Riskscapes of gender, disaster and climate change in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann R Tickamyer ◽  
Siti Kusujiarti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Dimension ◽  
Research Planning ◽  
The Social

Abstract Three prominent disasters in Indonesia demonstrate the importance of gender roles, relations and practices in delineating the social and spatial relations of Riskscapes, with implications for developing resilience to disaster and preparing for climate change. We build on a model of Riskscapes that incorporates power relations as a conceptual dimension and show how gender plays a central role in this, as well as intersecting with the other dimensions of Riskscape specification. We conclude with a series of hypotheses that can test the model and clarify and specify the ways gender requires incorporation into disaster and climate change Riskscape research, planning and action.

scholarly journals Democracy and Planetary Fragility in the Anthropocene: on William Connolly’s Political Ontology

Stasis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Dmitry Lebedev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
Political World ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

As climate change rapidly intensifies, political theory urgently needs to respond to the shock of the Anthropocene and bring nature back to politics. William Connolly’s work is a paradigmatic example of such a theory that actively emphasizes the role nonhuman forces play in the social and political world and the discontinuity this emphasis brings to political theory. Connolly underscores fragile resonances between nature and culture and productively problematizes a human-centric vision of politics. However, while interrogating how contemporary political conjuncture catastrophically increases planetary fragility, he still insists on the continuity of his vision for democratic pluralism that this very conjuncture fundamentally puts in question. Thus, Connolly’s type of post-anthropocentric ontology remains rather inconsistently connected to explicitly political concerns. This article aims to clarify this connection. On the one hand, it shows how his brand of democratic politics that answers to the challenges of the Anthropocene presupposes a heightened degree of political negativism and universalism that used to be excluded from this politics. On the other, it demonstrates how the discontinuities in ontology must be simultaneously thought of as the discontinuities in established political theorizing and to continuously interrogate the very conjuncture that reveals the relevance of these ontological and political discontinuities.

Klimawandel und Gewaltkonflikte aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 200-205
Author(s):  
Michael Brzoska
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

The extensive research on climate change and violence over the last 15 years has resulted in many important but also contested results. The diversity of results is in part due to epistemological and methodological questions. Thus, the conditions under which environmental changes can lead to or change violence are discussed often only in terms of materialistic aspects. Furthermore, the options for measures, to respond, have received insufficient attention. A consideration of fundamental insights from the social sciences about the interaction between environmental changes brought about by climate change on the one side and agency on the other side should generate further research insights.

The Social Construction of Climate Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Raul P. Lejano ◽  
Shondel J. Nero ◽  
Michael Chua
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Negative Feedback ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ideological Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Change Science ◽  
Constructive Engagement

Chapter 6 shows how in constructing, with some success, a challenge to the narrative of climate change science, the skeptical narrative has increasingly taken on features of ideology. A similar phenomenon may also be happening among the ranks of climate change advocates, with the response to skeptics taking on elements of ideological talk. Reactions to a prominent climate skeptic are examined in the chapter, along with characteristics of climate scientists’ responses to the skeptics. The chapter asks if this a pattern of negative feedback, with ideological discourse on one side eliciting a similarly ideological counter-reaction from the other, and suggests that if this is so, it does not bode well for the idea that constructive engagement of contending publics is still possible. Any way out of this impasse will require an openness on the part of the climate scientific majority to the interests and concerns of a skeptical public. Most fundamentally, the chapter shows, there is something about much climate change discourse that is modernist, exhibiting cultural biases that can alienate the other (e.g., the global South).

Voices of the unsung: The role of social presence and interactivity in building empathy in 360 video

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 2230-2254
Author(s):  
Daniel Pimentel ◽  
Sri Kalyanaraman ◽  
Yu-Hao Lee ◽  
Shiva Halan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Media Content ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceived Interactivity ◽  
Degree Of Control

360 video is considered an “empathy machine,” in part because it places audiences in the perspective of the other. Despite its popularity, its influence on empathy is not fully understood. Two possible mechanisms driving empathy within 360 video are social presence (sense of being with others) and interactivity (degree of control over media content). To elucidate how 360 videos can encourage empathic outcomes through these factors, a 2 (social presence: high/low) × 2 (interactivity: high/low) between-subjects experiment ( N = 110) was conducted testing 360 videos about Alaskan climate change refugees. Results demonstrate that social presence contributes to prosocial behaviors (donations) through empathic concern, an effect augmented by interactivity. Unexpectedly, the social presence manipulation also contributed to greater perceived interactivity. Collectively, results are promising and elucidate the role of social presence and interactivity in immersive storytelling.

