3,644 research outputs found
Complexity, Depth Ecology and Climate Change
No full textDiscussions with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene: This book contains dynamic perspectives on global challenges such as ecological destruction, climate issues, failed leadership, and limiting beliefs, while turning to imagination, dreams, symbol, metaphor, and mythology to help us gain a broader understanding of how we each fit into the fabric of the whole.If you care about the planet and your part in it, don't miss this important series of interviews with leading scholars, educators, depth psychologists, and scientists who each bring critical information on how to respond to the growing crisis through connection with soul.Contributors include Jungian analyst Jerome Bernstein; climate scientist and Jungian, Jeffrey Kiehl; Jungian scholar, Susan Rowland; Depth educator/author Robert Romanyshyn; Depth educator Veronica Goodchild; plus other scholars, educators, or Jungian analysts including Steve Aizenstat, Sally Gillespie, Susannah Benson, Nancy Furlotti, Michael Conforti -co-edited by Bonnie Bright and Jonathan Paul Marshall. See also
South African Politics and Online Electioneering Discourses in Selected Social Media Sites in Phuthaditjhaba
No full textThis study analyses electioneering discourses in selected social media sites of Phuthaditjhaba in South Africa. It focuses on political messages and images posted by political parties on selected Facebook Pages and X handles in Phuthaditjhaba. Using critical discourse analysis as a method and netnography as an instrument to collect data from selected sites, I analyse the packaging and language of political communication and highlighting socio-economic issues used by political parties to persuade voters and undermine messages of their competitors. The theoretical underpinnings of the study are drawn from Kubin and von Sikorski’s (2021) notions of ideological and affective polarisation, and Entman’s (1995) idea of social media constructions of poverty. Their ideas guide my analysis of how political rivals capitalise on existing socio-economic issues in Phuthaditjhaba to mobilise sentiment among disgruntled residents. Data was collected from ten social media sites namely, four Facebook group pages, four X group handles and two individual X handles. Ten images and accompanying texts were sampled from the selected sites. Thematic analysis was used to categorise the data. The findings of the study show that while politicians used social media for campaign purposes, residents of Phuthaditjhaba used it to contest, and challenge messages of political parties.
Travel Narrative: Examining selected Southern African text
No full textMA (English)Department of EnglishSee the abstract belo
Negative Spaces: (Re-)Imagining Race and Blackness in Post-2000 South African Urban Narratives
No full textThis study seeks to establish how black identity can be understood through post-2000 black authored South African city narratives. What motivates this inquiry is the understanding that black identity has been defined through negative perceptions since colonialism. The end of colonialism and apartheid marked a turning point in the South Africa history and literature as black people, began to re-define their identities. The study argues that, from colonialism and apartheid eras to the post-colonial period, blackness still poses as a negative space as it is consciously or unconsciously established around similar negative images that were formulated by the colonialists. My study is interested in inquiring whether, with the demise of apartheid, urban narratives have moved beyond colonial perspectives of representing black identity. As such, my focus is on how these black authored urban narratives present black urban dwellers and the city spaces that they occupy. The relations between black dwellers in urban spaces form a crucial point of departure considering how the meaning as it was constructed during apartheid has been sidelined to pave way for multiple meanings of that identity in post-apartheid South Africa. The study analyses blackness and South African cities as negative spaces that share consanguinity on the backdrop of murders, corruption, robberies, drug and alcohol abuse, and patriarchal oppression among others. Through such representations, the study argues that these spaces have become more precarious than during apartheid and the survival of most black people is not always guaranteed. Therefore, the study engages blackness through post-apartheid urban ambiguities, un-inhabitable city spaces, struggles to attain black entitlement within a country that is still defined by racism, urban negations and toxic masculinities that are constantly performed by post-apartheid young people
Cincinnati 1996
No full textBright Sheng.Live recording.Title and author not confirmed.Electronic reproduction from Rulan Chao Pian Audio Cassette Collection.Performers, unknown
R code for: A fat chance of survival: Body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population
No full textAll R code files used in the analysis of data for "A fat chance of survival: Body condition provides life-history dependent buffering of environmental change in a wild mammal population", published in Climate Change Ecology (doi: 10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100022). For any questions, as well as the data underpinning these analyses, please reach out to the corresponding author: [email protected]
Circadian Phase-Shifting Effects of Bright Light, Exercise, and Bright Light + Exercise
No full textabstract: Limited research has compared the circadian phase-shifting effects of bright light and exercise and additive effects of these stimuli. The aim of this study was to compare the phase-delaying effects of late night bright light, late night exercise, and late evening bright light followed by early morning exercise. In a within-subjects, counterbalanced design, 6 young adults completed each of three 2.5-day protocols. Participants followed a 3-h ultra-short sleep-wake cycle, involving wakefulness in dim light for 2h, followed by attempted sleep in darkness for 1 h, repeated throughout each protocol. On night 2 of each protocol, participants received either (1) bright light alone (5,000 lux) from 2210–2340 h, (2) treadmill exercise alone from 2210–2340 h, or (3) bright light (2210–2340 h) followed by exercise from 0410–0540 h. Urine was collected every 90 min. Shifts in the 6-sulphatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) cosine acrophase from baseline to post-treatment were compared between treatments. Analyses revealed a significant additive phase-delaying effect of bright light + exercise (80.8 ± 11.6 [SD] min) compared with exercise alone (47.3 ± 21.6 min), and a similar phase delay following bright light alone (56.6 ± 15.2 min) and exercise alone administered for the same duration and at the same time of night. Thus, the data suggest that late night bright light followed by early morning exercise can have an additive circadian phase-shifting effect.The final version of this article, as published in Journal of Circadian Rhythms, can be viewed online at: http://www.jcircadianrhythms.com/article/10.5334/jcr.137
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