Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation

Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. This volume, which includes a curated selection of images, addresses the complicated relationship between Blackness and photography and, in particular, its gendered dimension, its relationship to health, sexuality, and digital culture – primarily in the context of racialized heteronormativity. With over forty contributors, this volume draws on scholarly inquiry ranging from academic essays, interviews, poetry, to documentary practice, and on contemporary art. 'Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' thus offers a cross-section of analysis on the topic of Black motherhood, mothering, and the participation of photography in the process. This collection challenges racist images and discourses, both historically and in its persistence in contemporary society, while reclaiming the innate brilliance of Black women through personal narratives, political acts, connections to place, moments of pleasure, and communal celebration. It serves as a reflection of the past, a portal to the future, and contributes to recent scholarship on the complexities of Black life and Black joy

Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation

Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. This volume, which includes a curated selection of images, addresses the complicated relationship between Blackness and photography and, in particular, its gendered dimension, its relationship to health, sexuality, and digital culture – primarily in the context of racialized heteronormativity. With over forty contributors, this volume draws on scholarly inquiry ranging from academic essays, interviews, poetry, to documentary practice, and on contemporary art. 'Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' thus offers a cross-section of analysis on the topic of Black motherhood, mothering, and the participation of photography in the process. This collection challenges racist images and discourses, both historically and in its persistence in contemporary society, while reclaiming the innate brilliance of Black women through personal narratives, political acts, connections to place, moments of pleasure, and communal celebration. It serves as a reflection of the past, a portal to the future, and contributes to recent scholarship on the complexities of Black life and Black joy

Using 3D virtual worlds in new educational contexts: IT College in OpenSim

Mestrado em Comunicação MultimédiaAs instituições europeias de Ensino Superior, bem como cada agente envolvido nos processos formais de aprendizagem do Ensino Superior, estão actualmente a experimentar profundas mudanças sob as directivas do Processo de Bolonha. Ao mesmo tempo, as instituições recebem uma nova geração de estudantes, com fortes competências tecnológicas, sendo necessário a estas a compreensão de quais as ferramentas a integrar no currículo educacional, de forma a corresponder às necessidades e expectativas dos seus estudantes. Esta reforma educativa toma lugar enquanto a World Wide Web evolui para a “Web 2.0”: um conjunto de ferramentas tecnológicas e serviços impregnados de princípios como a colaboração, a faceta social e a centralização no utilizador. E novas tendências na Web começam a aparecer, através de paradigmas como os Mundos Virtuais 3D. Esta investigação procura primeiramente compreender como desenhar e construir espaços e ferramentas dentro do Mundo Virtual 3D OpenSim que sejam adequadas às novas realidades educativas e sociais; e adicionalmente, procura que este conhecimento seja usado na criação de uma presença no OpenSim para o Eesti Infotehnoloogia Kolledž, uma instituição de Ensino Superior estoniana. As características do IT Kolledž serão obviamente consideradas durante o processo de investigação. ABSTRACT: European Higher Education institutions, as well as every individual involved in higher education formal learning processes, are currently undergoing profound changes under the guidelines of the Bologna Process. Simultaneously, institutions face a new wave of technological-savvy students and are demanded to understand which tools to integrate in educational curricula in order to adapt to their expectations and needs. This whole educational reform takes place while the World Wide Web evolves into "Web 2.0": a set of technological tools and services impregnated with collaborative, social and user-centered attitudes. And new Web tendencies start to unfold, comprising paradigms such as Virtual 3D Worlds. This research aims firstly to understand how to design and build spaces and tools inside 3D virtual world OpenSim that will be adequate in new educational and social realities; and secondly, to use this knowledge to create an OpenSim presence for Eesti Infotehnoloogia Kolledž, an Estonian higher education institution. IT Kolledž's characteristics will be obviously considered during the research process

Bodies over Borders and Borders over Bodies: the 'Gender Refugee' and the imagined South Africa

