Ethnography and Political Opinion: Identity, Alienation and Anti-establishmentarianism in Rural Alberta

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Clark Banack
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Income Level ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Ideological Preference ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article documents an ethnographic case study designed to provide deeper insight into the manifestation of political opinion in the rural areas of Alberta, Canada. Employing “a method of listening,” the study demonstrates that rural Albertans, like rural Americans, are feeling politically alienated and angry in ways that go beyond ideological preference, age or income level. In fact, the grievances unveiled in this study are connected directly to key aspects of their social identites: to thier sense of belonging as Albertans, as “ordinary citizens” and as explicitly rural. Importantly, these forms of alienation are often experienced as being layered, frequently melting into each other and strongly informing both these citizens’ strong support for anti-establishment politics and the rather negative fashion in which they interpret the plight of newcomers to Canada and of Indigenous Canadians.

Occupational therapy in older people with stroke

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-268
Author(s):  
Rowena Padamsey ◽  
Avril Drummond
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Older People ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Person Following ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Insight Into

‘Occupational therapy in older people with stroke’ examines how occupational therapists (OTs) increase people’s independence, quality of life, and satisfaction in all aspects of daily life. A fundamental philosophy of OT is to treat everyone as an individual, taking into account their personal roles, beliefs, attitudes, function, and environment. Consequently, the approaches to rehabilitation described in this chapter may be applied to both older and younger adults. A case study has been used for illustration. Key aspects of functioning affected by stroke are explored, focusing in particular on cognition and perception. The OT will work with the patient and their family to identify areas of function which are particularly important to them, and will aim to enable people to complete these activities as independently as possible. This chapter gives an insight into key fundamental therapeutic interventions with the older person following a stroke.

Rural Abandonment in the Balkans: Case Study of a Serbian Village

2021 ◽  
pp. 036319902110008
Author(s):  
Živanović Zora ◽  
Tošić Branka ◽  
Vesić Marina
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Insight Into

The process of rural neglect leads to massive abandonment of rural areas throughout the Balkans. The paper provides an insight into the situation in the rural environment of Serbia. The aim of the study is to identity the reasons for rural abandonment in Serbia in order to define the optimal ways to overcome the current situation. An integrated questionnaire was designed for all respondents, and there were also several separate questionnaires. The results indicate the difficult situation in the rural area of Serbia and that the current trend of rural abandonment will continue.

scholarly journals Boko Haram – the Evolution of Jihad Activity in Nigeria 2015–2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-360
Author(s):  
Artur Wejkszner
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Time Limits ◽  
Suicide Bombings ◽  
Insight Into

This article analyzes the rise and evolution of Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadist organization operating since March 2015 under the banner of Islamic State. The key changes in the ideology, tactics, and goals of Boko Haram have been identified providing in-depth insight into how and why the organization has evolved. The evolution of jihadist activity of Boko Haram included at least two dimensions: firstly – the extreme radicalization of paramilitary struggle manifested in the massacres of civilians in rural areas; and secondly – the feminization of jihadist activity with special regard to the involuntary participation of young women in suicide bombings. The analysis of the facts discussed in the article is based on one of the qualitative scientific methods, namely case study. The main reason to apply this method is the need to investigate the above-mentioned changes in the activity of Islamic terrorists within the time limits indicated in the title of the article.

Towards a Processual Understanding of Task Complexity: Constructing task complexity in practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084062094131
Author(s):  
Anja Danner-Schröder ◽  
Simone M Ostermann
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

This study uses a process perspective to examine the construction of task complexity as a social practice that is continuously created and recreated. For this approach, we conducted an ethnographic case study of an intensive care unit in a large university hospital. By shifting the analytical focus from measuring task complexity to task complexity as a social practice, our research provides insight into the microprocesses involved in constructing task complexity. This paper stresses the importance of a processual view of task complexity by analysing how paths form, keep open, are enacted in parallel and eventually dissolve. We conclude with a process model of how task complexity is constructed. Our findings contribute to research on task complexity by (1) elaborating on the process of enacting task complexity in practice, (2) explaining the mechanisms driving the dynamics of task complexity and (3) stressing the dynamics of task complexity.

From Sickle to Pen

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Z. Mughal
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between women’s education and their everyday mobility in the rural areas of Punjab, Pakistan. Based on an ethnographic case study from a village in Southern Punjab, information from semi-structured interviews and observations is used to demonstrate an enhanced access to education has altered women’s everyday mobility trends. However, questions regarding women’s empowerment remain unresolved. Although some rural women have always been engaged in agricultural activities, there have been limitations on their mobility due to cultural sensitivities. I conclude the nature of social and socio-spatial relationships is being negotiated in some cultural contexts of rural Punjab through the changing facets of women’s mobility associated with modern education.

Overcoming Challenges of International Migration Research: A Case Study Approach in Southern Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Migration Research

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.

Margins and Modernity: A Geocritical Approach to Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
Ruth Knezevich
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Insight Into

The genre of annotated verse represents an under-explored form of transporting romanticism. In annotated, locodescriptive poems like those in Anna Seward's Llangollen Vale, readers are invited to read not only the spatiality of the landscapes depicted in the verse but also the landscape of the page itself. Seward's poems, with their focus on understanding geographical, political, and historical spaces both real and imaginary, provide geocritical insight into poetic productions of the early Romantic era. Likewise, geocriticism offers a fresh and useful – even necessary – analytic approach to such poems. I adopt Anna Seward as a case study in annotated verse and argue that attending to the materiality and paratextuality of her work allows us to access the complexities of her poetry and prose as well as her position within the wider framework of transporting Romanticism.

Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art – A Practitioner's Approach and Perspective

Somatechnics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja J. Kratz
Keyword(s):  
Tissue Culture ◽  
Human Skin ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Skin Equivalent ◽  
Biomedical Innovation ◽  
Equivalent Models ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Human Skin Equivalent

Abstract: Presented from an ArtScience practitioner's perspective, this paper provides an overview of Svenja Kratz's experience working as an artist within the area of cell and tissue culture at QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI). Using The Absence of Alice, a multi-medium exhibition based on the experience of culturing cells, as a case study, the paper gives insight into the artist's approach to working across art and science and how ideas, processes, and languages from each discipline can intermesh and extend the possibilities of each system. The paper also provides an overview of her most recent artwork, The Human Skin Equivalent/Experience Project, which involves the creation of personal jewellery items incorporating human skin equivalent models grown from the artist's skin and participant cells. Referencing this project, and other contemporary bioart works, the value of ArtScience is discussed, focusing in particular on the way in which cross-art-science projects enable an alternative voice to enter into scientific dialogues and have the potential to yield outcomes valuable to both disciplines.

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