Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie M. Franks
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Spatial Metaphors

Drawing in particular from Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space and its production—according to which space is conceived as a network of relations between perceived, conceived, and lived experiences—the conclusion situates the arguments of the previous chapters in relationship to the function of the symposium as a social practice. The mosaics, by actively participating in the construction of spatial metaphors, played a crucial role in facilitating the intellectual transformation central to the symposium experience and in creating and solidifying social bonds among the participants. These conclusions suggest that the andron served as a social space in more complex ways than previously understood.

The entanglement of knowing and being: Hegel, ontology and education in the 21st century

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Brendan Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Social Ontology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Space Recognition

There has been a revived interest Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Notions emanating from his philosophy concerning the human person and that human beings together create and sustain phenomena through social practice speaks of a relational ontology that has relevance for contemporary education. This article argues that such ontology needs to be considered alongside the epistemological concerns of education. From Hegel’s writing, five interdependent ideas are delineated which have relevance for a relational ontology appropriate for contemporary education ‐ consciousness, self-consciousness, social space, recognition and identity. From these, three propositions for a social ontology of education ‐ learning as a socially constructed activity, learning as the formation of identity and learning as recognition ‐ are posited and discussed.

Suzanne Lacy between Kaprow and Chicago

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Amelia Jones
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Judy Chicago

Social practice and dematerialization are often cited as the most radical innovations in Euro-American contemporary art since the late 1960s, but rarely have historians acknowledged the crucial role of experimental pedagogy in this shift of art towards performance, conceptualism, and activism. The practice of Los Angeles–based performance artist Suzanne Lacy radically extended the ideas of her teachers and mentors Allan Kaprow and Judy Chicago into revised structures of artmaking towards activist social practice performances driven by conceptual, political, and embodied concerns.

scholarly journals The Evangelical Sexual Marketplace: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Exchange and Conversion of Erotic Capital in an Evangelical Church

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Robin Willey
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Erotic Capital

Since the development of the early church, sexual ethics and the regulation of heterosexual relationships have been integral parts of Christian religious practice. Evangelical Christian communities are no exception to this pattern of regulation. In particular, this article makes three key arguments regarding Evangelical sexual practices. First, heterosexual relationships and marriage have become one of the most important (if not the most important) aspects of Evangelical religious and social practice, surmounting both Baptism and the Eucharist. Second, those in the Evangelical sub-culture tend to find several qualities more or less attractive in a potential mate, some of which differ from those outside the sub-culture. Finally, within many Evangelical churches a defined social space—a sexual marketplace—exists where individual agents exchange and convert this commodity, among others, to attract potential marital partners. The author derives these conclusions from the ethnographic observations and interviews he conducted while attending an urban Canadian Pentecostal Church in 2009 and 2010.

scholarly journals The Sonic Intra-Face of a Noisy Feminist Social Kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana España Keller
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

This paper asks what is the value of transforming the kitchen into a sonic performative work and public site for art and social practice. A Public Kitchen is formed by recreating the private and domestic space of a kitchen into a public space through a sonic performance artwork. The kitchen table is a platform for exploring, repositioning and amplifying kitchen tools as material phenomena through electronic and manual manipulation into an immersive sonic performance installation. This platform becomes a collaborative social space, where somatic movement and sensory, sonic power of the repositioned kitchen tools are built on a relational architecture of iterative sound performances that position the art historical and the sociopolitical, transforming disciplinary interpretations of the body and technology as something that is not specifically exclusively human but post-human. A Public Kitchen represents a pedagogical strategy for organizing and responding collectively to the local, operating as an independent nomadic event that speaks through a creative practice that is an unfolding process. (Re)imagining the social in a Public Kitchen produces noisy affects in a sonic intra-face that can contribute to transforming our social imaginations, forming daring dissonant narratives that feed post-human ethical practices and feminist genealogies. This paper reveals what matters—a feminist struggle invaluable in channeling the intra-personal; through the entanglement of the self, where language, meaning and subjectivity are relational to human difference and to what is felt from the social, what informs from a multi-cultural nomadic existence and diffractive perspective. The labored body is entangled with post-human contingencies of food preparation, family and social history, ritual, tradition, social geography, local politics, and women’s oppression; and is resonant and communicates as a site where new sonic techniques of existence are created and experiences shared.

