2019 Hans O. Mauksch Address Teaching: The Body in Question

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Susan J. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
York City ◽  
American Sociological Association ◽  
National Sample ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Sociology Faculty

I presented the 2019 Hans O. Mauksch address at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York City on August 13, 2019. In this address, I explore how sociology faculty perceive their physical bodies in relationship to teaching. After reviewing the literature, I surveyed a national sample of sociology faculty from diverse institutional contexts to find out how aware they were of their bodies in the classroom. I also asked questions related to how aging, chronic illness, and other health issues might affect the utilization of their bodies in teaching. Finally, a third area of research emphasized whether or not sociology faculty saw teaching as performative, and if yes, in what ways. This article is adapted from that address.

Fortitude

2019 ◽  
pp. 194-226
Author(s):  
Robert S. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
York City ◽  
Residency Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Covert Racism

In New York City, from the 1990s to the present, covert racism is alive and well in the field of medicine and medical education. The most heavily impacted are African American and Caribbean American females and males. The inequitable treatment thus engendered has concrete results ranging from unwarranted criticism in residency education to forced changes of medical occupations and jobs, to false attributions of behavioral health issues. Combating these challenges requires fortified character armor, seeking percipient well positioned minority, white and off-whites allies, and a willingness to maintain continued vigilance. With persistence and tenacity, success is possible in terms of protecting minorities both in the educational process, and in a mature medical life.

In the Presence of the Body: Theorizing Training, Injuries and Pain in Ballet

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Aalten
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Body ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Time

After an injury; a dancer learns, at least for a short time, to heed his [sic] body if only because pain speaks a language almost anyone can understand. This heightened awareness should not disappear once the dancer returns to form; rather it should help him continue to learn about the ways his body moves and reacts (Ashley 1984, 217–218).In this statement the American dancer Merrill Ashley, who had a memorable 30-year career with the New York City Ballet, expresses a view on injuries that goes against the grain of dominant thinking within the world of ballet. According to Ashley, who suffered from several injuries in her first two years with the company, an injury can be a positive experience for a dancer, because it heightens her awareness of her body and teaches her about its possibilities and limitations. This is a rather exceptional view in a world where the vast majority of professionals commonly see injuries as a disaster (Wulff 1998; Wainwright, Williams and Turner 2005). The dominant realization that a dancer's career is short makes dancers fear an injury, because it will prevent them from dancing and cause them to lose roles. Because “there is a rule in the ballet world against casting or promoting dancers who are injured” (Wulff 1998, 106), dancers who suffer from an injury will wait as long as possible before letting others know, because they are afraid it will stop them dancing (Mainwaring, Krasnow and Kerr 2001).

Chronic Illness in New York City. Mary C. Jarrett

1933 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-693
Author(s):  
Louise B. Powers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
York City

scholarly journals Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Among Adults 60 Years and Older: New York City Residents Compared With a National Sample

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly R. Evenson ◽  
Kimberly B. Morland ◽  
Fang Wen ◽  
Kathleen Scanlin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
York City ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Actigraph Accelerometer ◽  
Two Samples

This study describes moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior among New York City (NYC) residents 60 years and older and compared with national United States’ estimates. Adults aged 60 or older living in NYC (n = 760) were compared with similar aged adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES; n = 2,451 adults). Both groups wore an ActiGraph accelerometer for one week. The NYC sample recorded 13.2, 23.8, and 37.8 mean min/day of MVPA and the NHANES sample recorded 10.6, 21.1, and 39.3, depending on the definition. Sedentary behavior averaged 9.6 hr/day for the NYC sample and 9.3 hr/day for the NHANES sample. The NYC sample spent a longer proportion of time in sedentary behavior and light activities, but more time in MVPA than the NHANES sample. Urbanicity may explain some of the differences between the two samples.

Fortitude

2016 ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Robert S. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
York City ◽  
Residency Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Medical Career

In New York City, from the 1990s to the present, covert racism is alive and well in the field of medicine and medical education. This racism largely manifested itself as inequitable treatment of illness. The most heavily impacted are African American and Caribbean American females and males. These inequities engendered results such as unwarranted criticism in residency education, forced changes of medical occupations and jobs, and false attributions of behavioral health issues. Combating these challenges requires fortified character armor, seeking percipient well positioned minorities, white and off-whites allies, and a willingness to maintain continued vigilance. With persistence and tenacity, success is possible in terms of protecting minorities both in the educational process, and subsequent medical career.

scholarly journals CHRONIC ILLNESS IN NEW YORK CITY

1933 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1227
Author(s):  
Mary C. Jarrett ◽  
E. M. BLUESTONE
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
York City

scholarly journals The Body as Archive: Will to Re-Enact and the Afterlives of Dances

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Lepecki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Washington Square

Laurence Louppe once advanced the intriguing notion that the dancer is “the veritable avatar of Orpheus: he has no right to turn back on his course, lest he be denied the object of his quest” (Louppe 1994, 32). However, looking across the contemporary dance scene in Europe and the United States, one cannot escape the fact that dancers—contrary to Orpheus, contrary to Louppe's assertion—are increasingly turning back on their and dance history's tracks in order to find the “object of their quest.” Indeed, contemporary dancers and choreographers in the United States and Europe have in recent years been actively engaged in creating re-enactments of sometimes well-known, sometimes obscure, dance works of the twentieth century. Examples abound: we can think of Fabian Barba's Schwingende Landschaft (2008), an evening-length piece where the Ecuadorian choreographer returns to Mary Wigman's seven solo pieces created in 1929 and performed during Wigman's first U.S. tour in 1930; of Elliot Mercer returning in 2009 and 2010 to several of Simone Forti's Construction Pieces (1961/62), performing them at Washington Square Park in New York City; or Anne Collod's 2008 return to Anna Halprin's Parades and Changes (1965), among many other examples.

Edible Landscapes: Song Dong's Food Installations

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
andrea gyorody ◽  
charles changduk kang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relational Aesthetics ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Contemporary Artist

This article addresses Chinese contemporary artist Song Dong's July 2009 edible installation-cum-performance at the former PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York City, in which he created landscapes out of foodstuffs. The landscapes alluded to penjing, an artistic practice of creating miniature sceneries using natural elements. Their accompanying inscriptions on the gallery walls, on the other hand, humorously appropriated colophons commonly attached to hanging scroll paintings. The installation departed from these traditional artistic forms, however, as the viewers literally consumed the landscapes. The corporeal implications of Song's work reference the body-centric performances of Tehching Hsieh and Zhang Huan, as well as the relational aesthetics events staged by Rirkrit Tiravanija, while Song's broader emphasis on ephemerality, drawn from Zen Buddhism, points to the transience of bodily needs and desires, even as he aims to fulfill them.

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