131 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
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
Cultivating Spatial Diversity: The Nieuwe Binnenweg Forum
No full textToday, Rotterdam’s city is observed as a mosaic of diverse cultures representing various characters and atmospheres. Recently, the research ‘Coming to Terms with Superdiversity: The Case of Rotterdam’ gives a historical account of Rotterdam’s diversity since the 1600s to present day to try and understand how diversity formed and shifted within society. The findings recorded are represented through interviews, empirical graphs and maps highlighting ethnicities, incomes and other social sciences. However, do not investigate how diversity exists within architecture and form. Therefore, this study uses the knowledge gained from ‘Coming to terms with superdiversity’ to understand how spatial diversity forms in the built environment, explicitly questioning ‘How can understanding the temporality of spatial diversity inform the way we design new spatial interventions?’. The question is tackled by creating a catalogue of maps based on the lessons learnt and new parameters to investigate the most spatially diverse area within the Western Archipelago site (WA). Thus, the series of maps create a visual narrative of the existing spatial diversity and enables the user to generate a design framework by highlighting critical areas for development and design potentials.Nieuwe Binnenweg Forum | Hotel New YorkArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Project
Storytelling, women's authority and the 'Old-Wife's Tale': 'The Story of the Bottle of Medicine'
No full textThe focus of this article is a single personal narrative – a Shetland woman’s telling of a story about two girls on a journey to fetch a cure for a sick relative from a wise woman. The story is treated as a cultural document which offers the historian a conduit to a past that is respectful of indigenous woman-centred interpretations of how that past was experienced and understood. The ‘story of the bottle of medicine’ is more than a skilful telling of a local tale; it is a memory practice that provides a path to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of a culture. Applying perspectives from anthropology, oral history and narrative analysis, three sets of questions are addressed: the issue of authenticity; the significance of the narrative structure and storytelling strategies employed; and the nature of the female performance. Ultimately the article asks what this story can tell us about women’s interpretation of their own history
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