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A social practice theory approach to exploring the ubiquity of quizzes in dementia care settings
- Joseph Webb, Val Williams, Sandy Read, Harry Davis, Roy James
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- Ageing & Society , First View
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- 21 October 2022, pp. 1-22
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Quizzes are a ubiquitous part of the dementia social care landscape. This article explores why. Using an ethnographic approach which draws on close analysis of communication, we examine dementia quizzes as a ‘social practice’, and what such a lens can tell us about their popularity in social care settings. Vignettes of real interactions drawn from ten different quizzes recorded in four different group settings attended by 28 people living with dementia and 15 staff members are presented to highlight particular issues. We show that the conditions of post-diagnosis dementia social care are uniquely well suited to an activity such as quizzes which are malleable, requiring little preparation or materials, and impose a communication framework which can help to organise the interactional space. Quizzes also draw on previously forged interactional competences, such as turn-taking and question–answer sequences, a skill that has been shown to persist even as dementia progresses. Finally, we argue that the meaning of quizzes with people with dementia feeds into wider societal values and associations attached to memory, dementia and personhood. The extent to which quizzes are akin to a ‘test’ or a fun and enjoyable social activity rests in how they are enacted. We suggest that practice can be adapted, developed and made more inclusive through input from people living with dementia themselves.
Chapter 9 - Energy End-Use: Transport
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- By Suzana Kahn Ribeiro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Maria Josefina Figueroa, Technical University, Felix Creutzig, Technical University of Berlin, Carolina Dubeux, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Jane Hupe, International Civil Aviation Organization, Shigeki Kobayashi, Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Luiz Alberto de Melo Brettas, Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency, Theodore Thrasher, International Civil Aviation Organization, Sandy Webb, Independent Consultant, Ji Zou, Renmin University
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- 05 September 2012
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- 27 August 2012, pp 575-648
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The world's demand of fuels for transportation has multiplied over the last decades due to the concurrent fast expansion of population, urbanization, and global mobility. The global transport sector is responsible for 28% of total final energy demand. The majority of the energy used in transportation – 70% – is utilized on the movement of passengers and goods on roads locally, nationally, and across regions. Transportation weighs heavily on climate, energy security, and environmental considerations, as 95% of transport energy comes from oil-based fuels. Transportation is the cause of other critical challenges due to its supporting role in local and global economies, as well as the implications of increasing transportation on human health and social interactions. The immense and multi-faceted challenges of a global transportation system deeply rooted in fossil fuels are compounded by the quickly evolving aspirations of a worldwide population that is increasingly on the move and has learned to regard mobility, in particular by motorized modes, as an important component of the modern lifestyle they have or are seeking to attain.
This chapter evaluates the roots of these challenges and outlines the options for a feasible major transformation of the global transportation system over the next 30–40 years. The goal of this transformation is the development of a robust path for the consolidation of transportation systems around the world that can deliver the mobility services needed to support growing economic and social activity while also creating the conditions for enhanced energy security, rigorous climate change mitigation, improved human health, better environment, and urban and social sustainability.