Reflections on the UNCRC’s Future from a Transdisciplinary Bricoleur

The paper argues two main points. First, there remain vast untapped potentials for implementing children’s rights within both present and coming generations, and second, that transdisciplinary theorising and local application can create and exploit such new opportunities. The paper begins with a theoretical analysis of the cross-cutting nature of the UNCRC, and its continued civilising impact as part of the globalised ‘rights revolutions’ reported by controversial Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker (2011: 378-481). I then move to a methodological reflection on how the treaty might be applied as a bricoleur in the lived experiences of children, families, caregivers and communities. The final section outlines a case study from the grape and wine industry located within the Niagara Region of Canada that applied these theoretical and methodological resources as a form of critical praxis in the lives of migrant agricultural workers temporarily employed there through the growing season year after year.

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The Genain quadruplets: A case study and theoretical analysis of heredity and environment in schizophrenia.

10.1037/11420-000 ◽

1963 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Analysis

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The Category Is . . . Opulence!

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v7i1.321 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Plaster

Keyword(s):

Performance Studies ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Nonconforming ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

The Cross ◽

And Gender ◽

A Performance

In recent years there has been a strong “public turn” within universities that is renewing interest in collaborative approaches to knowledge creation. This article draws on performance studies literature to explore the cross-disciplinary collaborations made possible when the academy broadens our scope of inquiry to include knowledge produced through performance. It takes as a case study the “Peabody Ballroom Experience,” an ongoing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Peabody Institute BFA Dance program, and Baltimore’s ballroom community—a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people of color.

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MANAGEMENT OF DUSHTA VRANA BY LOCAL APPLICATION OF GANDIRADI TAIL WITH RESPECT TO INFECTED WOUND- A CASE STUDY

International Journal of Ayurveda & Alternative Medicine ◽

10.36672/ijaam.2020.v08i02.008 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 89-93

Author(s):

Ashwini Khobragade ◽

V.P. Ukhalkar

Keyword(s):

Local Application ◽

Infected Wound

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The Power of the Cross and Cruciform Devices in the Carolingian World

10.1093/oso/9780198815013.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ildar Garipzanov

Keyword(s):

Final Section ◽

Ninth Century ◽

Late Antique ◽

Manuscript Culture ◽

The Bible ◽

The Cross ◽

Early Byzantine

This chapter shows the unquestionable role of the sign of the cross as the primary sign of divine authority in Carolingian material and manuscript culture, a role partly achieved at the expense of the diminishing symbolic importance of the late antique christograms. It also analyses the appearance of new cruciform devices in the ninth century as well as the adaptation of the early Byzantine tradition of cruciform invocational monograms in Carolingian manuscript culture, as exemplified in the Bible of San Paolo fuori le mura and several other religious manuscripts. The final section examines some Carolingian carmina figurata and, most importantly, Hrabanus Maurus’ In honorem sanctae crucis, as a window into Carolingian graphicacy and the paramount importance of the sign of the cross as its ultimate organizing principle.

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Designing for People’s Safety on Flooded Streets: Uncertainties and the Influence of the Cross-Section Shape, Roughness and Slopes on Hazard Criteria

Water ◽

10.3390/w13152119 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 2119

Author(s):

Luís Mesquita David ◽

Rita Fernandes de Carvalho

Keyword(s):

Cross Section ◽

Overland Flow ◽

Rectangular Cross Section ◽

Safety Hazard ◽

Cross Section Shape ◽

Section Shape ◽

Flood Flows ◽

The Cross ◽

Flooding Risk

Designing for exceedance events consists in designing a continuous route for overland flow to deal with flows exceeding the sewer system’s capacity and to mitigate flooding risk. A review is carried out here on flood safety/hazard criteria, which generally establish thresholds for the water depth and flood velocity, or a relationship between them. The effects of the cross-section shape, roughness and slope of streets in meeting the criteria are evaluated based on equations, graphical results and one case study. An expedited method for the verification of safety criteria based solely on flow is presented, saving efforts in detailing models and increasing confidence in the results from simplified models. The method is valid for 0.1 m2/s 0.5 m2/s. The results showed that a street with a 1.8% slope, 75 m1/3s−1 and a rectangular cross-section complies with the threshold 0.3 m2/s for twice the flow of a street with the same width but with a conventional cross-section shape. The flow will be four times greater for a 15% street slope. The results also highlighted that the flood flows can vary significantly along the streets depending on the sewers’ roughness and the flow transfers between the major and minor systems, such that the effort detailing a street’s cross-section must be balanced with all of the other sources of uncertainty.

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Techniques for Mitigating the Effects of Smoke Taint While Maintaining Quality in Wine Production: A Review

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26061672 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (6) ◽

pp. 1672

Author(s):

Ysadora A. Mirabelli-Montan ◽

Matteo Marangon ◽

Antonio Graça ◽

Christine M. Mayr Marangon ◽

Kerry L. Wilkinson

Keyword(s):

Global Perspective ◽

Wine Industry ◽

Wine Production ◽

Specific Data ◽

Main Research ◽

Initial Severity ◽

The Subject ◽

Available Information

Smoke taint has become a prominent issue for the global wine industry as climate change continues to impact the length and extremity of fire seasons around the world. Although the issue has prompted a surge in research on the subject in recent years, no singular solution has yet been identified that is capable of maintaining the quality of wine made from smoke-affected grapes. In this review, we summarize the main research on smoke taint, the key discoveries, as well as the prevailing uncertainties. We also examine methods for mitigating smoke taint in the vineyard, in the winery, and post production. We assess the effectiveness of remediation methods (proposed and actual) based on available research. Our findings are in agreement with previous studies, suggesting that the most viable remedies for smoke taint are still the commercially available activated carbon fining and reverse osmosis treatments, but that the quality of the final treated wines is fundamentally dependent on the initial severity of the taint. In this review, suggestions for future studies are introduced for improving our understanding of methods that have thus far only been preliminarily investigated. We select regions that have already been subjected to severe wildfires, and therefore subjected to smoke taint (particularly Australia and California) as a case study to inform other wine-producing countries that will likely be impacted in the future and suggest specific data collection and policy implementation actions that should be taken, even in countries that have not yet been impacted by smoke taint. Ultimately, we streamline the available information on the topic of smoke taint, apply it to a global perspective that considers the various stakeholders involved, and provide a launching point for further research on the topic.

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Flexible Theory and Flexible Regulation: Collaboration and Competition in the McLaren Vale Wine Industry in South Australia

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a270041 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 41-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

G Haughton ◽

J Browett

Keyword(s):

South Australia ◽

Wine Industry ◽

Social Regulation ◽

Regulatory Mechanisms ◽

Industrial Districts ◽

Key Features

A case study of the McLaren Vale wine industry is used to challenge four areas of the regulation debate. First, the uniqueness of some of the key features underpinning the periodisations of accumulation regimes and their associated modes of social regulation is questioned. Second, concern is raised over the extent to which ‘new industrial districts’ can really be described as engaging in ‘new’ practices. Third, the importance of local regulatory mechanisms is emphasised. Last, the importance of nonstate, nonlegislative forms of regulation are highlighted.

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