The doctor, the lawyer and the journalist: Neoliberal career changes and professional resistance during a mining boom

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332110485
Author(s):  
Tarryn Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Mining Operation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Career Changes ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Individual Professional ◽  
Impact Of Mining

Recent scholarship has charted the dramatic social impact of mining booms and busts on local communities. Yet scant research addresses how mining economies shape different professions. This article ethnographically traces the careers of a doctor, a lawyer and a journalist during Western Australia's mining boom in the early 2000s. For vocally opposing a politically popular mining operation due to public health concerns, they were subject to backlash, which led to disillusionment and career changes. Their narratives share a pivotal shift: each expert initially conceptualised their role through a welfarist, liberal-democratic lens, underpinned by a moral imperative to disrupt imbalances of power, fight injustice and ‘help people’. Yet the mining boom revealed and exacerbated the neoliberalisation of their respective disciplines, in which profits were maximised, businesses treated leniently and worker protections calculated dispassionately. These stories illuminate the lived experience of neoliberalisation, and the limits of individual professional resistance in a pro-mining political economy.

The lived experience of stigmatisation in patients after stoma reversal

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Owen ◽  
Alexia Papageorgiou
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Stoma Reversal ◽  
And Coping

Aim: This small−scale, exploratory, qualitative study was conducted to investigate how the experiences of having a stoma and subsequent stoma reversal affected the lives of the participants.Method: Five participants were interviewed about their experiences. Manual thematic analysis, using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), was employed to interpret the data. Results: Common themes were identified as emerging from the data. Themes before reversal were: acceptance and coping; social impact; and anticipation of returning to normal. Post−reversal themes were: returning to normal; interference with anticipated return to normal; and ongoing social impact. Conclusion: This exploratory study provides a rich account of the experiences of stoma patients who underwent reversal operations. It enhances our understanding of the transition encountered when changing from a person with a stoma into someone without one. This research has found that the anticipated return to normal can be hampered by a mix of physical and psychological processes.

scholarly journals Experience of living with knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review of qualitative studies

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e030060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A Wallis ◽  
Nicholas F Taylor ◽  
Samantha Bunzli ◽  
Nora Shields
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Knee Osteoarthritis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Reporting Data

ObjectivesSystematically review the qualitative literature on living with knee osteoarthritis from patient and carer perspectives.DesignSystematic review of qualitative studies. Five electronic databases (CINAHL, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus) were searched from inception until October 2018. Data were synthesised using thematic and content analysis.ParticipantsStudies exploring the experiences of people living with knee osteoarthritis, and their carers were included. Studies exploring experiences of patients having participated in specific interventions, including surgery, or their attitudes about the decision to proceed to knee replacement were excluded.ResultsTwenty-six articles reporting data from 21 studies about the patient (n=665) and carer (n=28) experience of living with knee osteoarthritis were included. Seven themes emerged: (i) Perceived causes of knee osteoarthritis are multifactorial and lead to structural damage to the knee and deterioration over time (n=13 studies), (ii) Pain and how to manage it predominates the lived experience (n=19 studies), (iii) Knee osteoarthritis impacts activity and participation (n=16 studies), (iv) Knee osteoarthritis has a social impact (n=10 studies), (v) Knee osteoarthritis has an emotional impact (n=13 studies), (vi) Interactions with health professionals can be positive or negative (n=11 studies), (vii) Knee osteoarthritis leads to life adjustments (n=14 studies). A single study reporting the perspectives of carers reported similar themes. Psychosocial impact of knee osteoarthritis emerged as a key factor in the lived experience of people with knee osteoarthritis.ConclusionsThis review highlights the value of considering patient attitudes and experiences including psychosocial factors when planning and implementing management options for people with knee osteoarthritis.Trial registrationnumberCRD42018108962

scholarly journals A review on the impact of mining operation: Monitoring, assessment and management

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 100181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluranti Agboola ◽  
Damilola E. Babatunde ◽  
Ojo Sunday Isaac Fayomi ◽  
Emmanuel Rotimi Sadiku ◽  
Patricia Popoola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mining Operation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Of Mining

Ernst Keil vs. Prussia: Censorship and Compromise in theAmazonAffair

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chase Richards
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Clear Winner

