The webdocumentary positions itself as documentary re-mediated for the internet age. Not only does the name webdocumentary consciously reference film and television documentary but it is possible to ...trace continuities in representational strategies, purpose and production practices that situate the webdoc within the documentary tradition. In spite of this family resemblance, however, the webdoc challenges current thinking about documentary representation. Interactivity in particular has consequences for theorizing in relation to modes of representation and user engagement. This article considers interactivity as a representational strategy, suggesting three dimensions for assessing its contribution to documentary. Following on from this it is suggested that, like film and television documentary, webdocs exhibit patterns of textual organization. It is suggested that there are at least three interactive structures found in webdocs: the narrative, the categorical and the collaborative. Each can be further divided – indicating the diverse uses of interactive features. A challenge of researching interactive texts is that the whole text is never completely available for analysis. Each viewing has the potential to be different from the last. Although necessarily provisional, this article seeks to demonstrate what might be achieved through close reading of the interactive documentary text.
Improving the culture of care Nash, Kate
British journal of midwifery,
09/2021, Letnik:
29, Številka:
9
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Kate Nash, Senior Lecturer and Professional Midwifery Advocate, provides an overview of the advocating for education and quality improvement (A-EQUIP) model and role of the Professional Midwifery ...Advocate
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine whether preterm birth of twins is associated with an increased risk of preterm birth in a subsequent singleton pregnancy. Study Design All ...patients who delivered a twin gestation and a subsequent singleton pregnancy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital during a 10-year period were identified. We used a cohort study design, comparing the outcomes of the singleton pregnancies in women with preterm twin deliveries to those pregnancies with term twin deliveries. Results One hundred sixty-seven women delivered twins followed by a singleton pregnancy. Women whose twin delivery was preterm (n = 99) were more likely than those who had delivered a term twin pregnancy (n = 68) to deliver a subsequent preterm singleton pregnancy (13.1% vs 2.9%; odds ratio, 5.0; 95% CI, 1.1, 22.9). Conclusion Preterm birth of twins is associated with an increased risk of preterm delivery in a subsequent singleton pregnancy.
Do human rights offer the potential to challenge neoliberalism? I argue that rather than understanding human rights as ideology, as obscuring or legitimating neoliberalism, it is more productive to ...see both human rights and neoliberalism as hegemonic projects. In this article I explore convergences and divergences between dominant discourses and practices of human rights and neoliberalism around key ideas 'the state', 'the individual' and 'the nation', to clear a space for appreciation of the cultural politics of human rights: divergences in constructions of responsibility and hierarchies of value of concrete individuals offer openings for challenging ideas and practices of neoliberalism through campaigns for human rights.
Provision of supportive care Nash, Kate
British journal of midwifery,
10/2020, Letnik:
28, Številka:
10
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Kate Nash discusses the factors that contribute to the development of the interpersonal skills required to support women during labour, which are integral to midwifery practice
It's important that vaginal examinations are undertaken only when there is a clear clinical indication rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach
What does global citizenship mean to the citizens of a liberal democratic capitalist state? As part of an historically unprecedented, globally coordinated, NGO-led campaign against poverty in the ...underdeveloped South, `Make Poverty History' attempted to give this question an answer. Cultural politics was integral to the campaign. Make Poverty History was not only mediated (as all campaigns must be), it also aimed to form global citizens with obligations to non-nationals outside the territorial boundaries of the state within national media. One of the most interesting aspects of this attempt was the engagement with popular culture and the importance of mobilizing emotions in relation to distant suffering. This article discusses the extraordinary originality of this campaign in terms of its aims and means, and draws conclusions from its successes and failures to achieve cosmopolitan solidarity. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
This article explores the relationship between social movements, human rights and law at different scales. I compare 'global constitutionalism' and 'subaltern cosmopolitanism' as approaches to ...movements, rights and law. As sociologists, we are especially well placed to address certain assumptions on which these inter-disciplinary approaches rely. I argue that assumptions about the relationship between social movements and human rights that are fundamentally normative limit our understanding of the diversity of organisational forms through which human rights are being defined, and of the complexity of multi-scalar law through which claims to justice are being made. In particular, the importance of the state and national law for institutionalising human rights norms should not be neglected by privileging either local or international law as the legitimate focus of democratic claims for justice.
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