Alex Flynn

ORCID: 0000-0002-5894-5328
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Research Areas
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Art, Politics, and Modernism
  • Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
  • Public Spaces through Art
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Urban and sociocultural dynamics
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Social and Economic Solidarity
  • Political theory and Gramsci
  • Visual Culture and Art Theory
  • Theatre and Performance Studies
  • Foucault, Power, and Ethics
  • Artistic and Creative Research
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil
  • History, Culture, and Society
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics
  • Peripheral Nerve Disorders
  • Political Science Research and Education
  • Adult and Continuing Education Topics
  • Emile Durkheim and Sociology

Universidad Nacional
2023

Creative Commons
2023

The University of Texas at Austin
2023

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
2023

University of California System
2023

University of California, Los Angeles
2021

DeSales University
2020

University College London
2020

Durham University
2015-2018

University of Manchester
2008-2016

Patient-specific absorbed dose calculations for molecular radiotherapy require accurate activity quantification. This is commonly derived from Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) imaging using a calibration factor relating detected counts to known in phantom insert.A series of inserts, based on the mathematical models underlying many clinical dosimetry calculations, have been produced 3D printing techniques. SPECT/CT data inserts has used calculate new organ-specific factors...

10.1186/s40658-016-0148-1 article EN cc-by EJNMMI Physics 2016-07-13

This article, focusing on the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) of Brazil, demonstrates how members Latin America’s largest social movement perform diverse compacts obligation and reciprocity that characterise an MST occupation. encampments seek to enact a transformation land which are situated, but also emphasise human subject itself, from unproductive productive. Performing this becoming truly ‘landless’, however, goes beyond merely being willing new member: equally as important is creation...

10.1177/0308275x18758876 article EN Critique of Anthropology 2018-02-20

rationale and Contexthe editors began discussing this special issue in 2014 through a serendipitous encounter.Ruy Maïté were interested the possibility of promoting an anthropology utopia, simultaneously as utopia.Alex Jonas, working on anthropological approaches to contemporary artistic practices, seeking develop theorising potential relational art. he immanent space connection was, precisely, concept "micro-utopia".In our discussions, several questions, problems, challenges emerged about...

10.4000/cadernosaa.1017 article EN Cadernos de arte e antropologia 2016-03-30

Debates surrounding race in Brazil have become increasingly fraught recent years as the once hegemonic concept of racial democracy (democracia racial) continues to be subject an ever more agnostic scrutiny. Parallel these debates, and yet ultimately inseparable from them, is question what it "white." In this interdisciplinary paper, we argue that whiteness has established Brazilian public discourse a naturalized category. Seeking fresh perspective on perceive sterile debate, examine Machado...

10.1353/lar.2013.0046 article EN Latin American Research Review 2013-01-01

How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases on key issues? This article centres its analysis the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST – Landless Rural Workers’ Movement) and instances of movement’s cultural activity, in particular, mística. It is recognised that MST’s activity reflects a deep engagement with politics, further, culture sector contributes directly delineation formation ‘landless’ identity. However, from an ethnographic...

10.1177/0308275x13478223 article EN Critique of Anthropology 2013-05-21

In this article I analyse the notion that social movement politics and contemporary art interventions increasingly traverse a porous boundary, be it in terms of practices, relations, or institutions. Premised on Nicolas Bourriaud's seminal reading 1990s art, contend theory "relational aesthetics" (2002) offers synthetic platform from which we can understand how artistic with activist connotations are moving away utopian prescriptive, thus echoing "subjective turn" more widely. Based...

10.4000/cadernosaa.1035 article EN Cadernos de arte e antropologia 2016-03-30

ABSTRACT Social movements often seek transformation in wider society, but they are also themselves subject to the fluidity and ephemerality of environments which operate. Academic literature has long held view that social inevitably come be beset by institutionalisation a loss relevance, Brazil, where socio-economic change been so dynamic, future Landless Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST)) called into question. This article argues MST is responding changes its membership, more...

10.1080/00141844.2013.813058 article EN Ethnos 2013-08-01

Engagement with pressing social and political issues is often presented as a threat to the elaboration of sophisticated anthropological theory that needs be protected from such concerns in order flourish. However history demonstrates some discipline's most important contributions have tended arise result its proponents' desire engage debates. Although we cannot reproduce cultural models previous generation anthropologists, future ground-breaking depends upon rediscovery engaged work does not...

10.1111/1467-8322.12153 article EN Anthropology Today 2015-01-26

Narratives dominate the environmental agenda. Emery Roe has first confronted such narratives as 'Ex­cept-Africa' and secondly argued that these cannot be easily undermined. Rather, counter­narratives need to generated can better represent nuanced realities of situations which they pertain. But what makes a successful narrative? This article argues (a) conform certain literary schematic how construct good narrative (b) it is from combined elements this derive facility influence, shape...

10.4103/0972-4923.49194 article EN Conservation and Society 2008-01-01

This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation social aesthetic form. It draws authors' with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small community-based collectives whose members make low-cost books from recycled cardboard an explicit attempt to both consumption production of literature accessible wider society. We begin by describing Dulcinéia Catadora, publisher based São Paulo ethnographic focus this article. then...

10.4000/anthrovision.5001 article EN Anthrovision 2019-12-30

Neste artigo, exponho como os praticantes da arte contemporânea incorporam desobediência epistêmica e o conceito de ocupação para proporem uma reconfiguração cidade. Primeiro, argumento que há cada vez mais reflexão sobre a ressignificação do espaço urbano, provocada por um tipo particular prática intersticial; em seguida, defendo contextos essas práticas ocorrem sugere artistas trabalhando com tais paradigmas encontram, respondem a, noção totalmente diferente “participação” aquela...

10.11606/issn.2176-8099.pcso.2018.153618 article PT cc-by-nc-sa Plural 2018-12-27

Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies qualitative research, as scholars over past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable ever-shifting methods (Denzin Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on interdisciplinary thought Jacques Rancière Caroline Levine one hand traditions participatory action research activist anthropology other, we bring...

10.1177/1468794120914516 article EN cc-by Qualitative Research 2020-05-06

Fear of immigration has brought about a shift in UK politics. In this new climate, diversity is no longer welcome and the Home Office's message clear: ‘go home or face arrest’. This editorial addresses overlap between legal ethnic categories politics alterity argues that what at stake these debates nothing less than reconfiguration fit‐and‐proper citizen.

10.1111/1467-8322.12055 article EN Anthropology Today 2013-10-01
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