The Alchemy of a Corpus of Underwater Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Deborah James
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Florida Reef Tract ◽  
Reef Restoration ◽  
The World ◽  
Reef Tract

Through an ecocinema lens, an unconventional corpus of photographs of Carysfort Reef, one of seven iconic coral reefs along the Florida Reef Tract, represents something of an extreme time-lapse series. In the absence of a cohesive underwater documentary record at the time when the Florida Reef Tract is undergoing the most extensive reef restoration in the world, speculation allows us to search for patterns in damaged places with incomplete information and practice a form of multispecies storytelling of our encounters. Taken in 1966, 2003, 2014, and 2019, these images are evidence of cultural moments in our changing relationship with this reef in the context of anthropocentrism, the emergence of an alternative environment spectatorship of awareness, and a baseline for localized social change.

Building Bridges and Trees

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
Irus Braverman
Keyword(s):  
Florida Keys ◽  
Florida Reef Tract ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Regimes ◽  
Reef Tract ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Coral Tree ◽  
Hurricane Irma

Ken Nedimyer is founder and president of the Coral Restoration Foundation. He has lived and worked in the Florida Keys for over forty years and has witnessed firsthand the degradation of the Florida Reef Tract. He established one of the largest coral nurseries in the world and has been training restoration groups, especially in the Caribbean, on how to use his unique coral tree technique. Nedimyer won multiple awards, including a CNN Hero in 2012 and a Disney Conservation Hero in 2014. I first interviewed him over the phone on January 4, 2016, then met him in person in Hawai‘i, and finally interviewed him a couple of weeks after Hurricane Irma hit the Florida Keys. Nedimyer is the only nonscientist among the interchapter interviews. His narrative is important, in my view, precisely because he is an outsider to that world, therefore providing a fresh reflection on both scientists and the existing legal regimes....

Engaging Youth in Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Interventions

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khushgeet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
The World

Although youth are often thought of as targets for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programmes, they are also active partners in creating a more sustainable world and effective ESD programmes. Today, more than ever, young women and men are change-makers, building new realities for themselves and their communities. All over the world, youth are driving social change and innovation, claiming respect for their fundamental human rights and freedoms, and seeking new opportunities to learn and work together for a better future. The education sector is generally seen as the most appropriate forum for involving children and youth in sustainable development, and initiatives to this end have been adopted in many countries. The present paper puts forth such initiatives, interventions and strategies that can be undertaken to engage youth in education for sustainable development at the global as well as the local level.

“Jumble Sales Are the Same the World Over”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
West African ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Lesbian Relationships ◽  
Female Friendship ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Headed Households

This chapter analyzes the novels of the British writer Barbara Pym, which are often read as cozy tales of English middle-class postwar life but which, I argue, are profoundly influenced by the work Pym carried out as an editor of the journal Africa at the International African Institute in London, where she worked for decades. She used ethnographic techniques to represent social change in a postwar, decolonizing, non-normative Britain of female-headed households, gay and lesbian relationships, and networks of female friendship and civic engagement. Pym’s novels of the 1950s implicitly criticize the synchronic, functionalist anthropology of kinship tables that dominated the discipline in Britain, substituting an interest in a new anthropology that could investigate social change. Specific anthropological work on West African social changes underpins Pym’s English fiction, including several journal articles that Pym was editing while she worked on her novels.

scholarly journals Identity, language learning, and social change

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonny Norton ◽  
Kelleen Toohey
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
The World

In this review article on identity, language learning, and social change, we argue that contemporary poststructuralist theories of language, identity, and power offer new perspectives on language learning and teaching, and have been of considerable interest in our field. We first review poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity, and positioning and explain sociocultural theories of language learning. We then discuss constructs ofinvestmentandimagined communities/imagined identities(Norton Peirce 1995; Norton 1997, 2000, 2001), showing how these have been used by diverse identity researchers. Illustrative examples of studies that investigate how identity categories like race, gender, and sexuality interact with language learning are discussed. Common qualitative research methods used in studies of identity and language learning are presented, and we review the research on identity and language teaching in different regions of the world. We examine how digital technologies may be affecting language learners' identities, and how learner resistance impacts language learning. Recent critiques of research on identity and language learning are explored, and we consider directions for research in an era of increasing globalization. We anticipate that the identities and investments of language learners, as well as their teachers, will continue to generate exciting and innovative research in the future.

A typology of social change agendas in Australian arts organizations and NGOs

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet ◽  
Gillian Howell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Artists

An increasing number of creative artists, arts organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are working on socially-engaged initiatives that aim to bring about positive change in communities. Examples of outstanding arts practices can be found throughout the world; however, there are major gaps in our understanding about how this work operates. Drawing on insights from 100 Australian arts organizations and NGOs working in this field, this article aims to address some of these gaps. It outlines a typology of change agendas in these organizations, in order to advance a deeper understanding of this field and inform future research, practice and policy.

scholarly journals The Cooperative Development And Strategy

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Adriano Dias de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Competitive Strategy ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Cooperative Development ◽  
Emergent Strategy ◽  
The World ◽  
Organizational Placement

Cooperatives are organizations with great potential and possibilities to stir social change. In face of economic difficulties, cooperative is an option to take advantage of  the existing productive power and, once authorized to operate as financial institution, they can face the economical instability and work to improve people welfare. This paper is a study on possible emergent strategy in a credit cooperative in the south of Minas Gerais, aiming at proposing an introduction of a competitive strategy to the organizational development. It was observed as a theoretical referential the origin and the development of cooperativism, some ways of management which aim at strategic planning.World tendency clearly shows that, even though the cooperativism segment has become one of the most developed segments in the last years, this system is still trying to solve problems of strategic formulation and organizational placement, aiming at developing a segmented financial market, much more competitive.To propose of a strategy to the cooperative studied, gain importance when we analyze the financial market context, since this segment is one of the most regulated and organized on the world. At the end of the study, are detect the main points that can collaborate significantly to the development of this cooperative, showing as proposal suggestion of management pacing and strategic development.

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