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Research paper thumbnail of Friches industrielles: Friches industrielles Réenchanter les ruines de la Ruhr « post-industrielle »

Techniques and Culture, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Utopic Wastelands: Site-Specific Art and the Re-Making of Germany's Ruhr Region

Research paper thumbnail of Persuasive Vistas, Political Visions: Art and the Remaking of the Ruhr

Research paper thumbnail of An Analysis of the Promises and Pitfalls of Participatory Processes in Health Policy: The Need for Empowerment Education within Marginalized Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The Promise of Infrastructure

Research paper thumbnail of Contextualizing the "Poetics of Openness" in the Works of Jasper Johns and Ji Lee

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, 2007

... Through insights taken from linguistic pragmatics (Emile Benveniste and Charles Pierce), I id... more ... Through insights taken from linguistic pragmatics (Emile Benveniste and Charles Pierce), I identify a particular form of what Umberto Eco calls the “open work” in art that functions symbolically as a "dialogical other.” In my paper, I identify and compare a historical manifestation of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Friches industrielles

Techniques & culture, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborations across Cinematic Objects

Visual Anthropology Review

Research paper thumbnail of Baker Institute Promises and Pitfalls

With their roots in Paulo Freire's writing on pedagogy, participatory processes have now become a... more With their roots in Paulo Freire's writing on pedagogy, participatory processes have now become adapted for use in a broad range of applications within national and international health development work. Advocates claim that they make projects more relevant to local priorities and perspectives, create more lasting effects, and foster empowerment among community members.

Research paper thumbnail of Participatory Processes as a Bridge Across Cross-Cultural Divides? A Case Study of the Ugandan Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project

Focus, 2005

Abstract: This paper presents research undertaken in Uganda on a national nutrition and early chi... more Abstract: This paper presents research undertaken in Uganda on a national nutrition and early childhood development project that was aimed at educating caregivers. Through interviews with key informants, a literature review of project documents, and ethnographic fieldwork in one village, cross-cultural barriers to communication and the role of participatory process in alleviating such barriers were examined. Objectives of the research included how information in the project was disseminated and received at the grassroots level, the role of culture played in communication, and the use of participatory methods in the project. Interviews with caregivers revealed a low level of retention of the project’s educational messages that correlated with low levels of formal schooling. The presence of different local understandings about food, health, and disease further complicated the internalization of the project’s teachings. The educational interventions that had the greatest impact on behavioral changes were the Child’s Days, large community-wide events that utilized interactive, visual, and participatory ways of communicating the project’s messages. Research at the village level also revealed strong patterns of dependency thinking that inhibited the success of the project in empowering local people to help themselves. Freire’s theory of “dialogical action” as the basis of an emancipatory and empowering mode of education provided insight into shortcomings in the use of participatory processes in the project.

Research paper thumbnail of Friches industrielles: Friches industrielles Réenchanter les ruines de la Ruhr « post-industrielle »

Techniques and Culture, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Utopic Wastelands: Site-Specific Art and the Re-Making of Germany's Ruhr Region

Research paper thumbnail of Persuasive Vistas, Political Visions: Art and the Remaking of the Ruhr

Research paper thumbnail of An Analysis of the Promises and Pitfalls of Participatory Processes in Health Policy: The Need for Empowerment Education within Marginalized Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The Promise of Infrastructure

Research paper thumbnail of Contextualizing the "Poetics of Openness" in the Works of Jasper Johns and Ji Lee

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review, 2007

... Through insights taken from linguistic pragmatics (Emile Benveniste and Charles Pierce), I id... more ... Through insights taken from linguistic pragmatics (Emile Benveniste and Charles Pierce), I identify a particular form of what Umberto Eco calls the “open work” in art that functions symbolically as a "dialogical other.” In my paper, I identify and compare a historical manifestation of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Friches industrielles

Techniques & culture, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Collaborations across Cinematic Objects

Visual Anthropology Review

Research paper thumbnail of Baker Institute Promises and Pitfalls

With their roots in Paulo Freire's writing on pedagogy, participatory processes have now become a... more With their roots in Paulo Freire's writing on pedagogy, participatory processes have now become adapted for use in a broad range of applications within national and international health development work. Advocates claim that they make projects more relevant to local priorities and perspectives, create more lasting effects, and foster empowerment among community members.

Research paper thumbnail of Participatory Processes as a Bridge Across Cross-Cultural Divides? A Case Study of the Ugandan Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project

Focus, 2005

Abstract: This paper presents research undertaken in Uganda on a national nutrition and early chi... more Abstract: This paper presents research undertaken in Uganda on a national nutrition and early childhood development project that was aimed at educating caregivers. Through interviews with key informants, a literature review of project documents, and ethnographic fieldwork in one village, cross-cultural barriers to communication and the role of participatory process in alleviating such barriers were examined. Objectives of the research included how information in the project was disseminated and received at the grassroots level, the role of culture played in communication, and the use of participatory methods in the project. Interviews with caregivers revealed a low level of retention of the project’s educational messages that correlated with low levels of formal schooling. The presence of different local understandings about food, health, and disease further complicated the internalization of the project’s teachings. The educational interventions that had the greatest impact on behavioral changes were the Child’s Days, large community-wide events that utilized interactive, visual, and participatory ways of communicating the project’s messages. Research at the village level also revealed strong patterns of dependency thinking that inhibited the success of the project in empowering local people to help themselves. Freire’s theory of “dialogical action” as the basis of an emancipatory and empowering mode of education provided insight into shortcomings in the use of participatory processes in the project.

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