Unravelling Research

Author : Teresa Macías
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773635453

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Unravelling Research by Teresa Macías Pdf

Unravelling Research is about the ethics and politics of knowledge production in the social sciences at a time when the academy is pressed to contend with the historical inequities associated with established research practices. Written by an impressive range of scholars whose work is shaped by their commitment to social justice, the chapters grapple with different methodologies, geographical locations and communities and cover a wide range of inquiry, including ethnography in Africa, archival research in South America and research with marginalized, racialized, poor, mad, homeless and Indigenous communities in Canada. Each chapter is written from the perspective of researchers who, due to their race, class, sexual/gender identity, ability and geographical location, labour at the margins of their disciplines. By using their own research projects as sites, contributors probe the ethicality of long-established and cutting-edge methodological frameworks to theorize the indivisible relationship between methodology, ethics and politics, elucidating key challenges and dilemmas confronting marginalized researchers and research subjects alike.

Author : Jorge M. Canhoto,Paloma Moncaleán,Sandra Isabel Correia
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832525166

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Somatic embryogenesis: 60 years of research applied to plant cloning to unravel plant totipotency, volume II by Jorge M. Canhoto,Paloma Moncaleán,Sandra Isabel Correia Pdf

Author : Pragya Agarwal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472971371

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Sway by Pragya Agarwal Pdf

'Passionate and urgent.' Guardian, Book of the Week 'A must-read for all.' Stylist, best new books for 2020 'Cogently argued and intensely persuasive. Groundbreaking Work.' Waterstones, best new books of April 'Impressive and much-needed.' Financial Times, Best Business Books April to June 'Admirably detailed.' Prospect Magazine 'Practical, useful, readable and essential for the times we are living in.' Nikesh Shukla 'An eye-opening book that I hope will be widely read.' Angela Saini 'If you think you don't need to read this book, you really need to read this book.' Jane Garvey 'An eye-opening book looking at unconscious bias. Meticulously researched and well written. It will make you think hard about the judgements you make. An essential read for our times.' Kavita Puri, BBC Journalist and author For the first time, behavioural and data scientist, activist and writer Dr Pragya Agarwal unravels the way our implicit or 'unintentional' biases affect the way we communicate and perceive the world, how they affect our decision-making, and how they reinforce and perpetuate systemic and structural inequalities. Sway is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive look at unconscious bias and how it impacts day-to-day life, from job interviews to romantic relationships to saving for retirement. It covers a huge number of sensitive topics - sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, colourism - with tact, and combines statistics with stories to paint a fuller picture and enhance understanding. Throughout, Pragya clearly delineates theories with a solid grounding in science, answering questions such as: do our roots for prejudice lie in our evolutionary past? What happens in our brains when we are biased? How has bias affected technology? If we don't know about it, are we really responsible for it? At a time when partisan political ideologies are taking centre stage, and we struggle to make sense of who we are and who we want to be, it is crucial that we understand why we act the way we do. This book will enables us to open our eyes to our own biases in a scientific and non-judgmental way.

Author : Thomas Faist,Nadine Sieveking
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643901118

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Unravelling Migrants as Transnational Agents of Development by Thomas Faist,Nadine Sieveking Pdf

Since the early 2000s, there has been an increased interest in international migration as a central mechanism to advance what is called the development potential of international migrants. The contributions in this book argue that the current enthusiasm about the migration-development nexus should be approached from a perspective that recognizes and critically appraises the emergence of a new agent in development discourse, variably called "migrants," "diaspora," or "transnational community." The essays, which are the result of intensive student research at Bielefeld University, depart from issues raised by the migration-development nexus and ask how life-worlds and institutions are changing in the face of cross-border processes. In this way, the book is also a contribution to the different understandings of development. (Series: Politik, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft in einer globalisierten Welt - Vol. 11)

Author : Emilio Jose Garcia,Brenda Vale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317242970

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Unravelling Sustainability and Resilience in the Built Environment by Emilio Jose Garcia,Brenda Vale Pdf

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment. Conceived as a primer for students and professionals, it defines what the terms sustainability and resilience mean and how they are related to each other and to the design of the built environment. After discussion of the origins of the terms, these definitions are then compared and applied to case studies, including Whitehill and Bordon, UK, Tianjin Eco-city, China, and San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina, which highlight the principles of both concepts. Essentially, the authors champion the case that sustainability in the built environment would benefit from a proper understanding of resilience.

Author : Nobuko Yoshida, Martin Craig Taylor, Noelia Lander
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889660131

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Unravelling T. cruzi Biology by Nobuko Yoshida, Martin Craig Taylor, Noelia Lander Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Rosanna Vitiello,Marcus Willcocks,Brights Sparks Gunpowder Park (Organization)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781257765133

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Unravelling the Urban Lexicons of Our Everyday Environments by Rosanna Vitiello,Marcus Willcocks,Brights Sparks Gunpowder Park (Organization) Pdf

Unravelling the urban lexicons offers insights into how people respond to urban details, and begins to decipher how details in our city environments affect our perceptions of a place. This book is a synthesis of the street workshops, interviews, visual research and analysis that make up the project. Together, they form a guide to unravelling the lexicons of signs and details that make us love or loathe our urban spaces--Back cover.

