The Black Diaries

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-80
Author(s):  
Alison Garden
Keyword(s):  
Racial Difference ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
The Erotic

The chapter explores Casement’s Black Diaries, and their reception, through a discussion of three novels: Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912), Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Dream of the Celt (2010). In a move that embodies the homophobia that has so often plagued Casement’s posthumous life, Vargas Llosa depicts Casement’s Diaries as little more than the fantasies of someone deeply ashamed of their sexual taste. In The Swimming-Pool Library, Hollinghurst is able to stage the uneven power dynamics that defined Casement’s sexual encounters while also illustrating the erotic thrill offered by racial difference, contextualised through a genealogy of queer desire. Finally, the chapter concludes by engaging the Black Diaries alongside Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, which features settings and a character inspired by Casement, and explicating the novella’s insistence on the erotic quality of racial difference while also highlighting the underlying queer energy inherent to the imperial romance of the Boy’s Book.

scholarly journals The relationship between inequitable gender norms and provider attitudes and quality of care in maternal health services in Rwanda: a mixed methods study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Doyle ◽  
Shamsi Kazimbaya ◽  
Ruti Levtov ◽  
Joya Banerjee ◽  
Myra Betron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Care Provider ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Gender Attitudes ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Men’S Involvement

Abstract Background Rwanda has made great progress in improving reproductive, maternal, and newborn health (RMNH) care; however, barriers to ensuring timely and full RMNH service utilization persist, including women’s limited decision-making power and poor-quality care. This study sought to better understand whether and how gender and power dynamics between providers and clients affect their perceptions and experiences of quality care during antenatal care, labor and childbirth. Methods This mixed methods study included a self-administered survey with 151 RMNH providers with questions on attitudes about gender roles, RMNH care, provider-client relations, labor and childbirth, which took place between January to February 2018. Two separate factor analyses were conducted on provider responses to create a Gender Attitudes Scale and an RMNH Quality of Care Scale. Three focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted in February 2019 with RMNH providers, female and male clients, explored attitudes about gender norms, provision and quality of RMNH care, provider-client interactions and power dynamics, and men’s involvement. Data were analyzed thematically. Results Inequitable gender norms and attitudes – among both RMNH care providers and clients – impact the quality of RMNH care. The qualitative results illustrate how gender norms and attitudes influence the provision of care and provider-client interactions, in addition to the impact of men’s involvement on the quality of care. Complementing this finding, the survey found a relationship between health providers’ gender attitudes and their attitudes towards quality RMNH care: gender equitable attitudes were associated with greater support for respectful, quality RMNH care. Conclusions Our findings suggest that gender attitudes and power dynamics between providers and their clients, and between female clients and their partners, can negatively impact the utilization and provision of quality RMNH care. There is a need for capacity building efforts to challenge health providers’ inequitable gender attitudes and practices and equip them to be aware of gender and power dynamics between themselves and their clients. These efforts can be made alongside community interventions to transform harmful gender norms, including those that increase women’s agency and autonomy over their bodies and their health care, promote uptake of health services, and improve couple power dynamics.

The Construction of Racial Difference in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, 1925

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Tabili
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
British Society ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Sexual Competition ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Working People ◽  
Special Restriction ◽  
History Of

In the course of the past several decades, scholars have exposed Black people's long history of life and work in Britain, but their approaches to racial conflict have slighted the historical contingency of racial difference itself. Black workers have been presented as logical, visible scapegoats in an otherwise homogeneous working class, and interracial hostility as an ineluctable product of economic or sexual competition between two mutually exclusive and naturally antagonistic groups of working men. Scholars examining Black people's experience in Britain under the rubric “immigrants and minorities” have placed particular emphasis on racial conflicts, xenophobia, and prejudice, which they see as evidence of “traditions of intolerance” widespread in British society. Such interpretations leave unchallenged the assumption that racial or ethnic hostility is latent in social relations, resurfacing in any crisis. Whatever the intentions of their authors, such assumptions can all too easily be used to justify rather than to combat conflict and exclusion.Intolerance, bigotry, prejudice, moreover, are not explanations for racial or ethnic conflict: in themselves they require explanation. In focusing on “attitudes,” and behaviors, these works neglect to examine the structural underpinnings of popular racism and xenophobia—in particular the ways that Black and white working people were positioned in relation to each other within a system also riven by class, gender, skill, and other power dynamics. What many scholars have taken for granted, indeed, is the objective or fixed quality of racial difference itself and its inexorably divisive effects.

