43 research outputs found

    Pentiment

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    "Pentiment is a project with two parts, the most recent manifestation of a set of goals and ideas surrounding representation and community engagement with which I continually engage. It’s first aspect is local: it is as an attempt to render myself visible, as a queer, nonbinary, tranmasculine, and neurodivergent person, through the cultivation of a mythology with which I can interface in a world hostile to the possibility of my existence and survival— mythology here indicating a set of conceptual lenses, narratives, and metaphors that explain and render the world legible. My particular myth system is lexical, derived from a wide range of cultural sources, from academic research into art and art history to arbitrary associations drawn from queered popular media texts; it forms a codex from which I develop characters and narrative allegories, which for the narrative component of the myth system, and with which I make sense of the world. Drawn instances of the mythological imagery so constructed is centered on every panel in Pentiment, but I do not disclose the codex, leaving them communicatively opaque, representative cultural objects for which the viewer may not have an intuitive system to translate and who thus comes to as an outsider, attempting to interface for something that was not made with their viewership in mind-- the way I interface with cultural objects made for mass audiences."--Introductionby Nessi Alexander-BarnesIncludes bibliographical references

    Investigative Methods:An NCRM Innovation Collection

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    Restorative and Responsive Human Services

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    In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Gale Burford, John Braithwaite, and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in empowering ways that heal and are respectful of human relationships and legal obligations. The human services are in trouble: combining restorative justice with responsive regulation might redeem them, renewing their well-intended principles. Families provide glue that connects complex systems. What are the challenges in scaling up relational practices that put families and primary groups at the core of health, education, and other social services? This collection has a distinctive focus on the relational complexity of restorative practices. How do they enable more responsive ways of grappling with complexity than hierarchical and prescriptive human services? Lessons from responsive business regulation inform a re-imagining of the human services to advance wellbeing and reduce domination. Readers are challenged to re-examine the perverse incentives and contradictions buried in policies and practices. How do they undermine the capacities of families and communities to solve problems on their own terms? This book will interest those who harbor concerns about the creep of domination into the lives of vulnerable citizens. It will help policymakers and researchers to re-focus human services to fundamental outcomes at the foundation of sustainable democracies

    A multifaceted approach to understand highly-identified fans’ experiences of sport activism

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    The pandemic altered the socio-contextual environment. During this time, society was exposed to structural violence experienced by Black individuals at the hands of the police. The subsequent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests coincided with the return of professional sport in 2020 and became embedded in its programming. This thesis sought to answer how sport activism influences highly-identified fans’ lived experiences of sport. As an interpretivist, it was essential to acknowledge the importance of sociohistorical factors contributing to fans’ experiences. Therefore, semistructured interviews served to answer how fans restructure their consumption in response to changing needs, motives, and socio-contextual environments to contextualize the guiding research question. Data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) reflexive thematic analysis to make sense of the data. Chapter 2a utilized U&G and SDT and revealed that participants had difficulties satisfying their needs, especially their relatedness, due to the pandemic-imposed restrictions meant that participants. Sport transformed into a social activity and a means to escape the reality of the pandemic through increased sport consumption. Individuals who increased their sport consumption primarily to socialize and escape did not sustain these habits as the pandemic lessened, whereas autonomously-motivated individuals maintained their elevated consumption levels. Chapter 2b utilized social identity theory and social identity complexity to examine fans’ experiences of sport activism via their social identities. Participants interpreted the BLM protests through their multiple identities, informing their response to the intersection of sport and activism. All participants noted some form of social identity threat resulting from sport activism – either from the sender (i.e., the organization, team, or athlete) and/or the subsequent conversations that resulted from the demonstrations. Participants with less complex (i.e., less inclusive) structures faced heightened identity threats. Participants with more complex (i.e., more inclusive) group characterizations used sport activism as a vehicle to further action and typically expressed tolerance toward the outgroup. Chapter 3 synthesized the two studies' findings noting that seeking relatedness increased social identity threats or conformity behavior and that mentions of escape were used by participants as a maintenance tactic to oppose BLM in sports while distancing their white identity from their stance

    Toxic Timescapes: Examining Toxicity across Time and Space

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    An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume’s contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality. The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and process. It equips scholars with new ways of creating data and conceptualizing the past, present, and future presence and possible effects of harmful substances and provides a theoretical framework for new environmental narratives. To think in terms of toxic timescapes is to radically shift our understanding of toxicants in the complex web of life. Toxicity, pollution, and modes of exposure are never static; therefore, dose, timing, velocity, mixture, frequency, and chronology matter as much as the geographic location and societal position of those exposed. Together, these factors create a specific toxic timescape that lies at the heart of each contributor’s narrative. Contributors from the disciplines of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology come together to demonstrate the complex reality of a toxic existence. Their case studies span the globe as they observe the intersection of multiple times and spaces at such diverse locations as former battlefields in Vietnam, aging nuclear-weapon storage facilities in Greenland, waste deposits in southern Italy, chemical facilities along the Gulf of Mexico, and coral-breeding laboratories across the world.https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/1014/thumbnail.jp

    Do accounting students differ from others in self-interest, concern for others and ethical perceptions - findings from an Atlantic Canada study

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    This paper presents the results of a study using participants from an Atlantic Canadian university (n=997) which indicates that accounting students differ significantly in their level of self-interest and perceptions of academic dishonesty – but not in their concern for others- from some of the other business majors and students in other programs

    Authors of our own misfortune?: Crandall University Bookstore writes its future

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    In 2014 the eponymous campus bookstore is in a tenuous position – increasing textbook prices and new competitors who are leveraging technology to capture their traditional market (students) have served to deplete revenues and shake the very foundations of an established business model. Authors of Our Own Misfortune? traces the experience of the Crandall University Bookstore – an independent campus bookstore at a small university in Moncton, NB, Canada – as its manager seeks to plan for its future. Principal issues explored in the case surround how to respond to new entrants who are exploiting innovation to change industry fundamentals and product diversification in an environment characterized by dominant and powerful suppliers who are moving to become competitors

    Hybrid, emergent and symbiotic innovation patterns: some taxonomic problems in Nova Scotia’s ocean industries

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    Innovation taxonomies help us understand firms’ technological trajectories. We used website material to classify 117 ocean technology firms into 6 innovation patterns from the Castellacci (2008) taxonomy. This revealed 3 boundary conditions: hybrid firms with emergent innovation strategies and symbiotic linkages defy classification. We discuss approaches to resolve each limitation

    Community and context in strategic planning

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    Strategic planning is an important organizational event, yet there is little research on how individuals experience the process and how it impacts the community. This research examined a recent university strategic planning process, using a sensemaking and critical sensemaking theoretical lens. It provides insight into what strategic planning means to faculty and administration, focusing on how past experiences shape expectations, and how expectations influence sensemaking

    Acquisition premiums, CEO power, and the financial crisis

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    What happens to acquisition price premiums when a powerful bidder CEO confronts a powerful CEO of the target firm? We examine the effect of relative power relationships between the CEOs of the bidder and target firms to explain acquisition overpayment. Our results point to separate sources of power for the acquirer and target CEOs that affect premiums. Acquirer CEOs use power derived from their social networks to improve their ability to judge post-crisis acquisition quality, streamline board decision-making, and reduce premiums. However, target CEOs use only their hierarchical power to reinforce their negotiation stance, driving premiums higher
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