scholarly journals Engendering liminality: The experience of re-enchantment in wild woman workshops

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-434
Author(s):  
Carine Plancke
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
North West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Wild Woman ◽  
Ritual Spaces

According to Paul Heelas, new spiritualities radicalize the expressivist strand in modernity and, hence, not only affirm modern values but also react against them. In particular, they challenge the ‘bounded self’ as foundational for the modern being and progress. Charles Taylor, in discussing the emergence in modern times of ‘the buffered self’, points to three important changes: disenchantment, the loss of the complementary play between structure and anti-structure, and the replacement of the idea of cosmos with that of a neutral, mechanical universe. This article, through a detailed ethnographic study, explores how these changes are temporally counteracted in spiritual women workshops in North-West Europe focused on the trope of the ‘wild woman’. Moreover, it shows that these retreats bring into being ritual spaces of liminality, which have the potential to engender experiences of re-enchantment and/or give a new sense of interpersonal and cosmic connection.

scholarly journals Teacher Empowerment: A Focused Ethnographic Study in Brunei Darussalam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanthi Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Teacher Empowerment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Focused Ethnography ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Brunei Darussalam

Teacher empowerment, as a process that enables teachers’ intrinsic motivation and brings out their innate potential, is of critical importance in modern times. However, the teacher empowerment construct in existing education literature originated in the west, and its dimensions are aligned to the western cultural scenario. The purpose of this study was to understand the behaviours of school leaders, teacher colleagues, students as well as their parents, and themselves, that teachers perceived as empowerment-facilitating and/or empowerment impeding. This study took place in a secondary school in Brunei Darussalam, a private secondary school. This study was designed as a ‘focused ethnography’, a methodological adaptation of the conventional anthropological ethnography. Fieldwork took place over a span of six months. The study concluded that teacher empowerment is relevant to non-western contexts, only if it is adapted to the contextual cultures. Finally, this study asserted that teacher empowerment is a self-driven phenomenon, and that the contextual culture decided the nature and extent of empowerment that can possibly take place in a particular setting.

The Dialectical Position of the Niya Prakrit

1936 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 419-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Burrow
Keyword(s):  
Third Century ◽  
North West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
North Western

The “North-Western Prakrit” as Konow has called it is represented by the following documents.(1) The two versions of Aśoka's edicts preserved at Mansehra’ and Shahbazgarhi. At this stage many of the characteristic features of the language have not yet developed, e.g. śr > ṣ, śv > śp.(2) The later Kharoṣṭhi inscriptions, mostly short, collected by Konow in the second volume of the Corp. Inscr. Ind.(3) The Kharoṣṭhi manuscript of the Dhammapada discovered near Khotan (Manuscript Dutreuil du Rhins).(4) The Kharoṣṭhi documents from Niya, representing the administrative language of the Shan-Shan kingdom in the third century A.D. In the Journ. As., 1912, pp. 337 ff., J. Bloch examined the dialectical peculiarities of the Manuscript Dutreuil du Rhins and showed that they appeared in modern times in the languages of the North-West.

Bodies in the field: methodological reflections on Tai Chi and pregnancy in an ethnographic study at a Chinese community centre in the North West of England

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412091881
Author(s):  
Naomi Wood
Keyword(s):  
Tai Chi ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
North West ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The North ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Community Centre

This article explores the idea of the body as a research tool in ethnographic fieldwork, looking specifically at how the body can play a part in facilitating and developing relationships in the field. I use my experiences of fieldwork, undertaken in a Chinese community centre in the North West of England, to explore this in two ways. Firstly, through the process of using the body to learn a physical skill – Tai Chi – alongside the other centre members; and secondly through my pregnancy in the field, in order to consider what is communicated and enabled through the particular nature of specific bodies in the field. Both examples explore fieldwork as embodied, relational and intersubjective; in both, relationships with research participants are forged and developed in different ways through the body. Implications are drawn from this in relation to the impact of the research participants on the researcher and in relation to aspects of building relationships in the field that do not rely solely on verbal interactions or shared language, particularly in multi-cultural and multi-lingual research sites.

scholarly journals Organising food differently: Towards a more-than-human ethics of care for the Anthropocene

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Beacham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food System ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Supported Agriculture ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Human Ethics

