scholarly journals Meaning-making narratives within a puzzle of parts: A psychobiographical sketch of Sylvia Plath

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Angela F. Panelatti ◽  
Joseph G. Ponterotto ◽  
Paul J. P. Fouché
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Family System ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Journal Entries ◽  
Different Parts

This study aimed to unveil Sylvia Plath’s (1932–1963) meaning-making narratives, within her life’s puzzle of parts, by utilising the Internal Family System (IFS) model of Schwartz. Plath was purposively selected as subject since she has been proclaimed as one of the most renowned and influential voices in 20th century Anglo-American culture and literature. Although she only published one collection of poems, “The Collosus”, and one novel, “The Bell Jar”, in her lifetime, the plethora of short stories, poems, journal entries and letters which were published after her suicide secured her status as a powerful and creative voice. Methodological strategies utilised to sort and integrate the wealth of publically-available socio-historical data on Plath included the analysis of psychobiographical indicators of salience according to the model of Irving Alexander and the data analysis matrix procedure of Robert Yin. Findings suggest that each stage of Plath’s life was characterised by “parts-led” functioning as a result of transferred burdens, imperfect care-taking, existential anxiety and traumatic emotional experiences. This resulted in polarisation of her different parts, which blocked the healing energy of her Self and aggravated feelings of worthlessness, in spite of her creative meaning-making narratives. Since Sylvia used her creative genius to address socio-historical issues and injustices, her life lends itself to meaning-making narratives, especially those that empower and inspire future generations of previously disempowered groups.

‘It’s not all it’s cracked up to be’: Narratives of promotions in elite professional careers

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (9) ◽  
pp. 1199-1225
Author(s):  
Stefanie Gustafsson ◽  
Juani Swart
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Scholarly Attention

How do organizational decision-makers and promotion candidates experience promotions in elite professional careers? Despite literature recognizing that promotions are important career events for organizations and individuals, this question has received little scholarly attention. Drawing on a narrative approach and combining spoken and visual accounts, this article examines how organizational decision-makers and promotion candidates experience the promotion to partnership in law firms. Our study reveals four narratives that illustrate important differences and similarities in their accounts. In the official script, organizational decision-makers uniformly recounted promotions in a detached way, emphasizing objective meanings of career success. In contrast, promotion candidates’ accounts were varied, ranging from joy and anticipation in walk in the park, to anger and frustration in dark art to anxiety and ambivalence in bittersweet narratives. The study makes three contributions to the literature on promotions. First, we develop an emotion-based understanding of promotions suggesting that promotions are constructed through people’s lived emotional experiences that inform their meaning making of the new role. Second, we argue that promotions are not always positive career events, but potentially contradictory and negative. Third, we contribute to extant research on promotions that has favoured quantitative methodologies by adopting a multimodal approach.

Primates in Paris and Edgar Allan Poe’s Paradoxical Commitment to Foreign Languages

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87
Author(s):  
ALISTAIR ROLLS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Orang Utan

Drawing on recent innovations in detective criticism in France, this article broadens the quest to exonerate Poe’s famous orang-utan and argues that the Urtext of modern Anglo-American crime fiction is simultaneously a rejection of linguistic dominance (of English in this case) and an apologia for modern languages. This promotion of linguistic diversity goes hand in hand with the wilful non-self-coincidence of Poe’s detection narrative, which recalls, and pre-empts, the who’s-strangling-whom? paradox of deconstructionist criticism. Although “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is prescient, founding modern crime fiction for future generations, it is entwined with a nineteenth-century tradition of sculpture that not only poses men fighting with animals but also inverts classical scenarios, thereby questioning the binary of savagery versus civilization and investing animals with the strength to kill humans while also positing them as the victims of human violence.

scholarly journals Possible role of auroral oval-related currents in two intense magnetic storms recorded by old mid-latitude observatories Clementinum and Greenwich

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. A11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fridrich Valach ◽  
Pavel Hejda ◽  
Miloš Revallo ◽  
Josef Bochníček
Keyword(s):  
Ring Current ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Auroral Oval ◽  
Magnetic Storms ◽  
Local Times ◽  
The North ◽  
Positive Variation ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Different Parts

