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“You’re Going to Go into Some Really Dark, Dark Places in Your Mind.” Loss and Disillusionment of Being Shunned From the Jehovah’s Witnesses Community and Its ImpactInternational
No full textBuilding musical lives: The impact of supporting musical play in the everyday lives of autistic children and their families
Get PDFMusical spaces have been observed to be highly engaging for autistic children, ameliorating barriers often experienced in communication and interaction. Music interventions with this group are widespread and have frequently noted the importance of integrating caregivers. Yet beyond music therapy, there is limited research on how to support music-making in daily life for autistic children and their families. In particular, there is a lack of long-term ecological evidence with this group for how music can support everyday functioning, care routines, and wellbeing. In this study, 25 families participated in a 12-month program which supported the integration of music into everyday life. Families were interviewed at the end of the project regarding the effectiveness of music as a support for daily routines, play, and wellbeing. Qualitative thematic analysis highlighted how families implemented musical strategies in widespread ways as a medium to support communication, create valued opportunities for shared interaction, and as a way to scaffold everyday caring routines. Families’ uses of musical play strategies, as observed in this study, emphasize the importance of incorporating caregivers and home environments as part of arts programs for autistic children, and the effectiveness of empowering parents to use music as a tool to navigate everyday life
Restaurant staff awareness of coeliac disease and gluten free foods: A focus on Italian and South Asian cuisines
No full textNegative treatment of self in socially anxious clients
No full textExploring and working with the quality of a person’s self- relationship is central to the therapeutic process. Whilst research has often focused upon the measurement of concepts such as self- criticism, perfectionism and self-efficacy, there has been limited study of how the self-relationship, particularly as it relates to nega- tive treatment of self (NTS), presents itself in discourse within therapy sessions. The current study was intended to examine the broader concept of negative treatment of self in socially anxious clients who participated in a research study on emotion-focused therapy for social anxiety (EFT-SA). Utilising a client self-report measure, four participants were selected based on high pre- therapy scores within the respective self-relationship domains of self-attack, self-control, self-neglect and self-affiliation. We carried out qualitative descriptive-interpretative analyses of session 2 therapy transcripts for each participant to identify the main themes of negative self-treatment. This investigation revealed both obvious and subtle client process indicators of different aspects of NTS: Objects (Being, Doing, Having), Directness (Direct vs Indirect), Modes (Self-Attack, Hostile Control, Hostile Neglect & Hostile Freedom), and Emotional Effects (Fear, Sadness, Anger, Shame). In addition to mapping nuances, the varying dimensions were incorporated into a comprehensive definition of negative treatment of self
Why does unpaid labour vary among digital labour platforms? Exploring socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy
No full textDigital platforms provide many workers with vital income and offer the promise of flexible work, and yet also contribute to experiences of precariousness and exploitation, particularly with regard to pressures to undertake unpaid work. This article explores why unpaid labour is necessary and what drives its extent and form among diverse types of digital platforms. We theorize two ideal types of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ socio-technical platform regimes of worker autonomy, building on sociological insights about socio-technical systems, management control over worker autonomy and labour market segmentation by skill. In principle, ‘open’ (‘closed’) platform regimes grant relatively high (low) worker autonomy in terms of access to the platform, paid work and control over work tasks. Analysing five case studies, illustrative of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ regimes, we investigate unpaid labour in low-skill locational (i.e. food delivery) platforms and medium/high-skill online (i.e. freelancing) platforms. In brief, digital freelancers exhibit a lower extent of unpaid labour within relatively ‘open’ regimes, owing to greater autonomy over access to, and control over, platform work in a sector requiring medium/high skills. Conversely, ‘closed’ regimes mitigate unpaid labour for food-delivery platforms by providing market shelter for workers, who are easily replaced in an overcrowded sector requiring few skills
Copies without an Original:The Performativity of Biometric Bordering Technologies
No full textWe analyse two examples of biometrics in civil registration and migration contexts (the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees’ voice biometry system and UK HMPO passport photo checker tool) to show how, rather than ‘recognising’ a person, biometrics creates a field of intelligibility within which the shifting positionalities of bodies are ‘stabilised’ and deemed recognisable. We show how the obfuscation of this process has had violent racialising and gendering effects on the bodies of AI participants. We present our performative approach as a strategic intervention at the intersections of AI ethics and biometrics in these contexts
L’autre Corse, une géopoétique polyphonique en mouvement
No full textThis article revisits the portrayal of Maghrebi diaspora in Corsica. It evaluates how a new generation of Corsican writers and filmmakers (focusing on Jérôme Ferrari and Thierry de Peretti) gives voice to Maghrebi characters resulting from a postcolonial paradox. Only fragmentation, opacity, limited frame, and heteroglossia can express the question of alterity in Corsica. Another image of Corsica is revealed, anchored in a geopoetic space allowing new narrations and mise-en-scenes. Polyphony offers a utopian model to combine voices in a complexity of ways. This metaphor is used to describe a necessary dialogue between past and present, visible and invisible realitie
