36 research outputs found
Ep. #029 - Shannon Lee Dawdy
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.This week’s episode takes a close look at New Orleans and shines some light on the legacies of Hurricane Katrina and the impacts of climate change as Louisiana suffers under another round of mass flooding. Our guest and guide (11:39) is the brilliant Shannon Lee Dawdy—Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, author of Building the Devil’s Empire: French Colonial New Orleans (U Chicago Press, 2008), and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow—who weaves together anthropological, archaeological and historical methods in her research and writing. We talk about her most recent book, Patina: A Profane Archaeology (U Chicago Press, 2016) and what it teaches us about the importance of materiality and narrative in the history of New Orleans. We talk about New Orleans’s distinctive critical nostalgia and how it challenges the temporality and utilitarianism of the fast capitalism that surrounds it. We talk about collective care of objects and responses to trauma. And we talk about contemporary ruins, living with ghosts, how Louisiana’s relationship to the oil industry and riverine commerce has undermined its environmental stability, and whether the levees will hold in the future. We agree on the revolutionary potential of everyday practices and small acts. We then (58:00) turn toward her current ethnographic research and film about contemporary American death practices, which Shannon convinces us is a happier topic than it sounds. We touch on popular ontologies of the afterlife, the rise in green burial practices, cremation and carbon footprint, and the beauty of cemeteries. The takeaway: death affirms life, but also reminds us that what we do with our finitude makes all the difference. So, dear listeners, please send energy and support to our brothers and sisters in Louisiana and tend to the people and places you love
Rectal indomethacin reduces the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis
No full textA clinical appraisal and clinical application of Elmunzer BJ, Scheiman JM, Lehman GA, Chak A, Mosler P, et al. A randomized trial of rectal indomethacin to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:1414–22. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa111110
‘La Comida Mambisa’: food, farming, and Cuban identity, 1839-1999
No full textDescribes how Cuba developed a countrywide system of food meaning and production in the mid-19th c. that became a national, and eventually "nationalist", cuisine during Cuba's revolutionary moments. Author explains how the centrality of food within Cuban national identity was strongly related with the valency associated with the subsistence farming on small family farms ("sitios"), producing these native foods and Caribbean ingredients, e.g. cassava, guava, and sweet potatoes. The self-sufficiency of these small farmers was in emerging nationalist discourses opposed to the large-scale, export-oriented, colonial plantations and to slavery. Many small family farmers, of which many were ex-slaves, participated in the armed struggles in part to defend their right of independent, subsistence agriculture. Author outlines how since the early, mid-19th-c. Creole nationalism, Creole food and the small farms remained associated with authentic Cuban folk culture and with national identity, and related to independence struggles, and self-sufficiency, including during and after the 1959 Revolution
La ville sauvage: 'Enlightened' colonialism and creole improvisation in New Orleans, 1699--1769.
No full textThis study examines the formation of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the French colonial period (1699--1769), both as a place in the colonial imagination and as a creole port in a busy corner of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World. The objectives are twofold. First, I attempt to understand the city's early reputation for 'disorder' and 'failure' from within the worldview of Ancien Regime France. This contextualization then enables an ethnographic reassessment of New Orleans that moves beyond the discourse of order/disorder to examine the processes, both imposed and improvised, that went into making this unique place in colonial America. It argues that two major factors in the French period contributed to New Orleans' character: (1) the role of the Enlightenment in engineering the city and colonial life, and (2) the rapid development of a local creole society during a period of imperial 'abandonment' beginning in 1731. The blueprints for New Orleans represented an experiment in 'enlightened' colonialism that paralleled 'enlightened' absolutism in France. Yet implementation required the cooperation of a population of Canadians, Africans, Native Americans, poor Frenchmen, and creoles who preferred to improvise their own version of town life. Instead of developing into a French-dominated opulent metropolis as planned, New Orleans became an untamed hub of the Mississippi-Caribbean world defined by smuggling, ethnic diversity, social mobility, a spirit of insubordination and, increasingly, the complex animosities and intimacies of slavery. The methodology comprises an interdisciplinary history drawing on sources from archaeology, archives, and literature, highlighting sites excavated by the author and records of the Louisiana Superior Council. Discussions engage with the fields of Louisiana history, colonial studies, French social history, and historical archaeology. Chapters trace several 'tensions of empire' between metropolitan intentions and local realities, including: urban planning and struggles with nature; John Law's mercantilism and New Orleans' smuggling economy; census-taking and self-fashioning; architectural segregation and the growth of urban slavery; social engineering of class and race amid a climate of fraternization, defamation, and violence; and the contrasts between two literary traditions, one that depicts New Orleans as a rational experiment, the other as a place of uncontrolled passions.PhDAmerican historyArchaeologyLatin American historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/123818/2/3106042.pd
Good Design-Driven Innovation
No full textRadical innovations are designs that alter the meaning of our life experiences. In order to realize such innovation, a designer needs a vision, a strong personal view on the world. The identity and values of designers however, are often denied in modern design processes. onsequently, (junior) designers have difficulties in connecting with their values and standing for their ideals, especially when designing within a corporate setting. We report a case study that demonstrates how nurturing a designer’s personal understanding of ‘good design’ and integration of this understanding in his work, influences a design-driven innovation project and outcome. Our findings suggest that a designer’s principles for good design, enable him to design more in tune with his identity and related ideals. Personal principles for good design empowered the designer’s creativity, decision making, process planning, and drive to design and promote the acceptance of a radical idea within a corporate setting. We hope to inspire designers to use personal values and identity for design-driven innovation, and would like to start a discussion with design research and education communities to ponder on howdesigners can be supported in this journey. OLD Management and OrganisationMarketing and Consumer Researc
From the editors
No full textEditorial introduction to the second issue of Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
From the Editors
No full textEditorial introduction to the third issue of Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
A rainfall-runoff simulation model for estimation of flood peaks for small drainage basins: a progress report
No full textCER70-71DRD35.1970.Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85).U.S. Geological Survey, open-file report.A parametric rainfall-runoff simulation model is used with point rainfall and daily potential evapotranspiration data to predict flood volume and peak rates of runoff for small drainage areas. The model is based on bulk-parameter approximations to the physical laws governing infiltration, soil moisture accretion and depletion, and surface streamflow. An objective fitting method is used for determining optimal best-fit sets of parameter values for the data available for use in predicting flood peaks for three case studies. Errors of prediction result from both errors of rainfall input and lack of model equivalence to the physical prototype. These two sources of error seem to be of the same order of magnitude for a model of the level of simplicity of that presented. Major gains in accuracy of simulation will require improvements in both data and model. The limit of accuracy of prediction of flood peaks by simulation with a bulk-parameter model using a single rain gage seems to be on the order of 25 percent
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Water-Resources Investigations Report 78-90
No full textThis guide explains how to operate a watershed model designed to help better control urban floods. It contains tables and charts
From the editors
No full textWelcome to the inaugural issue of Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
