scholarly journals Everyday life when growing up with a mother with an intellectual or developmental disability: Four retrospective life-stories

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 418-430
Author(s):  
Ingrid Weiber ◽  
Per-Anders Tengland ◽  
Johan Sanmartin Berglund ◽  
Mona Eklund
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Developmental Disability ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Growing Up

“Sou Inglesa! Sou Inglesa!”: Memórias de uma Menina Anglo-Portuguesa (1907-1930)

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Miguel Alarcão
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

Textualizing the memory(ies) of physical and cultural encounter(s) between Self and Other, travel literature/writing often combines subjectivity with documental information which may prove relevant to better assess mentalities, everyday life and the social history of any given ‘timeplace’. That is the case with Growing up English. Memories of Portugal 1907-1930, by D. J. Baylis (née Bucknall), prefaced by Peter Mollet as “(…) a remarkably vivid and well written observation of the times expressed with humour and not little ‘carinho’. In all they make excellent reading especially for those of us interested in the recent past.” (Baylis: 2)

Southern Strivings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik S. Gellman ◽  
Jarod Roll
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Family Survival ◽  
Jim Crow South

This chapter details the respective backgrounds of the two preachers under discussion, highlighting the similarities in their life stories—particularly their shared frustrations growing up as ambitious, talented young men in the rural South. Their youths were defined by the tensions between family survival and an individual sense of calling, between agricultural labor and adventure, and between physical hunger and the thirst for deeper meaning in life. Moreover, the laws and culture of the Jim Crow South also held sway over both their lives, and made Claude Williams's youth at once very similar to, yet completely separate from, Owen Whitfield's experience. Both men would, however, come to the same religious calling as they came of age.

scholarly journals ‘How it all turned out alright’: Autofiction as Memory Form in Irena Dousková’s Novels about Childhood and Youth in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. RSL41-RLS65
Author(s):  
Anja Tippner
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Popular Texts ◽  
The Way

Autofictions and memoirs about growing up in late socialism have proliferated in Czech as well as in other postsocialist Eastern European literatures. These retrospective texts are often tinged with nostalgia and infused with irony and humour. Two of the most popular texts of this genre in the Czech Republic are Irena Dousková’s autofictional books Hrdý Budžes [B. Proudew] and Oněgin byl Rusák [Onegin Was a Rusky]. The Czech author writes about growing-up in a non-conformist family dealing with everyday life in socialist Czechoslovakia. After discussing Dousková’s books as autofiction the article will take a closer look at the poetics of childhood autofictions and their contribution to cultures of remembering socialism in comparison to autobiographies. It will discuss the ways how writing about childhood creates a specific socialist identity through scarcity, ingenuity, and working with/against restraints and the way humour is used to transmit difficult memories.

scholarly journals Leisure in Stalin’s Estonia

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Olaf Mertelesmann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The State ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Harsh Reality

The period of Stalinism is usually overshadowed by accounts of terror and a topic like leisure seems not to be appropriate. Nevertheless, leisure was an important aspect of everyday life in Estonia under Stalin’s reign. Some elements of continuity with the interwar period might be identified. The state struggled to control leisure activities and to re-educate the population but obviously failed. Listening to foreign radio stations or reading forbidden books might have been subversive but were not yet signs of resistance. Many leisure activities bore the character of escaping from a harsh reality and from poverty. The paper is based on archival documents, oral history and life stories.

Struggling to ‘do family’ during COVID-19: evidence from a German mixed-methods study

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer ◽  
Anna Buschmeyer ◽  
Regina Ahrens
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Depth Interviews

Applying the concept of doing family, which centres on the organisation of, and the practices in, families’ everyday lives, our research questions focus on the efforts mothers and fathers undertake to keep everyday life going during the pandemic. We analysed two-wave panel data of the project ‘Growing up in Germany’, and conducted 20 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers in order to examine their strategies in detail. Our findings confirm gender and other important differences, and reveal three major strategies to reconcile caring obligations with demands from paid work before and during the crisis.

Born Amid Bullets

In Harm's Way ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Auyero ◽  
María Fernanda Berti
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Local Residents

This chapter examines the concatenations of different types of violence that coexist in Arquitecto Tucci. It begins with a series of ethnographic descriptions of the different forms and uses of violence that sometimes overlap in the everyday life of local residents. It then considers the ways in which social science has approached the issue of interpersonal violence before engaging in a series of ethnographic reconstructions that depict the concatenations of different types of intentional perpetration of physical harm in Arquitecto Tucci. It shows that children and adolescents growing up in the neighborhood not only encounter criminal and police violence, but domestic and sexual violence also frequently put their lives in danger, either as victims or as witnesses. It also explains how violence acquires a form other than restricted reciprocity and is deployed not simply as a means of retaliation. Finally, it discusses the link between drugs and violence.

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