In this article, I consider how organisations within ‘Alternative’ Food Networks might help us to enact a more-than-human ethic of care in the Anthropocene. Drawing on the diverse economies framework of J.K. Gibson-Graham (2006a, 2006b) as well as readings in the feminist ethics of care literature, I explore an ethnographic study of three community supported agriculture schemes in the north-west of England. While there has been surprisingly little scholarly work linking food and the Anthropocene, much more has been made of the relationship between the food system and Anthropogenic processes of climate change. The orthodox responses to the problems that climate change may bring about are undergirded by Hobbesian visions and the perceived viability of instrumental, technocratic ‘fixes’ that are, for many reasons, worthy of critique. Broadening our viewpoint, and recognising that the Anthropocene and climate change require different responses, I argue that AFNs can provide a more hopeful perspective in how we might understand our existence within a more-than-human world. Rather than reading AFNs through analytical binaries as either reformist or radical entities merely confronting the ills of the food system, I develop an account that instead understands them as open-ended and tantalisingly different forms of organisation (Stock et al., 2015b) that can play a central role in fostering a more-than-human ethics of care for the Anthropocene.

How old is the city of Taxila?

Antiquity ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 56 (216) ◽  
pp. 8-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Allchin
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The North ◽  
Punjab Province ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
Major General

The city of Taxila, more properly Takṣaśilā, was one of the most important in ancient India. It is frequently mentioned as one of the two great cities of Gandhara (approximately the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan), along with its neighbour Puṣkalāvatī (modem Charsada north of Peshawar) some 80 miles (130 km) to the west. It was first identified in modern times by Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1863, after he had visited the extensive series of mounds lying near the village of Shah Dheri, east of Hasan Abdul, in the Punjab province of Pakistan (Cunningham, 1871). His identification was soon confirmed by the discovery there of early inscriptions referring to Taxila by name.

scholarly journals NEW DATA ON SOUTHERN EUBOEAN LANDSCAPES: RESULTS OF THE NORWEGIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN THE KARYSTIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Žarko Tankosić ◽  
Alexandros Laftsidis ◽  
Aikaterini Psoma ◽  
Rebecca M. Seifried ◽  
Apostolos Garyfallopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
North West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Town

We present the results of a diachronic survey of the Katsaronio plain in the Karystia, southern Euboea, Greece. The project was organised under the aegis of the Norwegian Institute at Athens with a permit from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture under the official name of the Norwegian Archaeological Survey in the Karystia. Five years of fieldwork (2012–16) covered an area of 20km2 in a large agricultural plain located about 5km north-west of the town of Karystos. The survey identified 99 new findspots with a range of dates spanning from the Final Neolithic to Early Modern times. Here we present the collected prehistoric through Roman data, which represent the bulk of the acquired evidence. One of the notable features of the assemblage is the vast quantity of lithics that were recovered, numbering over 9000 and consisting mainly of obsidian. Certain periods were absent from the evidence, such as post-Early Bronze Age prehistoric and Geometric, while others were represented with varying intensity. We offer an initial interpretation of the patterns observable in the evidence in an attempt to reconstruct the past use and habitation of this part of Euboea.

scholarly journals Re-Envisioning Female Power

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Carine Plancke
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Core Feature ◽  
Religious Resources ◽  
Wild Woman ◽  
Female Power ◽  
North Western

Bricolage, the mixing of diverse religious resources, has been highlighted as a key process in contemporary spiritualities. Since, in this process, historically or culturally distant and foreign traditions are self-referentially drawn upon as representatives of a true spirituality deemed lost in the materialistic West, exoticism has further been identified as its core feature. In this article, through an in-depth ethnographic study, I examine operations of bricolage and exoticism in spiritual women workshops in North Western Europe that focused on the trope of the “wild woman.” In particular, I highlight the transformational power of these retreats in reference to Michael Taussig’s notion of mimesis as a sensuous embodiment of imagined otherness. I argue that, through enacting wildness in their bodies, the participants were overtaken by their own—historically determined—imaginations of primitiveness and naturalness, which not only created new visions of the feminine and female power, but also led to important life changes.

scholarly journals Discovering presence as part of nurse educators’ role modelling at a public nursing college in the North West province

