scholarly journals What the Ground Says…

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13420
Author(s):  
Rita Occhiuto
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
The Body ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Hollow Space

Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelters “implicit projects”. Understanding its complexity requires a physical and perceptual commitment, challenging the body in space: dimensions gradually forgotten by Environmental Sciences. As a “threshold” between visible and invisible, Underground-Built-Heritage represents the reverse of the emerged world: hollow space, both generator and mirror of open space (cities, landscapes). The focus is on physical and mental relationships between these two worlds. Past and present relationships emerge, allowing hypotheses to reconstitute collective memories, practices, knowledge, and values, which serve territorial development. The “Three Countries Park” is a place for cross-border experimentation to test how UBH can rebuild common links for fragmented environments. The cavities of a geo-park (planned) and the tangles of underground mining architecture are the fragments of a vocabulary whose meaning communities have to relearn. Built undergrounds will, thus, emerge from common stories that revive the imagination of populations who have lost all notion of belonging to a place. UBH will become a vector of new territorial coherence linking the physical and mental perceptions of people.

Pretty Strong Women: Ingenious Agency, Pink Gloves and Muay Thai

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Sharyn G. Davies ◽  
Antje Deckert
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship

Women now compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship for which Muay Thai is a feeder discipline. It is timely to analyze how the tools of this pugilist trade, women’s bodies, are lived and discursively positioned. We explore how bodily attributes (strength and beauty) are positioned vis-a-vis women fighters by drawing on 17 interviews with women Muay Thai fighters. We argue while women are in control of their bodies and proud of their strength, normative narratives of fighting being unfeminine must be combatted. Theoretically, we expand discussion of gender and the body by deploying the ‘pretty imperative’ to examine how women’s quotidian practices open space for other women fighters and by engaging the notion of ingenious agency to reveal women’s strategic efforts for inclusion and acceptance.

scholarly journals The Resonant Body

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Open Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Wisdom Traditions

The body can be understood to be an open space of infinite possibilities, a locus of unlimited imagination. The “felt-experience” of the body as understood by somatic wisdom traditions as well as science-based knowledge, is revealed in this paper to be resonant with the world in complex and healing ways. Such a view is compatible with spiritual understandings and points to the need for development of a more just and compassionate practice of social work.

scholarly journals Revisiting the ‘Homeland’ Through a Transnational Lens

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Karun Kishor Karki ◽  
Hari KC
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Cross Border

In this paper, we bring our individual and collective memories of Nepal to reflect upon how we imagine, remember, and perform the diasporic nationalism while living abroad. We argue that diasporic nationalism is often framed by the homeland's historical dimensions and through an imagined and identificatory relation to the homeland. In doing so, we bring our learning experiences during high school in Nepal and critically zero in on how these curriculums taught us only a single narrative of Nepal-India relation by grossly neglecting the other side of the narrative. To deconstruct such a grand narrative, we critically analyze the other side of the narrative, which reveals the Nepal-India relation as a 'paradox' between closeness and detachment. We discuss cross-border controversies in which the Indian hegemony of perpetuating colonial ideas overpowers Nepal through political and geopolitical intervention. We conclude the paper with our remarks to mitigate animosities and rebuild the fractured relationship between the two nations.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF ACCIDENT IN THE MINES: A RETROSPECTIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MINING ACCIDENTS IN GHANA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Frimpong ◽  
Kingsley Kwakye
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Fatal Accident ◽  
Analytical Technique

