Unique Knowledge Research Articles

C3-IoC: A Career Guidance System for Assessing Student Skills using Machine Learning and Network Visualisation

Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) has witnessed significant growth over the last twenty-five years, providing a wide range of technologies to support academic, institutional, and administrative services. More recently, AIED applications have been developed to prepare students for the workforce, providing career guidance services for higher education. However, this remains challenging, especially concerning the rapidly changing labour market in the IT sector. In this paper, we introduce an AI-based solution named C3-IoC (https://c3-ioc.co.uk), which intends to help students explore career paths in IT according to their level of education, skills and prior experience. The C3-IoC presents a novel similarity metric method for relating existing job roles to a range of technical and non-technical skills. This also allows the visualisation of a job role network, placing the student within communities of job roles. Using a unique knowledge base, user skill profiling, job role matching, and visualisation modules, the C3-IoC supports students in self-evaluating their skills and understanding how they relate to emerging IT jobs.

Characterisation of institutionalised Portuguese older adult fallers: is there a place for pharmacist intervention? A preliminary study.

Falls are a major public health issue, given their prevalence and social impact. Older adults living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are at greater risk of injury resulting from a fall due to multiple factors, such as nutritional, functional/cognitive impairment, postural instability, polypharmacy, and the presence of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). Medication management in LTCF is complex and often sub-optimal and might be crucial for falls. Pharmacist intervention is important, since they have a unique knowledge of medication. However, studies mapping the impact of pharmaceutical activities in Portuguese LTC settings are scarce. This study aims to assess the characteristics of older adult fallers living in LTFCs and examine the relationship between falling and several factors in this population. We also intend to explore the prevalence of PIMs and their relationship with the occurrence of falls. The study was conducted in two long-term care facilities for elderly people, in the central region of Portugal. We included patients aged 65 and older with no reduced mobility or physical weakness and with the ability to understand spoken and written Portuguese. The following information was assessed: sociodemographic characteristics, comorbidities, polypharmacy, fear of falling, functional, nutritional and cognitive status. PIMs were evaluated according to the Beers criteria (2019). A total of 69 institutionalised older adults, 45 women and 24 men, with a mean age of 83.14 ± 8.87 years were included. The prevalence of falls was 21.74% Out of these, 46.67% (n=7) fell once, 13.33% (n=2) fell twice, and 40% (n=6) fell 3 or more times. Fallers were mainly women, had lower levels of education, were well nourished, had moderate to severe levels of dependence, and displayed moderate cognitive impairment. All adult fallers had a fear of falling. The main comorbidities of this population were related to the cardiovascular system. Polypharmacy was present in every patient, and at least one PIM was identified in 88.41% of the subjects. Fear of falling (FOF) and cognitive impairment (in subjects with 1 to 11 years of education) showed statistically significant associations with the occurrence of falls (p=0.005 and p=0.05, respectively). No significant differences were found between fallers and non-fallers for any other factors. This present study is a preliminary contribution to characterise a group of older adult fallers living in Portuguese LTCFs and demonstrated that fear of falling and cognitive impairment are associated with the occurrence of falls in this population. The high prevalence of polypharmacy and PIMs emphasises the need for tailored interventions featuring the collaboration of a pharmacist to optimise medication management in this population.

An Indigenous critique: Expanding sociology and recognizing unique Indigenous knowledge.

This essay suggests that sociologists should integrate into their critical research work on the Americas an Indigenous critique/method based on Indigenous knowledge. As a mixed Indigenous scholar, I have been frustrated by the lack of frameworks based explicitly on Indigenous knowledge rather than merely referencing that knowledge. Strong foundations of ancient Indigenous thought and philosophical tradition-which often differs dramatically from Western traditions-are identified and explored through three concepts: Ch'ixi, the Indigenous pragmatic, and Mexica concepts of Truth. These are identified and discussed using authoritative historical and contemporary sources. I provide potential pathways for usage of these concepts in the results and discussion. Arguments and controversy for accepting the validity of Indigenous sources are also addressed. Discussions of specific empirical questions and puzzles related to already familiar concepts and analyses such as systemic racism theory, multi-raciality, religion, and postcolonial theory are explored. The paper concludes that Indigenous theory is underexplored but is critical to liberation of Indigenous people and has legitimate academic value that scholars need to recognize.

