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Blunt, Caroline Sarah. "Arriving home : A multi-sited ethnography of the making of 'home'." Thesis, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514230.
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Massoumi, Nariman. "Home in the frame : diasporic, domestic ethnography in documentary film practice." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690744.
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This practice-as-research project explores the meaning of family filmmaking in diaspora through the making of four documentaries about my parents, their experiences and memories of home as first generation displaced Iranians living in Britain. While displaced film/makers are a growing interest in studies of world and transnational cinema, a neglected area of enquiry is the diasporic family film. To this end, I focus on two aspects of family filmmaking in the context of displacement. Firstly, how conventional family portraits and home mode artefacts operate in diasporic family films, as evident in three of the short films presented. I propose historically contingent spacetime relations shaping memory, representation and performance in these practices. In diaspora, a pronounced tension between host and home complicates their cultural function. Secondly, with reference to the final film, I examine the psychodynamics of filming an intimate domestic encounter, drawing on object-relations psychoanalysis. In doing so, the thesis finds new ways of thinking about creativity, intersubjectivity and ethics in documentary, as well as the psychic investment in home and family in diasporic, domestic ethnography.
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Morton, James Neill. "'Home straits(?)' a school principal facing retirement : an auto-ethnography and ethnodrama." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695861.
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As a school principal approaching retirement, I began to keep a journal in which I recorded the daily business in which I was absorbed. And, through review of and reflection on my entries, I tried to understand myself a little better. Critical incident methodology provided the tools by which I sought to process a morass of experiences. I identified two themes which provided insight into my role. One concerned School Leadership, the other was around the pastoral responses to students facing exclusion. I determined to present this material as an ethnodrama involving two actors. I entitled it, 'Home Straits?'. The pun was intended, the question mark invited investigation (I have been asked if the title was a typo): at the start of my EdD journey I believed that I was in the final phase of my career; metaphorically, I believed that I was in the home straight. In reviewing my journal entries I recognised that the metaphor aligning my experiences to the final stretch of a linear journey was inaccurate and inappropriate. I needed another conceit for my late career. A 'strait' is a narrow passage of water connecting two large areas of water. It is usually treacherous, a condition reflected in its metaphoric use in plural form to describe a situation characterised by trouble or difficulty. I had hoped that the play on words would draw attention to the tension between the two metaphors: one suggesting a gallop to the finish; the other, a struggle to stay afloat in choppy waters. But there is another tension played out: that caused by the search for form and voice as I seek to present the personal in a mode amenable to the wider engagement of a theatre audience as well as an academic one.
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Al, Chami Mohamad Hamze. "Economization of Home Care in Ontario: A Critical Ethnography of Nursing Actions." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42670.
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Many nursing theorists consider caring the essence of nursing practice. Yet, the meaning of caring is still elusive in nursing theories. This confusion in conceptualizing caring is exacerbated by the neoliberal socio-political and economic transformations of our societies that infuse nursing practice with economic efficiency values ‒ a condition that threatens the ethical dimensions of nursing. This critical study analyzes nursing actions in home care in Ontario and empirically reconstructs the normative dimensions of care based on nurses’ own perceptions of good care. The findings are used to critique current healthcare transformations through a critical theory of nursing actions.
This study is situated in the tradition of the Frankfurt critical school and pursues an emancipatory interest. Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition is the principal theoretical foundation complemented by Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action and the interests of knowledge, in addition to the concepts of phenomenology and corporality. It uses critical ethnography as a methodological approach. Data collection included audiotaped semi-structured open-ended interviews with 18 nurses working for two different home care providers in Ottawa. Analysis demonstrates that the patient must be recognized on three dimensions: love, legal rights, and solidarity. Care is a specific form of communicative action in which patients should participate equally in decision making. Nursing actions comprise a hermeneutic-phenomenological dimension of “deep knowing” that respect the corporal and personal needs of the patient. Healthcare transformations and economic efficiency measures reinforce technical and standardized forms of care, which lead to pathologic practices that neglect patients’ corporal needs, thereby reifying patients. Nursing actions combine both technical and corporal aspects that characterize their “double logic.”
This study provides elements for a critical theory of nursing actions. Findings highlight that nurses have a vision of how nursing care should look like, but the reality of home care makes it rather impossible to realize this vision. Economization leads to a systematic violation of multiple dimensions of recognition and to reification. Nurses must resist these social pathologies and this study provides some theoretical tools to engage in this struggle.
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Andreassen, Olaug Irene Rosvik Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "When home is the navel of the world: an ethnography of young Rapa Nui between home and away." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41457.
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Rapa Nui (Easter Island) has for centuries been known as an isolated island of archaeological mysteries; yet after a rapid modernisation this is today an international tourist destination, a World Heritage Site and a glocalised community. This anthropological study based on long-term fieldwork among young Rapa Nui on the island and away, describes how it can be to grow up in and to belong to such a place. Place is seen as a continually constructed social space and is influenced by Miriam Kahn??s use of Henri Lefebvre??s concept thirdspace. Rapa Nui, as a place, people and community, is here understood as continuously formed by global and local influences. Thus, although historical, global and national influences can seem overwhelming in such a small tourist destination with a turbulent colonial history, this study also sees the opinions and practices of the inhabitants as important agents. This thesis shows how young Rapa Nui are both influenced by and influencing what Rapa Nui is and becomes. Above all, their guiding principle seems to be a continuing strong attachment to their land ??also called Te Pito o te Henua (??The Navel of the World??).
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Ball, Barith. "Probing the Pandemic: Participants as Ethnographers at Home." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21682.
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This thesis aimed to investigate ways to conduct participatory research practices that would gain knowledge of participants' relationships and experiences with/in their physical home environment by using a design probe. Through the probe, a new approach to participatory design research was formulated. This approach gives agency to participants through elements of auto-ethnography, thus shifting the traditional power structures that often exist between participants and designers. This new type of research could yield greater intimacy and mutuality between designers and their participants. Due to this, it has the potential to be meaningful when designing for the home environment, and therefore can be used for research and design within the Internet of Things.
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Lee-Treweek, Geraldine Anne. "Discourse, care and control : an ethnography of residential and nursing home elder care work." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/362.
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This thesis presents the notion that paid elder care work is often more involved with ordering individuals, than caring for them. It discusses this issue via ethnographic data about care assistant and nursing auxiliary work, which was collected in two elder care homes: Hazelford Lodge residential home and Bracken Court nursing home. The thesis uses care, control, and knowledge as the main themes for the discussion of work in both homes. The first chapter sites the thesis within the context of the academic literature on the discourses of the body, the nature of care work and residential care. It focuses especially upon care work as body labour. Chapter two presents the ethnographic methodological approach of the thesis, in two sections. Firstly, the use of the Foucauldian notion of discourse is explained, and secondly, the research process and research relationships are explored through a reflexive account. Chapters two and three present social, structural and spatial aspects of the two settings. They discuss the different ways in which the homes were organised, and that spaces were utilised and had different meanings, within the homes. Chapters four and five are based upon data from Hazelford Lodge residential home, and illustrate the care assistants' work as centred upon created order in the home, based upon the typification of residents and others. Chapters six and seven explore the auxiliaries' work in Bracken Court and present three control issues as central to their jobs. Firstly the overt ordering of patients around spaces in the home. Secondly, the normalisation of individuals into patient, and objects, of body work. Thirdly, the auxiliaries' resistance to heir role and status. Chapter eight compares the work of the assistants and auxiliaries in terms of resident and patient construction, the nature of the two forms of work, their knowledge, and lastly, their constructions of place and status. The thesis argues that both groups of workers are involved in ordering bodies that they perceive to be problematic and degenerating. In Hazelford Lodge order and discipline is practised as care and in Bracken Court the auxiliaries use more overt forms of control, but both 'caring' and controlling are effective methods of creating order. By introducing notions of body labour and ordering, the thesis presents a unique critique of paid care.
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Davis, Haggerty Luane Ruth. "Adjusting The Margins: Building Bridges Between Deaf and Hearing Cultures Through Performance Arts." [Yellow Springs, Ohio] : Antioch University, 2006. http://www.rit.edu/~lrdnpa/diss/www/home/home.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Antioch University, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 29, 2007). Advisor: Carolyn B. Kenny. Keywords: performance ethnography, drama, Deaf theater, leadership, cultural identity, ethnographic research. Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-285 ).
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Chuang, Yeu-Hui. "Exploration of elderly residents' care needs in a Taiwanese nursing home : an ethnographic study." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16470/.
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This study has explored the culture of nursing home life as experienced by elderly nursing home residents in Taiwan in order to understand, describe and interpret their care needs. In December 2006, the elderly represented 10% of the total population of Taiwan, and this proportion is predicted to increase steadily. In turn, this increase suggested that Taiwan would see ever greater numbers of elderly people with chronic illnesses and physical and mental disabilities. To care for these people, nursing homes have expanded rapidly throughout Taiwan. However, the quality of care provided in these nursing homes has become an urgent matter of concern. Though meeting the residents' care needs is essential for the provision of the best quality care, a review of the available literature shows that the care needs of the elderly residents within the nursing home context are poorly understood, both in Taiwan and internationally. To address this gap in present understanding, a focused ethnographic approach, using participant observation, in-depth interviews and a review of documents, was undertaken between July 2005 and February 2006. The key participants were sixteen elderly residents who were 65 years old and over, had no cognitive impairment and had lived in the nursing home selected for the present study for at least six months. Eight nurses, six nursing assistants, one private nursing assistant, one orderly, one physician's assistant and four family members were also interviewed, with questions put to them being based on the data generated from the observation and in-depth interviews with the elderly residents. All interviews were recorded on a digital recorder and transcribed verbatim. Following this, the data gathered from the in-depth interviews, the participant observation and the review of documents was sorted and indexed using the qualitative software program, NVivo7. A five-step analytic process, based on concepts discussed in previous literature, was used to trace the emerging themes. Nine major care needs were identified by the elderly residents. These included basic functional care needs, emotional support care needs, economic care needs, psychological care needs, environmental care needs, social support care needs, professional care needs, religious care needs and preparation for death care needs. Three themes of nursing home culture were generated; these were collective life, care rituals and embedded beliefs. The findings of the study indicate that the structure and culture of the nursing home contribute to several care needs remaining unmet. In addition, the results reveal that it is necessary to satisfy economic care needs before other care needs can be resolved. These findings fill an important gap in nursing knowledge regarding the delivery of better quality care in nursing homes. They also provide relevant information to nursing practice, nursing education and Taiwanese long-term care policy-making, and provide a sound basis for future residential care research.
