Insider Perspective Research Articles

What we cannot see in Sound of Metal and Her Smell: Interplays of awareness, perspective and language in the screenplay text

A common belief in screenwriting practice dictates that a screenplay should only include what can be heard and seen, keep emotions at bay and avoid literary inflections. Perspective, however, only becomes visible with the limitations of its visibility. What cannot be seen can be as meaningful for the story as what can. In considering the collaborative translation process from what is written to what is filmed, I will investigate the communicative effects of using different storytelling languages in the writing of perspective. Establishing the interrelationship of perspective, awareness and languages, this article will analyse examples from two screenplays, The Sound of Metal and Her Smell, to explore the different impacts of writing styles on awareness and perspective in telling the screen story. I will argue that processes of individual and collaborative awareness play a crucial role in screenwriting to communicate outside and inside perspectives of character.

Listening Within

Events in 2020 created a moment of reckoning and a movement centered on and illuminating deeply ingrained patterns, processes, and prejudices of inequity and injustice faced by generations of Black Americans. Almost no institution was immune to probing questions concerning diversity, inclusion, and equity. Many professional membership organizations were also being asked to address the injustices manifested in their practices and traditions. Within ACM, however, the insider perspectives on this issue were not always clear. And so, from April until August 2021 I carried out research to determine whether ACM members, volunteers, staff and external experts believed that ACM should and could become a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable organization. This research is captured in a report entitled: All the Voices: Doing the Work to Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout ACM.

Collaborative working and building partnership: Bringing the two worlds together

This paper shares lessons learnt through a partnership project, the Blue Light Programme, by presenting a discussion of key themes inherent in building collaborations between academia and policing. With a focus on sharing experiences with the partnership project, where the academics took the role of a critical friend as part of the project team, the paper explores the balances with meeting both academic and practical considerations. The article explores connecting cultures within the research project and provides insights into partnership approaches with policing and other emergency services. The article purposely does not present results of the partnership project but explores the balance and relationships built between organisations. Presenting wider contextual references on policing culture, the reality of insider and outsider perspectives, the benefits and challenges arising through the role of critical friends in collaboration projects are explored. As critical friends, there was an acknowledgement of the dynamism between the services in the project, its collectiveness in practice, where the project team were able to use the critical friends as a supporting role, one which placed integrity and good methodological practice as the forefront in project evaluation between academia and policing. The paper concludes with observations on moving forward with partnership roles, and the ways to achieve shared goals, where paths enhancing collaborative working can align despite often coming from two different directions.

Antigone [not quite/quiet]: adaptation, the anarchive and afterness

This article focuses, from an insider perspective, on a contemporary South African production that was a response to Sophocles’ Antigone, performed at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town in 2019. The production was titled: Antigone (not quite/quiet) and formed part of the Reimagining Tragedy in Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS) research project. The author is credited as the director of the production. The article provides a detailed discussion of the production dramaturgy and the strategy of adaptation used, and argues that this strategy is different from previous adaptations of ancient Greek tragedy that the author has produced since the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994. The article relates this strategy of adaptation to the anarchive following Jacques Derrida. It then goes on to discuss the production in relation to ideas of afterness and metamorphosis with reference to Ovid and Franz Kafka.

Insider Threats and Individual Differences: Intention and Unintentional Motivations

The present study extends a cybersecurity questionnaire (CSEC) by including items that differentiate cyber hygiene behavior, self-disclosure vulnerability, intrusion vulnerability, and persuasion vulnerability. Using individual difference measures that are related to performance in experimental tasks, the present study provides evidence that individuals high in emotionality (i.e., fear and anxiety) and low in moral motivations (i.e., fairness and morality) are more likely to report engaging in behaviors related to unintentional insider threats. Consequently, this study provides further evidence that CSEC+ can be used to assess critical cybersecurity practices from the perspective of insiders.

Insider Perspectives on Saudi Arabia’s Fakher Disability Sports Programme

In recent years, Saudi Arabia has made many efforts to support people with disabilities. One of these efforts is the Fakher Programme Initiative. The programme provides substantial financial support and training for around 350 para-athletes with physical disabilities or cerebral palsy. This research sought to provide a thick description of the programme’s aims, its successes, and the challenges faced, based on the reports of significant stakeholders. In-depth interviews with 26 participants from different stakeholder groups (para-athletes, coaches, administrators, para-athlete families, individuals interested in para-sports, and the CEO of the Fakher Programme) were conducted individually to provide rich insider perspectives. An interpretive phenomenological analysis approach was applied to analyse the interviews. Two main dimensions were identified: (i) the positive impacts of the Fakher Programme Initiative and (ii) further recommended improvements to the Fakher Programme Initiative. Although most of the participants expressed positive perspectives on the programme (e.g., developing collaboration, health benefits, infrastructural support, and raising awareness of people with disabilities), improvements can be made in the form of psychological support for elite para-athletes in training and more developed national and international media coverage of disability sports in Saudi Arabia.

