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Introduction : Understanding Contemporary Craft Work
No full textCraft work is a complex and contested activity where meaning and value is shaped by historical, sociocultural and economic conditions. The craft revival is shaped by new forms of populist politics driven by fears about migration and work. These political discourses focus on postindustrial regions such as the North American 'rustbelt', LaTrobe Valley in Australia, Southern Italy, Wales or the North-East of England. The identity work involved in craft organization draws on narratives through which workers and consumers seek to account for their lives and actions. Finally, this chapter presents an overview of this book. The book describes the work of women engaged in self-employed craft work as a way of overcoming the obstacles of managing family/motherhood and work in traditional organizations. It focuses on the craft beer industry, revealing a hyper-masculine culture and demonstrating how a pre-industrial, feminized craft became a male-dominated practice. The book explores the potential of nostalgia to return to a lost past via craft
Realtà, realismo, straniamento : Auerbach e il romanzo cavalleresco fino a Cervantes
No full textAuerbach’s research, besides exploring the three main fields the author explicitly names (i.e. the succession of different and differently grounded forms of realism in literary fiction, the alternate splitting and melting of styles, the link between literary work and a Christian vision of the world), in various chapters of Mimesis, and particularly in chs. 2, 6, 12, 14 and 20, is also focused, albeit only implicitly, on the developments of a further distinctive feature in Western literature, which is the emergence of subjectivity in the representation of reality. Focusing mainly on the chapter on courtly romance (ch. 6) and on the Quijote (ch. 14), this essay will examine Auerbach’s interpreting work on texts that adopt, in different ways, a ‘subjective point of view’; this kind of interpretation is, in part, unexpectedly similar to the approach of other critics and theorists of literature contemporary to Auerbach, like Bachtin, Américo Castro and Viktor Šklovskij
Shedding light on the black hole: The roll-out of broadband access networks by private operators
No full textSeveral market studies have indicated that the roll-out of broadband has significant economic and social relevance. The investments in broadband infrastructures needed to realise these economic and social benefits are, however, high-risk. This is firstly caused by the fact that the roll-out of access networks is extremely costly and requires high initial investments. Moreover, the multidisciplinary environment and involvement of many actors with diverging objectives and interests cause high complexity. Moreover, the market for broadband is changing fast and continuously. Although broadband has been on the academic research agenda for quite some time, this has as yet not resulted in a structured insight into the decision-making process around the upgrading of broadband networks, seen from the perspective of private operators and taking into account the vast complexity of the surroundings in which this decision-making process takes place in. The objective of this research was to provide a unifying theory combining technical, economic, market-related and regulatory factors with regard to an evolutionary, flexible approach of network upgrading from a decision-maker perspective. The result of this research is a robust, explanatory, parsimonious model for the impact and outcomes of broadband roll-out. This model provides a certain degree of stability in this multidisciplinary, unpredictable and highly dynamic research field.Technology, Policy and Managemen
Influence of domiciliary humidification on symptom burden and feeding tube use up to 2 years postradiation therapy for head and neck cancer: Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) 07.03 RadioHUM randomized phase 2 trial secondary analysis
No full textePoster Abstract #1126A.M.J. Macann, T. Fua, C.G. Milross, S. Porceddu, M.G. Penniment, C. Wratten, H. Krawitz, M.G. Poulsen, C.I. Tang, R.P. Morton, V. Thomson, M.L. Bell, M.T. King, C.L. Fraser-Browne, and H.U.P. Hocke
Craft Imaginaries – Past, Present and Future
No full textThis paper contributes to debates about craft authenticity by turning attention to the craft imaginary. We suggest that the significance of craft stems from its role in constructing an alternative social imaginary that challenges dominant, modernist imaginaries of industrial production and consumption. Our focus is on the role of imaginaries in determining how societies, communities, organizations and individuals embody temporal relations to the past that extend into the present and future. We show how the craft imaginary comprises histories, traditions, places and bodies and use this to develop a distinction between the imaginary of craft-in-the-past and future-oriented craft imaginaries. Through this, we seek to highlight the organizational possibilities of craft as a source of innovation, inclusivity and disruption
“Maistre (certa)”. Niveaux de savoir et conception du monde chez Guillaume IX d’Aquitaine
No full textStarting with a study by M. Black (Models and Archetypes, 1958), the author examines the possibility of broadening this heuristic perspective to include literature. In particular, she analyses a text by William IX, in which the troubadour seems identify himself with God
A Study of the Historical Construction Technology of Bell Towers in Cyprus
No full textThis paper aims to present the historical construction technology of churches’ bell towers in Cyprus, starting with the initiation of their use and addressing the development of their distinctive morphology adapting and mixing various architectural styles. Traditional bell towers are tall and slender unreinforced masonry structures that are known to be particularly vulnerable to earthquake actions encountered in seismogenic regions, such as Cyprus. Therefore, iron and wood elements with high tensile capacities were commonly utilized in Cypriot bell towers in the form of ties. In particular, the bell tower of Saint John’s church in Psevdas village was constructed using such technology and is an example case studied in more detail in the present work. This tower suffered a partial collapse during an earthquake on May 12th, 2016 and underwent restoration within the next year. Based on the knowledge gathered from the case of the damaged tower and the visual inspection of other bell towers in Cyprus, the use of timber and iron ties in these masonry structures is deemed to be essential for their protection from seismic actions
Oltre lo specchio: il Joufroi de Poitiers e la cultura lirica del suo autore
No full textCome è stato a più riprese osservato, il Joufroi de Poitiers, romanzo d’autore borgognone collocabile verso la metà del XIII secolo, si ispira molto da vicino alla figura di Guglielmo IX d’Aquitania, grande signore e primo trovatore di cui ci siano giunti i componimenti. Ma a quali materiali si ispira veramente l’autore del Joufroi? Alla vida provenzale conservata, o piuttosto a una più ampia biografia latina perduta, o ad altri testi ancora? La presente ricerca cercherà di mettere in luce quali siano state le effettive fonti del romanzo e di abbozzare un’ipotesi che spieghi le motivazioni di questi recuperi.As has been repeatedly noted, Joufroi de Poitiers, a novel written by a Burgundian author and composed around the middle of the thirteenth century, is based very closely on the figure of William IX of Aquitaine, great lord and first troubadour whose poems have been compiled. But what materials did truly inspire the author of Joufroi? The extant Provençal vida, or rather a lost broader Latin biography, or still other texts? This research will try to shed light on what were the actual sources of the novel and to outline a hypothesis that explains the motivations of these works
Proceedings of the Per Bruun Symposium
No full textHolocene sea level rise, shoreline erosion and the Bruun Rule-overview (J.J. Fisher) The Bruun Rule: A historical perspective (M.L. Schwartz and V. Milicic) Hypothetical shore profiles in response to rising water level (R.N. Dubois) Shoreline erosion, Rhode Island and North Carolina coasts-test of Bruun Rule (J. J. Fisher) An application of the Bruun Rule in the Chesapeake Bay (P.S. Rosen) Bruun's Concept applied to the Great Lakes (E.B. Hands) Enigma of the Bruun's formula in shore erosion (H. Allison) The 11 Bruun Rule", Discussion on boundary conditions (P. Bruun)KWP-collectio
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