Seasonal migration and symbolic power: The case of Muslim Meskhetians from Nasakirali

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 861-876
Author(s):  
Mariam Darchiashvili
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Country ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The Village

The repatriation and inclusion of Muslim Meskhetians, forcefully displaced by the Soviet government from Georgia to Central Asia during the 1940s, is still ongoing. In 1977, some Meskhetian families settled in the village of Nasakirali in western Georgia. The Soviet Georgian government built houses for the repatriates in a separate district, referred to as the “Island.” The location acquired a symbolic meaning for Meskhetians. After 40 years of repatriation, Meskhetians still remain “islanders:” isolated from the majority population, speaking a different language, practicing a different religion, and facing different employment opportunities. This study explores the coping mechanisms used by Muslim Meskhetians to sustain themselves and their families and improve their social conditions in a strictly Christian post-socialist country where “Islam is taken as a historical other.” The study primarily asks how employment/seasonal migration in Turkey changed the lives of Meskhetians by adapting their social, cultural, economic, and symbolic capital and became the only viable solution for overcoming social marginalization. The study explores how informality allows social mobility, changes gender attitudes, and helps “islanders” reach the “mainland” by becoming“Halal”—truthful and reliable. The study applies Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of “capital” and “symbolic power” for understanding Meskhetians' informal economic practices.

scholarly journals The Symbolic Power of Sleeping without Mattress Practice in Kasuran Village of Yogyakarta

Al-Albab ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Saifuddin Zuhri Qudsy ◽  
Irwan Abdullah ◽  
Zuly Qodir
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
The People ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Mass Organization ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Village ◽  
Textual Meaning

The work aims at exploring the practice of symbolic power of sleeping without kapok (matress) in a hamlet of Kasuran. It explores the process of reproduction of symbolic power and how it becomes a ritual practice preserved by the people of Kasuran. For many Kasuran people, Sunan Kalijaga saying is final. They understand and believe in his textual meaning by practising sleeping without matress ritual. The study finds that the reproduction of meaning of sleeping without mattress happens in the hands of agents that actively promote the myth about the saying of Sunan Kalijogo. They include Wartilah as the head of the hamlet (believing and promoting Sunan Kalijaga statement), Suharso as a pious man from Hindu tradition, secretary of the forum of harmony among religious blievers (believing that this myth is supposed to happen far before Sunan Kalijaga Era),  Juremi and Suwardi, the takmir (board management of mosque) that represent religious mass organization of Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). Although the agents have different points of view in understanding the phenomenon, they actually maintain and preserve this kind of symbolic power to gain symbolic capital. This work also finds that the dynamic process of engineering and modification of living without mattress becoming living with spon mattress/springbed has been the results of the new interpretation by the people in the village. The latest is associated with spiritual, social and political engineering aspects of the practice.

The “Lucky Money” That Started It All—The Reinvention of the Ancient Tradition “Red Packet” in Digital Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110416
Author(s):  
Yusi (Aveva) Xu
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Virtual Groups ◽  
Gift Economy ◽  
Active User ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The Way

In August 2020, President Trump attempted to ban WeChat, indicating the growing impact of the most widely used social medium in China. WeChat enjoys a monthly active user base of 1.2 billion, but the Internet giant’s story started with a humble function, “Red Packet.” The function of Red Packet paved the way for WeChat to intelligently integrate into the Chinese financial sphere. This study examines the cultural, economic, and relational implications of the digital reinvention of traditional red packet gifts, and monetary giving that represents good luck and well wishes in festive situations. Drawing upon Mauss’ conceptualization of gift economy within the context of contemporary China and the art of social relationships, “ guanxi,” the author closely examines Tencent’s annual report and conducts semi-structured interviews to study WeChat Red Packet (hereafter WCRP) gifting. This article concludes that (1) the obligatory feeling of guanxi management renders WCRP giving, receiving, and reciprocity compulsory practices; (2) WCRP facilitates “immediate reciprocity,” in which, instrumental guanxi may be produced and dissolved instantaneously; (3) the phenomena of social comparison and social hierarchy are mirrored in virtual groups; (4) with platformed sociality and monetizing connectivity, WCRP paved the way for alternative economic practices within Chinese authoritarian capitalism; and (5) WCRP contains characteristics of a personalized gift and materialist commodity.

scholarly journals Vershina – a Polish village in Siberia. Factors influencing language maintenance under changing social, cultural, economic and political conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Michal Gluszkowski
Keyword(s):  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Education Administration ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Village

