scholarly journals Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons From an Experimental Teaching Environment

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-493
Author(s):  
Gwyneira Isaac ◽  
Kate Clark ◽  
Kelsey Adams ◽  
Heather Ashe ◽  
Katie Benz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Body ◽  
Teaching Environment ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
The Face

With increased interests in solving complex problems through interdisciplinary research—how best can museums use this approach to address critical social issues? In order to answer this question, an interdisciplinary group of curators, artists and students worked together at the Smithsonian Institution to create an experimental teaching environment to rethink the disciplinary boundaries around the study of the human body. Our aim was to use a range of anthropological, art and science collections and readings to undertake the issues of race, gender, genetics, and disability, and the historic inequities resulting from colonialism. We discuss this endeavor, including the public program we developed—the Face Cast Lab—as well as lessons learned about who affects change through this type of museum-based teaching. 

scholarly journals Anthropology, Museums and the Body: Lessons from an Experimental Teaching Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-493
Author(s):  
Gwyneira Isaac ◽  
Kate Clark ◽  
Kelsey Adams ◽  
Heather Ashe ◽  
Katie Benz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Body ◽  
Teaching Environment ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
The Face

With increased interests in solving complex problems through interdisciplinary research—how best can museums engage with and benefit from such an approach? At the same time, how can we address critical questions, methods, and ethics surrounding the study of humans within museums? In order to engage with these questions, an interdisciplinary group of curators, artists and students worked together at the Smithsonian Institution to create an experimental teaching environment to rethink the disciplinary boundaries around the study of the human body. Our aim was to use a range of anthropological, art and science collections and readings to tackle issues such as race, gender, genetics, and disability, and the historic inequities resulting from colonialism. We discuss here this endeavor, including the public program we developed—the Face Cast Lab—as well as lessons learned about who affects change through this type of museum-based teaching. 

Leveraging Volunteered Geographic Information to Improve Disaster Resilience

2019 ◽  
pp. 1636-1662
Author(s):  
João Porto de Albuquerque ◽  
Flávio Eduardo Aoki Horita ◽  
Livia Castro Degrossi ◽  
Roberto dos Santos Rocha ◽  
Sidgley Camargo de Andrade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
Source Of Information

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as an important additional source of information for improving the resilience of cities and communities in the face of natural hazards and extreme weather events. This chapter summarizes the existing research in this area and offers an interdisciplinary perspective of the challenges to be overcome, by presenting AGORA: A Geospatial Open collaboRative Architecture for building resilience against disasters and extreme events. AGORA structures the challenges of using VGI for disaster management into three layers: acquisition, integration and application. The chapter describes the research challenges involved in each of these layers, as well as reporting on the results achieved so far and the lessons learned in the context of flood risk management in Brazil. Furthermore, the chapter concludes by setting out an interdisciplinary research agenda for leveraging VGI to improve disaster resilience.

Leveraging Volunteered Geographic Information to Improve Disaster Resilience

2017 ◽  
pp. 158-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Porto de Albuquerque ◽  
Flávio Eduardo Aoki Horita ◽  
Livia Castro Degrossi ◽  
Roberto dos Santos Rocha ◽  
Sidgley Camargo de Andrade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
Source Of Information

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as an important additional source of information for improving the resilience of cities and communities in the face of natural hazards and extreme weather events. This chapter summarizes the existing research in this area and offers an interdisciplinary perspective of the challenges to be overcome, by presenting AGORA: A Geospatial Open collaboRative Architecture for building resilience against disasters and extreme events. AGORA structures the challenges of using VGI for disaster management into three layers: acquisition, integration and application. The chapter describes the research challenges involved in each of these layers, as well as reporting on the results achieved so far and the lessons learned in the context of flood risk management in Brazil. Furthermore, the chapter concludes by setting out an interdisciplinary research agenda for leveraging VGI to improve disaster resilience.

Illness, Threat and Systems of Authority in Dunhuang

Inner Asia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-46
Author(s):  
Lewis Mayo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Face ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Administrative Problem

AbstractThis paper analyses the relationships between illness and structures of authority in the oasis of Dunhuang in the late 20th century and during the time of the Guiyijun regime which ruled the area as an independent warlord state from the middle of the 9th to the beginning of the 11th century. Both the medieval and the modern systems for dealing with illness in Dunhuang are analysed here as part of a larger problem of threat as an inherent element in any order of authority. In this paper, illness is taken as a political and administrative problem, both in the sense that political forces are mobilised around it and in the sense that political and administrative structures give illness an organisational form. Guiyijun systems of storage and structures of governance in the political and familial realms are understood as the reference point for the strategies deployed in the face of illness ‘events’ and as explanatory frameworks closely linked to accounts of dysfunction in the internal order of the body. The late 20th century order of disease management in Dunhuang forms a counterpart to these medieval structures, despite the major differences in the forms for responding to and attacking illness in the oasis in the public health regimes of the modern era and in the medical and ceremonial practices used a millennium before.