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Paxton, Blake. "Feeling at Home with Grief: An Ethnography of Continuing Bonds and Re-membering the Deceased." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5758.
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Bereavement scholars Silverman, Nickman, and Klass (1996) have argued that rituals to continue a relationship with the deceased do not have to be considered pathological in nature. Since their work, scholars have offered specific strategies for the bereaved to actively construct a bond after death, including telling stories about those who have died, having imagined conversations with the deceased, celebrating their birthdays and anniversaries, and reviewing artifacts that represent or once belonged to them (among other strategies). Hedtke and Winslade (2004) call these “re-membering” processes by which the deceased can regain active membership in their loved ones lives. This dissertation is an answer to Root and Exline’s (2014) call for researchers to produce work that explores the bereaved individual’s everyday subjective experience of continuing a relationship with the deceased. Constructed from six weeks of ethnographic fieldwork and interactive interviewing in his hometown, the author has created a case study of continuing bonds with a specific individual (his mother) and community of grievers 10 years after her death. This dissertation investigates how continuing a bond with the deceased is a relational, communicative, and communal phenomenon as well as an individual, internal, and psychological process. It expands the perspective on continuing bonds as a coping strategy to a narrative blueprint for living one’s life.
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Lanier, Michelle Harris Trudier. "Home going a spirit-centered ethnography exploring the transformative journey of documenting Gullah/Geechee funerals /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1847.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Curriculum in Folklore." Discipline: Folklore; Department/School: Folklore.
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Humphris, Rachel Grace. "New migrants' home encounters : an ethnography of 'Romanian Roma' and the local state in Luton." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3af69cfa-2cd7-4972-afb2-14d92238d25a.
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This ethnographic study explores how 'Romanian Roma' migrants in the UK, without previous relationships to their place of arrival, negotiate their identity to make place in a diverse urban area. The thesis argues that state forms are (re)produced through embedded social relations. The restructuring of the UK welfare state, coupled with processes of labelling, means that the notion of public and private space is changing. Migrants' encounters with state actors in the home are increasingly important. I lived with three families between January 2013 and March 2014, during a period of shifting labour market regulations and the end of European Union transitional controls in January 2014. Through mapping families' relationships and connections, I identify encounters in the home with state actors regarding children as a defining feature of place-making. The thesis introduces the term 'home encounter' to trace the interplay of discourses and performances between state actors and those they identified as 'Romanian Roma'. Due to the restructuring of UK welfare, various roles assume different 'faces of the state'. These include education officers, health visitors, sub-contracted NGO workers, charismatic pastors and volunteers. The home encounter is presented as a public 'state act' (Bourdieu 2012) where negotiations of values take place in private space determining access to membership and welfare resources. In addition, blurring boundaries between welfare regulations and immigration control mean that these actors' seemingly small decisions have far-reaching consequences. The analysis raises questions of how to understand practices of government in diverse urban areas; the affect of labelling, place and performance on material power inequalities; and processes of discrimination and othering.
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Swartz, Teresa. "The eyes of hope : an ethnography of a non-profit foster family agency in Los Angeles county /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3025942.
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Weng, Hsueh-Pei. "A sensitising tool for smart home designers : based on user-oriented product design research into the home life of older adults in the UK." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4310.
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Focusing on the needs of users, design can leverage new product development process by offering insightful knowledge of those needs. This research investigates the technology development of smart homes. Design is utilised as a product research tool to identify key insights of the home life of the older adults living in the UK, and for the purpose of informing the front-end of the new product development process. The review of the literature in the field of smart homes suggests that the developments have lagged by a technology-push approach, the lack of appropriate concepts from users’ perspectives as well as the lack of development strategy, which has consequently been reflected in consumers’ reluctance towards smart homes. As a result, this doctoral research aimed to ‘develop a user-oriented product design research tool that improves the understanding of the home life of older adults.’ To achieve the aim, this research employs qualitative methodology to develop a research process that utilises the cultural probe, semi-structured interview and video tour. Informed by ethnographic tradition, this research establishes its trustworthiness and credibility by employing a thorough process of analysis (qualitative analysis with computer-assisted software NVivo 8 and peers debriefing) and evaluation (creative workshop and evaluative interview) with practitioners from the field of product design, design management and design education. The result of the field investigation is presented as ten personas and taxonomy of nodes, which form the contribution of this research, a sensitising tool and process. This research contributes a sensitising tool - a design-led, user-inspired and participatory product design research that the offers insightful knowledge of those older adults and their relationships with their homes living in the UK. This sensitising tool is developed for the smart home designers for the purpose of generating new product ideas and challenges designers’ preconception of users and smart homes, and provokes reflections on the practices of user-centred and user-participatory design, as examined in the creative workshop. In addition, this research also contributes to the growing debate surrounding the issues relating to ethnographic user research and the use of cultural probe for the design of new smart homes.
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Ruse, Jamie-Leigh. "Living with the pain of home : an ethnography of political activism amongst Mexican migrants in Catalonia." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11224/.
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This thesis is an enquiry into the emergence of forms of privileged migrant activism. It looks at the experience of middle- and upper-class Mexican migrants living in Barcelona, and explores the way they narrate the process through which they come to be involved in political activism directed at Mexico. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out with over twelve migrant political and cultural collectives in Barcelona, and opens an anthropological window onto understanding the intersections of privileged migration and political ways of being. It looks at the experience of migrants involved in campaigning against the war on drugs, electoral corruption, and political repression in Mexico. The account draws upon the extended interview narratives of individual migrants, and employs the concepts of affect emotion and cosmopolitanism as interpretive tools through which to understand their experiences. It argues that our analyses must look at the individual aspects of experience which influence migrant subjectivities. This includes looking at ambiguous implications of migrating, the emotionally complex ways in which migrants relate to home from abroad, and the impact that multiple inhabitations of cosmopolitanism can have for the way political subjectivities are articulated. The account shows how affect, emotion, and cosmopolitanism interact within migrant narratives in diverse ways. It demonstrates their importance in transforming the way migrants think about home and political action, in revealing migrants’ own implications of structures of inequality at home, and in solidifying the political commitment of some activists. It also highlights their importance in shaping the form of protests which were enacted by migrants, and in influencing the likelihood of sustained political collaboration being practiced between individuals.
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Gleason, Sean P. "Building Home: Vernacular Architecture and Domestic Habit in the Ohio River Valley." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1500481208083075.
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Skuse, Andrew. "'Negotiated outcomes' : an ethnography of the production and consumption of a BBC World Service radio soap opera for Afghanistan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364571.
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This study examines the production and consumption of a BBC World Service soap opera called New Home, New Life that is produced for the radio listening public of Afghanistan. Ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken at the BBC's radio production unit in northern Pakistan and in Pashtun communities within rural and urban areas in south-east and central Afghanistan. Critically informed by a material culture perspective, this thesis promotes a relational approach to the study of mass media production and consumption, this being perceived to represent an advance on studies that ignore spheres of production in favour of audience consumption. The choices and resources that listeners invest in radio services is addressed from the standpoint of the structuring of relations of trust, which in turn is related to issues of popularity, conflict and domestic radio use. The structures and prosaic daily patterns of radio soap opera production are addressed, with analysis being deepened to examine the production definition and audience appropriation of the soap opera's fictive context and characters. Here, issues of episodic and melodramatic structure also come to the fore. The representation of politics and religion represents a critical aspect of production, consumption and BBC impartiality, yet beneath policy it is shown that a far more social and negotiated form of production occurs. Following this analysis, the issues of localisation, romance and producer-consumer articulations are considered. Finally, the sociality of the soap opera is traced through audience gossip and the impact that emotive storylines have upon male and female listeners. Here, the issues of gender and space emerge in analytical focus.
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Tutt, Dylan. "Making yourself at home with media : a video ethnography of interactions with media in the living room." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441127.
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Harker, Christopher Graham. "Placing Palestine : homes, families & mobilities in Birzeit." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4062.
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This thesis examines how the village of Birzeit is made as place. The reader is taken on a tour designed to show some of the sights of Birzeit and three sets of practices that are key in forging Birzeit-as-place. The first set of practices cohere around homes: the dilapidated houses in the Old City, the modern Spanish Apartments, the frequently empty dwellings of diaspora and two destroyed homes. The second set of practices involves families: the negotiation of different distances by families stretched across continents, the extensive efforts of some families to live in close physical proximity that contrast with others who are witnessing the increasing nuclearization of family living space and attendant family practices. Thirdly, im/mobilities: the movements of disapora in the summer, students travelling to and from Birzeit University and immigrants who have migrated from the north and south of Palestine to work in and around Ramallah. In offering a passing glimpse at some of the dynamic relationships that cohere around and between these material and imaginative spatial practices, I hope to (re)present Palestine as a vibrant and dynamic place, shaded by social, political, economic and cultural differences that maybe similar to other parts of the world. In doing so my chronicle departs from accounts of Palestinian space that tend to prioritize the ongoing practices of Israeli Occupation and its effects. Nevertheless, Birzeit is coloured by such practices too, which penetrate and complicate practices of home, family and im/mobility.
