“Why do you want to go to Hawai‘i?”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick N. Labrador
Keyword(s):  
Community Center ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
Culture And Language ◽  
Home And Homeland ◽  
Filipino Immigrants

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book follows the struggles of contemporary Filipino immigrants to physically and figuratively build community, where they enact a politics of incorporation built on race, ethnicity, class, culture, and language. It focuses on two sites of building and representation, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu. At these two sites, the book focuses on the narratives and discourses about “home” and “homeland.” In particular, it asks how immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) to which they have settled and, consequently, how these discourses shape their identities and politics.

Building Filipino Hawai'i

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick N. Labrador
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
Popular Image ◽  
Culture And Language ◽  
Filipino Immigrants

Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, this book delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawaiʻi have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity. In particular, the book speaks to the processes of identity making and the politics of representation among immigrant communities striving to resist marginalization in a globalized, transnational era. Critiquing the popular image of Hawaiʻi as a postracial paradise, the book reveals how Filipino immigrants talk about their relationships to the place(s) they left and the place(s) where they've settled, and how these discourses shape their identities. It also shows how struggles for community empowerment and identity territorialization continue to affect how minority groups construct the stories they tell about themselves, to themselves and others. The book follows the struggles of contemporary Filipino immigrants to build community, where they enact a politics of incorporation built on race, ethnicity, class, culture, and language. It focuses on two sites of building and representation, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Filipino Community Center in Waipahu.

scholarly journals HEALTH ACTIVIST EDUCATION FOR BRAZIL

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Rita de Cássia Gabrielli Souza Lima
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Primary Care Unit ◽  
Health Council ◽  
The University ◽  
Extension Program

The article socializes a few sectoral bonds as managed in an experience of the Extension Project Antonio Gramsci: fostering the activist conception of education, of the University of Vale do Itajaí. The experience took place in 2016 with elderly people from the Community Center for the Elderly from Itaipava section of Itajaí city, Brazil, in partnership with workers of a local Health Primary Care Unit and of the Local Health Council. The testimonies were analyzed dialectically by means of the category “We want to dance again, and we appreciate plants”, while the narratives expressed a symbolic pain in view of the cut of municipal resources to guarantee the trips and balls that used to take place monthly and the willingness to make a community garden. The involved sectors recognized the extension program as an effective class and the locus to develop the praxis.

Class, Culture, and the Decline of the University

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (71-72) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
H. Gurman
Keyword(s):  
Class Culture ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The Environmental Dimensions of Islam

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
Soumaya Pernilla Ouis
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Divine Origin ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Positive Force

Dr. Mawil Izzi Dien, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University ofWales, has been writing about Islam and environmental issues for almosttwo decades. The Environmental Dimensions of Islam is a summary of hisprevious writings presented together with new additions. Izzi Dien is oneof the most prominent scholars in the new discourse of Islamic ecotheology,although he himself seldom refers to other Muslim scholars in this field,which somehow gives the wrong impression that he is the only one amongMuslims dealing with environmental issues.After a short introductory chapter, Izzi Dien discusses in chapter 2"The Environment and Its Components in Islam." This chapter gives aninformative introduction to Qur'anic terminology on various environmentalcomponents and their status in Islam, such as water, earth, living organisms,diversity and biogeological cycles.This Qur'anic terminology is further developed in chapter 3, deaLingwith theology pertaining to the environment. This chapter deals with issuessuch as the question of creation and the unseen and the Divine origin ofeverything: constancy, comprehensiveness, balance, and universal laws innature as the Creation. I sympathize with much of the argument presentedregarding the role of human beings in Creation, i.e., their trusteeship, partnershipand responsibility. This chapter would have been strengthened by adiscussion of the accusations from the environmental movement that themonotheistic religions represent an anthropocentric, and thus problematic,view of nature. For instance, the idea expressed in the Qur'an that God madenature subservient 􀀱·akhkhara) to human beings may be criticized (seeQur'anic verses 2:29; 45:12-13; and 14:33-34), but the author chooses notto discuss this concept at all or to refer to other scholars' criticisms.Another problem is his unusual definition of positivism, a philosophyheld accountable for promoting a hegemonic position of science associatedwith a problematic view of nature. He sees positivism as something thatIslam promotes, as in his view, it implies that human beings "are an active,positive force placed on this earth to construct, improve, and reform it." lnthe Qur'an we read about examples of how people who destroyed their ownhabitat were punished by God in the form of ecocatastrophes ...

