Global Processes and Local Lives: Guatemalan Women's Work and Gender Relations at Home and Abroad

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Menjívar
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

In this paper I address an important aspect of the link between the larger process of globalization and work. I focus on how globalization has affected the lives of Guatemalan women of different class backgrounds and ethnicities in Guatemala and in Los Angeles, through an examination of the link between paid work and household work. Data for this article come from eighty-six in-depth interviews with indigenous and ladina women and from ethnographic field work I conducted in Los Angeles and in two regions of Guatemala. There are certain aspects of earning an income among the women in this study that emerge in both contexts, perhaps due to the demands of contemporary capitalism on workers around the world. My observations indicate that whereas the experiences of women and femininities are played out in the context of global economic relations, they are experienced differently in diverse sites and within the same context by individuals of different class and ethnic backgrounds. Thus, experiences of globalization through work are very much localized; they are historically and culturally situated and interact with broader processes in dissimilar fashion.

scholarly journals Are We All ‘BBC Dad’ Now? What Covid19 Restrictions Reveal About Comedy, Class, Paid Work, Parenting and Gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-156
Author(s):  
Liz Giuffre
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Physical Restraints ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

The meme ‘BBC Dad’ first emerged in 2017 in response to an ‘embarrassing’ moment where a Professor was interrupted by his family during a live interview with BBC news TV. At the time the incident was circulated around the world as a curiosity, as the worlds of work, domestic (family) life and gender politics combined in a way that was apparently so unacceptable that it was comedic. The expectation was that the ‘victim’, the Professor, should somehow be ashamed of how his two roles as ‘professional’ and ‘parent’ had been shown to be in competition in that moment. Although this competition is often played out, especially by women and working-class workers, it is rarely shown in public, let alone discussed. However, during the global pandemic in 2020 many workers and parents are being placed in this situation and forced to juggle their dual responsibilities often in the same space and in real time. By asking ‘Are we all ‘BBC Dad’ now?’, this article questions how we consider those who conduct paid work and parent simultaneously, noting how previously accepted class and gender divides have shifted culturally as a result of the physical restraints posed by COVID-19 restrictions. The ’comedy’ that the original meme provided, and the way its meaning has shifted, shows how expectations have changed and hopefully how attitudes to normally hidden workers may also shift.

scholarly journals From ‘feminisation’ to ‘feministisation’ in Galician Nationalism: the case study of women in the Bloque Nacionalista Galego

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora González otero
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Western Spain ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews

Given the current wave of nationalisms in Spain, this research project aims to explore the connection between nationalism and women in Galicia, a nation in north-western Spain. Through Lovenduski’s framework of ‘feminising politics‘, and Dean and Maiguashca’s ‘feministisation’ analytical criteria, this qualitative study seeks to identify the process of ‘feministisation’ that has been taken place in Galician nationalism, the role of women activists in this process and the obstacles encountered; ultimately assessing this ‘feministisation’ as a strategy to find a path towards reconciliation.Based on the experiences of women activists collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, the study has identified that the alliance of feminism and nationalism has allowed international and local networks to be interwoven, and it has also positioned feminist values and gender analysis at the core of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), one of the institutional organisations within Galician nationalism. Additionally, it has defined ‘feministisation’ as a complex process where the wide context of an internal crisis, the years of collective work by feminist groups and individuals, and the current hegemonic acceptance of feminism in Galician society have played their part. The study concludes that there is substantial evidence to identify a process of feministisation that is taking place within the Galician Nationalist Bloc and that the characteristics and values of this process could become a strategy to forge a path towards a more tolerant and internationalist reconciliation.

scholarly journals Blockchain as an Imperative of Labor Relations Digitalizing

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 01010
Author(s):  
Ruslan Dolzhenko
Keyword(s):  
Labor Relations ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Development Prospects

The article is devoted to the study of the prospects of using technology of blockchain, which allows you to consolidate information about transactions in a system of record chains distributed among users. Labor relations are one of the most widespread and regulated forms, which requires the provision of guarantees for entities. It is blockchain that can be the technology that will significantly change the world of work, save it from routine operations, formalization, losses, and costs that do not create value for the subjects. To identify the prospects of this technology a corresponding study was conducted. To understand the development prospects, we conducted a series of in-depth interviews with experts in the field of blockchain application, which allowed us to identify key obstacles, conditions for the success of implementation, the effect of the application in the field of labor relations. The study showed that at present under existing unstable conditions, subjects cannot clearly define the “rules” of relations and follow them for a long time. It is necessary to train all subjects of economic relations in the basics of the digital economy, IT technologies, and only after that proceed to the implementation of the blockchain in mass relations.

scholarly journals Training for War: Academy Socialization and Warrior Policing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha J Simon
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Necessity ◽  
One Year ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

Abstract The role of the police in the United States is a topic of contentious debate. Central to this debate is a binary that constructs police officers as fulfilling either a protective, community-serving role, or an aggressive, crime-fighting role. The most recent iteration is reflected in the warrior-guardian construct, which conceptualizes officers as both initiators of, and defenders against, violence. This article examines how the warrior-guardian framework shapes police training, and highlights how this construct is itself gendered and racialized. I draw on one year of ethnographic field work at four police academies and 40 interviews with police officers and cadets to argue that police training is an organized effort to condition officers to conceptualize their relationship with the public as a war. Three components constitute this framing: (1) instructors construct an evil, unpredictable enemy; (2) cadets are taught to identify their enemy in gendered and racialized ways; and (3) cadets are encouraged to adopt a warrior mentality. I show that cadets are taught to view the world in a way that pits them against an enemy, pushes them to conceptualize their enemy as a man of color, and to think about violence as a moral necessity.

