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Horrigan, Bonnie J. "Project Life Stories." EXPLORE 1, no. 5 (September 2005): 336–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2005.06.002.
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Sankaran, Shankar. "Megaproject management and leadership: a narrative analysis of life stories – past and present." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 11, no. 1 (March 5, 2018): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-07-2017-0081.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to glean leadership lessons of megaproject managers through the life stories of four purposefully selected managers from two contemporary and two landmark megaprojects. Design/methodology/approach A narrative inquiry approach applying thematic analysis is used to capture lessons learnt from these stories with a focus on leading megaprojects. Narrative analysis has been used in organization studies and this paper is an attempt to use it in project management research. Findings Common strategies used by all four megaproject managers to be successful include: selecting the right people and building their capability; building trust with stakeholders; dealing with institutional power and politics effectively; and having the courage to innovate. There were also some differences in the approaches used by these managers due the times in which these projects were implemented. Research limitations/implications The use of narrative inquiry is new to project management literature. As the life stories were not presented in the same way it was difficult to analyze them in the same manner, and further data had to be collected. This could have been avoided if it were feasible to collect narratives directly from the megaproject managers. This is being planned in future research emerging from this paper. Practical implications This study helps megaproject managers to exhibit leadership attributes that would be required to execute such large complex projects that have wide implications for the society, economy and the environment. Social implications Megaprojects are often considered major displacements that cause social and geophysical issues that affect the environment. Lessons learnt from these stories could be useful to avoid such issues. The stories analyzed showed the human side of the megaproject managers toward people related, health and societal issues. Originality/value Narrative inquiry is new to project management literature. In the past, project management literature has focused on extracting lessons learnt from historical and classical projects, but lessons from life stories of project managers have not been used for the same purpose.
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Wardrip-Fruin, Noah. "Hypermedia, Eternal Life, and the Impermanence Agent." Leonardo 32, no. 5 (October 1999): 353–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409499553569.
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We look to media as memory, and a place to memorialize, when we have lost. Hypermedia pioneers such as Ted Nelson and Vannevar Bush envisioned the ultimate media within the ultimate archive—with each element in continual flux, and with constant new addition. Dynamism without loss. Instead we have the Web, where “Not Found” is a daily message. Projects such as the Internet Archive and Afterlife dream of fixing this uncomfortable impermanence. Marketeers promise that agents (indentured information servants that may be the humans of About.com or the software of “Ask Jeeves”) will make the Web comfortable through filtering—hiding the impermanence and overwhelming profluence that the Web's dynamism produces. The Impermanence Agent—a programmatic, esthetic, and critical project created by the author, Brion Moss, a.c. chapman, and Duane Whitehurst— operates differently. It begins as a storytelling agent, telling stories of impermanence, stories of preservation, memorial stories. It monitors each user's Web browsing, and starts customizing its storytelling by weaving in images and texts that the user has pulled from the Web. In time, the original stories are lost. New stories, collaboratively created, have taken their place.
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Jones, Chelsea. "Review of Bérubé, The Secret Life of Stories." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 5, no. 4 (December 27, 2016): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v5i4.322.
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Unfolding through this book is a warning against reductive readings of (intellectual) disability alongside an argument for finding fictional modes of intellectual disability as one piece of the larger, urgent projects gripping disability studies that involve negotiating relationships between bodies and minds, and re/imagining humanness.
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McGregor, Ian, Dan P. McAdams, and Brian R. Little. "Personal projects, life stories, and happiness: On being true to traits." Journal of Research in Personality 40, no. 5 (October 2006): 551–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.05.002.
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Carlsen, Arne, and Tyrone S. Pitsis. "We Are Projects: Narrative Capital and Meaning Making in Projects." Project Management Journal 51, no. 4 (June 16, 2020): 357–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/8756972820929479.
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Research on projects has to a limited degree taken issue with how projects are chief producers of meaning at work. We develop the concept of narrative capital as a basic mechanism for how people can engender meaning in and through projects in organizations. Narrative capital is derived from experiences that people appropriate into their individual and collective life stories, retrospectively, as adding to a repertoire of accumulated learning and mastering, and prospectively, in terms of living with purpose and hope. We chart implications for meaning making in projects as expanding ownership, expanding connections of impact, and extending narrative possibility.
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Buheji, Mohamed. "Socio-Economic Issues Storytelling for Closing Intergenerational Gap." Journal of Social Science Studies 7, no. 1 (January 10, 2020): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsss.v7i1.16223.
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Stories have shaped people life since the beginning of humanity. Telling and sharing stories in an inspiring way is an art that has been deeply hidden with the heritage of many civilisations. In this paper, we investigate the influence of the new movement of storytelling on the intergeneration gap and their role in raising our curiosity about chronic socio-economic issues that are degrading the movement of humanity.The paper focus on the best way of narrating poverty elimination stories and what improvements need to be done in projects that focus on reporting the results and the outcomes of the poverty labs, as the international project of inspiration economy.
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Ruth, Jan-Erik, James E. Birren, and Donald E. Polkinghorne. "The Projects of Life Reflected in Autobiographies of Old Age." Ageing and Society 16, no. 6 (November 1996): 677–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x00020043.
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AbstractThe present investigation was based on the analysis of twenty respondents, ten men and ten women, all retired. The written texts were obtained from the archives of one of the authors who gathered autobiographies using a guided method of assigned topics of life. The main objective for this analysis was to find those central life goals and dominant activities around which the projects of life were formed. Sorting of life projects was done according to the constant comparison method described by Glaser and Strauss in their Grounded Theory model. Five types of life projects were identified in the narratives:living is achieving, living is being social, living is loving, living is family life, living is struggling.Considerable gender differences appeared in the findings with women showing a broader participation and interpretation of life where family life, community work and job careers were important. The men tended to be more monothematic focusing either on a personal achievement or a career development in a more social context. The rhetoric in the discourse of life themes was quite different between the sexes reflecting the sex role scripts of the cohort studied. Only in some of the types was the class dimension clearly visible where the typeliving is achievingand to a certain extent evenliving is being socialreflected upper middle class and upper class occupations whileliving is lovingreflected middle class occupations. The positive narrative tone and the telling of well-managed life projects and success stories in most of the accounts were considered as American features in comparison to some Finnish life stories that contained more of the telling of hardships. The most gender bound accounts such as the masculineliving is achievingand the feminineliving is lovinglife projects showed the greatest resemblances between these two western cultures revealing comparable master scripts.
