scholarly journals Beyond Threshold Approaches to Extreme Heat: Repositioning Adaptation as Everyday Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elspeth Oppermann ◽  
Yolande Strengers ◽  
Cecily Maller ◽  
Lauren Rickards ◽  
Matt Brearley

Abstract One of climate change’s most certain impacts is increasingly frequent and extreme heat. Heat management and climate adaptation policies generally utilize temperature and humidity thresholds to identify what constitute “extreme” conditions. In the workplace, such thresholds can be used to trigger reductions in work intensity and/or duration. In regions that routinely exceed proposed thresholds, however, this approach can be deeply problematic and raises critical questions about how frequently exposed populations already manage and mitigate the effects of extreme heat. Drawing on social practice theories, this paper repositions everyday engagements with extreme heat in terms of practices of work. It finds that bodies absorb and produce heat through practices, challenging the view that extreme heat is an “external” risk to which bodies are “exposed”. This theoretical starting point also challenges the utility of threshold-based adaptation strategies by demonstrating how heat is actively coproduced by living, performing bodies in weather. This argument is exemplified through a case study of outdoor, manual workers in Australia’s monsoon tropics, where work practices were adapted to reduce thermal load. More specifically, we find that workers “weather” work and “work” the weather to enable work to be done in extreme conditions. Our analysis of everyday heat adaptation draws attention to the generative capacities of bodies and unsettles two established separations: 1) that between climatic exposure and sensitivity, calling for a more embodied, experiential, and performed perspective and 2) that between climatic impacts and (mal)adaptation, calling for an understanding of climate adaptation, as located in everyday practices, in the management of bodies in weather.

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Janaína Ribeiro Stafford

Neste artigo tem-se como objetivo apontar alternativas de reconstrução do currículo escolar por meio do trabalho com projetos. Vale salientar que o currículo se refere à organização do conhecimento escolar, sendo uma construção social do conhecimento, real, significativa, com intencionalidade político-pedagógica, aberto o suficiente para ser percebido como um processo, no qual as questões oriundas da relação ensino e aprendizagem possam dar-lhe um caráter dinâmico e transformador. Um instrumento relevante para reconstrução curricular são os denominados projetos de trabalhos, pois o ponto de partida do processo de construção do conhecimento é a prática social concreta e a realidade em que acontece.Palavras-chave: currículo, projetos de trabalho, conhecimento. CURRICULUM AND WORK IN PROJECTS MEDIA: BUILDING ALTERNATIVES FOR PRACTICE INVESTIGATIVEAbstractThis article same has the objective of pointing reconstruction alternatives of the school curriculum by working through projects. It is worth noting that the curriculum refers to the school knowledge organization, being a social construction of knowledge, real, significant, with political-pedagogical intent, open enough to be perceived as a process in which issues arising in the teaching / learning can give you a dynamic and transforming character. A relevant tool for curricular reconstruction is the so-called work projects, because the starting point of the knowledge construction process is the concrete social practice and reality where it happens.Key-words: curriculum, work projects, knowledge.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 248-265
Author(s):  
Michael Wedekind

ON BOUNDARIES AND GAPS: DISCOURSES ON MOUNTAINS AND SEPARATION IN AREAS AFFECTED BY ETHNIC CONFLICTThe author examines the reasons behind the political instrumentalisation and ethnicisation of tourism as a private social practice, allegedly far removed from politics. Using the example of the Austrian Alpine Region specifically, the Duchy of Tyrol during the late Habsburg Monarchy, he demonstrates that this political sphere of action was a promising starting point for the nationalisation of the masses of the masses, especially wherever national circles of various communities had no access to the state apparatus and to classic socialisation organs and, therefore, had to resort to auxiliary measures to socialise nationality. In addition to issuing calls to visit areas close to linguistic and national borders and projecting ethnic partly racial models of segmentation and exclusion, tourism was used as ground for the building of national identity, for strategies of social integration and mobilisation, for establishing new mental maps and links of loyalty.


2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1987921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Stone ◽  
Kevin Lanza ◽  
Evan Mallen ◽  
Jason Vargo ◽  
Armistead Russell

We explore the potential for cities to develop urban heat management plans to moderate rising temperatures and to lessen the impact of extreme heat on human health. Specifically, we model the impacts of heat management strategies, including tree planting and other green infrastructure, cool roofing and paving, and a reduction in waste heat emissions from buildings and vehicles, on estimated heat-related mortality across Louisville, Kentucky. Our assessment finds a combination of urban heat management strategies to lessen summer temperatures by as much as 10°F on hot days and to reduce estimated heat-related mortality by more than 20 percent.