The tour stages a series of empirical stories and events that were drawn from the eleven months of fieldwork I conducted in Birzeit between June 2005 and October 2007, during which time I conducted participant observation, interviews and archival research. These stories are punctuated by a set of theoretical engagements. I choose to keep these moments separate to explore how theory and Birzeit as I experienced it might converse with one another. I hope that each will be an equal partner in the conversation, that each will complicate and extend the other, and that this conversation will also build a affirmative relation between this place and you.
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Taylor, Carylanna Kathryn. "Shaping Topographies of Home: A Political Ecology of Migration." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3742.
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Even from afar, transnational migrants influence how their households and communities of origin use natural resources. This study depicts the circulation of people, funds, and ideas within transnational families that extend from a Honduran village to the United States. Developing a "political ecology of migration" approach, I show how these circulations can reshape resource use practices and the socio-economic and bio-physical topographies of emigrants' former homes. The project advances anthropological thought by linking rich literatures on political ecology and transnationalism through a multi-method ethnography of transnational families. The study is also relevant to emigrants, community members, and practitioners interested in incorporating emigrants and remittances into development and conservation projects.
The multi-sited project is anchored in a 380-household Honduran village, located in Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park, and encompasses the movement and practices of its residents and emigrants, including two secondary study sites in the United States. Research began with four focus groups. These formed the basis for 51 household village-wide structured interviews on experiences, practices, and beliefs related to remitting, migration, communication, farming, and natural resource use. I worked closely with four of these families in Honduras and at their emigrant family members' homes in south Florida and Long Island, New York. Through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and diaries tracking remittances and discourse through phone conversations, the multi-sited project traces transnational flows of funds, people, and ideas within the families. The ethnography highlights factors that shape, encourage, or impede emigrants' participation in natural resource management and development activities, as well as unintended socio-economic and environmental consequences of their actions.
Study participants spend remittances not only on more commonly documented health, education, housing, and food, but also on a number of areas that directly impact the socio-natural landscape: farm inputs, cattle-ranching, land, labor, firewood collection, and a village-wide potable water project. How money is earned, sent, and spent is affected by emigrants' perceptions of home - perceptions shaped by phone calls, visits, nostalgia, precarious economic and immigration status, plans to return, and dreams of a better future for themselves and their children. Some environmental impacts are directly related to spending decisions, such as the decision to buy agrochemicals. In other cases, impacts arise from nonmonetary relationships, such as lending land.
The study's political ecology of migration approach shows how emigrants' remitting and communication practices within transnational family networks translate into material, landscape impacting practices in their households and village of origin.
The study contributes to a more nuanced treatment of material practices and places in migration research and provides political ecology with a network based approach to capturing transnational dynamics impacting local livelihoods and landscapes. Ethnographic understanding of these dynamics has the potential to assist researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to take migrants into account in development of interventions and as well as to understand how their practices and beliefs shape and reshape the topographies of their current and original homes.
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Carabello, Maria. "Defining Food Agency: An Ethnographic Exploration of Home and Student Cooks in the Northeast." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/453.
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According to popular and academic sources, home cooking is in decline. Nutrition and public health scholars concern that a loss of cooking abilities may diminish individuals' control over their food choices, thus contributing to poor health outcomes. Yet, there are still many unanswered questions. What skills, strategies, and knowledge sets are required to cook a meal on any given occasion? What capacity separates those who cook with ease from those who struggle to incorporate cooking into their daily routines? I propose that this difference is determined by an individual's capacity to employ a range of cognitive and technical skills related to meal preparation. I call this capacity 'food agency'. Drawing upon discourses of human agency developed in the social sciences, this food-specific theory considers how a home cook employs cognitive skills and sensory perceptions, while navigating'and shaping'various societal structures (e.g., schedule, budget, transportation, etc.) in the course of preparing a meal. Thus, to have food agency is to be empowered to act throughout the course of planning and preparing meals. To better understand the form and function of food agency in everyday contexts, this thesis has pursued two ethnographic explorations.
The first study explored food agency from the vantage of routine performance by looking at the everyday practices of twenty-seven home cooks in the Northeastern United States. Data was collected through videotaping and observing the home cooks as they prepared typical dinnertime meals, followed-up with semi-structured interviews. The data has revealed a working model of the interrelated components seen as essential to consistent cooking practice, and thus to food agency'a conglomeration of skills, techniques, and strategies; structural and sensory guidelines; confidence and self-efficacy. All the home cooks were found to possess a basic scaffolding for food agency, yet the degree to which each had developed fluency in any given area was contingent upon personal experience. This supports the view that food agency is an actively acquired and dynamic capacity best understood as fluid rather than dichotomous.
The second study explored food agency through guided progression, by following a cohort of eight college students at the University of Vermont as they learned how to cook during a semester-long food and culture course. Data was collected through videotaping the students as they cooked, and by interviewing them about their food behaviors and experiences at the beginning and end of the semester. The findings outlined the students' various trajectories as they progressed in many of the component areas involved in food agency'for example, skills, techniques, organizational strategies, sensory engagement, and a sense of individual and collective efficacy around meal preparation. While the longitudinal scope of this study was limited, these results suggest a need to develop similar curricula for hands-on cooking interventions that can be offered in a more diverse range of settings and contexts.
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Miller, Mary. "Imagined futures of the everyday : middle class households in south-east London." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:38cb3f81-77e9-43ba-895c-d0f8f6904ef0.
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Discussions of hope and the imagined future have thus far focussed on grand ambitions at the expense of the more mundane, modest wants that are the preoccupation of everyday life. Studies of the home have demonstrated the role of material culture in embodying memory and household pasts but little has been said of household futures and their impact on household presents. This ethnographic study of the lives of three middle class households in south-east London addresses these gaps through an exploration of the role of imagined futures in orienting everyday life in the household. The ways in which householders work to make household life what they want it to be, and to secure the longer-term futures they imagine for their children, are explored through the frustrations, disappointments and anxieties that stem from the frequent failures of these efforts. Objects are demonstrated to be both the means through which householders attempt to make household life what they want it to be - their potentiality shaping and enabling imagined futures - and the means through which these imagined futures are reconfigured or derailed. The period of maternity leave, that all three of my women participants were in the midst of, is shown to be one in which the work of bringing the household's imagined futures, and children's imagined futures to fruition falls disproportionately to mothers, often at the expense of their own wants. Finally, a broader lens is used to explore how middle class householders' efforts to live the life they want contributes to and shapes the processes of gentrification credited with bringing dramatic change to south-east London.
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Uusihakala, Katja. "Memory meanders : place, home and commemoration in an ex-Rhodesian diaspora community /." Helsinki : Helsingin yliopisto, 2008. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-4477-9.
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Zarabi, Roshanak. "Storing, caring and sharing : examining organisational practices around material stuff in the home." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6469.
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Homes are a much discussed, but little empirically examined resource for action. Material stuff at home offer resources for social, organisational and individual activities that we routinely encounter and use on an everyday basis. Yet their purposes, storing and sharing practices of use and roles in social and organisational actions are hardly touched upon within Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) academic literature. As a consequence of this, there are critical gaps in understanding home organisation and management methods as a means of informing the design of novel technologies. This thesis is an examination of everyday routines in home, paying particular attention to tidying, storing, retrieving and sharing practices. To examine these practices at home, this thesis presents a combination of two qualitative studies using ethnographically oriented methods. Study one (Home’s Tidying up, Storing and Retrieving) concerns the topic of home storage in practice; investigating how householders create and use domestic storage practices and the methods used to manage their storage at home. Study two (Social Interaction around Shared Resources) concerns social interaction around shared resources, and the methods used to manage sharing practices at home. Semi-structured interviews, fieldwork observation, tour around a home, and a photo diary were undertaken to produce a ‘rich’ description of how householders collaborate in storing and sharing set of practices to manage their everyday routines. Several key finding emerged from the research, that are used to identify important implications for design of home organisational technologies, for example to support effective lightweight interactions, providing user controlled mechanism to make different levels of privacy protection for family members, offering effective awareness of family communications and notifications of the activities of other people around these organisation systems, and making available a range of flexible options for family members to access a shared resource. The thesis make the case that flexible systems should be designed allowing people to categorise things in different ways, and have the values of home asserted in technologies, considering factors such as emotion around the use of space in home organisation to make homes become the unique places that they are understood to be.
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Mpisi, Sabelo. "What the Aging is Going On: An ethnography on the Perceptions of Aging in an Old Age Home in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33740.
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Despite considerable evidence on aging, as it relates to African elders, little is known on what and how it is like when drawn from their experiences and perceptions. This follows since it is often studied indirectly, as the emphasis is put on people with whom the elders are in relationships, obligatory or otherwise, and not necessarily on them. This also happens when aging is examined in relation to societal realities that shape how they experience the process of aging. In that, when societal realities in which they are embedded are examined, little to no effort is made to understand how they experience growing old in relation to or because of them. This dissertation explores perceptions of aging and what growing older is like. Using qualitative research methods in an old age home in KwaZulu Natal, the data to this dissertation was collected between June-July 2017 and December 2017-January 2018. Findings demonstrate that aging is a process of becoming estranged from oneself, from one's body, and from others. They reveal that, due to the collisions between physiological aging and aging in social terms, elders are simultaneously understood as people who must be respected and yet who can be estranged. Against this backdrop, from the vantage of the aged, they further show how death, living, and life are understood.