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Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. "Telling migrant stories in collaborative photography research: Photographic practices and the mediation of migrant voices." International Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no. 6 (October 5, 2017): 643–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877917733542.
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This article examines how photographic practices in collaborative research might mediate migrant voices. It looks at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography project featuring images by Indian and Korean migrants in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on life-story interviews and participant observation data, I identify two ways that the photographic selection practices in the project mediated the migrants’ photo essays. One is how subject selection practices led the participants to use both strategic and ‘medium’ essentialism in choosing their topics. The second is how technique selection practices enabled the participants to express vernacular creativity in crafting their images. I argue that the mediation instantiated by Shutter Stories fostered the participants’ ability to use photo essays to articulate voices that simultaneously conveyed their personal stories and engaged the viewing public. However, I also identify the limits of this mediation, indicating how future projects can better enable migrant voices.
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Karn, Lawrence, and Takahiko Hattori. "The Creative Process, Memoir, And Redemption." Contemporary Issues in Education Research (CIER) 11, no. 1 (February 21, 2018): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/cier.v11i1.10132.
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Stories live to be told to others, Dan McAdams (2008) writes:
Life stories therefore are continually made and remade in social relationships and in the overall social context provided by culture. As psychosocial constructions, life stories reflect the values, norms, and power differentials inherent in societies, wherein they have their constitutive meanings. The construction of coherent life stories is an especially challenging problem for adults living in contemporary modern (and postmodern) societies, wherein selves are viewed as reflexive projects imbued with complexity and depth, ever changing yet demanding a coherent framing.
This paper considers the memoir as a kind of life story, to be explored through selected memoirists, researchers, and scholars by focusing on the relationship between identity construction, memory, history, and imagination. Narrative structure, as well as the compelling experiences and ideas detailed in memoirs, will be analyzed to arrive at a better understanding of issues related to the creative process.
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Martínez García, Ana Belén. "Construction and collaboration in life-writing projects: Malala Yousafzai’s activist ‘I’." Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 12, no. 1-2 (April 1, 2019): 201–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcp.12.1-2.201_1.
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This article explores the storytelling practices employed in Malala Yousafzai’s life-writing texts as examples of collaboration in the co-construction of an activist agenda. It tracks the narrative ‘I’ and its movements in and out of the plural pronoun ‘we’ as it moves across communities and embraces the legacy of testimonial accounts by both former and contemporary human rights activists. In line with that tradition, it is necessary to include the stories of other victimized people in the life-writing text, so that the result advocates for change on a sociopolitical, not just individual, level. The fact that the texts are mediated by editors, translators, co-authors and collaborators every step of the way paves the collaborative path Global South young women activists traverse, a path fraught with potential pitfalls and ethical difficulties for them and for scholars alike.
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Gaydarska, Bisserka, John Chapman, Marco Nebbia, and Stuart Johnston. "'A 'good death': the life and times of an experimental Neolithic house and its reception in the village of Nebelivka, Co. Kirovograd, Ukraine." AP: Online Journal in Public Archaeology 9, no. 1 (May 21, 2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.23914/ap.v9i1.241.
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Thousands of archaeological fieldwork projects must have stories about the interactions between their host village and the Project, although such accounts rarely make it to publication. The Anglo-Ukrainian Trypillia Megasites Project differs from many others in that we developed a closer relationship than usual with the villagers of Nebelivka, Ukraine, largely because of an experimental house-building and -burning operation that involved a number of villagers, from young reed- and hazel withy-collectors to the village Mayor. In this article, we weave together the different threads of actions, decisions, agendas and attitudes of the different stakeholders (team, villagers, politicians, journalists, other villagers, conference delegates etc.) in respect of the Project's experimental programme, focussing on the day of the house-burning, with its spectacular multi-sensory results. In conclusion, we reflect upon the application of the question 'what is a good death?' to a prehistoric house, taking into consideration the varied views of the participants on this question.
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Kuhail, Mohammad Amin, and Soren Lauesen. "User Story Quality in Practice: A Case Study." Software 1, no. 3 (June 28, 2022): 223–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/software1030010.
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(1) Background: User stories are widely used in Agile development as requirements. However, few studies have assessed the quality of user stories in practice. (2) Methods: What is the quality of user stories in practice? To answer the research question, we conducted a case study. We used an analysis report of a real-life project where an organization wanted to improve its existing hotline system or acquire a new one. We invited IT practitioners to write requirements for the new system based on the analysis report, user stories, and whatever else they considered necessary. The practitioners could ask the authors questions as they would ask a customer in a real setting. We evaluated the practitioners’ replies using these IEEE 830 quality criteria: completeness, correctness, verifiability, and traceability. (3) Results: The replies covered 33% of the needs and wishes in the report. Further, the replies largely missed other requirements needed in most projects, such as learnability and maintainability. Incorrect or restrictive solutions were often proposed by the practitioners. Most replies included user stories that were hard to verify, or would have caused a cumbersome user interface if implemented independently. (4) Conclusion: Implications for practitioners and researchers in the field are discussed in the study.
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LeBlanc, Raeann. "An Aging Nursing Workforce: Thematic Analysis from the Nurstory Project." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.2292.
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Abstract Background: Nursing in the United States of America is an aging workforce. This study sought to better understand the lived experience of aging nurses. Because nurses work in systems where other forms of interpersonal power dynamics may influence internalized and external stereotype an approach based on intersectional theory was applied. Methods: A qualitative thematic narrative analysis of an existing data set of first-person digital stories in the Nurstory project, authored by a group of nurses, was the data source. An emergent coding method was applied. The collection of five digital stories were analyzed. Results: All stories were first person accounts of experiences that represented their internalized reflections and elements of ageism in how their age interacted with their work environment. Dominant themes included: 1) Role constriction 2) Strength 3) Tired and (re)Tired 4) Age perceived and 5)Loneliness. Conclusions: These aging nursing stories add to the contextual layers of the aging healthcare workplace and aging nursing workforce. These individual experiences offer a nuanced understanding of the internalized responses to aging and ageism. These stories highlight socially constructed and socially reinforced attitudes that are complicated by the personal and occupational expectations of nurse’s work, their role and embedded hierarchies in healthcare. Stories such as these are important individual and collective indicators of lived experiences that offer a deeper understanding into the intersections of social identity and aging, that when listened to, can offer insight and a way forward in addressing the stereotype, discrimination and social inequities of ageism.
