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Foreign and Home Tours in 1830s' Manuscript Culture

Foreign and Home Tours in 1830s' Manuscript Culture

Justice and politics in energy access for education, livelihoods and health: How socio-cultural processes mediate the winners and losers

The rhetoric on development benefits of energy access often focuses on education, livelihoods and health. Using case studies of two energy access projects in India, this paper demonstrates that these claims, while true in part, are neither simple nor straightforward. It argues that pre-existing socio-cultural processes mediate the development outcomes of energy access projects. In particular, the roles of gender, socio-economic positions and the local economy are vital in understanding the links between education, livelihoods, health and energy.This paper is important for two reasons. First, working with culture as a mediator, it provides nuanced insights into relationships between energy access and three key development goals. Second, by presenting this analysis, the paper identifies a need for further research on the relationships between socio-cultural processes, development and energy access and, how by keeping these processes in mind, the benefits of energy access could be extended to less privileged social groups. This paper is based on a nine-month long ethnographic research in five villages in India’s Bihar state. Home tours, interviews, participant observations and group discussions were used to collect the data.

Heatwaves, cooling and young children at home: Integrating energy and health objectives

This paper examines the practices advised by health authorities and performed by parents to cool infants during hot weather. The aim is to explore how health and energy efficiency imperatives can be better integrated for households. Consumption of home air conditioning is increasing around the world alongside policy concerns about energy poverty, climate change and peak demand. This paper analyses online sources containing advice to parents about temperature, hot weather and infant health. The content of this ‘know-what’ for parents was considered alongside experience-based ‘know-how’ (Royston, 2014) as described by parents in 44 interviews and home tours in Australia. Air conditioning is frequently positioned by health authorities as superior to low or no energy practices. However, understandings of infant care during hot weather are diverse and unsettled − both amongst parents and authorities. The absence of health sector consensus leaves space for energy policymakers to engage with the health sector to develop integrated cross-sectoral policy approaches. Continued circulation of adaptive, less energy-intensive hot weather practices is needed. Arresting the trajectory towards widespread reliance on air conditioning can help household finances, reduce electricity demand during hot weather, and avoid leaving parents ill-equipped when high demand or unexpected events compromise electricity supply.

DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR CHILDCARE ROBOTS WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF DUAL INCOME AND SINGLE INCOME FAMILIES

As childcare has become a serious social concern in Korea, the development of a childcare robot is of great interest. In particular, with the increase of dual-income families, designing childcare robots for respective dual and single income households is needed. This paper presents an ethnographic study of dual and single income families with a child to develop design guidelines for childcare robots for those respective groups. We use in-depth interviews, home tours and a oneweek journal written by mothers to gather the requirements during interaction between mother and child, and user and product. A total of 6 primary requirements and each with their respective secondary requirements were gathered. By analyzing the frequency of the primary and secondary requirements we were able to find both similarities and differences between dual and single income households. By quantifying the importance of robot design issues based on frequency of

A mitigation tool to protect a home health care structure facing a hydrological disaster

This paper deals with the problem to face hydrological disasters such as a flood, in a home health care structure. In France, these hospitals deliver mainly home health care by employing liberal nurses and liberal physicians (patients’ referring physicians), but they employ also salaried nurses and salaried physicians to control the quality of cares and to ensure the care continuity, respectively. The cares and the physicians’ consultations are organized through home tour schedules. In the event of a flood, home tours can be compromised depending on home accessibility. A patient home can be easily or hardly accessible and the home care tour can be or not prolonged depending on the time required to reach each patient home. In the case where the patient home is invaded by the water, the patient must be evacuated to a regular hospital or to a field hospital which has been set up temporarily to receive the evacuated patients. In this paper, a decision-making tool is proposed to face the hydrological disaster i.e. to decide: which patients must be evacuated, which resources must be used to keep patients at home, and how many beds are required to host the evacuated patients. With such a tool, home health care structures can initiate the required collaborations in order to be ready to respond to such emergency crisis and plan patient evacuations during the flood.