The article discusses factors influencing language maintenance under changing social, cultural, economic and political conditions of Polish minority in Siberia. The village of Vershina was founded in 1910 by Polish voluntary settlers from Little Poland. During its first three decades Vershina preserved Polish language, traditions, farming methods and machines and also the Roman Catholic religion. The changes came to a village in taiga in the1930s. Vershina lost its ethnocultural homogeneity because of Russian and Buryat workers in the local kolkhoz. Nowadays the inhabitants of Vershina regained their minority rights: religious, educational and cultural. However, during the years of sovietization and ateization, their culture and customs became much more similar to other Siberian villages. Polish language in Vershina is under strong influence of Russian, which is the language of education, administration, and surrounding villages. Children from Polish-Russian families become monolingual and use Polish very rare, only as a school subject and in contacts with grandparents. The process of abandoning mother tongue in Vershina is growing rapidly. However, there are some factors which may hinder the actual changes:the activity of local Polish organisations and Roman Catholic parish as well as folk group “Jazhumbek”

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEUNTUNGAN DAN TITIK IMPAS TERNAK AYAM KAMPUNG SUPER DAN AYAM BROILER DI DESA BANGUN HARJO BUAY MADANG TIMUR OKU TIMUR

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (03) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Imam Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
Average Revenue ◽  
Break Even Point ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Village

The objectives of this research are to: (1) To analyze the cost, income and income of chicken and chicken cattle in Bangu Harjo Village, Buay Madang Timur District, OKU Timur Regency, (2) To analyze whether broiler and joper cattle cultivated in Bangun Harjo Village, Buay Madang Timur Sub-district, OKU Timur Regency is beneficial, (3) To analyze break even point of broiler and joper livestock business in Bangun Harjo Village, Buay Madang Timur District, OKU Timur Regency. This research has been conducted in Bangun Harjo Village, Buay Madang Timur District, East OKU Regency. Site selection is done purposively with the consideration that in the village is able to represent from the existing population and have the criteria of research plan. Bangun Harjo village is a village whose majority population live as farmers and there are some farmers who seek the cultivation of super chicken (joper) and broiler (broiler). The study was conducted in June 2015. The study found that the total production cost incurred in the poultry livestock business in Bangun Harjo Village in one production process amounted to Rp 13,963,744, the average revenue was Rp 22,920,000 so that income Received amounted to Rp 8,956,256. The value of R / C ratio is 1.64 indicating that the chicken livestock business is profitable. The total production cost incurred in the broiler business in Bangun Harjo Village in one production process is Rp 30,609,006, the average revenue is Rp 54,676,250, so the income received is Rp 24,067,224. The value of R / C ratio is 1.79 indicates that the business of broiler livestock is profitable and BEP value of livestock production volume of chicken joper is 349 head, while the value of BEP price is Rp 24.569 / Tail and BEP value of broiler chicken production volume is equal to 2.017 Kg, while the BEP value of the price is Rp 8,496 / Kg which shows that the business of chicken and broiler cattle in Bangun Harjo Village is feasible financially.

Servant leadership behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Nur Basuki
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
2Nd Generation

This research is based on the reality of the high leadership achievements of the participants of the Supervisory Leadership Training (PKP) of the Human Resources Development Agency (BPSDM) of DKI Jakarta Province in 2020 and the length of change in one's leadership. This study aims to describe the servant leadership behavior of the alumni of Supervisory Leadership Training. This research departs from the perspective that leadership behavior is formed through social processes. The theory used as an analytical tool and to explain the leadership behavior of PKP alumni is the theory of social practice from Pierre Bourdieu. According to this theory, leadership behavior depends on the habitus, capital and arena of leaders. This qualitative research categorized as a case study was conducted on 19 purposively selected PKP alumni informants of the 2nd generation. Data were collected by written interview and analyzed by ideal type approach. Field findings show that the leadership behavior of alumni varies depending on the habitus formed, the capital they have and the arena that surrounds them. In conclusion, the informants have behaviors that are in accordance with the characteristics of servant leadership. Informants have a new leadership habitus and a confirmed habitus of the existing leadership practice. The informants also have a variety of capital in the form of social, cultural, economic and symbolic capital. Finally, there are two kinds of arenas owned by the informants, namely the arena of the Official Responsible for Technical Activities (PPTK) and the arena of the Budget User Authority (KPA). As a recommendation, this research is continued with a phenomenological approach to dig deeper into leadership serving the informants.  

scholarly journals The peasantry of Donbass during the first war of Soviet Russia against the UPR and the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Artem Datsenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Agrarian Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Peasant Resistance ◽  
The Village