Author : Sue Beeton
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781801171816

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Unravelling Travelling by Sue Beeton Pdf

Unravelling Travelling: Uncovering Tourist Emotions through Autoethnography takes an intrinsically personal autoethnographic approach to delve into the deep and very subjective emotions experienced while travelling to foreign places.

Author : Susan Tilley
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773632155

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Doing Respectful Research by Susan Tilley Pdf

Doing Respectful Research is situated within a critical, feminist postmodern framework and addresses the complexities of conducting respectful qualitative research with human participants. Three themes overlap and inform chapter discussions: developing a critical reflexivity, understanding the distance dynamic and engaging in respectful research praxis. The text illustrates how power, privilege and passion influence decisions about what gets researched, who is positioned as researcher or participant and how data are collected, analyzed and ultimately represented in public ways. Tilley explores the intersecting elements of the research process, which include deciding on a research focus and articulating research questions; choosing an appropriate research site and participants; collecting, analyzing and representing data; and making decisions about the dissemination and publication of findings. She emphasizes the dilemmas researchers experience when faced with issues of respectful representation of data, participants and research contexts. Unique to the book are the comprehensive discussions of the advisement process and the student-advisor relationship and Tilley’s use of her doctoral research to carefully illustrate elements of the research process. Each chapter ends with an annotated bibliography of relevant research connected to concepts addressed in the chapter. Tilley offers a comprehensive consideration of research ethics, including guidance for the completion of institutional requirements for review of research involving human participants and an exploration of the complicated ethical issues that emerge during the research process. Doing Respectful Research is written for student researchers, individuals who teach and advise students, instructors of qualitative research courses in social sciences, health and education, and community members interested in qualitative methods and conducting research.

Author : Kakoli Bose,Pradip Chaudhari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789813298163

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Unravelling Cancer Signaling Pathways: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Kakoli Bose,Pradip Chaudhari Pdf

Unravelling the intricate cell signalling networks and their significance in cancer poses major intellectual challenge. Keeping this in mind, the book aims at understanding the mechanism of action of different proteins and their complexes in the cancer signalling pathways. Hence, the proposed book that comprises 20 chapters provides a comprehensive introduction on cell signalling, its alterations in cancer, molecules that have been popular targets as well as the ones that are emerging as targets. In addition, it discusses different forms of therapy that are coming up for its treatment. Other than that, a major portion of the book is focused on studying different disciplines at the interface of biology and other areas of science that are being used to understand cancer biology in depth.

Author : Crawley, Heaven,Duvell, Franck,Katharine Jones,Simon McMahon,Nando Sigona
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447343219

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Unravelling Europe's 'Migration Crisis' by Crawley, Heaven,Duvell, Franck,Katharine Jones,Simon McMahon,Nando Sigona Pdf

The past few years have seen an unprecedented mass migration to Europe, as refugees from war and poverty throughout north Africa and the Middle East have embarked on perilous journeys across the Mediterranean in the hope of being allowed to start new lives in Europe. This book draws on more than five hundred firsthand accounts to reveal the human story behind the statistics and demagoguery. What is it like to set out for Europe with your family, knowing the dangers you face on the way? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And why is Europe, one of the richest regions of the world, unable to cope? More than just telling a human story, Heaven Crawley and colleagues provide a framework for understanding the dynamics underpinning the current wave of migration and challenging politicians, policy makers, and the media to rethink their understanding of why and how people move. --

Author : Sharon Taylor
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783640995523

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Living on the Other Side of Nowhere by Sharon Taylor Pdf

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2001 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, course: Sociology PhD thesis, language: English, abstract: Much scholarly work has centered around community in Newfoundland and Labrador. However, comparatively little work has focused on meanings of community. This thesis compares meanings of community in everyday life for people living in a Southern Shore community on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, with the meanings found in scholarly literature and in government documents produced in association with The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (TAGS). TAGS was a federal adjustment program responding to the moratoria on groundfish fishing in Atlantic Canada in the 1990s. I draw on Dorothy Smith's feminist theory, which starts from "lived experience" as well as the socioeconomic context of that lived experience as an entry point to illuminating the ideological nature of documents and their links to ruling relations. Smith's discussion of ideology and ruling relations are central to my gender-informed and mediated framework. I explore the contrast between meanings of community in TAGS documents and expert texts looking for lines of fault between these texts and meanings of community in everyday life in a fishing community in Newfoundland. I use as well Smith's notions of resilience and emergent consciousness to demonstrate that the historical oppressive practices of the ruling group are re-mobilized in TAGS, reflecting society's patriarchal and capitalist ideology generally, and government ideology more specifically. I show the insight of ordinary social actors into the conditions of their existence. My argument is that these concepts are integrally related to community research and policy development. The research shows that the meanings of community in one community is partly organized by history, geography and gender, and by religious, economic and political regimes. This thesis concludes by exploring the implic

Author : Delphine Vincent,Kim Marilyn Plummer,Peter Solomon,Marc-Henri Lebrun,Dominique Job,Maryam Rafiqi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889450879