Recent scholarship has cautioned us that censorship does not require a censor, nor can it be described merely as the repression of information by power. Censorship can be discursively productive, and historically it has worn many guises. This article treats a case in which state censorship practices were unstable, their execution uncertain, and their target cunning, if ultimately open to compromise. Sparked by an antiaristocratic short story in Ernst Keil'sGartenlaube(arbor, bower), the most widely read German periodical of the era, theAmazonaffair involved not only its namesake ship—the Prussian S.M.S.Amazon(Amazone), a wooden corvette that sank in a storm off the coast of Holland in 1861—but an extraordinary confrontation between the conservative Prussian state and the liberal popular press. From the misstep of a weekly family magazine arose a multiyear press ban and a struggle over liberal-democratic public opinion in Germany. If no clear winner emerged from theAmazonaffair, the episode nonetheless speaks to the malleability of German political culture at a moment of profound transition, as well as to the ability of the state to shape it.

scholarly journals THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PETRONAS OIL COMPANY ON THE ASPECT OF EDUCATION IN AL GARRAF OIL FIELD IN DHIQAR PROVINCE

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2425-2433
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mohsen Juda ◽  
Abdul Rahim Ahmad ◽  
Mohammed Sabri Haron
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
People Skills ◽  
The Impact

As a matter of fact, the existence of the oil fields and the work of the oil companies in the residential areas have an impact on the style and standard of living of the local communities and the consequential change in society. The problem, in this research, represents the big rise in the illiteracy rate, the falling level of education and the high unemployment rate in the local communities that are found in Al Gharraf oil field. The most important objectives of the research is to identify the main methods and procedures carried out by Petronas which help the local communities in Al Garraf oil field so as to ensure the development of their skills through learning and building of their own abilities through the establishment of Al Gharraf vocational training center. The study adopts the analytical descriptive approach by identifying the problem and find out the impact of Petronas which is subjected to the analysis by the interview and the questionnaire form .They were distributed in the study area.The most important results that have been reached that the presence of Petronas and the establishment of Al Gharraf vocational training center have  a positive impact on the development of people skills to ensure that they are qualified for work in Petronas Company or its members or the rehabilitation and education of individuals toward getting a certain craft and helping to start a particular work.

Space (Center for Social Development and the Public Sphere)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Laban Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
The United States ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Public Forums

Chapter 3 “Space,” continues to focus on interstitiality, lived experience, and the combustive acts of creativity and imagination that take place behind the justice face. It examines another NGO “vortex,” the Center for Social Development,” which was led by two Cambodian-Americans, Chea Vannath and Theary Seng and known for high-profile Khmer Rouge Tribunal outreach “Public Forums.” The chapter traces the origins of the non-governmental organization and the public forum project, noting how the forums changed in accordance with the historical moment and the vision of these leaders, including Chea Vannath’s deep Buddhist belief and Theary Seng’s Christianity even as both were also influenced by time spent in the United States. The chapter concludes with a return to the International Center for Transitional Justice outreach project and a discussion of the public forums as an imagined “public spheres,” alleged “spaces” of liberal democratic being asserted by transitional justice imaginary discourses.

Socioeconomic Impact of Mining Activity: Effects of Gold Mining on Local Communities in Tanzania and Mali

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beyza Polat ◽  
Nazli Aktakke ◽  
Meltem A. Aran ◽  
Andrew Dabalen ◽  
Punam Chuhan-Pole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Mining Activity ◽  
Socioeconomic Impact ◽  
Impact Of Mining

Selling culture, The Growth of Wine Tourism

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wine Tourism ◽  
Short Term Change ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Commodification Of Culture ◽  
Traditional Manner

We’ve learned that tourists look for a short-term change in their lives; a sense of excitement in the unfamiliar, and to live life of ‘the other’ albeit briefly (Ooi & Laing, 2010; Smith et al., 2010; Getz & Cheyne, 1997). Tourists actively search for experiences that enrich their lives. ‘Tourists bring money and jobs to [a] local economy’ (Xie, 2011, p. 162); but this new-found commercial appeal, while it might deliver economic development, is a two-edged sword. As any local economy grows, the spending power of tourists inflates prices, affecting the capacity of local communities to maintain their lives in their traditional manner. The charm of an authentic experience of life in another culture quickly begins to wane once tourist services overtake local culture. In essence, the commodification of culture can damage the lived experience of indigenous people.

scholarly journals Maximizing the impact of mining investment in water infrastructure for local communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Admiraal ◽  
Ana Rita Sequeira ◽  
Mark P. McHenry ◽  
David Doepel
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Mining Investment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Impact Of Mining
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