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.

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

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

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

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.

미국에 있어서의 A. I. M. E. 의 역할

Harris Jr., W. J. 대한금속재료학회(대한금속학회) 1965 대한금속·재료학회지 Vol.3 No.4

Determinants of Individual Voting Behavior: The Role of Social Capital, Free-Riding Tendencies and Nationalistic Sentiments

Harris Hyun Soo Kim 이화여자대학교 이화사회과학원 2013 사회과학연구논총 Vol.29 No.2

The aim of this study is to examine some key determinants of formal political participation, namely voting behavior in local and national elections. In analyzing “who participates,” social scientists have increasingly relied on the role of social capital. This study applies two major social capital concepts, i.e., generalized trust and voluntary organizational membership, in investigating the conditions under which people are more likely to cast a ballot during election times. In addition, it introduces two new concepts which have not received systematic attention in the extant scholarship: the level of national pride and free-riding tendencies, which are both hypothesized to affect the probability of individual political involvement. The data come from the Korean subsample of the Asian Barometer Survey (2003), the largest cross-national general social science survey covering Asian countries. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the current research examines simultaneously at individual and contextual (regional) levels how these four main independent variables are associated with the outcome variables (voting in local and national elections). Ceteris paribus, generalized trust increases the likelihood of participation in the national, but not local, election. Organizational membership has no significant effect on both types of voting at the individual level. But, at the regional level, it is negatively associated with voting behavior during times of national election. Nationalism raises the chances of getting involved in the local election only, while free-riding tendency is found to decrease the probability of casting a vote during national elections. These findings suggest that political consequences of social capital are not uniform but contingent upon contextual factors.

Immigrant Network Structure and Perceived Social Capital

Harris Hyun-soo Kim(김현수) 서울대학교 사회발전연구소 2014 Journal of Asian Sociology Vol.43 No.2

The main purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between (objective) network structures of individual immigrants and their (subjective) expectations regarding access to social capital. Based on a government-funded original dataset collected on ethnic Koreans living in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, this study probes into how the way in which an individual (i.e., ego) is tied with his or her close social contacts (i.e., alters) is associated with perceived social support from them. In highlighting this causal linkage, two network concepts are explored as possible mechanisms: closure (Coleman 1988) and brokerage (Burt 1992). The findings from empirical analyses lend support for the brokerage argument. Ceteris paribus, immigrants whose egocentric networks are characterized by openness and disconnectedness (i.e., filled with more ‘structural holes’ or nonredundant contacts) are more likely to believe that they can receive assistance from their close friends and relatives in times of need.

Prosopoplasty: A New Term?

Harris Zavrides 대한성형외과학회 2014 Archives of Plastic Surgery Vol.41 No.5

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