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Alternative Representations (alternative + representation)
Selected AbstractsALL IN THE FAMILY: A BELATED RESPONSE TO KNUDSON-MARTIN'S FEMINIST REVISION OF BOWEN THEORYJOURNAL OF MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY, Issue 1 2002K. Blake Horne The first formal attempt at revising Bowen theory within the mariage and family therapy literature is represented in the work of Knudson-Martin (1994). Claiming that several of the theory's concepts are defined at odds with female development, Knudson-Martin (1994) reconceptualizes and expands Bowen theory to rectify these perceived shortcomings. In turn, we address several fundamental concerns with knudson-Martin's critique and revision of Bowen theory. An alternative representation of Bowen Theory, as well as its relationship to feminist thought, is put forth, Suggestions for the fields's future relationship to Bowen theory are also discussed. [source] Joint projections of temperature and precipitation change from multiple climate models: a hierarchical Bayesian approachJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES A (STATISTICS IN SOCIETY), Issue 1 2009Claudia Tebaldi Summary., Posterior distributions for the joint projections of future temperature and precipitation trends and changes are derived by applying a Bayesian hierachical model to a rich data set of simulated climate from general circulation models. The simulations that are analysed here constitute the future projections on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based its recent summary report on the future of our planet's climate, albeit without any sophisticated statistical handling of the data. Here we quantify the uncertainty that is represented by the variable results of the various models and their limited ability to represent the observed climate both at global and at regional scales. We do so in a Bayesian framework, by estimating posterior distributions of the climate change signals in terms of trends or differences between future and current periods, and we fully characterize the uncertain nature of a suite of other parameters, like biases, correlation terms and model-specific precisions. Besides presenting our results in terms of posterior distributions of the climate signals, we offer as an alternative representation of the uncertainties in climate change projections the use of the posterior predictive distribution of a new model's projections. The results from our analysis can find straightforward applications in impact studies, which necessitate not only best guesses but also a full representation of the uncertainty in climate change projections. For water resource and crop models, for example, it is vital to use joint projections of temperature and precipitation to represent the characteristics of future climate best, and our statistical analysis delivers just that. [source] Extraordinary Satisfactions: Lesbian Visibility in Seventeenth,Century Pornography in EnglandGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2003Sarah Toulalan This article analyses seventeenth,century pornographic literature and popular ballads to explore alternative representations, and hence interpretations, of female same,sex desire than those presented by either early modern legal, medical and religious discourse in which the image of the tribade predominates, or the homoerotic prose and poetry of female writers. It argues that early modern culture was not limited to interpreting sexual acts between women as the result of either a physical abnormality (clitoral hypertrophy) or the desire to live as a man, and thence to take on his sexual as well as social role. [source] Technologies of Visibility: The Utopian Politics of Cameras, Televisions, Videos and Dreams in New BritainTHE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Andrew Lattas This paper explores how Melanesian villagers have harnessed modern, technological ways of seeing. It begins by analysing the politics and narrative structures of dreams and popular stories about secret photos concerning the dead. These are stories about losing control and regaining hidden, alternative representations of Melanesians. I then analyse how millenarian followers have experimented with ,constructing' their own versions of cameras, televisions and videos so as to gain access to the omniscient powers of modern technology and merge them with those of a Christian god and with the gaze of the dead. In the Pomio Kivung movement, ,televisions' and ,videos' have even been used to create new forms of moral surveillance for policing and governing communities. Here the customary shamanic worlds of dreams and possession have been modernised and redeployed to re-mediate the governmental practices and disciplinary schemes of civilisating projects originally belonging to Western churches and government. [source] Young Peoples' Representations of ,Atypical' Work in English SocietyCHILDREN & SOCIETY, Issue 3 2009Sarah Crafter In this paper, we explore young peoples' normative representations of work. In particular, we are interested in the ways young people view work roles which could be considered ,atypical' such as young caring or language brokering. Interviewed were 46 young people (15,18 years) some who did, and some who did not engage in the ,atypical' work roles of language brokering or young caring. Findings indicated that young people have a strong representation of what a ,normal' childhood comprises and that friends, teachers and parents play a mediational role in cementing this contextually. However, respondents presented two alternative representations around engagement in ,atypical' roles, with some individuals holding both views at the same time. On the one hand, they felt that engagement in ,atypical' activities would be experienced as a loss of ,normal' childhood. On the other hand, a more positive representation of ,atypical' childhoods was also drawn on, in which engagement in ,atypical' activities was seen as a source of pride and a contributor of additional skills to a child's development. This opinion was evidenced by both those who had, and those who had not engaged in ,atypical' work. [source] | ||||||||||