Understanding Exclusionary Inclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-83
Author(s):  
Natasha Behl
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Informal Rules

Chapters 4 utilizes interview and participant observation data to focus on Sikh women’s lived experience of exclusionary inclusion in civil society and the home. Chapter 4 demonstrates how research participants construct the category of woman in relation to home and marriage, and how they naturalize exclusionary inclusion through the following unwritten and informal rules: (1) women’s rights and duties, (2) public policies, (3) women’s religiosity, (4) women’s purity, and (5) women as perpetual outsiders. A majority of research participants understand gender equality and religious autonomy as competing goals, which makes it more difficult to achieve equality. The ethnographic data reveals that Sikh women do not experience civil society as an uncoerced space of voluntary associational life, and they do not experience the home as a place of safety, security, and respect. Rather they experience exclusionary inclusion in both these spaces.

Icons in the Lived Experience of American Orthodox Christians

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-383
Author(s):  
Amy A. Slagle
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Devotional Practice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Multiple Media

Abstract This article explores how American Orthodox Christians today use and interpret icons in the course of their everyday devotional lives. Drawing upon ethnographic data collected through participant observation and interviews with parishioners of an Orthodox Church in Mississippi in 2015, I highlight the ways that diverse and multiple media within a wider American context of “buffet-style” spiritual appropriation affect informant considerations of and interactions with icons. Fundamental to this article is the tension between informants’ experiences with icons as the conveyance of divine “presence” and the concerns they express over the extent to which American commodification and mass-media cultures threaten the status and sacrality of images in Orthodox devotional practice.

Playing with Positionality?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Research Site ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions

The chapter outlines how researchers take on different roles and positionalities as they adapt to the field, moving, for instance, from that of an “outsider” laden with externalized theoretical assumptions and having few contacts with and knowledge of the research site to one approaching, to varying degrees, that of a “pseudo-insider.” Indeed, the argument here is that researchers make choices when moving from outsider to insider roles (and between them), contingently adapting their positionality in the hope to better understand the political dynamics that underlie research projects. The setting is post-civil war Lebanon and the research project revolves around an examination of the micropolitics of civil society and associational life in this re-emerging but fragmented polity.

Studying Globalization at Home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

Special section: Is feminism doomed? Feminist praxis in the times of ‘gender ideology’ in Slovakia

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682097915
Author(s):  
Zuzana Maďarová ◽  
Veronika Valkovičová
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Far Right ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Times ◽  
Feminist Organizing

Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, Slovak feminist activists look back to the 1990s and early 2000s as the time of exceptional capacity building and knowledge production which was barely sustained in later years. The last decade of feminist organizing has been marked by waning financial resources for civil society organizations, and appropriation of feminist and gender equality agenda by the state, which led to the hollowing out of its content. What is more, strong and pervasive conservative pressure with the aid of ‘gender ideology’ rhetoric has been successful in delegitimizing gender equality policies and is consistently threatening sexual and reproductive rights in the country. Facing such prospects, this article examines newfound alliances and diverse forms of broadly understood feminist praxis, which go beyond institutionalized civil society, but have developed to counter neoconservative and far-right political pressure in Slovakia.

scholarly journals Civil society involvement in harm reduction drug policy: reflections on the past, expectations for the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen O’Gorman ◽  
Eberhard Schatz
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Health Crisis

Abstract Background A range of civil society organisations (CSOs) such as drug user groups, non-governmental/third sector organisations and networks of existing organisations, seek to shape the development of drugs policy at national and international levels. However, their capacity to do so is shaped by the contexts in which they operate nationally and internationally. The aim of this paper is to explore the lived experience of civil society participation in these contexts, both from the perspective of CSOs engaged in harm reduction advocacy, and the institutions they engage with, in order to inform future policy development. Methods This paper is based on the presentations and discussions from a workshop on ‘Civil Society Involvement in Drug Policy hosted by the Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network at the International Society for the Study of Drugs Policy (ISSDP) annual conference in Paris, 2019. In the aftermath of the workshop, the authors analysed the papers and discussions and identified the key themes arising to inform CSI in developing future harm reduction policy and practice. Results Civil society involvement (CSI) in policy decision-making and implementation is acknowledged as an important benefit to representative democracy. Yet, the accounts of CSOs demonstrate the challenges they experience in seeking to shape the contested field of drug policy. Negotiating the complex workings of political institutions, often in adversarial and heavily bureaucratic environments, proved difficult. Nonetheless, an increase in structures which formalised and resourced CSI enabled more meaningful participation at different levels and at different stages of policy making. Conclusions Civil society spaces are colonised by a broad range of civil society actors lobbying from different ideological standpoints including those advocating for a ‘drug free world’ and those advocating for harm reduction. In these competitive arena, it may be difficult for harm reduction orientated CSOs to influence the policy process. However, the current COVID-19 public health crisis clearly demonstrates the benefits of partnership between CSOs and political institutions to address the harm reduction needs of people who use drugs. The lessons drawn from our workshop serve to inform all partners on this pathway.

