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Out of the frying pan and into the fire: effects of volcanic heat and other stressors on the conservation of a critically endangered plant in Hawai‘i
- Nathan S Gill, Jeffery K Stallman, Linda Pratt, Jennifer Lewicki, Tamar Elias, Patricia A Nadeau, Stephanie Yelenik
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- Environmental Conservation / Volume 50 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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- 06 January 2023, pp. 108-115
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Loss of local biodiversity resulting from abrupt environmental change is a significant environmental problem throughout the world. Extinctions of plants are particularly important yet are often overlooked. Drawing from a case in Hawai‘i, a global hotspot for plant and other extinctions, we demonstrate an effort to better understand and determine priorities for the management of an endangered plant (‘Ihi makole or Portulaca sclerocarpa) in the face of rapid and extreme environmental change. Volcanic heat emissions and biological invasions have anecdotally been suggested as possible threats to the species. We integrated P. sclerocarpa outplanting with efforts to collect geological and ecological data to gauge the role of elevated soil temperatures and invasive grasses in driving P. sclerocarpa mortality and population decline. We measured soil temperature, soil depth, surrounding cover and P. sclerocarpa survivorship over three decades. The abundance of wild P. sclerocarpa decreased by 99.7% from the 1990s to 2021. Only 51% of outplantings persisted through 3–4 years. Binomial regression and structural equation modelling revealed that, among the variables we analysed, high soil temperatures were most strongly associated with population decline. Finding the niche where soil temperatures are low enough to allow P. sclerocarpa survival but high enough to limit other agents of P. sclerocarpa mortality may be necessary to increase population growth of this species.
Integrating data science into the translational science research spectrum: A substance use disorder case study
- Emily Slade, Linda P. Dwoskin, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Jeffery C. Talbert, Jin Chen, Patricia R. Freeman, Kathleen M. Kantak, Emily R. Hankosky, Sajjad Fouladvand, Amy L. Meadows, Heather M. Bush
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- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / 2021
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- 19 August 2020, e29
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The availability of large healthcare datasets offers the opportunity for researchers to navigate the traditional clinical and translational science research stages in a nonlinear manner. In particular, data scientists can harness the power of large healthcare datasets to bridge from preclinical discoveries (T0) directly to assessing population-level health impact (T4). A successful bridge from T0 to T4 does not bypass the other stages entirely; rather, effective team science makes a direct progression from T0 to T4 impactful by incorporating the perspectives of researchers from every stage of the clinical and translational science research spectrum. In this exemplar, we demonstrate how effective team science overcame challenges and, ultimately, ensured success when a diverse team of researchers worked together, using healthcare big data to test population-level substance use disorder (SUD) hypotheses generated from preclinical rodent studies. This project, called Advancing Substance use disorder Knowledge using Big Data (ASK Big Data), highlights the critical roles that data science expertise and effective team science play in quickly translating preclinical research into public health impact.
A Brief History of Incivility in Rural Postcolonial India: Caste, Religion, and Anthropology
- Edward Simpson, Alice Tilche, Tommaso Sbriccoli, Patricia Jeffery, Tina Otten
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- Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / January 2018
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- 04 January 2018, pp. 58-89
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Anthropological studies of Indian villages conducted in the 1950s and 1960s form a valuable archive of rural life soon after India's independence. We compare sections of that archive with recent fieldwork in the same villages in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha. If we trust the ethnography of the 1950s, domestic and caste spheres were the locations of village incivility. It is noteworthy that there is no reference in the early work to the Partition of the subcontinent that had occurred just a few years before. Neither is there mention of discrimination or violence carried out in the name of religion in these locations. New fieldwork reveals a different story about the rise of wholesale religious incivility in the public sphere. Caste has not vanished, but inter-caste relations have taken on new forms. We suggest that the intersection of affirmative action policies, political parties, and the systematic penetration of Hindu nationalist organizations has been crucial in the remaking of rural India.
