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S is for… Situating Everyday Life (Book) #AtoZChallenge
S is for… Situating Everyday Life (Book)
Another book I’m yet to read – but I love the front cover of this one. I have to admit to being very grateful to my dishwasher – my back has definitely been less painful since I got one.
From the back cover:
‘This agenda-setting book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach…’
Some of my fellow OTs and other online fans may be interested in Chapter 8 – The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking About Activism and the Internet
Chapters for me:
Chapter 1 – Introduction: (Re) Thinking about Everyday Life and Activities
Chapter 2 – Theorising the Familiar: Practices and Places
Chapter 3 – Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods
My thoughts:
I think this book may help inform my research methodology – there seems to be discussion of use of online technologies in this (something I mentioned being interested in, in my R post on Saturday).
The idea of the everyday interests me – I have always said I want to look at the ‘everyday’ experience of creative writing rather than looking at creative writing as therapy.
A quick scan through the reference list at the back doesn’t immediately show up obvious OT or Occupational Science literature (hopefully I will find something when I look more closely, if not there is a question that needs asking again about how we can share our insights with others).
I really do love my dishwasher!!
What aspect of your everyday life do you think is worthy of further study?
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S is for… Supernatural and some more #AtoZChallenge
S is for… Supernatural and some more
In a series of posts on Supernatural/Sci-Fi and Fantasy shows it only makes sense to mention the one and only Supernatural. (Please note there may be some slight spoilers below)
Top Reason to love Supernatural – Jensen Ackles – here he is bloopering away.
Two brothers follow in their demon hunting father’s footsteps to battle all manner of demons – they go to hell and back – literally.
Standout episodes – I may have gone a bit overboard and found it hard to stop (no season 8 shown here in the UK yet).
Bloody Mary – Season 1 Episode 5
I could never play this ‘game’ when I was younger – this episode reassured me that I was right to stop at one mention (yup too scaredy cat to even say it twice let alone the fated three).
In My Time of Dying – Season 2 Episode 1
Dean has a scar like mine after a nasty car accident (shock ending of season 1). Jeffrey Dean Morgan suits a hospital bed (as he did as Denny in Grey’s Anatomy).
Ghostfacers – Season 3 Episode 13
Now if reality supernatural TV had Sam and Dean I might watch it.
Lazurus Rising – Season 4 Episode 1
We get introduced to Castiel – enough said.
The Monster at the End of This Book – Season 4 Episode 18
An author has been writing Sam and Dean stories – how?
Changing Channels – Season 5 Episode 8
Stuck in TV shows – reminds me of a game my sister and I used to play with some friends when we were younger.
Abandon All Hope – Season 5 Episode 10
Can’t tell you why this episode stands out but it made me cry
The French Mistake – Season 6 Episode 15
Sam and Dean end up in an alternate universe where they are actors in the show Supernatural – adore Misha (Cas) in this episode and would love for them to do a second episode where the actors end up in the real situation.
Slash Fiction – Season 7 Episode 6
How do you try and stop Sam and Dean – clone them – twice as pretty but too mean.
I also love Supernatural for introducing me to Carry on my Wayward Son by Kansas – used in their ‘The Road so far’ season summaries.
S is a good letter so here’s a quick nod to
The Secret Circle – based on books written by L.J. Smith who also wrote The Vampire Diaries – the series was very different from the books (basic premise and characters only) and they only let us have the one season before cancelling it.
Switch – a UK witchy series from last year – it was all rather fun
Smallville – Teen Superman
Sabrina the Teenage Witch – Sabrina and her talking cat Salem live with two witchy Aunties – more fun.
Are you a Supernatural fan?
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R is for… Radical Rhetoric #AtoZChallenge
R is for… Radical Rhetoric
One of the current drivers in research is that of impact – getting the message out there.
Often when people finish their PhDs they have a nice bound copy of their thesis to put on their bookshelves and a copy gets into the university library. Nowadays that copy may be electronic, but, still the audience for reading a whole thesis is limited – and if they are unlucky your family and friends may be among them.
Next comes conference presentations and publications in academic journals – again potentially a very limited audience.
If it is newsworthy you might get the sensationalised headlines that I mentioned yesterday.
Within social sciences there has been a drive to use more performative methods of dissemination – e.g. using films, poetry, fictional writing, photographs etc.
Because I will be using autoethnography as my methodology, and as a writer, I am keen to present my work more creatively, I am looking into how I can do this to satisfy my examiners as well as myself. There is also the potential of social media to explore.
‘Of all the developments in qualitative inquiry, performative practices are the most radical.’ (Gergen and Gergen, 2011)
This is because of the blurring of art and science – sounds perfect to me.
Here’s a link to an article if you’d like to read any more – http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1595/3105
Gergen, M.M. and Gergen, K.J. (2011) Performative Social Sciences and Psychology. Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 12 (1), Art.11.
Are you interested in research that is happening? How would you like to find out about it?
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