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Cancer Alley (2022) & I want to breath sweet air (2020)
No full textLucy English's poetry film collaborations with US filmmakers Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran.
'Cancer Alley' combines footage shot on location in Cancer Alley, accompanied by a poem that about what it is like to live in the small towns near the Mississippi between East Baton Rouge, which are now dominated by more than 200 chemical plants and oil refineries, sometimes literally located in residents' back yards.
'I want to breath sweet air' was filmed in the Permian Basin in Texas, one of the world's largest areas of oil deposits. The film examines the impact of the oil industry on the landscape and how pockets of flower meadows and natural beauty still flourish there. The filmmakers created the film out of images taken over the last nine years
An investigation on public participation of cultural heritage protection in China's small cities
Get PDFThis research investigates the relationship between public participation and cultural heritage protection in small cities in China, with a focus on exploring the potential of integrating economic theory into cultural heritage preservation. The study is motivated by the global importance of cultural heritage, the diverse perspectives on heritage preservation, and the significance of public
involvement in safeguarding heritage. The research aims to address the challenges and complexities associated with cultural heritage preservation and examine the applicability of the "triple bottom line" theory in economics to sociology.
The research objectives are to identify the main problems of public participation in cultural heritage protection in China, understand the relationship between practice and theory in cultural heritage preservation, and explore the potential of economic theory in serving sociology. The research methodology involves a combination of qualitative and comparative analysis approaches, including literature review, comparative analysis, case studies, interviews, surveys, and data analysis. The findings from the research contribute to knowledge by exploring social constructivism and the integration of economic theory into cultural heritage preservation. The study provides insights into the main problems of public participation in cultural heritage protection in China under current political, economic, and social conditions. Additionally, it examines the relationship between public participation and local urban development through the lens of social constructivism. Furthermore, the research explores the potential of
applying the "triple bottom line" theory in economics to serve sociology, particularly in the context of cultural heritage preservation.
By addressing these research questions, the study offers recommendations and insights for effective cultural heritage preservation strategies, public participation frameworks, and the application of sustainable development principles. The findings can inform policymakers, practitioners, and
stakeholders involved in heritage preservation, contributing to the development of sustainable and inclusive models of cultural heritage protection in small cities in China. Overall, this research aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on cultural heritage preservation and promote the sustainable safeguarding of cultural heritage for future generations
Re-thinking animal and human personhood: towards co-created narratives of affective, embodied, emplaced becomings of human and nonhuman life
No full textThis chapter argues that animal becoming and animal personhood are articulated in particular, affective, spatialised and embodied practices. These practices are differently materialised and socialised in the life narratives of individual animals, as well as sketched out in their instinctive species’ repertoires. Animals enact – animals are – affective spatial becomings. Thus geography, as the spatial science, has an intellectual, moral and political duty to reveal their lives. The chapter develops the excellent work already conducted within animal geography by stressing aspects of the affective, spatialised, embodied becomings of animals. To answer the still very challenging questions – how do we “hear animal voices” and “bring them into our accounts as others” – the author proposes paying very close attention to their embodied spatial narratives. Getting close to animals, and observing them attentively, can be done through scientific study, philosophy, literature, natural histories, artistic practice or paying close attention to the animals we live with. The chapter explores a series of themes: seeing animals as strange persons (who look back); the differences and continuities between humans and animals and re-thinking anthropomorphism; challenging ideas of “becoming animal”; questions of the open, ethics and welfare; and witnessing as a form of “knowing” animals
Ring of Animals
No full textRing of Animals is the first solo exhibition of South-Korean artist Young In Hong in Belgium.
Central in the exhibition is the installation Ring of Animals (2023). Here six sets of straw-woven shoes for different species of animals are placed in a circle.
Additional works have been placed in the corridors leading to the chapel. The weaving piece Signalling 2 (2023) and She's Here (2023), a costume for a heron.
It presents an integral series of new works that together activate a forgotten communal space that premodern people believed to be real. A sacred area in which the spirits of living organisms, including animals and humans, can communicate with each other through natural connections while being linked in relationships of equality.
