79 research outputs found
Challenging the state educational system in Western Siberia: taiga school by the Tiuitiakha River
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"Do you respect me?" Drinking as a social catalyst in the reindeer herding communities of European Russia and Western Siberia
No full textThis paper analyses alcohol consumption amongst the indigenous communities of reindeer herders in the Russian North. It introduces the metaphor of the social catalyst to interpret a broad range of effects and motivations linked with drinking practices and discourses associated with alcohol. An anthropological fieldwork methodology allows entry into the sphere of cultural intimacy in order to understand morally suspicious practices usually hidden from the outside world. A non-normative approach is suggested to escape the moral trap of the 'social problem' discourse. Two main patterns of drinking practices, the 'losing face together' and the 'competitive drinking' spree are identified. Whereas the first can be associated with local traditions, the second is linked with male interaction with and within the settler communities. Transgressive practices causing loss of control are examined for their social function and the different notions of 'strength' associated with drinking practices. All of them serve either to confirm, to transcend or to abandon social boundaries, status roles and relationships, which allows us to speak about alcohol as a social catalyst.</p
Positionalities between activism and research with Indigenous communities in extractive industries contexts
No full textKeith Johnstone
No full textKeith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone’s unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous, collaborative creation using the intuition and imagination of the actors. Johnstone has since become world-renowned, inspiring theatre greats and beginners alike; and his work continues to influence practice within and beyond the traditional theatre.
Theresa Robbins Dudeck is the first author to rigorously examine Johnstone's life and career using a combination of archival documents – many from Johnstone's personal collection – participant observation, and interviews with Johnstone, his colleagues and former students.
Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography is a fascinating journey through the physical spaces that have served as Johnstone's transformative classrooms, and into the conceptual spaces which inform his radical pedagogy and approach to artistic work.</JATS1:p
Mainstreaming decoloniality in European Arctic research. Engaging with challenges, opportunities, and options for action
No full textAnalisis Penjadwalan Proses Packing Arumanis Dengan Menggunakan Metode CDS (Campbell Dudeck Smith) dan NEH (Nawas, Enscore,and HAM) Studi Kasus di UMKM Arumanis Haji Ardi Sleman : Penjadwalan Proses Packing Arumanis Dengan Metode CDS dan NEH
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UMKM Arumanis Haji Ardi is a household industry that produces sweet arum located in Berbah, Sleman, D.I. Yogyakarta. Companies often have difficulty meeting consumer demand in a timely manner. The problem of improper delivery schedule of the order is caused by scheduling the packing process which often experiences delays. The purpose of this research is to find out the comparison of completion time, and know the methods that can complete the production process at the shortest. Campbell Dudeck Smith's scheduling method is a scheduling process based on the smallest working time, and having the advantage of being able to provide many scheduling alternatives. The Nawas, Enscore, and Ham method is that scheduling or assignments with a larger total process time should be given greater priority than the smaller total process time. Given the importance of the proper scheduling process, the author wants to do a scheduling analysis of the Packing process using the Campbell Dudeck Smith and Nawas, Enscore, and Ham methods. The results of the research comparison of scheduling time applied by the company have a sequence of 1-2-3-4 with a makepan of 44,395,142.92 seconds. Campbell Dudeck Smith was 4-3-2-1 with 44,335,921.922 seconds. Scheduling with nawas, Enscore, and Ham method has a sequence of 2-1-3-4 with makespan 44,515.921.12 seconds. The most appropriate method used is the Campbell Dudeck Smith method because it has the smallest makespan which is 44,335,921.12 seconds with a percentage of comparison between cds and NEH methods is 0.4%.
Keywords: Scheduling, Packing, Campbell Dudeck Smith, Nawas, Enscore, and Ham
 
Drinking and Driving Is So Much Fun
No full textOverview of the Arctic Workshop at the University of Tartu in Estonia May 31 – June 1, 2013
From the reindeer path to the highway and back : understanding the movements of Khanty reindeer herders in Western Siberia
No full textThe following article* explores the meaning of roads and the practices of movement for a small group of forest inhabitants in the Western Siberian lowlands on the middle Ob. The indigenous people known as the Khanty live as reindeer herders, fishermen and hunters in the midst of oilfields in the Surgut Rayon. The article examines their emic point of view opposed to the evaluation of the state administration.
Anthropological research can access the mobility of people in two ways. At first researchers map movement in physical and metaphysical time and space, they observe and record the practice of movement. The second important source for anthropological insight is what people say about their practices of movement and how they evaluate them and the spaces in which they move. The following article tries to show that these perspectives remain incomplete without a synthesis of both. The first perspective allows only for a functionalist classification and the second allows the researcher to be taken in by the black and white pictures of moral evaluations that render the complexity of everyday life invisible. Only a synthesis of both, a careful interpretation of indigenous narratives before the background of social and political circumstances let us understand the practices of movement we can observe in the everyday life of people.
Khanty reindeer herders try to build up a distance from the world of intruders and try to defend their autonomy in the forest. By accessing everyday practices and motivations instead of ready-made explanations it is revealed that the Khanty are not doomed to adapt to new situations, but they try to negotiate and manipulate them in their favour. The article tries to prove that one has to skip the objectifying approach to a hermeneutic one to grasp their abilities to do so.Julkaistu versi
Reindeer Returning from Combat:War Stories among the Nenets of European Russia
No full textThe following paper sheds new light on the Second World War oral history of the Nenets—indigenous people living in the northwestern part of the Russian Arctic. The participation of Nenets reindeer herders is commemorated and celebrated as part of the antifascist heroism of the Soviet people in the public historical discourse. Parts of the personal life stories Nenets elders shared in this research show striking differences to the public narratives of war. The paper analyzes the research setting as part of an oral history conducted with anthropological methods in order to learn about the Nenets historical experience as well as the Nenets ways of telling stories. The oralhistory interview is perceived as a performance and an emergent dialogic relationship involving the social relations of the narrator, the research setting, as well as the relation of the storyteller with different audiences
The censor without, the censor within: the resistance of Johnstone’s improv to the social and political pressures of 1950s Britain
No full textKeith Johnstone's improv, popularly known through the Theatresports format, was forged in the cultural and historical context of 1950s Britain. In this paper I will argue that Johnstone's incarnation of theatrical improvisation was defined by its reaction to the normalising forces exerted by the social elite upon the broader population and by civilised society upon the individual.
Johnstone's improv was a reaction against the Lord Chamberlain’s power to censor the British stage and a challenge to the internalised 'censor' British society of the time implanted in the minds of his students, stunting their creative imaginations. Johnstone borrowed elements of professional wrestling to break down the regimented conventions of the theatre space and enliven the spectator-performer relationship. As well as echoing Roland Barthes’ idealistic analysis of professional wrestling (Barthes, 1984: n.p.), Johnstone’s improv shares Barthes’ critique of the authority of the author and allows meaning to be generated out of the encounter between performers and spectators in the instant of the performance’s emergence. Through these processes, Johnstone’s improv defies the censor without (The Lord Chamberlain) by rooting out the censor within (the socially learnt inhibitions to the creative imagination).
By delineating the political and social pressures at play in the historical context of 1950s Britain and the ways that the stylistic conventions of Johnstone's improv resist and subvert these forces, I will demonstrate the emancipatory power latent in this mode of popular performance. This is a particularly timely analysis given the increasing authority of free market economics to dictate what appears on contemporary British stages, and the internalised censor that panoptical CCTV and social media is implanting within the minds of British citizens today
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