Influence of differential leadership behavior on employees' deviant innovation: Based on dual perspectives of insider and outsider subordinates.

Differential leadership as a localized leadership style gradually developed on the basis of the Pattern of Differential Sequence. It plays a dual role in stimulating “insider subordinates” and “outsider subordinates” through the dynamic transformation of the roles. Using the process of game reasoning, the study identifies the differing principles used by insider subordinates and outsider subordinates in implementing deviant innovative behaviors. The simulation graph presents the perceived benefits of employees performing or not performing deviant innovative behaviors as clues during the reasoning process, and implements deviant innovative behaviors for the high risk-taking trait of insider subordinates and the high internal control personality of outsider subordinates who implement deviant innovation. The theoretical derivation of behavior provides relevant references, and provides counter measures for effectively promoting employees’ deviant innovative behavior in the context of differential leadership.

You Being New Can Be Hard on Me Too: Considering the Veteran Employee during Newcomer Socialization

ABSTRACT The extant research on organizational socialization has primarily focused on newcomer perceptions of the socialization process, neglecting the perspective of insiders (veteran employees) who socialize newcomers. The veteran perspective is important to consider, as veterans take on additional work responsibilities to help newcomers assimilate to the organization. The current study examines how veterans’ perceptions of their personal resources (e.g., assimilation, job demands) may influence their own well-being during the socialization process, as well as newcomer outcomes (i.e., role clarity, job performance). Data from 108 matched veteran-newcomer pairs across a variety of occupations were analyzed using path analysis. Results suggest veteran assimilation and job demands during socialization are related to both veteran and newcomer outcomes, including veteran emotional exhaustion and newcomer role clarity. In addition, veteran assimilation was significantly related to newcomer performance. Implications of these findings for organizations are discussed.

Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures

We review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. We begin with an overview of standardized biomedical and psychological approaches to assessing distress cross-culturally. We then focus on literature describing the development of reliable and valid culturally sensitive assessment tools that can serve as complements or alternatives to biomedical categories and diagnostic frameworks. The methods we describe are useful in identifying forms of suffering—expressed in culturally salient idioms of distress—that might be misidentified by biomedical classifications. We highlight the utility of a cognitive anthropological theoretical approach for developing measures that attend to local cultural categories of knowledge and experience. Attending to cultural insider perspectives is necessary because expressions of distress, thresholds of tolerance for distress, expectations about stress inherent in life, conceptions of the good life, symptom expression, and modes of help-seeking vary across cultures.

Knowledge management practices of tourism consultants: A project ecology perspective

This study advances the contextual understanding of knowledge management practices adopted by tourism consultants in the setting of tourism development projects. It goes beyond the traditional understanding of the bounded nature of firms to analyse knowledge management issues through a project-based multi-layered perspective, namely project ecology. An innovative participant-observation methodology is utilised to study 15 episodic projects at three tourism development companies over a 12-month period. This provides an insider perspective to enhance understanding of the knowledge management practices and collaborations of tourism consultants. The study reveals two underlying logics that shape knowledge management practices: the logics of creativity and accumulation. The findings exhibit how knowledge management is moulded by the practices within, and interactions among, the four tiers of a multi-level project-specific contextual framework. • Analysis of project knowledge management focussed on the holistic social contexts of episodic projects instead of the bounded firm or the destination networks. • Innovative participant observation fieldwork took place in 15 tourism development projects over 12 months. • This is the first study that utilises the project ecology perspective in tourism research. • Two contrasting but interacted logics of knowledge management practices adopted by tourism consultants in tourism development projects are identified: the logic of creativity and the logic of accumulation.

