What is Flint? Place,storytelling, and social media narrative reclamation during the Flint water crisis

ABSTRACT

The Flint Water Crisis became a national news story in January of 2016, when major publishers such as The New York Times began covering the story. In the same month, an influx of social media activism occurred in response to the crisis, with citizens developing hashtag campaigns such as #FlintFwd in order to disseminate news and stories from a citizen’s perspective; these campaigns often positioned Flint positively ? as a recovering community ? rather than a city in the middle of a public health crisis, and often addressed not a national public but a local audience. This paper considers Flint-based social media activity to investigate the emergence of place-based activism within the ostensibly global network of social media. In doing so, it identifies three key themes; 1) leveraging social media to forward a critique of deficient journalistic storytelling; 2) using the affective process of storytelling via social media to claim authority over their own material offline existence, and 3) using place-based storytelling to implicate others as witnesses via the global network of social media. These themes coalesce around a distinctly critical logic of connectivity. This logic extends the notion of connectivity articulated by Van Dijck and Poell [2013. Understanding social media logic. Media and Communication, 1(1), 2–14.] and the strategies of platform activism explored by Tufekci [2017. Twitter and tear gas: The power and fragility of networked protest. New Haven: Yale University Press.] to explain how social media works to expose discrepancies between the public story of the water crisis and material, lived conditions of Flint, rendering visible a discursive identity of Flint thus far unrecognized.     

Toward a sociology of global comparative placemaking

I call for a globally informed sociology of comparative placemaking that integrates historical and contemporary processes and includes the ephemeral, institutional, and personal. By placemaking, I am referring to the explicit or tacit cooperation among people to create, maintain, and give meaning to places in space through bodily occupation given differential resources and constraints. I review select place, space, and community-based literature about urban, Black, migrant, LGBTQ, and international populations to think about how we can build upon and integrate multiple theoretical, methodological, and epistemological insights to form an explicit placemaking research agenda. A US focus on neighborhoods contrasts with a comparative examination of global urban networks, social polarization, and transformation of the built environment in the interdisciplinary field of global urban studies (Ren, 2018). I argue for a placemaking research agenda that bridges insight from US Urban Sociology with Global Urban Studies to consider how various structures and actors constrain and facilitate place projects. With a globally reaching and comparatively informed sociology of placemaking, we can illuminate our multi-structured story of place and agency in context. We can answer questions about how and why we co-create and are simultaneously disciplined by the process of creation.     

成人依恋研究

依恋是人类适应生存的重要方式,是人类长期生物进化的结果,它会影响到成年后亲密关系的建立、人际社会功能的表达以及人格功能和人格特质的形成。目前成人依恋的研究大概可以分为两个方面:成人依恋的个体差异和成人依恋的检测维度。     

蒙古族“风水宝地出英雄”母题之历史文化渊源

“风水宝地出英雄”,这是蒙古族地名传说的主要母题之一。本文立足于蒙古族地名传说中的英雄与故乡之间的关系,通过对其传统文化渊源、社会历史根源等诸层面的分析,认为该母题是在科尔沁特殊的社会历史条件下产生的,是蒙古人故乡崇拜与英雄崇拜相结合的产物。     

贾岛为僧及还俗时间地点考

贾岛出家及还俗的时间地点问题是贾岛生平仕历研究的一个重要问题。通过对现有史料记载以及贾岛等人诗文的考证分析,可知贾岛贞元九年(793)在北岳恒山出家为僧,时年15岁。后曾住洛阳石楼及嵩山一带。贞元十七年(801)在石楼与韩愈初次相识。元和六年(811)春在洛阳又遇到时任河南县令的韩愈,同年秋跟随韩愈赴长安准备应进士举,但并未马上还俗。冬十一月返回家乡范阳,处理僧俗事务。至迟于次年即元和七年(812)春还俗并参加进士考试,时年34岁。     

冻结保存对黏附细胞超微结构的影响

黏附细胞的超微结构包括细胞骨架（cytoskeleton）、细胞黏附点（focal adhesion，FA）及细胞间连接（gap junction，GJ）．保持细胞超微结构的完整，对复温后细胞的存活率及细胞功能是至关重要的．实验发现，冻结到一196℃后，部分F肌动蛋白被切断、卷曲，且扩展面积与细胞成活率随温度降低呈现相似的下降趋势；冻结后蛋白质vinculin（FA）和Cx-43（GJ）的数量分别下降到对照组的22％及10％左右．综述了冻结过程对细胞超微结构影响的研究现状，分析了目前的研究所存在的问题与不足，提出了实时观察活细胞超微结构的方法，并给出了初步的结果．     

大江健三郎的文学“返乡”原因初探

故乡是大江健三郎在几十年文学生涯中不断书写的对象.故乡是想象力的源泉,是自卑情结的宿命之地,是大江打开文学新局面的必然选择.     

Clinical Writing of a Therapy in Progress: Ethical Questions and Therapeutic Challenges

Clinical implications and ethical dilemmas of the use of confidential case material in clinical writing are examined, including a review of the discourse among professionals who publish clinical work. This literature is applied to a clinical illustration of psychotherapy with a client who gave consent for publication and read the clinical write-up of her case material. It is suggested that clinical writing may increase client “self-reflection” if there is a “secure base” of attachment between therapist/author and the client. The impact on the client’s treatment process is examined, in addition to a discussion of ethical questions and professional recommendations. ²Dr. Susanne Bennett is an Assistant Professor, National School of Social Service of the Catholic University of America. Dr. Bennett is also a psychotherapist in private practice in Falls Church, VA.     

苏州地名源流考

苏州古称勾吴,亦称工吴、句吴、攻吴、姑苏。约公元前11世纪,泰伯、仲雍自陕西“南奔”,建立勾吴,其后裔被周武王封为吴伯。其南奔路线,最有可能取“商於古道”,奔至今江苏晋江市一带筑城族居,后与古越部落融合,创造了文明程度不亚于中原文化且具地域特色的“湖熟文化”。吴国建都后,不断向东南迁徙,最终定都于姑苏（今苏州古城）。姑苏之“苏”,极可能为越语城邑台、宫地名。秦置会稽郡,治吴县,后有吴州、苏州之称,皆有历史文化渊源可考。     

Severely Traumatized Siblings: A Treatment Strategy

Siblings who have suffered severe trauma and disrupted attachment relate to one another in ways that interfere with individual development, the chance to benefit from connections with adults, the establishment of healthy sibling relationships, and the working through of traumatic experiences. The authors use case examples to illustrate four distinct sibling patterns: absent, adult lockout, half and half, and trauma shield. The authors highlight the importance of recognizing these types and then varying the therapist's treatment stance to pursue five goals. These include suspending problematic sibling relationships to create room for bonding with caring adults, transferring attachment behaviors and impulses to a receptive adult, resuming healthy individual development, forming more adaptive sibling connections, and expressing shared traumatic content.