Turning the Kaleidoscope: Telling Stories in Rhetorical Spaces

In this essay, I reflect on the work of Lorraine Code on Rhetorical Spaces and the work of Dorothy Smith on Institutional Ethnography to explore how stories are translated and seen as though looking through the different turns of a kaleidoscope. The stories I am referring to here are intake stories in human service agencies. The question is how do the front line human service workers translate the noise of everyday/night life of the client into the human service jargon/forms. I also explore the issues of how the front line worker with the intention of being professional. disembodies herself and the self of the client by dissociating from her life story during the translation process The ultimate purpose of my work is to develop a pedagogy for a human development program

Designing a global assessment of climate change on inland fishes and fisheries: knowns and needs

© 2017, Springer International Publishing Switzerland (outside the USA). To date, there are few comprehensive assessments of how climate change affects inland finfish, fisheries, and aquaculture at a global scale, but one is necessary to identify research needs and commonalities across regions and to help guide decision making and funding priorities. Broadly, the consequences of climate change on inland fishes will impact global food security, the livelihoods of people who depend on inland capture and recreational fisheries. However, understanding how climate change will affect inland fishes and fisheries has lagged behind marine assessments. Building from a North American inland fisheries assessment, we convened an expert panel from seven countries to provide a first-step to a framework for determining how to approach an assessment of how climate change may affect inland fishes, capture fisheries, and aquaculture globally. Starting with the small group helped frame the key questions (e.g., who is the audience? What is the best approach and spatial scale?). Data gaps identified by the group include: the tolerances of inland fisheries to changes in temperature, stream flows, salinity, and other environmental factors linked to climate change, and the adaptive capacity of fishes and fisheries to adjust to these changes. These questions are difficult to address, but long-term and large-scale datasets are becoming more readily available as a means to test hypotheses related to climate change. We hope this perspective will help researchers and decision makers identify research priorities and provide a framework to help sustain inland fish populations and fisheries for the diversity of users around the globe

Creating a place to call home: Administrators\u27 and women homeowners\u27 perspectives on an urban home-ownership program

This qualitative feminist case study examines the goals and perspectives of administrators and female participants in an urban public/private housing partnership. Such programs embody a long-standing belief in the American Dream, connecting homeownership with the creation of good citizens. An historical overview of housing policy gives the reader a context for the issues addressed and raises questions about this connection suggesting that a sense of place may be as important as home ownership per se. The program studied includes scattered site, public housing, and a community land trust model. Interviews with administrators suggest that their goals typically focus on rebuilding the neighborhood in terms of housing stock. The interviews with seven women, who own homes through the program, reveal that they are concerned with both physical housing and also building a sense of community in their neighborhoods. From their perspectives the most successful model is the community land trust. The study concludes with a more detailed examination of the philosophy and practice of community land trusts, and suggests that this model might provide the basis for a feminist housing policy, built on attention to the participants\u27, in this case the women\u27s, needs and insights