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"Oh you look so pretty talking about disability..."
Full text linkThis chapter offers an autobiographical perspective from a disabled artist researcher. Reflecting on the experience of dance making and performing. It includes an exploration of how the disabled dance artists body on stage is read through a lens informed by societal, cultural and historic understandings of impairment. In preparation for this Chapter the author was in contact with another disabled dance maker practicing in Brazil, there are excerpts of this communication within the writing. Explicitly bringing together two disabled artist-researchers in this publication offers a new and unique perspective to an existing canon of writing about dance and disability, specifically it gives voice to the lived experience of disability and dance-making. Doing so allows these perspectives and experiences to inform and shift traditional ideas of so-called ‘inclusive’ practice away from a binary of ‘normal’ and other and towards a perception of disabled artists as autonomous agents of their own artistic inquir
Bio-physical controls on tidal network geomorphology
Full text linkThe copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the authorLooking over a tidal wetland, the tidal network characterised by its intricate system
of bifurcating, blind-ended tidal courses clearly stands out from the overall landscape.
This tidal landform exerts a fundamental control on the morphology and ecology within
the tidal environment. With today’s recognition of the ecological, economical and
societal values provided by tidal wetlands, which has been notably reflected in the
development of restoration management strategies across Europe and USA, there is
a need to fully understand the nature and development of tidal networks as well as
their relationships with associated landforms and biotic components (e.g. vegetation),
to eventually guarantee the success of current and future restoration practices. Accordingly,
this research aims to bring further insights into the bio-physical controls on
the geomorphology of tidal networks. To this end, a combination of remote sensing,
modelling and field activities was employed.
A geo-spatial analysis was performed at Queen Mary, University of London (UK), to
address the variability of tidal network patterns. A series of network scale morphometric
variables was extracted using airborne LiDAR data among selected tidal networks
across the UK depicting different planview morphologies, and supplemented with
the collection of corresponding marsh scale environmental variables from published
sources. Multivariate statistics were then performed to characterise the variability of
tidal network patterns and identify the inherent environmental controls. The analysis
has revealed that every network type can be characterised based upon measures of
network size and complexity, with each network pattern depicting proper morphometric
aspects. Particularly, the stream Strahler order and the median depth of the network
main channel have the highest discriminating weight on the patterns investigated. High
correlation between the latter variable and network main channel width has revealed
that linear, linear-dendritic and dendritic networks followed a transitional gradient in
their aspect ratio approximated by a power law and thus are seen to depict similar
erosional processes. To the contrary, meandering networks clearly depart from this relationship, and show particular segregation in their aspect ratios with respect to
dendritic networks. Globally, differentiation on network morphometric properties has
been linked to environmental conditions specific to the marsh physiographic setting
within which a tidal network develops. Conceptually, tidal networks seem to adapt to
marsh environmental conditions by adopting suitable morphologies to drain their tidal
basin effectively.
An eco-geomorphic modelling framework was developed at University of Trento
(Italy), to address tidal network morphological development. In line with current
theories as well as modelling advances and challenges in the field of tidal network
ontogeny, emphasis was thus placed on the investigation of tidal channel formation
and evolution in progressive marsh accretional context. Under these environmental
conditions, tidal network development can be ascribed to the combination of two
channel-forming processes: channel initiation results from bottom incisions in regions
where topographic depressions occur; channel elaboration results from differential
deposition, contributing to the deepening of the tidal channels relative to the adjacent
marsh platform. Further evolutionary stages including channel reduction proceed from
the horizontal progradation of the marsh platform which may lead eventually to channel
infilling. Moreover, both qualitative and quantitative results allude to an acceleration of
the morphological development of the synthetic tidal networks with increasing sediment
supply. These different observations thus emphasise the prevalence of depositional
processes in shaping tidal channels. In a second stage, the investigation was extended
to the role of the initial tidal flat morphology as an inherent control on tidal network
development, by considering different scenarios of topographic perturbations, which
has revealed its legacy on tidal network morphological features. Modelling experiments
have also acknowledged salt marsh macrophytes as a potential control on network
evolution depending on their biomass distribution within the tidal frame. However,
tidal channel morphodynamcis appears to be sensitive to the way biomass growth is
mathematically parameterised in the model.
In view of the current challenges in transcribing mathematically such a dynamic
process and the relevance of bio-physical interactions in driving salt marsh and tidal
network evolution, a field survey was conducted in a temperate salt marsh in the
Netherlands, as part of the mobility to UNESCO-IHE (Netherlands) in partnership with
University of Antwerp (Belgium), to assess vegetation distribution and productivity in
the tidal frame. Particularly, emphasis was placed on extending investigations on the possible presence of relationships involving vegetation properties in different climatic and ecological conditions from those characterising these previously documented
relationships. Regression analysis has revealed that biomass growth can be expressed
as a linear function of marsh relative elevation, providing therefore direct empirical
validation for corresponding assumptions reported in the literature and used in the
present modelling framework; surprisingly, that increase did not correlate with an
increase in species richness and diversity. Analysis of likely associations between
vegetation morphometrics and total standing biomass yielded only a single linear
relationship linking the latter variable to stem height. In truth, these observations may
bear reconsiderations on the global validity of the assumptions used in the formulation of some eco-geomorphic processes which are applied in the study and prediction of
wetland resiliency facing climate change
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No full textThis film is choreographed, performed, filmed and edited by Kate Marsh. It aims to explore a shift from a body that is a vehicle for the artistic inquiry of others to an autonomous practice
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No full textThis film is choreographed, performed, filmed and edited by Kate Marsh. It aims to explore a shift from a body that is a vehicle for the artistic inquiry of others to an autonomous practice
Piora
No full textPiora is a dance film co-created by Kate Marsh and Jay Gearing. Exploring disability and sisterhood across cultures, languages and environments
Hazel Marsh Interview, March 14, 1990
Full text linkHazel Marsh discusses her experiences in Bearmouth, Montana throughout the 1970s, including her difficulties with ranch managers, the dismantling and relocation of older Bearmouth buildings, and the sale of the Bearmouth ranch to the Bearmouth Land and Cattle Company in 1979. She also elaborates on the trust set up for her by Kate Lannen, which encompasses how she became the owner of the Bearmouth ranch after the last of the Lannen family passed away.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/hazelmarsh_oralhistory/1009/thumbnail.jp
Guidelines for Data Annotation
No full textIncluded here are a coding manual and supplementary examples of gesture forms (in still images and video recordings) that informed the coding of the first author (Kate Mesh) and four project reliability coders
Resilience and Inclusion:Dancers as agents for change
No full textThis is a film about the practice and processes of disabled dance artists. Facilitated by Kate Marsh and including Dave Toole and Welly O'Brien. The film aims to highlight the lived experiences of established artists with disabilities. It includes practice and discussion in exploring the questions of what are the obstacles to dance for disabled artists? and How can privileging this practice through an open access film support other disabled artists and stakeholders such as venues and promoters
Marsh Kate, Fictions of 1947. Representations of Indian Decolonization, 1919-1962
No full textBonin Hubert. Marsh Kate, Fictions of 1947. Representations of Indian Decolonization, 1919-1962. In: Outre-mers, tome 95, n°358-359, 1er semestre 2008. 1958 et l'outre-mer français. p. 327
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
Full text linkKate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She worked for many years as an organizer with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi and the Service Employees International Union in Boston. She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles on union strategies
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