A qualitative exploration of memory cuing by personal items in the home

We are surrounded by personal items that can trigger memories, such as photos, souvenirs and heirlooms. Also during holidays, we collect items to remind us of the events, but not all bring back memories to the same extent. Therefore, we explored peoples’ responses to personal items related to a holiday, using the home tour interviewing method. In total, 63 accounts of cuing responses from nine home tours were analysed using thematic analysis. This resulted in four types of cuing responses: (a) ‘no-memory’ responses, (b) ‘know’ responses, (c) ‘memory evoked think or feel’ responses and (d) ‘remember’ responses. For each of these cuing response categories, we looked into the types of items and their characteristics. Furthermore, we found that some items can evoke multiple memories. The majority of the memories’ content refers to events close to the moment of acquiring the item.

Information from the past: how elderly people orchestrate presences, memories and technologies at home

This paper describes insights from an ethnographic study aimed at understanding the uses and meanings of objects and domestic spaces in the daily practices of older adults. This work was inspired from the awareness that designing suitable domestic technologies which “fit” into seniors’ home environments requires a deep understanding of how elders arrange and give meanings to their domestic spaces and objects. The final goal of this research is to provide insights into the ways older people make sense of products and services in relation to their individual and social well-being at home. Further studies will address applicative implications regarding how to use these insights to design as innovative and as effective products and services. This research involved two hundred and forty-one participants aged over 65 in Italy from different household situations (living alone, with others, in the family home) and in different social contexts (in rural and large urban areas). In-field observations were carried out at homes of the elderly, and data were collected through narrative interviews, home tours (audio and video recorded), photographs of objects and environments and ethnographic field notes. Results showed that several elements at home become a choreography of “fondness objects” which support the remembrance (e.g. mementos) and keep the elderly company (e.g. TV and radio). These objects are often related to meaningful personal memories from past experiences and are “traces” of relationships which are no longer physically present were relevant in some periods of life. Ethnographic data return a clear picture of the elderly like people that actively organize their world starting from their strong need of relationships and selective remembering that supports their emotional lives. Implications and suggestions for designers are also discussed.

Keys to Planning a Home Tour Event

Special Events GaloreVolume 16, Issue 10 p. 7-7 Organized Tour Events Keys to Planning a Home Tour Event Kerry Nenn, Kerry NennSearch for more papers by this author Kerry Nenn, Kerry NennSearch for more papers by this author First published: 21 September 2016 https://doi.org/10.1002/speg.30432Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume16, Issue10October 2016Pages 7-7 RelatedInformation

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National Historic Site Offers Chance to Trace Footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr.

