scholarly journals Entertainment outreach projects without losing scientific content: A Neolithic puppet show by senior citizens and Roma women

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Millán Mozota ◽  
Santiago Higuera ◽  
Vanessa Guzmán ◽  
Gerard Remolins ◽  
Juan Francisco Gibaja
Keyword(s):  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Public ◽  
Puppet Theatre ◽  
Puppet Show ◽  
Utmost Care ◽  
Roma Women

In this work, we present the genesis, development, and results of a set of inclusive outreach activities developed through a puppet theatre play about the Neolithic. We present our methodology and techniques for outreach activities, showing the advantages of collaborative work and bottom-up approaches. The text also explains how the initiative was born and how the contacts for its realization consolidated. All the activities were carried out with the utmost care for the scientific content since it is essential that the public comes to understand all the archaeological information and differentiates it from the entertaining and dramatic elements.

Framing Bacterial Genomics for Public Health(care)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Laufer Halpin ◽  
L. Clifford McDonald ◽  
Christopher A. Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Resistance Mechanisms ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Virulence Determinants ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bacterial Genomics ◽  
Healthcare Associated

Advancements in comparative genomics have generated significant interest in defining applications for healthcare-associated pathogens. Clinical microbiology, however, relies on increasingly automated platforms to quickly identify pathogens, resistance mechanisms, and therapy options within CLIA- and FDA-approved frameworks. Additionally, and most notably, healthcare-associated pathogens, especially those that are resistant to antibiotics, represent a diverse spectrum of genera harboring complex genetic targets including antibiotic, biocide, and virulence determinants that can be highly transmissible and, at least for antibiotic resistance, serve as potential targets for containment efforts. U.S. public health investments have focused on rapidly detecting outbreaks and emerging resistance in healthcare-associated pathogens using reference, culture-based, and molecular methods that are distributed, for example, across national laboratory network infrastructures. Herein we describe the public health applications of genomic science that are built from the top-down for broad surveillance, as well as the bottom-up, starting with identification of infections and infectious clusters. For healthcare-associated, including antimicrobial-resistant, pathogens, we propose a combination of top-down and bottom-up genomic approaches leveraged across the public health spectrum, from local infection control, to regional and national containment efforts, to national surveillance for understanding emerging strain ecology and fitness of healthcare pathogens.

scholarly journals Web Atlas como Herramienta para la Gestión Integrada Costera: de los Datos al Conocimiento Práctico

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (Vol Esp. 2) ◽  
pp. 427-454
Author(s):  
Sílvia Maria Sartor ◽  
Marcos Reis Rosa ◽  
Juliana Tristão Pires ◽  
Claudio Augusto Oller Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Scientific Language ◽  
The Public ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Coastal Area Management ◽  
The One ◽  
Multiple Impact ◽  
Existing Data

Despite the importance of coastal areas to sustainable development, they are poorly known by the public or even by decision-makers. This undermines consistent action towards their protection. Existing data and information, published in very complex language, tend to be restricted to academic use. The Coastal Web Atlas as the one developed here is a tool that makes this information more accessible to managers, by preserving, integrating, comparing, and sharing data as smart maps. The spatial analysis based on multiple impact indicators facilitates the correlation of causes and effects. The Coastal Web Atlas is available to a broad audience and it could be a strong instrument for spatial planning and oversight. The authors propose to improve coastal area management by using colors on maps to decode scientific language to friendly language and to publish it on a geoportal. This technology promotes the use of collected data and enables collaborative work. A pilot experiment is being developed in the Santos Port Region, at the São Paulo state coast, Brazil: http://santoswebatlas.com.br/

scholarly journals An Urban Revolution Through Age Friendly Cities? The Case Of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Joy
Keyword(s):  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Policy Program ◽  
The City

