The unruly woman in prime time animated sitcoms.

Utilizing the criteria for unruly women established by Kathleen Rowe, this work engages with current television scholarship on animated sitcoms in order to come to an understanding of how unruliness as a category of behavior and embodiment is expanded in prime time animated sitcoms. In looking at the ways in which unruliness functions in animated series, examples from The Simpsons, King of the Hill, South Park, Daria, and Home Movies are examined. It is through this analysis that I prove that not only do the mother characters from all of these series embody unruliness, but through their prominence in their respective shows unruliness becomes normalized within the genre of prime time animated sitcoms

Which Worlds Are Held Together With Care?

Care has typically been associated with undervalued and gendered labour. When doing design research 'with care', I want to consider the stickiness of these associations, and what may be unintentionally held together through the approaches I have used in the production of work. Using a case study of an event that was set up to care for issues of sexism in design, I will discuss how ‘care work’, in this instance, assumed the reproduction of hetero-normative care paradigms. Using feminist voices from techno- science, I suggest that in order to use critical and careful processes in design research we need to consider what making with care might maintain or reproduce

Taking care of issues of concern: Feminist Possibilities and speculative design

What are the possibilities for taking a feminist approach on ‘an ethos of care’ to the settings of engagement with Speculative and Critical Design? In this paper, I explore the intersection between the curation of Speculative and Critical Design (SCD) and the notion of ‘care’ as a question that has arisen in the work of feminist scholarship in technoscience. Feminist voices in SCD and related design disciplines have drawn attention to ‘neglected things’ within certain works of Speculative Design research. I expand this consideration to the settings of encounter with SCD. Through a short case study of curatorial practice, I focus through literature, in particular from Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, to speculate on how qualities of care raised through enquiries in feminist technoscience are useful to consider in the care or curation of speculative enquiries around issues of concern

Examining the Help Seeking Experiences of Youth in Extended Care: A Narrative Ethnography Study

This narrative ethnographic study examined the help-seeking experiences of foster youth as they transitioned into adulthood in extended care. The purpose of the study was to understand whether foster youth in extended care report a period of continued support which assisted in the development of their adult roles, relationships, and the knowledge and skills to become productive and satisfied adults. Survivalist Self-Reliance (Samuels & Pryce, 2008) asserts foster youth viewed their adult identities as grounded in independence and standing on their own, or are foster youth influenced by the relationships and the network of support embedded in the extended-care network which aligns to the assumptions of Relational Cultural Theory (Jordan, 2017). Themes identified during the analysis process included: (a) Youth felt responsible for their own development and safety while also disconnecting from the people in their lives; (b) Participant’s lack of trust in others led to difficulty asking for help and balancing life’s challenges; and (c) A lack of growth-fostering relationships. Implications from this study suggested opting into extended care provided the financial and housing support needed for foster youth. However, participants did not view extended care as offering relational support due in part to their view of adults as self-reliant. With limited social supports in place, participants struggled to balance life’s commitments. This study offers suggestions for future research focused on extended-care programing for foster youth

Editor\u27s Introduction

Editor\u27s Introduction, Great Lakes Journal of Undergraduate History, Vol 3

Winter\u27s Pleasure in Days Gone Past

This photo, taken at White Sulphur Springs\u27 Harrison House, both recalls the spirit of winters long past and presents the reality and wistfulness of the present day

Care-politics in design: Towards an inventive feminist research practice

This thesis aims to build a sensibility of matters of care into the practice of design research and pedagogy. It is written from the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Design Research. While care in design may seem to be a given, on closer analysis, the rhetoric of care is confused and underdeveloped in the discipline. Therefore, to explore a sensibility of care in design, I have developed a typology of ‘Carepolitics’ as a means to detect different versions of care that instantiate and operate in design, and have reviewed the notion of ‘matters of care’ that has recently arisen as a problematic in feminist STS. This body of work reveals care as an affective practice with ‘ethico-politics’ and speculative characteristics. I argue that the notion of matters of care has implications for design practices that have hitherto focused on matters of concern, as it offers a renewed criticality with the worlds that we study, construct and are implicated in. Consequently, the typology is taken up as an analytic framework as well as a sensibility for the practice research developed in the thesis. The practice research included in this thesis consists of a structured discussion on gender issues in design institutions, a post-graduate teaching project, and the search for a lost design research device. This is to say that the academy and my prior practice are used as locations for a situated inquiry into care through the case studies. Key to the research is a methodology that combines participant observation with affective methods, a ‘re-doing’ and revisiting of existing materials, as well as a responsive approach to ethics – a methodology that is deeply informed by, and indebted to, studies of care in feminist STS. Throughout the thesis I argue for ways of considering the multiple versions of care that are being enacted and reproduced in design practice and its outcomes. The difference a feminist STS matters of care offers is an attention to the limitations and constraints of an affirmative, gendered practice of care, and leads me to propose ‘inventive ethics’ in order to renew and ‘thicken’ speculative processes of inventive problem making in design

Shifting The Teacher Mindset: What Counts as Real Reading

In this article, the author shares how her epiphany about what texts she valued in her classroom pushed her to change how she defines what counts as real reading and how this shift in mindset allowed more of her students to view themselves as readers. As part of this process, the author began introducing more alternative text formats and digital texts into her classroom library and instruction, allowed students to bring in their own texts for independent reading, and provided space for students to read their peers\u27 writing for pleasure during reading time

Roadmap to a PhD: Navigating the Application Process

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Using occupancy estimates to assess habitat use and interspecific interactions of the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and little brown bat (M. Lucifugus) in northeast Missouri

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 12, 2013).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Dr. Matthew GompperIncludes bibliographical references.Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Fisheries and wildlife sciences."May 2013"M.S. University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013.The Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) has been endangered since 1967 and is the focus of a controversial debate among stakeholders on both public and private lands due to a lack due to a lack of understanding the summer habitat needs of the species. In addition, even less is known about interspecific interactions with other bats and if this could be playing a role in the decline of this species. Our objectives were to estimate the probability of site occupancy for the Indiana bat and the little brown bat (M. lucifugus) from which we could model their summer habitat suitability. We then used our occupancy modeling estimates to determine whether the knowledge of the little brown bat's (M. lucifugus) landscape occupancy patterns improved the fit of Indiana bat occupancy models and vice versa. We used an information theoretic approach to examine a priori hypotheses relative to both probability of detection and site occupancy using an objective model selection criterion to rank the candidate models. For the Indiana bat the quantity of bottomland hardwood forest in a 7 km landscape was the single most significant factor in determining Indiana bat occupancy. For the little brown bat, site combined with distance to water and canopy cover created the top model determining little brown bat occupancy. Combined information of both species' occupancy patterns did not improve the probability of either species' occupancy