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Exploring Role, Actions, and Influence of Industry Associations in Politics of Health innovation in India
Get PDFThis paper explores the politics related to the development of innovative healthcare technology industries in low-middle income countries. The focus is on industry associations’ role, influence, and actions in the development of the Indian medical device industry. Our analysis highlights a critical role in shaping the government’s industrial and regulatory policies, promoting entrepreneurship and bridging knowledge gaps between the government and the health industry. We also reveal differences inherent in industry associations’ politics and public policy agendas, which lead to a generative ‘dance’ of cooperation and competition, creating positive public policy contestations and coalitions, but can also cause some detrimental impact on development outcomes. However, the ability of industry associations to reduce transaction costs makes them an indispensable part of innovation systems and impactful actors in health politics
The Dialogical Self in Participatory Action Research
Get PDFThis paper examines new theoretical insights gained drawing together participation action research (PAR), dialogical theorising of self-other relationships and the concept of care. We argue that dialogue is treated as an intrinsic element in PAR research but that the nature of the dialogue has been undertheorized and as such, dialogical self-other analysis had much to offer in providing new insights. To illustrate our argument we draw on data from an EU-funded participatory project (NEW ABC) in a secondary school in England with child language brokers. For one academic year, the team ran an arts-based after-school club, known as the ‘Young Translators Club’ which explored the social and emotional aspects of language brokering as a caring practice. Drawing on fieldnotes, and arts-based outputs with students, we examine the complex dialogical relationships that unfolded over time and the mechanisms by which PAR acted as a catalyst to close down and open-up dialogical relationships. In particular, we critically examine how disruptive dialogues from one group member influenced how the PAR activities unfolded and how other dialogues were stifled, resisted or made into new affordances
Orogeny and topography influenced jurassic–cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem evolution in northeastern Asia
Get PDFTectonic processes are often invoked to explain ecosystem changes, but their precise effects remain elusive. This study focuses on Jurassic–Cretaceous Northeastern Asia, linking the flourishing of the globally exceptional Yanliao and Jehol Biotas, which are temporally successive biotas with distinct species composition, to a prominent tectonic transition from crustal shortening to extension. We estimated paleo-elevation and paleo-temperature variations using whole-rock chemical parameters from Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental arcs. Combined with published paleoclimate and paleontological records, our findings suggest that Mid–Late Jurassic plate convergence in Northeastern Asia created high elevations and complex topography with vertically zoned micro-environments, promoting the emergence of Yanliao Biota. In the Early Cretaceous, following recovery from a warm and arid climate interval across the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition, enhanced topographic ruggedness due to tectonic extension and local topographic/climate heterogeneity, diversified the Jehol Biota. This highly sculpted Northeastern Asia upland (2.0–4.5 km) hosted a wide spectrum of ecological niches under a relatively cool but heterogeneous climate, creating key cradle for biodiversification
Challenging Conventions, Building Solidarity: The Future(s) of Critical Marketing
No full textIn this chapter, we will weave a history of marketing theory and practice that permits us to juxtapose mainstream and Critical Marketing scholarship. From this, we unpack core assumptions underwriting Critical Marketing Studies, including ontological denaturalisation, defatalisation, epistemological reflexivity, critical performativity and solidarity building. Our narrative then introduces each chapter in the Companion
Hierarchies of Need: A Systematic Review of Resilience, Challenge, and Change in the Global Nursing Workforce During the First Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFBackground: Nursing was critical to global health care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses everywhere experienced an extreme tension between public appreciation and personal distress. These experiences are ubiquitous in nursing research conducted across the world between 2020 and 2022. Despite holding profound value for future clinicians, policymakers, and wider society, these stories already appear absent in the collective memory. Review Question: To synthesize available qualitative and quantitative research about nurses' experiences of resilience, challenge, and change during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Type of Review: Mixed-methods systematic review. Methods: The review followed a convergent integrated approach with multiple reviewers involved at each stage. Results: A total of 59 studies were eligible for analysis. Coding of results revealed a similarity to Maslow's expanded hierarchy of needs, which was used as a framing device for findings. The greater portion of recorded experiences expressed needs for safety, belonging, and esteem. Conclusions: The findings contained common and conflicting stories. Taken as a whole, the nursing experience during early COVID represents a powerful, compassionate counter-narrative to contemporary political dystopianism.Implications: Nurses need to leverage their critical importance to health-care delivery for improved work security, sociocultural recognition, and political influence
The Open University’s Reach, Methods and Mission: An Open Response to Supporting International Colleagues in the time of COVID-19
No full text‘Lost futures’, and undermined pasts of the pandemic; Digital lecturers’ ghostly reflections of time, self, and the university
No full textThis article seeks to bear witness to the spectres of uncertainty and anxiety experienced through workplace isolations as university teaching occupied solely digital environments during the early weeks of the pandemic. We reflect on the ways lecturers experienced uncanny and fearful moments as orders of organisational time and its expected realities were abruptly abandoned, exploring working life and its unsettling, ghostly insights during this singular moment of social pause.
Using Derrida’s hauntology as a theoretical framework, this study fuses reflections from previous research using three-level image and content analysis to trace the covert realms temporarily inhabited during the liminal episode of lockdown. Alternative and hitherto unnoticed understandings residing in real-time narratives and curated images enable a recognition of lost and stifled futures alongside a tracing of working histories during a moment of crisis. The spectral lens provides an understanding of how a temporary disjuncture in organisational time, coupled with disembodied work in the digital sphere sees individuals questioning self and role and struggling with reincorporation. The paper also reflects on possible implications of professional and personal isolation, relating how pandemic discomforts haunt subsequent trajectories and working relationships in university life
Achebe, Igbo Writing and the Aka Weta controversy
No full textThe mass exodus which followed the 1966 pogroms, and the subsequent Biafran war, which emptied other first-generation Nigerian universities, notably the universities of Ibadan and Lagos, from their Igbo scholars and writers and reabsorbed them into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), renamed ‘University of Biafra’, marked a turning point in Achebe’s approach to writing and led to the publication of Aka Weta, the first anthology of poetry in Igbo language, co-edited by Achebe and Obiora Udechukwu in 1982. This presentation focuses on this seldom-known and still untranslated anthology shunned by critics, its brand of Igbo, and its deliberate choice, at a time when standard Igbo had already been in use for ten years, to offer texts in a variety of dialects from Anambra, Abia and Imo States. This was Achebe’s first statement in defence of literary writing in dialects: the article examines the controversy it generated and weighs the arguments used by Igbo linguists against it