2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Jakob Egeris Thorsen

Since 2014, the Department of Theology at Aarhus University has offered a 2-year, interdisciplinary MA-program in Diaconia (Christian Social Practice). Thereby, diaconia has officially become an academic subject in a Danish university. The author uses this occasion to provide a general introduction to diaconia and its role in church and theology, to the science of diaconia, and to the character of the new MA-program. The article centers on the apparent paradox that while diaconia is becoming an increasingly important theological concept, especially in ecclesiology, the diaconal field of practice is characterized by interdisciplinarity and secularization. The author argues that the science of diaconia should reflect that situation and make it the starting point for a continuing constructive analysis of the role and identity of diaconia in an increasingly pluralist context.


Perspectiva ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Tiago Nicola Lavoura ◽  
Ana Carolina Galvão Marsiglia

<p>http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n1p345</p><p>Este artigo possui como objetivo realizar uma discussão acerca do método pedagógico da pedagogia histórico-crítica, notadamente elucidando as bases de sua fundamentação referenciadas no Método da Economia Política elaborado por Marx na famosa Introdução de 1857. Desta feita, explicita-se o movimento do conhecimento como a passagem do empírico ao concreto pela mediação do abstrato, evidenciando o caráter mediador da educação na prática social, tomando esta como ponto de partida e ponto de chegada do trabalho educativo, tendo-se como momentos intermediários do método pedagógico a problematização desta prática social, a instrumentalização por meio da transmissão dos conhecimentos nas suas formas mais elaboradas e a catarse enquanto síntese de desenvolvimento do aluno e, consequentemente, a possibilidade de alteração da prática social humano-genérica. Assim, busca-se evidenciar a lógica dialética desta proposta pedagógica que defende a atividade de ensino na educação escolar como aquela responsável pela reprodução ideal do movimento real dos conteúdos escolares, permitindo o alcance da riqueza categorial dos objetos de ensino enquanto síntese de múltiplas determinações e relações numerosas. Nesse sentido, compreender o método pedagógico dessa teoria em consonância com os fundamentos do materialismo histórico-dialético é essencial para sua realização bem sucedida e coerente com sua proposição.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Historical-critical pedagogy and the defense of elaborate knowledge transmission: notes on pedagogical method</strong></p><p><strong> </strong><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to carry out a discussion about pedagogical method of historical-critical pedagogy, clearly highlighting its fundaments on Political Economy Method, created by Karl Marx in his famous 1857. Thus, the study seeks to make clear the dialectical logic of this pedagogical  proposal that speaks up for the teaching activity in school education as that responsible by the ideal reproduction of the real school subjects movement, enabling the reach of categorical wealth of teaching objects as synthesis of multiple determinations and numerous relationship. So, it is made explicit the movement of knowledge as the passage from the empirical to the concrete by abstract mediation, highlighting the mediating character of education in social practice, taking this as a starting point and end point of the educational work, taking the questioning of this social practice as intermediate moments of pedagogical method , the manipulation through the transmission of knowledge in its most elaborate forms and catharsis as student development synthesis and consequently the possibility of changing human-generic social practice. In this sense, understanding the pedagogical method of this theory founded on Historical-Dialectical Materialism is essential to successfully and coherently carry out its proposition.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> School Education. Historical-critical Pedagogy. Dialectical Method.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>La pedagogía histórica-crítica y la defensa de la transmisión del saber elaborado: anotaciones sobre el método pedagógico</strong></p><p> <strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>El objetivo del artículo es realizar una discusión sobre el método pedagógico de la pedagogía histórica-crítica, explicado en las bases de su fundamentación referenciada en el Método de la Economía Política elaborado por Marx en la famosa Introducción de 1857. De este modo, se explicita el movimiento del conocimiento como el paso de lo empírico a lo concreto a través de la mediación de lo abstracto, resaltando el carácter mediador de la educación en la práctica social, tomándola como punto de partida y punto de llegada del trabajo educativo, teniendo como momentos intermedios del método pedagógico el problematizar esta práctica social, la instrumentalización a través de la transmisión de los conocimientos en sus formas más elaboradas y la catarsis, como síntesis de desarrollo del alumno y, como consecuencia, la posibilidad de alteración de la práctica social humana-genérica. De este modo, se busca mostrar la lógica dialéctica de esta propuesta pedagógica que aboga la actividad de enseñanza en la educación escolar como aquella responsable por la reproducción ideal del movimiento real de los contenidos escolares, lo que permite el alcance de la riqueza categórica de los objetos de enseñanza, como síntesis de múltiples determinaciones y relaciones numerosas. En este sentido, comprender el método pedagógico de esta teoría en consonancia con los fundamentos del materialismo histórico-dialéctico es esencial para su éxito y coherencia con su proposición.</p><p><strong>Palabras claves:</strong> Educación Escolar. Pedagogía histórica-crítica. Método Dialéctico.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Ina Thierfelder ◽  
Dorothea Tegethoff ◽  
Michael Ewers

