DIVERSE ENGAGEMENT: DRAWING IN THE MARGINS Editors: Matthew French, Simon Jackson, Elina Jokisuu DIVERSE ENGAGEMENT: DRAWING IN THE MARGINS Proceedings of the University of Cambridge Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference June 2010, Cambridge, United Kingdom EDITED BY MATTHEW FRENCH Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK SIMON JACKSON English Faculty, University of Cambridge, UK ELINA JOKISUU Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK + Graduate Development Programme © 2010 University of Cambridge, Graduate Development Programme Published by the Graduate Development Programme, University of Cambridge 25 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QA, United Kingdom All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without prior permission in writing from the publisher. First Edition (CD): ISBN: 978-0-9566139-0-5 Second, revised edition (Online, D-Space, University of Cambridge Library): ISBN: 978-0-9566139-1-2 Diverse Engagement: Drawing in the Margins was organized by a committee of five Cambridge University graduate students, in alphabetical order: Matthew French, Simon Jackson, Elina Jokisuu, Rachelle Larocque and Jie Pan with support from the Graduate Development Programme. CONTENTS Foreword 7-8 Papers CEREMONY : A CASE STUDY IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY 9-15 Aniballi, Francesca REDUCING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT CROWDING: BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN HEALTHCARE, ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 16-24 Beniuk, Kathleen THE THEOLOGY OF SPATIAL EQUALITY AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION 25-35 Brown, Kevin J. ENGAGING WITH DIVERSE APPROACHES TO HUMAN SKELETAL ADAPTATION: CLIMATE, ACTIVITY, AND INTEGRATION 36-44 Davies, Thomas HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND LEONTES? : COGNITION AND CHARACTERISATION IN THE WINTER’S TALE 45-50 Firestone, Emma MENTAL HEALTH COURTS 51-59 Frailing, Kelly A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF KEY ISSUES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE THAT AFFECT THE METHODS AND THEORIES USED IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 60-65 Gordon, Helen APOLLO’S AMOURS: TILL DEATH DO US PART? 66-71 Haughton, Ann THE DUAL TRAJECTORIES OF CHRONIC PAIN AND FALLING IN COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS – TRANSGRESSING CONCEPTUAL AND PARADIGMIC BOUNDARIES 72-77 Irwin, Pamela CONSEQUENCE OF PRECIPITATION ON PATHOGENS, MICROBIAL WATER QUALITY AND DISEASE OUTBREAKS 78-82 Islam, Tanvir A NEW “ORIENTALISM”: THE QUEER “OTHER” ON THE FINAL FRONTIER 83-91 Jewell, Teresa THE TIMES THEY ARE NOT A CHANGING: NEOLIBERAL INTERPELLATION, REVISITING THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL 92-102 Leyva, Rodolfo UNDERSTANDING THE USER: THE MARGINALIZED OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTOR 103-112 MacAulay, Mekki ELASTIC HOLOGRAMS 113-117 Martínez-Hurtado, Juan Leonardo THE SUBTEXT OF NEW HUMAN RIGHT CLAIMS: A Socio-Legal Journey Into the “Right to Truth” 118-127 Naftali, Patricia A CASE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES: IN PRAISE OF THE POLYFOCAL LENS 128-136 Neelin, Lyndal MEN DOING ‘WOMEN’S WORK’: MALE DOMESTIC WORKERS IN NIGERIA 137-144 Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah THE PHYSICAL SPACE OF A PROBATION OFFICE: CONTROL, RISK AND PUNISHMENT 145-153 Phillips, Jake MUSINGS ON MATHS AND MUSIC – THE COMPLEX PATTERNS WE SIMPLY DON’T HEAR 154-159 Phillips, Michelle LANGUAGE ARTS AND VISUAL ARTS: BRIDGING THE GAP WITH VISUAL LITERACY 160-168 Read, Catherine INGREDIENTS OF IDENTITY: FOOD, COMMUNITY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 169-173 Rosenthal Sloan, May THE PALM HOUSE KEW, 1844-48: a case study on scientific experimentation and cross-disciplinary working methods in 19th Century architecture 174-186 Schoenefeldt, Henrik BENEFICIAL OR HARMFUL: RETHINKING THE TIBETIAN YAK DUNG 187-194 Shen, Sihao AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO FIRM CREDITWORTHINESS: A DEFENCE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 195-205 Sibal, Rajeev ‘NO CASTLE-LIKE MAGNIFICENCE’ – WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE SOUTHERN PLANTATION MANSION 206-212 Sobolewski, Dorette BAYESIAN CHANGE POINT DETECTION FOR SATELLITE FAULT PREDICTION 213-221 Turner, Ryan IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT URBAN AREAS 222-226 Vakhitova, Tatiana Vadimovna END 227 FOREWORD Introduction You are reading the proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2010. The Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (IGC), now in its third year, was created by the Graduate Development Programme at the University of Cambridge to provide postgraduate researchers from all fields of study a platform for collaboration and an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences. At the time of writing, the IGC 2010 is shaping up to be a huge success. We