Labor Of Love Research Articles

A Montroyalite Mix-Up

The identification of rare minerals is a labor of love for impassioned mineralogists with access to analytical equipment. It is of no help that innumerable minerals are visually indistinguishable f...

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The Italian American Studies Association at Fifty-Five: 1966–2021

The Italian American Studies Association at Fifty-Five: 1966–2021

From the Editor

I am excited to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association. This journal has been a labor of love for numerous Italian American Studies Association (IASA) members over the years. The creation of an annual publication was proposed at the May 2014 IASA Executive Council meeting. Still, it never fully came to fruition until 2019–2020, when President Alan J. Gravano and then Vice President Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, with the help of Stan Pugliese, wrote the proposal for a new, annual, peer-reviewed journal with the University of Illinois Press. After a variety of meetings with both the press and IASA's ExCo, the proposal was accepted, and the Association signed a contract with UIP.The association launched a search for the founding editor position, and eventually, the committee interviewed me about the position. Having coedited the previous IASA conference proceedings from sessions hosted at the University of Calabria, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora: Selected Essays, I was delighted to have been chosen for this monumental task. Besides, obviously, completing the first volume, one of my most significant feats to date has been building vast advisory and editorial boards, including representatives from Canada, England, and Australia. Even within the US, Diasporic Italy has members from various universities “outside” the typical Italian migration-centered cities.Our inaugural issue is well balanced and presents material from colleagues across the US and Italy. We begin the volume with Robert Orsi's stellar keynote address from IASA's 50th Anniversary Annual Conference in Washington, DC (2017), and the volume concludes with President Alan J. Gravano and Vice President Alexandra de Luise's historical overview of the last fifteen years of IASA. Additionally, the issue includes two historical pieces, one more of a case study exploring the migrant situation of Italians from Palestrina (Lazio) to Southbridge, Massachusetts, while the other considers the link between confederate statues and those of Christopher Columbus, particularly citing the situation in Richmond, Virginia. This volume also includes two literary-centered contributions: one considers the concepts revolving around diaspora in contemporary literature, while the other examines the case of Adriana Trigiani's career, challenging it as simply “Chick Lit” and applying a diasporic and transnational theoretical lens. The final critical piece investigates the role in which Italian American foodways influence and have been influenced by Southern hospitality within the realm of sustainability and philanthropy. We conclude the volume by celebrating a series of Italian American authors and scholars, who have passed recently, and whose work has helped found the field.I'm excited to share this first inaugural issue with you and look forward to starting work on the second volume.Buona lettura!Many thanks to the relentless patience demonstrated by my two associate editors, Danielle Battisti and Mark Pietralunga, during this past year. Without their endless support and assistance, this volume would have never come to fruition. My heartfelt appreciation goes to the advisory board, editorial board, and all the reviewers who did an outstanding and timely job in the formulation of this inaugural issue. Finally, I wish to extend my thanks to Deanna Dorangrichia for designing Diasporic Italy's logo.

Volunteerism in fandom

An examination of the topics of labors of love, the gift economy, and the digi-gratis economy related to volunteerism within fandom platforms highlights issues related to monetary compensation, enjoyment of labor, and relationships between fan labor and the job market.

Our labor of love: Socially just leadership education as civic leadership development

AbstractThe chapter authors argue there is a distinct relationship between socially just leadership education and civic engagement, which transforms inequitable work to interrupt and reconstruct unjust systems and organizations through curricular learning and engagement. To cultivate advocacy, activism, and engaged citizenry, higher education administrators, faculty, and staff have a responsibility to engage practices for socially just leadership learning and development of college students through curricular and co‐curricular experiences.

