scholarly journals An Ethic of Care: Interrogating the Need for Care in the Archives

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Percephone Miller
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Need For Care ◽  
User Groups

Using a mixture of personal experience and frameworks presented by Caswell and Cifor (2016), this essay explores the tangible ways that archival spaces can and should account for the affective responses of their user groups. Drawing on a case study at Algoma University, care work is demonstrated to be an imperative element for just, engaged, and enriched archival service. 

Carceral Spaces and Social Reproduction: Exploring Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka and Prisons in Argentina

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Pereyra-Iraola ◽  
Samanthi J Gunawardana
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Active Form ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Export Processing Zones ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
Export Processing

Abstract The article reflects on the ways in which social reproduction intersects with (im)mobility in export-processing zones in Sri Lanka and the outskirts of prisons in Argentina. Framing factories and prisons as “carceral spaces” and drawing upon diverse case study materials, it focuses on (i) the daily circulations and waiting that take place around these closely regulated sites and (ii) the relations of care that emerge in these sites. The article analyzes how gendered care work can be an active form of agency and resistance to structural confinement and violence, which is nevertheless embedded in broader forms of depletion.

scholarly journals The Anthropocene stinks! Odor, affect, and the entangled politics of livestock waste in a rural Iowa watershed

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 736-752
Author(s):  
Christopher Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Affective Responses ◽  
The Body ◽  
Animal Waste ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Livestock Waste ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Hog Manure ◽  
The Everyday

Recent interventions in geography regarding the Anthropocene have demonstrated how Western logics of order and containment have produced massive geologic transformations. This paper focuses on odor as a sense that, when engaged critically, disrupts those logics by exposing the porousness of the body to other bodies and spaces. Visceral reactions to smell produce affective responses in the body which are informed by circulating political discourses. Thus, this paper explores how research focused on odor can reveal the complicated dynamics through which bodies are enrolled into subject formation and become a terrain of political struggle. Research on the everyday experience of hog manure in a rural Iowa watershed forms the case study through which these questions are raised. Since the transition to concentrated livestock agriculture at the end of the twentieth century, the disposal of animal waste has caused serious concern. This waste is often collected and later spread on fields across the state, producing foul odors and potential toxins. Political discourses that maintain this system claim waste is ordered and properly maintained, generating positive affective responses to foul odors and thereby maintaining support for industrialized agriculture.

scholarly journals The Organization of Pottery Production

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-147
Author(s):  
Kim Duistermaat
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Chaine Operatoire ◽  
Object Biography ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Production Organization ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
New Strategies

A brief discussion of two traditional approaches in the study of pottery production organization, ceramic ecology and typologies of production, identifies several key problems. In order to move forward and develop new strategies, it is proposed to adopt a symmetrical perspective, integrating methods and concepts from a variety of theoretical origins, including chaîne opératoire, object biography, relevant user groups or cadena, and entanglement. A brief case study outlining a proposed strategy for a relational approach to the study of ceramic production organization concludes the chapter.

The Care Work of Balance

Inner Asia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Alex Oehler
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Hybrid Breeding ◽  
Breeding Practices ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper explores the relationship between herding and hunting practices in the mountainous environment of Indigenous Soyots of Okinskii Raion (Oka), Buryatia. It traces an animistic approach to the concept of balance among sentient entities, including landscapes, identifying it as an underlying ethic governing the relationships of domestic and non-domestic animals with humans. Drawing on this ethic of care, the paper identifies practices directed at achieving balance as a form of resistance to assertions of outright control over living beings. The author begins by problematising the concept of care, pointing to basic ontological differences identified in anthropological literature, before addressing how care and balance are related. Here care is understood as a matter of attentiveness: a skill that links herding and hunting practices. The paper then delves into three concrete areas of care: the care of creating life in living and calving spaces; the care of holding life together through material implements and invocation of intangible protective forces; and, finally, care for species diversity in local yak and hybrid breeding practices.

scholarly journals Stewarding National User Groups to Strengthen Open Source Software Communities

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Pascal-Nicolas Becker ◽  
Michele Mennielli ◽  
Katharina Trachte
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Great Success ◽  
User Group ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Uk ◽  
International Engagement

