Boundaries

Hull - A Digital City? : A study into the adoption of social media and web technologies in organisations and communities.

by Delia Pembrey MacNamara

Paper type: Research paper (MBA Dissertation), University of Hull
Submitted: 28th September 2011

A study into the adoption of social media and web technologies in organisations and communities. The findings dispel... more A study into the adoption of social media and web technologies in organisations and communities. The findings dispel the myth of the Generation Y dominance on social media, and reveal that the barriers to adoption include individual perceptions and boundaries toward new technologies, incorrect assumptions of prior learning and the need to change leadership styles when utilising social media. The scope of the research and its longitudinal nature make the study original.


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Splendid Isolation: ‘Philosopher’s islands’ and the reimagination of space

by Angus Cameron

Published online in Geoforum, January 2012

This paper argues that the metaphorical figure of the island plays an important but profoundly ambiguous role in the... more This paper argues that the metaphorical figure of the island plays an important but profoundly ambiguous role in the imagination of social space. The paper argues that ‘utopic’ islands have historically provided a fictional domain of experimentation that has informed the constitution of ‘real’ state spaces. From the 16th to 20th centuries this took the form of an increasingly consolidated and ‘global’ endotopia: a world, exemplified by the ‘political’ map, full of state spaces constituted as interiors. More recently, islands have served a very different metaphoric function, being used to create and legitimise spaces of exteriority – ‘xenospaces’ such as the online worlds of the ‘metaverse’ and the arcane legal/financial spaces of offshore – which in combination constitute an emergent xenotopia. The ‘philosopher’s island’ (Mackay, 2010), therefore, represents a complex and polyvalent spatial form that serves to continuously and expediently redefine the nature of social space.

Nurses and midwives in alternative health care: comparative processes of boundary re-configuration in Israel

by Sky Gross

in: Complementary and alternative medicine in nursing and midwifery: towards a critical social science edited by Jon Adams and Philip Tovey Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2008. co authored with Judith Shuval

This comparative study of nurses and midwives practicing CAM is an additional link in our on-going research concerning... more This comparative study of nurses and midwives practicing CAM is an additional link in our on-going research concerning the co-habitation of bio and alternative medicine in Israel. We have been interested  in negotiative processes of boundary crossing which take place when alternative practitioners work within the organizational context of bio medical institutions. 
The present paper expands the context of our research by focusing on two groups of allied health professionals who utilize CAM  practices. Like increasing numbers of physicians who practice CAM,  the nurses and midwives under study are trained and experienced in mainstream bio medicine and have at some point in their careers opted to study and practice a variety of CAM skills.  Their experiences in the processes of boundary crossing are analyzed in terms of 'boundary work' to include practices utilized in the work context. 

Midwives Practice CAM: Feminism in the Delivery Room

by Sky Gross

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 46-62 (2008). Co-authored with Judith Shuval

This article focuses on midwives who practice complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Israel. After qualifying... more This article focuses on midwives who practice complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Israel. After qualifying as nurses in mainstream biomedical institutions, these midwives have, at some point in their careers, opted to study a variety of CAM skills and practice them in hospital delivery rooms in Israel. The authors explore the relationship of selected elements of feminist ideology to the epistemology of CAM midwives. Seven context-specific themes are viewed as central to their epistemological stance: rejection of the medicalization of birth; a strong belief in the "naturalness" of childbirth; rejection of the overuse of technology; empowerment of women; nostalgia and reverence for the past; centrality of intuition, feeling, and emotion; and active advocacy. In-depth, semistructured interviews were carried out during 2004 to 2005 with 13 midwives. These narratives provided empirical material for a qualitative analysis. Evidence is shown to demonstrate the unique feminist quality of the core beliefs of the CAM midwives.

Trickster in Between

by Angus Cameron

This short essay was commissioned by artists Julia Tcharfas and Tim Ivison in association with their contribution to a group exhibition called 'For Inclusion in the Syllabi'.  The project involved a complex and unfolding network of artists, writers and academics who together explore aspects of the nature of collaboration as well as collaborating in their own right.  my contribution is a brief reflection on money as a diabolically collaborative project in which we all, knowingly or not participate.  Further details of the exhibition can be found on the xenotopia blog.  NB. this is just the raw text, I do not yet know how it is/was presented in the gallery.

Divide and Rule: Constructing Human Boundaries In 'Boundless Nature'

by juliet fall

New Turkish Business Elites: Resources, Networks, Boundaries, and Mobility

by Mustafa Ozbilgin

Sibel Yamak, Ali Ergur, Artun Ünsal, Mustafa Özbilgin and Elif Ünal Çoker (forthcoming) New Turkish Business Elites: Resources, Networks, Boundaries, and Mobility, in Andrew and Nada Kakabadse (eds) Global Elites: The Opaque nature of Transnational Policy Determination, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

In this chapter, we explain how the new Turkish corporate elites mobilise their varied resources in order to seek... more In this chapter, we explain how the new Turkish corporate elites mobilise their varied resources in order to seek integration into the business community through their international, national and local networks. Our findings show that intensive use of economic, social and cultural resources accounts for the success of Turkish elites in navigating their way from local settings to international fluency. We draw upon relational sociology of Bourdieu and network theory of Granovetter in order to frame the theoretical background of our study. We have three main findings: First, local and international networks are more accessible to new business elites than national networks. In order to access national networks new business elites require higher levels of economic capital. Second, new business elites in Turkey do not have elite tastes. In fact, our study demonstrates that the new elites have common rather than refined tastes. This may be explained by the fact that they have only recently joined elites. Finally education has been exceptionally instrumental in allowing new elites to access elite status in Turkey. Significance of education in allowing for class mobility cannot be overstated in the case of Turkey. 

Some foundational/demitatory sacrifices and his ethnohistoric paralels (spanish text)

by Marcial Tenreiro Bermúdez

"Sobre algunos sacrificios de fundacion y delimitacion y sus paralelos historicos y etnográficos", in:
Anuario Brigantino 2007, nº 30, pp. 179-92

Abstract
The current article tries to throw some light over a strange ritual contained in few modern and medieval... more Abstract
The current article tries to throw some light over a strange ritual contained in few modern and medieval texts. Through a comparative perspective we will be defined morphologically the contiguity of a serie of ritual schemes, namely: foundation, boundary delimitation and appropriation

key words: Foundational sacrifice, landboundaries, ritual, ethnohistory

Sumario
El presente artículo pretende arrojar luz al extraño ritual contenido en una serie de textos modernos y medievales, definiendo morfológicamente a través de una perspectiva comparativa la contigüidad de una serie definida de rituales: fundación, delimitación y apropiación.

Palabras clave: Sacrificio fundacional, fronterras, ritual, etnohistoria