scholarly journals Sexuality politics on the football field: queering the field in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Deniz Nihan Aktan
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Value System ◽  
Sexual Boundaries ◽  
Queer Communities ◽  
Football Field ◽  
A Site

Abstract Focusing on queer-identified amateur football teams, this article investigates the potentials of the mobilities and alliances of gender non-conforming footballing people to disrupt the seemingly effortless structure of the football field. While football is arguably one of the sports with the strongest discriminatory attitudes toward gender non-conforming people, it has also become a site of resistance for queers in Turkey as of 2015. How political opposition groups relate to the football field, which is mostly considered as a male-dominant and heterosexualized space where social norms are reproduced, are classified into three groups in my research: resistance through, against, and for football. I give particular attention to the category “resistance for football” as a distinctive way for gender non-conforming people to inhabit the field. I discuss how the link between sexual and spatial orientations shapes the domain of what a body can do, both in terms of normativity and capacity, and I explore what these teams offer in order to exceed spatial and sexual boundaries. Lastly, I present recent queer interventions in the value system of the game through which I reflect upon the concept of “queer commons” and the processes of bonding, belonging, and border-making in queer communities.

Body RemiXer: Extending Bodies to Stimulate Social Connection in an Immersive Installation

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-400
Author(s):  
John Desnoyers-Stewart ◽  
Ekaterina R. Stepanova ◽  
Bernhard E. Riecke ◽  
Patrick Pennefather
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
A Site ◽  
Immersive Technology

Body RemiXer is a mixed reality installation that connects immersants across the virtual/actual divide through emergent tactility and abstract embodiment. Using a virtual reality headset, Kinect and projections, the installation explores the potential of immersive technology to create copresent experiences that foster intercorporeal relationships between immersants wearing a headset and those using the projections. Immersants’ bodies are at the center of the installation, activated as a site for social exchange. Body RemiXer has been exhibited at an art festival and at several smaller events. The authors’ observations during these exhibits reveal Body RemiXer's capacity to disrupt social norms and stimulate new connections.

The value of and values in the work of teachers in Estonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eeva Kesküla ◽  
Krista Loogma
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Value System ◽  
Material Recognition ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Societal Value ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
A Site

This article considers how the status of teachers relates to a changing value system, and how the perceived worth of a profession depends on the values its practitioners carry. The article analyses the work of teachers as both productive and reproductive, needing both material and non-material recognition. It argues that in times of radical social change, social groups struggle to determine what value is. The rapid introduction of a neoliberal market economy in Estonia has created a situation where teachers’ labour becomes a site of contestation determining what values prevail in society. Based on 24 semi-structured life history interviews, this article combines theories of the value of labour, of professionalism and the anthropological theory of value to argue for the key role that teachers play during rapid change to a societal value regime.

scholarly journals Bare Flesh and Sticky Milk: An Affective Conflict Over Public Breastfeeding

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511988169
Author(s):  
Mari Lehto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Affective Engagement ◽  
Binding Force ◽  
A Site ◽  
Public Breastfeeding

On New Year’s Day 2016, a photograph of a breastfeeding woman taken by a Finnish celebrity sparked a social media debate over mothers nursing in public. By analyzing Instagram posts and a discussion forum thread, this article explores the affective body politics involved in this short-lived yet intense social media debate. It examines the power of hashtags and images in mobilizing motherhood as a site of political agency. Concurrently, it investigates how social media users negotiated the appropriate public presentations of the female body and how the celebrity’s gayness became an object of negative affect. The analysis of the incident makes visible how social norms concerning motherhood and heteronormativity are articulated in social media. It also demonstrates how affect sticks to images, texts, and bodies and becomes a binding force in social media discussions concerning them. The article argues that Instagram’s hashtag practices facilitated affective engagement for those following #teriniitti. It further argues that the affective dynamics of the case demonstrate how affective intensities stick on gay bodies and lactating bodies as objects of disgust, fascination, and desire.