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Cherny, E. V., and O. R. Tuchina. "RESEARCH OF LIFE PROJECTS OF YOUTH CRIMEA." Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Sociology. Pedagogy. Psychology 6(72), no. 3 (2020): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.37279/2413-1709-2020-6-3-127-148.
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The main goal of the article is to acquaint readers with the rationale, methodology, staging, implementation and results of a study of the process of constructing the life projects by young Crimeans. Theoretical and methodological foundations are proposed, diagnostic tools are developed and tested to study the premises and foundations, features of the formation, transformation and implementation of the individual’s life projects as such, and in connection with various social and cultural phenomena that are refracted in the consciousness and unconscious of young people. This study was pilot in nature, and also part of a larger comparative study of a whole range of socio-psychological characteristics inherent in the youth of Crimea and Kuban. As a result of the work, it turned out that the classic individual narrative interview requires not only thorough preparation and professional work of specialists, but also a long time for its implementation and processing of the results, in particular, decoding transcripts. It requires significant efforts during the interpretation process. Therefore, to implement a large-scale quantitative study, which was necessary to obtain statistically reliable results, it was decided to modify part of the methodology, standardize stimulus material and provide it to respondents in the form of a questionnaire. Approbation of the developed, validated and tested author’s questionnaire for reliability, called «Parenting style of a Family», presented in Appendix 2 and intended for conducting a retrospective study of perception of parenting style by adult respondents, made it possible to clarify and specify the data obtained during the narrative interview. In particular, a direct relationship was found between the repressive parenting style prevailing in the parent family and the high rates of general internality of adults who grew up in such families. The connection between the parental protocol, the forms of its presentation to the child, adolescent and the retrospective perception and attitude of an adult to the parenting style is proved. It can be argued that there is a tendency to reduce the frequency of the repressive style and, on the contrary, the tendency toward the prevalence of the permissive parenting style is increasing. Substantial age differences were found regarding perception of the parenting style and attitudes towards it. There can be seen tendencies in the links between significant events for respondents in childhood, adolescence, youth and the emerging life project. It would be wrong to assume that a life project is determined by purely personal life stories with their inherent symbolic messages, source events, anchor events and other «self-defining memories», which are especially vivid and disproportionately large amounts of which are manifested in adolescence and early adulthood. The more traditionally oriented the society is, the easier it is to understand what level of culture (national-state, ethnic, religious, family) is more significant for building a life project. In postmodern society, a causal relationship is very blurred. Family culture may contradict larger levels of culture and, at the same time, have a decisive influence on the formation of a life project. At the same time, some fragments of mental unity are preserved at large levels of culture. For example, in modern Russia, the history of the recent and distant past, including events and personalities, through a system of images and symbols influences the process of self-constitution of a person and the formation of identity. Of course, this should be reflected in the content of life projects. One of the goals of further work may be a comparative study of the influence of historical memory, or rather its reflection in the perception of representatives of ethnic and regional youth groups on the features of life projects. In this study, a methodology has been tested to detect such relationships.
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Eminson, Sophie. "Fostered children make film about their lives with care leaver Kriss Akabusi." Children and Young People Now 2017, no. 15 (November 2, 2017): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/cypn.2017.15.54.
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Provider National Youth Advocacy Service Name Digital Life Stories Summary Digital Life Stories project sees young people collaborate to create a video where children in care can share their experiences
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Mundhenke, Florian. "Body Epistemes." Interactive Film & Media Journal 2, no. 4 (December 30, 2022): 114–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i4.1689.
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This research concerns the relationships among space, story, and body in nonfictional Virtual Reality (VR) projects with the user as a first-person protagonist. What was once called immersive journalism (i.e., attempting to offer users physical experiences of factual journalism) has become increasingly film-oriented over the last five years with the further development of head-mounted displays for the consumer market. As such, projects often tell stories that relate to reality and allow protagonists to enter realistic narratives. Mel Slater has investigated VR projects since 2005, analyzing factors such as place illusion (PI) and plausibility illusion (Psi). In later writings, Slater expanded his research to include the body-oriented sense of embodiment (SoE) (Slater 2009; Slater et al. 2010; De La Pena et al. 2010; Kilteni et al. 2012). Since nonfictional VR mostly tells a story in the direction of the users, incorporating them into the story design, the effects of narration also should be considered. Domenic Arsénault (2005) noted three levels of narrative immersion in VR when dealing with narrative projects. Considering this, it is possible to develop a four-level matrix including place, plausibility, body perception, and narration. Starting in 2020, a Graduate student research project at the University of Leipzig was set up using this matrix to analyse four current examples for a small, non-representative study of twenty-four participants. Our findings demonstrate that space and story in first-person VR experiences are very important, while the installation of plausibility and coherence is less significant. The connecting factor of these two levels is one's own body. Users read, experience, and understand projects with their senses, perceptions, and cognition, making a discussion of an episteme of the body possible. Thus, stories from real life are not conveyed indirectly but experienced directly and personally.
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Wilson, Cynthia. "Patient Statement: Chemical Sensitivity One Victim's Perspective." Toxicology and Industrial Health 10, no. 4-5 (July 1994): 319–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/074823379401000504.
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Not a day goes by that I don't miss my old life and the old me. To illustrate how my life has changed, I have two brief stories. In 1982, I developed a lending procedure in conjunction with Banker's Life Insurance Company that enabled commercial real estate developers to secure permanent financing for property that had not yet been developed in essence using a permanent loan in place of a construction loan. It fixed the interest rate, at a time when new construction rates were bankrupting many projects and it allowed the developer to invest the excess funds to offset interest expenses. I received national recognition for this loan. In 1989, the police found me wandering around in 15 inches of snow, in below zero weather with no shoes or coat. The officer took me to the hospital because I was obviously disoriented. I didn't even know my name or where I lived. These stories show the disparity between my life as a successful, independent business woman and my life as someone who is chemically disabled.
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Mbirigenda, Shukrani Kassian. "Stakeholders’ involvement in Corporate Social Responsibility: The Mining Sector in Tanzania." Utafiti 12, no. 1-2 (March 18, 2017): 109–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-0120102007.
