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& Littlefield ). Fieldnotes ( 2016 ), Fieldnotes Lewis Turner, participant-observation in Za’tari Refugee Camp , Jordan , August . Fieldnotes ( 2018 ), Fieldnotes Heleen Touquet, conversation with a doctor who works with torture survivors in London , April . Goodley
’s empowerment and entrepreneurship as well as taken for granted assumptions about the emancipatory qualities of the market. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the organisers and participants at the ‘Caring Through Consumption’ panels at the 2019 International Studies Association annual convention in Toronto where we first presented the paper. We are also grateful to the reviewers for their constructive comments that helped us develop it further
-administered therapeutic foods to tackle malnutrition are now common ( Scott-Smith, 2013 ). Making good the paucity of health and educational services, e-medicine and e-learning smart phone apps are being widely trialled. While these are only a few of the many objects and services available, a common feature is an emphasis on self-administration, personalisation and portability. Rather than invoke the community solidarity that underpinned earlier forms of participant development, these smart technologies now call forth dependent communities of users
accordion, and a range of other unusual designs. Very few of these exhibits, however, actually involve any architects. I have been to AidEx for several years now and have always noticed how the participants tend to be product designers, touting their objects as mass-produced, portable units to be shipped and deployed anywhere in the world. In this mixture of engineering, industrial design and entrepreneurship, innovation is very much the driving force, with its
). Agenda for Humanity ( 2017 ), ‘ Innovation Fair Participation Marketplace’ , www.agendaforhumanity.org/sites/default/files/resources/2017/Jul/ExhibitionFair-Participants-InnovationMarketplace-Booths.pdf (accessed 27 February 2018) . Al Jazeera ( 2016a ), ‘ Syria’s War: Aleppo Hospital Bombed Again’ , www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/syria
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hairdresser. A common experience that emerges from her story, and that of all other Hill district participants with more than a couple of decades of employment history, is of deindustrialisation, forced occupation changes and increasingly temporary work, or ‘precarity’, as Standing describes it ( 2011 ). Several of the male participants started out in factories or breweries doing stable, sometimes skilled, jobs and ended up driving lorries or cabs, often on an increasingly low-paid, self-employed basis. Elliott, now 76, experienced a drop in status and security of his
that emerged: an understanding of ‘the economy’ as to some extent formal, but with reservations, from high-income Church district, and an understanding of it as rigged from low-income Hill district. In the second section I attempt explanations for them. I argue that participants see ‘the economy’ through the lenses of their own experience, and that the experiences that are most important are economic, such as income levels, rather than those relating to gender or age. I argue that income shapes underlying understandings of ‘the economy’ even when people have
patients returned to their homes and started their lives again outside the hospital walls that both protected and restricted them. The patients’ reflections – mostly collected two to three years after their discharge – are presented in this chapter. Victims of war and the notion of the quality of life When exploring the participants’ daily lives, the concept of the quality of life
performance (planning, design, production and performance). This process is informed by insights from the commissioners of the performance, the artists, their collaborators and the participants. Prior to my field research, I was able to identify some of the actant-mediators in A Machine To See With and make the necessary preparations to observe them. However, several other actant-mediators emerged through my observations of several iterations of the performance, my own participation, and the interviews that I conducted with participants, artists and collaborators