This dissertation examines the claim that Age Friendly Cities (AFCs) represents an effective and revolutionary policy approach to population aging. The AFC approach is a placebased policy program intended to enhance the ‘fit’ between senior citizens and their environment. Mainstream accounts of AFCs claim that the program represents a paradigmatic shift in the way we think about aging, to move away from an individual health deficit approach to one that seeks to improve local environments by empowering seniors and local policy actors. However, initial critical literature notes that while AFCs may offer the potential to expand social and physical infrastructure investments to accommodate diverse population needs, they are being popularized in a conjuncture where the public sector is being restructured through narrow projects of neoliberalism that call for limiting public redistribution. This literature calls for further empirical studies to better understand the gap between AFC claims and practice. I heed this call through a qualitative case study of AFCs in the City of Toronto; a particularly relevant case because the recent Toronto Seniors Strategy has been critiqued for being more symbolic than substantive. My research represents a critical policy study as I understand AFCs not as a technical policy tool but as a political object attractive to conflicting progressive and neoliberal projects that use rhetorical and practical strategies to ensure their actualization. My approach is normative as I seek to provide insight for a transformative ‘right to the city’ for senior citizens through the AFC approach. I use literature on citizenship to understand the multiplicity of political projects that seek to expand or narrow the relations between people, environments and institutions through the AFC program. This understanding is based on the meanings 82 different policy actors from local government, the non-profit sector, academia, and other levels of government make of their everyday work in creating age-friendly environments. The broad question I ask is: How do local policy actors understand the rhetoric and practice of AFCs in Toronto and how do these understandings illustrate particular expansive and narrow political projects that affect the development of a right to the city for senior citizens through this policy program? I begin with an initial Case Chapter that scopes age friendly policy work in Toronto from a ‘seeing like a city’ perspective that identifies the complex multi-scalar and multi-actor nature of this policy domain. The Recognizing Seniors and Role of Place Chapters then examine AFCs rhetorically with respect to how local policy actors understand the ‘person’ and the ‘environment’. The Rescaling Redistribution and Restructuring Governance Chapters explore the practice of AFCs, including how local policy actors understand their capacities to design and deliver age-friendly services and amenities and the institutional mechanisms at their disposal to action AFCs. My findings challenge the claim that the AFC policy approach is effective, let alone revolutionary. I learn from policy actors that narrow projects of restructuring work to assemble seemingly progressive rhetoric and practice around active aging and localism to reduce universal public provision, expand the role of private citizens and their families to provide care, and use local policy actors as residual providers of last resort. My research documents how more expansive understandings of senior citizens as rights bearers and the role of the public and non-profit sector to recognize and redistribute on this basis are also in operation. Understanding these political projects more deeply through the AFC policy program helps me to offer policy insight as to what is needed both rhetorically and practically to craft a more effective and revolutionary alternative AFC model based on a right to the city for senior citizens.

Incisions and Inscriptions

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-151
Author(s):  
Trais Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Death Certificate ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Form ◽  
British Physician ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This chapter follows the dead body as it moved out of the public spaces of vernacular forensics and into the sequestered space of medicolegal science, the morgue. It attends to the efforts of the Siamese state to implement medicolegal science in the form of autopsies (incisions) capable of producing forms of documentary evidence (inscriptions) that foreign consular courts would recognize in the prosecution of foreign residents accused of having harmed Siamese subjects. Engaging with science studies scholarship on the work of mediation, the chapter focuses on the collaborative work of Dr. P. A. Nightingale, a British physician in the employ of the Siamese state, and Mo (Dr.) Meng Yim, his Sino-Thai assistant and translator. It discovers in the documentary fruits of their collaborative labor, the death certificate, a “boundary object” capable of entertaining discordant forms of knowledge. It became a testament to the emergence of a new form of necropolitics in Siam.

Politics, sport mega events and grassroots mobilization. Anticipated triumph and unexpected failure of political elite in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Woźniak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Contrasting Cases ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Winter Olympic Games

Sport mega events are the most prominent manifestations of the multidimensional and global interrelation between sport and politics. The purpose of the paper is to present the contrasting cases of two Polish SMEs: UEFA European Championships in football (Euro, 2012) and the bid for Winter Olympic Games Cracow 2022. This article pays special attention to the role of Polish political elite in promoting both events and to the grassroots movement that effectively ended the bidding for the latter event. It also discusses how the allegedly successful Euro 2012 tournament was presented in the public discourse in order to avoid conflicts and debates about the very idea of hosting the games. This proved unsuccessful in the latter case. This case deserves scrutiny as it is an unusual example of effective bottom up mobilization of civil society against the whole political elite.

Governing Genomics

2021 ◽  
pp. 220-236
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hochschild
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Discrimination ◽  
Governance Structures ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Framing

There is no most-compelling approach for governing genomics technologies, There are several possibilities: Governance may be top-down from experts to the public; it may be sideways, through advocacy groups for particular issues; or it may be bottom-up, resulting from an incident or political framing that engages the public. It may, alternatively, not occur much at all, or be dispersed across many separate arena. Many experts see particular genomics arenas as distinct and requiring separate governance structures, while the public mostly sees its possibilities and risks as a unified whole. A further complication is that residents of each quadrant typically prefer different governance structures, although Enthusiasts and the Hopeful, and (separately) Skeptics and Rejecters, agree more than other pairings. Author Jennifer Hochschild explains why she fits more into the Enthusiasm cell than the others. She reasons that excessive caution about what might go wrong makes innovations in societal and individual benefits difficult to achieve, that genomic scientists are ethically sophisticated and capable of learning to mitigate problems, and that concern about risks tends to be abstract and focused on possibilities, whereas benefits tend to be concrete and demonstrable. Nonetheless, however governance moves forward, it will need to monitor possibilities for racial, class, or genetic discrimination.

