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Ambedkar, Radical Interdependence and Dignity: A Study of Women Mall Janitors in India
No full textIn this paper, using Ambedkar’s pioneering vision for engaged Buddhism, we developed the notion of radical interdependence, which consists of four interrelated processes: (a) dialogical recognition; (b) negating invisibilities; (c) dignity as an embodied praxis; (d) ordinary cosmopolitanism. Our research primarily focused on women janitors’ lives (N = 20) in a Mumbai Mall using this conception. Our participants experienced four different kinds of dignity injuries (yelling, invisibility, the target of suspicion of theft of valuables, othering). They used various strategies to preserve personal, intersubjective, and processual dignities. We also found horizontal and vertical ordinary cosmopolitanism strategies to bridge social boundaries between colleagues and mall customers. We further discuss the implications of radical interdependence for organizational research
Estimating Fish Diet in Lake Turkana, Kenya
Get PDFLake Turkana, located in northern Kenya on the Ethiopian border, is the world’s largest permanent desert lake. Over 90% of its flow originates from the Omo River in Ethiopia, which causes the lake to have seasonal rises and falls in water level. The Omo River has been subject to the construction of five dams (the Gilgel Gibe dams) and several irrigation projects. These developments will impact the amount of water entering the lake, with implications for lake chemistry and productivity, littoral habitat availability, and the breeding biology of the lake’s fishes. Though ongoing upstream changes are likely to have serious impacts on the fishes and fisheries of Lake Turkana, this system remains drastically understudied. The purpose of this project was to develop an understanding of the food web and ecology of seven key fisheries species in Lake Turkana before the installation of the Gibe III dam. I used Bayesian mixing models in the statistical software R and stable isotope data (15N and 13C) collected between 2011 and 2013 at three sites in Lake Turkana to estimate key species’ diet. I found that site or site type (littoral or pelagic) was an important driver of diet for the majority of the species studied. I also found diet shifts in six species as compared to earlier research. Notably, fish declined in the diet of some larger predatory species (Hydrocynus forskallii and Lates niloticus), which may be because of declines in the lake’s small pelagic planktivores. Phytoplankton and zooplankton were an important diet item for low-trophic level fishes, including tilapias and pelagic schooling fishes. There were also clear ontogenetic dietary shifts in four species. This study highlights vulnerabilities in the diet of key fishery species in a large lake experiencing ongoing ecosystem change. Findings of this study are the first step in understanding how upstream projects will impact the fisheries of Lake Turkana by providing a baseline assessment of the food web structure
Victims of Victims: The Concept of Victimhood in Two War Memoirs of the Sierra Leonean Civil War
Get PDFThis research analyzes the portrayal and view of war victimhood in the genre of war stories and remembrance using two firsthand accounts of the Sierra Leonean Civil War
APPC Minutes - August 30, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, August 30, 2022
APPC Minutes - February 8, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, February 8, 2022
APPC Minutes - February 22, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, February 22, 2022
You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2022)
Get PDFEach year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. We hope to inspire students and the rest of our community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read or watch a memorable film.
With the 2022 collection, 104 employees offer 175 recommendations of favorite books, films, television shows, and podcasts. This year\u27s selections range from poetry to physics, and transport readers from the Antarctic to Arkansas.
This year\u27s booklet features a special section of Reading Reflections from Musselman Library staff and a column in remembrance of Sandy Stambaugh.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1019/thumbnail.jp
Drafting an Assessment Plan for Your Instruction Program: Sustainably Assessing Information Literacy in an Undergraduate STEM Course
Get PDFAssessing student learning across a library instruction program can be infeasible without being strategic, intentional, and realistic. Librarians at a small college will share how they developed a sustainable, 3-year assessment plan for the ACRL Framework and targeted a 100-level biology course-one of the two high-enrollment STEM courses that receive library instruction on their campus each year. The presenters will share their assessment plan, flipped instruction model, workflow-management strategies, and lessons learned for collaborating with STEM faculty to assess information literacy
Building for the Future: Functional, Energy-Efficient, and Beautiful Buildings by Snøhetta
Get PDFThe construction industry accounts for nearly 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions, which ultimately leads to climate change. Because of a lack of global consensus and accountability on a large scale about how to combat climate change, certain countries and cities are leading the charge on mitigation, since they tend to be more progressive and homogenous. Norway is one of those countries, and happens to be the headquarters for Snøhetta, a design company, that is designing buildings that are not only energy-efficient but also functional for the space in which it resides. Snøhetta very much values the interconnection between the material world and humans. In the spaces they create, they strive for there to be a harmonious relationship between all living things, even in the future. In order for the space to still be functional in the future, they have to design for it to be sustainable, one of the company’s top values. Snøhetta follows the motto “form follows environment” when designing buildings to be sustainable. That means that in order to make a functional, sustainable building, they design the form and structure of the building last, after deciding how to optimize its efficiency. Energy-efficient buildings today also have to be planned thoroughly to include features on the inside and out, as well as utilizing elements that are in the vicinity of the building to maximize their standards. Snøhetta has designed a lot of very notable buildings, but in this paper, four of their sites are analyzed according to their level of efficiency, and how well they made the space functional in regards to the context, users, and location of the space. Those sites are Powerhouse Brattørkaia, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the National September 11 Museum Memorial Pavilion. These sites located in Norway, Egypt, and the United States, each have energy-efficient qualities, yet the sites are deemed as sculptures and functional for the purpose of the space
The Relationship Between State Capacity and Internal Armed Conflict
Get PDFThis paper seeks to evaluate the impact that state capacity has had on the annual incidences of internal armed conflicts in the post-WWII period. This paper proposes that the state’s coercive, administrative, and extractive capabilities are the most effective tools at its disposal when attempting to decrease the likelihood of the onset of internal civil conflict. This paper hypothesizes that the higher the level of state capacity in a given nation-state is, the lower the number or occurrences of internal armed conflict will be. The key finding this paper presents is a statistically significant result linking state capacity to the number of internal conflicts in a nation-state. Thus, this paper concludes that a lack of properly developed state capacity is what has resulted in a greater number of internal armed conflicts. This paper validates state capacity as a legitimate explanation of civil conflict