An ethnobotanical study on wild plants used by Tibetan people in Gyirong Valley, Tibet, China

BackgroundGyirong Valley known as the “Back Garden of the Himalayas” is located in the core area of the Everest National Nature Reserve. It is also one of the important ports from ancient Tibet to Kathmandu, Nepal, since ancient times. Over the years, the Tibetans of Gyirong had accumulated sufficient traditional knowledge about local plant resources. However, there is almost no comprehensive report available on ethnobotanical knowledge about the local people. The purposes of this study were to (1) conduct a comprehensive study of wild plants used by Tibetan people in Gyirong Valley and record the traditional knowledge associated with wild useful plants, (2) explore the influence of Tibetan traditional culture and economic development on the use of wild plants by local people, and (3) explore the characteristics of traditional knowledge about wild plants of Tibetans in Gyirong.MethodsEthnobotanical data were documented through free listings, key informant interviews and semi-structured interviews during fieldwork. The culture importance index and the informant consensus factor index were used as quantitative indices.ResultsIn total, 120 informants (61 women and 59 men) and 3333 use reports and 111 wild plant species belonging to 39 families and 81 genera were included. These use reports were then classified into 27 categories belonging to three major categories. The use category that contained the most plant species was edible plants (62), followed by medicinal plants (32) and economic plants (22), and other uses (71). Plants with high CI included Allium prattii, Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora, Gymnadenia orchidis, Rhododendron anthopogon and Fritillaria cirrhosa. Thirty-six species of plants in the catalog of Gyirong and Yadong were the same, but only 17 species were the same in Gyirong and Burang. There were only 11 overlapping species between all the three regions.ConclusionTibetans of Gyirong have rich and unique knowledge about plant use, and wild edible and medicinal plants play an important role in the nutrition and health protection of local people. However, traditional knowledge is slowly being lost and is being hit by modern tourism. In the future, more attention needs to be paid to the important role of traditional knowledge in biodiversity conservation.

Heterogeneous graph convolution based on In-domain Self-supervision for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

The inability to fully exploit domain-specific knowledge and the lack of an effective integration method have been the difficulties and focus of multimodal sentiment analysis. In this paper, we propose heterogeneous graph convolution with in-domain self-supervised multi-task learning for multimodal sentiment analysis (HIS-MSA) to solve these problems. Firstly, HIS-MSA carries out the second pre-trained with different self-supervised training strategies to fully mine the unique knowledge of the in-domain corpus, and give BERT the awareness of professional field. Secondly, HIS-MSA uses heterogeneous graph, which is good at integrating heterogeneous knowledge, to fuse feature from multiple sources. Finally, a unimodal label generation module is used to jointly guide multimodal tasks and unimodal tasks to balance independent and complementary information between the modalities. We conducted experiments on the datasets MOSI and MOSEI, which have 2199 and 23454 video segments respectively. The results show an average improvement of approximately 1.5 points in all metrics compared to the current state-of-the-art model.

Conceptual approaches to assessing the potential of economic development at agrarian enterprises

The paper presents conceptual principles for assessing the economic development potential of agrarian enterprises. After studying the main approaches to the assessment of the resource potential at agrarian enterprises, the characteristics of the main components of the resource potential were given, and the main quantitative and qualitative methods of their assessment were investigated. Methods of assessing the effectiveness of using the resource potential at the agrarian enterprise are proposed. The systematic approach to the analysis of the resource potential of economic development is substantiated, which has significant advantages compared to others: comprehensiveness and focus of the research; a methodologically sound scheme for finding reserves for increasing production efficiency; objective assessment of business results; efficiency, effectiveness, accuracy of the analysis and its conclusions, which can serve as a good means of justifying management decisions. Based on the identification of the structure and features of the economic potential of agrarian enterprises, it is proposed to evaluate the economic potential of the enterprise in terms of types of business or goods produced, taking into account the relative position on the market and the stage of the product's life cycle. Therefore, the result is displayed in a special ADL matrix. It is proposed to consider the concept of "economic potential" as the ability of the enterprise as a system to respond adequately to the entire set of changes in the internal and external environment of functioning at any moment, as well as to form these interactions. It has been proven that it is advisable to assess the enterprise's resource potential based on the dynamic approach that assesses unique resources, knowledge and competences. Keywords: economic development, resource potential, economic potential, assessment, system approach, dynamic approach

Climate Change Impacts Can Be Differentially Perceived Across Time Scales: A Study Among the Tuareg of the Algerian Sahara.

