Childbirth in Transit

2021 ◽  
pp. 144-164
Author(s):  
Deepra Dandekar
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Active Choice ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
In Transit ◽  
At Home

This chapter ethnographically explores childbirth practices at Taljai, a large urban slum on the southern outskirts of Pune city in India. Based on women’s recounting of their personal experiences and social relationships surrounding birth-giving at home, this chapter describes childbirth at Taljai as unstable, mirroring the migrant lives of women. Women’s migrant lives at Taljai are precarious and subject to material paucity and systemic violence, defined by strong internal negotiation and sociability surrounding their birth-giving practices at home. While homebirths are predicated on friendship networks among women, clinical births either indicate individual exclusion from women’s groups at Taljai or women’s active choice to avoid being controlled by other women. This chapter explores the tight gendered sociability surrounding homebirth at Taljai, demonstrating how women amalgamate experiences of self-birthing at home with home-birthing at the slum, instrumentalizing childbirth rituals as a means of social bonding.

scholarly journals Changes in social relationships during an initial “stay-at-home” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal survey study in the U.S.

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 113779
Author(s):  
Lindsey M. Philpot ◽  
Priya Ramar ◽  
Daniel L. Roellinger ◽  
Barbara A. Barry ◽  
Pravesh Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
The U.S ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals PÅ FELTARBEJDE BLANDT FOLK

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Innate Capacity ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork

Lisanne Wilken: Fieldwork among People Personal relationships between the anthropologist and the informants in a given field plays a crucial role for anthropological fieldwork and for the information the anthropologist gets. With reference to personal experiences from fieldwork in Northern and Central Italy, the author argues that methods of establishing and maintaining personal field relations ought to play a much more prominent role in the discussions of anthropological field methods than is usually the case. In today’s discussions of anthropological methodology one can easily get the impression that field relations are coincidentially automatically, established, or that anthropologists have an innate capacity for the creation of social relationships in a variety of social and cultural contexts. The article discusses how dependence on a few close informants may block the collection of data and suggests ways to establish a broad range of informants. One solution is to establish field relations prior to the commencement of fieldwork. This method not only ensures that informants are available when fieldwork is started but also facilitates the cross-cutting of social boundaries which may otherwise be difficult to crosscut.The article also suggests that questionnaires may be used as a method to attract attention to the research project in the field and to broaden the circle of informants. The focus of the article is not the nature of the data collected during fieldwork, but rather the circumstances for the collection of data.  

Pre-hospital, Maritime In-Transit Care from a Role 2 Afloat Platform

2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
L Whalley ◽  
S Smith
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Medical Assistant ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Maritime Environment

AbstractMaritime In-Transit Care (MITC) is a new concept to allow the provision of pre-hospital care in the maritime environment within Role 2 Afloat (R2A) teams. This article describes the experiences of an Emergency Medicine nurse and a Medical Assistant who made up the MITC team on the recent R2A exercise on RFA CARDIGAN BAY. As well as describing their personal experiences, the concept of the MITC team is introduced and their role within R2A outlined.

scholarly journals The possibility of disalienated work: Being at home in alternative organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 001872672091676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kociatkiewicz ◽  
Monika Kostera ◽  
Martin Parker
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Alternative Organizations ◽  
At Home

Work organizations have long employed various management techniques in order to maximize workers’ engagement, which in itself implies that ‘alienation’ at work is common. One of the central descriptions of alienation in classic writings is the idea of not being ‘at home’ while at work. In this article, however, we explore its obverse, which we term ‘disalienation’ – a relationship to work based on assumptions concerning control and agency, aided by collective participatory mechanisms for identity construction and dialogical building of social relationships. We suggest that the concept and experience can be productively explored in the context of organizations which are owned and controlled by workers. Using ethnographic case studies from two Polish co-operatives, we discuss the potential characteristics of a disalienating relation to a work organization and suggest that co-operatives can provide a way for workers to be ‘at home’ while they are at work.

scholarly journals When the Old Becomes the New: How COVID-19 Changed Potentially Creative Action on Facebook

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 346-372
Author(s):  
Asdrúbal Borges Formiga Sobrinho
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Bonding ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Human Emotions ◽  
Cultural Features