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How Can Secretomics Help Unravel the Secrets of Plant-Microbe Interactions? by Delphine Vincent,Kim Marilyn Plummer,Peter Solomon,Marc-Henri Lebrun,Dominique Job,Maryam Rafiqi Pdf

Secretomics describes the global study of proteins that are secreted by a cell, a tissue or an organism, and has recently emerged as a field for which interest is rapidly growing. The term secretome was first coined at the turn of the millennium and was defined to comprise not only the native secreted proteins released into the extracellular space but also the components of machineries for protein secretion. Two secretory pathways have been described in fungi: i) the canonical pathway through which proteins bearing a N-terminal peptide signal can traverse the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, and ii) the unconventional pathway for proteins lacking a peptide signal. Protein secretion systems are more diverse in bacteria, in which types I to VII pathways as well as Sec or two-arginine (Tat) pathways have been described. In oomycete species, effectors are mostly small proteins containing an N-terminal signal peptide for secretion and additional C-terminal motifs such as RXLRs and CRNs for host targeting. It has recently been shown that oomycetes exploit non-conventional secretion mechanisms to transfer certain proteins to the extracellular environment. Other non-classical secretion systems involved in plant-fugal interaction include extracellular vesicles (EVs, Figure 1 from Samuel et al 2016 Front. Plant Sci. 6:766.). The versatility of oomycetes, fungi and bacteria allows them to associate with plants in many ways depending on whether they are biotroph, hemibiotroph, necrotroph, or saprotroph. When interacting with a live organism, a microbe will invade its plant host and manipulate its metabolisms either detrimentally if it is a pathogen or beneficially if it is a symbiote. Deciphering secretomes became a crucial biological question when an increasing body of evidence indicated that secreted proteins were the main effectors initiating interactions, whether of pathogenic or symbiotic nature, between microbes and their plant hosts. Secretomics may help to contribute to the global food security and to the ecosystem sustainability by addressing issues in i) plant biosecurity, with the design of crops resistant to pathogens, ii) crop yield enhancement, for example driven by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi helping plant hosts utilise phosphate from the soil hence increase biomass, and iii) renewable energy, through the identification of microbial enzymes able to augment the bio-conversion of plant lignocellulosic materials for the production of second generation biofuels that do not compete with food production. To this day, more than a hundred secretomics studies have been published on all taxa and the number of publications is increasing steadily. Secretory pathways have been described in various species of microbes and/or their plant hosts, yet the functions of proteins secreted outside the cell remain to be fully grasped. This Research Topic aims at discussing how secretomics can assist the scientists in gaining knowledge about the mechanisms underpinning plant-microbe interactions.

Author : Sumin Zhao,Emilia Djonov,Anders Björkvall,Morten Boeriis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315520995

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Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies by Sumin Zhao,Emilia Djonov,Anders Björkvall,Morten Boeriis Pdf

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research fields, including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, communication and media studies, education, and design. In celebration of his illustrious research career, this volume brings together a group of leading and emerging scholars in these fields to review, explore and advance two central research agendas set out by van Leeuwen: the categorisation of the meaning potential of various semiotic resources and the examination of their uses in different forms of communication, and the critical analysis of the interaction between semiotic forms, norms and technology in discursive practices. Through 11 cutting-edge research papers and an experimental visual essay, the book investigates a broad range of semiotic resources including touch, sound, image, texture, and discursive practices such as community currency, fitness regime, film scoring, and commodity upcycling. The book showcases how social semiotics and multimodality can provide insights into the burning issues of the day, such as global neoliberalism, terrorism, consumerism, and immigration.

Author : Alberto Granato,Andrea De Giorgio
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Medicine (General)
ISBN : 9782889194728

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Experimental models of early exposure to alcohol: a way to unravel the neurobiology of mental retardation by Alberto Granato,Andrea De Giorgio Pdf

Excessive alcohol drinking represents a major social and public health problem for several countries. Alcohol abuse during pregnancy leads to a complex syndrome referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), chiefly characterized by mental retardation. The effects of early exposure to ethanol can be reproduced in laboratory animals and this helped to answer several key questions concerning the human pathology. The interest of experimental models of FASD is twofold. First, they increase our knowledge about the dose and modality of alcohol consumption able to induce damaging effects on the developing brain. Second, experimental models of FASD can provide useful hints to elucidate the basic mechanisms leading to the intellectual disability. In fact, experimental exposure to alcohol can be carried out during discrete, often very restricted, time windows. As a consequence, FASD models, though depending on the multifaceted interference of alcohol with several molecular pathways, can provide valuable information about which specific developmental periods and brain areas are critically involved in the genesis of mental retardation. Putting together data obtained through several experimental paradigms of alcohol exposure and those deriving from other genetic and non-genetic models, one can figure out to what extent different types of mental retardation share common pathogenetic mechanisms. The present Research Topic is aimed at establishing the state of the art of the current research on experimental FASD, focusing on differences and homologies with other types of intellectual disability. The ultimate goal is to find out a common roadmap in view of future therapeutical approaches.