Commemoration and the New Frontiers of War in Ukraine

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
Catherine Wanner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
The Dead

The war in eastern Ukraine continues to produce casualties and an ever growing number of refugees and displaced persons every day. When urban public space is dedicated to commemorating the dead who have died since the Maidan protests, the frontiers of war become inscribed in the urban landscape and in the everyday life of many Ukrainians. These commemorative spaces are an unrelenting reminder of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine that threatens to remake political borders once again. Commemorative practices articulate new understandings of relatedness as symbolic statements that, once inscribed in public space, have the potential to affect the thinking of locals and far outlive the actual armed conflict that produced them.

Street Performance and the City

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
The City

This article examines the performative transformation of street spaces into performance places by considering the practices of street performers. Street performance here refers to a set of practices whereby either musical or nonmusical performances are undertaken in the street with the aim of eliciting donations from passersby. Drawing on ethnographic observations undertaken in Bath, U.K., and situating the discussion in recent conceptions of everyday life and public space, the specific sociospatial interventions that street performances make into Bath’s everyday life are considered. In doing so, the article focuses on the fleeting social relations that emerge from these interventions and what these can do to the experience of the everyday in terms of producing moments of sociality and conviviality. This is also reflected on in light of the various debates that have occurred in Bath as a result of these interventions relating to the increased regulation of street performances. The article then highlights the conflicted and contentious position that street performers occupy in the everyday life of such cities.

scholarly journals Friends of the Family in the Cofigurative and Prefigurative Culture Behaviours

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
Krystyna Ferenz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
Communicative Space

Opening the political borders triggered cultural diffusion in the European countries as the open communicative space accelerated the pace of globalization processes. As a result, changes occurring within a society influence the lives of fundamental social groups, i.e. the families. The last decades in Poland have marked a period of intense changes in the everyday life culture, and the examples of the persons coming from three generations reflect the significance of prefigurative and cofigurative cultures.

Ceasefire City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The City

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running armed conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of everyday life, lived realities of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

scholarly journals First Russian Cyclists and Their Bicycles: Images in Literature and in Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 466-493
Author(s):  
L.I. Saraskina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Russian Cinema ◽  
The Way

The paper, first, recapitulates the centuries-long history of designing and developing bicycles; in this history, inventors from many countries have taken part. As a result of the evolution of this wheeled transport, bicycles have become the most popular vehicles in cities as well as in villages; in many countries cycling has become the way of life. But, at the beginning, it was quite a problem to get accustomed to the sight of “riders on wheels”, especially if they were women. In capitals and in provincial towns, perceptions were quite different. The Russian cinema has documented the stages of introducing bicycles into the everyday life of the country, from the 1860s up to 1895. The feature films A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1979), The House of the Dead (1932), Man in a Shell (1939), as well as the retro-serial Anna, the Detective (2016–2020) have shown, with more or less details, how this and other European innovations were domesticated in Russia.

scholarly journals Everyday incivility and the urban interaction order

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn Horgan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Interaction Order ◽  
Moral Dimensions

Abstract Treating uncivil encounters as breaches of the ritual contract of civil inattention (Goffman 1963), this article connects ritualized interaction between strangers in everyday life and the production and maintenance of moral order more generally. The ongoing enactment of the ritual of civil inattention maintains and characterizes the particular kind of moral order that strangers collectively produce in urban public spaces. Drawing on select empirical materials – from unsolicited commentary to queue-jumping – gathered under the auspices of the Researching Incivility in Everyday Life (RIEL) Project this article builds upon the ‘everyday incivilities’ approach pioneered by Smith, Phillips and King (2010) to examine moral dimensions of everyday encounters between strangers. Preliminary analysis of the RIEL data indicates that ritual dimensions of interaction between strangers in public space provide interactants with moral affordances, that is, opportunities to align themselves with an idealized moral order through projective moral action.

The Everyday Life of a Homo Sacer. Enclave Urbanism in Podgorica, Montenegro

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Čarna Brković
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract This article ethnographically follows the everyday life of a homo sacer—a young Roma woman who has lived her whole life in a camp for displaced persons. The camp has been built for Roma, Ashkalias, and Balkan Egyptians who in 1999 fled from the violence in Kosovo to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. The key aim of the article is to see what happens with the concepts of ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ when ethnographically engaged in the context of Southeastern Europe. The article argues that ethnographic fieldwork in urban settings reveals in what way a homo sacer has an everyday life and a complex sociopolitical existence, and that camps are urban formations that can be related to very different sociohistorical and political projects.

scholarly journals Caviar and Friendship: Sensational Trials and the Reinvention of Public Space

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Nicola Evans
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Continuous Use

Sensational trials are a venue for the performance of social knowledge—the kind of knowledge that does not regularly make an appearance on the front pages of national newspapers. if sensational trials routinely catapult private matters into the public sphere, it is less such exciting revelations that concern me here, than the dross kicked up in their wake. Sensational trials, I contend, are a point of entry into everyday life, that far more elusive zone of ordinary beliefs and practices situated between the institution and the bedroom, in the interstices of the scripted and chronicled domains of private and public life. To address the everyday is to confront those undocumented procedures and forms of knowledge that exist beyond the realm of official discourse, practices that cultural theorists are increasingly eager to explore and increasingly sceptical of finding. As Barry Sandywell recently observed, ‘Like the omnipollent term “community”, “everyday life” is in continuous use within lay and theoretical discourse and yet continuously evades definition. Perhaps ... we should ask “where is everyday life”?’ This paper argues that one answer to this question lies in the study of sensational trials.

scholarly journals The Use of Community Greenways: A Case Study on A Linear Greenway Space in High Dense Residential Areas, Guangzhou

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxiu Chi ◽  
Guangsi Lin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact

The community greenway is a kind of greenway that goes through high-density residential areas in the city and is closely related to residents’ life. However, few scholars focus on how this type of greenways serves the everyday life of the community as an integrated resource. This aspect is important because the everyday life in the public space involves multiple activities. How to coordinate and satisfy these activities relates to the benefits of community greenways. Therefore, this paper takes a representative community greenway in Haizhu District of Guangzhou as an example, to study whether community greenways match the needs of necessary activities, optional activities and social activities. The usage patterns, the evaluation of the current status, the impact on everyday activities, and the importance of different construction factors were surveyed. The applied methods include site observation, questionnaires and interviews. The results show that more than 90% of users are from communities within 1 mile from the community greenway. More than half of the users (55%) are satisfied with the community greenways. Furthermore, the community greenways benefit the everyday activities of residents, such as transportation, recreation, social interaction and also other minor but important everyday activities. However, from the perspective of residents’ requirements for construction factors, the status of service facilities needs to be improved. The characteristics, overall benefits, and construction implications of community greenways are therefore discussed. Community greenways can be important open space for residents and this paper is significant on community greenways meeting the needs of residents’ everyday activities, thus, to provide a better community living environment and to build a better urban open space system.

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