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Negt and Kluge's alternative collective worker and synthetic apperception
Get PDFThis essay is a critique of Negt and Kluge's proposition that the concept of the collective worker in capital according to Marx, as well as the concept of an alternative collective worker outside of capital, should be conceived in terms of Kant's conception of synthetic apperception
‘…Be the change, you want to see…’: Evaluation of a pilot mentor scheme for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic social work students
No full textThis report evaluates a mentoring scheme for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students which was created and designed within the North London Social Work Teaching Partnership (NLSWTP) to run as a pilot project. It was offered to students on undergraduate and postgraduate qualifying programmes at Middlesex University in academic year 2021-22 and in subsequent years. Middlesex University Social Work academics led the evaluation of the scheme, in collaboration with NLSWTP project leaders.
The mentor scheme was intended to contribute towards tackling structural disadvantage and unconscious biases facing BAME student social workers and qualified social workers as they move along their career journey; the idea emerging partly in recognition of the work of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. While research in this area is not well developed, there are indicators from available national surveys and reports, that BAME students describe experiences of discrimination. Mentors who were social workers employed within the NLSWTP came forward and were trained as part of this project. 14 students on qualifying undergraduate and postgraduate social work programmes opted to receive mentoring while commencing their first practice placement in 2021-22.
Interviews and focus groups were used in a qualitative methodology, to explore the views and experiences of mentors and mentees. Overall, the scheme for BAME was found to be beneficial. Students described gaining social, emotional, professional and practical guidance and support through mentoring to become successful, confident black and minority ethnic student social workers. Mentors were motivated to take part and they valued being able to contribute to change, improving workplace experiences for BAME social workers in the future. Suggestions were made about how to improve future delivery of the mentor scheme, including enhanced communication and information for all parties and more specialised training on the impact of racism for mentors
The intersubjectivity and intercorporeality of noise and sonic arts
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This chapter reflects upon the fundierung of a lived body experienced through sonic art. It considers where the subject may begin and end. For example, the live sound emanating from the presence of a performance artist manipulated through an electronic amplification system enables the noise created to be loud enough to permeate the bodies of all present due to the extreme frequencies utilised. This ‘altering’ experience will affect the relationship between corporeal presence/s in a phenomenological flesh. This enquiry holds an awareness of gestalt and accepts that we are not exploring the singular at the cost of the whole, acknowledging the need to eidetically consider the intersubjectivity and potential intercorporeality created through sonic arts as part of the experience of a ‘complete’ lived bodily experience.
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This book introduces the study and application of performance art through phenomenology, inviting readers to explore contemporary performance art and activate their own practices. Using queer phenomenology to unpack the importance of a multiplicity of self/s, the book teaches readers how to be academically rigorous when capturing embodied experiences. Through approachable exercises, definitions of key phenomenological terms, and interviews and insights from some of the best examples of transgressive performance art practice, the work enriches the wider scholarship of theater studies. Situated within contemporary phenomenological scholarship, the book will appeal to radical artists, educators, and practitioner-researchers
Generation of anatomically inspired human airway tree using electrical impedance tomography: A method to estimate regional lung filling characteristics
Get PDFThe purpose of lung recruitment is to improve and optimize the air exchange flow in the lungs by adjusting the respiratory settings during mechanical ventilation. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a monitoring tool that permits measurement of regional pulmonary filling characteristics or filling index (FI) during ventilation. The conventional EIT system has limitations which compromise the accuracy of the FI. This paper proposes a novel and automated methodology for accurate FI estimation based on EIT images of recruitable regional collapse and hyperdistension during incremental positive end-expiratory pressure. It identifies details of the airway tree (AT) to generate a correction factor to the FIs providing an accurate measurement. Multi-scale image enhancement followed by identification of the AT skeleton with a robust and self-exploratory tracing algorithm is used to automatically estimate the FI. AT tracing was validated using phantom data on a ground-truth lung. Based on generated phantom EIT images, including an established reference, the proposed method results in more accurate FI estimation of 65% in all quadrants compared with the current state-of-the-art. Measured regional filling characteristics were also examined by comparing regional and global impedance variations in clinically recorded data from ten different subjects. Clinical tests on filling characteristics based on extraction of the AT from the resolution enhanced EIT images indicated a more accurate result compared with the standard EIT images
The Little Giant in the South - the Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama
No full textThis text provides a critical commentary on a script for an educational video that utilizes elements of documentary filmmaking entitled The Little Giant in the South - The Education of Blacks at Oakwood University, Alabama. Taken together, the educational video script and the critical commentary represent an original contribution to recording the history of Oakwood University. This is the first doctoral-level study on this subject matter that combines a media artifact and a scholarly reflection regarding the education of Blacks at Oakwood; more broadly, this paper contributes to studies on African American ingenuity within the context of racial discrimination in education. As a member of an ethnic minority group in the United States and a native of the Caribbean, I understand the value of education and consider myself a social justice advocate. My identity impacts this topic through the lens of which I perceive discrimination in education among African Americans and Oakwood as a significant contribution to this problem
Photographic work exhibited in 'Where There’s Space to Grow', Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland
No full textEarly photographic work from Billingham's 'Ray's a Laugh' series was selected by Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens as part of the 'Where There’s Space To Grow' exhibition (8th January - 13th March 2022).
It was curated by 'Celebrate Different Collective', a group of young people 13-25 years old from across Sunderland. The exhibition creatively reflected on the industrial decline of the 1980s in North East England, whilst looking ahead to a shared progressive future. Arts Council Collection artworks were exhibited alongside new works created by local Sunderland communities.
The exhibition sought to champion diversity in a shifting cultural and physical landscape and asked: how can we create space for all of us to grow?
'Where There's Space to Grow' was the third and final exhibition in a series curated by young people across the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme. Firstsite, Colchester presented 'House Share' curated by Young Art Kommunity (YAK) from June to September 2021, and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange opened the exhibition, SEEN, co-curated by young LGBTQIA+ people from Cornwall, October 2021 - January 2022.
All three exhibitions aimed to bring young people together from across the country, connecting them with each other and with the Arts Council Collection
"It will ruin his career": does violence against women really damage the careers of NBA players?
No full textArrests for acts of violence against women are a common occurrence for professional athletes, including National Basketball Association (NBA) players. Many sports fans, players, and those involved in professional sport believe that arrests for acts of violence against women, whether they result in a conviction or not, are highly detrimental to an athlete’s career. We matched all 30 NBA players arrested for acts of violence against women between 2000 and 2016 with similar players who were not arrested and examined the effects of the arrest on postarrest average annual salary and career longevity. We found no significant difference between arrested players’ careers and the careers of nonarrested counterparts. From a social learning perspective, this lack of punishment or loss of reward could be an important factor in continued acts of violence against women among NBA athletes
Gender and migration
Get PDFIn the past few decades, gender has become one of the most significant optics through which to view and analyse migration. Migration has moved up the political agenda and women and men have become differentially entangled within these discussions. In this chapter we review some of the ways in which gender appears in migration debates, the different arguments around gender and on the forms of migration through which these have been routed, and some questions for future research agendas. This chapter is therefore necessarily selective and unable to provide a comprehensive review of the rich literature on the topic