The mining industry continues to be an important sector of the Ghanaian economy, contributing to the foreign exchange, employment and socioeconomic development after the colonial period. The current trend of mining operations requires greater skills and technical knowledge because they involve sophisticated machines, dangerous chemicals and explosive mechanisms, underground operations etc. Accidents in the mines just like any occupational accident may lead to deaths, injuries, disabilities and financial losses. One of the ways of improving occupational knowledge and skills is to acquire some level of understanding of accident causation mechanism. An analytical technique which will form the basis for accident and injury epidemiological studies is therefore necessary to ensure operational safety improvement. A retrospective statistical analysis of accidents in eight gold mining companies was undertaken through measures of association, hypothesis testing, trend analysis and predictive measurements. The results of the study indicate that 20% of accident cases resulted in deaths, 30% were serious and 50% minor accidents. Underground mining increases the risk fatal accident by 1.46, morning shift increases the risk of fatal accident by 4.81 and being a contract miner increases the risk of fatal accident by 1.05. The part of body injured can predict the degree of injury by reducing the error of prediction by 40.2%. Since proportion of accident fatalities increases with increasing age of miners, it is recommended that miners with higher age should not be task with high risk jobs. It is recommended again that, miners should be given improved protective clothes to guide against occurrences of fatal incidents. Especially, clothes to cover the head and upper part of the body since they top the fatality chart and the fact that fatality is strongly associated with body part. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0720/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Past, Present, and Future of Groundwater Remediation Research: A Scientometric Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (20) ◽  
pp. 3975
Author(s):  
Qibin Chen ◽  
Guilian Fan ◽  
Wei Na ◽  
Jiming Liu ◽  
Jianguo Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Groundwater Remediation ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Permeable Reactive Barriers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sciences

In this study, we characterize the body of knowledge of groundwater remediation from 1950 to 2018 by employing scientometric techniques and CiteSpace software, based on the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) databases. The results indicate that the United States and China contributed 56.4% of the total publications and were the major powers in groundwater remediation research. In addition, the United States, Canada, and China have considerable capabilities and expertise in groundwater remediation research. Groundwater remediation research is a multidisciplinary field, covering water resources, environmental sciences and ecology, environmental sciences, and engineering, among other fields. Journals such as Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, and Water Research were the major sources of cited works. The research fronts of groundwater remediation were transitioning from the pump-and-treat method to permeable reactive barriers and nanoscale zero‑valent iron particles. The combination of new persulfate ion‑activation technology and nanotechnology is receiving much attention. Based on the visualized networks, the intelligence base was verified using a variety of metrics. Through landscape portrayal and developmental trajectory identification of groundwater remediation research, this study provides insight into the characteristics of, and global trends in, groundwater remediation, which will facilitate the identification of future research directions.

scholarly journals Tracking the sociomaterial traces of affect at the crossroads of affect and practice theories

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Gherardi ◽  
Annalisa Murgia ◽  
Elisa Bellè ◽  
Francesco Miele ◽  
Anna Carreri
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Work Accident ◽  
Situated Practice

PurposeAffect is relevant for organization studies mainly for its potential to reveal the intensities and forces of everyday organizational experiences that may pass unnoticed or pass in silence because they have been discarded from the orthodoxy of doing research “as usual.” The paper is constructed around two questions: what does affect “do” in a situated practice, and what does the study of affect contribute to practice-based studies. This paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe authors chose a situated practice – interviewing – focusing on the dynamic character of the intra-actions among its heterogeneous elements. What happens to us, as persons and researchers, when we put ourselves inside the practices we study? The authors tracked the sociomaterial traces left by affect in the transcript of the interviews, in the sounds of the voices, in the body of the interviewers, and in the collective memories, separating and mixing them like in a mixing console.FindingsThe reconstruction, in a non-representational text, of two episodes related to a work accident makes visible and communicable how affect circulates within a situated practice, and how it stiches all the practice elements together. The two episodes point to different aspects of the agency of affect: the first performs the resonance of boundaryless bodies, and the second performs the transformative power of affect in changing a situation.Originality/valueThe turn to affect and the turn to practice have in a common interest in the body, and together they contribute to re-opening the discussion on embodiment, embodied knowledge, and epistemic practices. Moreover, we suggest an inventive methodology for studying and writing affect in organization studies.