What stories to tell? A trilogy of methods used for knowledge exchange in a community-based participatory research project

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Indigenous Methods ◽  
Research Criteria

Researchers in the field of Aboriginal health generally have a keen interest in ‘participating in change’ to address the ongoing injustices experienced by Aboriginal peoples. Perhaps the most promoted methods for this purpose are those described as Indigenous methods and action research. Criteria of authenticity are generally used to assess the quality of research. In this essay, we reflect on how certain basic principles of action research, more notably ontological authenticity and educative authenticity can penetrate the process of knowledge exchange, creating spaces of ontological contamination and transformation. We reflect on the context of sharing ‘difficult knowledge’, knowledge that is encountered and shared in a post-colonial context of unequal power dynamics. We describe a trilogy of methods used for such knowledge exchange activities with three distinct audiences, and distinct goals. A commonality amongst the three described methods is the ‘unfinished’ and unorganised nature of what is transmitted, requiring the receptor to actively participate in the differentiation and reorganisation of information in a way that makes sense to him/her.

scholarly journals Walk the Talk: The Transforming Journey of Facility-Based Death Review Committee from Stillbirths to Neonates

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yousef S. Khader ◽  
Nihaya A. Al-Sheyab ◽  
Khulood K. Shattnawi ◽  
Mohammad S. Alyahya ◽  
Anwar Batieha
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Review Committee ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Neonatal Deaths ◽  
Modifiable Factors

Background. Facility-based death review committee (DRC) of neonatal deaths and stillbirths can encourage stakeholders to enhance the quality of care during the antenatal period and labour to improve birth outcomes. To understand the benefits and impact of the DRCs, this study was aimed at exploring the DRC members’ perception about the role and benefits of the newly developed facility-based DRCs in five pilot hospitals in Jordan, to assess women empowerment, decision-making process, power dynamics, culture and genderism as contributing factors for deaths, and impact of COVID-19 lockdown on births. Methods. A descriptive study of a qualitative design—using focus group discussions—was conducted after one year of establishing DRCs in 5 pilot large hospitals. The number of participants in each focus group ranged from 8 to10, and the total number of participants was 45 HCPs (nurses and doctors). Questions were consecutively asked in each focus group. The moderator asked the main questions from the guide and then used probing as needed. A second researcher observed the conversation and took field notes. Results. Overall, there was an agreement among the majority of DRC members across all hospitals that the DRC was successful in identifying the exact cause of neonatal deaths and stillbirths as well as associated modifiable factors. There was also a consensus that the DRC contributed to an improvement in health services provided for pregnant women and newborns as well as protecting human rights and enabling women to be more interdependent in taking decisions related to family planning. Moreover, the DRC agreed that a proportion of the neonatal deaths and stillbirths occurring in the hospitals could have been prevented if adequate antenatal care was provided and some traditional harmful practices were avoided. Conclusions. Facility-based neonatal death review audit is practical and can be used to identify exact causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and is a valuable tool for hospital quality indicators. It can also change the perception and practice of health care providers, which may be reflected in improving the quality of provided healthcare services.

scholarly journals Identification of Swimming Pool Sanitation in Banyuwangi

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Yuli Astuti ◽  
Septa Indra Puspikawati ◽  
Inriza Yuliandari
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Observation Instrument ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Interview Instrument