International quality improvement initiatives
- Patricia A. Hickey, Jean A. Connor, Kotturathu M. Cherian, Kathy Jenkins, Kaitlin Doherty, Haibo Zhang, Michael Gaies, Sara Pasquali, Sarah Tabbutt, James D. St. Louis, George E. Sarris, Hiromi Kurosawa, Richard A. Jonas, Nestor Sandoval, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Jeffery P. Jacobs, Giovanni Stellin, James K. Kirklin, Rajnish Garg, David F. Vener
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 27 / Issue S6 / December 2017
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- 04 December 2017, pp. S61-S68
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Across the globe, the implementation of quality improvement science and collaborative learning has positively affected the care and outcomes for children born with CHD. These efforts have advanced the collective expertise and performance of inter-professional healthcare teams. In this review, we highlight selected quality improvement initiatives and strategies impacting the field of cardiovascular care and describe implications for future practice and research. The continued leveraging of technology, commitment to data transparency, focus on team-based practice, and recognition of cultural norms and preferences ensure the success of sustainable models of global collaboration.
14 - Disputing Contraception: Muslim Reform, Secular Change and Fertility
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- By Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, Roger Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, Craig Jeffrey, Oxford and University
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During our first research in Jhakri, an exclusively Muslim village in Bijnor district (north-western Uttar Pradesh), the sterilization drive associated with the Emergency of 1975–77 was a recent memory. Our field-notes, then and subsequently, have repeatedly registered the conviction that using contraceptive techniques, especially sterilization [nasbandī or ‘tube closing’], is contrary to Islam. Recent surveys elsewhere in India indicate that 9 per cent of currently-married Muslim women—but only 1 per cent of Hindu and Christian women—say that their main reason for not intending to use contraception is because it is ‘against their religion’. For Bhat and Zavier (2005: 400), these figures reflect Muslims' slavish obedience to ignorant mullahs and account for most of the differences in contraceptive use between members of the three communities. Islamic doctrines are widely presumed to be central to Muslims' everyday lives. Superficially, Jhakri residents might seem to endorse this rarely examined or substantiated assumption, but leaving matters there would fall far short of adequately accounting for their fertility behaviour.
First we outline how several aspects of Muslim reformers' agendas might seem consistent with fertility limitation, yet the historical record provides no clear impression of their views on contraception. Further, the idea that Muslims slavishly follow a monolithic ‘Islamic doctrine’ ignores the contested and shifting understandings of contraception yielded by the same authoritative Islamic sources.
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Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. 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Yee, Viktor Yelensky, Yeo Khiok-Khng, Gustav K. K. Yeung, Angela Yiu, Amos Yong, Yong Ting Jin, You Bin, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Eliana Yunes, Robert Michael Zaller, Valarie H. Ziegler, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Aurora Zlotnik, Zhuo Xinping
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Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery
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- The Journal of Asian Studies / Volume 67 / Issue 4 / November 2008
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This paper uses recent field research to challenge the widely held view that a “Dalit revolution” is occurring in North India. Drawing on two years' ethnographic research in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, the authors uncover the growing importance of a generation of local political activists among Dalits (former untouchables) while also showing that these young men have not been able to effect a broad structural transformation at the local level. The authors use this case to identify a need for further research on South Asian political change that links party political transformation to questions of local level social practice and subaltern consciousness.
Disputing Contraception: Muslim Reform, Secular Change and Fertility
- PATRICIA JEFFERY, ROGER JEFFERY, CRAIG JEFFREY
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- Modern Asian Studies / Volume 42 / Issue 2-3 / March 2008
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- 01 March 2008, pp. 519-548
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In South Asia, Muslim reformers have often attempted to ‘rationalize’ and gentrify the everyday behaviour of ordinary Muslims. Yet, despite the existence of discussions of contraceptive techniques in the yūnān-ī tibb curricula of 19th century India and the apparent affinity between rationalism and fertility regulation, contraception was rarely discussed in public debates involving Muslim reformers. In this paper we discuss some of the relationships between élite debates among Muslim leaders and the grassroots behaviour of villagers in rural Bijnor, in western Uttar Pradesh. Villagers' voices are ambiguous, with fears for mother and child health surfacing as often as concerns for religious orthodoxy and one's destiny in the afterlife. In addition, many of the villagers' views of Islam were much more restrictive than those of the locally accepted authoritative voices: although the staff at Daru'l ‘Ulūm, Deoband, saw much modern contraception as an unwelcome sign of modernity, their discussions of the acceptability of family planning circled round notions of majbūrī [compulsion], repentance, and the unfathomable mercy of Allah. We conclude that focusing on local notions of Islam to understand the fertility behaviour of rural Muslims is less fruitful than considering a “political economy of hopelessness” that, increasingly since 1947, affects many Muslims in north India.
