scholarly journals Narrative as Lived Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Domino Effect ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
The Many ◽  
Creation Stories ◽  
Historic Trauma

My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies (Arvol Looking Horse, May 2010). Aboriginal peoples have walked a long way through a landscape of loss and determination since early contact with Europeans. Today Indigenous authors, healers and spokespeople are asking our people to awaken fully and begin the process of reviving and practicing the seven sacred values that guided our ancestors and ensured that we might live today. The Prophesies and Creation stories contain the encouragement our people need to unburden themselves of deeply embedded historic trauma and loss. We have work to do; to tell our own stories, to actively participate in rescripting the narrative of our lives and representations, and to do this in our own voices (Nissley, 2009). This paper is a narrative of the historic challenges that have shadowed the many since ‘his-story’ began interspersed with the story of my own lived experience.

What does the concept of affordances afford?

2021 ◽  
pp. 105971232098268
Author(s):  
Rob Withagen ◽  
Alan Costall
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Functional Concept

Gibson once suggested that his ecological approach could provide architecture and design with a new theoretical basis. Erik Rietveld takes up this suggestion—the concept of affordances figures prominently not only in his philosophical and scientific work but also in the design practices he is engaged in. However, as Gibson introduced affordances as a functional concept, it seems ill-suited to capture the many dimensions of our lived experience of the (manufactured) environment. Can the concept of affordances also take on the expressive and aesthetic qualities of artifacts and buildings?

scholarly journals The lived experience of anxiety and the many facets of pain: A qualitative, arts-based approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Lynn Woodgate ◽  
Pauline Tennent ◽  
Sarah Barriage ◽  
Nicole Legras
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Many

After Their Kinds

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Adam Laats
Keyword(s):  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Evolutionary Science ◽  
The Many ◽  
Creation Stories

This chapter describes the many varieties of American creationism. A certain form of creationism tends to attract the most attention, a form this book describes as “radical” creationism. Some radical creationists believe in ideas that are truly outside the scientific mainstream, such as an actual global flood and the recent creation of humanity within the last 10,000 years or so. But those creationists are by far not the only representatives of American creationism. All religious traditions tend to have creation stories but very few religions demand that those stories are superior science. Many more people believe in types of creationism that have no argument with evolutionary science, as this chapter describes.

scholarly journals Voice of an Elder: Zhaawonde - Dawn of a New Day

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Shawanda ◽  
Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

This paper evolved, maybe ‘was birthed’ is an even better term given the circumstances, out of an engagement process that brought Gordon Shawanda and several university students together over an academic year. Gordon was invited to attend my Aboriginal Spirituality class at the University of Toronto in September 2009. He liked being there so much that he came each week, sitting through lectures, reading the materials, and participating with unerring grace in the many discussions over the entire year. We were all touched by his presence, his quiet dignity, and his deep interest in our academic learning and sharing experience. Gordon embodies what modern education is trying to get right, the bringing together of theory and practice, and the unveiling of the kind of humanity that can bring Indigenous Knowledge alive for all young people everywhere. Gordon was inspired by their enthusiastic receiving of his words to write down his story. This paper is his first real attempt to express the pain and healing he has experienced over his adulthood. I am honoured and humbled to (gently) edit this work for publication. This is a story that comes directly from the heart and soul of one man, but is the lived experience of many of our people who attended Indian Residential Schools in Canada. It is organized into four parts.

Life on the Hardened Border

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Miller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Coast Salish ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Security Officers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Many

The many Coast Salish groups distributed on both sides of the United States-Canada border on the Pacific coast today face significant obstacles to cross the international border, and in some cases are denied passage or intimidated into not attempting to cross. The current situation regarding travel by Aboriginal people reflects the "hardening" of the border by United States officials following the events of "9-11." A bureaucratic environment has become increasingly hostile to the interests of Aboriginal groups in favor of security. In addition, the problems encountered by individual Aboriginal travelers at the border reflect a transformed American impression of Canada, now commonly treated politically and administratively as a state from which enemies of America are positioned to harm American interests. These new perceptions create an environment that enables Homeland Security officers to regard Aboriginal peoples who seek to cross the border as suspect, although they do so under legal conventions that allow passage of Aboriginal peoples. Officers then act on their own received, stereotypical notions of what a "real Indian" looks like, and deny passage to those they consider to be fakes. These border issues reflect a larger pattern of the denial of Aboriginal rights and challenges to tribal sovereignty by the American state and its citizenry. Data for this work comes from interviews with Coast Salish people and the case of a Coast Salish man who was detained and prosecuted for attempting to cross the border. A justice summit held in 2003 provides direct insight into official American approaches to the border as they concern Aboriginal people, while reporting by the Seattle Times reveals local responses to 9-11.

