Shapeshifting as Infrastructural Storytelling: Comics about the Taxibot’s Conflicting Narratives

Giada Peterle and Tina Harris Academy of Mobility Humanities 2024 Mobility Humanities Vol.3 No.1

What are the stories we tell about infrastructures and what stories do infrastructures tell (about) us? We propose a paper in a hybrid verbo-visual format, including comic-pages created by Giada Peterle and based on Tina Harris’s keynote at the 2022 GMHC conference, autoethnographic notes, and visuals collected during fieldwork. Through experimenting with graphic storytelling, we highlight examples of infrastructural revelation and concealment, drawing on the figure of the shapeshifter as both a metaphor and a method for mobilising infrastructural imagination. What unites shapeshifters in many of the stories and myths we read is how they are taken up in different ways; how they simultaneously present both the potential to improve human lives as well as produce fear due to their unpredictability. By focusing specifically on the narrative of one shapeshifting infrastructure—the Taxibot, a vehicle designed to cut down on carbon emissions and improve efficiency at airports—we use comics as a research practice for exploring this metaphor and developing a broader understanding of how mobile lives and imaginaries shape infrastructure (and vice versa). We argue that paying closer attention to storytelling can generate new understandings of the uneven nexus between infrastructures and mobile lives, weaving in our understanding of infrastructural im/mobilities.

Exchange: Explaining the Passage of Universal Healthcare in Thailand

Joseph Harris,Joel Sawat Selway 동아시아연구원 2020 Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.20 No.1

What explains the passage of Thailand's landmark universal healthcare (UHC) policy? In separate contributions, Selway and Harris emphasized the role of electoral rules and political parties, on one hand, and “professional movements” of developmentally minded state bureaucrats on the other. Which is correct? In this article, Selway and Harris respond to each other's work. While Selway agrees that the actions of the professional movement constitute an underappreciated necessary condition for universal healthcare in Thailand, he argues that Harris overstates the role of the movement in implementation. Harris defends his position and maintains that an institution-focused account is insufficient, arguing that the actions of Thailand's Rural Doctors’ Movement not only explain universal healthcare but also gave rise to the very electoral rule changes that Selway argues were so critical to facilitating universal coverage. Selway responds to these criticisms, and the two researchers jointly consider implications for causation, qualitative research, and policymaking theory.

Exploring the Downside of Social Capital : A Cross-National Analysis

Harris H. Kim 한국사회학회 2013 한국사회학회 사회학대회 논문집 Vol.2013 No.12

A substantial amount of research has shown that social capital plays an important role in facilitating individual rational action and promoting collective well-being. As has been pointed out, however, previous studies have a functionalist bias in overemphasizing the benefits of social capital. More research is needed that examines the potential “downside of social capital” (Portes and Landholt 1996; van Deth and Zimerli 2011) to provide a more balanced view of its role. The purpose of the current study is to contribute to that endeavor by probing into how and to what extent different dimensions of social capital may be related to negative subjective experiences of people in a cross-national setting. Based on the analysis of the International Social Survey Programme (2001) dataset, this article investigates the association between social capital indicators and the outcome variable that measures the degree to which people have experienced emotional burden because of excessive demands made by their close social contacts. Six independent variables are used for the hypothesis testing, including the level of participation in voluntary organizations, frequency of interaction with relatives, friendship size, number of siblings, and number of children. Hierarchical linear models show that several social capital variables, at both individual and contextual (country) levels, are significantly related to emotional burden, highlighting its negative potential. Implications of the findings, which diverge from the mainstream social capital argument, are discussed in relation to the extant literature.

Errors in GEV analysis of wind epoch maxima from Weibull parents

Harris, R.I. Techno-Press 2006 Wind and Structures, An International Journal (WAS Vol.9 No.3

Parent wind data are often acknowledged to fit a Weibull probability distribution, implying that wind epoch maxima should fall into the domain of attraction of the Gumbel (Type I) extreme value distribution. However, observations of wind epoch maxima are not fitted well by this distribution and a Generalised Extreme Value (GEV) analysis leading to a Type III fit empirically appears to be better. Thus there is an apparent paradox. The reasons why advocates of the GEV approach seem to prefer it are briefly summarised. This paper gives a detailed analysis of the errors involved when the GEV is fitted to epoch maxima of Weibull origin. It is shown that the results in terms of the shape parameter are an artefact of these errors. The errors are unavoidable with the present sample sizes. If proper significance tests are applied, then the null hypothesis of a Type I fit, as predicted by theory, will almost always be retained. The GEV leads to an unacceptable ambiguity in defining design loads. For these reasons, it is concluded that the GEV approach does not seem to be a sensible option.

온타리오 하이드로사 원전의 가동 중단과 과제 - 성능 개선대책과 앞으로의 전망 -

Harris D.S. 한국원자력산업회의 1997 원자력산업 Vol.17 No.10

Age and language acquisition : What we know, how we know it, and the implications for EFL teaching in Korea

Harris J. Bras 한국언어연구학회 2004 한국언어연구학회 학술대회 Vol.2004 No.1

제3국 프로젝트를 위한 한 $\cdot$ 캐 국제 협력

Harris D.S. 한국원자력산업회의 1998 원자력산업 Vol.18 No.10

閉塞性黃疸의 最新所論

Harris, Ruth C.,朴貞愛 대한소아과학회 1969 小兒科 Vol.12 No.1

Cellular Recording Using CRISPR Technologies

Harris H. WANG 한국생물공학회 2021 한국생물공학회 학술대회 Vol.2021 No.10

Robust recording of environmental and biological information over time has been a key challenge limiting the development of useful cell-based sentinels that can monitor environments and cellular states in open settings. In this talk, I describe a new framework to store environmental and biological temporal information directly into the genomes of a bacterial population. Using this framework, we recently developed a “biological tape recorder” in which biological signals trigger intracellular DNA production that is then recorded by the CRISPR-Cas adaptation system. This approach enables stable recording of temporal and lineage information over multiple days, which can be accurately reconstructed by sequencing CRISPR arrays. Using CRISPR-based cellular recording in complex microbial communities, we track and dissect horizontal gene transfer events in real time across the human gut microbiome and in vivo colonization of bacteria. Robust temporal recording of environmental and biological signals using engineered cells enables new applications for chronicling cellular events on a large scale, at a higher resolution, and in otherwise inaccessible settings.

Network Dynamics of Interorganizational Tie Dissolution

Harris Hyun-soo Kim 한국사회학회 2012 韓國社會學 Vol.46 No.3

The focus of this paper is to examine the network dynamics of market tie dissolution in the legal services industry. Based on a longitudinal dataset on top 250 U.S. law firms and their 200 large financial clients, this study analyzes the ways in which interpersonal and interorganizational networks affect the probability of buyer-seller tie break-up. The central thesis is that (inter-)organizational behavior must be properly conceptualized and analyzed within its relational context. Why, how, and when law firm-corporate client ties dissolve cannot be adequately understood without paying attention to the role of social networks in which they are embedded. Quantitative analyses reveal that ceteris paribus factors that measure relational and structural embeddedness have a significant effect on the probability of market tie dissolution. In addition to empirical contributions, this study also offers broad theoretical implications for the field of new economic sociology.