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Simonyi, André. "Waiting for the Cows to Come Home: A Political Ethnography of Security in a Complex World. Explorations in the Magyar Borderlands of Contemporary Ukraine." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26126.
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This dissertation explores the ways in which the everyday (in)securities of people in southwestern Ukraine can illuminate our understanding of contemporary political life. Rather than using traditional units of analysis or given categories—the state, the individual, identity—the dissertation focuses on relations between people in and connected to a single village to develop a novel framework for analyzing politics and the political. The dissertation opens with an interrogation of the practical and theoretical challenges associated with current conceptualizations of security; our understanding of the political; and the role of ethnography in theorization and presents a research design meant to address those challenges. Drawing upon extensive participant-observation and other immersion-based research in a post-Soviet borderland wedged between Ukraine and Slovakia, and using an analytical tool I call “togetherness,” the thesis presents an ethnographic account of social interactions, economy, and authority in this largely Hungarian-speaking rural area. The third part of the dissertation applies the idea of an ontological shift and draws on complex systems and structuration theory (Luhmann and Giddens, respectively) to rethink the ethnographic analysis and to highlight relationships between structural and existential realms of political life. Here, the concept of security becomes central to the theorization, and the overall argument illuminates the intimate relationship between the idea of security and the political. Ultimately, this approach allows us to expand the scope of political ethnography: theorizing beyond thick description; integrating broader perspectives without losing the texture of the local; and developing an approach to research that can be replicated in other settings.
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Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna. "A Home for 121 Nationalities or Less: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Integration in Post-Soviet Estonia." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345545678.
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Reid, Lorna Margaret. "The social organisation of exclusion, 'abandonment' and compulsory advance care planning conversations : how ruling concepts and practices about death, dying and the 'do not attempt' cardiopulmonary resuscitation form entered, organised and ruled the working practices of senior social care workers in a residential care home in Scotland : an institutional ethnography." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2017. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/979680.
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Institutional Ethnography (IE) is a method of inquiry into the social organisation of knowledge. It begins with a disjuncture/troubling experience impacting a specific group of workers and adopts their standpoint/subject positon to look out into the wider institution and trace the work and textual practices that organised (and produced) the disjuncture under investigation. The study took the standpoint of Senior Social Care Workers (SSCWs) from one RCH in Scotland to uncover the complex social organisation of “abandonment” SSCWs described when there was insufficient support from NHS services to care appropriately for sick and dying residents. The focal point of inquiry was on SSCWs descriptions of being “pushed” into “difficult” decision-making conversions with family members about “serious illness” andthe Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) – without the support of doctors (or nurses).To inquire into how SSCWs work had become tied into the medical, legal and bureaucratic practices that rule death, dying and Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decision making in Scotland's RCHs the study drew on ten open-ended interviews (SSCWs, n= 4 and others whose work influenced SSCWs working practices, n= 6). Interview transcripts were examined to uncover SSCWs accounts of their knowledgeable work related to managing illness, death and dying - along with the characteristic tensions,frustrations and contradictions embedded in those accounts. The study traced how doctors and nurses were routinely, and systematically, absent from RCHs - leaving residents systematically excluded from the level of care that they needed. It also traced how SSCWs work with “serious illness” and “difficult” conversations was co-ordinated in disquieting ways in an apparent commitment to high quality “palliative care”.What was discussed between SSCWs and family members during conversations about “serious illness” and the DNACPR form was out of step with the DNACPR policy, the rhetoric of palliative care, and the actual needs of SSCWS, family members, and residents for medical support. However, the study shows that what happened in the RCH was not simply an error of practice. This is becauseit was textually planned, organised, and co-ordinated across healthcare institutions, professional groups, the regulatory body acting on behalf of the Scottish Government and the management and care staff of the RCH itself. SSCWs - and others – were organised to take up the powerful ruling discourse of palliative care in ways which treated residents and family members withincreasing objectivity, where institutional needs to reduce NHS spending and to protect the income generating potential of the care home as a business ruled over individual needs. In taking up and enacting the powerful ruling discourse of palliative care, SSCWs – and others- (intentionally but unknowingly) took up the very tools of oppression that dominated and overpowered their own and others lives. The knowledge generated by this research can be used to show SSCWs and others how they unknowingly participate in taking up actions that are not in their own or others interests. This is the basis of changing the conditions of SSCWs and others lives thereby advancing anti-oppressive work.
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Alves, Yara de Cássia. "A casa raiz e o voo de suas folhas: família, movimento e casa entre os moradores de Pinheiro-MG." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-11032016-154251/.
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Esta dissertação analisa os processos de mobilidade das famílias de Pinheiro, localidade rural, autodenominada quilombola, situada no Alto do Jequitinhonha-MG. Trata-se de uma etnografia que explora os diversos tipos de movimento que marcam o cotidiano ali vivenciado, principalmente a partir de suas casas. Através dos processos de criação, explora como as mães/donas de casa agenciam jeitos e modos familiares a partir dos ensinamentos que transmitem aos filhos. Os espaços domésticos são analisados como centrais na construção das pessoas e famílias, com ênfase para a cozinha e as substâncias ali presentes, como a comida e o fogo. De maneira transversal, analisa como a casa raiz e sua dona acompanha as saídas e retornos de seus moradores, que se envolvem em andanças pelo mundo. Assim, articula as formas de andanças à sabedoria que os moradores afirmam ganhar ao conhecerem outros lugares e também outras realidades sociais, o que ocorre não apenas nos cargos de trabalho que ocupam, mas por meio de outros movimentos, como o movimento quilombola.This dissertation analyzes the mobility processes of families from Pinheiro, rural setting, selfstyled quilombola, located in the Alto do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais. It is an ethnography that explores the different types of movement that mark the everyday lived there, mostly from their homes. Through the processes of creation, explores how mothers / housewives tout ways and familiar modes from the teachings that transmit to their children. The domestic spaces are analyzed as central in the construction of individuals and families, focusing on the kitchen and there substances such as food and fire. Cross way, analyzes how the root house and its owner accompany the exits and returns of its residents, who engage in travels around the world. Thus articulates forms of wandering to wisdom that residents complain gain by knowing other places and also other social realities, which occurs not only in the working positions they hold, but through other movements, such as the quilombola movement.
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McNeil-Girmai, Elaine Azalia. "“This is our life. We can’t drive home.” An Analysis of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as Perceived by Elementary Teachers, Students and Families in an Urban Charter School." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2010. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/245.
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As schools have become more diverse ethnically and linguistically, the likelihood of cultural mismatches among students, families, and teachers has increased (Frank, 1999). Culturally relevant pedagogy has at its core the understanding that incorporating students‘ culture into the practices of the school and the classroom through culturally relevant curriculum is likely to improve student cooperation, inspire a greater understanding of the educational program, and increase academic outcomes (Brown, 2004). These pedagogies have the potential to be a vital tool toward closing the achievement gap, yet the practices associated with them are in danger of meeting the same fate as multicultural education. A lack of knowledge about the theory, practice, and implementation of culturally relevant pedagogy has led to ineffective attempts to meet the needs of students most at risk (White-Clark, 2005). Using the five themes of Critical Race Theory (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001) as the theoretical framework, the research examined how teachers perceive and implement culturally relevant pedagogy, and how students and their families perceive and evaluate these practices. This research conducted at a inner city, charter elementary school was grounded on Ladson-Billings‘ work on culturally relevant pedagogy and the three concepts of knowledge that she identified that teachers must bring to the classroom and impart to their students: a) Academic achievement, b) Cultural competence, and c) Sociopolitical consciousness (Ladson-Billings, 2001). The educational significance of this study resides in an analysis of its potential to influence teaching practices in many existing classroom settings that have an ethnically diverse population of students. On a micro level, through the use of catalytic validity and ongoing dialogue with the participants, the potential arose for members of the school community to have greater input in the structuring of their children‘s education. As members of the school community engage in future decisions regarding culturally relevant strategies, these research findings offer them an informed and critical perspective to work from.
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Bergstrand, Annica, and Lina Blom. "Navigera okända vatten: En metaetnografi av anhörigvårdares upplevelser av palliativ vård i hemmet." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-15577.