Primary to secondary school transition of learners with traumatic brain injuries in the Cape metropolitan area: A learner perspective

AIM: This study explores the lived experiences of adolescent learners with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) from a low to middle-income context when they transition from primary to secondary school. An understanding of the insider perspective of this school transition process sought to illuminate the factors that facilitate or hinder learners' primary to secondary school transition. METHOD: An interpretive phenomenological research design was used. Four participants were purposively selected. The data collection method included semi-structured face to face interviews. Data were analysed inductively using Burnard's Framework. Four themes emanated from the data including: changes in functioning; personal resources; enabling external support structures and gaps in support structures. RESULTS: For learners with TBI, there are factors that facilitate a positive primary to secondary school transition including them drawing on personal resources and the support that they receive from enabling external support structures. Barriers to the school transition following a TBI, include the changes in physical, mental, and social functions that impact on adolescents' ability to fulfil their learner role as well as gaps in the provision of support within the multi systems within the learners' environment. CONCLUSION: Members of the multidisciplinary team, should adopt a learner-centred approach for interventions that seeks to prepare and support learners with TBI for their primary to secondary school transition. Planning the primary to secondary school transition should seek to prepare the learner, and those in the learner's context.

My mother, my mirror? Three generations encounter family therapy

AbstractThis article tells the story of the encounters of my mother, my daughter and myself with family therapy during divorce. The narrative employs evocative autoethnography, a research method in which my voice is viewed as a continuance of other voices emanating from the culture. I am researcher and informant both, and thereby, my own source. Events from the marital break‐ups of three generations are explored in relation to family therapeutic practice using an insider perspective. The results indicate that shame has been prominent for all of us. A common thread through our stories is how shame can be seen in the ways we each experienced the distribution of power through the exercise of family therapy, in which practice appears to be strongly shaped by social discourses. The method of autoethnography can be useful to expand the concept of knowledge as well as produce detailed research into family life through elevation of intimate stories often suppressed by larger meta‐narratives.

Pandemic diaries under the lens

Diaries belong to a unique kind of literature—part memoir, part personal memories, and in the long run also part of history. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl jolted the world by giving an insider perspective of the Holocaust. Conversations With Myself gave humankind a glimpse into apartheid through Nelson Mandela's experience. And Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year dipped many of us into what it was like to live during the 17th century Great Plague in the city of London. Nearly three centuries later, COVID-19 set the stage alike for established and amateur writers on social media platforms and the birth of tonnes of diaries wherein people from around the world shared their lockdown experiences. This is a massive, uncalled for social experiment, for sociologists and those who specialise in modern media like Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) now have access to interactive diaries on social networks. This is a treasure trove of data, with the authors’ stories, readers’ comments, rants, fights, and online trolls all giving people like Yang material to explore what made people write pandemic diaries, what came out of it, and what they say about humankind's take on the ongoing pandemic, its politics, and peoples’ opinions on pandemic management by different governments.

Insider outsider perspectives: making sense of first-year Chinese international students’ academic experience

ABSTRACT Researcher roles as insiders and outsiders are important in qualitative studies. Yet, the roles and perspectives of insider and outsider researchers working collaboratively in transnational learning contexts have received little research attention. This paper reports on a small-scale qualitative project that explored our research collaboration as insiders and outsiders. We investigated three undergraduate Chinese international pre-service teachers’ academic experiences in one Australian university. The doctoral student researcher, as an insider who shared language and culture with the participants, undertook in-class observations and semi-structured interviews with the three participants while the outsider researchers developed and guided the overall project. In the course of data analysis, and using a reflexive lens, we were given insight into how our distinct cultural and linguistic identities and positionings steered our interpretations and enriched them as we made sense of them. In so doing we became aware of the ways in which our research plans and our own roles and dispositions were dynamically shaped and shifted as we worked with our participants and with each other. In this way, our research plan itself was changed while the process of interpreting the data became enriched and inspired confidence.

‘You can’t un-see what you’ve seen’: An ex-prison officer's autoethnographic account of suicide and self-harm in a UK male adult prison

Internationally, prisons are challenging environments for officers and prisoners, and suicide and self-harm have ramifications for both parties. Suicide and self-harm in prison far exceed prevalence in the general population and officers experience many psychological and emotional impacts including distress, bereavement, guilt, shame, accountability, desensitisation and PTSD. This article explores relational and institutional dynamics and cultural expectations placed upon officers when dealing with suicide/self-harm. Prison officer culture can be limited in supporting officers around trauma and it can be perceived as stigmatising and a weakness to seek help. This article explores a former prison officer's experience of dealing with trauma around self-harm and suicide including the first experience of suicide, moral conflict and the impact of losing a colleague to suicide. I worked as a prison officer at a category ‘B’ local prison in the (UK) between 2003 and 2009 and kept a reflective journal during service. Drawing upon Autoethnography (AE), I seek to explore the lived experience of trauma from an ‘insider perspective’ using prison research to interpret retrospective accounts. Concepts around emotional labour, occupational morality and prison officer occupational culture/ socialisation are used to highlight the complexities of prison officer work around suicide/self-harm. The prison service (UK) needs to reduce stigma in officers who need help and support around mental health and coping with trauma, with strategies like peer support programmes, regular supervision/mandatory counselling and extensive debriefs to support officers in the aftermath of traumatic critical incidents.

