Ways of understanding family practices across contexts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Method Approach

This chapter explores the situated, dynamic, and relational complexities, and of the ways in which space, place, and time intersect with meanings of environment in the everyday lives of children and families. It sets out to disrupt assumptions of Minority to Majority world learning, and homogenising notions of cross-national in/comparability, through a methodological approach designed to create an analytic conversation across diverse contexts within and between India and the UK. The chapter focuses on the relationality and materiality of everyday lives, devising a multi-method approach in order to capture the interconnectedness of family lives and practices. It uses a common world approach that seeks to avoid the unhelpful binarisations of big and small or ‘global’ and ‘local’ environments, which act as a barrier to understanding.

scholarly journals Environment in the Lives of Children and Families

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Janet Boddy ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Uma Vennam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Discourses

This book presents innovative international research into how the term “environment” is understood within families and how that plays out in everyday lives. Based on a study that involved creative qualitative work with families in India and the United Kingdom, the book shows how environmental practices are negotiated in families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. Through that analysis, we begin to see the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in debates about climate change. The book explores the situated, dynamic, and relational complexities, and of the ways in which space, place, and time intersect with meanings of environment in the everyday lives of children and families. It looks at the sort of environmental issues that families in India and the UK negotiate, and how children are often responsibilised in environmental policy and media discourses in both India and the UK.

scholarly journals On the Activity of Sisters of Divine Providence in Cambodia. Book review: Marie-Madeleine Kenning “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia – a memoir.” Croydon, 2020. 209 р.

2020 ◽  
pp. 289-292
Author(s):  
Nadezhda N. Bektimirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Uk

The article is a critical review of Marie-Madeleine Kenning’s book “Then the Khmer Rouge Came – Survivors’ Stories from Northwest Cambodia a memoir” published in the UK in 2020. The author of the review identifies the most interesting aspects of the book’s content, such as descriptions of the activity of Sisters of Divine Providence, the everyday lives of local Catholics and their interactions with the Buddhist community.

Collaboration between designers and facility managers

Facilities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 557-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Kalantari ◽  
Mardelle M. Shepley ◽  
Zofia K. Rybkowski ◽  
John A. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Facility Management ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The aim of this study is to focus on the perspectives of facility managers in each region and the different challenges impacting collaboration in each geographical context. This research analyzed obstacles to collaboration between facility managers and architectural designers in three international regions. Design/methodology/approach A multi-method approach was used, allowing the researchers to triangulate data from in-depth interviews and a widely distributed survey instrument. The participants included a large cross-selection of facility management professionals in each of the regions under study. The interview data were parsed to identify recurring themes, while the survey data were analyzed statistically to test specific hypotheses. Findings Significant differences were found in the culture of the facility management profession in each region. These differences created unique challenges for collaboration, especially in the context of a non-local design team. While the facility management profession was perceived as most established and professional in the UK, rates of collaboration between facility managers and designers were actually much higher in the USA. Collaborations between facility managers and designers were almost non-existent in the Middle East. Originality/value While the importance of collaboration between facility managers and designers is increasingly recognized for improving the efficiency of building operations, crucial obstacles continue to limit the scope of this engagement. There has been limited previous research analyzing obstacles to collaboration that are specific to international contexts and non-local design teams. This study helps to fill an important gap in the literature by providing a comparative analysis of collaboration challenges in three international contexts.

scholarly journals Analyzing Social Media And Learning Through Content And Social Network Analysis: A Faceted Methodological Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Drew Paulin ◽  
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Potential Use

In just a short period of time, social media have altered many aspects of our daily lives, from how we form and maintain social relationships to how we discover, access and share information online. Now social media are also affecting how we teach and learn. In this paper, we discuss methods that can help researchers and educators evaluate and understand the observed and potential use of social media for teaching and learning through content and network analyses of social media texts and networks. This paper is based on a workshop given at the 2014 Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference, and presents an overview of the measures and potential of a multi-method approach for studying learning via social media. The theoretical discussion is augmented with study of the case of Twitter discussion from a cMOOC class.

scholarly journals Paralympic Broadcasting and Social Change: An Integrated Mixed Method Approach to Understanding the Paralympic Audience in the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 152747642110044
Author(s):  
Emma Pullen ◽  
Daniel Jackson ◽  
Michael Silk
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Method Approach

Despite the successful transition of the Paralympics from relative obscurity to global mega-event, we still know little about how it is consumed by audiences. Using a methodological approach that draws on survey ( n = 2008) and focus group ( n = 216) data from Paralympic audiences across the UK, this study provides the first mixed method and integrated empirical analysis of Paralympic audiences to date. We attempt to identify who the UK Paralympic audience is, before examining audience perceptions of Paralympic coverage, and the impact of watching the Paralympics on audience sentiments toward disabled people in sporting and everyday contexts.

Negotiating environments in children’s and families’ everyday lives

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Environmental Practices ◽  
Ethical Consumer ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Moral Discourses

This chapter demonstrates how, through in-depth qualitative research with 24 families who live in differing contexts in India and the UK, environmental practices are inextricably relational, and linked with dynamic family practices, childhood, and parenthood. Holistic understandings of environmental practices, and of children and families, benefit from juxtaposing Minority and Majority world understandings, and so challenging patronising (colonial) moral discourses of environmental concern that are rooted in Minority world understandings of the affluent ethical consumer practising care at a distance. This approach helps to build the new global perspective based on dialogue between childhoods in Majority and Minority worlds that the book advocates, and so to understand “other” lives, in context.

Everyday engagement with climate change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Phoenix ◽  
Uma Vennam ◽  
Catherine Walker ◽  
Janet Boddy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
The Uk

This introductory chapter elaborates on the concept of climate change. It considers how families and the children within them think and feel about their local environments and how these ‘small’ environmental issues fit with ‘big’ environmental concerns about climate change in one country in the Majority world (India), and one in the Minority world (the UK). There is a great deal of evidence that, while most scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is a pressing issue and most people believe that climate change needs to be addressed, relatively few in countries that produce the most carbon emissions are prepared to make sacrifices to deal with it.

scholarly journals Dying to live: Youth violence and the munpain

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1317-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusef Bakkali
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Suffering ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article engages with accounts of the everyday experiences of young adults living in London who have been involved with road life (street culture) and how their narratives might help us to better understand issues of youth violence in the UK. Through an exploration of their experiences, this article argues that deeply embedded structural contradictions are leaving a generation of marginalised young people dying to live as they become locked in an existential struggle against a sense of malaise permeating many of their everyday experiences. These experiences of social suffering are conceptualised through ‘the munpain’. The munpain is a psychosocial concept which articulates the impact of structurally routed violence, inherent in late-modern neoliberal states, within the everyday lives of marginalised young adults living in a contemporary urban context. This article draws on interview data from two young men, Stephen and T, who have both been victims of knife crime and have spent much of their lives involved with youth groups self-identifying as gangs. In this article, I demonstrate some of the often unspoken struggles that saturate their lives. These experiences induce agentic responses as people seek to alleviate their suffering, at times affecting them in ways that lead to acts of violence. Moreover, I also elaborate on the inductive methodological approach employed to denote how ‘the munpain’ was developed while working alongside marginalised young adults.

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