Plasma donation at the border: Feminist technoscience, bodies and race

2020 ◽  
pp. 096701062090674
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Plasma Donation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Feminist Technoscience ◽  
Empirical Context ◽  
Do So

This article argues that feminist technoscience studies can enrich our understanding of biopolitics by challenging the body’s boundaries and focusing on mundane practices of security. To do so, this article looks to Mexicanas/os who cross the US–Mexico border in order to donate plasma in the United States. The article argues that Mexicanas/os are objectified in cross-border donation practices as both desirable sources of life-giving matter and dangerous sources of disease. The article begins by giving some empirical context to plasma donation, before outlining the conceptual contributions of a feminist technoscience studies approach. The article then explores how Mexican bodies are produced as sites of valuable matter which have the ability to make others live. The article shows how the ‘bioavailability’ of Mexicanas/os is produced through colonial and racist histories. Finally, the article turns to the circulation of plasma, demonstrating how persistent fears about Mexican plasma as infectious reproduce highly racializing stereotypes about Mexico and Mexican bodies. The article finishes by reflecting on the importance of a feminist technoscience studies approach for stressing the co-constitutive relationship between race and matter, and that racialized productions of the body at security sites stretch well beyond the body’s skin.

scholarly journals Mértola: A Project of Local Development [Portugal]

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 564-582
Author(s):  
João José Severo Arnedo Rolha ◽  
◽  
Victor Manuel do Sacramento Figueira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Entire Population ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Culture History

In an increasingly standardized global society, there is a growing demand for differentiating elements of territories. Components such as natural and built heritage, culture, history and traditions are thus understood as distinguishing, conferring notoriety and competitiveness. In Portugal, the low density areas, depressed or fragile, are in this horizon, the ones that can benefit most from this unprecedented, due to the urgency they show in attracting people and the indisputable need to generate development, create sources of wealth and opportunities. Based on this argumentation, the development strategies anchored in the preservation and sustainable valorization of the endogenous and inimitable resources of the territories, to which innovation, creativity and scale, should be increasingly prioritized. This study aims to highlight the processes of territorial development that are related to public policies that affect the potentialities of the territory of the municipality of Mértola [Portugal]. Thus, it is concluded that there is a greater need and involvement of all local tourism agents, as well as an increase in the incentive for the entire population to boost this increasingly important "engine" of economic and social development in this territories.

scholarly journals Borders as Crossroads: The Diverging Routes of Herbal Knowledge of Romanians Living on the Romanian and Ukrainian Sides of Bukovina

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Mattalia ◽  
Nataliya Stryamets ◽  
Anya Grygorovych ◽  
Andrea Pieroni ◽  
Renata Sõukand
Keyword(s):  
Local Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Small Region ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Body ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ethnomedicinal Knowledge

Cross-border and cross-cultural ethnomedicine are novel ways to address the evolution of local ecological knowledge. As is widely acknowledged, ethnomedicinal knowledge is not static, but evolves according to several factors, including changes in ecological availability and socioeconomic conditions, and yet the effect of the political context on medicinal knowledge remains largely underexplored. Bukovina, a small region of Eastern Europe that has been divided by a border since the 1940s and is currently part of both Romania and Ukraine, represents a unique case study in which to address the impact of political contexts on ethnomedicinal knowledge. The aim of this study was to compare plant-based medicinal uses among Romanians living on the two sides of the Romanian–Ukrainian border. In addition, we performed cross-cultural and cross-border analysis with published data on the ethnomedicine of the neighboring ethnolinguistic group of Hutsuls. We conducted 59 semistructured interviews with conveniently selected Romanians living in both Romanian and Ukrainian Bukovina. We elicited preparations for treating different ailments and disorders by naming each part of the body. We also asked about the sources of this medicinal knowledge. We documented the medicinal use of 108 plant taxa belonging to 45 families. Fifty-four taxa were common to both Romanian communities; 20 were only found among Romanians living in Romania and 34 only among Romanians living in Ukraine. However, the number of recorded uses was higher among Romanians living in Romania, revealing that they make consistent use of local medicinal plants, and Romanians living in Ukrainian Bukovina use more taxa but less consistently. Comparison with the data published in our study on neighboring Hutsuls shows that medicinal knowledge is more homogeneous among Hutsuls and Romanians living in Ukraine, yet many similar uses were found among Romanian communities across the border. We argue that the 50 years during which Ukrainian Bukovina was part of the USSR resulted in the integration of standard pan-Soviet elements as evidenced by several plant uses common among the groups living in Ukraine yet not among Hutsuls and Romanians living in Romania.

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