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Annual MeetingFull AccessNational Historic Site Offers Chance to Trace Footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr.Mark MoranMark MoranSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:17 Feb 2016https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2016.2b11AbstractAPA members wishing to tour the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. will need to register at the information desk in Freedom Hall of the King Center.The birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. and the recently renovated Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King’s preaching helped ignite the civil rights movement, have given Atlanta prominence in the history of the American civil rights movement.Martin Luther King Jr. was born in an upstairs bedroom of this home at 501 Auburn Avenue in Atlanta on January 15, 1929. Reservations are required to tour the home.Aaron LevinAPA members attending this year’s Annual Meeting can visit the church and tour the home as part of a visit to the King Center, the largest repository of documents and memorabilia associated with the slain civil rights leader. It was established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King to be “no dead monument, but a living memorial filled with all the vitality that was his, a center of human endeavor, committed to the causes for which he lived and died.”The King Center is at the hub of the 23-acre National Historic Site, which welcomes some one million visitors each year. Free attractions include tours of King’s birth home and tomb, multiple exhibits, and a reflecting pool.The only place on the tour of the National Historic Site that requires reservations is the King home at 501 Auburn Avenue, where King was born on January 15, 1929. Together with his grandparents, parents, siblings, other family members, and boarders, King lived in the house in “Sweet Auburn”—the center of black Atlanta—for 12 years. The home may be visited only on tours led by a park ranger, filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The 30-minute tours, conducted hourly, begin at 10 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. and are limited to 15 people each. The rest of the King National Historic Site is self-guided, so no special arrangements are needed. There are several routes of public transportation that provide access to the park, but for APA members with access to a car, the King Center website offers the following directions for touring the site on foot: After parking in the visitors’ lot on Johns Wesley Dobbs Avenue, follow the Civil Rights Walk of Fame past the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and proceed to the Visitor Center. It is here that visitors can sign up for the Birth Home tour and check out “Children of Courage,” an exhibit that educates children about the civil rights movement. Upon exiting the Visitor Center, turn right to view the International World Peace Rose Garden. Ebenezer Baptist Church underwent renovation to restore the sanctuary and fellowship hall to their appearance in the 1960-68 period, when Martin Luther King Jr. served as co-pastor with his father.Aaron LevinFrom there, visitors can travel to the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (Heritage Sanctuary) at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Jackson Street. Three generations of Kings served as pastors and co-pastors at Ebenezer—King’s maternal grandfather, the Rev. A.D. Williams, who became Ebenezer’s second pastor in 1893; King’s father, who served as Ebenezer’s pastor from 1933 until his retirement in 1975; and King himself, who was co-pastor in 1947 until he left to attend Crozer Theological Seminary in September 1948. King returned in 1960 and again served as co-pastor until his assassination in 1968. After leaving the church, visitors can proceed east on Auburn to enter the King Center’s outdoor campus, where they can view the crypt of King and his wife, the Eternal Flame, Freedom Walkway, and the reflecting pool. As visitors walk eastward along the pool to Freedom Hall, they can learn more about King.The King Center contains the King Library and Archives—the largest repository of primary source materials on the slain civil rights leader and the American civil rights movement in the world. The collection consists of King’s papers and those of the organization he co-founded, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, as well as the records of eight major civil rights organizations and of several individuals active in the civil rights movement. The archives also include more than 200 oral history interviews with King’s teachers, friends, family, and civil rights associates.Several exhibits, including a photographic history of the lives of King and his wife and tribute rooms to Rosa Parks and Gandhi, can also be found in the King Center. ■For more information about the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, click here. To make an appointment at the Library and Archives, contact Cynthia Lewis at (404) 526-8983 or [email protected]. ISSUES NewArchived

Home touring as hospitable urbanism

This paper twins theories of urbanism and feminist hospitality in exploring the practice of historic home touring as demonstrative of hospitable urbanism, an ethical opening of self and neighborhood to strangers. In Phoenix, Arizona, the quintessential “ahistorical” sprawling metropolis, historic home touring is particularly evocative. With 35 residential historic districts covering much of the central city, Phoenix boasts an entire home tour season each spring. I consider the opening of private homes to the public a gesture of urban welcome critical in tempering the exclusionary tendencies of historic districts. Such seemingly minor practices are increasingly perceived as consequential in generating (or foreclosing) lived community amid difference (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, migration status, religion, etc.). Without striving toward openness, vulnerability, and inclusion, urban communities risk becoming shuttered, sterile, and disconnected from public life. However brief or atmospheric, a gesture of urban welcome requires the consideration of strangers in the first place.

“She goes into character as the lady of the house”: tour guides, performance, and the Southern plantation

ABSTRACTResearch has shown how little tour guides in the American South talk about slavery and the enslaved during plantation home tours. However, most of this literature fails to interview the guides directly and consider their perspectives. This research builds upon this work but ultimately diverges by taking a different methodological approach, interviewing 28 docents working at four Louisiana plantation homes on River Road (Oak Alley, Laura, Houmas House, and San Francisco) in an effort to foreground their voices and experiences. Incorporating the work of performativity, this paper seeks to draw out the nuances of plantation tours and move beyond the reading of the tour as text or script. This paper will challenge the assumption that all tours within a single home, even with the same guide, are the same, adding to the complexity of conducting research on this topic. This complexity is also present in the ways slavery and the contributions of the enslaved are absent or woven within a house tour to varying degrees. In order to better address the symbolic annihilation of African-Americans occurring within these homes, we must understand not only the various degrees of control guides exercise over their tour, but also the tour as a complex performance, ephemeral and unpredictable in nature.

