New World, No World: Seeking Utopia in Padmanabhan's Harvest

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
AYESHA RAMACHANDRAN
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
New World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Dramatic Practice ◽  
A Site ◽  
Practical Implications

This essay examines the theoretical and practical implications of performance as a utopian gesture, particularly with regard to postcolonial drama. Analyzing Manjula Padmanabhan's futuristic play, Harvest, as a case study, I argue that ‘utopia’ is a crucial critical concept for postcolonial dramatic practice because it stands for the collision and convergence of aesthetic and political interests, using the body itself as a site for representation and resistance. The play explores the extreme outcome of the international trade in human organs as a metaphor for neocolonialism and the constraints of postcolonial societies rent apart by economic inequalities. In this, it presents a moment of personal moral reckoning as a paradigmatic marker for an entire culture's confrontation with its utopian desires and their consequences. Harvest reflects the utopian impulse of modern drama masked by dystopic expression: it demands a differently imagined and shaped future, even as it chronicles the collapse of utopian visions in absolutist excess.

Using RBM approach in managing projects beyond the development sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Kaggwa Ssegawa ◽  
Mark Muzinda
Keyword(s):  
Project Delivery ◽  
Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Information Technology Infrastructure ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Included Review ◽  
Project Data ◽  
A Site ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Result-based management (RBM) is common approach used in the development sector to initiate, plan and implement projects. However, to the knowledge of the authors the approach has hardly been used in delivering projects in other sectors, for example, information technology, infrastructure or business. The purpose of this paper is to document a case study in which the RBM approach was used to guide the delivery of a business project in Botswana. Design/methodology/approach – A case study strategy was used to document the delivery process of the project. Data were collected from a variety of sources that included review of documents, interviews, focus discussions and a site visit. The content analysis technique was used to analyse the collected data. Findings – The case illustrates the possibility of using the RBM approach to initiate, plan and implement a project in the business sector. Research limitations/implications – Being a case study, the approach needs to be tested with more case studies. Practical implications – Apart from illustrating the possible use of RBM approach, the paper illustrates systematic processes used in the case study for project delivery. It also outlines some of the resultant challenges which may be appreciated by practitioners, academics and trainees. Originality/value – The use of RBM approach in guiding the delivery of a business project.

Lucilla You Min and Her Embodiment of a Cosmopolitan Fantasy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-140
Author(s):  
Erica Ka-yan Poon
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Body ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Hong Kong Cinema ◽  
Star Studies ◽  
Cultural Competition ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cold War

Lucilla You Min, who acted in Japanese and Hong Kong coproduced films in the early 1960s, is a valuable case study for postwar East Asian border-crossing star studies. This article conceptualizes the body of the star as a site of constructed meaning, and argues that You Min's embodiment of cosmopolitan fantasy as constructed by the studios she worked for was fraught with corporate and cultural competition in the Cold War era. The first part examines how Japanese cinema's discourses of publicity constructed You Min's embodiment of the imaginary of tōyō—an expression of Japan's desire for a leadership role in mediating between Asia and the West. The second part analyzes how Hong Kong cinema constructed the imaginary of the cosmopolitan, embodied by You Min's seemingly natural adaptability in world travel.

CREATING A CONTEMPORARY ARCHIVE: ALONZO KING LINES BALLET AT TWENTY-FIVE

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Jill Nunes Jensen
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
A Site ◽  
Ballet History ◽  
A Company

In the title essay from Choreographing History, Susan Leigh Foster interrogates the belief that the body serves as a site for dance to be enacted upon and through. She, along with several others in this edited volume, sought to reposition and consequently enhance the contribution of dancers' bodies by not limiting the essays within to observational accounts or choreographic reviews. Instead Foster and her colleagues query “the possibility of a body that is written upon but that also writes” as means of urging dance scholars to “move critical studies of the body in new directions.” I take this position as an entry point and use it to contemplate the process of making and writing about contemporary ballet history using Alonzo King LINES Ballet, a San Francisco–based troupe, as a case study. In this essay, I describe the challenges I and others have faced in our efforts to collect and interpret a visual and verbal archive for this dance troupe, which has been performing for more than a quarter of a century. This process highlights a larger issue for dance historians, namely, how to create a critically sensitive archive for a company when the most reliable (and oftentimes the only available) source is the personal memory of its choreographer. I anchor this analysis to the different models of critical writing about bodies offered by Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacqueline Shea Murphy, and Hayden White and suggest that companies such as LINES offer challenges to those engaged in the archival process and in the practice of writing history.

