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Reply to the Discussion of “The ‘lost’ islands of Cardigan Bay, Wales, UK: insights into the post-glacial evolution of some Celtic coasts of northwest Europe” by Catherine Delano-Smith, Phil Bradford, and William Shannon
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The workplace experiences of African, Asian and Caribbean (AAC), British, professional women: understanding women’s workplace experiences and well-being implications
No full textThis thesis considers the workplace experiences of British professional African, Asian and Caribbean (AAC) women, to better understand the holistic nature of their organisational experiences and any consequences for their well-being. The thesis is grounded in social identity theory, intersectional theory and identity work scholarship and examines women’s experiences at the intersection of multiple identities, in doing so it demonstrates the importance of understanding the nature of intersectional, social differences within groups, such as “women” and what this might mean for organisations. The thesis’ research questions are: What are the workplace experiences of British professional women of African, Asian and Caribbean ethnicities? And, what are the implications for African, Asian, and Caribbean ethnic women’s well-being? The thesis extends intersectionality and some intersectional identity-work scholarship beyond its original focus of non-prototypical multiple identities constituting multiple-disadvantage. The thesis also considers ways in which intersectional identities may be a resource due to the uniqueness or originality of such an identity (in the UK context), thus allowing professional British African, Asian and Caribbean women to leverage particular opportunities and navigate certain challenging workplace experiences, particularly issues of stereotyping and “otherness”. The thesis engages with a qualitative exploratory methodology, which adopts a non-traditional methodological approach to conducting real-time semi-structured online written interviews with British professional AAC women. The empirical studies include a sample of 50 British professional AAC women across all studies. The findings reveal how intersecting identities are leveraged within daily organisational encounters, with the main themes to emerge being, (a) experiences of identity imposition and, (b), the use of strategic identity flexing to navigate organisational inter-personal exchanges. This thesis makes a methodological contribution to intersectional and racio-ethnic identity research, which to my knowledge is one of the first to utilise a document sharing word processing platform to conduct web-based written interviews. Furthermore, from the research in this study, it is now possible to take a strength-based approach to the study of African, Asian and Caribbean (AAC) ethnic women (racial and ethnic identity relations), rather than solely a deficit-based approach
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No full textSevern Worlding [curator]
No full textThe River Severn is a unique ecological and cultural locus which draws on verdant mythologies, post-industrial undercurrents and the quietness of decommissioning nuclear imaginaries. The ‘worlding’ of the Severn (after Donna Haraway) attends to experiences, fragments, encounters, and places in an active engagement with the materiality and contexts of these interactions
Maker-centricity and ‘edge-places of creativity’: CARE-full making in a CARE-less world
Get PDFSusan Luckman, citing Katherine Gibson’s call for a return to ‘the grass-roots work of engaging the community and being open to developing new economies’, advocates a vision of creative industries that builds the affordances of ‘edge-places of creativity’. Luckman’s focus is non-urban localities. Her proposal, nevertheless, could equally apply to the amateur craft groups, community organisations and independent businesspeople that the Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded projects Co-Producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research and Enterprise, and Maker-Centric: Building Place-based, Co-making Communities worked with in deprived inner-city areas in the British Midlands. Both projects were undertaken with Craftspace and other stakeholder organisations, worked collaboratively with community groups, employed co-production processes and combined hand-making with digital fabrication. The aim of each project was to prototype a method with communities that builds agencies (cultural, social, economic, skills-based) through making and could be applied by other groups. While the CARE method was concerned with the affordances of collaborative making, Maker-Centric looked at these through a heritage and placed-based lens. This article examines the potential for local, collaborative, purposeful, social making as an ‘edge-place’ activity for creative enterprise that is inclusive and supportive