“I Get Mad and I Tell Them, ‘Guys Could Clean, Too!’”

Kids at Work ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Emir Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Central American ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Chapter 5 underlines how gender shapes the way this study's girls and boys experience this occupation and how the children and the families create gendered expectations as well as strategies for protection. While both boys and girls work alongside their parents on the street, findings revealed that the daughters of Mexican and Central American street vendors in Los Angeles are more active than the sons in street vending with the family. How do we explain this paradox? A gendered analysis helps explain why girls are compelled into street vending, while boys are allowed to withdraw or minimize their participation. This chapter extends the feminist literature on intersectionality by exploring the world of Latinx teenage street vendors from a perspective that takes into account gendered expectations not only resulting from the familiar intersecting relations of race, class, and gender, but also as a consequence of age as well as of the inequality of nations that gives rise to particular patterns of international labor migration.

When breast is not best: Opposing dominant discourses on breastfeeding

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 665-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunna Símonardóttir ◽  
Ingólfur V. Gíslason
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Feeding Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Very High

Dominant discourses on breastfeeding as the optimal feeding method for infants and a way for mother and child to develop a strong bond are widely promoted and the message of ‘breast is best’ has been internalized by mothers around the world. Breastfeeding rates in Iceland and the other Nordic countries are among the highest in the world and the cultural and societal expectations for women to successfully breastfeed are therefore very high, as breastfeeding represents a strong moral and social norm. Iceland is considered a model for gender equality and feminism and this article thus examines the experiences of women who have struggled with breastfeeding, in a context which strongly promotes both breastfeeding and gender equality. By analysing the narratives of 77 Icelandic women, this article extends theorizing about rhetorical agency and resistance by demonstrating how they oppose and challenge dominant discourses on breastfeeding and good mothering and what counter-discourses they draw upon in order to make sense of their experiences. The findings indicate that feminism and feminist rhetoric have been unsuccessful in addressing and providing women with counter-discourses that challenge the highly gendered and oppressive elements of infant feeding and its link to idealized versions of motherhood.

scholarly journals Framing The Gender Equality in IAIN Ponorogo Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Anis Hidayatul Imtihanah ◽  
Asep Syahrul Mubarok
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Academic Senate ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews

Women play many roles in today's world in their societies' economic development. Women have many contributions to a country's welfare in various sectors, such as politics, health, agriculture, and public education. This research used a mixed-method design to analyze Islamic higher education, focusing on implementing gender policy and gender values—moreover, the activities of female lecturers in their daily work. The research also combines qualitative and quantitative data-gathering methods, particularly participant observation, in-depth interviews, numbers data, and figures to analyze how gender equality values for women should be implemented. This research reveals that IAIN Ponorogo is responsive gender. It can be seen from women's involvement in multiple fields like the academic senate member and the journal manager. The research also argues that women should be given equal opportunities as men, including paid work and the decision-making position sectors, to contribute to the institution.

scholarly journals Critical Ethnography: A Useful Methodology in Conducting Health Research in Different Resource Settings

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunsi Oladele ◽  
Solina Richter ◽  
Alexander Clark ◽  
Lory Laing
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Tobacco Control Policies ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Field ◽  
Public Health Challenge ◽  
Depth Interviews

Over the years, many policies have been implemented across nations to prevent, reduce and tighten enforcement on smoking and tobacco use. However, despite all of the major initiatives, smoking related deaths and diseases still remain high and present a major challenge for many nations of the world. In this paper we argue that conducting a critical ethnography study in different settings, as this research sets out to do (in Nigeria) is a first step to understanding the tobacco control policies that will work effectively in different resource settings. As the act of smoking becomes global, it is beneficial to study the effect of specific methods, methodology and policies in addressing smoking in the population. This paper is one of three on the study of public health challenge of smoking in Nigeria, and explains the method used in collecting and analyzing data. The research was undertaken and analyzed through a critical ethnography lens using critical realism as a philosophical underpinning. In the study we relied upon the following components: original field work in Nigeria which includes participant observation of smokers, in-depth interviews and focus groups with smokers, and in depth interviews with health professionals working in the area of tobacco control in Nigeria.

Managing the Family's Health: Preferences and Experiences of Women with Different Work and Family Arrangements

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona J Andrews ◽  
Hal Swerissen
Keyword(s):  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Simple Relationship ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Depth Interviews

Balancing the needs of work and family is a subject of much debate. The purpose of this research was to explore how families manage their children's health within the context of different work and family arrangements. In-depth interviews were conducted with women who were at home full time (8) or in paid work over 30 hours a week (7). Women had at least one child under five years of age. Findings revealed there was no simple relationship between women's working arrangements and how they managed their children's health. All women, irrespective of their working arrangements, held similar preferences for managing their children's health. However, most women experienced either time or financial constraints that meant they had to compromise their original preferences. In some cases this meant children missed out on receiving health services. Workplace support, extended family support and general satisfaction with work and family arrangements appeared to be important factors for the small number of women who had no problems in managing their children's health. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Filipino Women in Australia: Practising Citizenship at Work

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe-Bonifacio
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
The Political ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Filipino Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews

Filipino women comprise more than half of the Philippine-born population in Australia. They adopt Australian citizenship readily and have high labor force participation. In this article, I examined Filipino women's practice of Australian citizenship in the world of work. Based on in-depth interviews with 36 Filipino women, I adopted feminist conception of citizenship which considers paid work as well as caring work in the domestic sphere. Findings from the study suggest that becoming an Australian citizenship not only provides Filipino women membership in the political community. More importantly, it empowers them to negotiate their subject position as racialized immigrant women in the labor market. Negotiating gender roles in the family, however, is a different arena.

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