Reimagining Play

2021 ◽  
pp. 292-302
Author(s):  
Sabah Khan
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
The Many ◽  
Gender Specific

Sabah Khan’s essay is an intersectional recount, of how football has been instrumental in enabling young Muslim women from a ghettoized suburb of Mumbai to engage with community and society imposed boundaries, illustrating the sports-for-development agenda. This engaging chapter serves as an illustration of the possibilities inherent in sport for enabling women, especially from disadvantaged and vulnerable communities to overcome social restrictions as well as patriarchal, gender-specific norms of dress and behaviour. The author describes her engagement with a group of women in the outskirts of Mumbai in their struggle to play, to stake claim to a public space and to participate in an activity that community and society do not view as being appropriate for women. The chapter serves to point to the many ways the study of sport and its participants may assist in the exploration of how change may occur in increments.

Gendered Secularization and the Body Policing of Muslim Women

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raissa Killoran
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Many ◽  
A Site

The many usages of the term ‘secularism’ have generated an ambiguity in the word; as a political guise, it may be used to engender anti-religious fervor. Particularly in regards to veiling among female Muslim adherents, the attainment of a secular state and touting of the necessity of dismantling religious symbols have functioned as linguistic shields. By calling a “burka ban” necessary or even egalitarian secularization, legislators employ ‘secularization’ as jargon for political ends, enacting a stance of supremacy under the semblance of progress. Secularization has come to function as a political tool - in the name of it, governments may prescribe which cultural symbols are normative and which are of ‘other’ cultures or religious origins. As such, the identification of some religious symbols as foreign and others as normative is a usage of secularization for normalization of dominant religious expression. In this, there is an implicit neocolonialism; by imposing standards of cultural normalcy which are definitively nonMuslim, such policies attempt to divorce Muslims from Islam.  Further, I intend to investigate the gendered aspect of secularization politics. By critiquing clothing and body policing of women, I will demonstrate how secularization projects use the female body and dress as a site for display. By rendering the female physically emblematic of the honor and virtue of an ‘other’ culture, those enacting secularization norms target women’s bodies to act as visual exhibitions of the dominant culture’s hegemony. Here, we see gendered secularization at work - female bodies become controlled by the antireligious zeal of the state, while the state carries out this control on the predicate that it is the religious group enacting unjust control. As such, the policing of female Muslim bodies is symbolic of the policing of Islam as a whole; it acts as an illustration of an imposed, gendered secularization project.

scholarly journals Where the Sidewalk Ends: Automobility and Shame in Tbilisi, Georgia

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physical Barriers ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

In recent years, cars have steadily colonized the sidewalks in downtown Tbilisi. By driving and parking on sidewalks, vehicles have reshaped public space and placed pedestrian life at risk. A variety of social actors coordinate sidewalk affairs in the city, including the local government, a private company called CT Park, and a fleet of self-appointed st’aianshik’ebi (parking attendants) who direct drivers into parking spots for spare change. Pedestrian activists have challenged the automotive conquest of footpaths in innovative ways, including art installations, social media protests, and the fashioning of ad hoc physical barriers. By safeguarding sidewalks against cars, activists assert ideals for public space that are predicated on sharp boundaries between sidewalk and street, pedestrian and machine, citizen and commodity. Politicians and activists alike connect the sharpness of such boundaries to an imagined Europe. Georgia’s parking culture thus reflects not only local configurations of power among the many interests clamoring for the space of the sidewalk, but also global hierarchies of value that form meaningful distinctions and aspirational horizons in debates over urban public space. Against the dismal frictions of an expanding car system, social actors mobilize the idioms of freedom and shame to reinterpret and repartition the public/private distinction.

scholarly journals Participation and the role of Public Space

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gabriel Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Broad Definition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of

This article examines participatory rights as human rights and considers their importance to the lives of children and young people. It argues that a broad definition of participation needs to be used which takes us from 'round tables' to understanding that young people participate in many different ways. It points out that failure to recognise and respect the many varied ways that children and young people choose to participate results in a breach of their human rights. It shows how our socio-legal system operates to permit and support these breaches of the rights of children and young people, resulting in their alienation from civic society.

scholarly journals The Paradox of Public Space: Chapter 91 and Clean Water Act 303(d)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Adams ◽  
◽  
Marie Law Adams ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Clean Water Act ◽  
Amazon River ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
The World ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
The Many