Some recent studies point out that currents related to the auroral oval, electrojets and field aligned currents (FACs), are serious candidates for the mechanism of the intense mid-latitude magnetic storms. It is interesting to re-analyse historical data under the light of this modern knowledge. In this aim, we analysed two intense magnetic storms that were recorded by observatories Clementinum (Prague) and Greenwich on 17 November 1848 and 4 February 1872, respectively. The latter has been marked as an extraordinary event by several authors, in particular in connection with auroras. The former, however, has been little known in the space weather community. Both these events possessed swift and extensive variations of the horizontal (H) component (>400 nT and >500 nT, respectively) and were accompanied by auroras sighted at very low magnetic latitudes. This implies that the auroral oval on the north hemisphere was vastly extended southward. The variations of the magnetic declination also indicate that during these events the auroral oval was situated at magnetic latitudes lower than those of the observatories. The storms studied in this paper occurred at different magnetic local times (MLTs), ~23 MLT and ~19 MLT. Therefore, they might represent mid-latitude events related to different parts of the auroral oval. In this paper, the H-variation recorded at Clementinum in 1848 is interpreted to be a substorm due to the ionospheric substorm electrojet. The Greenwich event registered in 1872 then seems to be a combination of the ring-current storm with a positive variation of the H-component caused by the eastward electrojet. Both the events of 1848 and 1872 appear to exemplify phenomena that are common in high magnetic latitudes but which may occasionally happen also at mid-latitudes.

scholarly journals The International Year of Crystallography

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1287-C1287
Author(s):  
Claude Lecomte ◽  
Gautam Desiraju
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South America ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Hands On ◽  
International Collaborations ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Different Parts

IYCr2014 aims at improving public awareness of the field, boost access to instrumentation and high-level research, nurture "home-grown" crystallographers in developing nations, and increase international collaborations for the benefit of future generations. The IUCr-UNESCO OpenLab is a network of operational crystallographic laboratories based mainly in Africa, Asia and South America, and implemented in partnership with industry. The OpenLabs will enable students in far-flung lands to have hands-on training in modern techniques and expose them to cutting-edge research in the field. Such project was started based on the strong experience gained through the IUCr Initiative in Africa . The Summit meetings are intended to bring together scientists from countries in three widely separated parts of the world. Karachi (Pakistan), Campinas (Brazil) and Bloemfontein (South Africa). These meetings, attended by scientists from academia and industry and by science administrators, will focus on high-level science, and also highlight the difficulties and problems of conducting competitive scientific research in different parts of the developing world. Moreover, a worldwide crystal-growing competition aims at attracting and inspiring youngsters.

scholarly journals Engaging ‘Future Generations’ in Meaning Making through Visual Methods: An Alternative Approach to Defining City-Regions

2021 ◽  
pp. 391-416
Author(s):  
Lorena Axinte
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
City Region ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

AbstractCity-regional planning has gained significant attention and funding in the UK, as national and local authorities decided that an intermediary level—the city-region—would be the appropriate one to drive economic development. Nonetheless, city-regions have long been criticized for their undemocratic and closed structures, enlarging the engagement barriers especially for young people. Encouraged by Wales’ innovative legislation, The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act, this research tried to fill the gap in the city-regional youth engagement literature. Specifically, it asked: How could a research project stimulate a conversation with the future generations about the areas where they live, and how could it encourage meaningful reflections on previously unfamiliar concepts, such as city-regions? Two creative participatory research methods, web-mapping and Photovoice, helped explore young people’s lived experience within a newly created administrative layer—Cardiff Capital Region. Results show that despite failing to emancipate the participants’ voices and needs, the two methods employed helped to attract participants, facilitated the understanding of the city-region concept and enabled young people to reflect on their surrounding environment.

scholarly journals ITALIAN SOCIETY UNDER ANGLO-AMERICAN BOMBS: PROPAGANDA, EXPERIENCE, AND LEGEND, 1940–1945

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1017-1038 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA BALDOLI ◽  
MARCO FINCARDI
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
World War ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Italian Experience ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Second World ◽  
Different Parts

ABSTRACTThe Italian experience of being bombed has been neglected in the historiography of the Second World War, especially in English. This marginalization is not justified by the record of events; according to official estimates, Italian civilian victims of bombing numbered around 60,000. The reaction of the Italian population to air raids was carefully evaluated and discussed by the Allies, who decided to hit civilians living near industrial areas with a view to testing their psychological resistance. The article focuses on the civilians' reactions to death coming from the sky, by examining their response to both Anglo-American and Fascist propaganda, and to the experience of the raids at different stages of the war. It analyses the ways in which civilians coped with the collapse of state defences (including the creation of legends and the spreading of rumours independent of state propaganda), and the psychologically complex and shifting response to bombers who introduced themselves as liberators. The research presented is based on archival sources, particularly prefects' reports from different parts of Italy to the Ministry of Interior, on both Anglo-American and Fascist propaganda, newspaper articles, and civilians' diaries.

