scholarly journals The Everyday Life of Security: Capturing Space, Practice, and Affect

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonna Nyman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Participatory Photography ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Abstract Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods that dominate the field are designed to study elites and high politics. This paper does two things. First, it brings together and synthesizes the existing literature on everyday security to argue that we should think about the everyday life of security as constituted across three dimensions: space, practice, and affect. Thus, the paper adds conceptual clarity, demonstrating that the everyday life of security is multifaceted and exists in mundane spaces, routine practices, and affective/lived experiences. Second, it works through the methodological implications of a three-dimensional understanding of everyday security. In order to capture all three dimensions and the ways in which they interact, we need to explore different methods. The paper offers one such method, exploring the everyday life of security in contemporary China through a participatory photography project with six ordinary citizens in Beijing. The central contribution of the paper is capturing—conceptually and methodologically—all three dimensions, in order to develop our understanding of the everyday life of security.

scholarly journals The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (s4) ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Kristine Ask ◽  
Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen ◽  
Stine Thordarson Moltubakk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Domestication Theory

Abstract Gaming is a frequent source of conflict for families. Research on parents and gaming has identified a lack of gaming-related expertise, a general devaluation or fear of play, and authoritative and restrictive parenting styles as key sources of conflict. What happens when these deficits are addressed? What does mediation look like when parents are expert gamers, enjoy play, and encourage play for their children? Based on qualitative interviews with 29 parents who identify as gamers, we explore how gamer parents domesticate games. To explore the work of stabilising gaming as a wholesome and valued pastime, we combine domestication theory with overflows to address the struggles involved. The analysis investigates how gamer parents mediate play, with an emphasis on how games are interpreted, the family's player practices, and the role of gaming-related expertise in accordance with the three dimensions (symbolic, practice, cognitive) of domestication theory.

Making the invisible visible? Everyday lived experiences of ‘seeing’ and categorizing children’s well-being within a Danish kindergarten

Childhood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Houmøller
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

This article explores how pedagogues assess and categorize children’s well-being in the everyday life of a kindergarten caring for a large number of children considered socially vulnerable. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article focuses on a newly implemented well-being assessment tool oriented towards making all children’s needs visible through the pedagogues’ regular colour-categorizations of their state of well-being. The article problematizes this ambition and proposes that some children are rendered invisible in the process of categorizing. It is argued that the categorizations are more reflective of the structural conditions of the kindergarten and a gauged sense of urgency.

scholarly journals Everyday life under the PIDE: A quantitative survey on the relations between ordinary citizens and Salazar’s political police (1955–74)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Simpson ◽  
Ana Louceiro
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This article examines the relations between Portuguese society and Salazar’s political police (PIDE) from the perspective of the everyday lives of ordinary citizens – in contrast to the small minority of oppositionists that has so far monopolized the attention of historians. It is based on a quantitative survey of 400 respondents in four separate locations across Portugal and addresses two main research questions: To what extent did the sample of ordinary citizens experience the PIDE as a disruptive influence on their daily lives? Was the PIDE ‘normalized’ by them as part of the framework of everyday life? The data analysis calls upon the inputs of the international bibliography of everyday life under dictatorship and critically engages with the existing historiography of the PIDE.

scholarly journals Everyday life under the PIDE: A quantitative survey on the relations between ordinary citizens and Salazar’s political police (1955–74)

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Duncan Simpson ◽  
Ana Louceiro
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Portuguese Society ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

This article examines the relations between Portuguese society and Salazar’s political police (PIDE) from the perspective of the everyday lives of ordinary citizens – 
in contrast to the small minority of oppositionists that has so far monopolized the attention of historians. It is based on a quantitative survey of 400 respondents in four separate locations across Portugal and addresses two main research questions: To what extent did the sample of ordinary citizens experience the PIDE as a disruptive influence on their daily lives? Was the PIDE ‘normalized’ by them as part of the framework of everyday life? The data analysis calls upon the inputs of the international bibliography of everyday life under dictatorship and critically engages with the existing historiography of the PIDE.

scholarly journals Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
KP Kallio ◽  
Bronwyn Wood ◽  
J Häkli
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Generative Approach ◽  
Analytical Power ◽  
Number Of Authors

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Lived citizenship has emerged as a key concept in citizenship studies over the last two decades. A growing number of authors have applied ideas of lived citizenship as a generative approach to recognise the embodied, relational and lived experiences of being a citizen in everyday life. However, lived citizenship currently lacks conceptual clarity and framing which weakens its analytical power and potential. In this paper we consider the theoretical origins, current applications and development of lived citizenship in order to clarify it as a concept and consider possibilities for its future. We propose a conceptual framing underpinned by four dimensions of lived citizenship (spatial, intersubjective, performed and affective) to serve as a starting point to sharpen and define this emerging field. We then explore these dimensions through three domains of scholarship, of children and youth, asylum seekers, and city-regional dwellers to illustrate the potential of a lived citizenship approach. We conclude by examining some of the implications of this concept as well as its limitations, with the aim of opening a dialogue with inter-disciplinary scholars to help us to further conceptualise this emerging field and widen its future possibilities.

