Existential vulnerability: an ethnographic study of everyday lives with diabetes in Vietnam

This is an ethnographic study based on inductive reasoning inspired by everyday life coping of slum women in Delhi. Evidences from field work were found to be congruent with the underlying assumptions of Humanistic and analytical psychology, perspectives which ascertain positive human values and life orientation such as growth, and fulfillment, making it difficult to completely neglect strategies for adaptability, positive coping, and adjustment, which are having a positive influence in everyday lives of slum women in their day-day life. The focus of this study is not to explore the daily life concerns, but to highlight how these concerns are addressed by slum women, with regard to their coping strategies. The objective of this study was to bring into light the phenomenon of positive adaptability towards daily life concerns, in context with slum women by exploring three coping strategies given by Endler and Parker. Task-oriented strategy, Emotion-oriented strategy, and, Avoidance-oriented strategy three categories which were used to categorize the responses towards daily life stressors. Finally this study attempts to fill in the prevailing literature gap in the context of the conceptualization of psychological empowerment for slum women based on the findings of this study and trace the roots of psychological empowerment using the perspectives of psychology. This study illustrates analysis of ethnographic records of 50 informants from various slums in Delhi.

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Quantify Your Self! Numbers in Ambiguous Borderlands of Health

Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund ◽

10.7146/tfss.v10i19.15525 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (19) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mikka Nielsen ◽

Lone Grøn

Keyword(s):

Health Education ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Education Programs ◽

Moral Significance ◽

Symbolic Form ◽

Social Domain ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Human Kinds

This paper explores the widespread use of numbers in health education programs and provides a reflection on the interplay of the medical and moral significance of numbers. Furthermore, the paper points out how patient schools are captured in a borderland space where moral and medical rationalities merge, clash, and collide. Empirical examples from an ethnographic study of six patient schools illustrate different practices where educators and participants reflect and act upon numbers in different ways. We argue that in the settings of patient schools numbers have become a symbolic form or language that point towards a broad range of natural and cultural phenomena. Drawing on Mattingly’s notion of ‘moral laboratories’ (Mattingly, 2012) we argue that what is to be cultivated in these pedagogical settings are not plants or microorganisms or scientific knowledge, but knowledge of body and self. This knowledge should ideally – if given proper care and guidance – grow strong enough within the confines of the moral laboratory to be able to survive and grow stronger in the participants’ everyday lives. Finally we show that even if the use of numbers is being stretched to include not only the medical, but also the psycho-social domain some numbers seem more ‘real’ than others within this field of practice: The ‘phenomenological’ or self-assessed numbers, as well as the appliance of numbers to ‘human kinds’ (Hacking, 1992), is contested and controversial.

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Everyday Lives in Peripheral Spaces: A Case of Bengal Borderlands

Borders in Globalization Review ◽

10.18357/bigr31202120268 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 12-23

Author(s):

Sampurna Bhaumik

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

West Bengal ◽

Special Section ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Border Studies ◽

Social Spaces ◽

The West ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Borderland Communities

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an ethnographic study of the daily lives and narratives of borderlands communities in the border districts of Cooch Behar and South Dinajpur along the West-Bengal–Bangladesh border. In order to emphasise the significance of borderland communities’ narratives and experiences to our understanding of borders, this paper explores the idea of borders as social spaces that are inherently dynamic. In attempting to understand the idea of borders through everyday lives of people living in borderland communities, this paper highlights tensions and contradictions between hard borders manifested through securitization practices, and the inherently dynamic social spaces that manifest themselves in people’s daily lives. Conceptually and thematically, this paper is situated within and seeks to contribute to the discipline of borderland studies. Key Words: Borders, Social Spaces, Security, Bengal Borderlands, South Asia

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Moving Spaces: Mapping the Drama Room as Heterotopia

Education Sciences ◽

10.3390/educsci10030067 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Elsa Szatek

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

The Other ◽

Space And Place ◽

The Political ◽

Democratic Process ◽

Community Group ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Artistic Work ◽