For this, Hong was inspired by the architectural setting of the exhibition space, housed in a Dominican chapel, and its proximity to Antwerp Zoo – one of the oldest zoological gardens in the world, established in 1843
Exploring the post-glacial history of the Cardigan Bay coast and sites of sediment accumulation
No full textPromoting early collaboration, communication and leveraging the use of BIM between project stakeholders for the generation of effective knowledge in information protocols
No full textKnowledge is a major asset for every organisation in the construction industry because it forms the basis of effective decision-making, thereby providing them with a competitive advantage. Knowledge management (KM) in construction projects is important in facilitating improvements in decision-making, creating value and increasing productivity. The concept of BIM can facilitate KM by enabling project parties (appointing and appointed) to share information and access knowledge in a coordinated manner. It can also enhance communication and collaboration among project members by capturing, storing, representing, and sharing/transferring knowledge represented building models, as well as auditing it for retrieval data. Although BIM ensures knowledge represented building models in part of a fast-tracking system, collaboration and effective communication between project members is a critical strategy that can improve KM and delivers competitive advantages for information management (IM) in construction projects. The main aim of this research paper is to explore how collaboration and communication through the adoption of BIM contributes to KM in construction projects. The research strategy adopted is that of an integrative literature review. Drawing on relevant literature on the significance of BIM and early collaboration and communication between key project members in ensuring effective knowledge generation in information protocols, the paper presents insights into the status of current KM problems in construction projects and leveraging the use of BIM in knowledge represented building models management. The findings reveal that the capability of KM is enhanced by early collaboration, communication, and leveraging the use of BIM at the early project phases as this provides an interactive information flow in the knowledge generation management (i.e. research outcome) that is transparently accessible and workable in a collaborative environment for multidisciplinary project members. The proposed knowledge generating workflow, which is the main contribution of the paper, consists of six steps and is based on the adoption of a BIM-enabled KM life-cycle approach. This paper concludes that this workflow can benefit all project stakeholders from the appointing, lead appointed, and appointed parties by introducing collaborative KM process throughout the project lifecycle under a BIM environment
From fossils to mind
Get PDFFossil endocasts record features of brains from the past: size, shape, vasculature, and gyrification. These data, alongside experimental and comparative evidence, are needed to resolve questions about brain energetics, cognitive specializations, and developmental plasticity. Through the application of interdisciplinary techniques to the fossil record, paleoneurology has been leading major innovations. Neuroimaging is shedding light on fossil brain organization and behaviors. Inferences about the development and physiology of the brains of extinct species can be experimentally investigated through brain organoids and transgenic models based on ancient DNA. Phylogenetic comparative methods integrate data across species and associate genotypes to phenotypes, and brains to behaviors. Meanwhile, fossil and archeological discoveries continuously contribute new knowledge. Through cooperation, the scientific community can accelerate knowledge acquisition. Sharing digitized museum collections improves the availability of rare fossils and artifacts. Comparative neuroanatomical data are available through online databases, along with tools for their measurement and analysis. In the context of these advances, the paleoneurological record provides ample opportunity for future research. The biomedical and ecological sciences can benefit from paleoneurology's profound approach to understanding the mind as well as its novel research pipelines that correlate neuroanatomy to genes and behavior
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on UK older people’s social workers: a mixed-methods study
Get PDFThe social work profession was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we examined the well-being, working conditions and intentions to leave the social work profession among a sample of UK older people’s social workers. This was a cross-sectional mixed methods study analysing data from 426 social workers who worked in older people’s services in the UK at five time points of the pandemic spanning 2020–2022. Data were collected using anonymous online surveys which included both quantitative and qualitative questions. The mental well-being of participants decreased as the pandemic progressed and this decline was associated with intentions to leave the profession. Thematic analysis of qualitative data revealed two major themes: Practice challenges and Staff well-being. The findings highlight the nature of stressors related to internal related practice demands, and external health and social care service stressors encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic and have implications for policy, practice and research in older people’s social work
"Hunting Africa": how international trophy hunting may constitute neocolonial green extractivism
Get PDFIn the post-Cold War neoliberal moment of the mid-1990s, Safari Club International's (SCI) nascent but now defunct 'African Chapter' published a Strategic Plan for Africa. Its aim was to secure the "greatest hunting grounds in the world" for access by SCI's hunting membership, the core of which is based in the United States. In advocating private sector-led trophy hunting under the umbrella of the SCI "market place", the plan supported an archetypal mode of 'green extractivism': killing indigenous African mammals and exporting body parts as hunting trophies was justified as 'green' by claiming this elite and arguably 'neocolonial' extraction of animals is essential for wildlife conservation. Already in 1996 SCI deflected scrutiny of this form of 'green extractivism' through promoting a view that any critique of this putative 'green hunting' should itself be dismissed as 'neocolonial.' This discursive twist remains evident in a moment in which trophy hunting is receiving renewed attention as countries such as the UK attempt to write trophy import bans into legislation. I engage with these politicized claims and counter-claims to foreground the lack of neutrality permeating trophy hunting discourse. I work with recent political ecology engagements with 'post-truth politics' to unpack SCI-supported advocacy for using accusations of 'neocolonialism' to counter critique of the neocolonial dimensions of trophy-hunting; showing how elite and greened extractivism through recreational access to land and African fauna is thereby consolidated. I draw on case material from Namibia – a country exhibiting stark inequalities of land and income distribution alongside a thriving trophy hunting industry – to explore how extracted 'green value' from 'conservation hunting' may shore up, rather than refract, neocolonial inequalities