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects that do not involve communities where they are based stand a greater chance of either failing from reaching their objectives or being rejected by their intended beneficiaries. Community involvement is not just about being nice; it is a central pillar in the business of CSR. Some external secondary stakeholders in Tanzania are rejecting or ignoring local CSR projects affecting them, which raises a question of whether they have been consulted at all in the relevant decision making. Using the experience of communities in the area of the Geita Gold Mine (GGM) in Tanzania and stakeholder theory, this qualitative study analyses the relationship between CSR and involvement of non-consumer stakeholders in decision making processes and their outcomes. The study used a combination of questionnaires, interviews with key informants, and focus groups to obtain information, opinions and perceptions of company administrators, business people, government actors and local community members so as to fill analytical gap between claims on CSR success stories made by companies and the experience of people on the ground. The study found out that key leaders in the local communities who were neglected in the CSR decision making process were led to view the projects as redundant or irrelevant. The study recommends that for an autonomous, robust and sustainable CSR project, a company needs to be inclusive, by integrating local key representatives at every stage of the CSR project’s life. In addition, the study recommends that for CSR projects to be genuinely appreciated, and to meet the goals it sets with communities as the beneficiaries of transformation, the CSR projects need to be monitored carefully and audited regularly.
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Tracy, Dale. "Tailor Made, Skylarking, and Making in the Humanities." University of Toronto Quarterly Forthcoming (July 16, 2021): e2021003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.91.1.003.
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Reacting to the symbolic features and historical artefacts that invite institutional self-reflection at the Royal Military College (RMC), I created a performance project leading to two storytelling events. Everyday campus life at RMC already offers opportunities for cultivating a meta-perspective—a higher-order awareness—of the institution, and the storytelling events called attention to such opportunities. I argue that, likewise, art-based projects in the humanities call attention to the creativity—the making—involved in the humanities more broadly. The first storytelling event, Tailor Made (2017), comprised stories focused on the uniform as a model and the body wearing it as an actual bearing out that model. Social and cultural life is made of the difference between models and actuals, and each story engaged the ways that rules, systems, and practices meet with individuals in hurtful, inconvenient, funny or messy ways. The second event, Skylarking (2018), included stories of the institutionally condoned pranks called “skylarks” and coincidentally occurred against the backdrop of a campus-wide punishment that elicited a skylark response. This event and its context showed that marking disruption with more disruption (marking failure with punishment and marking punishment with prank) is a recursion that invites higher-order thinking about existing orders.
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Tracy, Dale. "Tailor Made, Skylarking, and Making in the Humanities." University of Toronto Quarterly 91, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.91.1.03.
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Reacting to the symbolic features and historical artefacts that invite institutional self-reflection at the Royal Military College (RMC), I created a performance project leading to two storytelling events. Everyday campus life at RMC already offers opportunities for cultivating a meta-perspective – a higher-order awareness – of the institution, and the storytelling events called attention to such opportunities. I argue that, likewise, art-based projects in the humanities call attention to the creativity – the making – involved in the humanities more broadly. The first storytelling event, Tailor Made (2017), comprised stories focused on the uniform as a model and the body wearing it as an actual bearing out that model. Social and cultural life is made of the difference between models and actuals, and each story engaged the ways in which rules, systems, and practices meet with individuals in hurtful, inconvenient, funny, or messy ways. The second event, Skylarking (2018), included stories of the institutionally condoned pranks called “skylarks” and coincidentally occurred against the backdrop of a campus-wide punishment that elicited a skylark response. This event and its context showed that marking disruption with more disruption (marking failure with punishment and marking punishment with prank) is a recursion that invites higher-order thinking about existing orders.
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Maree, Jacobus, and Annamaria Di Fabio. "Integrating Personal and Career Counseling to Promote Sustainable Development and Change." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (November 13, 2018): 4176. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114176.
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This article reports on the integration of personal and career counseling to promote sustainable development and change. An explorative, descriptive, instrumental, single-case study approach was followed. Qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies were used to collect data, and an integrative career construction counseling intervention was conducted. The intervention comprised, first, elicitation of the participant’s micro- and meso-career-life stories; second, integration of these stories into a coherent macro-story, with the participant’s authorization of the narrative; and, third, co-construction by the participant and the counselor of action steps to facilitate action and forward movement. Integrating personal and career counseling helped to address the participants’ deep-seated personal needs while simultaneously addressing his career counseling needs. Longitudinal, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research is essential to determine the value and importance of integrating personal and career counseling. This study contributed to expanding the research on interventions that integrate personal and career counseling, promoting the development of sustainable career-life projects.
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Reynolds, Robert, and Shirleene Robinson. "Australian Lesbian and Gay Life Stories: A National Oral History Project." Australian Feminist Studies 31, no. 89 (July 2, 2016): 363–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2016.1254026.
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Johnson, Travis W., and Jeremy Reed. "Recording Life Stories: A Service Learning Project for the Composition Classroom." CEA Critic 77, no. 3 (2015): 313–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cea.2015.0021.
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Rudin, Ronald. "The Hidden Life of Monuments: Reflections from the Lost Stories Project." Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique 48, no. 1 (2019): 111–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0005.
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Kazakova, Galina M. "REGIONAL IDENTITY: FAMOUS STORIES AND NEW DISCOURSES." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 40 (2020): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/40/6.
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The significance of the theoretical study of regional identity for understanding the formation and functioning of regions is determined primarily by the fact that it is the cultural basis of the region, a tool for recreating specific collective sociality, sets the norm of anthropological imagination and is a product of collective memory. The identification process is interesting because it serves as a basis for studying the behavior of the masses of people and the person-person. Territoriality as one of the system-forming principles of identity has been studied for a long time within the framework of the sociology of space, but gradually the exhaustiveness of this topic began to grow, as sociologists began to give preference to the temporal structure of people's daily life rather than to the spatial one. The regional focus of cultural studies proves its heuristic potential for understanding large-scale phenomena and processes of regional identity research. Although this phenomenon often eludes traditional methods of scientific analysis, the concept of “identity” continues to be conceptualized through new discourses in science, often intersubject. The article analyzes the principles of studying regional identity from the perspective of complementarity of ontological and constructivist approaches, as well as modern theories of “social engineering” and quasi-Corporation as a multi-project practice of promoting unique socio-cultural characteristics of regions. Looking at the region as a quasi-Corporation suggests that the region has certain similarities with a large corporate structure that implements its own socio-cultural projects, pursues its own economic interests, and has unique competitive advantages. This approach allows us to consider the region in a broader context of interaction and mutual influence of the internal environment of the region and the world society, the global world. Within the framework of the“ project approach”, regional identity is understood in terms of “region-building”, “network concept”, “reterritorialization”, “decentralization”, “new regionalism”, etc. The constructed regional identity becomes an instrument of socio-political mobilization of the population, a kind of “social engineering”. The task of “reconciliation” of discourses is implemented by a cultural approach based on the principles of complementarity of seemingly oppositional paradigms. The culturological approach allows us to consider identity and regional identity, in particular, as a cultureworking part of the human essence, subject to evolutionary structural-functional, essential, genus-species, activity, etc. changes depending on cultural epochs and times.