Implementing quality improvement through knowledge brokering: a Dutch case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Julia Quartz-Topp
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Single Case ◽  
The Body ◽  
Knowledge Brokering ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managerial Knowledge ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Managerial quality improvement (QI) in terms of accountability management has become central to healthcare institutions. Yet, managerial QI is largely considered irrelevant by healthcare professionals. In consequence, the implementation of managerial QI implementation is hampered. Knowledge brokering is discussed as a means to foster the implementation of (QI) knowledge in healthcare. Yet, the benefit of knowledge brokering for managerial QI has so far been neglected. Therefore, this research asks how knowledge brokering can support the implementation of managerial QI. Design/methodology/approach This article builds on a single case study approach as a unit of analysis. Qualitative data collection comprises 21 semi-structured interviews at the managerial and clinical levels, 220 h of participant observation and document analysis. Findings This paper identifies three strategies of how brokers implement managerial QI into a hospital by means of knowledge brokering: prioritizing, obscuring and redefining. The strategies help to transform multiple external QI demands into one managerial QI strategy. Yet the strategies also reduce non-managerial perspectives on QI, which generates frustration among healthcare professionals. Practical implications The paper works out the benefits and costs of managerial knowledge brokering. This allows to spell out practical implications for managers, nurses and clinicians who have to deal with managerial QI in healthcare organizations. Originality/value This paper fulfils an identified need to study managerial knowledge brokering practices as a means to implement managerial QI into healthcare organizations. By doing that, the article adds to the body of research on knowledge translation in healthcare.

THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION. REFLECTIONS ON THE TURISTIFICATION OF THE ZONE

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz ◽  
Zygmunt Kruczek ◽  
Anna Duda
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Exclusion Zone ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
A Site ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose. The aim of this article is to shed light on the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) as a site of cultural heritage and a tourist attraction. Moreover, it presents the recent development of tourism in Chernobyl and sketches the perspectives on the future of the CEZ. Method. To determine the character of the change process of the CEZ into a tourist attraction, the combination of content analysis and participant observation was used. Findings. The article, according to the authors’ knowledge, is the first in Poland to provide such a description of the development of tourism in the CEZ although, there have already been some publications considering this topic. Research and conclusion limitations. Exhaustive description of the problem complexity of of intersections between tourism development and cultural dissonances exceeds the possibilities of this article. Therefore, the case study of the CEZ needs further and broader exploration on the basis of statistical data as well as of data gathered by means of qualitative methods. Practical implications. The analysis provides potential avenues of enquiry adopting the perspective that the transformation of the dissonant heritage sites is caused to great measure by uncontrolled (or slightly controlled) tourism development. Simultaneously, it shows how a tourist may modify the image of the site and offer new, positive possibilities for local economic growth. Originality. For the first time in academic, this article scholarship raises the problem of the CEZ as a tourist attraction: it presents statistical data which prove the growing popularity of this site and describe the variety of tourist offer. Type of paper. The paper is based on the empirical research.

Der Körper als Medium höfischer Kommunikation am Beispiel des Hofballets

Daphnis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-513
Author(s):  
Marie-Thérèse Mourey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
A Site

Among the highly varied vehicles of communication in early modern German an European courts, the human body was both a crucial medium and symbolic form. The body of the prince was strategically used and glorified as a site of political representation, espexially in central German courts. This paper explores the performative functions of the ballets de cour as aestheticized, ritual expressions of power as well as the self-fashioning of the participating princes. Taking the representation of the prince in a ballet from 1687 as a case study, it focuses on the distinctive situation in the Court of Saxony-Gotha.

scholarly journals ‘The Free-Flying Natural Woman Boobs of Yore’? the Body Beyond Representation in Feminist Accounts of Objectification

2020 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Hannah McCann
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Representational Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Feminist Movements