Digital gifts: Participation and gift exchange in Livejournal communities

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gift Exchanges

This paper explores notions and rationales of gift exchange among participants of the social networking site ‘LiveJournal.’ While gift exchanges can be framed as a form of power relations, this paper argues that they also have the potential to function as a way of forming and maintaining social bonds, and of maintaining individual and collective identity within the virtual social space.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION AS A MEGATREND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SOCIETY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FIELD OF CULTURE

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Irina I. Gorlova ◽  
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Alexander L. Zorin ◽  
Anatoly V. Kryukov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Research Process ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Genetic Method

The aim of the study is to identify the essence of digitalization and the disclosure of its features as one of the most significant trends in world development, affecting all spheres of public life and especially culture. The study was carried out on the basis of factual data, UN analytical documents, materials from the work of Russian and foreign philosophers, economists, and high-tech specialists. In the research process, the historical genetic method, comparative analysis of scientific concepts and diachronous method were applied. The previously identified megatrends (globalization and democrati-zation) are analyzed, their general characteristics are established. This allowed us to formulate a new definition of megatrend as a global trend that arises in one area of public life, but gradually covers all other areas of social practice. Further, the authors investigated the processes of digitalization in various fields of social practice. It is noted that, historically, digitalization arose in the field of economics and brought certain benefits, which allowed it to spread to other areas of social life. It is emphasized that in the social sector, digitalization has allowed not only to create new jobs and specialties, but also helped to unite people into groups based on information networks. These groups have become active elements of social space, acting not only in the bowels of the network, but also changing the world beyond. In the field of public administration, new technologies have laid the foundation for the development of “e-democracy” and “e-government” – forms of socio-political interaction that can significantly in-crease the level of citizen involvement in government activities, as well as improve their quality of life. The development process and the activities of electronic libraries and virtual museums are analyzed; It has been established that the essence of this activity in the aspect of digitalization consists in popu-larizing the cultural heritage and expanding its integration into social practice. The possibilities of using modern tools of “augmented reality”, which allow to achieve artistic, creative and educational goals, are determined. The authors conclude that the essence of digitalization is a fundamental reorgan-ization of all spheres of public life towards optimization, acceleration, algorithmization, standardiza-tion and unification of controlled processes in these areas, leveling “manual control”, reducing the role of the “human factor” and associated errors through the use of constantly improving networking tech-nologies and devices responsible for the accumulation, processing and storage of information.

scholarly journals Playing between concealment and presence

2021 ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Diana Coca
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Social Space ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Political Implication ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
The Relationship

This article is based on the methodology of art-practice-as-research, which departs from my artistic productionWhere is Diana?, a series of photoperformances and videos made between Beijing, Tijuana and City Mexico during 2013-2015. Aware of the obsession with identity, with this proposal I raise the question of whether it is possible to transcend physical and intellectual borders. In my work I include the dynamics of recognition in a paradoxical way, as I present myself hooded, unrecognizable, without identity, placing myself on the border, on the margins, on the limit and in precariousness, through a body that transgresses its place and moves from the private to the public. This theoretical-practical perspective considers the gender perspective, as well as the conceptual tools that feminisms have created to rethink the female subject and de-center it, through a displacement towards what is non-hegemonic or predetermined by biology. The characteristics that are defined as masculine and feminine must be questioned because their meaning is the result of a historical and social practice that has artificially naturalized them. So I propose axes of resistance to subvert gender and national identities, which I argue are fluid and modifiable. Creating this de-centre may lead to the construction of new subjectivities, a framework that expands the possibilities of action and recognition. To achieve this, I relate my artistic process to politics through the reconstruction of the sensible in social space, in the way bodies and their meanings act in that space. The relationship between art, politics, and representation that I propose here does not have to do with a discursive level but focuses on the artistic gesture and how to communicate the affects that are imprinted in the bodies, which have a sensorial and political implication.