This thesis tracks the conceptual journeying of the term 'transgender' from the Global North - where it originated - along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa, and considers the interrelationships between the two. With regards to the term 'transgender', it is the contention of this thesis that it transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. More specifically, that it has materialised in South Africa - first as a discourse and following this as a politics - due to a combination of social, political and cultural conditions peculiar to the country. In direct correlation to this movement, this thesis argues that in recent years South Africa has seen the emergence of what can be usefully termed 'gender refugees' - people who can make claims to refugee status, fleeing their countries of origin based on the persecution of their gender identity. This study centers on the experiences and narratives of these gender refugees, gathered through a series of life story interviews, highlighting the ways in which their departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender, particularly in relation to the possibilities of the South African Constitution. Through such narratives, this thesis explores the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for transgender in South Africa, the dissonances between the possibilities of constitutional law - in relation to the distinction made between sex and gender - and the pervasive politics/logic of binary 'sex/gender' within South African society. In doing so, this thesis enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies, and challenges some of the current dominant theoretical and political perceptions of transgender, by offering complex narratives regarding sex, gender, sexuality and notions of home in relation to particular geo-politically situated bodies. This thesis speaks to contemporary international concerns and debates regarding migration and asylum, identity politics, the control of borders, human rights and protections, documentation and the ongoing bureaucratisation of sex/gender

Fight, And If You Can\u27t Fight, Kick; If You Can\u27t Kick, Then Bite : A Comparative History of Afro-Brazilian and U.S. Black Women’s Stories of Resistance

This thesis is an intellectual and cultural exploration of U.S. Black and Afro-Brazilian feminism(s). Each chapter begins with history and scholarship from Brazil to shift the conversation away from an Anglophone-Americentric perspective. Within U.S. Black feminist thought, there is an over-representation of voices and experiences of English-speaking Black women. This is not to say that U.S. Black feminists have not reached across socially-constructed borders to incorporate scholarship from women living in other parts of the Black diaspora. However, there has not been nearly enough cross-cultural and transnational dialogue happening between U.S Black and Afro-Brazilian feminists. The time frame of this project begins with the colonial history (a period marked by racialized gender violence and the various ways Black women resisted) to enter the post-abolition era (where we see the development of the myth of racial democracy in Brazil), and finally into the height of anti-racism and anti-sexism movements, such as the Unified Black Movement in Brazil and second-wave feminism in Brazil and the U.S. The goal of this thesis is to assist in bridging this diasporic divide by demonstrating that Afro-Brazilian women’s intellectual knowledge should move from the margin to the center within mainstream Black feminist thought. Multicultural communication is a vital component in any liberation struggle. It is a way for individuals and collectives to learn about people’s different struggles as well as how to struggle together. In constructing these converging herstories, my hope is for future Black feminists to not allow differences in cultures and languages to deter them from reimagining a more inclusive and diverse feminism

The experiences of and responses to compassion fatigue amongst social workers employed in government hospitals

Abstract in English and SepediSocial workers working in government hospitals are tasked to render social work support services to patients and their families within a multidisciplinary team approach, however, there is a lack of research evidence about these social workers’ experiences of, and responses to, compassion fatigue. Alongside this qualitative study, the researcher wanted to explore and describe these government hospital social workers’ experiences and responses to compassion fatigue. Exploratory, descriptive, and contextual research strategies were applied against a phenomenological research design background. A sample of government hospital social workers in Gauteng was selected using the purposive sampling technique. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews with questions contained in an interview guide. The data was analysed using the eight steps of Tesch (in Creswell, 2014), and Lincoln and Guba’s evaluative criteria (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) were applied for data verification. Ethical considerations such as informed consent, confidentiality, anonymity, privacy, beneficence and management of information were adhered to throughout the research process. The contribution that this study makes includes bridging the gap caused by the scarcity of literature on the experiences of social workers with regard to compassion fatigue and how they deal with it. The results of this study will encourage hospital social workers to recognise compassion fatigue and have measures in place to deal with it so that they can better their lives. The awareness created by the findings of this study will also boost the service delivery offered to patients because social workers who can recognise and deal with compassion fatigue will be able to provide a better quality service. Finally; the study will guide managers and supervisors to recognise compassion fatigue and the importance of supporting social workers in dealing with compassion fatigue.Badirelaleago bao ba šomago maokelong a mmušo ba filwe mošomo wa go aba ditirelo tša thekgo ya mošomo wa tša leago go balwetši le malapa a bona, ka dihlopha tša ditsebi tša mafapha a leago a go fapana. Le ge go le bjalo, go na le tlhaelo ya dinyakišišo mabapi le maitemogelo le ditlamorago tša go lapa kudu mmeleng le monaganong ga badirelaleago. Ka go šomiša mokgwa wa nyakišišo wa khwalithethifi, monyakišiši o laeditše le go hlaloša maitemogelo le ditlamorago tša go lapa kudu ga badirelaleago ba maokelo a mmušo. Datha ya nyakišišo ye e fihleletšwe ka mokgwa wa dipoledišano, ditlhokomedišišo le tshekatsheko. Badirelaleago ba go šoma maokelong a mmušo ka Gauteng ba kgethilwe ka go šomiša thekniki ya go sampola gomme datha ya kgoboketšwa ka mokgwa wa dipoledišano tša go se rulaganywe ka dipotšišo tšeo di lego ka gare ga tokomane ya go tlhahla dipoledišano. Datha e sekasekilwe ka go šomiša dikgato tše seswai tša motlolo wa Tesch (Creswell 2014), gomme mmotlolo wa Guba (Krefting 1990) wa šomišwa go netefatša datha. Maitshwaro a go dira nyakišišo bjalo ka go hwetša tumelelo, go botega, go se tšweletše maina a batšeakarolo, go laetša kwelobohloko le taolo ya tshedimošo a ile a obamelwa mo nyakišišong. Thesese ya nyakišišo ye e thiba sekgoba seo se hlotšwego ke tlhaelo ya dingwalo ka ga maitemogelo a badirelaleago mabapi le go lapa kudu mmmeleng le monaganong mošomong le ka moo ba šomanago le se, dipoelo tša nyakišišo ye di tla tliša lesedi le go hlohleletša badirelaleago ba maokelong go lemoga go lapa kudu mošomong le go bea dikgato tša go šomana le maemo a go kaonafatša maphelo a bona, gape bolemogi bjo bo hlotšwego ke diphihlelelo tša nyakišišo ye bo tla godiša kabo ya ditirelo go balwetši ka lebaka la gore badirelaleago bao ba kgonago go lemoga le go kgona go šoma maemong a ba ka kgona go aba tirelo ya boleng bjo bokaone gomme mafelelong ba thuša go abelana ka tsebo ye le balaodi le balekodi gore ba lemoge go lapa kudu mošomong le bohlokwa bja go thekga badirelaleago go šomana le go lapa kudu mmmeleng le mogopolong mošomong.Social WorkM. Social Wor

