Necessary Conformism: An Art of Living for Young People in Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demet Lðkðslð
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis paper focuses on the everyday life experiences of the post-1980 generation in Turkey–a generation stigmatized for being depoliticized and apathetic. Rather than accepting this stigmatizing view, however, this analysis aims to better understand young people's actual lived experiences. To do so, it adopts the concept of “necessary conformism” developed in previous empirical research. This concept offers an alternative analytical framework that transcends the engaged/disengaged or political/ unpolitical dichotomy in young people's social participation. Specifically, the application of this concept reveals that apathetic behavior may actually mask powerful discontent and suffering that can be expressed neither through conventional politics nor open resistance. The necessary conformism of young people, therefore, is not apathetic behavior, but the expression of an underlying discontent and often a hidden agony.

scholarly journals The two faces of user involvement: Everyday life and local context

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen ◽  
Rasmus Antoft ◽  
Jette Primdahl ◽  
Kim Hørslev Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Set Up

In most developed countries, healthcare systems are increasingly faced with political demands to involve users in the planning and development of their services. This article reports findings from an ethnographic fieldwork that investigated an inter-organizational project involving user representation. The project was set up to develop an educational programme for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). By investigating user representatives’ experiences, our aim was to bring to light more general determinants and conditions of user involvement in health services. Drawing on an analytical framework within everyday life sociology, the analysis explored the dual concept of “conditions and conditionality”, metaphorically described in this article as “the two faces of user involvement”. From one perspective, everyday life experiences – living with RA, encounters with the health system and professional identities and work life – conditioned user representatives’ participation in the project. From another perspective, the local institutional context and interactions within the project framework conditioned the way in which users are involved. The ways in which these conditions changed over time are described, in relation to the specific spatial, temporal and social developments in both the everyday lives of the user representatives and in the local project.

scholarly journals Returning to the heart of teaching: Social pedagogy as phenomenological pedagogy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Schoone
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Alternative Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Teaching Qualifications ◽  
Transformative Impact

In many alternative education centres in New Zealand tutors are charged with educating students disenfranchised from their mainstream secondary schools. However, these tutors do not hold teaching qualifications. Rather, they draw their pedagogical approaches from life experiences, cultural knowledge, vocational and relational skills, and passion to work with young people. Tutors’ heartfelt ways of engaging with young people has a transformative impact on many of the students’ life-courses. This article poetically represents key approaches central to tutor practice. From observations and research interview transcripts, found poems were created from the everyday language of eight tutors. The poems represent phenomenological insights into tutors’ lived experiences, and reveal that tutors intentionally place students at the centre of their practice. The article positions tutor pedagogy within a social pedagogical field, while also considering social pedagogy as a phenomenological pedagogy that brings us to the very heart of teaching.

МОДА ЯК ВИДОВИЩЕ: ЕТНОКУЛЬТУРНІ ТА МІФОЛОГІЧНІ ВИМІРИ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Variety Show

Прослідковуються урбанізаційні та дезурбанізаційні процеси в моді ХХ ст. Звернено увагу на недостатню вивченість питань естетичних та культурологічних аспектів формування моди як видовища в контексті образного простору культури повсякдення. Визначено видовищні виміри модної діяльності як комунікативної сцени. Наголошено на необхідності актуалізації народних мотивів свята, творчості в гурті, певної стилізації у митців та дизайнерів моди мистецтва ностальгійного, втраченого світу з метою осягнення фольклорної, глибинної стихії моди як екомунікативного простору культури повсякдення. Ключові слова: міф, мода, етнокультура, етнос, свято, площа Ключові слова: міф, мода, етнокультура, етнос, свято, площа. According to E. Moren ethnic cultural influences take place in urbanized environment and turn it into "island ontology".Everyday life ethnic culture is differentiated, specified as a certain type of spectacle. However, all that powerful cosmologism, which used to exist as an open-air theater in settlements, near rivers, grasslands, roads, is disappearing. The everyday life culture loses imperatives, patterns, and cosmological designs, where, for example, the “plahta” contains rhombuses, squares, and rectangles - images of the earth, and the top of the costume symbolizes the sky. Yes, the symbolic marriage of earth and sky was a prerequisite for marrying young people. The article deals with traces of the urbanization and deurbanization processes in the twentieth century fashion.Key words: ethnic culture, culture of everyday life, ethnics, holidays, variety show, knockabout comedy, square.

scholarly journals The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonna Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Participatory Photography ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

Temporality in Mobile Lives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanthi Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Work Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Transnational Mobility

This book provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of 'chronomobilities', which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', the book demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, the book deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.

Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Power

2017 ◽  
pp. 1746-1764
Author(s):  
Lubna Ferdowsi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
British Bangladeshi

This chapter highlights the dilemma of being immigrant diasporic women in a British cultural context by focusing on the everyday life of British Bangladeshi women who are being controlled in the private sphere based on empirical research. Particularly, the chapter shows how cultural ideologies are intersecting with patriarchal norms to gain control over women bodies and sexuality. Finally, the chapter discusses the process and system of differentiation and domination through an intersectional analysis to understand how women ostensibly belonging to the same ethnic group may have different and competing experiences of migration and Diaspora.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Rajiv Prabhakar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Financial Capability ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

This concluding chapter reflects on some of the things that critics of financial inclusion might learn from its supporters. As many critics of financial inclusion are already engaging with policy topics at some level, they might benefit from a deeper engagement with policy detail. This might pave the way for more detailed criticisms. The chapter then uses the example of the financial education of young people to highlight the varying nature of policy, which might also inform theoretical discussions of the everyday life of finance. Indeed, financial education is important in building financial capability. Finally, the chapter suggests some possible further areas of research that build upon some of the arguments contained in this book.

A Cosmopolitan Perspective of Globalization: Cultural and Aesthetic Consumption Among Young People

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Cicchelli ◽  
Sylvie Octobre
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

AbstractAuthor's focuses on understanding in which way people relate with globalization and what kind of imaginative process they engage in to do so in their everyday life. Article deals with the emerging cosmopolitan consciousness and practices that derive from young people's experiences of a globalized world. The paper is based on two different researches of young people, the rationale for such a choice being to understand the impact of emerging transformations on young people - who are often the barometers of societal change from both generational and life cycle perspectives.

scholarly journals To crash on the bus (or sit on needles and pins)? – buses and subways in teenage everyday geographies

2019 ◽  
Vol 197 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-294
Author(s):  
Maja Lagerqvist
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Complex Picture

When young people travel, they are often very dependent on public transport or parents. This study uses interviews with 16–19 years old teenagers in Stockholm to investigate their everyday experiences of public transit. The paper explores the experiences of buses and subways, here conceptualized as mobile places, to understand how they shape teenagers’ daily life. Understanding teenagers’ experiences of public transportation is part of understanding their everyday life, struggles, and possibilities to be mobile and participate in society. It is also a step towards ensuring that they find public transportation inclusive, safe, and worth traveling with today and in the future. Conceptually, the analysis focuses on how these mobile places are experienced as providing weights or reliefs to the everyday and if, how and when they may be places of interaction or retreat, addressing two needs in teenagers’ personal being and development. The study shows how various experiences of traveling with buses and subways shape how the teenagers feel, and how they make strategic choices in relation to this. A quite manifold, varying, and complex picture of public transportation arises, with stories of wellbeing, comfort, discomfort, and exclusion, and with sharp differences between girls and boys, and between buses and subways. These nuances are essential in planning and evaluation of transport systems in regard to how, when, where, or for whom public transport can be a part of social sustainability, as public policies often assume. 

Intersections of Gender, Sex, and Power

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Lubna Ferdowsi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
British Bangladeshi

This chapter highlights the dilemma of being immigrant diasporic women in a British cultural context by focusing on the everyday life of British Bangladeshi women who are being controlled in the private sphere based on empirical research. Particularly, the chapter shows how cultural ideologies are intersecting with patriarchal norms to gain control over women bodies and sexuality. Finally, the chapter discusses the process and system of differentiation and domination through an intersectional analysis to understand how women ostensibly belonging to the same ethnic group may have different and competing experiences of migration and Diaspora.

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