Accountability, polarization, and federalism: Oversight during and after the COVID-19 pandemic*

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Nathan Myers, PhD ◽  
Tonya E. Thornton, PhD, MPPA
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
Testing System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
Ideological Debate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Trump Administration

The decision by the Trump administration to leave many of the policy decisions regarding COVID-19 to United States governors has had significant consequences for the management of the pandemic. During the COVID-19 response, the federalist approach has created complications in areas including resource acquisition, crisis communication, testing, and social distancing. Such issues have been magnified the differences between centralized and decentralized state public health systems. Governors have found themselves at odds with the Trump administration in regard to competing for vital equipment, signaling to the public the severity of the virus, and defining an adequate testing system. Many governors took bold action and acted in bipartisan cooperation with the governors of other states, often in the face of strong criticism and protests. The lessons learned from COVID-19 regarding the need for coordination at the national level must be documented for history. Rather than relying on state-by-state after-action reports, which separately could be become fodder for ideological debate, this commentary recommends a bipartisan, joint after-action report signed by state governors as a mechanism to preserve state experiences.

Leveraging Volunteered Geographic Information to Improve Disaster Resilience

2019 ◽  
pp. 1698-1723
Author(s):  
João Porto de Albuquerque ◽  
Flávio Eduardo Aoki Horita ◽  
Livia Castro Degrossi ◽  
Roberto dos Santos Rocha ◽  
Sidgley Camargo de Andrade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
The Face ◽  
Source Of Information

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as an important additional source of information for improving the resilience of cities and communities in the face of natural hazards and extreme weather events. This chapter summarizes the existing research in this area and offers an interdisciplinary perspective of the challenges to be overcome, by presenting AGORA: A Geospatial Open collaboRative Architecture for building resilience against disasters and extreme events. AGORA structures the challenges of using VGI for disaster management into three layers: acquisition, integration and application. The chapter describes the research challenges involved in each of these layers, as well as reporting on the results achieved so far and the lessons learned in the context of flood risk management in Brazil. Furthermore, the chapter concludes by setting out an interdisciplinary research agenda for leveraging VGI to improve disaster resilience.

How are civic cultures achieved through youth social-change-oriented vlogging? A multimodal case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Caron ◽  
Rebecca Raby ◽  
Claudia Mitchell ◽  
Sophie Théwissen-LeBlanc ◽  
Jessica Prioletta
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Body ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Youth Civic Engagement ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Face

Debate over conceptual definitions is prominent within the body of literature dealing with emerging patterns of civic engagement and political participation among youth information and communication technology–enabled politics. This article contends that advancing new knowledge in this field is also dependent upon fine-grained empirical analysis of digital traces of youth participation. Drawing on a close analysis of two youth-produced vlogs, we show that adolescents’ commitment to social change can be creatively achieved through video making. Informed by a socio-semiotic approach to multimodal analysis and by Peter Dahlgren’s concept of online civic cultures, our qualitative analysis highlights two main patterns we found in young people’s vlogs aimed at raising awareness about social issues. First, we found that to impact their intended audiences, vloggers presented themselves as creative choice makers and as savvy insiders of youth civic cultures on YouTube. Second, we found that vloggers successfully managed the risk of being the target of online hostility using rhetorical devices and tactics that smoothed counterpositions. Overall, our multimodal case study shows that contrary to traditional approaches to successful communication based on textual coherence, a mix of consistency, disruption, and contradiction can be used purposefully in public speech in order to manage difficult, risky topics. As we demonstrate that visual-based communication on social network sites such as vlogs posted on YouTube is not neat and tidy, we illuminate the vloggers’ shifting identities, opinions, and concerns. This evidence-based observation calls for more in-depth small case qualitative analyses for investigating the multiple affordances of civic talk online and its democratic potential. This article contributes to the ongoing conceptual redefinition of youth civic engagement and political participation in the face of fast-evolving sociotechnical change.

scholarly journals Tecnologia, corpo e educação física: entre a formação e a prática docente