Ruta N - fostering the innovation ecosystem of Medellín

The aim of this paper is to identify which factors have contributed to the success of Ruta N. Ruta N fostered the innovation ecosystem of Medellín, but until now it remains open how it happened from the inside perspective, which actors were involved in the process and which practices were made. Secondary data collection, interviews with directors directly involved and technical visits were made, and some important points emerged from the field that can shed light in order to apply those practices and configurations intentionally in other cities with similar contexts.

대학생들의 수업 참여와 교육적 관계

The quality level of university education can be evaluated by various indicators, but the most important thing is whether the university’s educational subjects practice a high level of education in terms of quantity and quality. However, college students form a specific culture related to attitude, norms, and values for class participation and interact with professors, and the quality level and specific appearance of education may vary depending on the characteristics of the culture. Therefore, it is necessary to examine what thoughts and feelings college students have about participating in class, what activities they value in class, and how these perceptions and practices affect educational relations. In this study, professors, assistants, and students of A university were selected as participants to examine the aspects of conflict among college students’ participation in classes and educational relationships. Through the research methods of participation observation, in-depth interviews, and local data surveys, the daily activities and contexts of class participation were specifically understood, and related data were constructed and analyzed. Based on these research results, it was suggested that qualitative indicators showing the characteristics of student culture in class participation should be specified to support university members to share and reflect on their activities, and to provide various channels for professors and students to participate in education. This study aims to contribute to exploring the changes and adjustments necessary for the practice of better educational relationships by specifically understanding the student culture of class participation from an insider perspective.

Attitude, Accessibility and Disability: Decoding the Trajectory of Exclusion in Malini Chib's One Little Finger


 
 
 
 Disability is an integral part of human existence, which restricts participation of a person with disability in normal activities of the developmental process. India has a substantial share of the population of persons with disability but their conditions are quite miserable. They are bound to live substandard life due to the lack of accessible infrastructure and inclusion in society. Malini Chib, a disability rights activist, presents an insider perspective of reality through her autobiographical narrative. She has lived with cerebral palsy since her childhood in India and England. Her experiences point out the deep rooted trajectory of exclusion that operates within India's cultural practices. Negative attitude, inaccessibility and lack of community participation constitute the trajectory of exclusion of persons with disability in India. She has been rejected as a 'vegetable' by Indian doctors, forcing her parents to seek a better life for her in England. Her stay and education in England empowered her to work for her community.
 
 
 

962 FROM DIRTY WORK TO MEANINGFUL WORK: A PHOTOVOICE STUDY OF RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE IN HONG KONG

Abstract Introduction Caregiving work in ‘residential care homes for the elderly’ (RCHEs) has long been devalued as ‘dirty work’, which contributes to RCHE’s acute shortages of health care staff in Hong Kong. This study aims to unearth the voice of the RCHEs workers by delineating their insider perspectives of RCHE work. Method Adopting the Photovoice method, a participatory methodology, 30 RCHEs care workers (i.e. Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, Health Workers, and Personal Care Workers) were invited to take photos that showcase their perspectives of doing aged care work. Two in-depth interviews were conducted with each research participant before and after the photo-taking procedure. Thematic analysis is then conducted to analyse the visual and verbal data. Results Findings show that RCHEs care workers perceive and revitalize the nature and meaning of their work in four ways: conducting ‘dirty tasks’ to help the elderly; valuing and engaging in long-term relationships; learning in work; and cultural meaning of working with the elderly. Contrary to public devaluation, RCHE care workers normalize the delivery of ‘dirty tasks’ (i.e. handling human excreta and wounds) as being helpful to both the elderly and the family members. Besides the routine caring tasks on paper, care workers highlight that they spend a lot of unrecognized labor to build rapport and provide emotional support to the elderly and their family members in their work. They also report that learning and self-development are an important part of residential care work, both in terms of professional knowledge and personal growth. Taking care of the elderly also conveys positive cultural meanings in Chinese society. Conclusion Policy, professional and educational initiatives of geriatric care primarily emphasize the delivery of clinical tasks (caring for), while undermining the emotional and relational aspects of aged care work. The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. (UGC/FDS16/M12/20).

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood