671 research outputs found
Mooring the global archive: a Japanese ship and its migrant histories
Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia. These stories bring together transpacific historiographies of settler colonialism, labour history and resource extraction in new ways. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. This engaging investigation into archival practice asks, what is the global archive, where is it cited, and who are 'we' as we cite it? This title is also available as Open Access
Loss of a sense of aliveness, bodily unhomeliness and radical estrangement: A phenomenological inquiry into service usersâ experiences of psychiatric medication use in the treatment of early psychosis
Quantitative research drawing on the disease-centred model of psychiatric drug action dominates research on psychiatric medication, while little is known about service usersâ subjective, embodied experiences of taking psychiatric medication. This research explored service usersâ felt, embodied and relational experiences of psychiatric medication use in the
treatment of early psychosis using a multimodal, longitudinal research design. A more in-depth understanding of what it is like and what it means to take psychiatric medication from
service usersâ idiographic perspectives is needed to improve the clinical care and support service users receive and better understand the treatment choices they make. Ten participants between the age of 18 and 30 years were recruited from London-based NHS Early Intervention in Psychosis services and participated in in-depth idiographic interviews. Eight participants took part in a follow-up interview between six and nine months later. Visual methods were used to explore the verbal as well as the pre-reflective, embodied aspects of participantsâ medication experiences. The data was analysed using a combination of interpretative phenomenological analysis and framework analysis. While taking psychiatric medication, participants reported the loss of a sense of aliveness, feelings of radical estrangement from themselves, the world and other people and a sense of being suspended in a liminal, time-locked dimension in which they felt unable to transition from past
experiences of psychosis to future recovery. The findings of this study highlight the highly distressing and adverse iatrogenic effects of psychiatric medication use, including medication-induced coporealisation, disembodiment, estrangement and a loss of belonging. More holistic, human rights-based, recovery-oriented and body-centred ways of treating psychosis are needed
Towards an uncausal practice of visual communication
This practice-based PhD introduces the concept of uncausality as both method and methodology to uncover potentialities for action and thought beyond habitual patterns of causality and experience.
The concept derives from an investigation of asemic writingâs paradoxical dynamic, also referred to as âasemic effectâ. Asemic writingâs formal and gestural resemblance to conventional writing evokes expectations of legibility and semantic meaning. At the same time, any effort to retrieve meaning remains unsuccessful.
The asemic effect is detached from its immediate context and explored to offer a dynamic that is divergent from the âcausal pleasureâ of human-computer interaction. The direct and predictable causality between human action and computer reaction not only appeals to, but also consolidates the human being in their position as the all-knowing agent in the face of an increasingly complex world. This thesis critiques the emphasis on pleasure, power and control that confines human thought and action to the comfortable, protected realm of the already known, hindering any venture into the unknown.
The concept of uncausality taps into the potential of an encounter with the unknown, the nonsensical and the dissonant. The contemporary condition that asks humans to revaluate their habitual ways of being underlines the urgency for such an exploration.
While this research originates from a practice of visual communication with a focus on interactive type design, it follows a transdisciplinary methodology, after Guattari, to weave a heterogeneous net of connections across disciplines and modes of research. It draws on the philosophical explorations of Deleuze and Guattari, their own sources and thinkers who followed them.
This research engages in a practice and process of programming visually abstract real-time human-computer interfaces to explore, test and expand on the concept of uncausality. The iterative nature of the process of programming becomes an entry point to create, and encounter, a continuous mutation of the relation between cause and effect, action and reaction. The practice, conscious of the symbiotic relationship between culture and technology, explores an approach to interactivity that maintains human action and thought in a state of physical and intellectual tension.