This article takes up references to breasts as a key case study to examine white Western feminist debate around embodiment and objectification. Tracking shifting understandings of ‘the gaze’ in these accounts, we find that objectification is often rendered singular, ahistorical and, increasingly, individually internalised. The history of these approaches to objectification helps to explain why during the early 2000s, theorisations of feminist politics-lost were often rhetorically located alongside discussions of surgically modified breasts as a symbol of a new era of ‘fake’ feminism. In contrast, the 2010s saw several feminist movements premised on exposure of flesh and claims to individual recuperation of bodily autonomy. This article contends that both of these perspectives rely on a notion, built over successive eras of white Western feminist thought, that political work can and ought to be done through the body as a site of representational politics. This article subsequently offers a brief insight into how we might queer our approach to breasts to better account for the messiness of experiences of the flesh, considering the personal as political, while not investing in the body as the site where politics must be enacted.

scholarly journals Transport fleet sizing by using make and buy decision-making

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (190) ◽  
pp. 77-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djurdjica Stojanovic ◽  
Svetlana Nikolicic ◽  
Milica Milicic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Logistics Enterprise ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Fleet Sizing ◽  
Carrier Selection ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Practical Implications

Cost reduction is among the main quoted reasons for logistics outsourcing, while transport capacities and operations are among the most outsourced logistics areas. However, according to transaction costs theory, there is often room for transport insourcing. Furthermore, nowadays many authors stress that mixed solutions can give better results than ?make? or ?buy? alternatives. ?Make or buy? decision-making normative models, methods, and procedures in transport planning are not much explored. Instead, research is rather focused on carrier selection techniques, whereby it is supposed that outsourcing transport capacities is the most suitable solution. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the body of literature on classical ?makeor-buy? decision-making in transport fleet sizing in a non-logistics enterprise. It goes beyond the basic ?make or buy? decisionmaking, and intermediate solutions (i.e., ?make and buy?) are explored. Practical directions are given according to theoretical principles, and a case study is used to exemplify the main deductions. The research also has practical implications. Many enterprises in transition economies have faced the question of what to do with their in-house transport fleets. The obtained results are of interest to merchants and manufacturing enterprises that already have a private transport fleet and are considering how to rationalize it.

scholarly journals COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF NABHI IN BRUHATRAYI AND ITS CORRELATION WITH MODERN SCIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol p5 (03) ◽  
pp. 2837-2842
Author(s):  
Shipra Katiyar
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
New World ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embryonic Stage ◽  
Great Insight ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Ayurveda is an intricate and detailed science, which provides great insight into the importance of every part of the body. One of the most important part is Nabhi. The Nabhi plays the most important role in development of body from the very beginning of life even at the embryonic stage. In ancient Indian tradition, the navel of the god Vishnu is consider as the center of the universe and the source of life. From his navel, a new world emerges. It not only has aesthetic importance but also tells the health status. It is a site of various treatments too which makes it worthy to consider its anatomical concepts and applied aspects. The literary review of Nabhi and modern studies suggest it as umbilicus. Keywords- Nabhi, Marma, Sira, umbilicus

HIPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM PADA IBU HAMIL DI KLINIK BIDAN SUPRIYATI SRIBIT BERBAH SLEMAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Pramukti Dian Setianingrum ◽  
Farah Irmania Tsani
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Hyperemesis Gravidarum ◽  
Unwanted Pregnancy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nausea And Vomiting ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World

Backgroud: The World Health Organization (WHO) explained that the number of Hyperemesis Gravidarum cases reached 12.5% of the total number of pregnancies in the world and the results of the Demographic Survey conducted in 2007, stated that 26% of women with live births experienced complications. The results of the observations conducted at the Midwife Supriyati Clinic found that pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum, with a comparison of 10 pregnant women who examined their contents there were about 4 pregnant women who complained of excessive nausea and vomiting. Objective: to determine the hyperemesis Gravidarum of pregnant mother in clinic. Methods: This study used Qualitative research methods by using a case study approach (Case Study.) Result: The description of excessive nausea of vomiting in women with Hipermemsis Gravidarum is continuous nausea and vomiting more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the body weight decreases and interferes with daily activities days The factors that influence the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum are Hormonal, Diet, Unwanted Pregnancy, and psychology, primigravida does not affect the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Conclusion: Mothers who experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum feel nausea vomiting continuously more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the weight decreases and interferes with daily activities, it is because there are several factors, namely, hormonal actors, diet, unwanted pregnancy, and psychology.

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