Job Analysis for Air Traffic Control

This article presents a review and categorization of job analyses on the role of air traffic controllers (ATCO). There are three parts – how the role has been conceptualized, why it was conceptualized in this manner, and what we can conclude from developments in ATCO job analysis. The article includes a history of job analysis in air traffic control and two tables summarizing task and worker analyses. A large amount of information is available on tasks and attributes and we conclude that ATCO job analyses have been carried out in a varied and disunited manner. While there is no universally accepted analysis for the role of ATCO, previous analyses could nonetheless be used as a foundation for future analytic work.

Applied Linguists

This paper seeks out future directions for the field of study that has by now fully consolidated itself as an independent discipline under the name of Applied Linguistics. Special attention is drawn to the ‘loosening up’ of the very notion of language as a hermetically sealed entity, impervious to outside influences, as well as the groundbreaking critical turn it has taken in recent years, along with the impulse to intervene in the states of affairs that it unveils through painstaking studies. It is shown that this last development is by no means an optional follow-through from the analytic work customarily done. Rather, it is an inevitable sequel to the new stance adopted by researchers in the field – a development whose roots can, oddly enough, be traced back to Saussure’s thoughts at the very dawn of Linguistics, its ‘mother discipline’. But it is also emphasized that, side by side with these exciting prospects, there also appear on the horizon some serious challenges to reckon with in the years ahead.

Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton

The popularity that ancient medicine and Galenic studies in particular now enjoy in anglophone scholarship is owing in no small part to the author of the monograph under review. Through his textual critical and analytic work over the past 50 years, Nutton has made the life, writings, and thought of the secondcentury ad Greek doctor Galen of Pergamum (d. ca 216) more accessible to generations of students and scholars. As Nutton admits in the introduction, the present book has the apologetic aim of defending his careerlong interest in Galen against critics who might view Galen’s obsolete medical theories and practices as evidence of a lack of intellectual worth. Reviewed by: Aileen R. Das, Published Online (2021-08-31)Copyright © 2021 by Aileen R. DasThis open access publication is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND) Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37740/28739 Corresponding Author: Aileen R. Das,University of MichiganE-Mail: [email protected]

Feminist Philosophical Engagements with Trans Studies

In this chapter Bettcher examines feminist philosophical engagements with transgender studies. In the first section, she discusses the emergence of trans studies as well as the recent development of trans philosophy within the discipline. The latter makes the question of feminist philosophical engagement more complex. To what extent does the feminist philosophy engage with trans philosophy? To what extent does it merely philosophize about trans phenomena? In the second section, Bettcher considers an approach that adds trans to a longer list of excluded identities, focusing specifically on analytic work designed to answer the question “What is a woman?” Drawing on Crenshaw’s notion of intersectionality, Bettcher raises worries about this sort of approach in both its traditional and ameliorative variations. In the final section, Bettcher considers intersectional approaches to trans oppression/resistance as well as impediments to their pursuit including oppositional starting points, unhelpful models of trans oppression/resistance, and, finally, complexities that arise when considering the intersections of trans and sexist oppressions.

Ethnopoetics and Narrative Analysis

We acknowledge and concur with Catherine Kohler Riessman’s insistence on the necessity of sustained and formal analysis of narratives. We thus distance ourselves from qualitative researchers who aim to celebrate personal narratives rather than undertaking that analytic work. In doing so, we also draw on the work of Dell Hymes, whose approach to ethnopoetics informs our own. The discussion is developed and illustrated with materials from Natasha Carver’s research with informants of Somali heritage that display the relevance of ethnopoetic transcription and analysis.

Introduction

This chapter introduces several notable ventures in collaborative anthropology and puts them in dialogue with one another as a way of capturing something of the diversity and energy surrounding collaborative experiments in anthropology. It refers to the recent surge of interest in creating new kinds of ethnographic and theoretical partnerships that have expanded the boundaries of anthropological practice in stimulating ways. It also investigates the range of partnerships and forms of collaborative engagement that explore new modes of ethnographic representation and build new kinds of research and information infrastructures. The chapter analyzes collaborative anthropology that seeks new kinds of public outreach and community engagement and pursues new conceptual interventions through collaborative analytic work.

Mary's progress towards feminine identification in psychoanalytic psychotherapy

This article describes the process of analytic treatment of Mary, unfolding through snippets that illustrate her feminine identity, her dreams, conflicts with her husband, and the countertransference of the therapist. Mary grew freer and even eloquent about her feelings (enhancement of verbalisation) and became more self-aware with a growing ability to think of herself and about others (enhancement of metalization). She gained an acceptance of her daughter's affection, of her own self, and a new ability to make judgements and decisions for herself and for her family (an enhancement of autonomy). As Mary became more present in the family and sought a more equal partnership, her marriage also arrived at a major finish line at the same time as did our analytic work.