Longitudinal Approaches to Analysing Migration Behaviour in the Context of Personal Histories

Abstract Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are at last coming to be recognised as serious global public health problems. Nevertheless, many women with personal histories of DVA decline to disclose them to healthcare practitioners. In the health sciences, recent empirical work has identified many factors that impede DVA disclosure, known as barriers to disclosure. Drawing on recent work in social epistemology on testimonial silencing, we might wonder why so many people withhold their testimony and whether there is some kind of epistemic injustice afoot here. In this paper, I offer some philosophical reflections on DVA disclosure in clinical contexts and the associated barriers to disclosure. I argue that women with personal histories of DVA are vulnerable to a certain form of testimonial injustice in clinical contexts, namely, testimonial smothering, and that this may help to explain why they withhold that testimony. It is my contention that this can help explain the low rates of DVA disclosure by patients to healthcare practitioners.

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Diverse Applications of Sociological Imagination: A Qualitative Study of Service-Learning Mentoring

Journal of Applied Social Science ◽

10.1177/19367244211021390 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 193672442110213

Author(s):

Laura C. Atkins ◽

Shelley B. Grant

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Service Learning ◽

Social Issues ◽

Media Representations ◽

At Risk Youth ◽

Reflection Data ◽

Student Mentors ◽

Diverse Backgrounds ◽

Personal Histories ◽

Media And Crime

This project expands discussions regarding critical ways that students’ diverse backgrounds and experiences intertwine with service-learning and social justice. Educators need to empower the next generation to explore their views, apply their skills, and engage with social issues. The research intersects with complex conversations about students’ perspectives regarding media representations, justice system responses, and views of at-risk youth. The project spanned four semesters of a sociology of media and crime course with service-learning mentoring. Qualitative reflection data drawn from 104 participating student mentors provided insights into how service-learners’ unique personal histories and sociological imaginations inform their views of youth, the mentoring experience, and social justice. The findings focus attention upon diversity within classrooms and expand the conversation about social justice praxis and service-learning pedagogy. Through reflexivity, the researchers consider their own social justice and service-learning practices, and add to the call for greater reflexivity within community-engaged sociology classrooms.

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Screen Memories and Screening Functions: Recollection, Personal Histories, and Post-Traumatic Dreams

American Imago ◽

10.1353/aim.2015.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 89-99

Author(s):

Melvin R. Lansky

Keyword(s):

Personal Histories ◽

Post Traumatic ◽

Screen Memories

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Field dependencies: Mediation, addiction and anxious fieldwork at the India-Bangladesh border

Ethnography ◽

10.1177/1466138114533457 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 375-393 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jason Cons

Keyword(s):

Research Project ◽

Heroin Use ◽

Research Engagement ◽

Personal Histories ◽

Productive Research

This paper explores the politics of dependency in researcher–assistant relationships. By doing so, it reflects on how these dynamics are always already predicated on broad personal histories and a range of emergent dependencies. Taking the politics of dependency in fieldwork seriously charts a path towards more fully understanding the quixotic production of ethnographic knowledge. Specifically, this paper reflects on the author’s relationship with Saiful (a pseudonym), who worked with the author during research at the India-Bangladesh border. Saiful was addicted to heroin. This addiction both compromised and enabled a productive research engagement in an unstable place. But Saiful’s heroin use was only one of a series of dependencies that structured our relationship and this research project. Using the lens of dependency to unpack the construction of the field and of ethnographic knowledge more broadly, this paper reflects on a range of questions, including access, anxiety, insider-outsider politics, and entanglement.

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Analysis of the migration behaviour of single microtubules in electric fields

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ◽

10.1016/s0006-291x(02)00251-6 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 293 (1) ◽

pp. 602-609 ◽

Cited By ~ 99

Author(s):

R Stracke ◽

K.J Böhm ◽

L Wollweber ◽

J.A Tuszynski ◽

E Unger

Keyword(s):

Electric Fields ◽

Migration Behaviour

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The Migration Behaviour of Transuranium Elements in Gorleben Aquifer Systems: Colloid Generation and Retention Process

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-127-849 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 127 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

J. I. Kim ◽

G. Buckau ◽

H. Rommel ◽

B. Sohnius

Keyword(s):

Migration Process ◽

Transuranium Elements ◽

Aquifer System ◽

Migration Behaviour ◽

Aquifer Systems ◽

Migration Study

ABSTRACTThe colloid generation as a part of the migration process of trans-uranic ions has been studied in the Gorlben aquifer system. From the migration study for the Gorleben repository site, typical examples are selected to demonstrate the influence of colloids. The quantification of colloid generation and its influence on the dissolution and geochemical sorption of transuranium elements are discussed.

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Nxele, Ntsikana and the Origins of the Xhosa Religious Reaction

The Journal of African History ◽

10.1017/s0021853700016716 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 51-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

J. B. Peires

Keyword(s):

World View ◽

Material World ◽

Future Action ◽

The Future ◽

Personal Histories

The sudden expulsion of the Xhosa across the Fish River in 1811–12 created a practical and conceptual crisis which the traditional political authorities were unable to resolve. Two commoners, Nxele and Ntsikana, emerged in this vacuum, each proposing his own solution to the problems posed by the white irruption. Although these responses were religious responses, they were neither irrational nor incomprehensible. Xhosa religion had long functioned as an instrument for the control of the material world. By incorporating selected Christian concepts with the Xhosa world-view, Nxele and Ntsikana were able to provide the Xhosa with acceptable explanations of past events and prescriptions for future action.Nxele urged resistance and Ntsikana preached submission, but an examination of their personal histories shows that these final conclusions were more the product of exterior pressure than interior revelation. It may be suggested that the future reputations of the two men, like their past actions, will be determined more by the popular mood than by anything they themselves did or said.

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