As an Indigenous community of Algeria and the broader Sahel, the Tuareg hold unique ecological knowledge, which might contribute to broader models of place-based climate change impacts. Between January and April 2019, we carried out semi-structured interviews (N=23) and focus group discussions (N=3) in five villages of the province of Illizi, Algeria, to document the local Tuareg community's timeline and ecological calendar, both of which are instruments used to understand place-based reports of climate change impacts. The livelihoods of the Tuareg of Illizi are finely tuned to climate variability as reflected in changes reported in the cadence of events in their ecological calendar (marked by cyclical climatic and religious events). Participants reported rain and temperature irregularities and severe drought events, which have impacted their pastoral and semi-pastoral livelihoods. These reports are aligned with scientifically measured climate observations and predictions. Paradoxically, although participants recall with detail the climatic disasters that happened in the region over the last century, the Tuareg do not explicitly report decadal trends in the frequency of extreme events. The differential perception of climate change impacts across scales can have important implications for undertaking climate change adaptation measures.

FUTURE PROSPECTIVE: TRADITIONAL RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) OF EASTERN INDIA

Rice was one of the most important field crop grown by farmers in different geographies in the World. It was grown due to its different unique with climatic, water, soil, genetic diversity, climatic - weather variance, dietary typical unique importance, cultural and rituals on food behavior among the growers. Rice is the major food energy source but on the other hand also meet the expectation of different valuable nutritive sources with unique nutritive qualities for different health benefit with essentials nutrients, vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrate, protein and fat etc. Rice was used by the different tribal people with their unique knowledge with respect to the traditional varieties those were being cultivated over a decade with very good understanding of the varieties with respect to ecological adoptability, seasonal suitability, cultivation and management practices, rice grain, farm produces, grain and grains by product with different unique health benefit and culturally adopted with different dices and preparations due to different health benefit and remedies. All the traditional rice cultivar was to be found very unique due to their unique qualitative identity found in the knowledge domain of the indigenous farmers and people. The traditional cultivars was the own self, it unique identity due natural or farmers selection process and consumer preparation consumption prefer ability in brief. Cultivation of traditional cultivar, it ecological adaptiveness with respect to biological traits and genes on the other hand availability of different quality traits like, medicinal, aromatic, puffing, glutinous, kernel elongation, richness with protein, Zn, Fe, antioxidants and vitamins etc. A few leading traditional rice were popular among farmers in the region, Tulaipanji, Gobindabhog, Paijam, Kalonunia, Tulsibhog, Pioli, Aghoni, Aghoni Bora, Bora, Bao, PioJoha, Jasua, Kalojira, Bhadui, Kalirai, Ramtulsi, Magusal, Jhingasal, Musisal, Rabansal, Motichur, Parijat, Agar, Ganga, Kuajoli, Nagraikalam, Chenga, Sasimahan, Binni Dhan, Dudheswar, Radhatilak, Soni Bhadui, Murisal, Balabhat, Brahmabalak, Sitabhog, Kalo Khasa, Khasa, Ponha, Khegurchori, Begun Bichi, Kotki, Kamal, Sada Nunia and Boka Kamol etc.

Using former carers’ expertise in peer support for carers of people with Parkinson’s Disease

Informal carers gain unique experience and knowledge when caring for a loved person. However, this knowledge often remains unused after their loved one with Parkinson’s disease (PD) has passed away. Hence, two opportunities are currently being missed: sharing this unique experience could support current informal carers and offer the bereaved former carers the option to continue to fulfil a meaningful role. This study aimed to identify the unmet needs of current carers, and to examine the interest, willingness and requirements of both current and former carers for peer-to-peer support. Data were collected from August 2020 to February 2021 through questionnaires examining (1) resources and needs for support; (2) topics for support and advice; and (3) preferences for peer-to-peer initiatives. Open questions were analyzed thematically, after open coding. In total, 141 current and 15 former informal carers participated. Current carers were mainly women (68%) and partner of a person with PD (86%). Former carers were mainly women (80%) who had cared for a partner or parent (53%; 47%) with PD. Almost half of the current carers expressed need for additional support in finding balance, changing relationships, and learning how to cope with lack of emotions and motivation. Half of the carers were positive about the opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge with former carers. Willingness among former carers for providing peer-to-peer support was high (87%). In both groups, having a degree of commonality with peers was considered an essential requirement. These findings provide guidance for developing peer-to-peer support programs, incorporating former carers.