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiisetso A. Mofokeng ◽  
Emmerentia Du Plessis ◽  
Kathleen Froneman
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
North West ◽  
Role Modelling ◽  
The North ◽  
Nursing College

Background: Nursing students learn the science and art of nursing, including presence, from classroom content, using skills in practice, or by watching an experienced nurse interact with a patient. Nursing education must be designed so that nursing students can construct the art and science of nursing practice. Nursing students must be educated to be sound practitioners in the ‘being’ of nursing practice. Nurse educators modelling presence to nursing students will improve the quality of patient care during clinical training and throughout their professional role.Aim: To explore and describe nurse educators’ role modelling of presence to nursing students.Setting: This study was conducted at a public nursing college in the North West province.Methods: A qualitative, ethnographic study was conducted. Purposive sampling was used. Four nurse educators participated in the study and data saturation was reached. Data were collected through shadowing and informal reflective conversations over a period of 8 days.Results: The following relationships emerged: nurse educators model ‘being professional’, ‘being facilitating, nurturing, caring and compassionate, encouraging, and motivating’, and ‘being purposeful in their nursing education approach’.Conclusion: Participants role modelled presence to nursing students despite daily challenges in their work.Contribution: Creating awareness of how nurse educators can model presence despite daily challenges in their work will influence and motivate nursing students to develop presence skills. This will have a positive impact on managing patients in practice. Recommendations can guide nursing education, policy development and future research to strengthen nurse educators modelling presence.

scholarly journals Representativeness and seasonality of major ion records derived from NEEM firn cores

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2529-2571
Author(s):  
G. Gfeller ◽  
H. Fischer ◽  
M. Bigler ◽  
S. Schüpbach ◽  
D. Leuenberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Snow Pack ◽  
Atmospheric Variability ◽  
North West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Major Ion ◽  
Drill Site ◽  
June July ◽  
Very High

Abstract. The seasonal and annual representativeness of ionic aerosol proxies (among others, calcium, sodium, ammonium and nitrate) in various firn cores in the vicinity of the NEEM drill site in north-west Greenland have been assessed. Seasonal representativeness is very high as one core explains more than 60% of the variability within the area. The inter-annual representativeness, however, can be substantially lower (depending on the species) making replicate coring indispensable to derive the atmospheric variability of aerosol species. A single core at the NEEM site records only 30% of the inter-annual atmospheric variability in some species, while five replicate cores are already needed to cover approximately 70% of the inter-annual atmospheric variability in all species. The spatial representativeness is very high within 60 cm, rapidly decorrelates within 10 m but does not diminish further within 3 km. We attribute this to wind reworking of the snow pack leading to sastrugi formation. Due to the high resolution and seasonal representativeness of the records we can derive accurate seasonalities of the measured species for modern times as well as for pre-industrial times. Sodium and calcium show similar seasonality (peaking in February and March respectively) for modern and pre-industrial times, whereas ammonium and nitrate are influenced by anthropogenic activities. Nitrate and ammonium both peak in May during modern times, whereas during pre-industrial times ammonium peaked during July–August and nitrate during June–July.

State illegibility in the containment of labour unrest on the Thai-Myanmar border

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Production ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
North West ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Point Of Departure

In the literature on governmentality, rights have been posited as technologies of rule, encouraging individual self-government, as well as active participation in the institutions of the liberal state. In the context of globalised industrial production, however, a realisation of justiciable rights may, by raising wages and other labour costs, challenge the ability of states to attract capital investment. In the present article, I take as a point of departure this apparent contradiction – between the liberal promise of rights through governmental incorporation and the reality that a realisation of such rights threatens profitability, and potentially viability, in domestic capitalist production. Empirically, my research is grounded in an ethnographic study of the garment sector at the Mae Sot industrial zone in north-west Thailand. Over the past decade-plus this site has seen an expansion of governmental interventions targeting the local Myanmar migrant population. Yet the vast majority of these migrants continue to earn wages far below the legal minimum, and face other egregious violations of labour rights. This gap, between the promise and the realisation of rights, leads to the state's illegibility. This illegibility is, I argue, of significance for theorising state regulatory regimes and the containment of labour unrest at sites of low-waged industrial production embedded in contemporary global supply chains.

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