Labors of Love: People, Dogs, and Affect in North American Arctic Borderlands, 1700–1900

Labors of Love: People, Dogs, and Affect in North American Arctic Borderlands, 1700–1900

Building Worlds, Losing Friends

Building Worlds, Losing Friends

Review: Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity

Review: <i>Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity</i>

A-188 Starting Well: Creating Training Opportunities for Graduate Students Interested in Neuropsychological Assessment

Abstract Objective Practicum experiences are critical to internship readiness. While established guidelines for practicum training in clinical neuropsychology exist, the application of such guidelines across training sites has received little attention. The objective of this study is to compare practicum training models across different sites. Methods We surveyed training supervisors regarding the cost and benefit of training practicum students in their setting. Results Despite wide variability across settings, results indicated that on average, practicum sites spent around 6 hours per week in direct active training and onboarding during the first 1–3 months of the training year. After 3–4 months, the hours spent on supervision decreased to about 1–2 hours of individual supervision and 1–2 hours of group supervision per week. By the 8th month, each practicum student provided the clinic with approximately 36 hours of direct service (considered an administrative benefit to the clinic). Conclusion Training practicum students is a labor of love, with overall net administrative benefits to the clinic. An advantage was seen in settings with multiple trainees, trainees at multiple levels, and tiered supervision models with access to diverse didactic experiences.

Before and beyond dualism: Paul Croce and David Leary on William James.

Reviews the books, "Young William James Thinking" by Paul Croce (2018) and "The Routledge Guidebook to James's Principles of Psychology" by David E. Leary (2018). Paul Croce's Young William James Thinking and David Leary's The Routledge Guidebook to James's Principles of Psychology reach important, at times convergent conclusions, though through very different approaches. Croce practices the kind of sympathetic hermeneutics that James wished had informed the reception of his pragmatism. A labor of love, Young William James zeroes in on the "center" of James's "vision," redrawing its contours. Leary, by contrast, proceeds through a razor-sharp analysis of James's Principles of Psychology. He sees himself as tracing paths and itineraries, through which readers can explore James's complex work. Croce's book addresses a broad audience of people who are interested in William James and the James family, and who also desire to learn more about American culture and society in the second half of the 19th century. Leary's study is aimed at a more specialized readership of historians of science, intellectual historians, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. Through works like Leary's and Croce's readers can better understand the reasons why James's thought came to function as a resource not only for neuroscientific, biological understandings of mind, self, and values, such as Antonio Damasio's, but also for a humanistic "sciences of the human person," such as Roberto Assagioli's psychosynthesis and American humanistic psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

A labour of love? The invisible work of caring teachers during Covid-19

ABSTRACT Over the last few months, the sociological experiment generated by lockdowns has triggered a plethora of educational debates and research publications. However, the care work enacted by teachers has rarely been at the core of these analyses. As other scholars have previously highlighted, caring in teaching requires not only ‘love’ but also ‘labour’. This means that it entails emotional, social, material and political costs, which are often unacknowledged or devalued. In this study, we delve into the experiences of a small group of caring teachers in Spain to explore the nature and effect of their care work during lockdown. Despite decades of feminist studies showing the value of care work, the stories of the teachers interviewed show the lack of recognition of caring in teaching. The article concludes with a call to problematise the idea of caring in teaching as a labour of love.

How Time is More than Money: The Mural as a Labour of Love

This article proposes that of all the different ways that social connections are formed the most important factor is time. Given how central it is to the development of relationships, the article argues that projects aiming to improve community relations should extend their duration rather than truncate it for the sake of cost-efficiency or quick and apparent success. The project of specific focus is the making of community murals which is laden with potential but only when it is conceived in the entirety of the process rather than simply as an end product. This potential is based on the idea that more time, if used carefully and critically, can play a greater role in fostering positive relations in contexts where civic engagement is strained. Several case studies will be referenced from the United States of America and Northern Ireland, two societies that share both a tradition of mural making and social division, in terms of race relations and ethnonational/religious sectarianism respectively. Practical insights from these cases substantiate the central argument that the mural process affords moments for valuable cross-community contact, critical discussion, and meaningful reflection. When this approach is adopted, time can be best served in repairing social connections, creating new bonds and even mitigating further tension.

Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient.

Maintaining outdated PCs can be a matter of necessity — and a labour of love. Maintaining outdated PCs can be a matter of necessity — and a labour of love.