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Dobbelaar, Tanny. "Skin Stories & Skin Portraits." European Journal of Life Writing 4 (December 12, 2015): C19—C34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.4.177.
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What personal stories do people with a chronic skin disease have to tell? This was Tanny Dobbelaar's main question in 2001 when she initiated the project “Heftig Vel’’, which may be translated from Dutch as “Severe Skin”. In this essay Dobbelaar shows a selection of what she and photographer Adrienne Norman tried to communicate at that time through a highly hybrid project that has many sides to it. The selection starts with the preface of the book, which was specially designed to enhance the experiences of the subjects in the eyes the viewer. The preface of the book is followed here by several Skin Portraits & Stories of the participants. This article was submitted to the European Journal of Life Writing on 28 August 2015 and published on 12 December 2015.
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Huijg, Josanne. "Personal stories improve standard of care and resident wellbeing." Nursing and Residential Care 21, no. 9 (September 2, 2019): 505–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2019.21.9.505.
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Getting to know the life experiences and wishes of older people can help staff provide more meaningful experiences for residents and improve their quality of life. Josanne Huijg discusses the results from a pilot project on using residents' narratives in the provision of care
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Codó, Eva. "Lifestyle residents in Barcelona: a biographical perspective on linguistic repertoires, identity narrative and transnational mobility." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, no. 250 (March 26, 2018): 11–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2017-0053.
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AbstractThe popularization of lifestyle migration epitomizes the individualization of contemporary lives, and the centrality of travel and spatial relocation in people’s aspirational or real life projects. This article examines the processes of sociolinguistic relocation of “lifestylers” in the polylingual city of Barcelona through the lens of their embracing or rejection of Catalan, the non-state, local co-official language. It aims to decipher to what extent these individuals see Catalan as relevant to their transnational life experiences, and how this relevance is embedded in their relational-emotional experiences and evolving sense of self. This article, which examines two life stories gathered through ethnographic interviewing, is framed within biographical-experiential approaches to the multilingual repertoire. The analysis shows that by assembling different narrative bits and by examining in detail the small stories informants tell to ground their accounts, a complex picture of language (dis)appropriation emerges. It argues that national identity rhetoric is a discursive strategy deployed by narrators to partly make sense and partly rationalize what is a complex bundle of identity (re)constitution reasons, emotional stances and interpersonal power dynamics. The article concludes by arguing that presences or absences in people’s repertoire are embodied struggles for personal coherence.
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Klaebe, Helen. "FACILITATING LOCAL STORIES IN POST-DISASTER REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: EVALUATION IN NARRATIVE-DRIVEN ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS." Oral History Journal of South Africa 1, no. 1 (September 23, 2016): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/1599.
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Cyclone Yasi struck the Cassowary Coast of Northern Queensland, Australia, in the early hours of 3 February 2011, destroying many homes and property, including the destruction of the Cardwell and District Historical Society’s (CDHS) premises. With their own homes flattened, many residents were forced to live in mobile accommodation, with extended family, or leave the area altogether. The historical society members seemed, however, particularly devastated by their flattened foreshore museum and loss of their precious collection of material. A call for assistance was made through the Oral History Association of Australia’s Queensland branch (OHAA-Qld), which, along with a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) research team, sponsored a trip to best plan how they could start to pick up the pieces to rebuild the museum. This article highlights the need for communities to gather, preserve and present their own stories, in a way that is sustainable and meaningful to them – whether it is because of a disaster, or as they go about life in their contemporary communities – the key being that good advice, professional support and embedded evaluation practices at crucial moments along the way can be critically important.
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Langaro, Fabíola, and Daniela Ribeiro Schneider. "TRAJETÓRIAS EXISTENCIAIS E PROJETO DE SER DE PACIENTES COM CÂNCER." Psicologia e Saúde em Debate 6, no. 2 (December 3, 2020): 273–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22289/2446-922x.v6n2a18.
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Narratives in health research offer the subjects' point of view about their illness processes, contributing to the realization of a “first person” clinic, meeting the recommendations of palliative care, which emphasize an organization of care contemplating people in need. their biographies. This article presents analyzes of two narrative interviews conducted with João and Maria, hospitalized for palliative cancer treatment. The research aimed to understand the experience of illness and the perspective of death based on the existential phenomenological approach. Following the biographical method proposed by Sartre, a movement was made to dive into the individual trajectories and experiences of these participants, seeking an understanding of the psychic acquired inside their stories. In the analyzes, two stories were shown that point to the complexity of life, in a dialectical movement between sociomaterial conditions and subjective experiences, which allow reflecting on the entanglements and tensions that past, present and future engender in the lived. Is considered, then, that disease and death promote (re) formulations in the subjects' projects of being, but that these original projects are the background of the experiences of illness and death and the reinterpretations of the existential trajectory carried out in view of the imposition of finitude.
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Balachandran, G. "Claiming histories beyond nations: Situating global history." Indian Economic & Social History Review 49, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001946461204900204.
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History is conventionally imagined and narrated in the context of the nation, relating its stories and shaped by its imaginaries. To the extent the latter are selectively re-encoded into seemingly wider scales or spaces of historical narration, projects such as global history may be said to be oxymorons. Historians in the post-colonial world have also long been aware of the nation’s shadow even in purportedly transnational projects emanating from the North, yet many remain similarly in thrall to the nation. In surveying the various levels at which histories have attempted to be narrated purportedly beyond the boundaries of nations, this article argues for a more consciously layered awareness of our multiple historical locations. Life unfolds at multiple levels and spaces between which exist complex overlays, tensions, conflicts and connections. Besides the conventions and expediencies of scholarship, often in practice historians too, will feel impelled to privilege one or another level or locus for their stories. However it is important to be aware of the reasons and limitations of such choices, and that no level or locus of analysis can credibly claim to subsume all others, or render them redundant.
