http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/friucdavis_rw/rss Recent eScholarship items from Recent Work Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:06:01 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c48p4qw Social resilience to challenges is an important component of sustainability. We explore the diversity and flexibility of the social networks of a rural Zimbabwean community in order to understand their resilience in the face of the AIDS epidemic, hyper-inflation in the 2000s, and increasing variability of rainfall due to climate change. We combine socialnetwork analysis with ethnographic accounts to find that broad concepts of relatedness help families adopt AIDS orphans, while household structures are flexible over time, with small groups forming in lands newly available for re-settlement. Change in household membership was attributable more to immigration/emigration than to birth/death. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c48p4qw Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Eitzel, M.V. Fan, Chao Solera, Jon Mawere Ndlovu, Abraham Changarara, Abraham Mhike Hove, Emmanuel Alice, Ndlovu Shang, Haitao Wilson, K.B. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rn8n9q4 <p>There is a growing appreciation for the importance of values in research. Questions of values are related to but different from conversations about ethics. Whereas ethics focuses on presumed shared societal values, values focus on what is important to an individual or a community. When viewed positively, values foster group cohesion and bolster motivation and resilience. When viewed negatively, values are seen as introducing bias into science. Viewed practically, values are virtually always present in research through the questions we ask, our assumptions, chosen methodologies, analysis, how we respond to reviewer feedback, publishing practices, and outreach. Research institutions, disciplines, and fields of study all have values that they promote, whether these are stated implicitly or explicitly.&nbsp;</p><p>We propose that recognizing what these are and how they converge or diverge from one’s own values is a crucial reflective process for researchers. When they converge,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rn8n9q4 Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Eitzel, M.V. McCullough, Sarah