Waste recyclers, embodied research and planning: evidence from Guangzhou, China

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Shaoxu Wang ◽  
Kai Gu ◽  
Wei Tao
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Embodied Research

The continued flow of rural migrants into cities has created major challenges for planning and urban management in China. Despite the growth of research concerning the embodied dimension of rural migrants’ urban lives, the development of integrated embodied knowledge and its significance for planning and urban management is yet to be articulated. In connection with waste recyclers in Guangzhou, a conceptual framework involving the body of power, the experiencing body and the embodied encounter is established to integrate embodied knowledge. Reflection on the ways in which rural migrants struggle to live in cities and their agency and capability is imperative to inform socially sensitive planning in a diverse and heterogeneous metropolis.

Heritagisation of pop culture by museums and an analysis of visitor feedback

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Waller ◽  
Helen J. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

PurposeIn recent years, there has been a “heritagisation” of pop culture, including music, whereby cultural institutions, such as galleries and museums in primarily Western countries, have run exhibitions based on pop culture to successfully market to a new audience of visitors. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the issue of the “heritagisation” of pop culture by museums and observe visitor response to a specific music-related exhibition, linking intangible and tangible elements of the exhibition to provide a framework to understand the visitor experience.Design/methodology/approachThe purpose will be achieved by observing the “heritagisation” of pop culture in the literature and past exhibitions, proposing how cultural institutions have linked the intangible and tangible elements of music in pop culture for an exhibition and observe visitors' feedback from online comments posted on Tripadvisor undertaken during the original “David Bowie is” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London.FindingsFrom the Leximancer analysis, a new conceptual framework for visitor experience at an exhibition was developed, which contains three visitor-related categories: pre-exhibition, exhibition space and exhibition experience, with five themes (tickets, exhibition, displayed objects, David Bowie and visitors) and 41 text concepts.Practical implicationsFor cultural institutions the implications are that there can be opportunities to curate exhibitions on pop culture or music-related themes, which can include intangible and tangible elements, such as songs, videos, tickets, costumes, musical instruments and posters. These exhibitions can also explore the changing socio/political/historical/cultural background that contextualises pop cultural history.Originality/valueThis theory-building study advances the body of knowledge as it links music in pop culture and cultural institutions, specifically in this case a highly successful music-related exhibition at a museum, and provides a theoretical model based on tangibility elements. Further, it analyses museum visitor comments by using the qualitative software program, Leximancer, to develop a new conceptual framework for visitor experience.

scholarly journals Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-872
Author(s):  
Marsha Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
New World ◽  
Black Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Black Caribbean ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Instrumental Role

In the Caribbean, the practice of getting dressed matters because it is a practice of attending to the body. Under a colonial regime, black bodies were ill-treated and selves were negated. Clothing played an instrumental role in the abuse of bodies and the stripping of a sense of wellbeing. Attire was one key way of demarcating master and slave and rendering some members of society null and void. Enslaved Africans, who were forcibly brought across the Atlantic to the New World, were considered chattel or commodities rather than people and clothes functioned in a way that reinforced that notion. Yet, dress became a strategy of subversion – of making chattel, property or ‘non-people’ look like people. The enslaved recognised that, through clothes, it was possible to look and feel free. Today that legacy remains. Clothing is seen not only as that which can make a people ‘look like people’ but also feel like people – clothing sets up a specific structure of feeling. This paper pivots on notions of looking and feeling like people while deploying Joanne Entwistle’s conceptual framework of dress as situated bodily practice. The article locates its investigation in the Caribbean, examining the philosophy and practice of Trinidadian clothing designer Robert Young. The article establishes him as a source of aesthetic therapeutic solutions in the Caribbean. It argues that his clothing designs produce a therapeutic discourse on the Black Caribbean body – a discourse, which facilitates a practice of getting dressed that gives a sense of agency, self-empowerment and psychic security even if that sense is embodied temporarily; lasting perhaps only as long as the garment is worn.

Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-rape Technologies: From the Hoop Skirt to the Smart Frock

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-54
Author(s):  
Caroline Wilson-Barnao ◽  
Alex Bevan ◽  
Robyn Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Online Searches

In this article, we explore smart deterrents and their historical precedents marketed to women and girls for the purpose of preventing harassment, sexual abuse and violence. Rape deterrents, as we define them, encompass customs, architectures, fashions, surveillant infrastructures, apps and devices conceived to manage and protect the body. Online searches reveal an array of technologies, and we engage with their prevention narratives and cultural construction discourses of the gendered body. Our critical analysis places recent rape deterrents in conversation with earlier technologies to untangle the persistent logics. These are articulated with reference to the ways that proto-digital technologies have been imported into the realm of ubiquitous computing and networks. Our conceptual framework offers novel pathways for discussing feminine bodies and their messy navigation of everyday life that include both threats to corporeal safety and collective imaginings of empowerment.

Becoming Gypsy: Tell Me What the Body Knows in Flamenco Dance

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Diane Oatley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Abstract In The Meaning of the Body, philosopher Mark Johnson makes a case for the significance of movement in terms of the body processes he holds as essential to the generation of meaning and knowledge acquisition in physical interaction with the world–equally essential as language and cognition. The article employs this theory in interpreting the experiences of women learning flamenco dance in Spain. The investigation of the perceptions of women studying flamenco dance, a dance tradition often defined as “gypsy,” indicates that exposure to flamenco dance and culture leads to revision of stereotypes regarding embodiment and difference, but respondents did not relate this revision to bodily engagement, or physical processes particular to dancing flamenco. Although Johnson’s failure to properly account for the role of the unconscious proved to be a serious shortcoming in the theory, and one which had implications for the findings, application of the theory disclosed the parameters of a discourse on the body in flamenco. The theory thus represents a radical gesture in redefining embodiment in its own right in a manner that precludes dualism with the consequent opening of a range of alternative perspectives on the articulation of embodied knowledge.

Problematising Poisons: Embodied Knowledge and Environmental Health Risks

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Prue Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Population Based ◽  
The Body ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Herbicide Atrazine

Contemporary policy responses to environmental risk increasingly endorse the need for community participation in decision making around these issues. It is suggested that this process requires a greater understanding of the social construction of environmental risk which legitimises the knowledges and experiences of community members. Environmental health risks are most commonly framed within the discourses of science and epidemiology. These scientific knowledges construct particular meanings around the risks associated with environmental issues. The 'objective and value-free' context of mechanisms, such as laboratory tests, defining safety levels and population based statistical data, locates the meanings of risk within a depersonalised and fundamentally disembodied framework. It is argued that this marginalises and disempowers the meanings, values and everyday practices through which people negotiate risks in their lives. Work in progress which examines the ways people construct meanings about the environmental health risks to which they are exposed is discussed using the case of the herbicide atrazine in Tasmania, Australia. The paper draws on data from in-depth interviews with key individuals concerned about the contamination of drinking water by this herbicide. A central theme in this analysis is the concept of embodied knowledge in the construction of meanings. The argument that the body at risk is a key site of contestation in environmental health debates is developed. This conceptualisation increases the space for community engagement and action in public policy outcomes.

Stabilized bubbles in the body: pressure-radius relationships and the limits to stabilization

1997 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 2045-2053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh D. Van Liew ◽  
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Contrast Agents ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Bubble Radius ◽  
Ultrasonic Imaging ◽  
Ultrasound Contrast Agents ◽  
The Body ◽  
Strong Growth ◽  
Ultrasound Contrast ◽  
Practical Usefulness

Van Liew, Hugh D., and Soumya Raychaudhuri. Stabilized bubbles in the body: pressure-radius relationships and the limits to stabilization. J. Appl. Physiol.82(6): 2045–2053, 1997.—We previously outlined the fundamental principles that govern behavior of stabilized bubbles, such as the microbubbles being put forward as ultrasound contrast agents. Our present goals are to develop the idea that there are limits to the stabilization and to provide a conceptual framework for comparison of bubbles stabilized by different mechanisms. Gases diffuse in or out of stabilized bubbles in a limited and reversible manner in response to changes in the environment, but strong growth influences will cause the bubbles to cross a threshold into uncontrolled growth. Also, bubbles stabilized by mechanical structures will be destroyed if outside influences bring them below a critical small size. The in vivo behavior of different kinds of stabilized bubbles can be compared by using plots of bubble radius as a function of forces that affect diffusion of gases in or out of the bubble. The two ends of the plot are the limits for unstabilized growth and destruction; these and the curve’s slope predict the bubble’s practical usefulness for ultrasonic imaging or O2 carriage to tissues.