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Bakground: When someone is suffering from incurable disease, life changes both for the person, but also for the relatives. More and more get cared for in the home and relatives becomes more involved in care today. Knowledge of the relatives' experiences of palliative care at home is therefore of importance to the district nurse in the home healthcare system to get further aspects of how care can be improved, hence the present thesis work is important. Aims: The purpose of this meta-synthesis was to get a better understanding of the family caregiver’s experiences of palliative care at home, by integrating qualitative international research. Method: The method used was Noblit and Hares meta-ethnography and 16 qualitative articles were analyzed and synthesized. Resultat: The family caregiver’s experiences of palliative care at home represented three themes: living with the dying, caring for the dying and interacting with the professional care. The result shows that the experience of caring for a dying relative at home can feel rewarding but at the same time be very stressful both mentally and physically. Caring for a dying relative at home changes life and relationships. The family caregivers’ role as caregiver was a major responsibility and limited their own lives. This responsibility required help from professional caregivers through support and information. Conclusions: The present master thesis provides a better understanding of the needs of family caregivers, which may facilitate for healthcare professionals in the encounter with these persons and may also motivate to apply a family-focused approach.Bakgrund: När någon drabbas av obotlig sjukdom förändras livet både för den drabbade, men också för de anhöriga. Allt fler vårdas i hemmet och anhöriga blir mer involverade i vården idag. Kunskap om anhörigas upplevelser av palliativ vård i hemmet är därför av vikt för att distriktssköterskan i hemsjukvården ska få ytterligare aspekter på hur vården kan förbättras, därmed är föreliggande examensarbete angeläget. Syfte: Syftet med denna metasyntes var att genom att integrera kvalitativ internationell forskning skapa förståelse av anhörigvårdares upplevelser av palliativ vård i hemmet. Metod: Metoden som tillämpades var Noblit och Hares metaetnografi där 16 kvalitativa artiklar analyserades och syntetiserades. Resultat: Anhörigvårdares upplevelser av palliativ vård i hemmet kunde beskrivas i följande tre teman: att leva med den döende, att vårda den döende samt att samverka med den professionella vården. Resultatet visar att upplevelsen av att vårda en döende närstående i hemmet kan kännas givande men samtidigt vara mycket påfrestande både psykiskt och fysiskt. Att vårda en döende närstående i hemmet förändrar livet och relationerna. Vårdarrollen innebar ett stort ansvar som begränsade anhörigvårdarnas egna liv. Ett ansvar som krävde stöttning från hälso- och sjukvård i form av stöd och information. Slutsats: Föreliggande examensarbete ger en ökad förståelse för anhörigvårdares behov vilket kan underlätta för sjukvårdspersonal som ska möta dem och kan även motivera till att tillämpa ett familjefokuserat förhållningssätt
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Murray, Lorraine Odette. "The role of the registered nurse managing pro re nata (PRN) medicines in the care home (nursing) : a case study of decision-making, medication management and resident involvement." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17989.
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The aim of this study was to analyse the role of the registered nurse in the management of pro re nata (PRN) medication in a care home (nursing) for older people. Studying PRN medication provides insights into the role of the nurse in care homes (nursing) who act as assessor, decision maker and evaluator in residents' care. It also provides a lens by which to explore how residents and their carers interact and participate in day-to-day care decisions about residents' health. The case study draws on ethnography. It is a multi-method study, using documentary and medication reviews, observations and interviews to answer the research questions. Thirty-four residents were recruited to the study and 60 care home staff. Findings showed that 88.2% of residents (n=30) were prescribed PRN medication and that all residents were on a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 7 medication. During each 28-day MAR sheet period between 35 and 44 PRN prescriptions were written. They contributed 12.7% of all medication prescribed, accounting for between 1.2 and 1.5 medication per resident. Nurses were found to administer PRN medication, but a finding of this study was that this activity could be delegated to carers who were identifying resident needs. There was some evidence of resident engagement but this was often a three-way process between resident, GP and family or resident, carer and nurse. A percentage of medication that could have been PRN were routinely prescribed. Observations also identified that nurses would decide not to administer routine medication in certain circumstances and that this was directly related to their assessment of the resident. The process of medication management was dominated by the regulations and governance processes of the care home. Observations and interviews found that care home staff recognised and affirmed residents' pain but did not take action for analgesia to be administered. They were familiar with the use of pain assessment tools for older people living with dementia and had received training in dementia care. Many of the staff were also able to interpret signs and symptoms of a resident's distress. Nevertheless, their preoccupation with meeting internal and external regulator standards was a barrier to addressing residents' needs. This is the first study that has looked at an aspect of medication management to understand how nurses and care home staff work for and with residents to moderate and address their health care needs. It suggests that additional training in aspects of medication management and resident assessment may not be able to address deeper seated issues of autonomy and how the nursing role is understood and enacted in care home settings.
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Castro, Edna Aparecida Barbosa de. "A vida após a alta." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2005. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=3979.
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Esta tese discute a vida após a alta hospitalar através de uma etnografia da experiência de um grupo de famílias, ao cuidarem de um membro dependente de cuidados de saúde. Foi realizada entre agosto de 2001 e julho de 2005 em Juiz de Fora-MG. O foco da investigação foi a convivência cotidiana da família com um membro requerendo cuidados de saúde especializados após ter recebido assistência de alta complexidade. O objetivo foi compreender a questão: como a família cuida, em casa, de um familiar que necessita de cuidados de saúde após a alta hospitalar? Adotamos a etnografia orientada por Geertz (1989), que nos permitiu, através da análise interpretativa das teias de significados apreendidas pela observaçãoconvivência com os sujeitos, uma compreensão de como o fenômeno (cuidado) se evidencia e se transforma em experiência nas relações que se estabelecem dentro e fora da família. A identificação das famílias-sujeito iniciou com a observação das internações na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) do Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, no segundo semestre de 2003, seguida da observação nas enfermarias e, posteriormente, nos seus domicílios. De 137 pacientes internados nesta UTI naquele semestre, 59 foram a óbito,
12 foram transferidos para outro hospital da cidade, por demandarem tecnologias não oferecidas pela instituição e 66 tiveram alta hospitalar na condição de melhorado. Destes,
observamos 12 casos, residentes na cidade de Juiz de Fora, que compartilham de uma mesma cultura assistencial e que foram submetidas a um mesmo padrão de organização e de fluxo de
atendimento no sistema de saúde local. Destas, uma família se destacou como principal sujeito, pela repetição de eventos significativos à questão principal da pesquisa e utilizamos
dados de outras cinco dentre as observadas. Os dados foram arquivados em um banco de dados qualitativos LOGOS. A prioridade nos cuidados com o corpo; a dependência dos
serviços de saúde especializados do SUS e as alterações na organização e no funcionamento da família, com redefinições de papéis, para se adaptar à realidade de convivência com um
membro doente, estão dentre os achados. Dois fenômenos que se relacionam com o desenvolvimento da experiência de cuidar pelas famílias se destacaram: a individualização na família, que parece influenciar a forma de abordagem clínica (individualizada) pelos profissionais de saúde, e uma concepção de família como sujeito coletivo Bourdieu (1998) como possibilidade para o planejamento de ações coletivas. O sofrimento, observado pela
contínua convivência dos sujeitos com sentimentos de angústia nas trajetórias de busca de cuidados no Sistema, nas instituições de saúde, evidenciou a desassistência a que esse grupo de cidadãos está exposto no modelo assistencial vigente. A lida das famílias com uma diversidade de cuidados, incluindo a prática de cuidados técnicos desencadeou uma rede
extrafamiliar de aproximações, para o enfrentamento das necessidades. Apesar da dependência de tecnologias, de saberes técnicos e das restrições no acesso a esses,
evidenciou-se um tipo de autonomia pelos sujeitos na prática de cuidados no espaço intrafamiliar e no entorno micro-sociológico de convivência. No Sistema de Saúde a preferência primeira das famílias para busca de ajuda é o hospital, depois, as unidades de
referência secundária e, por último, as Equipes de Saúde da Família (ESF). A procura pelas ESF é por que estas representam parte obrigatória no fluxo inicial dos usuários do SUS local,
garantem a aquisição de medicamentos, oferecem serviços de natureza cartorial, como atestados e pareceres para juiz e, ainda, encaminhamentos e solicitação de exames.This thesis discusses life after discharge from the hospital, using the ethnography of the experience of a group of families, as they cared for dependent family members. It was carried out between August 2001 and July 2005 in Juiz de Fora, MG. The focus of the investigation was the familys daily life with a member who required specialized health care after receiving highly complex care. The objective was to answer the question: how does the family care, at home, for a member who still needs care after being discharged from the hospital? We adopted Geertzs (1989) ethnography, which allowed us, through interpretive analysis of the webs of meanings learned through observance-contact with the subjects, an understanding of how the phenomenon (care) is evidenced, and is transformed into experience in the relationships that arise within and outside of the family. Identification of the subject families began with observation of hospital admittances at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Juiz de Fora Federal University Hospital during the second semester of 2003, followed by observation in the wards, and later, at the homes. Of 137 patients admitted to the ICU that semester, 59 died, 12 were transferred to other hospitals in the same city, as they required technology not offered by the University Hospital, and 66 were released under the category of improved. Of these, we observed only 12 cases, all residing in the city of Juiz de Fora, who fall under the same care culture and who received the same organizational standard and care flow in the local health system. Of these, one family stood out as the principal subject, due to repetition of events that were significant for the main issue of this study. We also used data from 5 of the other observed patients. The data were stored in a LOGOS qualitative data bank. Among the results we found were the priority given to physical care, the dependence on specialized SUS health services and the alterations in the organization and functioning of the family, with redefinition of roles to adapt to the reality of living with a sick family member. Two phenomena related to the experience of caring by the families stand out: individualization in the family, which seems to influence the clinical approach (individualized) by health professionals, and a conception of the family as a collective subject, Bourdieu (1998), as a possibility for planning collective action. The suffering that was observed through continuous contact of the subjects with anguish as they sought health care in the SUS, in the health care institutions, demonstrated the uncare that this group of citizens is exposed to under the present health care system. The families experiences in dealing with a variety of types of care, including technical care, led to a network of contacts with people outside of the family, to meet the patients needs. In spite of dependence on technology, technological knowledge, and the restrictions on them, there was evidence of a kind of autonomy on the part of the subjects in terms of health care practice within the intra-family space an in the micro-sociological surroundings. In the Health Care System, the families first preference was to seek help at hospitals, then at secondary reference units, and lastly, from the Family Health Teams. They sought help from the Family Health Teams because they represented an obligatory part of the initial flow of users in the local SUS, they guarantee the supply of medicine, offer services of a bureaucratic nature, such as bills of health and doctors opinions to present to judges, as well as requests and forwarding for laboratory exams.
