Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Braden Thomas Leap
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
In Trans ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Life

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change is disrupting and will continue to disrupt peoples' lives and communities all over the world. Nevertheless, a vast majority of research has focused on the environmental and/oreconomic consequences of the phenomena, while relatively little attention has been granted to how people manage to refashion their identities, cultures, and communities. This is a dramatic oversight precisely because selves and ways of life will have to be refashioned in response to environmental transformations associated with climate change if communities are to be sustained. Accordingly, in this dissertation I utilize data from over a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork in Sumner, Missouri to analyze how people had been and were remaking their identities, culture, and community in response to a shift in trans-national goose migration patterns that was facilitated, at least in part, by climate change. I make the following three arguments. First, lives and communities will be remade through coconstitutive interactions between multiple (non)human things, beings, and institutions across scales of space and time. Second, absences and uncertainties will be crucially important to how people reconstruct their lives and communities. Third, inequalities inform and are remade through adaptations to climate change. Combined, I argue the complexities of communities can provide vital resources for facilitating adaptations, but that these complexities can and do shape adaptations in ways that can facilitate the reproduction, or even intensification, of inequalities.

scholarly journals Beyond the Tipping Point: Understanding Perceptions of Abrupt Climate Change and Their Implications

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Bellamy ◽  
Mike Hulme
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Abrupt Climate Change ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Qualitative Focus Groups ◽  
Earth’S Climate ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Life

Abstract This article explores the influence of personal values and ontological beliefs on people’s perceptions of possible abrupt changes in the Earth’s climate system and on their climate change mitigation preferences. The authors focus on four key areas of risk perception: concern about abrupt climate change as distinct to climate change in general, the likelihood of abrupt climate changes, fears of abrupt climate changes, and preferences in how to mitigate abrupt climate changes. Using cultural theory as an interpretative framework, a multimethodological approach was adopted in exploring these areas: 287 respondents at the University of East Anglia (UK) completed a three-part quantitative questionnaire, with 15 returning to participate in qualitative focus groups to discuss the issues raised in more depth. Supporting the predictions of cultural theory, egalitarians’ values and beliefs were consistently associated with heightened perceptions of the risks posed by abrupt climate change. Yet many believed abrupt climate change to be capricious, irrespective of their psychometrically attributed worldviews or “ways of life.” Mitigation preferences—across all ways of life—were consistent with the “hegemonic myth” dominating climate policy, with many advocating conventional regulatory or market-based approaches. Moreover, a strong fatalistic narrative emerged from within abrupt climate change discourses, with frequent referrals to helplessness, societal collapse, and catastrophe.

scholarly journals The University of Colorado Graduate Medical Education Fellowship in Climate Change and Health Science Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s174-s174
Author(s):  
Chelsea Dymond ◽  
Cecilia Sorensen ◽  
Emilie Calvello-Hynes ◽  
Jay Lemery
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Health Science ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Climate Change And Health

Introduction:Climate change is intricately related to human health and impacts acute and chronic diseases leading to increased demands on the health care system.Aim:The University of Colorado Graduate Medical Education (GME) Fellowship in Climate Change and Health Science Policy (CCHSP) aims to train and equip a new generation of clinicians knowledgeable in climate science, proficient in climate health education, and facile with advocacy skills in order to become leaders in health policy.The CCHSP fellowship is funded by the Living Closer Foundation and hosted through the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine. It is a one to two-year program tailored to the fellow’s specific goals with the opportunity to earn an MPH or MA. Clinical work is supported through the UCHealth network. Site placement occurs at partnering organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and fieldwork throughout the world (via Colorado School of Public Health, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights).The first fellow was recruited in 2017 and has participated in and completed multiple projects: technical contributor to the US Government’s Fourth National Climate Assessment; advocating for women’s health policy in India; authorship of climate change and health resource documents for the World Bank; climate change leadership within SAEM; advocacy work with local and state governments; multiple research publications.Discussion:As climate change continues to impact human health with widespread consequences, we need effective and articulate leaders to affect policy. Although this Fellowship originated in Emergency Medicine, its competencies and structure are replicable for other clinical specialties. Climate change will be one of the core global health challenges for generations. A strong foundation of clinicians who understand its causes and the strategies for adaptation and mitigations are necessary to optimize health outcomes amidst this growing threat.