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Gebauer, Carolin, and Roy Sommer. "Beyond vicarious storytelling: How level telling fields help create a fair narrative on migration." Open Research Europe 3 (January 16, 2023): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15434.1.
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Life stories play a crucial role in migration discourses: they serve as testimony in journalistic work, form the core of ambassadorial storytelling by NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and inspire collaborative projects initiated by writers seeking to express their solidarity. However, this article argues, drawing on migrants’ experiences for such purposes also creates an ethical dilemma: speaking about–or even for–rather than with migrants assigns them a passive role and tends to recycle existing narrative patterns and templates. Starting with a generic distinction between what we call stories of migration (various forms of self-expression granting migrants full authority and control over their narrative) and narratives on migration (external perspectives, e.g. academic, economic, political, and legal approaches, where lived experience doesn’t matter), we explore the extensive middle ground of hybrid forms between these two extremes–i.e. different kinds of vicarious storytelling–before discussing their ethical implications. We further show how the idea of the level playing field, a key concept in economics, can be used in transdisciplinary research projects to establish level telling fields (LTFs), i.e., communicative spaces characterized by a fair dialogue on an equal footing for all participants.
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Dvořák, Vojtěch. "Homeless People as Agents of Self-representation: Exploring the Potential of Enhanced Participation in a Community Newspaper Project." Central European Journal of Communication 15, no. 1(30) (June 23, 2022): 132–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.15.1(30).7.
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Homeless people are subjected to disadvantageous representations in the media, also lacking opportunities for self-representation. This article reports on the findings of two preparatory stages of a project that involves homeless people in the publication of their own newspaper. The findings show that homeless people want to represent themselves through self-created news and to address homelessness as a social issue through people’s life stories, which has the potential to challenge mainstream media practices related to portraying homelessness. At the same time, the analysis reveals several issues that need to be considered while implementing such projects. For example, self-empowerment may sometimes come at the price of disempowerment of others. This emphasizes the importance of carefully structuring the facilitating processes to promote homeless people’s genuine media participation, and to support individual and community empowerment.
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KHUDYAKOVA, Marina V., and Dmitriy I. SHASHKIN. "AGRIBUSINESSMEN OF THE TYUMEN OBLAST SOUTH: LIFE-STORIES ANALYSIS." Tyumen State University Herald. Social, Economic, and Law Research 7, no. 4 (2021): 46–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-7897-2021-7-4-46-68.
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Agricultural entrepreneurship, viewed as an essential structural factor for the development of economy and market relations in rural areas, is largely affected by the socio-economic context. The article discloses the realities of Russian agricultural entrepreneurship on the example of various forms of agribusinesses in the remote Russian countryside (companies, farms, peasant farms). Article aims to reveal the characteristic image of a rural businessman of the Tyumen oblast south. Empirical data are obtained as a part of a research project which studies the development of regional rural areas. Authors’ narrative analysis of problematic issues is based on 59 expert in-depth interviews (21 with agribusinessmen, 38 with the ones of related occupations). In the theoretical aspect, the authors rely on classical and modern scientific literature on rural sociology, sociology of entrepreneurship and theoretical and methodological approaches that dominate in these areas of sociology. Qualitative data analysis allowed us to reveal: 1) main characteristics of a rural businessman, their actual qualities and skills necessary for their work; 2) internal and external factors of the business environment, that influence the efficiency of agribusiness. The problems of agriculture and rural areas, considered as barriers to business-activity development, are contextually identified. Scientific novelty of results is determined by the original empirical data, obtained through expert interviews, as it can be used in further research within this field. The application of MAXQDA Plus 2020 tools for analysis and interpretation of qualitative and mixed data is of practical importance.
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Purnomo, Aji Susanto Anom, Novan Jemmi Andrea, and Monica Revias Purwa Kusuma. "NARASI LIRIS FOTOGRAFI JURNALISTIK PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19: STUDI KASUS PROYEK FOTOGRAFI “STILL LIVES” OLEH THE NEW YORK TIMES." Jurnal Bahasa Rupa 4, no. 2 (April 21, 2021): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31598/bahasarupa.v4i2.714.
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2020 is the year when the world is faced with a health crisis, namely the Covid-19 pandemic or also known as the Corona Virus. All aspects of life are affected by this crisis, the joints of humanity are faced with limitations. The mass media are intensively reporting various incidents regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. The stories are often accompanied by journalistic photos. One of the functions of photojournalism is to strengthen the story of what the media wants to convey. Journalistic photos during this pandemic usually feature scenes from medical activities, government policies and large narratives that are cold on empathetic human relations. However, different from most photojournalism in most mass media, The New York Times publishes "Still Lives" photography projects that are done by its photographers. The project presents a different narrative from this time of the pandemic. The “Still Lives” photography project is important because it presents journalistic photos that tell a domestic narrative that is close to the sides of universal humanity, namely the stories of the photographers' homes and families. This study aims to describe and interpret the “Still Lives” photography project as an alternative in creating a different narrative from photojournalism during the pandemic. This study used a descriptive qualitative research method based on phenomenology with Roland Barthes' main theory of semiotics and supported by journalistic photography theory and representation theory. The research results obtained a complete explanation and meaning of the “Still Lives” Project from The New York Times. The project according to the theory of photo journalistic is photo story based on personal experiences. From the analysis through the theory of semiotics from Roland Barthes and representation theory successfully obtained a result that basically projects “Still Lives” can be understood as a representation of the universal experience and feeling by mankind. Project “Still Lives” provides the representation of covid-19 pandemic through the mass media journalistic that show an alternative offer to journalistic practice to use lyrical narratives and personal experience in the story and more empathy in the mass publication of pandemic covid-19.
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Bzymek, Agnieszka. "Rezyliencja w wybranych kontekstach pedagogiki społecznej." Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe 2021(42), no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21852/sem.2021.2.09.