scholarly journals Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Zebracki ◽  
Brian Doucet ◽  
Toha De Brant
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City

This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “decaying” city. Residents were asked what images they would use to “see” and represent the city. Photo elicitation interviews revealed interlaced lived experienced and narrated reminiscences of local life and the material urban fabric beyond the prevailing narratives of mere neglect and abandonment. This study develops further knowledge of how photography can simultaneously operate as a critical socio-spatial research subject and an empowering tool for research participants. Through shifting the hegemonic locus of media agents toward residents’ positionalities, findings indicated potentials for redressing the misunderstood spaces of the everyday life of ordinary people.

scholarly journals (Im)possible conversations? activism, childhood and everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas ◽  
Christos Varvantakis ◽  
Vinnarasan Aruldoss
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Usa

The paper offers an analytical exploration and points of connection between the categories of activism, childhood and everyday life. We are concerned with the lived experiences of activism and childhood broadly defined and especially with the ways in which people become aware, access, orient themselves to, and act on issues of common concern; in other words what connects people to activism. The paper engages with childhood in particular because childhood remains resolutely excluded from practices of public life and because engaging with activism from the marginalized position of children’s everyday lives provides an opportunity to think about the everyday, lived experiences of activism. Occupying a space ‘before method’, the paper engages with autobiographical narratives of growing up in the Communist left in the USA and the historical events of occupying Greek schools in the 1990s. These recounted experiences offer an opportunity to disrupt powerful categories currently in circulation for thinking about activism and childhood. Based on the analysis it is argued that future research on the intersections of activism, childhood and everyday life would benefit from exploring the spatial and temporal dimension of activism, to make visible the unfolding biographical projects of activists and movements alike, while also engaging with the emotional configurations of activists’ lives and what matters to activists, children and adults alike.

The Politics of Everyday

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 843-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Courpasson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Material Life ◽  
The Everyday

Stealing, doing something unauthorized, occupying places, feeling silly and on the edge… how can we account for these practices that make the everyday? Why would the notion of everyday be interesting for understanding people’s experiences at work? How can we make sense of the myriad of disconnected actions, gestures and encounters that make the everyday? This essay takes its inspiration from Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau’s specific investigations of everyday life to draw a picture of current workplaces; it aims to capture some particulars of symbolic and material life at work, as well as some representations of lived experiences that are shared by people at work. We defend a dialectical view of the everyday by showing the link between forces of alienation and forces of emancipation. We draw from interviews to suggest the extraordinary influence of the ordinary actions over our lives.

scholarly journals The Politics of Collective Repair. Examining Object-Relations in a Postwork Society.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Graziano ◽  
Kim Trogal
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Surface Tensions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ecological Action

In this article we look at repair as an emergent focus of recent activism in affluent societies, where a number of groups are reclaiming practices of repair as a form of political and ecological action. Ranging from those that fight for legislative change to those groups who are trying to support ecological and social change through everyday life practices, repair is beginning to surface tensions in everyday life and as such poses opportunities for its transformation. We survey a few ofthe practices that make up this movement in its various articulations, to take stock of their current political import.While we suggest that these practices can be seen as an emergent lifestyle movement, they should not be seen as presenting a unified statement. Rather, we aim to show that they articulate a spectrum of political positions, particularly in relation to the three specific issues of property, pedagogy and sociality. These three dimensions are all facets of current internal discrepancies of repair practices and moreover express potential bifurcations as this movement evolves. Drawing on a diverse methodology that includes discourse analysis and participant observation, we suggest some of the ways in which this growing area of activity could play a significant role in resisting the commodification of the everyday and inventing postwork alternatives.

scholarly journals Lived citizenship: conceptualising an emerging field

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
KP Kallio ◽  
Bronwyn Wood ◽  
J Häkli
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Generative Approach ◽  
Analytical Power ◽  
Number Of Authors

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Lived citizenship has emerged as a key concept in citizenship studies over the last two decades. A growing number of authors have applied ideas of lived citizenship as a generative approach to recognise the embodied, relational and lived experiences of being a citizen in everyday life. However, lived citizenship currently lacks conceptual clarity and framing which weakens its analytical power and potential. In this paper we consider the theoretical origins, current applications and development of lived citizenship in order to clarify it as a concept and consider possibilities for its future. We propose a conceptual framing underpinned by four dimensions of lived citizenship (spatial, intersubjective, performed and affective) to serve as a starting point to sharpen and define this emerging field. We then explore these dimensions through three domains of scholarship, of children and youth, asylum seekers, and city-regional dwellers to illustrate the potential of a lived citizenship approach. We conclude by examining some of the implications of this concept as well as its limitations, with the aim of opening a dialogue with inter-disciplinary scholars to help us to further conceptualise this emerging field and widen its future possibilities.

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