Making sense of international faith-based disaster relief volunteer experiences: Barriers and contributors to successful operations

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Making Sense

This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of five deployed international disaster relief volunteers from a faith-based group in Thailand. This study explored what participants perceived as contributors and barriers to their successful operations and how they made sense of their roles in the disaster recovery process. Organizational and cross-cultural barriers were identified. Through the lens of sense-making theory, four additional themes emerged: participants’ first assignment, the motto of being part of the solution, their firm belief in the organization’s values and practices, and their perception of necessity. Implications for faith-based organizations and directions for future studies are provided.

scholarly journals The After Effect: Lived Experiences of Typhoon Yolanda Survivors

2020 ◽  
pp. 1076-1089
Author(s):  
Bayron Barredo
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Different Types ◽  
After Effect ◽  
Depth Interviews

Natural calamities cause massive affliction among affected communities. As a result, most survivors have to rely on their coping mechanisms and deal with their losses and consequent emotional grief. Taking November 8, 2013, super typhoon Haiyan, which was known as “Yolanda” locally, as an example, this study aims to report findings from within a phenomenological study designed to investigate the lived experiences of Yolanda survivors in Tacloban City. This study is based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, which recognises the role of self in interpretation and utilises hermeneutic phenomenology, which is concerned with understanding texts. In-depth interviews with survivors were conducted, and their responses were audio-recorded and transcribed. Five emergent themes were identified: (1) unperturbed and used, (2) emotion-focused outcomes, (3) divine faith, (4) ways of coping, and (5) resilience. In the process, the participants did not only survive but established a new sense of purpose and their renewed awareness in life was awakened. Future studies may investigate different types of coping assistance at various points in the recovery process, and additional research is needed to elucidate how different types of religious involvement may intercede the effects of a natural disaster.

Two Gambling Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Foreign Brides ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

Making sense of continuous development of digital infrastructures

2021 ◽  
pp. 026839622110466
Author(s):  
Karen Osmundsen ◽  
Bendik Bygstad
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Definition Of

Continuous development extends the agile approach and focuses on bringing valuable services to users with the aim of achieving a continuous flow of learning and development in short cycles. The objective of this work is to theorize the idea of continuous development in the context of digital infrastructure evolution and explore the organizational interactions underlying continuous development. By drawing on literature on digital infrastructure theory and continuous development as it has emerged as an idea from the DevOps thinking expanded from agile, we outline main characteristics of continuous development and propose a theoretical definition of continuous development in organizational contexts. Then, in answering our research question “which patterns of interactions can be identified in the continuous development of digital infrastructures?”, we conducted a longitudinal case study at a Norwegian grid company and explored how a specific digital infrastructure evolved through continuous development. We identified generic interaction patterns with two cycles of sense-giving and sense-making between organizational actors, enabling the continuous development of the digital infrastructure. Our findings and model of interaction patterns offer a nuanced perspective on both digital infrastructure evolution and established views of sense-making and sense-giving mechanisms, as well as new ways to think about digitalization in incumbent firms.

scholarly journals A Phenomenological Study of Italian Students’ Responses to Professional Dilemmas: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Consorti ◽  
Shiphra Ginsburg ◽  
Ming J. Ho ◽  
Laura Potasso ◽  
Emanuele Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison

Using poetry to engage the voices of women and girls in research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zanib Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Women And Girls

This chapter considers poetry as a creative or arts-based method within social research. It argues that poetry as a research methodology can elicit thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and can give a platform for marginalised voices, such as women and girls, as it enables those silenced voices to be heard — and heard loudly. Poetry offers one way to capture the knowledge held in communities, particularly among those whose voices have been traditionally marginalised, like young people and women. Poetry provides us with a different lens for making sense of everyday interactions, contradictions, and conflicts. Poetry allows us to express different perspectives of our lived experiences — a mosaic of autonomous voices freed through poetry.

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