Genes go digital: Mendelian Inheritance in Man and the genealogy of electronic publishing in biomedicine.

Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM), a computerized catalogue of human genetic disorders authored and maintained by cardiologist and medical genetics pioneer Victor A. McKusick, played a major part in demarcating between a novel biomedical science and the eugenic projects of racial betterment which existed prior to its emergence. Nonetheless, it built upon prior efforts to systematize genetic knowledge tied to individuals and institutions invested in eugenics. By unpacking the process of digitizing a homespun cataloguing project and charting its development into an online database, this article aims to illuminate how the institution-building efforts of one individual created an 'information order' for accessing genetic information that tacitly shaped the norms and priorities of the field toward the pursuit of specific genes associated with discernible genetic disorders. This was not by design, but rather arose through negotiation with the catalogue's users; it accommodated further changes as biomedical research displaced the Mendelian paradigm. While great effort was expended toward making sequence data available to investigators during the Human Genome Project, MIM was largely taken for granted as a 'legacy system', McKusick's own labour of love. Drawing on recent histories of biomedical data, the article suggests that the bibliographical work of curation and translation is a central feature of value production in the life sciences meriting attention in its own right.

Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India

This essay asks how conceptualizing love as work might provide a fresh perspective on love’s politics. In offering an ethnographic account of how love for Gau-Mata, the Cow-Mother of the idealized Hindu nation, fuels a right-wing Hindu nationalist politics of cow-protection in India’s central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, I suggest that the specific arrangements of labor through which affective attachments are organized critically shape the ethics and politics of love. More specifically, I depict how different kinds of situated labor produced varied kinds of love in the conjoined social worlds of right-wing gau-rakshaks (cow-protectionists) and rural women dairy farmers in Uttarakhand. For these social actors, genuine love for the cow manifested in a willingness to labor for her. Yet their understandings of what this loving labor entailed differed starkly. This article examines three distinct kinds of work—protection, service, and care-labor—that these actors variously undertook out of love for the cow. It traces how these different labors produced a varied set of relationships, affiliations, and obligations that crucially shaped the ethics and politics of love. Ultimately, I show, attending to the varied labors of love in situated social worlds reveals how love can condition a variety of often conflicting political and ethical possibilities, working simultaneously as a force of transcendence, fascist violence, and repair.

(Feminist) Academic Friendships: Discussing and Re-Thinking the Labour of Love

(Feminist) Academic Friendships: Discussing and Re-Thinking the Labour of Love

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting (2020)

Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting (2020)

"A Labour of Love": Active Lifestyle Entrepreneurship (Occupational Devotion) During a Time of COVID-19.

The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis management strategies adopted by world leaders across the globe in 2020 impacted the work-life balance of billions of people. Entire populations were forced to stay at home and maintain a safe distance from family members, friends, colleagues, and customers. Occupational devotion is defined as a feeling of strong, positive attachment to a form of self-enhancing employment, where achievement and fulfillment are high, and the core activity has such intense appeal that the line between this work and leisure is virtually erased. Although it is not a new concept, this area of the serious leisure perspective has been largely overlooked by scholars observing the world of sport events and entrepreneurship. Using Creative Analytical Practice (CAP), a post-qualitative methodology, we present the personal narrative of a New Zealand-based active lifestyle entrepreneur who, as a result of a nationwide COVID19 lockdown, was forced to re-assess his long-established occupational devotion. Our co-constructed story offers an emotive insight into the personal cost and consequences of finding yourself living in a lockdown.

Welcoming Narratives in Education: A Tribute to the Life Work of Jonathan Silin

Issue 45 of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series is a labor of love. It testifies to our love for Jonathan Silin, who for 17 years served as Editor-in-Chief of the Occasional Papers. The issue is also a testament to our respect for the things that matter to him. We have designed Issue 45 to exemplify two commitments that have shaped the decades of Jonathan’s career and that we believe will resonate with readers of the Occasional Papers.