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Aspired communities: The communities of long-term recovery after the 3.11 disaster in the town of Yamamoto
Full text linkI argue in this thesis that we can understand the various ways in which community is ontologized as a tangible, affective and compelling social reality through the analytical lens of the future orientation of collective aspiring. The social and material lives of the residents in the disaster-stricken Tohoku region of northeast Japan were drastically altered after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami on March 11 in 2011. Based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2014–2015 in the town of Yamamoto, I seek to understand in this PhD thesis how the local communities were recovering during the still-ongoing reconstruction then. The main objective of this thesis is to offer analytical tools to explore how people come to interpret, experience and feel their social existence as community.
I understand community in this research as embodied, materially grounded yet symbolical and discursive by drawing from the practice theory approach. The definition of community has long been debated, romanticized and nostalgized. Instead of as a particular grouping or identity, I analyze community as a process of mutually constitutive enacting and envisioning in social practices. I explore this process in light of the teleological character of human activity that is based on a constant reinterpretation of the past and a striving towards the future in the present. I argue that the various forms of sociality that are interpreted, experienced and felt as community can be understood through the future orientation of a collective aspiring of desired futures as shared objectives. As such, community is not a result but the process of collective aspiring in itself that I have divided into action-oriented pursuing and affectively charged yearning.
The ethnographic analysis of collective aspiring illustrates how multiple, ambiguous, overlapping and even conflicting experiences and interpretations of community emerged in post-disaster Yamamoto. My findings elaborate the community concept by highlighting the role of temporality and the future particularly in social life. This suggests that disaster recovery can be perceived as the process of restoring the capability to envision and to enact the future in and of a place, both individually and collectively. I also highlight the sense of agency in social practices, the felt, embodied and social security and the role of spatiality in collective aspiring.Ehdotan tässä tutkimuksessa tulevaisuusorientoitunutta kollektiivista tavoittelua käsitteelliseksi linssiksi, jonka läpi tarkastelemalla voidaan ymmärtää yhteisön ontologisoimista reaaliseksi, tunteisiin vetoavaksi ja jopa pakottavaksi sosiaaliseksi todellisuudeksi. Koillis-Japanin Tohokun alueen asukkaiden sosiaalinen ja materiaalinen todellisuus muuttui 11.3.2011 Suuren Itä-Japanin maanjäristyksen ja tsunamin seurauksena. Tämä väitöskirjatutkimus perustuu kahdeksan kuukauden etnografiseen kenttätyöhön Yamamoton kaupungissa 2014–2015, ja pyrin siinä ymmärtämään paikallisten yhteisöjen toipumista pitkäaikaisen jälleenrakennuksen keskellä. Tavoitteenani on tarjota analyyttisiä työkaluja lisäämään ymmärrystä siitä, miten ihmiset tulkitsevat, kokevat ja tuntevat sosiaaliset suhteensa yhteisönä.
Ymmärrän yhteisön fyysisesti ilmentyvänä ja materiaalisena, mutta myös symbolisena ja diskursiivisena soveltaen käytänneteoriaa. Yhteisön käsite on ollut pitkään kiistelty, romantisoitu ja nostalgisoitu. Tietyn ryhmän tai identiteetin määritelmän sijaan analysoin yhteisöä toisiaan molemminpuolisesti luovien toimimisen ja visioimisen prosessina. Tarkastelen tätä prosessia ihmistoiminnan teleologisen luonteen valossa jatkuvana menneisyyden tulkintana ja tulevaisuuteen suuntautumisena nykyhetkessä. Väitän että sosiaalisten suhteiden monien muotojen tulkitsemista, kokemista ja tuntemista yhteisönä voidaan ymmärtää haluttujen tulevaisuuksien kollektiivisen tavoittelun tulevaisuusorientoitumisen kautta. Yhteisö ei ole siis tulos, vaan kollektiivinen tavoittelu itsessään, jonka olen jakanut toimintaorientoituneeseen pyrkimiseen ja tunnelatautuneeseen kaipaamiseen.
