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A review of the acculturation experiences of international students
Full text linkThis is the author’s version of a work that was submitted/accepted for pub-lication in the following source: Smith, Rachel & Khawaja, Nigar (2011) A review of the acculturation ex-periences of international students. International Journal of Intercultura
Poetry, Prose, and Music
No full textContains three papers that together comprise my thesis: "A Song of Good Life": Revelry and Revelation in Shakespeare's Music; "Country Chat": Jane Barker's Pastoral; and The Nature of (Flawed) Gifts in The Golden BowlProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
More than a feeling: affect, narrative, neoliberalism
No full textThis project examines a range of affective states as they are constructed in works of American literature and visual media. Focusing on affects that are implicated in processes of change -- fear, grief, perseverance, curiosity, and love -- it argues for the relevance of these transitional feelings to a cultural critique of neoliberalism. Proponents of neoliberalism emphasize values of autonomy, freedom, and progress, which paradoxically have also provided the traditional basis for humanist projects of resistance. When works of literature address change, the emotions and other bodily responses that emerge are often shaded with suffering and hesitation, and do not translate directly into recognizable forms of agency. Yet these seemingly passive modes of being are anything but static; security and predictability dissolve in these difficult states of transition. This entails pain, but also potential -- sadness, but also possibility.Literary works such as Don DeLillo's The Body Artist and Tony Kushner's Angels in America produce states of suffering that contradict the neoliberal assumption that appeals to change must call upon active expressions of individual agency. These works produce other corporeal sensations -- grief and perseverance -- that suggest modes of collective feeling at once strongly tied to transformative experiences and withdrawn from conventional forms of active production. Works of visual media from sources as diverse as television, contemporary cinema, and medical imaging produce other affects, among them fear and curiosity, which play pivotal roles in the neoliberal naturalization of progress. Yet some cultural constructions of curiosity, for example, also suggest that the desire for knowledge might produce new forms of social connection even within the very practices of neoliberal control. As cultural critics contend with these states of feeling, the affects produced by critique itself are at stake. This project concludes with an exploration of contemporary experiments in critical form that envision critique as a practice of love, forging unexpected links and untimely encounters with the world of events. The dissertation thus pursues a loose narrative that traces one possible affective trajectory from crisis to continuity, from breaking habitual structures of experience to forming new modes of social engagement and thought.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205)
Design anthropology: a distinct style of knowing
No full text[Extract] This book is about design anthropology, which is a fast-developing academic field that combines elements from design and anthropology. The following chapters comprise innovative case studies and theoretical reflections that provide an introduction to the field from the perspective of anthropologists participating in its development. In this introductory chapter, we sketch the contours of this new field and its emergence from the early uses of ethnography in design in the late 1970s up to the present. We argue that design anthropology is coming of age as a separate (sub)discipline with its own concepts, methods, research practices, and practitioners, in short its own distinct style and practice of knowledge production. But first we discuss the two separate knowledge traditions from which this new discipline has developed
Patient preferences for technical skills versus interpersonal skills in chiropractors and physiotherapists treating low back pain
No full textLittle is known about which characteristics of chiropractors and physiotherapists matter to patientsand influence their preferences when seeking care.ObjectiveTo examine the impact of 4 factors (patient gender, practitioner gender, practitioner specialty –chiropractor or physiotherapist, practitioner reputation – technical ability or interpersonal skills) onpatients’ choice of therapist to treat low back pain.MethodsQuestionnaire-based vignette study in which participants sampled from the general population ratedthe likelihood of consulting 8 fictional therapists. Each fictional therapist represented a differentcombination of the 3 practitioner factors (e.g. male chiropractor with reputation for good technicalability). The study was administered as a postal survey to a simple random sample of residences inone postal town in England.ResultsRespondents (n=657) consistently reported that they considered a practitioner’s qualifications andtechnical skills important when choosing either a physiotherapist or a chiropractor; just under a thirdthought it was important that a practitioner was a good listener. As hypothesised, femalerespondents preferred female practitioners and respondents had a general preference forphysiotherapists over chiropractors. Contrary to our hypothesis, the practitioner’s reputation hadthe largest effect on respondents’ preferences and all practitioners with a reputation for technicalability were preferred over those with a reputation for interpersonal skills.ConclusionSimilar factors are important to patients whether they are choosing an individual chiropractor orphysiotherapist; patients particularly value information about technical competence. An awarenessof these factors should help primary care providers to direct patients to relevant information andsupport their decision-making
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
Pluriversal futures:Design anthropology for contested memory making at the margins
No full textIn this chapter, we present a design anthropological approach to the promotion of pluriversal futures in which different modes of research, interventions and technologies are used to enable the emergence of multiple voices, memories, and perspectives. We frame our discussion with a focus on contested everyday contexts, to present a strategy for exploring pluriversal futures by amplifying previously unheard voices and creating dialogues about contentious issues. This focus on contested everyday spaces is connected towards the inclusion of mundane and marginalised voices of young people and communities that experience ‘othering’ or oppression in relation to dominant narratives and positionings. Based on participatory memory work across Denmark, Namibia, and Greenland, we present a research case undertaken in Namibia with a group of young people from the “Born Free” generation and demonstrate how we worked towards pluriversality through different conceptual spaces in the research process. The chapter contributes a framework for decolonising participatory memory work in contested contexts through three core conceptual spaces: reflective safe spaces, creative third spaces, and dialogic public spaces, which together can support the shift towards pluriversality.In this chapter, we present a design anthropological approach to the promotion of pluriversal futures in which different modes of research, interventions and technologies are used to enable the emergence of multiple voices, memories, and perspectives. We frame our discussion with a focus on contested everyday contexts, to present a strategy for exploring pluriversal futures by amplifying previously unheard voices and creating dialogues about contentious issues. This focus on contested everyday spaces is connected towards the inclusion of mundane and marginalised voices of young people and communities that experience ‘othering’ or oppression in relation to dominant narratives and positionings. Based on participatory memory work across Denmark, Namibia, and Greenland, we present a research case undertaken in Namibia with a group of young people from the “Born Free” generation and demonstrate how we worked towards pluriversality through different conceptual spaces in the research process. The chapter contributes a framework for decolonising participatory memory work in contested contexts through three core conceptual spaces: reflective safe spaces, creative third spaces, and dialogic public spaces, which together can support the shift towards pluriversality.</p
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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