Cosmology episodes: a reconceptualization

Orton, James Douglas; O’Grady, Kari A.

doi:10.1080/14766086.2016.1159975

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“…One's life task is to balance these seemingly competitive forces in a manner that brings about a unified whole (Phillips, 1990). Thus, the study showed that the Haitian culture may have a local, spiritual definition of resilience, as has also been evidenced by O'Grady et al (2012), Orton and O'Grady (2016), Schwartz (2012), and Thompson (2018). The worldview of many people of African descent is diunital, which literally means something apart and united at the same time, a union of opposites without inherent antagonism (Dixon, 1977;Myers, 1988).…”

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“…For instance, when comparing religiousness in Americans and Haitians, 76.6% of Americans identified as believing in some sort of organized religion compared with 99% of Haitians (World Atlas, 2017aAtlas, , 2017b. Religiousness has been linked to high mental health well-being, implicit self-regulation, and a transformative pivot in disaster psychology (Aten, O'Grady, Milstein, Boan, & Schruba, 2014;O'Grady, Rollison, Hanna, Schreiber-Pan, & Ruiz, 2012;Orton & O'Grady, 2016;Thompson, 2018). Thus, the value in an assessment protocol for disasters rests on facilitating the reconstitution of an authentic African personhood, which includes both suffering and endurance (Nobles, 2013).…”

Section: Cultural Approach To Assessing the Impact Of Haitian Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The scoring of the adapted HTP accounted for the impact of trauma on Haitian resilience and vulnerability (Roysircar et al, 2017). Two types of impact were expected, one positive and the other negative, on the basis of the literature on contextual trauma (APA, 2017;Clauss-Ehlers, 2008;Harvey, 2007;Roysircar, 2013a;Roysircar et al, 2013, Roysircar et al, 2017; the cultural strength of religion and/or spirituality in people of the African diaspora (Aten et al, 2014;O'Grady et al, 2012;Orton & O'Grady, 2016;Roysircar, 2013a;Schwartz, 2012;Thompson, 2018); ancestral trauma and resilience of Africans (Hargrow, 2013;Leary, 2005); Haitian mental health concerns (James, Noel, Favorite, & Jean, 2012;Nicolas, DeSilva, Grey, & Gonzalez-Eastep, 2006;Roysircar, 2013a;Roysircar et al, 2017); and the history of colonization, dictatorships, police brutality, and governmental neglect in Haiti (Farmer, 2004(Farmer, , 2011World Bank, 2014). Two of the authors (Roysircar and Thompson) are familiar with the Port-au-Prince surrounding areas damaged by the 2010 earthquake because of their mental health services in an NGO primary care clinic since the 2010 earthquake (Bowman & Roysircar, 2011;Roysircar, 2013a;Roysircar, Pignatiello, Lanza, & Irigoyen, 2015).…”

Section: Htp's Cultural Adaptation For Haitimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Haitian Children’s Disaster Trauma: Validation of Pictorial Assessment of Resilience and Vulnerability

Roysircar

Geisinger

Thompson

2019

Journal of Black Psychology

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The House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing test has been culturally adapted for Haitian children and objectively scored for resilience and vulnerability (Roysircar, Colvin, Afolayan, Thompson, & Robertson, 2017). The HTP was used to assess 88 Haitian children’s adjustment to the 2010 earthquake and the continuous trauma of societal inequalities. The study examined the validity of the adapted HTP test and its dimensionality. The study included participant interviews with child self-report measures of self-esteem, as perceived by self, peers, and family; posttraumatic symptoms; and self-concept. All measures were translated and administered in Créole. Analyses included standardized sample scores; descriptive statistics; internal consistency reliability; interscale correlations; a generalizability study showing that there were no differences in HTP scores due to novice or expert raters; and an exploratory factor analysis of HTP scores indicating three factors and accounting for just under 50% of the variance. The three dimensions, HTP Resilience-Vulnerability Integrated, House Feeling Safe, and Person Feeling Unloved, are discussed within the international literature on child disaster trauma assessed pictorially, and within Haitians’ spiritual worldview of suffering and endurance.

