Letter to Lisa Williams regarding SEAALL membership, June 27, 1989

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Lisa Williams providing contact information for potential new SEAALL members

Letter to Barbara Geier regarding SEAALL membership dues, July 1, 1988

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Barbara Geier informing Geier that the check for her membership dues was missing a signature

The materiality of research: sinking into the sand: explorations of the coast in sociology by Nick Osbaldiston

In this feature essay, Nick Osbaldiston proposes the notion of a sociology of the coast, linking pre-modern divisions between the ‘known’ land and ‘unknown’ sea to more contemporary anxieties as the spectre of climate change threatens our coastal futures. By engaging in the imaginative play enabled by actually ‘being there’, this allows us to contemplate the pressing, future possibilities of the coast today

Letter to Susan Roach regarding SEAALL membership, August 15, 1989

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Susan Roach providing contact details for a potential new SEAALL member

Letter to Diane Schreiber regarding Y2K, August 19, 1999

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Diane Schreiber discussing SEAALL\u27s Y2K compliance

Email to Sue Burch regarding SEAALL business, March 12, 1999

An email from Diana Osbaldiston to Sue Burch providing updates on various matters of SEAALL business

Emotions and under-insurance: Exploring reflexivity and relations with the insurance industry

In our contemporary age, knowing who to invest our trust in and how trusting relationships develop is a complicated matter. Early sociologists have encouraged us to consider this state of reflexivity as one where individuals are constantly reflecting on the relationships they have through cognitive frames. Recent theoretical and empirical work has suggested that emotions are also an important factor in this process. In this chapter, how people understand insurance and how they interpret different facets of the insurance sector is understood as not simply logical, but emotional. Using the concept of emotional reflexivity, the question of how emotions underpin relations between the consumer and the insurance sector is explored. It is argued that emotions drive mistrust and potentially cause some to underinsure their property

Letter to Richard Riley regarding the AALL Annual Meeting, 1999

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Richard Riley inviting Riley to be SEAALL\u27s guest at the AALL Annual Meeting

Letter to Mary Smith Forman regarding SEAALL non-profit status, February 21, 1990

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Mary Smith Forman discussing the need to incorporate SEAALL as a non-profit corporation

Letter to Mary Smith Forman regarding SEAALL budget, May 30, 1989

A letter from Diana Osbaldiston to Mary Smith Forman detailing SEAALL\u27s 1989/1990 budget