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Véniat, Céline. "Se faire un platz dans la ville : pratiques d’habitat informel, expériences de l’accès aux droits et mobilisations de familles roumaines vivant en bidonville." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0110.
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A partir d’une enquête ethnographique menée dans différents bidonvilles en région parisienne, ma thèse vise à décrire les pratiques d’habitat informel, l’expérience de l’accès aux droits et les mobilisations des familles roumaines vivant en bidonville. La première partie porte sur l’expérience de l’habitat et les pratiques d’appropriation et de récupération dans l’espace de la ville des familles vivant en bidonville. La deuxième partie est consacrée à leur parcours d’accès aux droits, en particulier la scolarisation et la santé, et aux pratiques discriminatoires qu’elles rencontrent. La troisième partie se concentre sur les pratiques de mobilisations mises en œuvre par les familles et leurs soutiens dans les espaces politiques et judiciaires pour défendre leur lieu de vie.La description de la vie quotidienne dans un platz donne à voir des pratiques d’aménagement et des relations de sociabilité familiale et de voisinage. La baraque constitue un espace habité dans lequel chaque famille s’aménage un chez-soi en soignant son intérieur au gré des tournées de récupération et se ménage un lieu protégé de l’extérieur dans lequel prennent place des relations familiales de sociabilité ordinaire. Les tâches domestiques et les activités de travail occupent une bonne partie des journées et s’organisent le plus souvent selon une répartition genrée. Les habitants mobilisent leurs compétences citadines pour mettre en œuvre des pratiques d’occupation, d’appropriation, de récupération et de circulation dans la ville. Ils mettent à profit la disponibilité de terrains disponibles en adoptant une stratégie de repérage et d’installation discrète en lien avec une circularité et un ancrage territorial.Mon accès au terrain par le regard des enfants permet de donner à voir la sociabilité enfantine dans le platz et l’expérience quotidienne de l’école et du racisme ordinaire dans leurs relations avec les autres élèves. L’accès à la scolarisation est entravé par le traitement discriminatoire des mairies et notamment la difficulté à faire reconnaître le bidonville comme un lieu de résidence. La description de l’activité de médiation dans les platz et d’accompagnement auprès des centres de santé permet de pointer les difficultés rencontrées par les familles du fait de leur précarité résidentielle et du mauvais accueil qui leur est réservé. On s’intéressera notamment au parcours d’une jeune femme roumaine qui a connu plusieurs expulsions durant sa grossesse et dont les enfants ont subi diverses pathologies importantes.Suite à l’annonce d’une expulsion, les habitants du platz se mobilisent devant la justice pour défendre le droit de rester dans leur lieu de vie. Après le passage de la police notifiant la décision d’expulsion, les habitants contactent un avocat, et avec la complicité des acteurs associatifs, ils collectent des preuves de leurs démarches d’insertion et des photos des baraques pour attester du caractère habité du lieu en vue de préparer leur défense. Les habitants expriment également leurs émotions et tentent de convertir leur expérience située des expulsions en mobilisation. La description déroulera les étapes de la mobilisation, de la réaction sensible des habitants et soutiens à l’élaboration d’un communiqué de presse portant la parole collective, puis à la publicisation du problème d’abord à l’échelle du réseau militant local puis au niveau national. On insistera sur l’imbrication et la simultanéité entre l’action conjointe de différents cercles d’acteurs affectés, concernés et engagés dans la résolution du problème, et l’articulation entre pratiques de publicisation et négociations informelles en coulisses. Face à la désillusion suscitée par l’échec des négociations avec la mairie, les habitants et leurs soutiens proches choisiront de se recentrer sur un modèle de discussions informelles et de petits arrangements en vue d’un déménagement secret et concertéBased on an ethnographic survey conducted in various slums in the suburbs of Paris, my thesis aims to describe informal housing practices, experience of access to rights and mobilizations of Romanian families living in slums. The first part focuses on the experience of housing and the practices of appropriation and recovery in the urban space of families living in slums. The second part is devoted to their path of access to rights, particularly school and health, and the discriminatory practices they encounter. The third part focuses on the mobilization practices implemented by the families and their supports in the political and judicial spaces to defend their place of life.The description of everyday life in a “platz” shows planning practices and relationships of family and neighborhood sociability. The “baraque” is an inhabited space in which each family arranges her home by caring for their interior with objects recovered in the street and set up a place protected from the outside in which family relationships of ordinary sociability take place. Domestic tasks and work activities take up a good part of the day and are usually organized according to a gender distribution. The inhabitants mobilize their urban skills to implement occupancy, appropriation, recovery and circulation practices in the city. They take advantage of the availability of unusual land by adopting a strategy of identification and discreet installation in connection with a circularity and a territorial anchorage.My access to the field through the eyes of children allows to show the childlike sociability in the platz and the daily experience of school and ordinary racism in their relations with other students. Access to schooling is hampered by the discriminatory treatment of town halls, including the difficulty to recognize the slum as a place of residence. The description of the mediation activity in the platz and accompaniment to the health centers point out the difficulties met by the families because of their precariousness of residence and the bad reception which is reserved for them. In particular, we will focus on the path of a young Romanian woman who experienced several expulsions during her pregnancy and whose children suffered various important diseases.Just after the announcement of an eviction, the inhabitants of platz mobilize themselves in court to defend the right to stay in their living place. After the passage of the police notifying the decision of expulsion, the inhabitants prepare their defense. They contact a lawyer and they collect evidences of their insertion procedures and photos of the houses to attest that it’s a living place with the complicity of the associative actors. The inhabitants also express their emotions and try to convert their experience from expulsions to mobilization. The description will follow the stages of the mobilization, from the sensitive reaction of the inhabitants and supports to the elaboration of a press release carrying the collective speech, then to the publicization of the problem first at the level of the local militant network then on a national level. We will insist on the interweaving and the simultaneity between the joint action of different circles of affected, concerned and committed actors in the resolution of the problem, and the articulation between advertising practices and informal negotiations behind the scenes. Faced with the disillusionment caused by the failure of the negotiations with the town hall, the inhabitants and their close supporters will choose to refocus on a model of informal discussions and small arrangements for a secret and concerted move
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Brolin, Jesper. "Kitchen Know-How for Automation." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5860.
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Summary This thesis consists of an ethnographic investigation of five Swedish household's everyday life in their kitchens during the spring 2001 and an analysis of this context, which for certain can be apt for the development of the smart home services of today. Finally some future opportunities on how to systematise ethnography for design use also are drawn. The focus of investigation of this thesis is to find out what actual happens in some situations in ordinary kitchens. Specific interest is showed for the articulation work, while most smart appliances of today supports only goal-oriented activity, hence evolved from the ground of the home PC interaction. The ethnographical investigation is focused on three specific events in a house hold which all are assumed to take place in the families kitchen. The events are: 1) When a family plans and books an amusement activity. 2) When a family plans it's shopping. 3) When a person solves a goal oriented task, for example details about cooking a meal.Jesper Brolin Gyllenborgsgatan 11 Stockholm jesperbrolin@mac.com, mda98jbr@student.bth.se
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Gilgoff, Betty L. "An ethnographic study of home schooling." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29714.
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The study is an ethnographic study of home schooling in the lower mainland of British Columbia. It was conducted to increase understanding of the growing home schooling movement in the province. The information gained is valuable in assessing recent legislative changes in the new British Columbia School Act (1989) and the resulting policy changes with regard to home schooling.
The purpose of the study was primarily exploratory. The design was based on two propositions: (1) that it may be possible to build characterizations of home schooling families and, (2) that these characterizations, or portraits, may include certain reactions to the policy changes. To examine these propositions the study focused on the following four main questions:
1. Why are some families in urban areas in British Columbia choosing to home school their children?
2. What does home schooling mean to these families?
3. How are these home schooling families reacting to the new legislation on home schooling?
4. What alternatives, if any, would the home schoolers prefer?
The analysis of the study presents the finding from two different perspectives. It first provides three portraits based on stories of "committed home schoolers", those who have reached a level of certainty and comfort with home schooling as an alternative to a school system. From the characterizations developed three ideal styles are determined and diagramed. A second perspective examines the stories of "situational home schoolers", those who have moved into home schooling because of dissatisfaction with the public school system.
The conclusion of the research uses the division of home schoolers into committed and situational groups to examine recent legislative and policy changes relevant to home schooling. Although the research is limited in its design as it is based on replication logic rather than sampling logic, it has developed theories about patterns which may exist amongst home schoolers. These theories strongly suggest that government policies with regard to home schooling need to be developed with an understanding of the individualistic nature of each home schooling situation.Education, Faculty of
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Cabello, Campuzano Mariana. "El giro postcualitativo en la investigación artística: confluencias y aperturas en torno a tránsitos artísticos relacionados con el hogar y las prácticas domésticas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671106.
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El giro postcualitativo en la investigación artística: confluencias y aperturas en torno a tránsitos artísticos relacionados con el hogar y las prácticas domésticas es una investigación artística sobre el espacio doméstico que comprende diferentes puntos de entrada y tránsitos dentro de dicho tema a través de prácticas de fotografía, dibujo, vídeo y performance. En estos tránsitos artísticos he explorado y puesto en juego mi relación con diversas materialidades y prácticas domésticas, específicamente, he investigado la casa como sitio de experimentación y apertura. El objetivo central en esta indagación es generar y aportar nuevos sentidos al campo de la investigación artística. Para ello, incorporé perspectivas de la autoetnográfía crítica en el desarrollo y relato de tres de mis investigaciones artísticas: The Daily Undefined (2015-16), La Casa Otra (2017-18) y La Casa V (2019-20). Dichas perspectivas se desdoblan a partir de la porosidad de la voz y el sujeto en devenir. Cruzar estas perspectivas con mis tránsitos artísticos me movilizó hacia otras onto-epistemologías dentro/con el terreno postcualitativo. La investigación de la tesis ha supuesto un giro gradual que posibilitó nuevos entramados con otras formas de vocalidad y ontologías nuevo materialistas del arte. También fue un giro que inter-aconteció con otros estilos perceptuales, co-presencias y energizaciones del ser-crear-conocer y escribir con el hogar.