Introducing the concept of uncausality, this research hopes to invigorate practices that keep the human mind elastic in a confrontation with a changing world
Gender and sexuality diverse womenâs experiences of sexual and gendered embodiment in the context of cancer
This thesis has explored the cancer and cancer care experiences of gender and sexuality diverse (GSD) women. It has examined how participants navigated the embodied intersections of their cancer, gender, and sexual identities in the context of predominantly cisheteronormative medical systems and constructions of cancer. This analysis was guided by a social constructionist epistemology in conjunction with a thematic discourse analysis, and by way of semi-structured and Photo-elicitation interviews, aimed to foreground the complex and diverse nature of GSD womenâs survivorship experiences. It has drawn on a queer theoretical sensibility to question dominant cisheteronormative discourses in cancer care, and the construction of non-normative subjectivities in cancer culture. This facilitated the questioning of cancer survivorship as a heteronormative temporal relation tied to a form of recovery reliant on gender conformity, optimism, and neoliberal health logics, ultimately arguing for the queer temporality of survivorship itself. While this is a growing field of study, the existing literature suggests that GSD women (and LGBTQI populations in general) face a disproportionate cancer burden compared to their heterosexual counterparts, and overall unique challenges across all stages of the cancer continuum. The research findings presented in this thesis have examined the specificities of those challenges. Assumptions of heterosexuality, and cisgender embodiment, identity and expression were prevalent across GSD womenâs stories and had implications for survivorship at multiple levels. A number of GSD women described feeling invisibilised by the âpinkificationâ of âwomenâsâ cancers. They did not feel represented by the coding of cisheteronormative femininity present in available information, resources, and support, which emphasised the reinstatement or recovery of âidealâ cisheteronormative femininity. Many GSD women described feeling stripped of their agency in health decision-making in that they felt pressure to undergo breast reconstruction after mastectomy or compelled to cover up the signs of illness with wigs, make-up, and prostheses; whilst a number rejected these pressures and found freedom or gender affirmation in doing so. Assumptions of cisheteronormativity extended also to GSD womenâs renegotiation of sexual embodiment after cancer, wherein their sexual concerns were often not understood by health providers nor captured by the available resources, which privileged coital (penis-vagina) heterosexual sex. Whilst some GSD women were able to renegotiate sex and intimacy on their own terms, others described feelings of loss in the absence of sexual renegotiation. The biographical disruption posed by cancer enabled some GSD women to reprioritise their lives, whereas others felt pressured to âoptimiseâ their cancer experience
Envisioning Transitions. Bodies, buildings, and boundaries
âTransitionâ is the dynamic process of changing state, going beyond, crossing over, and passingâŻfrom one point to the next. The signification of the word is close to that ofâŻevolution, modification,âŻmutation, and transformation, all of which are confined into a strictly restricted timeframe.
Etymologically,âŻâtransitionsâ can be nothing else than temporary: they appear silently, burst, violentlyâŻestablish, and gradually disappear into reality. In their blinding momentariness, âtransitionsâ bearâŻwith them the positive undertone of change and renewal, along with the hopefulness of that whichâŻis unknown.âŻ
If the term âtransitionâ recurs regularly in the contemporary vocabulary ofâŻarchitecture and designâŻcultures, this repetition reveals a period characterized byâŻoverlapping and sequential changes. TheâŻword is without a doubt overused, but not without reason. Indeed, we find ourselves in an unusuallyâŻextended period of consecutive âtransitionsâ, overwhelmingly undefined in temporality andâŻambitions. As we are witnessing societies go through stark demographic, political, economic, andâŻcultural changes, the intersecting problematics (e.g., ecological, digital, pandemic, etc.) form aâŻrather complex topography of change, negatively charged by the instability of dilated time and theâŻuncertainty of undefined destination.
The word is employed with the confidence of a natural process, as if it were a storm, and whileâŻwe affirm our existence in âtransitionâ, we nod our troubled times away.
