Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit

Buser, Michael

doi:10.1177/0263775816658480

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“…For membranes to be used effectively in the GTR process, they must have biocompatibility characteristics, occlusive properties, capacity to maintain space, tissue integration and have easy clinical manageability [12,13]. The desirable characteristics of the membrane barriers used for guide bone regeneration therapy include biocompatibility to allow integration into host tissues without creating an inflammatory response, a degradation profile accompanying tissue neoformation, mechanical and physical properties sufficient to allow membrane installation and sufficient sustained force to not collapse and to perform the proper barrier role [14].…”

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Standardized in vivo Evaluation of Biocompatibility and Bioresorption of a New Synthetic Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration

Pereira¹,

Mourão²,

Alves³

et al. 2019

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This study aimed to evaluate the physico-chemical properties, biocompatibility and bioabsorption of 3 different new membranes for bone guided regeneration (PLGA associated with hydroxyapatite and beta-TCP) with three thicknesses (200, 500 and 700 µm) implanted in mice subcutaneously. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and the quantification of Carbon, Hidrogen and Nitrogen were used to characterize the physico-chemical properties. One hundred Balb-C mice were divided into 5 experimental groups: Group 1 - Sham (without implantation); Group 2 - 200 μm; Group 3 - 500 μm; Group 4 - 700 μm; and Group 5 - Pratix®. Each group was subdivided into four experimental periods (7, 30, 60 and 90 days). Samples were collected and processed for histological and histomorphometrical evaluation. The membranes showed no moderate or severe tissue reactions in the experimental periods studied. The 500 μm membrane did not show tissue reaction for any experimental periods studied. The 200 μm membrane membranes began to exhibit fragmentation after 30- day, while the 500 and 700 µm membranes started the fragmentation at 90-day. All membranes studied were biocompatible, and the 500µm membrane showed the best results being a promissory membrane for bone guided regeneration.

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confidence: 99%

Standardized in vivo Evaluation of Biocompatibility and Bioresorption of a New Synthetic Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration

Pereira¹,

Mourão²,

Alves³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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“…35 While these are helpful distinctions to analyse the subjectivity of experiences, and are certainly reflected in the responses of our research participants, the temporal relations that underpin these feelings are implied rather than elaborated upon. An exception is Buser's 36 work which provides a discussion of the benefits of paying attention to the temporal characteristics of atmospheres in processes of urban change. His study shows the changing atmospheres in a Bristol roundabout which transforms from a derelict and desolate place by the 1990s, associated with antisocial behaviour, to a vibrant a convivial space through the work of local community groups.…”

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The changing feel of place: the temporal modalities of atmospheres in Smithfield Market, London

Degen

Lewis

2019

cultural geographies

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Within the context of recent debates around urban atmospheres, this article examines the situatedness and partiality of urban experiences. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the Smithfield Market area, a neighbourhood undergoing a period of rapid urban regeneration as part of the ‘Culture Mile’ in the City of London, we explore how different individuals experience the changing feel of place. By focusing on the felt body, the article analyses the ways in which individuals with different attachments to the neighbourhood respond to the impending urban change and draw on selective temporal modalities of atmospheres in order to make specific claims to place. In particular, we identify three temporal modalities of atmospheres: the selective feel of the past, the contentious present feel and the ambivalent future feel. The article thus argues that studies of urban atmospheres need to pay more attention to the manifold bodily capacities, personal and social histories which mediate and position in diverse ways how places are experienced. More generally, this article makes an intervention into debates on urban atmospheres by analysing empirically how the variable interactions between sensory and temporal qualities produce diverse atmospheric constellations for different individuals.

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“…How then might we begin to better understand the affective dimensions of everyday life that might be experienced as a pause? That is, moments that are perhaps not passionate or intense, but instead are listless and still; the moments of inertia, flatness, impasse (see Anderson, on boredom; Bissell, ; Buser, ; Harrison, on stillness). Might these moments be so ordinary, so gradual, that we struggle to see them?…”

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The right to be weary? Endurance and exhaustion in austere times

Wilkinson

Ortega-Alcázar

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper seeks to advance understandings of austerity's everyday affects by examining how neoliberal welfare retrenchment is lived, experienced and resisted. Drawing on interviews with young people in housing need, we demonstrate the ways in which day‐to‐day coping with welfare reform can lead to a state of fatigue, a gradual slow wearing‐out that comes with having to endure everyday hardship. Such weariness, we argue, is an integral part of understanding the everyday impacts of austerity. Yet despite the apparent centrality of weariness to issues such as precarity and poverty, there has not yet been sustained discussion into the idea of weariness itself. A common conceptualisation positions weariness as the antithesis of political action, where individuals are slowly worn down until they no longer have the strength or capacity to resist. However, this paper offers a more reparative reading of weariness, one which does not narrowly conceptualise weariness as simply a closing down. Instead we question whether weariness should necessarily always be equated with inaction. The paper focuses on forms of suffering and violence that are felt as a kind of steady on‐going form of endurance, rather than as a sudden eruption. We foreground affective moments that are neither passionate nor intense, but instead listless and still, generating feelings of inertia, flatness, impasse. The paper concludes with some reflections on what we term “the right to be weary,” examining how weariness could be understood as a potential retreat from the relentless drive to move forwards, a form of passive dissent.

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Atmospheres of stillness in Bristol’s Bearpit

Cited by 21 publications

References 46 publications

Standardized in vivo Evaluation of Biocompatibility and Bioresorption of a New Synthetic Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration

Standardized in vivo Evaluation of Biocompatibility and Bioresorption of a New Synthetic Membrane for Guided Bone Regeneration

The changing feel of place: the temporal modalities of atmospheres in Smithfield Market, London

The right to be weary? Endurance and exhaustion in austere times

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