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Hoeflinger, Marilyn S. Morris. "An ethnographic case study of Christian home schooling /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486398195326108.
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Chien, Hui-Wen. "Understanding the Nursing Home Care Processor: An Ethnographic Study." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6389.
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Doctor of PhilosophyAim and significance: The aim of this research was to explore the phenomenon of Australian nursing home care from the perspective of those who provide and receive it. Its focus is on the processes of ‘quality care’ provision and the meanings and evaluations that care providers attach to their work. In other words, its purpose was to shed light on the practices based on a conceptualisation of care that is entwined with the mechanisms of ‘care’ production and identity creation, or what actually happens in the daily life of the complex social phenomenon that is a nursing home. A related aim was to add to understandings of clinical nursing competence and develop tools that will assist nurses to conceptualise and implement positive change in this setting. Background: The provision of care to our elderly has become a major concern with the ageing of the world population. This is occurring in the context of decline in the capacity of families to take on the responsibility of elder care, and of increasing commercialisation of medical care. Governments have responded by shifting their responsibilities from direct care provision to become auditors of the business of care provision that is supported by public funding. However poor care delivery has largely been hidden from the public gaze. Governments present themselves as having systems in place, creating the illusion of rational control; in reality, like the market economy, there is a ‘black box’ of unknown factors driven by human impulse. The aim of this study was to open up the black box of ‘quality care’ to direct observation, drawing insights from the literature on organisational culture and with a focus on the frontline worker and the construct of quality assurance. Specific research objectives were to: • Document the beliefs and attitudes of care providers towards elderly people in general and the needs of nursing home residents in particular • Elicit the range of meanings and evaluations that care providers attach to their work • Describe their constructions of ‘care’ and ‘quality of care’ and the organisational factors they believe to impact (positively and negatively) on their ability to provide it. • Through in-depth understanding of a particular setting, generate grounded theoretical insights into the phenomenon of quality of residential care that are more widely applicable Method: The study adopted a paradigmatic bricoleur approach, seeking to develop connections between a diverse range of methodologies. These included combinative ethnography, phenomenology, hermeneutics and traditional grounded theory. Conceptual insights were drawn from organisational studies, psychosocial nursing and coping theory. The research site was an Australian for-profit suburban nursing home. The student investigator conducted more than 500 hours of participant observation, recording extensive field notes which were analysed through the perspective of a hermeneutic middle way horizon that directed an augmented constant comparison traditional grounded theory approach. Additional data were collected through formal indepth interviews with six key stakeholders. Interviews were tape recorded, transcribed in full and analysed to reveal themes that were brought within a hermeneutic circle that spiralled recursively from the whole to the part and back to the whole. Findings: Eight key interrelated factors in the production of care within the nursing home were identified: internal and external accountability (the accreditation system); economic considerations; management and training; advocacy; characteristic of residents; care providers’ working conditions and environmental stressors; organisational culture; and the work/care styles of individual care providers. I have categorised the latter into two main types: ‘tortoises’ and ‘hares’. This typology is then used to generate a process-driven schematic diagram that tracks a hypothetical novice care provider through the process of learning how to produce ‘care’. Specifically, I found that nursing home ‘care’ is the outcome of a complex social process involving the interplay between resident, relative, care provider, proprietor, quality assessors and government within the phenomenon of the nursing home. Such care, indeed the phenomenon of the nursing home itself, is not a stable, controllable entity but is in a constant state of flux – what I refer to as a moral ecology. In their everyday practice, care providers devise a construction of ‘quality care’ that is more clearly grounded in their own worldviews and the development of the own identity than in the formal quality assurance system of standards, guidelines and evaluations. Conclusion: Understanding the ‘black box’ of processes that produce care is the key to identifying courses of action that will improve care outcomes. The study findings also question the validity, assumptions and significance of the accreditation system, which only identifies some of the component variables, disregarding both the complexity within the ‘black box’ and failing to acknowledge that the quality of care outcomes is overwhelmingly dependent on individual care providers.
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Baillie, Jessica. "Perspectives on peritoneal dialysis at home : an ethnographic study." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/52540/.
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Background: Peritoneal dialysis is a daily, life-saving treatment for end-stage renal disease, performed at home by patients and their relatives. Increasing numbers of patients are requiring treatment for this disease and therefore clinicians are calling for more patients to use peritoneal dialysis. However, the literature revealed only a small number of qualitative studies that considered patients’ experiences of their treatment, while a dearth of studies that explored relatives’ perspectives was noted. Aim and research questions: The study aimed to explore the experiences of patients and their families living with peritoneal dialysis. The specific research questions were: • What influences patients’ decisions to choose peritoneal dialysis? • How does peritoneal dialysis impact on life and the home environment? • How is peritoneal dialysis managed at home and integrated into everyday life? • How do families perceive having a relative with peritoneal dialysis at home and what contribution do they make to the process? Methodology and methods: The study employed ethnographic methodology and the methods included in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with sixteen patients using peritoneal dialysis at home in Wales, and their relatives. Additionally seven specialist nephrology healthcare professionals were interviewed, who provided contextualising information about the care they give to patients and their families. The data were analysed thematically using Wolcott’s (1994) approach of description, analysis and interpretation. Findings: The sociological theory of illness trajectories was adopted as a conceptual framework, which guided the analysis and presentation of study findings. Participants reflected on the difficult process of choosing peritoneal dialysis, which was influenced by a preference for home, aversion to hospital and hope for control. The challenges of living with the treatment were described and observed, including medicalisation of the home, while participants tried to minimise their disrupted lives through creativity and flexibility. The future was associated with fear and uncertainty about deterioration, although participants maintained hope that they might receive a kidney transplant. Conclusions: Through the use of ethnography, this study revealed the challenges of living with peritoneal dialysis, but also the ability of families to integrate the treatment into everyday life. The study also demonstrated the usefulness of ethnographic methodology to explore how patients and their families live with home medical treatments.
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Bhatti, Ghazala. "Asian children at home and at school : an ethnographic study." Thesis, n.p, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/.
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Oskay, Malicki Harika Esra. "Home-work : a study of home at the threshold of autoethnography and art practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11761.
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The movement of people and the fluxes of the world create complex topographies and destabilise the location of our homes. In this practice-based PhD, I explore the shifting sense of home that this manifests. The dramatic transformation of the boundaries of home that demarcates the borders between ‘here’ and ‘there’, “us” and ‘them’ is examined through an autoethnographically informed approach, which takes the researcher’s self as a medium as well as a source of research. Based on personal experience, the changing nature of ‘home’ is studied as it is anchored into the self, adopting an approach that studies the cultural through the personal. In this research, the methods of research are: strategies of observing, attending to the unsettling forces of the unfamiliar, documenting my personal responses on a daily basis, and unpacking some of the existing forms and practices that sustain ideas of belonging and proposing new forms of expression to this unhomely feeling. In this study, the objective is the study of the field (including the dissolving of the ground one is standing on) and the proposing new forms, new visions. This being the case, my methods come from the disciplines of autoethnography and art practice. Throughout my PhD, I aimed to negotiate the different means these two approaches work through their field that challenges the issues of representation, documentation and presentation in cultural inquiry. This thesis explores the transformation of the sense of home and my own sense of belonging based on personal experience. It is also a contribution to the discourse that has flourished between ethnography and contemporary art over the last two decades. The project is situated at the transdisciplinary site between artistic and ethnographic disciplines and reconsiders their mutual interest in the work of cultural inquiry. With a particular focus on the moment that inquiry meets its public, I explored other possibilities of “graphy” (writing) that conventionally translates as a descriptive, textual representation in ethnography. I strived to suggest alternative forms through the ways artistic inquiry work on its field that takes this moment of encounter as a crucial part of its process. Thus, the thesis is an account of these negotiations that complements the experiments in my art practice, through which I have explored the dialogue between the two distinctive approaches to inquiry.
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Whetter, Lindsay. "Faith inside : an ethnographic exploration of Kainos Community, HMP The Verne." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/22974.
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In April 1997 Kainos Community in HMP The Verne, Dorset, England became the first faith-based prison unit to be established in the Western world. The foundations and ethos of Kainos are based on Christian concepts of ‘loving your neighbour’ and forgiveness. The community operates as a hybrid therapeutic community (TC) and cognitive behavioural programme (CBP). It is open to and inclusive of prisoners of all faiths and none. The aim of this study is to explore the Kainos community ethnographically, guided by the principles of grounded theory and thematic analysis, in order to investigate whether or not Kainos ameliorates some of the de-humanising aspects of prison, and if so, how it rehumanises the prison space. Theoretically, this study highlights the dehumanisation of imprisonment, and illuminates the role that a holistic, Christian-based approach can play in terms of making the prison environment ‘more human’. My findings reveal that on Kainos there are physical, liminal and spiritual spatial mechanisms, in which a family of sub-themes interact to enable flourishing to occur. Kainos has created a physical space in which spaces of architecture and design; sensory experience; movement; and home interact to enable flourishing, whereby prisoners feel ‘more homely’, ‘free’, safe, and calm. Kainos has created a liminal space in which spaces of atmosphere; identity; home; and creativity interact to enable flourishing, empowering prisoners in their self-expression; as a cathartic tool; and as a means of regaining or creating a new identity. Kainos has created a spiritual space in which spaces of Christian activism, love, and forgiveness enable self-worth, healing, transformation, and meaningful change. The implication is that Kainos has created spaces of flourishing, safety and peace within an otherwise dehumanising carceral space, and this plays an important role in the process of transformational change imperative in the desistance process. If society must have prisons, this study concludes that Kainos provides a model for how they should be.