Resilience theory and social memory. Avoiding abstraction

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Pillatt
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Resilience Theory ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
The Many ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
People’S Perceptions ◽  
Is Value

The aim of my article is to stimulate debate about the roles weather and climate might play in archaeological interpretations. It is, therefore, encouraging that the respondents have sought to develop and build upon the theoretical themes highlighted. Respondents have tended to agree with me that weather is and was an integral part of people's lives, and also that this is a subject worthy of archaeological research. This was by no means a certainty when we are considering something so ephemeral as weather in a discipline often held in thrall by the imprecisions of chronologies, and which has a penchant for the broad scale and the long term. Of course, these concerns do partly remain, yet the importance of weather, both as the lived experience of climate and as a medium through which people live their daily lives, is not questioned. As Wilkinson points out, the record of Michael the Syrian illuminates the many and varied environmental trials faced by past people, but Davies's anecdote concerning her perception of the Highland landscape warns against assuming that all people recognized and responded to similar weather (or climate) events in similar ways. This suggests that there is value in exploring a weather-based perspective. The question is, how do we get at the human experience of climate in the deeper past, when chronological resolution is coarser and where the lack of written records restricts access to people's perceptions?

Schoenberg as Sound Student: Pierrot’s Klang

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Auner
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Fundamental Dimension ◽  
Pierrot Lunaire ◽  
The Many

Schoenberg expended enormous energies on rethinking what sound could be and what it could mean in ways that anticipate and can be illuminated by sound studies. Focusing on Schoenberg’s understanding of the word Klang, this chapter explores the creative process and reception of Pierrot lunaire in the context of his writings on “sound,” one of the many possible translations of the term. Approaching Schoenberg’s music and his writings in Style and Idea and elsewhere from the vantage point of sound studies can attune us to his interests in destabilizing the boundaries not only between timbre, melody, and harmony, but also between music, sound, and noise, and between sound and our lived experience. The wide-ranging ramifications of his conception of Klang are evident in the ways that he engages with many aspects of music and its technologies and media while also going beyond specifically musical contexts to understand sound as a fundamental dimension of our thought and creativity, our experience, and our ways of relating with each other and our world.

Older adult hoarders’ experiences of being helped by volunteers and volunteers’ experiences of helping

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 697-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Ryninks ◽  
Vuokko Wallace ◽  
James D. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Domino Effect ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Hoarding Disorder ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBackground:There is limited research into the experiences of receiving and providing help in the context of hoarding disorder.Aims:The present study aimed to explore the experiences of older people with hoarding difficulties receiving help and volunteers providing support to people with hoarding problems.Method:Qualitative methods were adopted to investigate the lived experience of participants. A total of seven volunteer helpers and four people with hoarding disorder were recruited and interviewed using a semi-structured interview, designed to explore experiences of providing and receiving help. Qualitative analysis of the interview data was performed using interpretive phenomenological analysis.Results:Four superordinate themes were identified: relationship between client and volunteer; ‘live life again’; challenges; and supporting volunteers. The relationship was crucial in providing a trusting foundation from which clients felt able to move forward. Volunteers provided a space for clients to talk and appropriate self-disclosure helped to build a relationship. The informal and ‘non-professional’ status of volunteers enabled clients to take the lead and feel more in control of the therapeutic process. Volunteer flexibility and lack of time constraints contributed to clients ‘making space’ for themselves, both in their home and their lives. The support from volunteers enabled clients to ‘live life again’ and created a domino effect, bringing about improvements in other areas of their lives.Conclusions:The findings are discussed in relation to the training of health professionals to work with people with hoarding difficulties and the implications of the findings for treatment approaches and service provision.

English and politics

English Today ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Author(s):  
Mario Saraceni
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
World Language ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Great Availability ◽  
The Many

The Politics of English is an important book. Its subject is not English as a discrete, isolated linguistic entity, but the complex set of policies, values and practices that it is an inextricable part of. In exploring a range of interrelated themes, the focus is very much on English as a lived language or, better, as lived experience. In a textbook, this approach is particularly welcomed. There is great availability, nearly an inflation, of texts about English as a world language and the many varieties that have emerged in the last two centuries. By and large, these volumes tend to provide historical, geographical and linguistic overviews of the spread of English. While this is certainly very important, The Politics of English distinguishes itself by offering a different and critical perspective and extremely useful insights into what English actually means to its many users around the world.

Solastalgia

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn A. Albrecht
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

This chapter defines the author's term solastalgia as the lived experience of negative environmental change. The origins of this concept are explained via an account of the impact of coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales in Australia. The derivation of solastalgia from nostalgia (homesickness) and other roots is explained. The original research base of solastalgia is described as are the many applications of the concept world-wide over the last fifteen years since its creation. The applications of solastalgia are examined in academic, popular and cultural contexts, including the domain of ecocriticism. The chapter also considers some critical reflections on the concept since its creation.

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