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Queer mobilities and the work of messy survival
Get PDFWithin an emerging body of work on queer mobilities, a marked interest in sexuality and migration/asylum has left ample room to consider the complex experience of everyday mobility and displacement. In addition, despite its centrality to survival and its imbrication with mobility, work has been given little attention in queer migration and trans scholarship. Based on detailed narratives created over a number of years with two Central American trans women as they continue to move, the paper explores the ways in which material and social realities of work shape and are shaped by marginal queer(ed) mobility. It proposes the idea of messy survival to explore the complex navigation of marginal existence, and uses this to explore the intersections between work, mobility and trans subjectivity, arguing that this framework is a useful means of engaging with the gap between how trans, mobile lives are written, and how they are lived
The effects of social density, spatial density, noise, and office views on perceived personal space in the virtual workplace
Get PDFHere we sought to understand how perceived personal space is influenced by a number of variables that could influence Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ); specifically, we tested how different levels of social density, spatial density, noise presence, and type of view impact the appreciation of personal space in a shared office environment. We employed virtual reality (VR) to simulate shared and single occupancy offices and devised a novel measure of personal space estimation. We also used a traditional personal space satisfaction score. Participants experienced greater perceived personal space when (1) in a sparsely populated rather than a dense office, (2) in a private office rather than an open plan office, and (3) having any view outside of the office. We did not find an effect of the presence of noise or increased social density (with spatial density held constant) on the perception of personal space
Science for success – a conflict of interest? Researcher position and reflexivity in socio-ecological research for CBNRM in Namibia
Get PDFThis paper emphasizes the importance of researcher position and reflexivity for professionals in the ecological and development sciences. We draw on critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze a selection of scientific papers written by Namibian Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) professionals and their relationships with public discourse regarding this conservation and development program. These papers mainly show “success” whilst disregarding “failure” of elements in the program that elsewhere are highly criticized (especially trophy hunting and ecotourism). In addition, they seem to disregard questions concerning researchers’ conflicts of interest that bear on the papers’ “objectivity.” We argue that such positions beg more transparency and epistemological accountability. In particular, we propose greater disclosure and reflexivity regarding researcher positioning as an important methodological response for illuminating when and how researchers have an interest in specific outcomes of their research, so as to enhance interpretation of the knowledge produced by such research
with or without interruption
Get PDFwith or without interruption sets up two groups, each of which must try to end up playing the same pitch or pattern. One group may interrupt the other at any point, causing the interrupted group to stop playing. The piece considers how we choose to interrupt others when they are engaged in doing something, and how groups of people come together to enforce such a decision.
It was written for students of South West Music School and first performed by them on 25 November 2023 at Wellington School
We are volcanoes: writing feminist fiction as a means of processing trauma
Get PDFThis thesis comprises a work of feminist fiction - the novel We Are Volcanoes - and a contextualising commentary. The two should be read together as a piece of practice-led research answering the question: can writing a feminist novel change the writer's affective experience of personal trauma?
The main objective of this thesis is to explore the idea that trauma- what is felt and experienced as a result of a traumatic event - is transformable through the act of poiesis, or creating something new. In addition, I explore the idea that in an instance of politically situated trauma, like gender-based violence, the perspective of a relevant political movement, feminism, is necessary to that transformation.
The novel takes the form of a conversation between four generations of women in the same family, and explores themes of intergenerational trauma, violence against women, and the importance of listening to women when they speak about their experiences.
The contextualising commentary is a necessarily personal piece, documenting my process of conceiving and writing the novel, and the experimental journey of observing whether that process changed my affective experience of trauma.
Chapter One of the contextualising essay defines feminism, feminist fiction and trauma for the purpose of my research. Chapter Two is a reflection on my taking in of other people's trauma stories, how this affected me and what happened alchemically when these were added to my own experiences of trauma. Chapter Three is an exploration in the process of publicly telling a trauma story, and a brief consideration of how other artists have done this through artworking. Chapter Four documents my realisation that the novel needed to be multi-voiced, and discusses the therapeutic practice of creating imaginal dialogues and their potential as a method for accessing voice and character writing. Chapters Five to Eight each focus on one of the four main characters of We Are Volcanoes, closely considering what aspect of my self and my trauma I explored and processed through the writing of that particular
character. I conclude with an account of what has changed in relation to my affective experience of trauma, and my hopes that this research can contribute to the cultural work of feminism.
This research is closely focussed on my own experiences and processes in writing fiction about trauma, however there is potential for further research exploring other styles and genres of writing, as well as other writers' and, in fact, readers' experiences
Gender and LGBTQ+ inclusive practice in early childhood
No full textThis chapter examines the role of gender and LGBTQ+ inclusive practice to understand how we, as educators, might raise children unlimited by the gendered and heteronormative beliefs which negatively impact their identities. This chapter is written in three parts. Initially, we provide an overview of the field across the past century and consider how gender and LGBTQ+ inclusion is received today within both the public and scholarly arenas. Secondly, we turn to practice and consider strategies for inclusion based on our own experiences with young children. Finally, we look forward to an agenda for the future, considering what kind of change might be needed to maintain, and heighten, a focus on gender and LGBTQ+ inclusion