The pagan's progress, or, the invention of pilgrimage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Eric O. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Religious Travel ◽  
Contemporary Paganism ◽  
The University ◽  
Final Essay

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This book examines religious travel in contemporary Paganism in three long-form creative essays. It looks at space, place, and travel within the modern Pagan religious context: how Pagans create sacred spaces, interact with ancient sites, and invent their own pilgrimage practices. The book is anchored in the author's account of his experiences as a second-generation Wiccan and practitioner of the Norse revivalist religion called Asatra, but also features the perspectives of other Pagan pilgrims. "Live Deliberately," the first essay, focuses on Gaea Retreat, a Pagan-owned nature retreat in Kansas, to consider climate change, urban alienation, and the reconciliation of human and environmental needs. This essay uses the Gaea landscape to question whether Paganism can address concepts of freedom and wilderness. The second essay, "Utpra," takes place in Iceland, describing a pilgrimage made by the Icelandic Pagan organization called Asatruarfelagid. Icelandic Pagans see their religion as bound up with their national identity, giving their form of Asatra distinctive cultural character. This essay combines an ethnographic, outward-looking perspective with the author's reflections on Iceland's role in the global Pagan consciousness. The final essay, "St. Deryck," recounts a funerary pilgrimage to Birmingham, England, searching for the grave of the author's Wiccan forebear, Deryck Alldrit. The essay deals with themes of lost memory, ancestry, and how family history swiftly becomes family mythology.

More than beer : the complex career of Adolphus Busch

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Todd Barnett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Diesel Engine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The University ◽  
Industrial Company

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Adolphus Busch was cofounder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. During Busch's lifetime, Anheuser-Busch became the largest brewing company in the United States It survived Prohibition, and still survives today in the form of its successor, AB-InBev, the largest brewing company in the world. Busch is mostly remembered as the president of Anheuser-Busch, but his career was more complex. Adolphus Busch immigrated to the United States in 1857 as part of a chain of other Busch family members. There Busch utilized ethnic and family connections, such as Eberhard Anheuser, his father-in-law and eventual partner at Anheuser-Busch. Busch made innovations, such as pasteurized bottled beer, a fleet of refrigerator cars, and a network of ice depots, which transformed the brewing industry from the local to national and international in scope. He then used his brewing industry profits to fund a number of other ventures. Busch introduced the diesel engine to North America, and once held a monopoly on its manufacture. He made plans to build "the greatest industrial company in the world” through a highly orchestrated conglomeration of investments in oil, natural gas, coal, engine, machine, utility, and transportation companies. At every step, Busch depended on a network of friends and family to provide leadership and synergy between his companies. Thus, while he is mostly remembered as a brewer, Busch's career was always about more than beer.

scholarly journals The identity of modern Chinese migrants from Hong Kong to Vancouver, Canada

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Thomas Fournel
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Far East ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
The Other ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Ways Of Life

The author was raised in rural Southern France. His passion for geography was revealed very early listening to his grandfathers African adventures or exploring the gorgeous surrounding nature. After graduating (maîtrise) in geography from the University of Montpellier-lll, and before teaching briefly in High School, a year of study abroad (USA) changed his life as he started to explore a different culture than his own and ended up writing his Ph. D (University of Paris-Sorbonne) on the new Asian immigrants in North America, living and experiencing both the Far West (Vancouver) and the Far East (Hong Kong). Therefore, analyzing different ways of life and of thinking through complete immersion has became a real passion for him and, after having recently discovered South America, he is willing to keep on interacting with the Other to fully understand the world on a global and multicultural level.

Fiddlers in the Meadow

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-25
Author(s):  
Arnold Perris
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Music ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Arnold Perris is a musicologist at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. His writings often record the endurance of traditional music in various parts of the world. His most recent publication is Music as Propaganda (Greenwood Press, 1985).

scholarly journals Climate Change Scepticism at Universities: A Global Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Leal Filho ◽  
Mark Mifsud ◽  
Petra Molthan-Hill ◽  
Gustavo J. Nagy ◽  
Lucas Veiga Ávila ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Curricular Innovation ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Study ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University

Scepticism about climate change is still a popular trend, despite the existence of scientific evidence that this phenomenon is taking place, and that it is influencing the lives of millions of people around the world. The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which existing scepticism at the university level is found. The methodology consists of a survey undertaken on a sample of universities around the world, in the context of which attitudes and perceptions about climate change are identified. A total of 237 questionnaires were received from 51 countries around the world. The analysis consists basically of descriptive statistics and an investigation regarding trends on scepticism and the geographical location of the universities. The study concludes by outlining some of the presently seen scepticisms and suggests some ways to address them via curricular innovation and initiatives engaging students.

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