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This article is the outcome of projects implemented at the Daily Care Home at the Local Support Centre in Gdańsk, aimed at increasing socio-cultural activation and counteracting social exclusion. Among the activities, I especially concentrated on those based on a narrative biography, i.e., real life stories about key existential moments with particular emphasis on revitalizing moments, overcoming critical situations, but also on the lack of such experiences. Thus, the narrators conduct a critical reflection on building the ability to regenerate as well as on the sources of resilience, its potential, and ways of using it in the field of education. The article undertakes a reflection on possible activities of social pedagogy, in which I see the problems of resilience in relation to adult education, and it does not include, due to the complexity of the topic, analyzes of the heard stories.
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Hughes, Hawksmoor. "Crafts Lives: oral history in the making." Art Libraries Journal 33, no. 4 (2008): 11–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200015558.
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Crafts Lives, an oral history project for National Life Stories at the British Library, records in-depth life stories of Britain’s craftspeople exploring both their personal and their working lives. This new archive will provide a well of new information for academics, historians, students and craftspeople to draw upon. It should also contribute to a definition of British crafts that will give them their proper place in relation to the fine arts.
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Thörnqvist, Christer, and Sebastian Bernhardsson. "Their own stories – how Polish construction workers posted to Sweden experience their job situation, or resistance versus life projects." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 21, no. 1 (December 5, 2014): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258914561409.
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Branscombe, Amanda, Prentice T. Chandler, and Sandra L. Little. "Students drum life stories: The role of cultural universals in project work." Journal of Social Studies Research 41, no. 1 (January 2017): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2015.10.004.
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Parry, Bronwyn. "The Social Life of “Scaffolds”." Science, Technology, & Human Values 43, no. 1 (October 15, 2017): 95–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243917735179.
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Technologies for enhancement of the human body historically have taken the form of an apparatus: a technological device inserted in, or appended to, the human body. The margins of these devices were clearly discernible and materially circumscribed, allowing the distinction between the corporeality of the human body and the “machine” to remain both ontologically and materially secure. This dualism has performed some important work for human rights theorists, regulators, and policy makers, enabling each to imagine they can establish where the human ends and the other begins. New regenerative products such as Infuse™ and Amplify™ subsist, as animal-derived scaffolds seeded with growth hormone implanted within a prosthetic device. They are much more materially complex, and their identities thus remain open to contestation. Following Lochlann Jain’s 2006 work, I thus attend closely to their social lives, particularly the stories that are told about them and how these are employed to construct understandings of what kind of a phenomenon they are: systemic drug, biologic, or combinatorial medical device. The significance of this classificatory project is revealed in the final section of this paper, which explores how these stories shape understandings of “product failure,” liability, and causation when such products overflow their material and ontological categorization and their recipients become disturbingly “more than human.”
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Bandel, Katrin, Anne Shakka, Gusnita Linda, and Yustina Devi Ardhiani. "JALAN GENDER, JALAN SPIRITUAL: MENGGALI PEMBENTUKAN GENDER PROJECT DALAM KONTEKS PENGALAMAN KEBERAGAMAAN PEREMPUAN." Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya 11, no. 3 (December 31, 2021): 263. http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/paradigma.v11i3.560.
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<p>Using the method of collaborative autoethnography, this study critically reflects on the life stories of three women from different backgrounds by focusing on gender and religion. One of the main aspects that we examined is gender projects, i.e. the projections people make when imagining their future gender roles and identities. As a result of our (self-) observations, we found that, while at first the gender project of those women was formed by the patriarchal gender order of their society, as time progresses, after living through and evaluating a variety of often traumatic experiences, they developed their own gender projects more independently from the constraints of the society. Religion played double roles during this process. Sometimes religious institutions became the space where traumatic experiences occurred and were even promoted, while in other contexts, religious institutions were experienced as safe spaces. However, their personal spirituality and self-transformation tended to be nurtured outside of formal religious institutions. In the end, the evaluation of these plural and complex experiences led us to more awareness of the limitations of religious institutions in accommodating and supporting women’s spirituality, due to their patriarchal gender regimes.</p>
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Polk, Brian K., Farida Ejaz, and Miriam Rose. "LEARNING FROM LIFE STORIES: RECRUITING NURSING HOME RESIDENTS FOR A LIFE STORY WORK PROGRAM." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1122.
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Abstract Recruiting nursing home (NH) residents to participate in program evaluations is a consistent challenge. This was evident in a federally supported project to improve person-centered care of long-stay NH residents enrolled in Medicaid. Evaluators sought to examine the impact of a life story work intervention using a pre-post study design involving interviews of NH residents and surveys of their family members and staff. Other resident eligibility criteria included willingness to participate in both research and life story interviews, age 60+, a Brief Inventory Mental Status (BIMS) score of 8 or higher, English-speaking, and consent from a legal guardian, if applicable. A total of 16 NHs agreed to participate in the implementation and evaluation of the program, which developed complimentary, individualized life story booklets for residents and a companion summary for staff. Of the homes’ combined population of 1,817 residents, 569 met eligibility criteria for the research study. Non-response from legal guardians excluded 37 residents, and 174 residents approached for recruitment declined to have their names released to the researchers. During baseline interviews, 20 residents failed the BIMS, 21 were unavailable, and 79 refused when approached by a research interviewer. Ultimately, 238 resident interviews were completed at baseline. Common themes for refusals included disinterest in participating in life story work, statements that theirs was not a good life worth talking about, and doubts that quality of care would improve. Strategies for addressing such challenges included displaying sample life story materials during recruitment and providing residents additional time to consider participation.
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Presser, Lois, Jennifer L. Schally, and Christine Vossler. "Life as a Reflexive Project: The Logics of Ethical Veganism and Meat-Eating." Society & Animals 28, no. 7 (November 28, 2018): 713–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341583.
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Abstract This paper is concerned with the ways that vegans and meat-eaters talk about themselves and their dietary practices. Data from a total of 81 semi-structured interviews with ethical vegans (n = 21) and meat-eaters (n = 60) were analyzed for themes and discursive strategies, and results were compared. Vegans insisted that nonhuman animals had interests of their own and spoke of making consumption choices. Meat-eaters tended to reduce animals to human purposes and claimed powerlessness to avoid doing harm to animals while also referencing some license to eating meat. Vegans shared stories of eating meat, whereas few of the meat-eaters did so. Turning points in those (vegan) stories pertained to realizations of harming animals, and thought knowledge were prominent themes in their accounts generally. Vegans were prone to critique past selves and the movement they had aligned themselves with. This research can help promote discourses of compassion and counter discourses of harm.