Pandemic Makers: How Citizen Groups Mobilized Resources to Meet Local Needs in a Global Health Crisis

The enormous scale of suffering, breadth of societal impact, and ongoing uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic introduced dynamics seldom examined in the crisis entrepreneurship literature. Previous research indicates that when a crisis causes a failure of public goods, spontaneous citizen ventures often emerge to leverage unique local knowledge to rapidly customize abundant external resources to meet immediate needs. However, as outsiders, emergent citizen groups responding to the dire shortage of personal protective equipment at the onset of COVID-19 lacked local knowledge and legitimacy. In this study, we examine how entrepreneurial citizens mobilized collective resources in attempts to gain acceptance and meet local needs amid the urgency of the pandemic. Through longitudinal case studies of citizen groups connected to makerspaces in four U.S. cities, we study how they adapted to address the resource and legitimacy limitations they encountered. We identify three mechanisms—augmenting, circumventing, and attenuating—that helped transient citizen groups calibrate their resource mobilization based on what they learned over time. We highlight how extreme temporality imposes limits on resourcefulness and legitimation, making it critical for collective entrepreneurs to learn when to work within their limitations rather than try to overcome them.

Older Adults Living in Disadvantaged Areas: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Baseline Study on Homes, Quality of Life, and Participation in Transitioning Neighborhoods.

BackgroundSwedish policy states that older adults should be able to age safely with continued independence and lead active lives. However, this plays out differently in different Swedish municipalities depending upon degree of demographic change, globalization, and urbanization. Internationally, older adults living in disadvantaged areas have worse physical and mental health, activity restrictions, and reduced life expectancy. In Sweden, research on how disadvantaged areas impact older adults’ quality of life is virtually nonexistent. We argue that disadvantaged areas exist in both urban and rural contexts.ObjectiveWe aimed to investigate how older adults’ homes and neighborhoods influence their community participation, quality of life, identity, and belonging in urban and rural disadvantaged areas in Sweden, and how these person–context dynamics are experienced by older adults in transitioning neighborhoods.MethodsThe study has a mixed methods design and includes 3 phases. Adults 65 years and older living in certain urban and rural disadvantaged areas in the south of Sweden will be included. Phase 1 is an interview study in which qualitative data are collected on neighborhood attachment, identity, and belonging through semistructured interviews and photo-elicitation interviews with 40 subjects. A variety of qualitative data analysis procedures are used. In phase 2, a survey study will be conducted to explore associations between observable and self-rated aspects of housing and neighborhood (physical, social, and emotional), participation, and quality of life; 400 subjects will be recruited and added to the 40 phase-1 subjects for a total of 440. The survey will include standardized measures and study-specific questions. Survey data will be analyzed with mainstream statistical analyses and structural equation modeling to understand the interactions between quality of life, home and neighborhood factors, and sociodemographic factors. In phase 3, the integration study, survey data from the 40 participants who participated in both data collections will be analyzed together with qualitative data with a mixed methods analysis approach.ResultsAs of the submission of this protocol (August 2022), recruitment for the interview study is complete (N=39), and 267 participants have been recruited and have completed data collection in the survey study. We expect recruitment and data collection to be finalized by December 2022.ConclusionsWith an increasing proportion of older adults, an increasing number of disadvantaged areas, and an increasing dependency ratio in more than 50% of Swedish municipalities, these municipalities are transforming and becoming increasingly segregated. This study will add unique knowledge on what it is like to be older in a disadvantaged area and deepen knowledge on housing and health dynamics in later life. Further, the design of the current study will allow future follow-up studies to facilitate longitudinal analysis (if funding is granted) on aging in a transforming societal context.International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)DERR1-10.2196/41255

