Texas wildfire survivors’ narratives and the meaning of everyday objects

Ethnography ◽

10.1177/14661381211038304 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146613812110383

Author(s):

Billy R Brocato

Keyword(s):

Rural Community ◽

Recovery Process ◽

Observer Design ◽

Material Objects ◽

Situational Analysis ◽

Sociology Of Culture ◽

Sociology Of Emotions ◽

Hill Country ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

Participant Observer

This study suggests the importance of focusing on lost objects after disasters and gauging the emotional registers and impacts of object loss to best understand and assist in wildfire victims' recovery process. Because objects and materiality are a focus of research in the sociology of culture and the sociology of emotions, I assess these sub-field of interest in object and emotion, along with surveying the various fields dealing with disasters and their aftermaths. Participants were from a small, semi-rural community in the central hill country of Texas. A participant-observer design allowed for working alongside fire survivors. Grounded theory and situational analysis frameworks were used to analyze 54 survivors' narratives related to the importance of everyday household objects in their recovery– things resurrected from the wildfire. The findings suggest that it would be wise to ponder material objects in situated context—in a new manner and with new respect.

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Other Spaces: migration, objects and archives

Modern Italy ◽

10.1080/13532944.2010.507931 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 315-328 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jo-Anne Duggan ◽

Enza Gandolfo

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

Material Objects ◽

Creative Arts ◽

Museum Collections ◽

Social Fabric ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship ◽

Cultural Belonging ◽

Writing Practice

Other Spaces is a collaborative creative arts exhibition project that explores visual and material expressions of cultural identity with a particular focus on museum collections. This project aims to provide a rich examination – visual, emotional and intellectual – of the multiple cultural narratives that contribute to the social fabric of Australia through a unique marriage of contemporary photomedia and creative writing practice. This project explores the ways that migrants and refugees have found to express their cultural identity through the material objects they have brought with them to Australia. Many of these objects are not only of great personal value but often of cultural, historical and religious significance. Some are very ordinary everyday objects but they can be highly evocative and symbolic of the relationship between culture and identity, and between the places of origin and an individual's present home in Australia. This article, through a combination of photography, creative text and scholarly discussion, will focus specifically on Italo-Australian migrants and on some of the material objects that they have donated to museum collections, and use these objects to explore notions of cultural belonging and identity.

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Rzecz jako „sposób na szarość, lekarstwo na beznadzieję” w prozie dla młodzieży Katarzyny Ryrych

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica ◽

10.24917/23534583.6.14 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 168-180

Author(s):

Justyna Kajstura

Keyword(s):

Young Adult ◽

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Modern Literature ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Material Objects ◽

Building Relationships ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

Human Psyche ◽

The Creation

Thing as a „Cure to Fray, a Cure for Hopelessness” in the Prose of Katarzyna Ryrych The article is an attempt to read books for young adult written by Katarzyna Ryrych – Pepa w raju,Król,Denim blue, by using the category of non-anthropocentric humanism. The tekst refers to a Przemysław Czapliński’s literary studies concentrating around things in modern literature. Katarzyna Ryrych presents the problems of modern teenagers, but she is aslo concentrate around everyday objects, clothes, souvenirs, and utensils. Ryrych used things to create heroes’ characteristics, describe their problems, and show interpersonal relationships. The author, according to Bjørnar Olsen’s theory, shows the influence of objects on the creation of the human psyche. Practices in relation to material objects, however, do not lead to materialism for the practices in relation to things are in a sense the learning of another person, remembering him, building relationships with another person.

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Memory and material objects in theIliadand theOdyssey

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.1017/s0075426900000045 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 128 ◽

pp. 27-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Jonas Grethlein

Keyword(s):

Historical Consciousness ◽

Point Of View ◽

Material Objects ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

The Past ◽

Epic Poems

Abstract:Recently, archaeologists have been focusing on material relics as evidence of a historical consciousness. This article examines theIliadand theOdysseyfrom the point of view of this ‘archaeology of the past’. Various material objects, ranging from tombs to everyday objects, evoke the past in the epic poems, thereby enriching the narrative and providing reflections on the act of memory. In turn, Homeric evidence sheds new light on the hermeneutics of relics in archaic oral society.

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The Materiality of Myth

Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion ◽

10.33356/temenos.83424 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 29-53

Author(s):

Sara Ann Knutson

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Iron Age ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Belief System ◽

Oral Traditions ◽

Material Objects ◽

Textual Evidence ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

The Relationship

The vivid presence of material objects in Scandinavian cosmology, as preserved in the Old Norse myths, carries underexplored traces of belief systems and the material experience of Iron Age Scandinavia (400–1000 CE). This paper proposes an archaeological reading of Norse mythology to help explain how ancient Scandinavians understood the presence and role of deities, magic, and the supernatural in everyday life. The Norse myths retain records of material objects that reinforced Scandinavian oral traditions and gave their stories power, memory, and influence. From Thor’s hammer and Freyja’s feathered cloak to Sigyn’s bowl and Ran’s net, such materials and the stories they colour are informed by everyday objects of Iron Age life – spun with the magic, belief, and narrative traditions that made them icons. The mythic objects promoted a belief system that expected and embraced the imperfections of objects, much like deities. These imperfections in the divine Norse objects and the ways in which the gods interact with their materials are part and parcel of the Scandinavian religious mentality and collective social reality. This work ultimately questions the relationship between materiality and myth, and seeks to nuance our current understandings of the ancient Scandinavian worldview based on the available textual evidence.

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Servicing the Senior Swallow: A Family-Centered Private Practice Model of Service Delivery

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2020_persp-20-00134 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yvette M. McCoy

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Medical Model ◽

Recovery Process ◽

Swallowing Disorders ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Care Needs ◽

Skilled Nursing ◽

Person Centered Care ◽

Centered Care ◽

Traditional Medical Model

Purpose Person-centered care shifts the focus of treatment away from the traditional medical model and moves toward personal choice and autonomy for people receiving health services. Older adults remain a priority for person-centered care because they are more likely to have complex care needs than younger individuals. Even more specifically, the assessment and treatment of swallowing disorders are often thought of in terms of setting-specific (i.e., acute care, skilled nursing, home health, etc.), but the management of dysphagia in older adults should be considered as a continuum of care from the intensive care unit to the outpatient multidisciplinary clinic. In order to establish a framework for the management of swallowing in older adults, clinicians must work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team using current evidence to guide clinical practice. Private practitioners must think critically not only about the interplay between the components of the evidence-based practice treatment triad but also about the broader impact of dysphagia on caregivers and families. The physical health and quality of life of both the caregiver and the person receiving care are interdependent. Conclusion Effective treatment includes consideration of not only the patient but also others, as caregivers play an important role in the recovery process of the patient with swallowing disorders.

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