Negotiation of The Ma’rifah Community Identity In Forming Sufistic Sholihan In Seuruway Community of Aceh Tamiang

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Mohd. Nasir ◽  
Mawardi Mawardi
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Social

This article is based on a variety of Seruway Aceh society phenomenon which is separated into two communities. One of them becomes a representative of the majority and the other as a representative of a minority. Ma’rifah community is a minority that got discriminative treatment from the majority one. Nevertheless, this community was able to expand as a majority. The article is aimed at explaining the relation of the Ma’rifah community in forming Sufistic identity in religious social space in Seruwey Aceh and it is aimed at explaining its effect onthe variation of religious practice. The research is the social anthropology of the ethnographic approach. The data were collected through interview, subject for the research was determined by using purposive sampling. The resultsshow that; first, the Ma’rifah community is successful in developing familial relationships, a close friend and using power relations as capital in forming Sufistic habitus. Second, the Ma’rifah community presented an effect on religion variant, it is not only between majority and minority, but Ma’rifah community itself is separated into several communities, a part of Them still in Sufistic ideology which is opposite of majority, and some others negotiate to be part of the majority

scholarly journals Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito, Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
John Laurence Dunn
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture seeks to furnish contemporary American with the conceptual spatial paradigms described by the great theorists of the social structures of the everyday, Henri Lefebvre and Michel De Certeau. It does this with an eye on Jacques Ranciere’s more recent conclusion that politics is “best understood” in spatial and relational parameters, because “everything in politics turns on the distribution of space. What are these places? How do they function?,” and crucially for this volume, “Who can occupy them?”[p.5] These continental cornerstones are augmented by the work of British theorist Doreen Massey, from whom Manzanas and Benito borrow a formal analysis of dynamic spatial relations for a social geography of “the other” that is thoroughly narratological.

Dead or Alive: The Discursive Massacre or the Mass-suicide of Post-Soviet Intelligentsia?

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Kotchetkova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia

This paper seeks to make sense of the transformation of identity in post-Soviet Russia by exploring the debates surrounding the social category ‘intelligentsia’. I argue that the concept of intelligentsia should be seen as both a source of collective identity and a rhetorical resource in the struggle for power and domination. Here then, the usage of the category intelligentsia becomes a means for understanding broader post-Communist cultural change and some of its underlying tensions and conflicts. The paper examines two competing discourses about the intelligentsia currently vying for supremacy in Russia and their associated rival interests: one discourse is affirmative, the other negative. In relation to each discourse, several discursive practices are identified and observed on political and academic territories. The analysis of the discursive struggle over definitions contributes to understanding the transformation of power relations in modern Russia. Importantly the paper speculates on the present and future implications of these different tendencies.

Providing Freshmen with a Good “Starting-Block”

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaël De Clercq ◽  
Charlotte Michel ◽  
Sophie Remy ◽  
Benoît Galand
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Study Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Intention To Persist

Abstract. Grounded in social-psychological literature, this experimental study assessed the effects of two so-called “wise” interventions implemented in a student study program. The interventions took place during the very first week at university, a presumed pivotal phase of transition. A group of 375 freshmen in psychology were randomly assigned to three conditions: control, social belonging, and self-affirmation. Following the intervention, students in the social-belonging condition expressed less social apprehension, a higher social integration, and a stronger intention to persist one month later than the other participants. They also relied more on peers as a source of support when confronted with a study task. Students in the self-affirmation condition felt more self-affirmed at the end of the intervention but didn’t benefit from other lasting effects. The results suggest that some well-timed and well-targeted “wise” interventions could provide lasting positive consequences for student adjustment. The respective merits of social-belonging and self-affirmation interventions are also discussed.

Designs for Living: Female Designers, the Designing Female, Modernism and the Middlebrow

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Chiara Briganti ◽  
Kathy Mezei
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sexual Ambiguity

During the interwar period, the artistic endeavour of the female interior decorator was dismissed as old-fashioned, nostalgic, and, tainted by its association with commerce; it was excluded from the rarefied circle of the higher arts of painting and sculpture and architecture; in the novels and plays of middlebrow authors of the same period, on the other hand, the female interior decorator, mocked for her edgy modernity, became a disturbing icon of urban modernity and a controversial advocate for new designs in living. This essay proposes to demonstrate how the representation in fiction and drama of the interwar period of the female interior decorator, a magnet for anxieties about changing gender roles, class distinctions, sexuality and sexual ambiguity and the ‘sanctity’ of the home, complicates the complexity and mutability of the middlebrow and its fraught relationship with modernism.

KONSEP DIRI “ I “ DAN “ME” TOKOH HIROKO DALAM NOVEL NAMAKU HIROKO KARYA NH.DINI

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This research deals with the development of  self concept of Hiroko as the main character in Namaku Hiroko by Nh. Dini and tries to identify how Hiroko is portrayed in the story, how she interacts with other characters and whether she is portrayed as a character dominated by ”I” element or  ”Me”  element seen  from sociological and cultural point of view. As a qualitative research in nature, the source of data in this research is the novel Namaku Hiroko (1967) and the data ara analyzed and presented deductively. The result of this analysis shows that in the novel, Hiroko as a fictional character is  portrayed as a girl whose personality  develops and changes drastically from ”Me”  to ”I”. When she was still in the village  l iving with her parents, she was portrayed as a obedient girl who was loyal to the parents, polite and acted in accordance with the social customs. In short, her personality was dominated by ”Me”  self concept. On the other hand, when she moved to the city (Kyoto), she was portrayed as a wild girl  no longer controlled by the social customs. She was  firm and determined totake decisions of  her won  for her future without considering what other people would say about her. She did not want to be treated as object. To put it in another way, her personality is more dominated by the ”I” self concept.

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