Peak demand and the ‘family peak’ period in Australia: Understanding practice (in)flexibility in households with children

Smart grid technologies enable introduction of time-of-use (TOU) tariffs which aim to reduce peak demand. TOU tariffs are presented as financial opportunities but outcomes depend on flexibility in household practices. Households with children have higher peak electricity consumption and this paper investigates how and why practices performed during the weekday peak ‘hang together’.We conducted forty-four interviews and home tours followed by a survey (547 responses) of households with children in Australia. Our analysis finds that the family peak is tightly coordinated and routinised. Interlinked bundles of practices were meaningful beyond their commonly assumed functions. For example, bathing of children (re-) connected siblings and parents, occupied children while dinner was prepared or cleaned up, and calmed children in preparation for sleeping. The analysis also shows how flexibility during the peak period is constrained by the relation to other periods of the weekday, along with its synchronisation with school, work and childcare arrangements.From our analysis of we conclude that TOU tariffs are unlikely to effectively reduce peak period electricity consumption in households with children and may have inequitable financial and/or social impacts for these households. Alternative approaches that better engage with the dynamics of social practice in family households are suggested.

A32 How much walking do Sydneysiders do in their daily life? Evidence from the Household Travel Survey

Abstract Background The aim is to quantify the amount of walking undertaken by Sydneysiders in the ‘tours’ they make from home. The purpose of quantifying the amount of walking in tours is to provide an evidence base for the key public health message currently advising “more walk trips”. Individuals travel primarily to undertake activities at their destinations. In Sydney, of all tours, only about 20% of home tours are wholly walk trips with the remaining 80% of home tours using car and public transport as the main modes of travel. Given the low density nature of Sydney, converting a car-based or public transport trip to a wholly walk trip may not be possible if the individual is to reach their desired destination. Methods The paper uses three years pooled data from the NSW Household Travel Survey (HTS). The HTS is a large source of personal travel data for the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area (GMA) and is a survey first conducted in 1997/98 and has been running continuously since then. The HTS includes between 3,000 and 3,500 households in any given year and pooling 3 years of data gives reliable estimates of travel at the geographical level. This paper investigates the drivers of wholly walk tours, including journey purpose and built environment factors as explanatory variables using a double hurdle model. Alongside this, the paper investigates car-based and public transport tours to identify walking as part of these tours. The combination and comparison provides an evidence base as to why and how people walk both in wholly walk tours and as walking as part of a home tour. Results 80% of Sydneysiders walk less than 20 min a day and, if walking is the only physical activity people do, about 87% of the population do not meet the recommended physical activity guidelines. Converting small motorised trip segments to walking trips results in a very small proportional change to the population meeting the guidelines. The double hurdle model’s partial effects allow an understanding of how to target public health message in relation to the determinants of walking. Conclusions Walking to access activities is shown to contribute more to total walking than walking to access motorised modes. Thus, the current public health message “covering short distances on foot” would be better replaced by “doing more activities on foot” to increase the proportion of Sydneysiders meeting the physical activity guidelines through walking.

“The Song They Sing Is the Song of the Road”

When, in the early twentieth century, British middle-class writers went on a tour in search of their country, travel writing not only saw the re-emergence of the home tour, but also the increasing appearance of the motorcar on British roads. With the travelogue playing the role of a discursive arena in which debates about automobility were visualized, the article argues that, as they went “in search of England,” writers like Henry Vollam Morton and J. B. Priestley not only took part in the ideological framing of motoring as a social practice, but also contributed to a change in the perception of accessing a seemingly remote English countryside. By looking at a number of contemporary British travelogues, the analysis traces the strategies of how the driving subjects staged their surroundings, and follows the authors' changing attitudes toward the cultural habit of traveling: instead of highlighting the seemingly static nature of the meaning of space, the travelogues render motoring a dynamic and procedural spatial practice, thus influencing notions of nature, progress, and tradition.

The Dynamic Family Home: a qualitative exploration of physical environmental influences on children's sedentary behaviour and physical activity within the home space.