The article studies the events in the countryside of Donbass since December 1917 to May 1918 The author examines the features of the Bolshevik policy in the Donbass in the countryside and the attitude of the peasants to this policy. The events geographically described in the article cover the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions within the boundaries of 2013. The article examines the main directions of the agrarian policy of the Soviet government in the form of redistribution of land and implements, the creation of collective farms, pumping out products from the village, as well as anti-Ukrainian separatism as a tactical step of the Bolsheviks. The author notes the artificiality of such a state formation as the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic, as well as the fact that it was invented by the Bolsheviks solely for tactical purposes and did not defend the interests of the overwhelming majority of the Donbass population. The article analyzes the peasant resistance to the policy of „war communis”, as well as the role of the peasantry in countering the counter-offensive of the UPR army, supported by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies. The author comes to the conclusion that the Donbass peasantry did not want to defend the DKSR, which was one of the reasons for the defeat of the Bolsheviks on the territory of Donbass and the future elimination of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic by the Bolsheviks as a state entity.

scholarly journals Harmonization of Economics and Local Culture in the Frame of Suistainable Technological Innovation (Case Study of Ketoprak Atmodjo Budoyo in Kudur Village Pati Regency)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lita Citra Dewi ◽  
Ida Maftukhah
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Village

Indonesia is a superpower country in the field of culture (The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural-UNESCO). Culture can be way for the governments to improve the economy and reduce the gap in the industrial revolution 4.0. Undang-Undang nomor 5 tahun 2017 about promoting culture provides a platform for cultural development. In 2017 there were 141,732 people or equivalent with 11.38% belonging to the poor population, its means that there is 393,817 per capita per month in the poverty line in Pati. One of things that can help the economy is from the cultural sector, one of which is through the Ketoprak Cilik in Kudur village became the most influential Ketoprak  Cilik in Pati, even this Ketoprak of Dalang Bowo Asmoro’s care had scented Pati district in an international art performance in Borobudur (www.kabarkotapati.com). This Kotoprak Cilik show still requires innovation related to industrial management, such as training and schedule management (Bowo Asmoro, 2019). Ketoprak Cilik consist of elementary and junior high school students. The training is held every Saturday and Monday at Kudur Village Hall. The Kudur Village office is equipped with a broad set of gamelan and stage areas that are useful for practicing Ketoprak Cilik performances. Ketopra Cilik as a Cultural is used to instill the spirit of love of local culture to the younger generation, this is a concrete step that encourages local people to jointly build the character of the young generation through culture. The results of the small ketoprak staging will be put into the village treasury to later help the community’s economy. With this can encourage the emergence of cultural economic collaboration in the village of Kudur-Pati. This study uses qualitative methods with interviews and references from various trusted sources. This paper examines more deeply how culture plays a role in improving the economy of the community and forming the character of Indonesia’s young generation. Keywords: Technology, Ketoprak Cilik, Economics

scholarly journals „Arbeit ist nur das, was Geld bringt“ Wandel der lokalen Ökonomie in Ameskar Fogani (Marokko) am Beispiel des Tourismus

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Mountain Village ◽  
Theory Of Practice ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Symbolic Meanings

Abstract. This article discusses current transformations from nomadism to labor migration and tourism in the local economy in the Moroccan mountain village Ameskar Fogani. Using the concepts of field, habitus and symbolic capital of Bourdieu's "theory of practice", changes in economic practices are analyzed in relation to changes of (symbolic) meanings and perceptual categories. This perspective sheds light on the close interrelation of economic and cultural aspects of social change.

scholarly journals Canadian snowbirds in Mexico: transnational life experiences - a reverse perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Espinosa de los Monteros Romo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cold Weather ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Community

Much has been said of migrants coming from all over the world to Canada, but there is a rarely interest in the other side of the fence. Every year thousands of Canadians escape from the cold weather during winter season, they are the so-called snowbirds. This paper portrays the life experiences of seven Canadian snowbirds who shared the journey of spending three to seven months each year in five different cities in Mexico. Through the lens of transnationalism, this paper sheds light on a better understanding of this growing phenomenon. It explains how this seasonal migration has developed transnational behaviours in the life of the snowbirds; reflected in their mobility, identity, social networks, political awareness, as well as their cultural and economic practices. This study is not focusing on a specific community but rather on the broader phenomenon across Mexico given Canadian snowbirds are not a homogeneous diaspora in Mexico. Keywords: Canadian snowbirds, Mexico, transnationalism, seasonal migratio

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