‘Killing Is Just The Best Solution’: Lynching As Informal Incapacitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dany Franck A Tiwa
Keyword(s):  
Key Informants ◽  
The Will ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract This article highlights two overlooked drivers of lynching violence: the will to ensure that caught offenders will no longer victimize anybody, and the need for perpetrators of lynching to mitigate the risks associated with their participation. It uses the concepts of lethal and non-lethal informal incapacitation to explain lynching outcomes (‘killing’ and ‘serious beatings’) that are otherwise unintelligible. Evidence is drawn from individual and group interviews with more than a hundred key informants in Nigeria.

Methodology

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Community Perspectives ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Data Collection Technique

This chapter explains the methodology adopted in this project to learn about experiences from community perspectives, taking an exploratory, interpretive approach to investigate the impacts of the mining industry on women in Thai and Lao mining communities. In order to capture the experiences and interpretations of relevant actors in the mining industry, semi-structured personal and group interviews functioned as an appropriate data-collection technique. This technique helps the researchers to focus on language use by key informants, as well as contextual and relational aspects expressed by the interviewees.

scholarly journals Cultural health practices of South African Vatsonga people on the home care of children with measles

Curationis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.T. Lebese ◽  
V.O. Netshandama ◽  
N.S. Shai-Mahoko
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
South African ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Project Data

The purpose of this research study was to identify the cultural health practices of the Vatsonga in relation to the home care of children with measles. It was undertaken in the Giyani District of the Limpopo Province, in the Republic of South Africa. The qualitative, explorative and contextual design was used to conduct this project. Data was collected from nine key informants and nineteen general informants. Data was collected using individual interviews with key-informants and focus group interviews with general informants. Observations were also made.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Health Information System (HIS) in The Surveillance of Dengue in Indonesia: Lessons from Case in Bandung, West Java

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1795
Author(s):  
Lia Faridah ◽  
Fedri Ruluwedrata Rinawan ◽  
Nisa Fauziah ◽  
Wulan Mayasari ◽  
Angga Dwiartama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
New Information ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development

This study was performed to evaluate the health information system regarding the dengue surveillance system in Indonesia. Major obstacles to the implementation of an effective health information system regarding dengue cases in Bandung are examined, and practical suggestions on measures to overcome them are discussed. The study utilized a mixed-method research design using qualitative approaches: document analysis, key informants and focus group interviews. Thirty key informants were selected, comprised of policymakers, senior managers, and staff at the Ministry of Health. Data from documents and transcripts were evaluated through a modified Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework described by Ostrom. Through this study, we have identified several issues that hinder the effective implementation of the health information system in the case of dengue in Bandung. In the end, we propose several recommendations for reform that encompasses motivational, strategic, and structural approaches to each component of the analysis. Through evaluation of the health information system for dengue surveillance in Indonesia, we conclude that well-coordination in multi-level governance in a country as large as Indonesia is the key in the implementation of the health information system in different levels of agencies. Furthermore, the adaptability of human resources in adopting a new information system also plays an important part.

scholarly journals Pushing music: People’s continued will to archive versus Spotify’s will to make them explore

2019 ◽  
pp. 136754941986294
Author(s):  
Marika Lüders
Keyword(s):  
Action Potentials ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
The Will ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Individual Ownership ◽  
Music Streaming

Music streaming services provide people with access to vast libraries of music, but also encourage certain patterns of consumption. In this article, I use Spotify as a case and investigate the action potentials for exploring and archiving music. The personal role of music implies we may expect the ‘will to archive’ to be prevalent even if these archives are not based on individual ownership. First, an analysis of Spotify suggests that the machine agency of Spotify pushes people towards exploring music, whereas archiving features are material and depend on human action. Spotify is hence skewed towards prompting users to explore rather than archive music. Next, an analysis of 23 focus-group interviews suggests that users value opportunities to explore music, yet their practices are equally directed towards archiving music. Theoretically, this article delineates how objects with machine agency are different from material objects in terms of affordances. The action potentials of material objects are symmetrically constituted by what the objects provide relative to an active being. The action potentials of objects with machine agency interfere with this symmetry: the machine is designed to act on behalf of the human being, making certain affordances more perceivable than others.

scholarly journals Learner identities and the will to understand: The experiences of undergraduate biosciences students in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Velda McCune
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
The Will ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Personal Understanding ◽  
Willingness To Engage

Understanding depends on applying a particular kind of effort to learning. The research reported in this article investigates what influences students’ willingness to engage in the kinds of active learning which would be required for a deep personal understanding of the “ways of thinking and practising” of their subject area. The analysis is basedon 19 group interviews with 59 experienced biosciences students from three contrasting types of university in the UK, drawn from a more extensive set of transcripts from a large-scale national project. A rigorous thematic analysis of the data was carried out using HyperRESEARCH, a computer program which has the flexibility to allow thorough and diverse analyses of qualitative data. The findings illustrate the interplay between the will to understand, aspects of students’ identities and key dimensions of the contexts within which they were learning. Where interaction between the students and their learning context allowed for more authentic learning experiences, this seemed to have a positive influence on their willingness to engage actively and critically with their studies.

Doctrine of the will.

1846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asa Mahan
Keyword(s):  
The Will
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