Conclusions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryl B. Gensheimer
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces

The concluding chapter summarizes the book’s key findings, reiterating anew the scholarly framework with which one can interpret the motivations underlying Caracalla’s endowment of such colossally expensive infrastructure and the ways in which his benefaction impacted both Roman daily life and the popular perception of the emperor. The conclusion reviews how and why one can explain Caracalla’s magnificent bath complex—a benefaction freely given to the Roman populace—in terms of normalized imperial spending on buildings and infrastructure and in the context of dynastic competition for legitimacy. Simultaneously, the conclusion elucidates the ways in which the Baths’ impressive decoration provides insights into the lived experience of just such grandiose public spaces.

Health in a connected world

2020 ◽  
pp. 573-580
Author(s):  
Philippe Delespaul ◽  
Catherine van Zelst
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Changing World

This chapter is about a redesign of mental healthcare, as it evolves in a changing world. It focuses on digital transformations and their impact on social relationships, networks, and communities. It intends to demonstrate better responses to the needs of service users in society. It first defines terminologies to access the changing world and focus on how to understand health, recovery, and well-being in people with lived experience of psychosis. These central elements can be accessed or maintained using eHealth, including mHealth, virtual reality, and eCommunities. It also discuss strengths, challenges, and pitfalls in developing and applying innovative interventions in the context of daily life. It reviews these trends and how these relate to the therapeutic relationship in general, and the mental health practitioner’s role in particular.

scholarly journals “We had a toilet!” The modernisation of the countryside as perceived by the inhabitants, the public spaces and the presence of politics in the new settlements in Italy and colonial Libya (1932-1939).

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 09002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittoria Capresi
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Methodical Approach ◽  
Additional Level ◽  
New Settlements

The foundation of the new settlements, both in Italy and colonial Libya, was a step to achieving the project of internal colonisation launched by Mussolini. The modernisation of the countryside was promulgated by the Fascist propaganda, which presented only a misleading impression of how life was. What happens if - as an additional level of interpretation we add the narratives of the inhabitants who lived these moments? This paper presents this original methodical approach, introducing the narratives of the settlers in relation to the presence of politics in daily life during the Fascist era.

An Introduction to Baths in Rome and Methodologies of This Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryl B. Gensheimer
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Modern History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Sociopolitical Forces

Given the fundamental importance of baths to daily life in ancient Rome, this chapter introduces the book and concentrates attention on the best preserved of Rome’s imperial thermae, the Baths of Caracalla, in order to unveil the cultural and sociopolitical forces that shaped monumental public spaces and their visual experience. By outlining the Baths’ architectural design and evocative decoration, this chapter foreshadows new insights into the multiple meanings underlying their embellishment and, therefore, the myriad ways in which imperial patronage can be understood. The chapter sets the stage by examining the importance of baths and bathing in ancient Rome generally before delving into the patronage of Rome’s imperial thermae and the Baths of Caracalla more specifically. Special attention is given to tracing the Baths of Caracalla’s ancient design and more modern history of excavation, as well as situating the author’s arguments and aims within recent scholarly contributions.

630 kilometres by bicycle: observations of English in urban and rural Finland

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (228) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Laitinen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Regional Centre ◽  
English Usage ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

AbstractThis article discusses selected observations of English usage in signage in Finland, a Nordic nation in which the significance of English has become more pronounced in recent decades. The background for this study comes from a large quantitative survey, carried out in 2007, charting the role of English in the Finnish society. One of the topic areas in this survey deals with people's encounters with English and its visibility in their daily life, and this article aims to add a qualitative angle to these results. The observations discussed here were collected in 2009 during a six-day bicycle trip from Helsinki to the regional centre of Oulu. The analysis moves from mere quantitative recording of signs to a more nuanced analysis of interpretations of their situated meanings in public spaces. These observations show that the presence of English in both urban and rural areas of the country is far from a simple phenomenon, and illustrate how charting signs in space provide valuable information on language contact situations.

scholarly journals COVID-19’s Fierce Subversion of Our Supposed Separateness: Cultivating Life With and For All Others

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 690-701
Author(s):  
Will W. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Transpersonal Psychology ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
World View ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Transformation Of Consciousness

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a biological crisis but a psychological, sociocultural, economic, and spiritual one. Our most grave threat is not the coronavirus itself, but what we do in response. The understandable fear generated by the real dangers of this plague could reinforce a foundational confusion that recurrently brings suffering to us and all our relations: Namely, the dissociative fantasy that I am merely a separate, skin-bounded, autonomous, sovereign self. Fear and greed tend to follow this from this mistakenly contracted identity. Alternately, in fierce ways we would have never wished for, today’s circumstances may be fostering a transformation of consciousness and culture. COVID-19 could subvert our supposedly separate self-sense, world-view, and way of being with others; disclose the “interrelated structure of reality” (as Dr. King put it); highlight the ethical implications that inherently come with it; and summon forth our loving, compassionate responsibility. Working with theoretical ideas and peoples’ actual lived experience, the present article offers suggestions for collaboration—with and for all others—in this precarious time. Insights from humanistic, existential, phenomenological, and transpersonal psychology are set into dialogue with recent examples from daily life.

