Encountering Space, Places and Memories in Australian Landscapes

2007 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Francesca Veronesi ◽  
Petra Gemeinboeck
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
Spatial Exploration ◽  
Spontaneous Exploration ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Location Sensing ◽  
Opening Up

Mapping Footprints: Lost Geographies in Australian Landscapes is a research project in development that explores the relational qualities of places and contemporary perceptions of geography. It reflects on new mapping technologies that have the capacity to reinstate relations between subjects and places via a spatial exploration that engages with inventive and specific uses of location sensing technologies informed by physical and cultural contexts. The Elvina rock engravings in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park are the site of a location-sensitive sound installation in which we integrate the specificities of landscape with a navigational medium. A sonic map is overlayed over the physical terrain, opening up the site as a place embedded with memories, creating the potential for spontaneous exploration and new understandings of place. The ‘map’ in Mapping Footprints is composed from the geographical narration of the cartographers’ exploration across Indigenous mediascapes.

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.  

Dance Britannia: The Impact of Global Shifts on Dance in Britain

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Christy Adair ◽  
Ramsay Burt
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Black British ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The music and dance of African Diasporan artists has impacted current dance practice in Britain, and their legacies are testament to the global circulation of artistic ideas. This paper discusses the British Dance and the African Diaspora research project which seeks to write Black British dance artists and their legacies back into history. It aims to understand the nexus of aesthetic, institutional, and conceptual problems that have rendered these dancers invisible.Since the 1970s, a number of black British-based dancers has been teaching and producing performance work in a variety of dance styles. It was influenced by the context of anti-colonialism and the struggle for independence, which has been the motivation for the post-war generation of Caribbean and Asian artists who migrated to Britain. These historical and cultural contexts form the basis for our argument for new approaches to frameworks for analysis of the work of black British dance artists.

‘A Fresh Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences’ from French-speaking Africa

Exchange ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Klaas Bom
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Us ◽  
French Speaking

Abstract Although US Pentecostalism has traditionally been characterized by unease towards science, due to socio-economic positioning and theological stances, Pentecostals like James Smith and others have recently launched a ‘fresh engagement with the sciences’. The feasibility of his proposal is discussed in this article. Based on the contributions of four Pentecostal participants in the research project “Science and Religion in French-speaking Africa,” the author argues that their perspectives are not coloured by naturalism, which according to Smith is one of the main limiting factors to traditional US Pentecostal engagement with science. Consequently certain expressions of African Pentecostalism would be open to Smith’s proposal. Nevertheless, the author argues that both the African and the US cultural contexts need to be taken into account more seriously. Such an approach reveals that in both contexts the possibilities for a fresh Pentecostal engagement with the sciences are more limited than Smith suggests.

scholarly journals Imagining Citizens as More than Data Subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Grommé ◽  
Evelyn Ruppert
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Opening Up

The article presents a methodography of a collaborative design workshop conducted with national and international statisticians. The workshop was part of an ethnographic research project on innovation in European official statistics. It aimed to bring academic researchers and statisticians together to collaborate on the design of app prototypes that imagine citizens as co-producers of official statistics rather than only data subjects. However, the objective was not to settle on an end product but to see if relations to citizens could be re-imagined. Through a methodography composed of two ethnographic narratives, we analyse whether and how a collaborative design workshop brought about imaginings of citizens as co-producers. To retrospectively analyse the workshop, we draw on feminist and material-semiotic takes on ‘friction’ as characteristic of collaboration. ‘Friction’, we suggest, can enlarge the repertoire of collaborative speculative practice beyond notions of rupture or consensus. Finally, we suggest that this analysis demonstrates the potential of methodography for opening up and reflecting on method in STS through eliciting the possibilities of collaboration.

scholarly journals An overview of the Open Scene of the Village and the World

Philologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Iulian Filip ◽  
◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Folk Theater ◽  
The World ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Village

