118 research outputs found
Community Sport Coaching and Impression Management
No full textThis chapter positions community sport coaching work as a social, interactive performance. It begins by introducing the concept of dramaturgy and Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking work addressing ‘the presentation of the self in everyday life. This background information is then followed by an exposition of some of Goffman’s central dramaturgical concepts and the ways in which they connect with, and could be used to inform, everyday community sport coaching practice. Here, Callum, the last author, provides detailed examples of how he has utilised these dramaturgical concepts to inform the ways in which he performs his community sport coaching role. Finally, the conclusion summarises the central arguments and issues raised in this chapter and provides some critical questions to stimulate your reflection on the dramaturgical dimensions of everyday practice
School Bullying: a Social Justice Issue? How Restorative Approaches May Prevent Future Violence
No full textThis article by Callum Jones discusses how restorative approaches by schools could be used to prevent future harm. The author explores how bullying is experienced, how it could be linked to future violent crime, and how school bullying prevention is a social justice issue
Special issue, British DiGRA
No full textEdited issue of ToDiGRA journal (Vol. 3 No. 3) curated by Paolo Ruffino, Garry Crawford, and Esther Mac-Callum Stewart</p
Special issue, British DiGRA
No full textEdited issue of ToDiGRA journal (Vol. 3 No. 3) curated by Paolo Ruffino, Garry Crawford, and Esther Mac-Callum Stewart</p
Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West
No full textThe western world is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations, churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist offers the most thorough analysis of this phenomenon to date, exploring through their own words how people have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the stories of those who have come to secular lives in Britain, western Europe, the United States and Canada, mostly from Christian and Jewish backgrounds. Based on interviews with over 80 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows that a long-latent humanism has been roused in the post-1945 secularising west. Focusing on the gender, ethnic and childhood dimensions of atheists from the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Europe, the author looks at how the religious condition of the western world changed during the 20th and 21st centuries. By listening to individuals' life stories, this book moves away from mere statistical or broad cultural analysis. Making extensive use of frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony, Becoming Atheist exposes the people's role in renegotiating their own identities and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the western world
Marine Reserves: Is There a Free Lunch?
No full textThis paper employs a spatial and intertemporal model of renewable resource exploitation to investigate the effects of marine reserve creation. The model combines the H. S. Gordon/Vernon Smith hypothesis of a rent dissipation process with Ricardian notions that resources are exploited across space in a pattern dependent upon relative profitabilities. The metapopulation model employed here incorporates modern biological ideas that stress patch heterogeneity, linkages, and dispersal processes between patches. The spatial bioeconomic model is then used to simulate the effects of reserve creation under various ecological structures. We find, under certain parameter configurations and ecological linkages, that there is potential for a "double-dividend" where both aggregate biomass and harvest increase after an area of the fishery is set aside and protected from exploitation.
Application of adiabaticity map: highly efficient coupling from optical fibers to silicon waveguides by adiabatic mode evolution
No full textEfficient coupling of light from an optical fiber to silicon waveguides is a challenging task in integrated photonics. Couplers based on adiabatic mode evolution have the advantages of high bandwidth and low loss but are often accompanied by longer device lengths. In this paper, we introduce the concept of adiabaticity map and optimize the coupling between an optical fiber and Si waveguides by selecting routes on the map that minimize unwanted mode coupling. The map clearly indicates areas in mode evolution where supermode coupling is large and identifies optimal routes for efficient mode evolution. Optimized interaction length and widths are obtained from the adiabaticity map. We obtain highly efficient coupling (96%) with large bandwidth (1-dB bandwidth 280 nm) and misalignment tolerance (⪆90 nm lateral misalignment range for 1-dB excess losses) for the TE polarization.Dynamics of Micro and Nano System
COP26 and opening to postcapitalist climate politics, religion, and desire
No full textClimate change represents a set of emergencies for humanity. Many geographers have argued that in order to repair and avert the damage that these confluent emergencies have and may-yet cause, a postcapitalist society is necessary. However, strategies for how this might be achieved often forgo any consideration of desire, which is problematic given the influence that desire holds over the ‘popularity’ towards which a postcapitalist politics may aspire. This paper reports on a psychogeographic walk to a church in Glasgow, taken by the author during the COP26 Youth March. Reflections on the role of the church amidst the roil of protest allows the author to imagine new ways in which movements striving for a climate-conscious postcapitalist future might engage with religion and spirituality in order to direct popular desires away from and beyond further climate breakdown
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