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Grim Sleeper : gender, violence, and reproductive justice in Los Angeles

Discussions of South Los Angeles often reflect dystopic conditions of black communities as supine beneficiaries of endless social welfare living in seemingly malignant spaces where poverty and disease darken corners of an otherwise ideal city. This dissertation contributes to literature on urban violence, public health, and nonprofit studies through a feminist ethnography of black women’s community organizing. The Grim Sleeper murders spanned a 25-year period, marking two decades of violence against black women’s bodies in South Los Angeles. Slow moving police investigations began in 1984, were colored by depictions of murdered black “prostitutes,” which spurred a community response by women activists, yet the suspect was not arrested till 2010. Just a year before, in 2009, public health research for Los Angeles County, revealed staggering disparities in black women’s reproductive health, including: a maternal mortality rate nearly four times all other racial groups and rising STI’s among adolescents and women between the ages of 14 - 25. Again, with little comment or action this time in public health, the lives and bodies of black women continued to be in precarious positions. In national and popular debates of reproductive rights discussion surrounds abortion legislation, failing to address a range social inequalities that cut into reproductive lives of black women. I explore, the Grim Sleeper as not just a named serial killer but as characteristic of latent state responses to reproductive health challenges experienced by black women. Activist’s response to this parallel and cyclical lived experience of gendered violence against black bodies is at the center of my research. I argue that blackness, neither marginal nor invisible, is principal to understanding how race and social inequalities effect lived geographies. I closely examine; (1) the nature of reproductive justice within a community organization and (2) the ways California’s economic downturn affects approaches to social transformation through nonprofit and advocacy work. (3) A murderer’s twenty-five year history of targeting black women and the silence that surrounded it as reflective of state approaches to the lives of black women. Utilizing public health, policy, archival, oral history and ethnographic data my dissertation proposes the advancement of a reproductive justice standpoint by situating black women’s agency as a starting point for well-being and community health agendas.Anthropolog

Developing appropriate Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention initiatives within a rural community in South Africa

Includes bibliographical references.This study focused on women who consumed alcohol during pregnancy. The study population was situated in the West Coast/Winelands, a rural area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The study was done in a community which is classified as one of the many previously disadvantaged groups in South Africa. This study was done as part of a larger three-year project on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention in the Western Cape and Gauteng Provinces of South Africa. The phenomenon of drinking during pregnancy was used as a case example of health compromising occupations in the South African context. Prenatal alcohol exposure may result in brain damage that affects behaviors of those affected. The beliefs, norms, values and perceptions of mothers regarding alcohol consumption are also an important aspect in maintaining healthy pregnancies