(Un)becoming women: Indian factory women's counternarratives of gender

This paper portrays the life stories of five factory workers in Delhi whose life trajectories run counter to normative femininity. As daughters and wives, they are neglected, abandoned or rejected by their families; they live alone, with their parents past the age that is their natal right, with siblings, or with families and men who are not related to them. I explore the circulation of their counternarratives and how their gender transgressions go public through ordinary forms of talk, such as gossip and rumor. I argue that their move out of the normative is not produced by, but produces, their gender politics; that their agency emerges cognitively from the telling of their stories in tandem with their interlocutors' credulity and uptake; and that the site of gender politics for working class Indian women lies in the informal subaltern publics that are formed by the circulation of their stories. Contrary to the notion of a stable unitary subject that precedes the political, these women's counternarratives demonstrate the subject‐in‐process as a political effect. Their alterity does not exist outside the heteronormative gender order but demarcates the boundaries of its historicity, hinting at both the internal contradictions of existing gender relations and their future possibilities.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112196/1/j.1467-954X.2011.02026.x.pd

More than competition: exploring stakeholder identities at a grassroots cause-related sporting event

The purpose of this paper is to (a) explore stakeholder identities of a grassroots cause-related sporting event; and (b) gain a better understanding of how identities are related to stakeholder development, support of the event, and future intentions. We used a mixed methods research design that consisted of two studies: qualitative followed by quantitative. Study 1 explored stakeholder identities and how they are related to stakeholder development and support of the event, and Study 2 examined how future intentions regarding attendance, donations, and sponsor support differ based on levels of stakeholder identity. Sports marketing and non-profit management literature streams as well as identity theory and social capital theory informed our studies. The National Kidney Foundation Surf Festival was selected because it is a grassroots cause-related sporting event with financial success over the last two decades. In addition, a surf contest, an action sport, is a unique sport setting in the nonprofit sector, which offers insight to marketers seeking to target subcultures. The findings of the qualitative study revealed three identities relevant to participants: sport subculture, community, and cause. A framework emerged from the data that illustrated how these identities unite together to generate social capital, which is linked to effective volunteer and sponsorship management. Quantitative analysis through survey data provided further evidence of the impact of identification with a cause-related sport activity on consumer outcomes. Results indicated attendees with high surf-related identity are more likely to attend future Surf Festivals, have higher intentions to donate to the cause, and have higher sponsor purchase intentions compared to those with low self-identity with the sport subculture. The conclusion discusses implications, framing the findings through the intersection of the sports marketing and non-profit sector industries, and provides suggestions for future research.Ye

Forgone, but not forgotten: Toward a theory of forgone professional identities

Through an inductive, qualitative study, I developed a process model of how people deal with professional identities they have forgone by choice or constraint. I show that, when forgone professional identities are linked to unfulfilled values, people look for ways to enact them and retain them in the self-concept. I further identify three strategies that people use to enact foregone professional identities: (1) real enactment (i.e., enacting the forgone identity through real activities and social interactions either at work or during leisure time), (2) imagined enactment (i.e., enacting the forgone identity through imagined activities and interactions, either in an alternate present or in the future), and (3) vicarious enactment (i.e., enacting the forgone identity by observing and imagining close others enacting it and internalizing these experiences). These findings expand our conceptualization of professional identity beyond identities enacted through activities and interactions that are part of formal work roles, and illuminate the key role of imagination and vicarious experiences in identity construction and maintenance

Mirada metodológica en sistemas lecheros de Colonia y San José.

Entrando en su fase de cierre, el Proyecto FPTA +PASTO se focaliza en compartir varios de los aprendizajes alcanzados durante su implementación. Mediante un abordaje metodológico específico, se constata la importancia de generar estrategias para aplicar los conocimientos que los productores ya disponen sobre producción y cosecha de pasturas.El objetivo productivo principal del FPTA 347 (+PASTO) es mejorar la producción y consumo de pasto en sistemas lecheros

Energy in Texas Volume II: Policy Alternatives, PRP 7

This is the second of a two-volume study dealing with energy problems in Texas. Volume I examines electric power generation in the state, with emphasis on consumption patterns, available fuels, environmental impacts, and procedures for regulating both conventional and nuclear powerplants. This volume surveys a much broader energy spectrum and develops a number of state policy alternatives for coping with immediate and long-range energy demands. Both studies are the product of two separate policy research projects conducted at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs over a two-year period, 1972-1974.Public Affair

Cierre del Proyecto FPTA + Pasto.

El proyecto +PAS TO se planteó como objetivo principal establecer una red de cooperación entre productores, técnicos e instituciones, para implementar acciones de co-innovación y trasferencia de tecnología de forma eficiente y práctica. Las tecnologías utilizadas fomentaron el aumento de la producción y la eficiencia en la utilización de pasturas en productores lecheros y ganaderos de Colonia y San José. En este artículo se presentan los principales impactos de esta experiencia en términos productivos y sociales implementadas durante tres años y medio de trabajo

Proyecto +PASTO. Transferencia de tecnologías desde el sector I+I+D de manera de incrementar la productividad en predios de los departamentos de Colonia y San José, a través de la cooperación interinstitucional.

El proyecto +PASTO surgió como idea en los años del boom lechero y su posterior descenso de precios, entre los años 2012 y 2015. La apuesta fue "instalar una red de cooperación interinstitucional para transferir de forma eficiente y práctica a los productores lecheros y ganaderos de Colonia y San José, las tecnologías que sean seleccionadas, basadas en la producción y manejo sustentable de forrajes para pastoreo" o proyecto +PASTO

Words versus actions as a means to influence cooperation in social dilemma situations

We use a sequential voluntary contribution game to compare the relative impact of firstmover’s non-binding announcement versus binding commitment on cooperation. We find that non-binding announcement and binding commitment increase individual contributions to a similar extent. Since announced contributions systematically exceed commitments, in sessions with non-binding announcement, second-movers tend to contribute more to the group activity than in sessions with binding commitment. Yet, second-movers appear to be more motivated towards achieving a social optimum when the first-mover uses commitment. We also find that non-binding announcement has a higher impact on individual propensity to cooperate than the ex post contribution of the first-mover. However, the failure to make announced contributions decreases cooperation even though the first-mover is reassigned in every period