Whether positively or negatively perceived, âtransitionsâ form bridges between histories.âŻYet, whatâŻdoes it actually mean to be in âtransitionâ?âŻCan we define it as an autonomous and productiveâŻperiod whose importance could go beyond a starting and an ending date? How are âtransitionsââŻimpacting and being impacted by human spaces, the built environment, and design cultures? WhatâŻare some concrete, practical case studies that demonstrate how âtransitionsâ could affect architectureâŻand design cultures while emphasizing the role that these disciplines play in transitionalâŻprocesses?
It is within this backdrop that we put forward the theme of âtransitionââin all its simplicity andâŻcomplexity
Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities : Speaking Romani at School
This multi-authored monograph, located in the intersection of translanguaging research and Romani studies, offers a state-of-the-art analysis of the ways in which translanguaging supports bilingual Roma studentsâ learning in monolingual school systems. Complete with a video repository of translanguaging classroom moments, this comprehensive study is based on long-term participatory ethnographic research and a pedagogical implementation project undertaken in Hungary and Slovakia by a group of primary teachers, bilingual Roma participants, and researchers. Co-written by academic and non-academic participants, the book is an essential reading for researchers, pre- and in-service teachers of Romani-speaking students, and experts working with collaborators (learners, informants, activists) whose home languages are excluded from mainstream education and school curricula
Offene-Welt-Strukturen: Architektur, Stadt- und Naturlandschaft im Computerspiel
Welche Rolle spielen Algorithmen fĂŒr den Bildbau und die Darstellung von Welt und Wetter in Computerspielen? Wie beeinflusst die Gestaltung der RĂ€ume, Level und Topografien die Entscheidungen und das Verhalten der Spieler_innen? Ist der Brutalismus der erste genuine Architekturstil der Computerspiele? Welche Bedeutung haben LandschaftsgĂ€rten und Nationalparks im Strukturieren von Spielwelten? Wie wird Natur in Zeiten des Klimawandels dargestellt? Insbesondere in den letzten 20 Jahren adaptieren digitale Spielwelten akribischer denn je Merkmale der physisch-realen Welt. Durch aufwĂ€ndige Produktionsverfahren und komplexe Visualisierungsstrategien wird die Angleichung an unsere ĂŒbrige Alltagswelt stets in AbhĂ€ngigkeit von Spielmechanik und Weltlichkeit erzeugt. Wie sich spĂ€testens am Beispiel der Open-World-Spiele zeigt, fĂŒhrt die Ăbernahme bestimmter Weltbilder und Bildtraditionen zu ideologischen Implikationen, die weit ĂŒber die bisher im Fokus der Forschung stehenden, aus anderen Medienformaten transferierten ErzĂ€hlkonventionen hinausgehen. Mit seiner Theorie der Architektur als medialem Scharnier legt der Autor offen, dass digitale Spielwelten medienspezifische Eigenschaften aufweisen, die bisher nicht zu greifen waren und der Erforschung harrten. Durch VerschrĂ€nken von Konzepten aus u.a. Medienwissenschaft, Game Studies, Philosophie, Architekturtheorie, Humangeografie, Landschaftstheorie und Kunstgeschichte erarbeitet Bonner ein transdisziplinĂ€res Theoriemodell und ermöglicht anhand der daraus entwickelten analytischen Methoden erstmals, die komplexe Struktur heutiger Computerspiele - vom Indie Game bis zur AAA Open World - zu verstehen und zu benennen. Mit "Offene-Welt-Strukturen" wird die Architektonik digitaler Spielwelten umfassend zugĂ€nglich
Theorizing teaching: current status and open issues
Presents practical implications for teaching and educating teachers.
Examines systematically the issue of theorizing teaching.
Enables collective thinking about issues that are of paramount importance in the field.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Architecture-based Evolution of Dependable Software-intensive Systems
This cumulative habilitation thesis, proposes concepts for (i) modelling and analysing dependability based on architectural models of software-intensive systems early in development, (ii) decomposition and composition of modelling languages and analysis techniques to enable more flexibility in evolution, and (iii) bridging the divergent levels of abstraction between data of the operation phase, architectural models and source code of the development phase
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