‘If You Want to Be Green Hold Your Breath’: Climate Change in British Theatre

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
An Inconvenient Truth ◽  
Dramatic Form ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
The Relationship

With a rich mix of theatrical material to bring to the table, the climate-change debate playing out in the public domain would seem well adapted to the stage, and has often been presented in docu-dramatic form, as in Al Gore's well-known film An Inconvenient Truth. But until relatively recently climate change and the science relating to it have been conspicuous by their absence from the stage. Early movers on the climate-change theatre scene included Caryl Churchill's 2006 climate-change libretto for the London Proms, We Turned on the Light, and John Godber's 2007 play Crown Prince. Since then, interest has steadily increased. In 2009 came Steve Waters's double bill The Contingency Plan (On the Beach and Resilience). This was quickly followed by Earthquakes in London by Mike Bartlett in 2010, and by three further plays in the spring of 2011: Greenland, the collaborative work of Moira Buffini, Matt Charman, Penelope Skinner, and Jack Thorne; The Heretic by Richard Bean; and Wastwater by Simon Stephens. In this article Julie Hudson focuses on three of these works to explore how the plays engage with the debate through the medium of climate-change science. As her article suggests, these British climate-change plays make an important and occasionally subversive contribution to the long-running discourse on the relationship between science, the ecosystem, and human beings. In performance, they succeed in turning a subject that has been overplayed for effect in the public domain into compelling theatre. Julie Hudson is currently a visiting fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University.

scholarly journals Collaborative community research dissemination and networking: Experiences and challenges

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Macpherson ◽  
Ceri Davies ◽  
Angie Hart ◽  
Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse ◽  
Anne Rathbone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Research Dissemination ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
New Public ◽  
Dissemination Activity ◽  
Different Cultures

This article reports on the experiences of a community-university research partnership with young people’s arts organisations that disseminated their collaborative work on resilience at a Research Showcase event held in Cardiff in June 2014. Through interviews with the young people and their collaborators, and critical reflection on our collective experiences, this article identifies some of the challenges and logistical issues that were encountered in the planning and implementation of the creative ‘Resilience House’ exhibit. We argue that the not often discussed nitty-gritty of this work needs to be brought to the foreground to help make collaborative research meaningfully inclusive if ideals of ‘cross-connection’ and a ‘new public knowledge landscape’ are to be realised. For example, we identify the potential developmental benefits to young people (rather simply framed as ‘participants’) of being involved in research dissemination, but that factoring in time, shaping expectations of all contributors, training contributors to speak to the public about their work, ensuring appropriate sub-forums are constructed and attended, discussing different cultures of language and ensuring basic needs are met are key foundations that need to be built on in future collaborative dissemination activity.

scholarly journals Assistive technology in health promotion for older people / Tecnologia Assistiva na Promoção da Saúde de Pessoas Idosas / Tecnología de Apoyo en la Promoción de la Salud de personas ancianas

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Ruth Suelle Barros Fonseca ◽  
Luana Lima Gonçalves ◽  
Grazielle Roberta Freitas da Silva ◽  
Elaine Cristina Carvalho Moura ◽  
Chrystiany Plácido de Brito Vieira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Family Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
Future Work

Objective: To describe an Assistive Technology in the form of educational video on Health Promotion addressed to elderly people assisted by the Family Health Strategy. Methodology: A descriptive qualitative approach, performed by the method of content analysis of categorical type.The research was conducted at the Federal University of Piauí, July-August 2013. Results: Categories found: (1) Physical exercise, (2) Healthy food. Regarding the scientific content transmitted, the video is according to the current literature. About the suitability to the target audience and language, the Assistive Technology has features that bring the story and characters of the public, which facilitates the learning process, and others that may limit this process. Conclusion: The Assistive Technology is configured as an instrument of health education that can be used in the transmission of knowledge for elderly at the region that has been produced and it is expected that future work will stimulate the initiative. Descriptors: Health Promotion. Health of the Elderly. Video-Audio Media. Nursing. 

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