Islamization, Gentrification and Domestication: ‘A Girls’ Islamic Course' and Rural Muslims in Western Uttar Pradesh
- Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey
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- Modern Asian Studies / Volume 38 / Issue 1 / February 2004
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Girls' education has been enduringly controversial in north India, and the disputes of the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century still echo in debates about girls' education in contemporary India. In this paper, we reflect on the education of rural Muslim girls in contemporary western Uttar Pradesh (UP), by examining an Islamic course for girls [Larkiyon kā Islālmī Course], written in Urdu and widely used in madrasahs there. First, we summarize the central themes in the Course: purifying religious practice; distancing demure, self-controlled, respectable woman from the lower orders; and the crucial role of women as competent homemakers. Having noted the conspicuous similarities between these themes and those in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century textbooks and advice manuals for girls and women, the second section examines the context in which the earlier genre emerged. Finally, we return to the present day. Particularly since September 11th 2001, madrasahs have found themselves the focus of hostile allegations that bear little or no relationship to the activities of the madrasahs that we studied. Nevertheless, madrasah education does have problematic implications. The special curricula for girls exemplifies how a particular kind of élite project has been sustained and transformed, and we aim to shed light on contemporary communal and class issues as well as on gender politics.
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- Roger Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
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- Population, Gender and Politics
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5 - Modern mindsets or empowered women?
- Roger Jeffery, University of Edinburgh, Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
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The idea that ‘modern’ people can not only ensure that their children live to maturity, but can also act ‘rationally’ to limit the number of children they have, is at the source of the modern discipline of demography in the disputes between Malthus and Condorcet at the end of the eighteenth century. Whereas Malthus was sceptical of the possible role of ‘moral restraint’, Condorcet believed that the abolition of prejudice and superstition, encouraged by the spread of education (particularly of women) would lead people to choose small families voluntarily (Sen 1995). Thus the idea that economic and social changes – urbanization and industrialization in particular – would bring new ways of thinking and understanding in their wake has a long pedigree. It was taken up most thoroughly in the 1960s, when the sociology of social and economic change was heavily influenced by the work of Talcott Parsons and Wilbert Moore. One of the most extended pieces of research in this perspective was organized at Harvard, and involved questionnaires administered to men (but not women) in countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia (including Pakistan). It was published under the title Becoming Modern (Inkeles and Smith 1974). Within sociology, work in this genre has been heavily criticized for its valueladen evolutionary schema in which contemporary US small-town society was treated as the archetype of the ‘modern’. Writers using this approach have failed to take seriously differences in historical, cultural and economic context, have often used teleological arguments, and have made naive and often ethnocentric assumptions about the inevitability of ‘progress’.
4 - Women's agency and fertility
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In cities, big people ask a girl before making an engagement, but no one asks a girl in a village. The girl doesn't even know which boy she is being married to.
(Janistha w/o Jabir, S8, landless, no schooling)My parents didn't look for a boy anywhere else than Nangal – though if they had done so what would I know, where do men tell these things inside the house? Men generally go outside and they do not tell outside matters inside the house. No opinion was sought from me about my marriage.
(Lalita's sister-in-law)Who used to ask girls' opinions previously? Even if a girl was thrown in a well, she couldn't say anything.
(Lalita w/o Lokender, J9, landlord, 8th class pass)Narrow class-based theories of demographic change have been subjected to several powerful criticisms. For example, the so-called ‘new household economies’, associated with the work of Gary Becker (1960) has been accused of failing to take into account the possibility of gender-and age-based conflicts of interest within the household. Until the 1980s, most discussions failed to recognize that men's and women's views might be different, and affected by the structured inequalities between them (as Cain et al. 1979 and Basu 1991, point out). Asok Mitra (1978) was one of the first writers to stress the possibility that the ‘status of women’ might play a major role in understanding demographic change in India. Since then, demographic orthodoxy (following the work of Karen Mason 1984) includes variables on women's status in its model-making.
