Body of Evidence: Time and Desire in Embodied Archives

In this article, I bring a feminist geographic analysis of embodied life and desire into a study of archives. Drawing on my experience as a library and archives professional and feminist geographer navigating the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I use two examples from UNC?s Wilson Library. I argue that archives are lived, messy spaces where history unfolds not linearly, but in proximity to bodies?bodies who physically handle materials before and after they may become ?archival,? who make connections between actors or events throughout time and space, and whose lived experience and desires shape how they interact with archives. Archives do not merely exist as ?the archive,? but are constantly being made through the interactions and desires of people across time and space. From this premise, we who utilize archives can be attentive to the labor of archival work that is often erased in scholarship and consider how embodied life shapes a non-linear temporality in archives

A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP through Certification and Labeling

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will transform many aspects of traditional telephony service, including the technology, the business models, and the regulatory constructs that govern such service. Perhaps not unexpectedly, this transformation is generating a host of technical, business, social, and policy problems. In attempting to respond to these problems, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could mandate obligations or specific solutions to VoIP policy issues; however, it is instead looking first to industry initiatives focused on the key functionality that users have come to expect of telecommunications services. High among this list of desired functionality is user access to emergency services for purposes of summoning fire, medical, and law enforcement agencies. Such services were traditionally required to be implemented (and subsequently were implemented) through state and federal regulations. An emergency service capability is a critical social concern, making it particularly important for the industry to propose viable solutions for promoting VoIP emergency services before regulators are compelled to mandate a solution. Reproducing emergency services in the VoIP space has proven to be a considerable task, mainly due to the wide and diverse variety of VoIP implementations and implementers. While technical and business communities have, in fact, made considerable progress in this area, significant uncertainty and deployment problems still exist. The question we ask is this: Can an industry-based certification and labeling process credibly address social and policy expectations regarding emergency services and VoIP, thus avoiding the need for government regulation at this critical time? We hypothesize that the answer is “yes.” In answering this question, we developed a model for VoIP emergency service compliance through industry certification and device labeling. This model is intended to support a wide range of emergency service implementations while providing users with sufficient verification that the service will operate as anticipated. To this end, we first examine possible technical implementations for VoIP emergency services. Next, we summarize the theory of certification as self-regulation and examine several relevant examples. Finally, we synthesize a specific model for certification of VoIP emergency services. We believe that the model we describe provides both short-term and long-term opportunities. In the short term, an industry-driven effort to solve the current problem of VoIP emergency services, if properly structured and overseen as we suggest, should be both effective and efficient. In the long term, such a process can serve as a self-regulatory model that can be applied to social policy goals in the telecommunications industry, making it an important tool to have as the industry becomes increasingly diverse and heterogeneous

A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP Through Certification and Labeling

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will transform many aspects of traditional telephony service including technology, the business models and the regulatory constructs that govern such service. This transformation is generating a host of technical, business, social and policy problems. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could attempt to mandate obligations or specific solutions to the policy issues around VoIP, but is instead looking first to industry initiatives focused on key functionality that users have come to expect of telecommunications services. High among these desired functionalities is access to emergency services that allow a user to summon fire, medical or law enforcement agencies. Such services were traditionally required (and subsequently implemented) through state and federal regulations. Reproducing emergency services in the VoIP space has proven to be a considerable task, if for no other reason then the wide and diverse variety of VoIP implementations and implementers. Regardless of this difficulty, emergency service capability is a critical social concern, making it is particularly important for the industry to propose viable solutions for promoting VoIP emergency services before regulators are compelled to mandate a solution, an outcome that often suffers compromises both through demands on expertise that may be better represented in industry and through the mechanisms of political influence and regulatory capture. While technical and business communities have, in fact, made considerable progress in this area, significant uncertainty and deployment problems still exist. The question we ask is: can an industry based certification and labeling process credibly address social and policy expectations regarding emergency services and VoIP, thus avoiding the need for government regulation at this critical time?1 We hypothesize that it can. To establish this, we developed just such a model for VoIP emergency service compliance through industry certification and device labeling. The intent of this model is to support a wide range of emergency service implementations while providing the user some validation that the service will operate as anticipated. To do this we first examine possible technical implementations for emergency services for VoIP. Next, we summarize the theory of certification as self-regulation and examine several relevant examples. Finally, we synthesize a specific model for certification of VoIP emergency services. We believe that the model we describe provides both short term and long-term opportunities. In the short term, an industry driven effort to solve the important current problem of emergency services in VoIP, if properly structured and overseen as we suggest, should be both effective and efficient. In the long term, such a process can serve as a model for the application of self-regulation to social policy goals in telecommunications, an attractive tool to have as telecommunications becomes increasingly diverse and heterogeneous

Talking about the weather in Chiapas, Mexico: rural women’s approaches to climate change in national and global context. Thesis (Master of Arts)

Through an examination of the climate change perceptions and adaptive practices of three groups of organized rural women in and around San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, together with a critical reading and analysis of the United Nations’ Climate Smart Agriculture Strategy and strategies outlined in a Central America-specific project, this thesis explores how place-based approaches in Chiapas interact with processes and ideas operating at national and global scales. I found that the women in all three organizations studied, La Red de Productores y Consumadores Responsables Comida Sana y Cercana, Mujeres y Maíz Criollo, and K’inal Antsetik, not only observed changes in climate but were also working with their organizations to actively adapt to and mitigate them. Their strategies were influenced by personal experience, gender identity and the household or community gender division of labor, indigenous or campesino identity, and organizational affiliation. I argue that many of the practices and perceptions I observed in the field could be considered Climate Smart Agriculture approaches, however they were successful due to their local creation, specificity to the people involved, and their context. In Tortillas on the Roaster there is a 10 greater divide between what practices were observed in this thesis, those promoted as adaptation strategies, and the conceptualization of what it means to truly adapt to or mitigate climate change. I conclude by arguing that a food sovereignty approach to climate change adaptation and mitigation is a more appropriate site-specific approach than Climate Smart Agriculture

Untitled

Materials: Charcoal Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches Project Advisor: Tony Conrad Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1032/thumbnail.jp

Untitled

Materials: Charcoal Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches Project Advisor: Tony Conrad Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1031/thumbnail.jp

Untitled

Materials: Charcoal Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches Project Advisor: Tony Conrad Year of Graduation: 2020https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2020/1033/thumbnail.jp