An increasing challenge for the design of public space is the expanding awareness of the many dimensions and networks throughwhichthepublicdomainisfullyglobalandunbounded while built architectural projects remain inherently discrete and locally bounded – a paradox of public space- for designers. For example- how we are increasingly aware that any local and privatized practice (like farming along the Amazon River) has both significant direct and indirect impacts on shared global resources (like Canadian fisheries) the world over.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Government Programs & Policies to Eradicate Gender Disparities in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (III) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Minahil Nawaz ◽  
Atif Bilal Aslam ◽  
Fariha Tariq
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Many ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Like many other developing nations, Pakistan is also facing a gender gap in its socio-cultural spheres. Since independence, many programs and policies have been made in public and private sector domains to eradicate these gender disparities. This paper aims to evaluate these programs and policies by encountering their salient features and how far these programs and policies proved to be fruitful in bridging this gap. The evaluation is done majorly through a desk review of the secondary data drawn from reports published by different government and local organizations. Mainly, the qualitative methods of content and thematic analyses were employed for exploring the gender-based disparities, and how these are affecting the pace of development in Pakistan. Moreover, an assessment of strategies and policies addressing the problem of the gender gap has also been done. Based on the study findings, this paper presents some policy recommendations to reduce gender base disparities which is one of the many prerequisites for the promotion of sustainable development agenda as gender equality is the 5th goal of the United Nations sustainable development agenda.

Open-Source Personality Trait Norms for the United Kingdom and Ireland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conal Twomey ◽  
John A. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Personality Measurement ◽  
Personality Inventories ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Many ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract. Most copyrighted personality inventories facilitate norm-referencing through illustrative tables, yet their application to the many fields relevant to personality measurement is constrained by the need for stakeholders to possess the requisite financial resources to access them. Using an IPIP-NEO-300 dataset from Johnson’s IPIP-NEO data repository, we created open-source norm tables for different age groups (14–17 years; 18–25 years; and 30+ years) within a combined standardization sample from the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland ( N = 18,591). The newly created tables are freely available online ( https://osf.io/tbmh5 ), and there is no need to ask for permission to modify them. We provide general instructions that can be used to create open-source personality trait norms for other countries, settings, and age groups, as well as gender-specific norms. There is great potential for these norms to be used in various settings and their open-source freedoms may encourage future collaborations and investigations.

Women’s Digital Activism

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
Annabelle Sreberny
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Agendas

One of the many transformations that is taking place across the Middle East and North Africa region is women's engagement with new communications technologies and their increasing involvement in public life. Despite the initial enthusiasms of the uprisings of 2011, the region is now in considerable turmoil and digital developments are only slowly rolling out across the region. Using Mouffe's notion of the “political” as what is put into public contention in a society, the chapter explores how women in various countries across the Middle East are using and appropriating these new communication tools, especially social media, finding their voices and setting new social agendas for action, many of which revolve around issues of the body and female presence in public space.

scholarly journals Dutch-Moroccan Girls Navigating Public Space: Wandering as an Everyday Spatial Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Wijntuin ◽  
Martijn Koster
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Appropriate Behavior ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The City

Based on qualitative research among female Dutch-Moroccan teenagers in two underprivileged neighborhoods in the city of Utrecht, the Netherlands, this article focuses on the spatial practices of young Muslim women in public space. Compared to their male counterparts, who “hang around” in groups, female teens spend less time in public space. We focus on girls’ “wandering practices” through the neighborhood, a spatial practice structured by their search for freedom (to spend time outside the home, to talk to friends in private) and by social control (to avoid the presence of young men, to avoid being gossiped about). Our research shows that wandering both decreases their visibility and pushes against gendered cultural norms about women in public space. By analyzing their wandering as a form of social navigation, we show how these teenagers maneuver through both the physical neighborhood and the gendered cultural norms regarding appropriate behavior in public space.

scholarly journals KOMODIFIKASI BUDAYA ISLAM DALAM MASYARAKAT VIRTUAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 549
Author(s):  
Hilda Syaf'aini Harefa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lifestyle Pattern ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
People Today

Social media not only makes the user a communicator but can move public space. Social<br />media becomes a forum where fellow users are related and have their own constructions.<br />At this stage social media presents the wearer both individually and in groups. Currently<br />in public spaces, hijab has become an increasingly common sight. Almost no place,<br />circle or institution is not touched by the hijab. The spread of the use of hijab as a<br />fashion trend among young people today is dominated by figures from Dian Pelangi and<br />the Hijabers Community. Hijabers Community, has constructed the meaning of hijab<br />according to their own. There is a shift in the meaning of the veil itself. Headscarves<br />of the past and present have different meanings. In the past wearing a headscarf was<br />a symbol of women’s obedience to the teachings of their religion, while now wearing a<br />headscarf became a lifestyle pattern. Muslim fashion is undergoing a very rapid change<br />and the presence of models that are good looking, stylish, and fashionable. This Hijabers<br />phenomenon can not be separated from the use of social media, namely Instagram as a<br />virtual public space. Through the instagram of Muslim women today the dialogue is their<br />identity through their appearance. Appearances on Instagram contribute to interpreting<br />the discourse about beautiful concepts by Muslim women. Through an existing Instagram<br />account, it becomes a space to show someone in the virtual world. Instagram, which is a<br />friend network, has indirectly formed a virtual community.<br />Keywords: Virtual society, social media, Instagram, the phenomenon of hijabers

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