Open Source Software (OSS) communities are often international, bringing together people from diverse regions with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. National user groups can bolster these international communities by convening local events, championing the software to peers, welcoming and onboarding new contributors, raising money to support the broader community, and collecting important information on user’s needs. The open source community-led software DSpace has had great success encouraging the creation of national user groups; in the UK, North America, and Germany, the Groups have been active for many years. However, it was in 2018, thanks to a renewed focus on international engagement and more diverse representation of the global community in governance groups, that the national communities entered into a new phase: 15 new national User Groups have been formed all over the world since then, while the German user group evolved into the “DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland”, founded by 25 institutions, marking a pivotal point for membership options and National User Group participation within DSpace Governance. This article will offer an overview of the historical development of the DSpace community and its governance model, as well as DuraSpace’s international engagement strategy, including its benefits and challenges. Subsequently, we will present a case study on the DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland and explain its relation to the broader context of how to build national user groups within global communities.

scholarly journals The Changing Uses of Cadastral Information: A User-Driven Case Study

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauliina Krigsholm ◽  
Kirsikka Riekkinen ◽  
Pirjo Ståhle
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Banking Regulations ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Public Data ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Land Administration Systems

Cadastral information and land administration systems are central to effective land markets, land use and sustainable development. This paper focuses on one aspect of land administration dynamism: the changing uses of cadastral information. We follow a qualitative approach and offer an overview of why, how, and in what form user groups use cadastre and land register data in Finland. We then explore different user groups’ perceptions of emerging changes and discuss their implications for the future land administration system. We identify six major changes that potentially have such implications: the streamlining of environmental permit procedures, the integration of public services, three-dimensional land use planning, tightening banking regulations, digital services, and e-government, and coordination among public data agencies. The paper addresses the relatively unexplored customer side of cadastral information and reiterates the need for an interoperable, accurate and reliable land administration system.

Spoken and written narration in Hebrew

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit Ravid ◽  
Yehudit Chen-Djemal
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic

The study is premised on speech and writing relying on differently coordinated temporal frames of communication, aiming to pinpoint the conceptual and linguistic differences between spoken and written Hebrew narration. This is a case study presenting in-depth psycholinguistic analyses of the oral and written versions of a personal-experience story produced by the same adult narrator in Hebrew, taking into account discursive functions, discourse stance, linguistic expression, and information flow, processing, and cohesion. Findings of parallel spoken and written content units presenting the same narrative information point to the interface of the narrative genre with the spoken and written modalities, together with the mature cognitive, linguistic, and social skills and experience of adulthood. Both spoken and written personal-experience adult narrative versions have a non-personal, non-specific, detached stance, though the written units are more abstract and syntactically complex. Adult narrating skill encompasses both modalities, recruiting different devices for the expression of cohesion.

Being Real and Being Realistic: Chemical Abuse Prevention, Teen Counselors, and an Ethic of Care

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina G. Dorsch
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Abuse Prevention ◽  
National Goal ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Chemical Abuse ◽  
Drug Free

Despite the national goal of “drug-free” schools, recent data suggest that chemical abuse among school-aged children remains a concern. This qualitative case study presents a “unique case” within one school's substance abuse prevention program. In this program, pioneered in 1973, pairs of teen counselors “adopt” a middle school classroom and make regularly scheduled visits to conduct chemical abuse prevention sessions. Two of the teen counselors were perceived by both themselves and the faculty advisor as unlike other teen counselors. This study explores themes surrounding how they viewed their mission and carried it out. Two themes emerged as significant. These particular teen counselors saw both their role and their mission as being “real” and being “realistic.” This perspective represents a concrete expression of the ethic of care described by Nel Noddings. It is a perspective which should be considered in developing teen counselor programs or any chemical abuse prevention program.

Letting the Ghosts Out of the Closet

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-229
Author(s):  
Amy J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Emotional Responses

This pastoral case study is a reflection on intimidating personalities and how those personalities can effect the leadership style and emotional responses of clergy. When a clergy person finds that he or she is caught in an emotional triangle because of intimidating factors, it becomes necessary to develop a strategy to “unhook” through changing the clergy's behavior. This case study is a reflection regarding a personal experience.

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