Abstract Psychology usually treats the creative act as both novel and adapted, a definition that can embrace the social and the cultural features of creativity. Allied to the need for social bonding and the promise of self-realization, available technological resources have enabled valuable social networks. However, social isolation caused by the COVID-19 crisis has reduced outdoor and collective personal experiences usually shared on Facebook, encouraging some users to re-publish past events. Considering that posting is potentially a creative act, hence both new and adapted, may this action now equally become old and adapted? To illustrate the question, a set of 293 posts made by twelve Brazilians with mean age of 49.7 years (SD 7.34) were collected from May 25th to June 8th, 51 of them being re-posts. The authors were inter-viewed about their use of Facebook, relation to others, and first re-posts published in the period. Thematic dialogical analysis was applied to the content of the interviews and led to finding new meanings about old posts. Despite a small sample (n = 12) and the fact that 56.1% of Facebook users in Brazil are under 35 years old, the analysis of the phenomenon can shed new light on problematization of the notion of creativity by reflecting on its role in regulation of human emotions during the COVID-19 crisis, through the action of posting legacy experience on Facebook.

scholarly journals My flipped classroom: what I did and how I did it

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Peer Instruction ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Video Lectures ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
At Home

In this chapter I describe my own personal experiences with the flipped classroom approach (e.g. lectures at home, problem solving in class) called peer instruction. I describe both the technical aspects such as making video lectures, practical aspects such how to get started, and pedagogical aspects such as curriculum design and how to write good peer instruction questions. Additional and updated material, including short tutorial videos and many additional links to extra material can be found at tinyurl.com/janstips.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Strategies and Factors Stimulate the Business of Tech Startups

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkata Sai Srinivasa Rao Muramalla ◽  
Ateeq Mesfer Al-Hazza
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Entrepreneurial Strategies ◽  
The Government

Enterprising a startup business is depending on personal experiences of investors and their social relationships with all stockholders. Startup entrepreneurs are typically involved in the qualitative evaluations of their business counterparts operating in the market. However, startup entrepreneurs shall look at what caused them to fail in their ventures, they examine the reasons for their failures, and finally, entrepreneurs develop a culture of strategic thinking for getting success in the business. In this context, this paper examined the entrepreneurial strategies of tech startups and deliberated the factors that stimulate the growth of a tech startup business in India. However, initiatives of the government to promote tech startups in India also exposed in this paper.

"Just the Facts, Ma'am" : Reading For Information

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey S. Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Essential Idea ◽  
Knowledge Of Language ◽  
Basic Ability ◽  
Advanced Skills ◽  
Reading For Information ◽  
At Home ◽  
Literal Comprehension

In the last chapter, we looked at how examining pages before actually reading them provides useful advance preparation for young readers at home. Let's look now at the act of reading itself. How do we get the most out of what we read? Researchers now say that we can best understand what happens when someone reads if we think of reading as a process—a process in which a reader and writer transact information. For the time being, we're going to think of reading exclusively as print-bound. (We'll reconsider this premise later on.) The writer provides words, sentences, and paragraphs. The reader brings to the writer's pages personal experiences and impressions, knowledge of language, individual attitudes, thoughts, and ideas. In reading, both reader and writer engage in a kind of conversation to work out the message together. Not only the writer, but the reader as well, has considerable responsibility in determining meaning. Most enlightened educators no longer regard the old notion of a single, correct, absolute meaning for a piece of writing; readers and writers together shape the ideas captured by the words. The transactional activities involve sophisticated skills, such as what we infer from a reading, what generalizations and conclusions we draw, what judgments we make of the writer's effort—others, too, as you can imagine. We learn the advanced skills as we mature as readers, and I'm going to explore those skills throughout many of the remaining chapters of this book. Yet our ability to reach those more advanced regions of thought rests very much on what we perceive as the writer's essential idea, the nuggets of vital information contained in what we read. In short, we try to see that everything comes together in an answer to this question: "What is the writer trying to say?" Educators usually refer to a reader's basic ability to grasp information—facts, if you will—as literal comprehension. Literal comprehension means understanding the main idea that the writer is trying to convey and knowing the essential details that contribute to and support that main idea.

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