The purpose of this research is to know the description of sanitation of swimming pool X Glagah in Banyuwangi. This research used observation and interview technique. The research was on June, 2017, took place in swimming pool X Glagah in Banyuwangi. The observation and Interview performed using an research instrument. The research instrumen based on Minister of health of Republic of Indonesia Regulation No. 416 of 1990 about requirement and monitoring water quality, and Minister of Tourism of Republic of Indonesia No. 16 of 2015 about swimming pool business standard. The observation instrument contains five variables. There are water quality of swimming pool, sanitasion facility, health of building and environment,  health of room, and evaluation for employees. There are three variables on interview instrument. There are product, services, and management

scholarly journals KEBERADAAN BAKTERI Escherichia coli PADA AIR KOLAM RENANG UMUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Wahyuningtias ◽  
Bambang Sunarko ◽  
Iva Rustanti EW
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
Residual Chlorine ◽  
P Value ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Pool Water ◽  
Swimming Pool Water ◽  
Escherichia Coli Bacteria

One indicator of swimming pool water pollution is the presence of Escherichia coli bacteria. Factors can caused the presence of Escherichia coli in pool water are the levels of residual chlorine, the visitors who dispose of metabolic waste (sweat, urine) in pool water and disinfection of pool that were not done properly. This study analyzes the quality of swimming pool water seen from the presence of Escherichia coli in public pool water. This study was an observational analytic that use a cross sectional research design. The sample used were public swimming pool located in the Sukodono Health Center working area with total of pools were 10, and with Fisher's exact test. The results showed that main factor affecting the presence of Escherichia coli in pool water was residual chlorine content with a p-value of 0.019 which means that there was a difference number of Escherichia coli in swimming pools containing residual chlorine and in pool water that didn’t contain residual chlorine.This study concluded that there were differences in the number of Escherichia coli bacteria in pool water containing residual chlorine and in pool water that did not contain residual chlorine. To keep the remaining chlorine in pool water in accordance with Permenkes No. 32 of 2017, pool managers should routinely check the remaining chlorine and do chlorination regularly. Keywords: Escherichia coli, residual chlor, swimming pool

Power, Social Inequities, and the Conversational Theory of Moral Responsibility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Competent Speaker ◽  
Speaker Meaning ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Interpretive Framework

According to the conversational theory, moral responsibility is essentially interpersonal and communicative. Indeed, it is not only communicative; it has a conversational dimension. On the conversational theory, an agent’s actions—those that are candidates for blameworthiness or praiseworthiness—are potential bearers of meaning, where meaning is a function of the quality of an agent’s will. This meaning is analogous to the meaning a competent speaker conveys when she engages in conversation. Call this “agent meaning.” Like speaker meaning, agent meaning can be affected by the interpretive framework whereby others interpret the meaning of an agent’s actions. One aspect of the conversational theory that remains unexplored is how asymmetrical power-dynamics, especially resulting from social inequities, shape the interpretive framework that in turn influences the context in which morally responsible agents act. This chapter explores this topic and thereby exposes an unpalatable side to the nature of our moral responsibility practices.

scholarly journals Contemporary aspects in the assessment of quality and treatment of swimming pool water

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 00002
Author(s):  
Mariusz Dudziak ◽  
Joanna Wyczarska-Kokot ◽  
Edyta Łaskawiec
Keyword(s):  
Water Treatment ◽  
Membrane Filtration ◽  
Swimming Pool ◽  
Toxicity Tests ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Pool Water ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Detailed Assessment ◽  
Swimming Pool Water

Recent reports in the literature relate to the identification of various substances in the pool water, including low-molecular weight pharmaceuticals that can react with chlorine residues contributing to the formation of a large group of irritant and toxic compounds. These substances are not covered by standard monitoring. As part of this work, the authors present information on the methods for assessing the quality of the swimming pool water. Common processes used in swimming pool water treatment systems were described. Previous experience of the authors in the use of a detailed assessment of the quality of the swimming pool water on the basis of toxicity tests was presented. The authors have researched the application of pressure driven membrane filtration for the improvement of the efficiency of the swimming pool water treatment.

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