What should a book about theater look like? How about the one about a category of theatrical performances in the ethnological dimension? Research project of the Institute of Romanian Philology B. P. Hasdeu stimulates research into socio-cultural contexts and European connections, and Eugeniu Coseriu urges us to open up universally - each with his own field of research. In the sub-theme National Folklore Corpus, the popular (folkloric) theater is my area of expertise and the Latin phrase Theatrum mundi = The spectacle of the world. The world seen as a spectacle it is the universal concept of theatricality. The definite sign of the theater is the character. In illo tempore, man invented an incredible, saving theater, modeling fictional characters from the most abundant matter - from what he did not know, out of ignorance. For phenomena that man could not explain in the beginning, he shaped ... spirits, supernatural beings, elves. The nebula of imaginary characters fell into two broad categories – the good and the evil ones. In order to understand the diversity of masks and clothing of modern times, it is imperative to accept a scaffolding of archetypal dichotomies, resulting from this modeling of beginnings: life - death, good - evil, beauty - ugly, God - Satan, love - hate , wealth - poverty, Christ - Herod, the wise – the stupid ... All the characters - not just from the theater of any kind - are derived from these archetypal dichotomies, and the triggering axial motives, in which it manifests itself in tension, are love, fertility, fecundity, disease, healing, death, resurrection. The Romanian folk theater is part of the same spectacle of the world, and the eternal scene is on the doorstep of the house with a spinster to be married. More important deduction - this is also the engine that sets the characters and the scene in motion: the love that moves the sky and ... the scene.

scholarly journals Common Worlding Pedagogies: Opening Up to Learning with Worlds

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Affrica Taylor ◽  
Tatiana Zakharova ◽  
Maureen Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Early Childhood Research ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Do So

Common worlding is a collective pedagogical approach. It is also a deliberate move to open up education to worlds beyond narrow human preoccupations and concerns and beyond its standard framing as an exclusively social practice. In this article, we identify some of the guiding principles that underpin this approach and explain how they work out in practice. We do so by offering a selection of illustrative vignettes drawn from the Walking with Wildlife in Wild Weather Times early childhood research project in Canberra, Australia, and from the Witnessing the Ruins of Progress early childhood research collaboratory in Ontario, Canada.

Semantic fields of problem in business English: Malaysian and British journalistic business texts

Corpora ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afida Mohamad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solution ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Business English ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Business And Management

This paper reports on an LSP-based research project dealing with a contrastive analysis of business and management texts taken from the Malaysian business magazine Malaysian Business (MB) and its British counterpart, Management Today (MT). The objective of the research was to study the semantic fields and linguistic signals of Problem patterns in order to determine whether they display specific differences which can be ascribed to their linguistic and cultural contexts. The study adopted a corpus-based approach based on a corpus containing fifty feature-articles from each magazine. The text corpus was analysed according to Hoey's Problem-Solution textual patterns and the corpus tool, Wmatrix, was used to identify the semantic fields in the Problem patterns. Key semantic fields were found for Problem in MB and MT compared with a normative corpus (the BNC Written Informative Sampler).

scholarly journals Traditional Communities and Mental Maps: Dialogues between Local Knowledge and Cartography from the Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 755
Author(s):  
Benedito Souza Filho ◽  
Reinaldo Paul Pérez Machado ◽  
Kumiko Murasugi ◽  
Ulisses Denache Vieira Souza
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
National Park ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Traditional Communities

The Lençóis Maranhenses region, located in the state of Maranhão in northeastern Brazil, constitutes an area that includes a national park and presents extreme physical, geographic and climatic contrasts in addition to economic diversity and emerging tourism. Scattered throughout this portion of the Brazilian territory are local inhabitants whose traditional lifestyles are characterized by agricultural, extractive, fishing and animal husbandry activities. These local residents use guidance systems and mental maps developed through their long history, interaction with nature, and knowledge of the environment in which they live and work. Based on sketches prepared by residents and by Health Agents serving the communities, and with the support of cartographic-based materials produced by the team of the Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses (ASALM, Portuguese abbreviation for Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses), we present a set of digital and interactive cartographic materials that reproduce the movements, uses and practices of the families of these communities as well as the environmental dynamics of this vast region. Such cartography can serve as an instrument of planning, understanding and action, both to safeguard the rights of the local residents and for the handling and management of natural resources. Based on the dialogue between local knowledge and cartography, we present the methods, processes and results of our research project.

scholarly journals Uniwersytet i pracodawcy w Polsce i Hiszpanii. Konfrontacje, oczekiwania, perspektywy

2017 ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Ewa Kurantowicz ◽  
Adrianna Nizińska ◽  
Teresa Padilla-Carmona ◽  
José González-Monteagudo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Spanish Research ◽  
Empirical Analyses

This paper is based on the partial results of EMPLOY research project. We present the Polish and Spanish employers’ perspectives, experiences and needs when it comes to the HE graduates. Before the empirical analyses we compare the political and cultural contexts of employability in both countries as also provide the review of the main Polish and Spanish research reports in this field.

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