AbstractBackground and objectivesParents of children with life-limiting diseases are central informal care providers. They fill out their role as co-producers of the health care system in different ways, as empirically reconstructed parent type's show. In this article, the heterogeneous social practice of physiotherapeutic care provision is reflected from the perspective of self-regulation theory. The aim is to identify starting points for how parental self-efficacy can be positively influenced by educational support.MethodThe types of parents reconstructed by means of the Documentary Method according to Ralf Bohnsack serve as a starting point for the theoretical consideration. First, the theory of self-regulation and findings from research on increasing parental self-efficacy are presented. In the following, we will discuss how parents of children with life-limiting illnesses regulate themselves or develop self-efficacy when taking over care. Finally, it is shown which findings result from the theoretical consideration for an educational concept development.ResultsThis theory-guided consideration of empirically generated parent types shows that their self-perception and situation perception, motivation and level of participation, self-regulation processes and trained self-efficacy vary significantly. There is evidence that parent-oriented information, observation of peers in groups and the possibility of positive experiences have a positive influence on self-efficacy.ConclusionThese elements should be taken up in the development of educational intervention concepts for this target group and systematically tested for their effects.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 221-247
Author(s):  
Michael Wedekind

ON BOUNDARIES AND GAPS: DISCOURSES ON MOUNTAINS ANS SEPARATION IN AREAS AFFECTED BY ETHNIC CONFLICTThe author examines the reasons behind the political instrumentalisation and ethnicisation of tourism as a private social practice, allegedly far removed from politics. Using the example of the Austrian Alpine Region specifically, the Duchy of Tyrol during the late Habsburg Monarchy, he demonstrates that this political sphere of action was a promising starting point for the nationalisation of the masses of the masses, especially wherever national circles of various communities had no access to the state apparatus and to classic socialisation organs and, therefore, had to resort to auxiliary measures to socialise nationality. In addition to issuing calls to visit areas close to linguistic and national borders and projecting ethnic partly racial models of segmentation and exclusion, tourism was used as ground for the building of national identity, for strategies of social integration and mobilisation, for establishing new mental maps and links of loyalty.


Author(s):  
Anne Mette Thorhauge ◽  
Stine Lomborg

In this article, we suggest and discuss a qualitative, multi-methods approach to data collected on smartphones as a way of uncovering a user-centred perspective on cross-media communication. As an individualised multimedia device, the smartphone represents a relevant starting point for studying individual users’ cross-media practices. Moreover, the technological affordances of the smartphone, including built-in sensors and GPS tracker as well as features for capturing photo, audio and video material, enable the collection of a wide range of data. These properties have mainly been approached from a quantitative point of view focusing on automatically logged use data as an alternative to, for instance, survey data. Complementing this evidence, we argue that a qualitative, multiple-method approach to data collected on smartphones provides crucial insight into the contexts and everyday practices of cross-media communication.


2020 ◽  
pp. 188-208
Author(s):  
Huatong Sun

The concluding chapter summarizes the culturally localized user engagement and empowerment (CLUE2) approach and calls for reshaping the crossroads of global social media design into a design square where a spectrum of thoughts, design traditions, discursive conventions, and epistemological orders converge and interact to spark new ideas. This chapter consists of two parts. The first part reviews the three keywords of the CLUE2 approach—discursive affordances, technological genres, and local uptakes—and discusses how they serve as an agent for change and transformation in routinized everyday practices on a global cultural circuit. The second part highlights three design and research heuristics for this critical, global approach: articulating practice-based human–technology relations, piecing together fragmented experiences into global processes, and enabling and engaging cultural differences out of positionality and reflexivity. This critical social practice view of the CLUE2 approach links design and innovation on the global cultural circuit and promotes a relational view of design, contributing to an uprising school for a relational approach of design that comes from multiple disciplines.


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