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-249
Author(s):  
Evandro Antonio Corrêa ◽  
Deivide Telles de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio visa refletir as relações entre a formação em Educação Física, o corpo em movimento e as tecnologias na educação escolar. Compreendemos que a Educação Física precisa compreender esse corpo e suas diferentes nuances face as tecnologias, as quais podem contribuir como ferramentas auxiliadoras no processo de emancipação dos seres humanos no sentido de se tornarem mais reflexivos, críticos e criativos. Com os avanços das tecnologias observamos mudanças rápidas na sociedade, e o mesmo com o corpo. Torna-se necessário o debate sobre as inter-relações que ocorrem na sociedade entre a tecnologia, corpo e educação como um processo histórico e contínuo de transformações que envolvem questões culturais, econômicas, políticas, sociais que tem (re)configurado a atuação do professor de Educação Física com “novos” saberes e competências no âmbito escolar.Palavras-chave: Educação Física. Corpo. Tecnologia. Educação. Technology, body and physical education: between training and teaching practiceAbstractThis essay aims to reflect the relationship between training in Physical Education, the body in movement and technologies in school education. We understand that Physical Education needs to understand this body and its different nuances in the face of technologies, which can contribute as auxiliary tools in the emancipation process of human beings in order to become more reflective, critical and creative. With advances in technologies, we observe rapid changes in society, and the same with the body. It is necessary to debate the interrelationships that occur in society between technology, body and education as a historical and continuous process of transformations involving cultural, economic, political, social issues that have (re)configured the role of the Physical Education teacher with “new” knowledge and skills in the school environment.Keywords: Physical Education. Body. Technology. Education. Tecnología, cuerpo y educación física: entre la formación y la práctica docenteResumenEste ensayo tiene como objetivo reflejar las relaciones entre la formación en Educación Física, el móvil y las tecnologías en la educación escolar. Entendemos que la Educación Física necesita comprender este cuerpo y sus diferentes matices de cara a las tecnologías, que pueden contribuir como herramientas auxiliares en el proceso de emancipación del ser humano para volverse más reflexivo, crítico y creativo. Con los avances de la tecnología observamos cambios rápidos en la sociedad, y lo mismo ocurre con el cuerpo. Es necesario debatir las interrelaciones que se dan en la sociedad entre tecnología, cuerpo y educación como un proceso histórico y continuo de transformaciones que involucran cuestiones culturales, económicas, políticas, sociales que han (re) configurado el rol del docente de Educación Física con “nuevos” saberes, competencias en el entorno escolar.Palabras clave: Educación Física. Cuerpo. Tecnología. Educación.

Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
David Fieni
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Grotesque ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories ◽  
Mourning And Melancholia

This chapter revisits the gendering of loss in discourses of decadence through an exploration of four texts by Algerian authors. Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Dhakirat al-Jasad (Memory of the Body), Yamina Méchakra’s La Grotte éclatée (The Blasted Cave), Assia Djebar’s Le Blanc de l’Algérie (Algerian White), and Hélène Cixous’s Si près (So Close) each produce spontaneous, singular forms of female solidarity in the face of institutional expectations relating to language, religion, and the state that overdetermine the value of women’s social work of remembering and forgetting. The chapter explores these four texts in light of psychoanalytic theories of mourning and melancholia and also a certain injunction of postcolonial theory that would impose permanent melancholia on postcolonial writing and thought. These texts experiment with inventive modes of literary mourning, from the “female grotesque” (Mary Russo) to a range of syntactic elaborations, which propose a different cure for postcolonial melancholia and open the possibility of a “melancholia of the public sphere” (Judith Butler).

scholarly journals Тілесність у проекті Олександра Довженка «Земля»: аспекти перформативності

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Iryna Nechytalyuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The Face ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Active Interaction

With the emergence and development of the cinema as art, a definition of corporeality was attributed with a new sense. Cinema as an art type is programmed towards interactions with corporeality. Performance researchers, Fisher-Liсhte in particular, consider it significant to implement something or transform something towards a corporal practice. Such an example may be exchange of energy during a theatrical performance, in the course of an active interaction between actors. In the paper the performative aspects of corporeality are studied in details, Ivan’s Death and Natalka’s Wailing episodes in particular. It is concluded that in Dovzhenko’s view, the body is beautiful despite age (a close-up of the old man whose face is shining like the face of a saint), sex or a social role. Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s findings as the director and Danylo Demuztsky’s work as the photography director reflect the performative features of corporeality and influence its understanding by the public. In La Terra, common things get sacral meaning, spirituality is perceived through the body aspect. 

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