The processes-to-end(s) paradox of public relations

Public relations researchers, theorists, and practitioners should integrate professional practice with research topics, themes, concepts, theories, contextual intelligences, strategic processes, moral judgment, and functional practices by addressing the end(s) that public relations serves in community. Disciplinary intelligences feature outcomes that yield to specialized knowledge-based, processually achievable, intellectually justifiable, strategically valuable, and morally serviceable practices that constitute culture, society, and community. In that communitarian spirit, this paper draws on established research streams and strategic process-to-ends paradigms to argue that unique knowledge serves to collaboratively assist the constitution of community as place in search for order. Public relations’ unique knowledge, constantly refined and critically guided, adds strategic, emergent force to human’s communitarian imperative. This communitarian rationale for the constitutive paradigm reasons that as individuals, organizations and communities engage to communicate they communicate to organize through narrative continuity. Organizations, individuals, and groups engage on the winding path of agonistic, emergently epistemological and ontological cultural and societal moments to seek order in the public interest. Reputations (identities), complexes of relationships (institutionalized identification) and textuality of narrative continuity empower community members co-manage resources in service of shared interests’ license to operate.

Assessing the Defence Cooperation Agreements Between the USA and African Countries

International security cooperation is regarded as one of the key and successful mechanisms to fight terrorism and other cross-border criminal activities worldwide. This paper focuses on the benefits and challenges of the US and African countries' defence cooperation, using Ghana as a case study. This study used 21 people as participants. The subjects were selected based on their unique knowledge and expertise in the phenomenon under study. The researchers used interviews to solicit the views of the participants on the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Ghana and the US focusing on the benefits and challenges. In conclusion, the study disclosed that no country has a monopoly on what it takes to fight terrorism and other transnational organised crime alone. The major challenges identified include the breach of domestic law, limited mutual trust, and discriminately ethnic and misguided religious practices. The challenges were stated as indispensable for the sustainability of the DCA and the successful mitigation of terrorism and transnational organised crime in West Africa.

Mapping Information in the Wild: An Archivist’s Approach to Liaison Librarianship

ABSTRACT How do archivists who find themselves in dual librarian/archivist positions approach library instruction and reference services? This case study examines the instructional experiences of an archivist serving in an interim role as a liaison librarian to a public affairs college at a large, public university in the United States. Utilizing action research methodology to study and inform their instruction approach and philosophy, the archivist created an instructional model which incorporates archival principles and concepts into a landscape mapping exercise. Archivists can make material contributions to library instruction through their unique knowledge, skills, and perspectives.

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE TERRITORY OF CHUVASHIA OF THE XX CENTURY IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL HEADED BY PROFESSOR I.I. BOYKO (for the Scientist’s Anniversary)

The XXI century is a century of rapidly changing information and technological space, new breakthrough technologies created by the scientific creativity of scientists. Fundamental and applied research carried out in Russia, in a difficult international situation, is becoming in demand and is implemented in the real sector of the economy. It is no coincidence that the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin signed a Decree declaring 2022–2031 the Decade of Science and Technology in the country. However, the top performance of a research scientist is not only creation of unique knowledge, but forming a team of followers as well. By far not everyone is in power to build his own scientific school and train highly qualified specialists. The article reflects the main stages showing the creative work of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Ivan Ivanovich Boyko, as well as the activities of the researcher’s scientific school, which largely supplemented the history of Chuvashia of the XX century. It is noted that the main directions investigated by the scientific school of I.I. Boyko were 3 problem blocks: industrial development and agriculture of Chuvashia in the XX century; formation and activity of state and municipal administration of the republic in the Soviet period; historical experience of implementing Soviet youth policy. Each of these areas was directly related to scientific interests of the researcher. The problems in the development of industry, the system of public administration, transition of the Middle Volga region republics to the statute of industrial-agrarian ones in the second half of the XX century have repeatedly become the historian’s object of attention.

A performance evaluation study of 3d printed nylon/glass fiber and nylon/carbon fiber composite materials