A Psycholinguistic View of Tourists’ Emotional Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Rahmani ◽  
Juergen Gnoth ◽  
Damien Mather
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Perceptual Process ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
Large Samples

What is the emotional impact that destinations have on their tourists? We offer a psycholinguistic view of tourists’ emotional experiences, by applying a methodology that objectively reveals how destinations move tourists emotionally. Deconstructing tourists’ perceptual process, our study extracts affective reactions from destination experiences and investigates their impact on tourists’ interpretation as expressed in large samples of Web 2.0 blogs. We apply Corpus Linguistics to measure the content and weight of eight basic emotions contained in those reactions and how they influence tourists’ meaning-making in 10 destination countries. The findings first uncover these affective reactions, and secondly, how combinations of positive and negative emotions help construct meaning-making. The emotions of Anticipation and Trust are revealed as the fundamental drivers of tourism. The study contributes theoretically and empirically to emotion research as well as a new methodology to measure experiences. The results impact destination image, experience, motivation, and satisfaction research.

scholarly journals The occurrence of pharmaceutical waste in different parts of the world: A scoping review

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Yun Jin ◽  
Muhammad Shahzad Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Pharmaceutical Waste ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Biodegradable Properties ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Different Parts

Pharmaceutical waste in our ecosystem is the huge burden for our future generations, especially in developing countries. It can be in every place even in drinking water after water treatment. It was observed the presence of over the counter drugs such as ibuprofen, naproxen, acetaminophen and antibiotic such as sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, erythromycin the most in the environment. Among all result, Carbamazepine which is known to treat epilepsy was found the most in the environment when the results were compiled from different parts of the world due to its low biodegradable properties. The current article is focused on the occurrence of pharmaceutical waste in the last eight years (January 2010- July 2018) published research work.

scholarly journals Sentymentalny wymiar „napoleońskich” wspomnień Franciszka Wiktora Dmochowskiego

2020 ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Artur Timofiejew
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
External Reality ◽  
Strip Structure ◽  
Napoleonic Era ◽  
The Way

The article focuses on showing memoirs of Napoleonic era – Franciszek Wiktor Dmochowski’s <em>Letters from a Former Sergeant Major</em> (Pol. <em>Pisma byłego wachmistrza</em>; 1843) – as a sign of vivacity of sentimentalism at the end of early part of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. Two-strip structure of narration – recording of historical data and recording of subjective emotional experiences – shows accordance with typical sentimental regulation: the more intensive inner life the richer description of external reality. The motif of unfortunate love plays an important part in carrying a recollection. Apart of sentimentally conventionalized narrative structure the work of Dmochowski is perceived by its editor, Andrzej Edward Koźmian, in the way that indicates a publishing manner of sentimentalism. The publisher in his <em>Preface</em> creates the author of memoirs according with sentimental anthropological patterns and explains this creation referring sentimental axiology which he consents to.

Judaism and Hellenism in Palestine and Alexandria: Two Models of a National and Cultural Encounter

1997 ◽  
pp. 306-336
Author(s):  
Yaacov Shavit
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the period between Alexander the Great’s conquest of Palestine and the moment when paganism gave way to Christianity. In Palestine — just as in Egypt — Hellenistic culture continued to flourish under Roman rule, and there the confrontation-cum-encounter with the Jews took place with Rome as the political authority — and with Hellenism as the culture. The focus here is on the way in which this period served as an inclusive historical paradigm, and on the way in which different parts of it were symbols’ of historical phenomena. As the chapter shows, the encounter with Hellenism, particularly in the Hasmonean era, had a powerful and influential impact, and its effects on future generations — and on Jewish historical consciousness — were profound. That is precisely why it functioned as a model of the nature of the encounter between Judaism and other cultures.

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