Frontmatter
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Index
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2 - Populating Bijnor
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Any research or writing which touches on population issues in India is liable to be misinterpreted. For white western scholars like us, writing about two caste groups, one Muslim and one Hindu, with a special reference to issues of women's agency, is a hazardous enterprise. Here we explain why we selected this research topic, why we chose to study population issues in Bijnor and how any insights we gain might apply beyond the two villages where we collected most of the information on which our arguments are based.
Population issues in India: Malthus, Marx or reproductive rights?
The contentiousness of India's population dates from colonial times. The body of writing about India's demography and its population policy is voluminous and varied. Here we pick out three main strands of such writing – the Malthusian, neo-Marxist and feminist – in order to help locate our own position.
The British rulers of India, almost as soon as they established a presence in any part of the sub-continent, started to enumerate the population, as well as counting their crops, animals, and anything else that might be of interest. Much of this counting went way beyond what could ever have been of direct use, and contributed to a categorization of the Indian population by caste and religion, some of whose results can be seen in the anti-reservation and communal riots we described in the last chapter (Cohn 1987; Appadorai 1993).
Glossary and Textual conventions
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Bibliography
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Population, Gender and Politics
- Demographic Change in Rural North India
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Roger and Patricia Jeffery are well known for their work on religion and gender in South Asia. In their latest book, a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural north India, they ask why fertility levels are higher among the Muslim Sheikhs than the Hindu Jats. They conclude that explanations can only partially be attributed to gender relationships and religion, and it is the economic and political interests of both groups which are the defining factors. Their marginal economic position provides little incentive for the Sheikhs to raise small families, while the Jats, who are locally dominant, are encouraged to use birth control and educate their children. The authors go on to demonstrate the significance of this analysis for a wider understanding of the problems of population and politics in India generally. The book will be invaluable for students of South Asia and for anyone interested in the demography of developing countries.
7 - Conclusion
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So far we have deliberately kept very close to the detail of our case study of Jats and Sheikhs in Bijnor, but here we want to discuss the relevance of this small-scale study beyond the bounds of Nangal and Qaziwala, and Bijnor District. In brief, our study should provoke questions about the current so-called Cairo consensus that women's empowerment via schooling, and fertility and morality decline inevitably go hand-in-hand. Our criticisms of this consensus are highlighted by our approach, which stresses the need to contextualize, to specify the content of schooling as well as its meaning to those involved, in order to understand demographic change. Finally, our account can provide insights into the emergent political situation in India.
The Cairo consensus
The 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development accepted the argument that the ability of women to control their own sexuality is an important element in fertility decline. Indeed, this was the starting point for our research in 1990. At Cairo, direct attempts at reducing fertility were given less overt priority than women's empowerment. Feminist rhetorics were adopted, and some tantalizing shifts in vocabulary were adopted by the major donor agencies. Women's rights – broadly as well as in the sphere of reproduction – are now part of the official agenda. ‘Empowerment’ is a term much bandied about and used to legitimize inputs into the educational sector, while the notion of ‘unmet needs’ for contraception is brought in to support the case for empowering women so that they can achieve the small families they are said to want.
6 - Fighting with numbers
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I have three sons – the third came in the foolishness of looking for a girl. I will try to educate them all to MA level in the hopes they will get service. It doesn't matter if they all go away to work, I can always employ someone to do the farm work. Unless they get a good job, what benefit will there be from the education? Fortunately, my wife can supervise the children's study; I myself don't have the time.
(ROGER:) Why did you want a girl?)First to help her mother in the house, before she is married; secondly because if there is any work to be done (like getting a glass of water or some food) a girl will never refuse but a son will; also a daughter is needed for me to get the merit of giving a daughter in marriage.
(ROGER:) Why not have only one son, then he would get all the land?)Like I said, I need more than one in case that one son is bad.
(ROGER:) Why not have many more sons?)Yes, that would be good for making the country strong; and would be important, for example in fighting, like against the Muslims, because their population is growing faster. But children are too expensive: the everyday costs are so high I couldn't afford any more.
(Charan h/o Chitra, J24, middle peasant)Questions of population size enter into political discussions in various ways in India.