Knowledge Commons | Susan Marie Martin | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/susanmariemartin/activity/ Activity feed for Susan Marie Martin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:48:32 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a1d6b7eba59c84b66cdc347021177bf3 Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845906/ Thu, 11 May 2023 17:03:32 -0400 0 58fa2c9436f97b3ee6314ab403c9a624 Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696040/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:26:15 -0400 0 1a453b558357588dc5582d564135313f Susan Marie Martin deposited African Americans and gentrification in Washington, D.C.: race, class and social justice in the nation’s capital by Sabiyah Prince in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628019/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:56 -0500 Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as they confront and construct gentrification, this book aims to contextualize Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and d…[Read more]

]]> 0 1eb8949b75793dce39c53fd6b3fdd1ea Susan Marie Martin deposited African Americans and gentrification in Washington, D.C.: race, class and social justice in the nation’s capital by Sabiyah Prince in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628018/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:54 -0500 Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as they confront and construct gentrification, this book aims to contextualize Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and d…[Read more]

]]> 0 7921da9c93d7682fac2e4429e18c1158 Susan Marie Martin deposited The war on learning: gaining ground in the digital University in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628017/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:51 -0500 In The War on Learning, Elizabeth Losh analyses recent trends in post-secondary education and the rhetoric around them. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs, the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures, and educational virtual worlds. Losh’s w…[Read more]

]]> 0 15a359264023e101a5b9fca17a1983e8 Susan Marie Martin deposited The war on learning: gaining ground in the digital University in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628016/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:43 -0500 In The War on Learning, Elizabeth Losh analyses recent trends in post-secondary education and the rhetoric around them. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs, the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures, and educational virtual worlds. Losh’s w…[Read more]

]]> 0 553da76a6321ced53a069939e6cd7681 Susan Marie Martin deposited Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628015/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:43 -0500 While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case that cities do have tools at their disposal for ameliorating inequality, advancing social justice, promoting environmental responsibility, and bolstering community empowerment. Susan Marie Martin thinks citizens of all cities will find this book…[Read more]

]]> 0 72d809aa4908ab573004ae8791661f7b Susan Marie Martin deposited Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628014/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:41 -0500 While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case that cities do have tools at their disposal for ameliorating inequality, advancing social justice, promoting environmental responsibility, and bolstering community empowerment. Susan Marie Martin thinks citizens of all cities will find this book…[Read more]

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]]> 0 54f763ff84aa37fc359c2a22cbbb30b7 Susan Marie Martin deposited On the commodity trail: the journey of a bargain store product from East to West in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628012/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:37 -0500 Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Susan Marie Martin finds the author’s writing style, which includes historical ironies, and parallels between concepts and lived experience, have created a text accessible to a broad, curious readership.

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]]> 0 29ed6e807a1cd6877eeeef61195874fb Susan Marie Martin deposited SMITHY OF THE SOUL: COLONIALISM, EDUCATION, AND IRISH RESISTANCE in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628009/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:30 -0500 Refusing to be silenced across these centuries in Irish history, from the thirteenth century through the late twentieth century, across all of Ireland’s four provinces and thirty-two counties, Irish nationalists offered resistance, rebellion, and finally revolution against England’s presence. Much like the early centuries of conquest, res…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cc06c6d26f9c36ee195284826fd911e Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628008/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:30 -0500 For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cc06c6d26f9c36ee195284826fd911e Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders in the group Social History of Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628007/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:30 -0500 For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7eb83c6c375272024fbe756af10752d Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628006/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:27 -0500 For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

]]> 0 a696a9ca28abaa5989e4d3b65c00e910 Susan Marie Martin deposited Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data by G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Colton, Kathryn L. S. Pettit. in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628005/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:27 -0500 Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data examines the role that data-based development approaches can have in shaping sound public and social policy. With a variety of case studies and a sound methodology, Susan Marie Martin writes that this is a comprehensive policy guidebook that provides a critically rich exploration of the hows and…[Read more]

]]> 0 87520d6395118709e5e42e6e727dcd5e Susan Marie Martin deposited Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data by G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Colton, Kathryn L. S. Pettit. in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628004/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:41:19 -0500 Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data examines the role that data-based development approaches can have in shaping sound public and social policy. With a variety of case studies and a sound methodology, Susan Marie Martin writes that this is a comprehensive policy guidebook that provides a critically rich exploration of the hows and…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bca7e7517b3d0d519a5a81569555be6 Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627981/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:56:44 -0500 0 f07e8c0612552ab0685ee29d5c5de369 Susan Marie Martin deposited SMITHY OF THE SOUL: COLONIALISM, EDUCATION, AND IRISH RESISTANCE https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627980/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:45:11 -0500 Refusing to be silenced across these centuries in Irish history, from the thirteenth century through the late twentieth century, across all of Ireland’s four provinces and thirty-two counties, Irish nationalists offered resistance, rebellion, and finally revolution against England’s presence. Much like the early centuries of conquest, res…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb172c3fd3e8cd389539a0c598b8e058 Susan Marie Martin deposited African Americans and gentrification in Washington, D.C.: race, class and social justice in the nation’s capital by Sabiyah Prince https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627976/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:28:24 -0500 Using qualitative data, including extensive interview material and ethnographic research, to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans as they confront and construct gentrification, this book aims to contextualize Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and d…[Read more]