scholarly journals Speculating Ancestor(ie)s: The Cavernous Memory of White Innocence and Fluid Embodiments of Afrofuturist Memory-Work

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Javier Ernesto Perez
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
White Innocence

Enduring legacies of racial violence signal the need to reconcile with the past. This paper comparatively explores various speculative works that either reinforce a paradigm of White innocence that serves to deny such legacies or center critical dialogue between the past and present. It draws on a range of theoretical works, including Seshadri-Crooks’s (2000) Lacanian analysis of race, Taylor’s (2003) notion of the body as repertoire for embodied knowledge, Wright’s (2015) concept of Black epiphenomenal time, and Hartman’s (2008b) method of ‘critical fabulation.’ Through an analysis of the narrative tropes of caves and mirrors in the Star Wars Skywalker saga (1977–1983; 2015–2019), this paper firstly unpacks the bounded individualism that permits protagonists Luke and Rey Skywalker to refute their evil Sith lord ancestry and prevail as heroes. It then turns to the works Black Panther (2018) and Watchmen (2019) to comparatively examine Afrofuturist narrative strategies of collectivity, embodiment, and non-linear temporality that destabilize bounded notions of self and time to reckon with the complexities of the past. It concludes that speculative approaches to ancestral (dis)connections are indicative of epistemological frameworks that can either circumvent or forefront ongoing demands to grapple with the past.

The conundrum of transmitting embodied knowledge for intercultural performance: A case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Margaret Coldiron
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Intercultural Performance ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Performance Techniques ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
Regular Practice

How is ‘embodied knowledge’ transmitted? Certainly, in most Asian traditional performance practice, it is dinned into the body of the disciple through daily repetition. Unlike many western performance techniques, for example classical ballet, the discipline and transformation of the body in Asian performance forms is not managed through abstracted exercises, but rather by learning whole roles. In Bali, the student imbibes technique through regular practice until tarian masuk – literally until the dance enters the body. As a beneficiary of this pedagogical method, I know what it feels like, and as a student of anatomy and kinesiology I have some intellectual understanding of the nervous and muscular processes that make the appropriate movement happen; but how is this ‘sensuous knowledge’ transmitted? This case study examines the author’s experience of directing a group of Western-trained actors using techniques of Balinese topéng for an intercultural production of the Greek tragedy Hippolytos. It explores the physical and philosophical challenges for those who would make intercultural work, and who must find appropriate and effective methodologies for developing new body practices – often in a very short period of time.

scholarly journals Enhancing Safety Performance by Recognizing the Role of Perceived Management Commitment to Safety in the Jordanian Healthcare Industry: Conceptual Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Adel Al-Bsheish
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Management Commitment

<p>Nowadays, workplace safety is a clear concern for both individuals and organizations, particularly in developing countries such as Jordan. This is evidenced by the expanding body of safety-related literature published on this regard. This paper develops a conceptual framework of safety management based on perceived organizational support theory. The main aim of this framework is to disclose the causal links between a physiological empowerment, respect, perceived management commitment to safety and safety performance based on previous studies. Such framework could have impact on practical issues in healthcare industry, as well as enhancing the body of related literature on perceived management commitment to safety. Consequently, this framework presents a new trend concerning perceived management commitment to safety through investigating each dimension of safety climate individually.    </p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Malleable Methodologies: Sculpting and Imagination in Embodied Health Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691880495
Author(s):  
Debra Kriger
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Health Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Health Project ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
Embodied Research

Health research is complex, often asking questions that have uncertain, indefinite, or inarticulate answers. Embodied health research, which incorporates subjectivity and social relationships centered on the body, adds further complexity. There exist several calls for embodied research methodology, and it is now important to explore aligning methods and further develop embodied health research methodology. Using artistic and interview data from the Beyond the Present: Risk and Body Stigma in Public Health project, this article argues that imagination is a useful methodology and sculpting a fruitful method to draw out health stories. Sculpting and imagination allow material and conceptual malleability and are valuable in addressing complexity and uncertainty in critical qualitative health research.

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