A Performance

This article is aimed at exploring the political characteristics of the drama space, which reflects, juxtaposes, and opposes particular sites in a participant’s everyday life, such as the school. By putting spatial theories to work, this article investigates the drama space belonging to an all-girls community group in Sweden, participation in which is voluntary and where the artistic work produced relies on a democratic process, with the girls’ input being vital. I conceptualise the drama room as a heterotopia that functions as an exclusive and excluding space as a well as a space of resistance. Based on interviews with the girls, this ethnographic study challenges the conventional notion that applied drama is only an interrelational matter between the drama participants. By examining the drama room’s role as the ‘other place’ in the girls’ everyday lives while being connected to ‘everyday’ places, this article demonstrates the drama room as an important space for the girls to have agency, there and elsewhere. When placing space and place in the foreground, a ‘dramaspaceknowledge’ emerges, the influence of which stretches beyond the drama room. This article argues that the girls’ dramaspaceknowledge is utilised when creating a performance and while challenging structures and norms elsewhere, such as in their schools and communities.

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Racism in the everyday life of Finnish children with transnational roots

BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden ◽

10.5324/barn.v27i1.4293 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Anne Rastas

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

European Countries ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

The Everyday ◽

Transnational Adoptees ◽

Vast Area

In the vast area of studies of racism children’s experiences have been overlooked. Questions of racism are often related to immigrants and their children, but in many European countries increasing numbers of children of mixed parentage, as well as children adopted from other continents, confront racism. My ethnographic study of racism in the everyday lives of Finnish children with “transnational roots” focuses on the experiences of transnational adoptees and those young Finnish citizens who have one Finnish-born parent, but whose Finnishness and right to belong is often questioned by others because of their parental ties to other countries and nations. This article explores the different manifestations of racism in their daily lives and concludes with a discussion of the importance of identifying those social and culturalfactors which make it especially difficult for children to talk about and deal with their experiences of racism.

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Re-envisioning the local: spatiality, land and law in Botswana

International Journal of Law in Context ◽

10.1017/s1744552313000062 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 213-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anne Griffiths

Keyword(s):

Social Relationships ◽

Social Relations ◽

Life Histories ◽

Local Community ◽

Upward Mobility ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Specific Site ◽

The Past ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

The Future

AbstractBased on an ethnographic study located in Botswana, I move beyond conceptions of the local as physically or territorially grounded to one that examines how it is constituted through links between persons and land derived from life histories extended over several generations. This not only takes account of a specific site in which social relations are bounded and locally constituted but also of how perceptions of locality are discursively and historically constructed. Viewing land as both a tangible and intangible universe constructed through social relationships, I highlight ways in which individuals, as part of a ‘local’ community, find their life courses shaped by wider transnational and global processes, including law, that have an impact on their everyday lives. For some, this provides opportunities for upward mobility and future gains, while others find scope for action severely curtailed. In documenting these uneven, diverse effects of globalisation, what emerges are processes of ‘internalisation’ and ‘relocalisation’ of global conditions, allowing for the emergence of new identities, alliances and struggles for space and power within specific populations. Thus what exists in the here and now as a form of temporality is constantly remade, drawing on the past while fashioning new prospects for the future.

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RESPONSES TO STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: THE EVERYDAY WAYS IN WHICH QUEER AND TRANS MIGRANTS WITH PRECARIOUS STATUS RESPOND TO AND RESIST THE CANADIAN IMMIGRATION REGIME

International Journal of Child Youth and Family Studies ◽

10.18357/ijcyfs101201918807 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 70-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward Ou Jin Lee

Keyword(s):

Structural Violence ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Textual Production ◽

The Everyday ◽

Canadian Immigration

This article examines how the Canadian immigration regime socially organizes the everyday lives of queer and trans migrants with precarious status. Drawing from key findings from an institutional ethnographic study, this article maps out the disjuncture between the actual experiences of queer and trans migrants with precarious status and the ideological and textual production of precarious status by the Canadian state. Making explicit this disjuncture reveals how the Canadian immigration regime enacts structural violence upon queer and trans migrants. This article also engages with the response-based approach to violence in order to understand how queer and trans migrants actively respond to this violence. In doing so, this article highlights the ways in which queer and trans migrants respond and resist the structural violence integral to the Canadian state’s production of precarious status.

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