]]> 0 5930400070bfa7968ab1f42b8347a585 Susan Marie Martin deposited The war on learning: gaining ground in the digital University https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627975/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:23:37 -0500 In The War on Learning, Elizabeth Losh analyses recent trends in post-secondary education and the rhetoric around them. In an effort to identify educational technologies that might actually work, she looks at strategies including MOOCs, the gamification of subject matter, remix pedagogy, video lectures, and educational virtual worlds. Losh’s w…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ce48ba57345d9076c6ed2c4209d1cfa Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627974/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:14:16 -0500 For centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]

]]> 0 e42dc1259fa46fb43b36cd78fbf8d22d Susan Marie Martin deposited Leading the inclusive city: place-based innovation for a bounded planet https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627973/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:00:49 -0500 While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case that cities do have tools at their disposal for ameliorating inequality, advancing social justice, promoting environmental responsibility, and bolstering community empowerment. Susan Marie Martin thinks citizens of all cities will find this book…[Read more]

]]> 0 757b7273375071810e608934128aabd2 Susan Marie Martin deposited On the commodity trail: the journey of a bargain store product from East to West https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627972/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:53:59 -0500 Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Susan Marie Martin finds the author’s writing style, which includes historical ironies, and parallels between concepts and lived experience, have created a text accessible to a broad, curious readership.

]]> 0 d5ca3d1f402f7cbf8390e5b43d3a91cb Susan Marie Martin deposited Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data by G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Colton, Kathryn L. S. Pettit. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627970/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:43:25 -0500 Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data examines the role that data-based development approaches can have in shaping sound public and social policy. With a variety of case studies and a sound methodology, Susan Marie Martin writes that this is a comprehensive policy guidebook that provides a critically rich exploration of the hows and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff1df04ec2ff9bf5d2db0969548b7b55 Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies Cork's women street traders and the 'merchant city' https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627909/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:01:37 -0500 For centuries, working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlies’ because of the distinctive, traditional black shawls they wore on the streets late into the 20th century. Their role was central to life and trade in the open marketplace of Corn Mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c4dad8aa52a4ad2a244329c75e079e6 Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627906/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:50:21 -0500 0 a92123405d0f3afebbe82200a2e35f8e Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627892/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:42:57 -0500 0 a9aeb414bcda3982a05befc63b0cfdee Susan Marie Martin deposited Downloads: Attitudinal Grooming in Ontario's Schools https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1562550/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:47:35 -0500 For twenty years, public institutions in Ontario have been dominated by
socioeconomic interests that insist on a ‘lean state’ and corporate-friendly economy;
the health of the marketplace is positioned as the key to a healthy and content
citizenry. Secondary school reforms at the close of the province’s last structural
recession mirrored and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa838f2c40703769093c06c523e2460f Susan Marie Martin deposited Education as a spectral technology: Corporate culture at work in Ontario‘s schools https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1562549/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:42:41 -0500 This paper addresses the sweeping neoliberal reforms implemented in Ontario’s schools in 2000, and conceptualises them within the terms of ‘millennial capitalism’ (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2000). A close reading of secondary school curriculum documents and the umbrella policies that shape education from ages 5 to 18 years reveals how students are g…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c0b877a18fe90d3272b7f47ec0a32b6 Susan Marie Martin deposited Robert Ackland, Web Social Science: Concepts, Data and Tools for Social Scientists in the Digital Age https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1562548/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:04:54 -0500 Review of Robert Ackland's Web Social Science

]]> 0 0cb48e8da69b3057101d20f5f798c419 Susan Marie Martin deposited Smithy of the Soul: Resistance to Colonial and Neocolonial Education https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1562547/ Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:32:14 -0500 In recent decades education throughout much of the English-speaking world has been dominated by socio-economic interests that insist on a “lean state” and corporate-friendly economy; the health of the marketplace is positioned as the key to a healthy and content citizenry. Lost in the resulting culture of achievement are students’ powers of self-…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c9fadc90250fce152e866c1b5c9563d Susan Marie Martin deposited Zayani, M. Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560466/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:37:49 -0500 In June 2016, Mohamed Zayani was awarded the “Global Communication and Social Change Best Book Award” from the International Communication Association. As Associate Professor of Critical Theory, Director of the Media and Politics Program, and Research Fellow at the Centre for International and Regional Studies, all at the Georgetown University (Qa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e583dc1598e079405e2a8bb6a29dee2b Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560464/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:21:21 -0500 0 73c7aa2114165ff71288e6c713265e53 Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560463/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:18:59 -0500 0 c8c1375b1151d6548e9bd985f93bbdbd Susan Marie Martin changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560372/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:41:16 -0500 0 c02050d0455c1cf35d0d66adb17e239a Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560368/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:29:20 -0500 0 2aa37e77e83df29cb492d159e79e5fad Susan Marie Martin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1560367/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:28:48 -0500 0