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Savage-Shepherd, Misti. "Home literacy and agency : an ethnographic approach to studying the home literacy practices of six multiliterate children in Qatar." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15010/.
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This study investigated the home literacy practices of six children, aged 5-7 years, who are learning three or more languages and live in Qatar, in a middle-to-upper-middle class context. In particular, the study examined their biliteracy development and explored identity and agency issues. A particular interest was their use of media, technology and popular culture at home. This study draws on theoretical perspectives offered by the New Literacy Studies, and the fields of semiotics and multimodalities as well as studies in literacy and popular culture. Mediation, a key concept in the study, is defined as the process of how social, cultural and historical factors are influenced by and on an individual. As a result of mediation, there is a production of tools, or objects and artifacts, one of which may be language. The investigation employed a multiple case-study design with an ethnographic perspective orientation through having the participants involved as co-researchers, The six participants and their families were recruited from an international school in Qatar and represented a range of cultural backgrounds. Data were generated through observations, literacy journals, semi- structured interviews and participants' digital photographs. The analysis of the data employed a grounded-theory approach and was used to analyse the interviews of the participants and their parents as well as their digital photographs. The findings suggest that media, technology and popular culture are widely used and generate enthusiasm and interest in literacy. Additionally, children as young as five years old are aware of their different writing systems and are participating in distributed communicative practices with new technologies. Finally, agency, identity and mediation are important notions since children are active agents in their literacy learning.
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Fricke, Jeremy Michael. "White gods: Odin as the White male hope." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6105.
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Over the past decade, the undercurrent of interest in the alt-right and white nationalism – the belief that white people need a unified culture and possible statehood – has grown into a movement worthy of serious academic and political interest. The progressive platform rallying against the history of colonialism, the privileges of men, and the supremacy of whites through identity politics has created new problems with its proposed solutions. White, working-class men feel dispossessed in a world where diversity can be defined by “fewer white men.” The working-class feels no privilege in their race or gender, but rather, frustration. What is privilege if not the comfort of wealth? Due to these political changes, whites, and working-class men in particular are searching for new forms of identity to be able to access influence through identity politics themselves while their grasp on demographic power wanes. White nationalism and Odinism – a modern iteration of Viking religion – progressively are becoming some of the few not-exclusively-Christian options for white male identity. While most do not openly advocate for racialized violence, they do not publicly denounce it either, encouraging traditionally masculine ideals of sexuality and warrior culture. This thesis seeks to provide a snapshot of how white, working-class men are involving themselves in identity-making in a multicultural world through ethnographic analyses of white nationalism and Odinism.
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Forsberg, Lucas. "Involved Parenthood : Everyday Lives of Swedish Middle-Class Families." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Linköping University, Department of Child Studies, 2009. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2009/arts473s.pdf.
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Rector, Shiela G. "An Ethnographic Study of Intermediate Students from Poverty| Intersections of School and Home." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750132.
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The achievement gap in American schools between middle class students and students from poverty is well documented. This paper outlines the findings of a study designed to explore the experience and conscientization of struggling students from poverty. The argument will be made that poverty can be viewed as a culture and that this view may shed significant light on the dynamics of the achievement gap. Further, using the construct of poverty as a culture provides real life applications that have the potential to impact the achievement gap. The study explored the lived experiences in a public school setting of intermediate students from poverty, hoping to capture their voice and insights. The research utilized a Critical Pedagogical Approach to attempt to understand why American schools struggle with these populations and what could be done to address the achievement gap.
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Carey, Neil Martin. "Telling sexual auto-ethnography : (fictional) stories of the (homo)sexual in social science." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/336049/.
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The dissertation is an autoethnographic exploration of some of the meanings available, from within a contemporary British urban context, in naming and locating male same-sex genital relations (Moran, 1996). In particular, the dissertation analyses some of the dynamics at stake in locating male samesex genital relations under the sign ‘gay’. An argument is made for the pervasiveness of this nomenclature in contemporary liberal western contexts in describing male same-sex desire/attraction/activity and, concomitantly, what might be lost in consigning male same-sex sexuality thus. Autoethnography is adopted as a methodological approach in (re)tracing some elements of my biography in order to disrupt the potentially assimilationist impulse attaching to ‘gay’ as a way of normativising male same-sex relations. I adopt this approach given the uneases by which I recognise my own same-sex sexual proclivities as fitting (or not) within the homonormative (Duggan, 2004) excesses of ‘gay’. The autoethnographic approach allows me to reflect on previous experience as a means of que(e)r(y)ing the seeming ease with which ‘gay’ might be seen as accounting for all those who labour under its sign. In particular, I explore (my) Irishness, (my) queered relation to gender, (my) in/disciplined engagements with psychology, (my) Class location and (my) early childhood sexuality in an attempt to explore how these might locate me more queerly in a contemporary socios that has a tendency to render (me as a) males with same-sex inclinations as identifiable and knowable. Alongside this autoethnographic work I explore how writing creative fictions might complement/supplement the impulse to queer ‘gay’. This aspect of the work is borne out of an interest in how Humanities-inspired academic discourses might be brought to bear in bending those Social Science discourses through which I became academic and through which I have come to understand (my) (homo)sexuality. Ultimately, the dissertation is an attempt to find a writing voice that speaks to and for the multiply queered (dis)locations that I have become subject to in ‘becoming’ (academic). It is an attempt to (re)write (my) (homo)sexuality into social science discourse without recourse to those discursive frames that tolerate and/or pathologise. This is my journey into doctoring myself.
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Taylor, Elizabeth Lee. "Meaning in Transition: An Ethnographic Study of the Cultural Construction of Health, Identity and Brands among Young Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609100/.
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This study explored the lived experience of Gen Z adults in a liminal life-stage crisis where the symbolic meaning of health, identity and brands are in transition. Sixteen ethnographic in-home interviews with college students were conducted and analyzed using Geertz's interpretive and Turner's symbolic anthropology. A hermeneutic textual analysis was used to interpret three types of phenomenological data: text, pictures and collages. An "incubation" step was key in the creative interpretation process where the leap from data to abstract themes was made. Environmental circumstances like money, time, resources and social networks change the quality of health, but the fundamental health explanatory system of a young person is a reflection of their family of origin experiences. Women associate health with mental health-independence and empowerment. Men define health as physical health-food and cooking. Skills such as cooking and shopping as well as the consumption of water, cannabis and other complementary products impact health and identity. Three health worldview themes emerged: health as negotiating identity; creating home; and taking responsibility. Implications for branding and public information campaigns to change the health beliefs and practices of young adults are offered. This thesis closes with a reflection on the "research study," the dominant symbol in the practice of research as a way to analyze the fluid role of consumer anthropology in a capitalist system.
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Duek, Susanne. "Med andra ord : Samspel och villkor för litteracitet bland nyanlända barn." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47481.
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This doctoral thesis centres on six children, aged four to nine, who relatively recently immigrated to Sweden. The children’s encounters with literacy are in focus. These children are not only new arrivals to Sweden, they also have in common that Swedish is their second language and that their parents have had little or no formal education prior to arriving in Sweden. The study draws on sociocultural approaches to literacy, and more specifically the field of New Literacy Studies. In this study, reading and writing are viewed as social practices comprising different related sociocultural aspects such as norms, values, habits, traditions and ideologies, and the study concentrates on social and ideological perspectives on literacy. Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and symbolic capital have also been used for the analysis. The empirical material was collected through an ethnographic approach. Each child was followed for one year, particularly at school/preschool. The children’s homes were also visited, and their parents and teachers were interviewed. Observations involved different degrees of participation and were documented through field notes and photographs. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. In addition, artefacts and school material from the field were collected or photographed. A qualitative content analysis of the collected data was performed. The analysis show that sociocultural incongruence, coupled with flawed communication between the schools and the homes, caused the children less continuity between school and home practices. Though, the results also show, that the children studied to a considerable extent adapted to the monolingual, homogenous norms when they participated in school practices. These children are therefore highly adaptable, while their teachers found it much harder to handle or even be aware of sociocultural incongruences.I denna avhandling studeras litteracitetspraktiker hos en grupp nyanlända barn i åldrar mellan fyra och tio år. Det specifika för barnen är att deras föräldrar inte har någon eller endast en kort skolbakgrund från ursprungslandet. Under ett års tid har barnen följts i förskolan eller skolan samt i hemmet. Deras föräldrar och lärare har också intervjuats. Avhandlingens syfte är att skapa förståelse för hur samspelet runt barnens språkande ter sig samt vilka förutsättningar och villkor som råder för detta samspel. Studien visar hur barnen skapar kontinuitet mellan hemmet och skolan, trots att deras tidigare erfarenheter och modersmål har en ytterst perifer plats i skolans och förskolans litteracitetspraktiker och trots att kommunikationen mellan skolan/förskolan och hemmet haltar. Barnen och deras föräldrar strävar efter att anpassa sig till de svenskspråkiga och monokulturella normer som skolans och förskolans litteracitetspraktiker vilar på. Avhandlingens bidrag är att öka kunskapen om hur nyanlända barn, och i synnerhet barn till föräldrar utan eller med endast kort skolbakgrund, bättre kan tas emot i skolan och förskolan.