scholarly journals Conditioning Weapons: Ethnography of the Practice of Martial Arts Training

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Domaneschi
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Kung Fu ◽  
Affective Component ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing on the inspiring work by Wacquant about apprenticeship in boxing, I present data generated from a five-year ethnographic study of one Wushu Kung Fu Association in Italy. Drawing on a Bourdieusian version of theories of social practice, the aim is to investigate in depth the relationship between habitus and materials, as it seems an underestimated issue both in Wacquant’s presentation and in most martial arts studies developed from his work. The aim is to explore the relationship between the practitioner and the set of weapons—a chief part of the martial art training—as an endless work of conditioning. To this aim, according to what Wacquant calls “enactive ethnography”, I completely immersed myself inside the fieldwork in order to be able to explore the phenomenon and to personally test its operative mechanism. The challenge here is to enter the theatre of action and, to the highest degree possible, train in the ways of the people studied so as to gain a visceral apprehension of their universe as materials and springboard for its analytic reconstruction. Drawing on the difference between the cognitive, conative, and emotive components of habitus through which, according to Bourdieu, social agents navigate social space and animate their lived world, I show how conditioning works not only on the conative or cognitive components (learning techniques and incorporating kinetic schemes), but how a deeper psychological form of conditioning also comes into play, which aims to neutralize the shock due to the fear generated by the threat of a contusion. It is at this point, therefore, that the affective component of the habitus becomes crucial in constructing a sort of intimacy bond with the tool. The detectable transformation in the habitus of the practitioner, eventually, can be deciphered, starting from the characteristics of the tool that produces, in the ways and limits given by its material features, such a transformation. In the end, I stress the relevance of recognizing the active role of objects in transforming the habitus and I briefly discuss the potentiality of enactive ethnography in analyzing social practices.

Parallelisms and affectivity in the negotiation of optimal social proximity

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Rosália Dutra
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Intended Meaning ◽  
Social Proximity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Communicative Gestures

Abstract This paper explores the ways in which speakers exchange information about themselves, and the world around them, in order to create an optimal social space in which interaction and engagement may be successfully accomplished. Success, in turn, the paper argues, depends on speakers making communicative gestures that involve the expression of certain aspects of their inner world: their preferences, attitudes, interests, beliefs, characterizations, points of view, values, assessments, likes, dislikes, and related notions that are rooted in how they feel about the world. Drawing from multi-party conversational data, the paper argues that resonance is one of the most productive outlets for the construction of ordinary evaluative/emotive stances. In fact, it is through the social practice of resonance itself that the amorphous and subtle nature of affect and emotions takes shape. The utterances that are selected for resonance, the subsequent resonant patterns, and the frequency in which the pattern is reproduced in order to secure the intended meaning are also briefly addressed in the paper.

The Choreography of Space: Towards a Socio-Aesthetics of Dance

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-90
Author(s):  
Arabella Stanger
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Sleeping Beauty ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The University

With its emphasis on the socially constructed and mobile nature of ‘space’, Henri Lefebvre's theory of spatial production presents rich possibilities for a sociocultural analysis of choreography. In this article Arabella Stanger uses an examination of social space and spatial aesthetics as a basis upon which to develop a socio-aesthetics of dance – an approach in which the societal contexts and the aesthetic forms of choreography are understood to be fundamentally interrelated. Borrowing from Lefebvre's The Production of Space (1974) and Maria Shevtsova's sociology of the theatre and performance, Stanger establishes the theoretical parameters and methodological steps of such an approach, and locates a short illustrative example in the socio-spatial formations of Aurora's Act III variation from Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (1890). Ultimately extending a bridge between formalist and contextualist strands of dance studies, the article argues for the use of a particular concept of space in understanding choreographic practice as social practice. Arabella Stanger is Lecturer in Dance at the University of Roehampton. Having trained in classical ballet, she completed her MA and PhD studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has published on the work of Merce Cunningham, Michael Clark, and William Forsythe.

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