Space in a Social Movement: A Case Study of Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Wang ◽  
Yu Ye ◽  
Chris King-chi Chan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Occupy Central

Few studies have examined the role of space in social movements. The existing studies have primarily emphasized the physical nature of space (e.g., space as distance) and overlooked other attributes of space, such as space as the materialization of power relations and space as lived experience. In this article, we explore the role of space in social movements based on a case study of the Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014. During the protest, the organizers occupied and reconfigured the campuses and mobilized the participants both through and in space. We find that the campus space helped stimulate the feelings and emotions of the students and increased their enthusiasm to participate in the demonstration. The participants were then sent from the campuses (mobilization spaces) to the demonstration spaces where they occupied and transformed the urban public spaces into private spaces, thus leading to contention over and of space with the state powers. Our findings reveal that the campus space is an important resource that organizers can use for mobilization. We also find that the special features of a campus, including aggregation, networks, isolation, and homogeneity, can facilitate the formation of social movements. We argue that the three attributes of space interact with one another in facilitating the social movement. Thus, our findings suggest that space acts as not only the vessel of struggle but also a useful tool and a target of struggle.

Serving the ‘Divine Economy’: St Joseph’s Asylum for Aged and Virtuous Females, Dublin, 1836–1922

2020 ◽  
pp. 033248932095718
Author(s):  
Olivia Frehill
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Life Values

St Joseph’s Asylum for Aged and Virtuous Females catered for Catholic aged, single women from 1836 to 1993, with the focus of this article on the period 1836–1922. Founded prior to the 1838 advent of poor law, St Joseph’s embodied an alternative miniature welfare system for its inmates, which served the wider ‘divine economy’. Operating at a time of limited labour market opportunities for females, functional age and inability to earn serve as important factors for considering why individuals might enter, particularly younger inmates. Chronological and cultural definitions of age also remain significant. This article discusses St Joseph’s management, financing, model of life, values and provides a sense of life within, to demonstrate how this system functioned. Despite a paucity of source material documenting lived experience, inmate emotional responses are tentatively probed. It argues that Catholicism is an important lens for understanding not solely the ethos and funding of St Joseph’s but the rhythm of daily life and death.

Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Helena Barreiros
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Common People ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractThis article retraces Lisbon's urban evolution, both planned and spontaneous, from the beginning of the Age of Discovery until the first decades of the 19th century. It highlights the 1755 earthquake as a powerful agent of transformation of Lisbon, both of the city's image and architecture and of street life. The article begins by summing up urban policies and urban planning from Manuel I's reign (1495-1521) to João V's (1707-1750); it goes on to depict Lisbon's daily life during the Ancien Regime, focusing on the uses of public and private spaces by common people. The Pombaline plans for the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake are reappraised, stressing the radically original morphology and functions of the new streets and housing types. The contrast between pre- and post-1755 Lisbon's public spaces is sharp, in both their design and use, and gradually streetscape became increasely regulated in accordance with emergent bourgeois social and urban values. More than a century later, the city's late 19th- and early 20th-century urban development still bore the mark of Pombaline plans, made just after 1755, for the revived Portuguese capital.

scholarly journals Crimmigration, Deportability and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrants

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley P. Leyro ◽  
Daniel L. Stageman
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
Labor Exploitation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fear Of Deportation ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Depth Interviews

The spread of crimmigration policies, practices, and rhetoric represents an "economically rational" strategy and has significant implications for the lived experience of noncitizen immigrants. This study draws up in-depth interviews of immigrants with a range of legal statuses to describe the mechanics through which immigrants internalize and respond to the fear of deportation, upon which crimmigration strategies rely. The fear of deportation and its behavioral effects extend beyond undocumented or criminally convicted immigrants, encompassing lawful permanent residents and naturalized citizens alike. This fear causes immigrants to refuse to use public services, endure labor exploitation, and avoid public spaces, resulting in social exclusion and interrupted integration, which is detrimental to US society as a whole.

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