scholarly journals Początki badań kultury i języka staroobrzędowców w Polsce

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 211-220
Author(s):  
Irena Maryniakowa
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Old Republic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University ◽  
Culture And Language

The origins of culture and language of Old Believers in PolandThe Old Believers – the descendants of Russians who in the middle of the seventeenth century did not accept the reforms of Patriarch Nikon – had to leave their homeland due to persecution. They came to Poland about 300 years ago and in the area of the Old Republic, and they were treated with respect. In the Polish literature, the first mention of them appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, in the writings of Benedykt Tykiel and Karol Mecherzyński. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Karol Dębiński and Alfons Mańkowski also wrote about the Old Believers, and then Wiktor Piotrowicz, Jędrzej Giertych, Stefan Grelewski and Melchior Wańkowicz. In the postwar period, Wiktor Jakubowski conducted research on this community. Research on the Old Believers’ language, a well preserved Russian dialect, was organized by Anatol Mirowicz at the University of Warsaw – numerous works were prepared by Iryda Grek-Pabisowa and Irena Maryniakowa. The interest in the members of what now is called the Polish Pomeranian Old Believers Orthodox Church still continues, and numerous studies about various aspects of their lives are being conducted at the moment. Начало исследований культуры и языка старообрядцев в ПольшеСтарообрядцы, потомки русских, которые в середине семнадцатого века не приняли реформы патриарха Никона, преследовались, покидали родину, переселяясь в другие страны. В Польшу они прибыли около 300 лет назад и были приняты толерантно. В польской письменности первое упоминание о них относится к середине девятнадцатого века, как писали Бенедикт Тыкель и Кароль Мехежински. В начале ХХ века о них писали ксендз Кароль Дембински, ксендз Альфонс Маньковски, Виктор Петрович, Енджей Гертых, ксендз Стефан Грелевски, Мельхиор Ванькович. В послевоенный период старообрядцами, особенно на Мазурии, интересовался Виктор Якубовски. Изучение их родного языка, хорошо сохранившегося русского диалекта, организовал в Варшавском университете Анатоль Мирович. Появился целый ряд работ Ириды Грек-Пабисовой и Ирены Марыняковой. Интерес к старообрядцам в Польше сохраняется – проводятся многочисленные исследования различных аспектов их жизни. 

scholarly journals Rapid Utilization of Telehealth in a Comprehensive Cancer Center as a Response to COVID-19: Cross-Sectional Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E Lonergan ◽  
Samuel L Washington III ◽  
Linda Branagan ◽  
Nathaniel Gleason ◽  
Raj S Pruthi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Comprehensive Cancer Center ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Primary Language ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patient Demographics ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
Sectional Analysis

BACKGROUND The emergence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in March 2020 created unprecedented challenges in the provision of scheduled ambulatory cancer care. As a result, there has been a renewed focus on video-based telehealth consultations as a means to continue ambulatory care. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to analyze the change in video visit volume at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Comprehensive Cancer Center in response to COVID-19 and compare patient demographics and appointment data from January 1, 2020, and in the 11 weeks after the transition to video visits. METHODS Patient demographics and appointment data (dates, visit types, and departments) were extracted from the electronic health record reporting database. Video visits were performed using a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)-compliant video conferencing platform with a pre-existing workflow. RESULTS In 17 departments and divisions at the UCSF Cancer Center, 2284 video visits were performed in the 11 weeks before COVID-19 changes were implemented (mean 208, SD 75 per week) and 12,946 video visits were performed in the 11-week post–COVID-19 period (mean 1177, SD 120 per week). The proportion of video visits increased from 7%-18% to 54%-72%, between the pre– and post–COVID-19 periods without any disparity based on race/ethnicity, primary language, or payor. CONCLUSIONS In a remarkably brief period of time, we rapidly scaled the utilization of telehealth in response to COVID-19 and maintained access to complex oncologic care at a time of social distancing.