BackgroundRecent changes in home physical environments, such as decreasing outdoor space and increasing electronic media, may negatively affect health by facilitating sedentariness and reducing physical activity. As children spend much of their time at home they are particularly vulnerable. This study qualitatively explored family perceptions of physical environmental influences on sedentary behaviour and physical activity within the home space.MethodsHome based interviews were conducted with 28 families with children aged 9–13 years (total n = 74 individuals), living in Perth, Australia. Families were stratified by socioeconomic status and selected to provide variation in housing. Qualitative methods included a family interview, observation and home tour where families guided the researcher through their home, enabling discussion while in the physical home space. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed.ResultsEmergent themes related to children’s sedentariness and physical activity included overall size, space and design of the home; allocation of home space; equipment within the home space; perceived safety of the home space; and the changing nature of the home space. Families reported that children’s activity options were limited when houses and yards were small. In larger homes, multiple indoor living rooms usually housed additional sedentary entertainment options, although parents reported that open plan home layouts could facilitate monitoring of children’s electronic media use. Most families reported changing the allocation and contents of their home space in response to changing priorities and circumstances.ConclusionsThe physical home environment can enhance or limit opportunities for children’s sedentary behaviour and physical activity. However, the home space is a dynamic ecological setting that is amenable to change and is largely shaped by the family living within it, thus differentiating it from other settings. While size and space were considered important, how families prioritise the use of their home space and overcome the challenges posed by the physical environment may be of equal or greater importance in establishing supportive home environments. Further research is required to tease out how physical, social and individual factors interact within the family home space to influence children’s sedentary behaviour and physical activity at home.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12966-014-0157-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from energy consumption in the UK is increasingly linked to the introduction of uncontrollable sources of power, such as solar PV and wind, and the electrification of energy services (Darby, 2012; Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2013, 2011). Electrifying heating and personal mobility requires moving them off the gas grid and petrol pump and onto the electricity system, which in turn may have implications for the profound peak in electricity use that takes place in the early evening. While the conventional response would be to reinforce electricity networks, under conditions where there are an increasing range and diversity of sources of electricity generation that are less predictable and controllable, there is increased political and commercial interest in managing demand in these periods. Demand Side Management (DSM) enabled by smart grids promises to bring consumers of electricity into the management of the grid by asking them to provide the flexibility and responsiveness that the industry may lose in the future. In this paper we draw on 186 qualitative home tours in the UK to examine how such forms of flexibility are constituted. Rather than seeing flexibility as related to the characteristics of individuals and their behaviour, as is common in the industry and policy, we argue that it is the social practices which shape electricity demand curves that need to be at the centre of analysis. To illustrate this argument, we consider how, in what ways and for what purposes consumption of electricity may be or become flexible in response to a time of use tariff designed to reduce consumption in the early evening. We argue that the rhythmic qualities of practices and the degree to which there are socially conventional times and ways to perform particular practices can constrain or open up their ability to adapt to interventions.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Control: Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles on the battlefield and in our everyday lives. In military missions, they perform intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance. In the civilian arena, UAVs provide climate monitoring [1], [2]; pipeline inspection [3]; farm management [4], and pollution monitoring [5]. Some enterprising realtors have even used them for virtual home tours [6]! Recent legislation will further promote the civilian use of UAVs by requiring the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) to open the skies to UAV use in a variety of commercial applications. While the international community has not come to a consensus on permissible civilian UAV use, the European Union has a number of ongoing initiatives to mirror the FAA's actions [7].

ZOE KINSLEY, Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812.

IN examining women’s writing and travel experiences in Britain during the long eighteenth century, Zoë Kinsley tells a subtle story of how intersectionality and cultural engagement shaped feminine and British identities of the period. Her work in Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812 confronts the generic questions surrounding travel writing, and does so in ways that illuminate the scholarly importance of travel writing and women writers’ responsiveness to traditions of manuscript and print circulation. Travel writing as a method of organizing, framing, and communicating an often disorderly experience seems necessarily concerned with questions of classification and order; thus, Kinsley begins with a detailed examination of the organizational strategies of women’s travel texts and their relation to Enlightenment habits of classification. Kinsley points to the classificatory concerns of lexicography, cartography, and encyclopaedia production of the period to emphasize the goal, shared among these pursuits, of using strict organizational systems to establish authority for their definitional projects. In women’s travel writing, the field of knowledge to be organized is the mind and memory, as incidents and observations crowding the brain are disciplined into coherence and classificatory authority by organizing one’s writing and by the act of writing itself. Kinsley’s focus on the organizational strategies adopted by women travel writers thus constitutes a simultaneous examination of the drive towards objectivity and instruction in travel writing of the period and of the textual choices available to and developed by the women writers she discusses.

Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812 by Zoe Kinsley

Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682–1812 by Zoe Kinsley