of triumph for the country. With the Paris 2024 Olympics only months away, it becomes timely to observe how the sensorial spectacle of the Olympics works to create a certain emotional effect in its viewers, and how they leave with a specific understanding of what the nation stands for. Crucially, it is imperative to survey the ways in which national histories and cultures have been edited for an "Olympic affect" during the Opening Ceremony and comprehend why they play such a crucial role in contemporary political discourse. The London 2012 Opening Olympic Ceremony revealed a particular perspective on British history, used emotion and spectacle to recount a specific version of events, and attempted to garner a certain sense of national pride during a time of national crisis. In examining specific visual and auditory cues of this Opening Olympic Ceremony, this study will define the "Olympic affect" and examine the idealised Britishness that is performed, so that we may understand what kind of affectual and political power the Olympics hold
Come Drink Tea
Get PDFHow do you remake place as home? In Toronto, Tibetan refugees do this through asylum petitions for citizenship, the purchasing of real estate, and the refashioning of a Canadian donut shop as Tibetan cultural space
The Golden Hour
Get PDFIn interviews with leading emergency medicine doctors and developers of a national system of pre-hospital care in Nepal, they allude to the significance of treating trauma patients during “the golden hour”. This flash ethnography highlights the intersubjective meaning making of an outsider ethnographer, whose familiarity with the metaphor comes from photography, and doctors, who use the phrase in its emergency medicine application to describe the brief window of opportunity to intervene after a traumatic injury
From compliance to culture: How can we address the barriers that are preventing a culture of Open Research in relation to Open Monographs?
No full textWith the introduction of UKRIs new policy on the 1st of January 2024 and the possibility of Open Access Monographs being mandated by REF2029, there is an increasing focus within the scholarly communications sector on Open Access Book publishing. Whilst the introduction of these policies will mean in scope researchers must publish their monograph outputs Open Access to be compliant, this focus represents an opportunity to facilitate a culture change in which Open Access Monograph publishing is the norm, rather than enacted to comply with funder mandates.
However, several barriers are preventing this culture change, including financial barriers, concerns and misconceptions relating to the prestige and academic quality of Open Access Book publishers, and a lack of awareness of open access book publishing routes within the researcher community. This lightning talk will discuss the approach taken by Lancaster University Library to identify the barriers preventing a culture of Open Monographs within the institution and the approach and activities undertaken to address this. This will include initiatives to explore the lived experience of Lancaster University\u27s researcher community and projects to provide opportunities for authors to publish Open Access Monographs. The talk shared concrete steps to facilitating a culture shift to develop an environment where Open Access Monograph publishing is a normative practice rather than a mandate to comply with
Lessons from Open Science across European Universities: policies, practices, and future directions
Get PDFOpen Science, which encompasses all scholarly disciplines, is increasingly recognised as a core feature of academic practice: it has the potential to improve the accessibility and integrity of academic outputs, as well as the culture within which academics work to pursue these. However, this recognition is neither equal nor universal across institutions and countries: open science policies, support, practices, and recognition are more advanced in some regions than others, which poses both challenges and opportunities. A challenge is to demonstrate the many benefits to those institutions and regions that are not yet recognising and embracing the potential of open science. An opportunity is to learn from the different structures and approaches that are being taken so that we can identify common challenges, best-practice solutions, and future opportunities.
This talk focused on open science policies and practices among members of LERU (the League of European Research Universities) and their host nations. While Europe is at the vanguard of open science, there are many differences in the approaches taken among European universities and countries. Considering these differences will help to identify ways in which we can best realise the potential of open science
The utility of PET-CT in baseline and sequential characterisation of Pulmonary Pleomorphic Carcinoma
Get PDFPulmonary Pleomorphic Carcinomas (PPCs) represent a rare and aggressive subtype of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) that can only be definitively diagnosed on a surgical specimen. This study utilised PET-CT to evaluate radiological characteristics of PPCs.
This study retrospectively evaluated the radiological characteristics of PCCs diagnosed in St James’s Hospital Dublin between 2012-2023. Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) imaging features (size, location, density, shape, invasion, and growth kinetics) and standard uptake value for each lesion were evaluated.
39 PCCs were identified with a mean age of 66.5 years (range: 49-82 years). FDG-PET was performed in all 39 cases. Tumours demonstrated a high FDG uptake at baseline with a mean (SUV) of 12.6 (range: 1.4 - 36.9). A second interval PET-CT on average 3.3 months after the first in 3 cases demonstrated over 120% increase in SUV. The mean tumour size was 4.3 cm (range: 1.0 - 14.5 cm). Tumours developed rapid interval growth, reaching a mean maximum diameter of 6.6 cm (53.4%) within a mean of 2.1 months. Tumours were predominantly located in the upper lobe (71.8 %) and displayed necrotic features in 53.8 % of cases. 82.1% of tumours invaded the mediastinum.
This study describes the largest cohort of Pulmonary Pleomorphic Carcinoma in the literature. Tumours demonstrate a high SUV on baseline imaging and demonstrate rapid growth on interval imaging and central necrosis.
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