Politics of Female Subjectivities and the Everyday: The Case of the Hong Kong Feminist Journal Nuliu

2009 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chan Shun-hing
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Female Subjectivities ◽  
A Site ◽  
New Strategies

Based on selected writings on women's experiences of and reflections on dress and travel published in the Hong Kong feminist journal Nuliu, this paper discusses the politics of female subjectivity in relation to the everyday. The context of the discussion is the changing actualization of the well-known feminist slogan ‘the personal is political’ within the local feminist movement in Hong Kong between the 1980s and the 1990s. The paper aims to create a new paradigm for analysing agency – the key concept in subject formation – by critiquing the ideology of choice, which is a liberal value system that connects people's imagination with the notion of personal ‘liberation’. As demonstrated by the examples of dress and travel, the everyday is a site of both possibilities and conflict for women, who generate new strategies or tactics to negotiate not only with institutions, structures and policies, but also with ‘interpellations’, ‘temporality’, ‘spatiality’, ‘performativity’, ‘symbolism’ and ‘psyche’.

scholarly journals JEJAK BUDAYA PENAJAM PASER UTARA DALAM CERITA ASAL USULNYA

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Aquari Mustikawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Search Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Library Method

This research describes cultural traces of Penajam Paser Utara’s people through its origin consisting of value system, social norms, mindset, and work ethic of the people in the past. It discusses about cultural traces recorded in the origin of Penajam Paser Utara’s people. It uses library method to search data. It applies qualitative method to describe events in the past, like history, legends, or important events, including important figures that had ever existed. Cultural theory is used to analyze the culture of the people through their origin. The results of this study indicate that Penajam Paser Utara’s in the past recorded their local wisdom of each region on their origin. It can be concluded that Penajam Paser Utara’s origin can be used as knowledge to understand the history of the people so as to develop the potential of the region.

Epilogue

Taking Flight ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 133-134
Author(s):  
Jennifer Donahue
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Social Convention ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Emotional Work ◽  
The Face ◽  
Adaptive Solutions ◽  
Material Space ◽  
A Site

In Homemaking, Fiona Barnes and Catherine Wiley assert that “women write in order to negotiate the tensions between definitions of home as a material space and home as an ideal place” (xix). As the works discussed illustrate, the writing and rewriting of home is often a journey in itself, a way of making sense of personal and inherited histories. For the characters, home is steeped with contradiction and can be a site of great tension. In many of the texts, home operates as a place of oppression as well as subversion. The realities of the characters’ lives counter a view of home as a place of freedom and security, and it is the act of flight that underscores the connection between trauma, migration, and social norms. The characters’ embodied and ideological transgressions in response to social convention render them exiles in or outside their homelands. As a result, the characters embrace change and pursue adaptive solutions to preserve selfhood in the face of violence, illness, and exclusion. These forces propel the characters’ migration, but trauma and shame do not define the narratives; rather, the protagonists’ navigation of trauma, oftentimes through dissociation and flight, foregrounds the emotional work that underlies and often precedes emigration. The authors position the characters’ homelands as spaces of individual and collective trauma and situate migration as the force that facilitates the protagonists’ homecoming. The works showcase women responding to challenges to safety with moves toward autonomy and self-determination....

Ruins and History: Observations on Russian Approaches to Destruction and Decay

Slavic Review ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schönle
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Denis Diderot ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
A Site

This article surveys theories of ruins and discusses their applicability to Russian history and culture. It identifies four major approaches to ruins: the ruin as a site of freedom from social norms and practices (Denis Diderot, Peter Fritzsche, Tim Edensor), the ruin as a reconciliation with nature (Georg Simmel), the ruin as the affirmation of modernity at the expense of the past (Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno), and the ruin as the emblem of on-going historical decay (Walter Benjamin). In contrast to western approaches to ruins, Schönle identifies a reluctance to aestheticize ruins in Russian culture. Yet ruins acquire a distinctive meaning in Russian culture, be it that they occur and disappear as a result of political will, that they serve as exemplars of imperial legitimacy and might, that they reveal the vulnerability of Russia's identity between east and west, or that they betoken the crushing of Utopian projects and the magnitude of historical devastation.

Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Infant Survival ◽  
Peer Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Early Parent ◽  
Collaborative Skills ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Abstract Tomasello's moral psychology of obligation would be developmentally deepened by greater attention to early experiences of cooperation and shared social agency between parents and infants, evolved to promote infant survival. They provide a foundation for developing understanding of the mutual obligations of close relationships that contribute (alongside peer experiences) to growing collaborative skills, fairness expectations, and fidelity to social norms.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

Head Size and DNA Content in Bacteriophage T4

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Fred Eiserling ◽  
A. H. Doermann ◽  
Linde Boehner
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dna Content ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Head Size ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Altered Protein ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Bacterial Viruses ◽  
A Site ◽  
Protein Shell

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).

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