3D printed fiber reinforced composites are replacing metals and thermosetting polymers due to their lightweight structure and mechanical performance. Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is an additive manufacturing technology that can produce complicated functioning parts. Samples of Nylforce composite materials were manufactured at three different raster orientations (0°, 45°, and 90°) with the help of a 3D printer. In order to evaluate the mechanical properties of the nylon composites with carbon fibers (CF) and glass fiber (GF); 3-point flexural tests were carried out. The highest stiffness (modulus) was found for nylon + GF composite at room temperature, indicating that the material can better resist bending forces. On the other hand, the nylon + CF composite exhibited elastic behavior, lower flexural strength, and higher deflection. Overall, the flexural strength of composites was improved because the interface between the nylon matrix and fibers provided good stress transfer. Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) also clearly indicated that the nylon + GF composite material had maximum storage modulus, loss modulus and complex modulus with low tan δ, indicating improved fiber/matrix interfacial interaction and limitation of polymer chain mobility. Moreover, scanning electron microscope (SEM) images revealed that the main drawbacks for nylon composite material were void formation, fiber pull-out, and fiber breakage. Generally, the results of this research provide a unique knowledge base regarding the structural behaviors and the mechanical properties of nylon composites built with 3D printing technology. Finally, the findings of the current research will be beneficial in the application of these composite materials in their end-use.

What Do Reference Librarians Do Now?

Objective - The primary purpose of this study was to better understand the nature of “reference” and reference transactions. Methods - This study looked at four years’ of reference transaction (RT) data recorded at a small, state-owned university. Results - The data clearly indicates that the overall number of RT continues to decline. It also reveals that, despite the use of student mentors, librarians are still involved with a majority of RT, regardless of whether or not they require the expertise of a librarian to resolve. Conclusion - Continuing to be involved with RT which do not require the knowledge or training of a librarian (e.g., directional) can have a diminutive effect on the perceived role, work, and value of librarians. As such, it is suggested that these sorts of questions be addressed by student mentors or staff members. In turn, this will allow librarians to focus on those questions and activities which do require their unique knowledge and skills. Along similar lines, it is also suggested that librarians explore and identify new, non-traditional ways of applying their expertise to student success initiatives and the overall academic life of the institution. With the merger of three libraries, data from this study has been and continues to be used to make informed decisions about the provision of reference services in a new, integrated library environment.

Skull injury due to atypical firearm: a case report

BACKGROUND: Injuries from atypical firearms are highly variable in their morphology and often differ from typical gunshot injuries. This can lead to problems in forensic diagnostics. Knowledge of the atypical weapons design and discovery of atypical projectiles inside a body or at crime scene allows proper injury nature assessment.
 CASE PRESENTATION: The morphological features of the entrance and exit gunshot wounds of the occipital and frontal bones caused by an atypical projectile ― a concrete nail 4.560 mm are described. The entrance gunshot injury had typical morphological features associated with the specific action of the projectile (a tissue defect, internal beveling of wound). The exit wound was atypical due to the incomplete exit of the concrete nail from the cranial cavity, as well as the anatomical features of the damaged area.
 CONCLUSION: Atypical firearms and projectiles are diverse and their samples may have many unique designs and technological features knowledge of which may be crucial for forensic examination of gunshot injuries. A comprehensive medico-legal assessment of the injury gunshot nature and the number of shots is traditionally based on the injury morphology and revealing the gunshot residues. However, the presence of projectiles and/or their fragments in the body facilitates the solving of expert tasks. In our case the key to the correct interpretation of the wounds nature was the presence in the skull of an atypical projectile ― a concrete-nail.

Children’s perspectives of psychosocial help-seeking in Kenya

ABSTRACT There is little knowledge on how children perceive psychosocial supports and seek help in resource-constrained settings. The aim of this study was to establish these perspectives among 22 children aged 7–10 years living in a disadvantaged community in Kenya. Children discussed available resources in response to three scenarios of common life stressors. Focus group discussions were subjected to thematic analysis. Children regularly sought internal and relational (family and peers) rather than external structural resources when faced with adversities. Their unique knowledge of their needs, environment and required supports should inform the development of interventions and services through developmentally appropriate participatory methods.

“They really care about you, they really build relationships”: Care and justice in a community organization

AbstractContemporary United States society is marked by exacerbated economic inequity and deep sociopolitical polarization, which increases a sense of precarity among marginalized communities. There is growing need to develop and foster practices that promote care and justice for marginalized communities. Organizational settings designed with the intent of supporting marginalized communities may possess unique knowledge related to actualizing care and promoting justice. Through analysis of ethnographic field notes and qualitative interviews conducted with 22 participants at the organization, this study examines organizational policies and practices of everyday decision‐making at a drop‐in center for women and gender non‐conforming people in Washington State, USA. Findings document how policies and practices at the center promote care and justice for diverse marginalized groups. Implications for promoting equitable values in social settings more broadly are discussed.