scholarly journals Learning possibility with Google Wave in a mixed cultural landscape

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Alessandro Gasparini
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Shared Service ◽  
University Of Oslo ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Research ◽  
Culture And Language

Google Wave, launched in 2009, can generate a wave, which is a kind of conversation between users and at the same time a document. The conversation can be made of text, pictures, videos, maps, and more. This poster will show some possibility Google Wave give academic libraries to support research, and to help and engage cooperation between teacher and student. Google Wave have the possibility to enable co-writing in different language, and maybe across cultural boundaries, since the system translate seamless between languages while the user is writing. Possible scenarios will be presented. The first one is based on the property Google wave have to rewind and play again the discourse of the participants. With this context we will explore the possibility academic libraries have to develop wave modules for courses. Another scenario will try to introduce the “Wave librarian”, who is a new role academic libraries can fill with help from this new shared service. The University of Oslo is cooperating with other Universities in developing countries, especially in Tanzania. An interesting scenario for the University Library could be if this new tool can help to overcome problems in the communicative landscape of culture and language and give new learning possibility. Using well known didactical framework (Bjørndal, Lieberg 1978) and discussions of learning in library (Sundin 2005), we will stress the Google Wave services to find out if it can really facilitate learning in a new way.

scholarly journals “Being a Person of Color in This Institution Is Exhausting”: Defining and Optimizing the Learning Climate to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Washington School of Public Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore ◽  
Erika Lorenzana Del Villar ◽  
Lucia Chavez Fraire ◽  
Chloe Waters ◽  
Michele P. Andrasik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
White Male ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Structural Hierarchy ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Learning climate greatly affects student achievement. This qualitative study aimed to understand community definitions of climate; share lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff; and define priority areas of improvement in the University of Washington School of Public Health (UWSPH). Between March-May 2019, 17 focus group discussions were conducted–stratified by role and self-identified race/ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation–among 28 faculty/staff and 36 students. Topics included: assessing the current climate, recounting experiences related to roles and identities, and recommending improvements. Transcripts were coded using deductive and inductive approaches. Race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation appeared to affect perceptions of the climate, with nearly all respondents from underrepresented or minoritized groups recounting negative experiences related to their identity. Persons of color, women, and other respondents who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) frequently perceived the climate as “uncomfortable.” Most felt that UWSPH operates within a structural hierarchy that perpetuates white, male, and/or class privilege and “protects those in power” while leaving underrepresented or minoritized groups feeling like “the way to move up… is to conform” in order to not be seen as “someone pushing against the system.” Improvement priorities included: increasing community responsiveness to diversity, equity, and inclusion; intentionally diversifying faculty/staff and student populations; designing inclusive curricula; and supporting underrepresented or minoritized groups academically, professionally, and psychologically.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Stephen Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Human Values ◽  
World Culture ◽  
University Center ◽  
Changing Environments ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Human Uniqueness ◽  
Ecological Success ◽  
The University

This introductory chapter provides an overview of professor Robert Boyd's approach to the study of human evolution that focuses on the population dynamics of culturally transmitted information. Putting aside the more familiar question of human uniqueness, Boyd asks why humans so exceed other species when it comes to broad indices of ecological success, such as humans' ability to adapt to and thrive in such a wide variety of habitats across the globe. Humans adapt to a vast variety of changing environments not mainly by applying individual intelligence to solve problems, but rather via “cumulative cultural adaptation” and, over the longer term, Darwinian selection among cultures with different social norms and moral values. Not only are humans part of the natural world, argues Boyd, but human culture is part of the natural world. Culture makes humans “a different kind of animal,” and “culture is as much a part of human biology as our peculiar pelvis or the thick enamel that covers our molars.” The chapter then outlines the lectures and discussions that follow, which originated as the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University in April of 2016, organized under the auspices of the University Center for Human Values.

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