Etnografinen analyysi kuvaa, miten monia päällekkäisiä ja jopa ristiriitaisia yhteisöjä muotoutui katastrofin jälkeisessä Yamamotossa. Löydökseni tarkentaa yhteisön käsitettä korostamalla ajallisuuden ja erityisesti tulevaisuuden merkitystä sosiaalisessa elämässä. Täten katastrofista toipuminen voidaan nähdä prosessina, jossa yksilöllinen ja kollektiivinen kyky visioida ja toteuttaa paikkasidonnaista tulevaisuutta pyritään palauttamaan. Korostan myös toimijuuden tunnetta sosiaalisissa käytänteissä, turvallisuutta tunnettuna, koettuna ja sosiaalisena sekä spatiaalisuuden roolia kollektiivisessa tavoittelussa.ei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Lectio Praecursoria: Katastrofista toipumisen tavoitellut yhteisöt
No full textI argue in this thesis that we can understand the various ways in which community is ontologized as a tangible, affective and compelling social reality through the analytical lens of the future orientation of collective aspiring. The social and material lives of the residents in the disaster-stricken Tohoku region of northeast Japan were drastically altered after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami on March 11 in 2011. Based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2014–2015 in the town of Yamamoto, I seek to understand in this PhD thesis how the local communities were recovering during the still-ongoing reconstruction then. The main objective of this thesis is to offer analytical tools to explore how people come to interpret, experience and feel their social existence as community.Ehdotan tässä tutkimuksessa tulevaisuusorientoitunutta kollektiivista tavoittelua käsitteelliseksi linssiksi, jonka läpi tarkastelemalla voidaan ymmärtää yhteisön ontologisoimista reaaliseksi, tunteisiin vetoavaksi ja jopa pakottavaksi sosiaaliseksi todellisuudeksi. Koillis-Japanin Tohokun alueen asukkaiden sosiaalinen ja materiaalinen todellisuus muuttui 11.3.2011 Suuren Itä-Japanin maanjäristyksen ja tsunamin seurauksena. Tämä väitöskirjatutkimus perustuu kahdeksan kuukauden etnografiseen kenttätyöhön Yamamoton kaupungissa 2014–2015, ja pyrin siinä ymmärtämään paikallisten yhteisöjen toipumista pitkäaikaisen jälleenrakennuksen keskellä. Tavoitteenani on tarjota analyyttisiä työkaluja lisäämään ymmärrystä siitä, miten ihmiset tulkitsevat, kokevat ja tuntevat sosiaaliset suhteensa yhteisönä
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
MOOC for Sustainability: Cultivating Sustainability Leadership in Campus Management Through Open Online Education
Full text linkHigher education institutions (HEIs) serve as key hubs of education and research while also acting as influential societal agents in advancing sustainability. As HEIs increasingly integrate sustainability into their education, research, and operations, their role as sustainability leaders continues to evolve. This article explores how HEIs can cultivate sustainability leadership and institutional agency through open, digital education formats within the integrative framework of campus sustainability. Drawing from a case study on the development of the MOOC for Sustainability: Empowering Global Campuses course coordinated by the Finnish University Network for Asian Studies (Asianet), it examines how sustainability leadership education can be embedded into institutional practices to foster both individual leadership capacities and broader organizational transformation. The study highlights how MOOCs, as scalable learning tools, can bridge sustainability leadership education with campus operations, enabling HEIs to align learning with action. It discusses the importance of strategic leadership competencies, stakeholder engagement, and systems thinking in sustainability leadership development. Additionally, the article reflects critically on the challenges of MOOCs, including learner engagement, impact assessment, and institutional integration. By emphasizing the role of faculty and staff alongside students and formal leaders, this research contributes to the discourse on sustainability leadership and organizational change in HEIs
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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