The PS Move, Kinect, and Wii tout their technological capabilities as evidence that they can best support intuitive, creative movements. However, games for these systems tend to use their technology to hold the player to higher standards of conformity. This style of game design can result in the player being made to 'fit' the game, rather than the other way around. It is worthwhile to explore a...

Crisis intervention is a practice-oriented set of procedures designed to offer someone experiencing incapacitating stress emotional first-aid. Concepts and ideas found in the sociological tradition are quite applicable to crisis intervention practice. What has been offered are alternatives to the traditional psychological and psychiatric positions. There are similar characteristics between cris...

Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a “crisis” in Europe, language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations political imaginations. This led many to argue for strict closure borders deportation migrants or “people on move,” 1 deepening set racisms within borders. But this also less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, service more ega...