received over 130 submitted abstracts from which we selected 72 papers for oral presentation and 20 poster presentations. So far the conference has over 140 registered delegates and a fantastic line-up of six keynote speakers. It promises to be an exciting and engaging two-day conference. Adding to the success of the IGC 2010, this is the first time that delegates have had the opportunity to publish a full paper in conference proceedings. The committee decided to publish proceedings to give delegates the opportunity to publish their work as well as provide a permanent record of the conference. This collection of 31 papers highlights the extraordinary diversity of research topics. Each paper reflects in some way the theme of the conference, Diverse Engagement: Drawing in the Margins . The theme was originally conceived to allow a wide variety of interpretations of what a margin means. It might mean working in the margins of academia or at the juncture of different disciplines. It could be interpreted as research that challenges the dominant theories and paradigms or research that involves marginalised communities. Or, the margin could simply mean a place to doodle to get the creative juices flowing. Whatever the meaning of the margin, each of the papers demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary research: looking at existing theories through the lenses of another discipline reveals new perspectives and unanswered questions. We hope you will find these proceedings as inspiring and engaging as we do. The Editors Acknowledgements The Editors would like to acknowledge the following individuals and organizations who helped to make this year’s conference possible: First and foremost, we would like to thank Rachelle Larocque and Jie Pan who have been valuable members of the IGC 2010 organizing committee. Our keynote speakers, Prof. David Spiegelhalter, Dr Sheila Preston, Dr Allan McRobie, Dr Ian Wilson, Dr Ben Crewe, and Prof. Julie Sanders For financial support and sponsorship, we would like to thank the Schools of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Arts and Humanities and the School of the Physical Sciences, University of Cambridge; and the Masters and Fellows of the following colleges: Churchill, Clare Hall, Emmanuel, Fitzwilliam, Newnham, Queens’, St Catherine’s, St John’s, Selwyn, Sidney Sussex, and Trinity. Jeff Vickers, for help with the website; Bernhard Dusch for graphic design; and Stephen Lu for his helpful contributions in organizing the conference. The committee would also like to the Faculty of Engineering, University of Cambridge, for hosting the conference and Selwyn College for hosting the conference dinner. Finally, to thank Katie Hewitt and Dr. Jeremy Schildt of the University’s Graduate Development Programme, for their support and advice in running this year’s conference. DIVERSE ENGAGEMENT: DRAWING IN THE MARGINS, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Cambridge University, UK (28-29, June 2010) ISBN 978-0-9566139-1-2 © University of Cambridge, Graduate Development Programme. CEREMONY : A CASE STUDY IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY Francesca ANIBALLI PhD Student, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK [email protected] Keywords: Anthropology, Literature, Ritual, Magic, Magical Realism, Etic, Emic ABSTRACT This paper is an experiment in literary anthropology inasmuch as it attempts to apply an anthropological perspective to the literary category of ‘magical realism’ through the example of a specific case study. Anthropology of literature can provide suitable tools for going beyond the Western bias for mimesis, thus opening up new terrain for literary criticism. Starting from an exploration of anthropological ideas of ‘magic’ and ‘ritual’, it goes on to show how Ceremony , a novel by Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko, published in 1977, is an example of ‘performative’ literature. It also contrasts some of the Native American cultural material inside the novel with E. C. Parsons’ anthropological account of a specific ritual and points out the anthropological distinction between ‘emic’ and ‘etic’ perspectives, in order to analyze ‘magical realism’ in the text. By relating the novel to the author’s declarations on one side, and to Parsons’ anthropology as ‘science’ on the other, the paper shows the limits of Western discourses of ‘objectivity’ when interpreting ‘magical realism’ in the text. It is in fact evident that ‘magical realism’ is an ambiguous label for what the author would regard as her way of representing or, rather, performing ‘reality’ according to mythical patterns of communal significance. Because it situates itself on the border between Native American communal worldview and Western readers’ expectations of a journey into the unknown and the unfamiliar, the novel gains greatly by a reading which incorporates the ‘emic’ – ‘etic’ tension, while finally providing a ‘healing ritual’ for both sides of the border. It is evident