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Wilson-Ali, Nadia, Nicola Yelland, and Jeanne Marie Iorio. "Teachers as researchers: Life, death, and making waves." Global Studies of Childhood 11, no. 3 (August 30, 2021): 281–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20436106211038775.
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In this colloquium we share stories from two schools located in Western Australia that were inspired from the Reggio Emilia education project. The focus is on a view of children as capable citizens of the now. The examples in practice describe learning scenarios in which educators work as researchers using the ordinary moments of daily classroom life. It is in these ordinary moments where a pedagogy of listening is enacted.
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MASSA, ANN. "Henry Blake Fuller and the Cliff Dwellers: Appropriations and Misappropriations." Journal of American Studies 36, no. 1 (January 2002): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875802006795.
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The relative obscurity of Chicago's Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929), a prolific essayist, journalist, reviewer and novelist, with collections of plays, poems and short stories to his name, in part derives from the difficulty of placing him: the work resists classification. His early fiction, for instance, reflects, debates and sometimes satirises the alternating influences of Howells and James. The Cliff-Dwellers (1893) and With the Procession (1895), “American” novels, are framed by such “European” fictions as The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani (1890) and Waldo Trench and Others: Stories of Americans in Italy (1908). His closet homosexual novel Bertram's Cope's Year (1919), a translation of Goldoni's The Fan (1925) and the non-fictional Gardens of this World (1929) testify to an incremental diversity. Characteristically, his last work, the posthumously published novel Not on the Screen (1930), which projects the interactive mimicry of “real” life and cinema, saw Fuller exploring fresh thematic and formal territory.
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Hurd, Fiona, Suzette Dyer, and Mary Fitzpatrick. "“Good” things take time: a living story of research as “life”." Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal 14, no. 1 (March 11, 2019): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrom-03-2017-1507.
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Purpose Although the process of fieldwork is often characterised by disorder, the requirement to adhere to a tightly defined methodology and produce timely research outputs often leads the authors to present the findings as though the research has been the product of a linear process. The purpose of this paper is to unmask this paradox, by documenting the disorder and development of a research project 15 years (so far) in duration. Design/methodology/approach The approach used in this paper is one of auto-ethnographic reflection, drawing on aspects of Boje’s living story approach, incorporating not only the “linear” narrative of the research process, but also fragments of ante-narrative, themes running above and below the dominant. Within the study, the authors are reflecting on, a range of qualitative methods, including interview, focus groups, memory-work, and living story (ante-narrative) methods, which are employed within a critical management research methodology. Findings The authors’ experiences show that although “messiness” may be an inherent part of qualitative research, it is this very disorder, and the consequent opportunities for time and space, that allows the research, and the researcher, “time to breathe”. This reflexivity allows for methodological development and refinement, and ultimately rigorous and participative research, which also honours the participants. The authors argue that although this approach may not align with the current need for prolific (and rapid) publication, in allowing the disorder to “be” in the research, and allowing the time to reassess theoretical and methodological lenses, the resultant stories may be more authentic – both the stories gathered from participants and the stories of research. Originality/value The paper highlights the intertwining of stories of participants and stories from research, which is a significant addition to understandings of the “messiness” of qualitative research. This paper adds to the growing call for the inclusion of “chaos” and authenticity in qualitative research, acknowledging and valuing the humanity of the researcher, and giving voice to the paradox between the time to methodologically develop, and the requirement for timely research.
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Courtney, Cathy. "Artists’ Lives: The first thirty years." Art Libraries Journal 48, no. 1 (January 2023): 21–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/alj.2022.25.
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An account of the first thirty years of National Life Stories oral history project, Artists’ Lives, covering its origins, context, aims, organisation, technology and dissemination. The project is housed in the British Library.
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P, Jushaini. "Exploring the Facts and Fantasies in Neal Town Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 3 (March 28, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i3.10479.
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Literature enables people to think out of the box and connect with new ideas. At the same time, it takes us back and helps us know more about the life led by our ancestors. As a great foundation of life, literature fosters the overall development of the people and the society through inspiring stories, motivating tales and futuristic writings. We live in a world of technological advancements and Science Fiction stories are the profound ways to introduce extrapolation and speculation in literature. Built on a strong foundation of realistic concepts, sci-fi stories develop a futuristic world of limitless possibilities. Sci-fi stories take us to an exciting world where one witness unimaginable applications of science and technologies.
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer well-known for writing science fiction, cyberpunk and postcyberpunk stories. He belongs to a prestigious family of scientists and engineers. His father was a biochemistry professor and his paternal grandfather, a physics professor. After completing his studies from Boston University, he started working as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company specialized in developing spacecraft and space launch systems. Currently, he is serving as the chief futurist for Magic Leap. He also cofounded Subutai Corporation, a company dedicated to developing interactive fiction projects.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Town Stephenson. The novel’s protagonist is named Nell, who is a thete, meaning a person who is not a member of any of the phyles. The entire plot is set in a future nanotech world where three forms of tribes or phyles exist, known as the Han, the Neo-Victorian New Atlantis, and the Nippon. The Diamond Age details some of the applications of nanotechnology such as chevaline, smart paper, etc. This journal is an analysis of extrapolation and speculation used in the sci-fi novel, The Diamond Age, written with an aim to explore different facts and fantasies created by the author.
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van den Berg, Sarah Gerth, and Maria Liu Wong. "Stitching story and life together: Participatory textile making practices at a Harlem gallery." Journal of Arts & Communities 11, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2020): 81–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaac_00016_1.
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What brings a tourist from Italy, a lifelong resident of Harlem and a graduate student from a local university together? Crochet hooks, knitting needles, an assortment of green acrylic yarn and time and space for community craftivism. This case study focuses on crossing boundaries through participatory textile making, making time and space for relationship building in the changing neighbourhood of Harlem and practicing institutional stewardship as a ‘good neighbour’. The Walls-Ortiz Gallery and Center – the arts and research space of City Seminary of New York, an intercultural urban theological learning community – affords an opportunity to explore what happens when lives and stories are stitched together through participatory textile practices. Through the lenses of the EcCoWell learning neighbourhood approach and craftivism, this documentation and reflection of data from collaborative yarn bombing and community quilt-making projects over the past two years provide insights on lessons, challenges and opportunities of these community-oriented practices.