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Haitian Children’s Disaster Trauma: Validation of Pictorial Assessment of Resilience and Vulnerability

Roysircar

Geisinger

Thompson

2019

Journal of Black Psychology

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“…Case [1] The case organization is a bank founded in the late 1800s in a remote part of Denmark. The foundation was a result of a commitment to serve the local community near a small town where the bank opened its branch.…”

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Identity after death: how legacy organizational identity and death form each other

Gerstrøm

2015

Management Research Review

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Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: (2015),"The mediating role of burnout on the relationship of emotional intelligence and selfefficacy with OCB and performance", Management Research Review, Vol. 38 Iss 1 pp. 2-28 http:// dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore how legacy organizational identity and death relate to each other and, thereby, contribute to closing the gap in knowledge on organizational identity constructions in times of death. Design/methodology/approach -The paper opted for an exploratory study relying on primary data from in-depth narrative interviews with 20 organizational members of a bank that went bankrupt. The primary data, as well as documents like websites, newspapers, magazines, booklets, minutes, and reports, were complemented by secondary interviews with other members of the financial industry. Findings -The paper finds that members of a dead organization construct a bankruptcy narrative that is also a legacy organizational identity narrative including a legacy organizational identity transformation and several identities that have positive and negative aspects and are conflicting but integrated into a coherent narrative. Furthermore, the paper provides empirical insights on how members of a dead organization draw upon their legacy organizational identity to justify their (lack of) past interpretations and responses to an unfolding bankruptcy. Finally, it provides empirical evidence on ways that legacy organizational identity from a dead organization play a substantial role in a living organization. Research limitations/implications -Because of the chosen research approach, the research results may lack generalizability. Practical implications -The paper holds insight that can help practitioners understand members of a dying organization -including the ways they come to form and perform in a new organizational context; an understanding that is a prerequisite for helping and supporting these members in coming to perform satisfyingly in the new organization. Originality/value -This paper addresses an apparent gap in the literature on identity and death; exploring identity narratives in a bankrupted bank, the paper considers co...

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“…''These surreal experiences can have a profoundly disorienting and dislocating effect on people because they temporarily expose our inability to give everything its rightful place'' (p. 85). Analogous notions such as ''cosmology episodes'' (e.g., Orton and O'Grady, 2016) have been used to summarize organizational preconditions for damage and death, as at the disastrous Mann Gulch wildland fire (Weick, 1993). The extent of the organizationally surreal in non-war conditions is a haunting question that lies on top of a more basic one: can we use the extraordinary to understand the ordinary?…”

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Mark de Rond: Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital

Weick¹

2017

Administrative Science Quarterly

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These are the words of surgeons at the 50-bed Camp Bastion hospital near Helmand. Their patients include International Security Assistance Forces, Afghan fighters, noncombatants, and possible insurgents who, if they survive, could once again construct improvised explosive devices that maim. In 2011, ethnographer Mark de Rond was embedded with these surgeons for six weeks. His goal was ''to try to portray the lived experience of those whose lives, in spurts, revolve around damage-control resuscitation and early surgical management in a war zone'' (p. xvii). This meant that he witnessed work that involved severe limb injuries, amputations (''limbs in bins''), extreme transfusions (''he took 91 pints of blood. .. the normal human has 10 pints,'' p. 93), and dilemmas of pain relief (''should we give this Afghan more opiates than he'll get when he is transferred to the second-rate local healthcare system?''). This work was interspersed with efforts by everyone to cope with the surreality of it all. De Rond's compact ethnography is a tale from the field of senselessness and making do amidst conflicting professional, organizational, and institutional expectations. It is a pretext for deep reflection on the (in)significance of much academic work. And it is intermittently a tale of success. According to publicly available records compiled between April 2006 and July 2013, surgeons at Camp Bastion worked on 20,000 severely injured people, and 96 percent of those people survived their stay. What makes this remarkable is the sheer magnitude of the surgical challenge, namely, to control hemorrhaging and contamination from limbs that had been blown off, severe abdominal and head injuries, and unique combinations of damage in multiple body parts. The unexpected can happen at any time. For example, while a patient is being transferred to the hospital his tourniquet falls off, which leads to uncontrolled bleeding, which leaves the surgeons with fewer physiological reserves and less margin for error when they finally work on him (p. 63). The surgeons' objective in this form of trauma surgery is physiological restoration so that patients can be kept alive and transferred to other facilities for anatomical restoration. All of this is what the book develops in deeper, more emotional detail. The reader is

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Cosmology episodes: a reconceptualization

Cited by 22 publications

References 45 publications

Haitian Children’s Disaster Trauma: Validation of Pictorial Assessment of Resilience and Vulnerability

Haitian Children’s Disaster Trauma: Validation of Pictorial Assessment of Resilience and Vulnerability

Identity after death: how legacy organizational identity and death form each other

Mark de Rond: Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital

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