scholarly journals A Pandemia Covid-19 e o Estado de Emergência em Portugal: Breves Considerações Sobre Políticas Públicas

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Leandro Berenguer ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Top Down ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Time

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted States to adopt exceptional measures to contain their spreads rates and therefore mitigate their effects. In Portugal there was a need to resort to the figure of the state of emergency, being used for the first time since the foundation of the third Republic. To respond to a situation of public calamity, the suspension, albeit partial, of fundamental rights, freedoms and guarantees was used, adopting measures with repercussions in the most varied areas of civil society. Based on the security context of a State, this article intends to analyse the declarations of the state of emergency in Portugal in the light of the theoretical framework of public policies, reflecting on the process of implementing the state of emergency. To this end, the top-down and bottom-up approaches are placed in confrontation as the main theories of public policies implementation in the analysis of the unprecedented political context in Portugal.

scholarly journals POTENSI KEARIFAN LOKAL TAMBI UMA SUKU ENDE SEBAGAI SUMBER BELAJAR BIOLOGI DAN PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Maria Waldetrudis Lidi ◽  
Maimunah H Daud ◽  
Morison Yosep M. Bolong
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Data Inference

Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi kearifan lokal suku Ende Tambi uma untuk dijadikan sebagai salah satu sumber belajar biologi dan pendidikan karakter yang kontekstual. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di desa Gheoghoma, dan desa Watumbawu, Kabupaten Ende Propinsi NTT pada bulan Mei Tahun 2020. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data berupa memadukan antara data observasi, wawancara dan studi literature yang ditindaklanjuti dengan tahap reduksi data, penyajian data, penyimpulan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kearifan lokal Tambi uma berpotensi dijadikan sebagai sumber belajar biologi dan pendidikan karakter terutama mengandung nilai-nilai karakter luhur seperti gotong royong, persaudaraan, tanggung jawab, ketaatan, kesetaraan gender, nilai sosial, dan nilai komunikatif, yang berdampak pada sikap antusias peserta didik dalam mempelajari konsep.Abstract. This study aims to identify local wisdom of the Ende Tambi uma tribe to serve as a source of contextual biology and character education. This research was conducted in Gheoghoma village and Watumbawu village, Ende Regency, NTT Province in May 2020. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. The data collection technique is in the form of combining observation data, interviews and literature studies which are followed up with the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and data inference. The results showed that local wisdom of Tambi uma has the potential to be used as a source of learning biology and character education, especially containing noble character values such as mutual cooperation, brotherhood, responsibility, obedience, gender equality, social values, and communicative values, which have an impact on enthusiasm. learners in learning concepts.

scholarly journals Um ministério com cultura: Gilberto Gil e os exercícios de antropologia aplicada

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Segata ◽  
Adriana Donato
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Culture System ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Relationship

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre o Ministério da Cultura na gestão do Ministro Gilberto Gil e o processo de formulação das principais políticas gestadas no período 2003 a 2008. O primeiro tópico apresenta os principais mecanismos da gestão Gilberto Gil: Sistema Nacional de Cultura, reformulação da Lei Rouanet, Programa Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, Plano Nacional de Cultura e Vale-Cultura. O segundo tópico faz uma reflexão sobre a relação da “ampliação do conceito de cultura” em sua dimensão antropológica e simbólica – ideia implementada pelo ministro – para novas diretrizes das políticas culturais gestadas em seu mandato. Por fim, traz uma reflexão sobre a contribuição da abertura não somente conceitual, mas também a abertura do diálogo entre diversos atores da sociedade civil neste processo de construção das novas diretrizes e das novas políticas culturais no Brasil a partir de 2003.Palavras-chave: Gilberto Gil. Cultura. Antropologia. Democratização. Políticas Públicas  A ministry with culture: Gilberto Gil and the exercises in applied anthropologyAbstract: This paper presents a study on the Ministry of Culture in the administration of Minister Gilberto Gil and formulating the central policies implemented from 2003 to 2008. The first topic presents the main mechanisms of the Gilberto Gil administration: the Sistema National Culture System, the reformulation of Lei Rounet, the Program Cultura Viva – Pontos de Cultura, the Plano Nacional de Cultura and the Vale-Cultura. The second topic reflects the relationship between the “expansion of the concept of culture” in its anthropological and symbolic dimension – an idea implemented by the minister – for new guidelines for cultural policies created during his term. Finally, the work reflects on the contribution of conceptual opening and the opening of dialogue between different civil society actors in this process of construction of new guidelines and new cultural policies in Brazil from 2003 onwards. It reflects on how a set of anthropological defenses to traditional, popular and ethnic knowledge, practices, and knowledge converted into an “anthropological concept of culture” guided a vision of democratizing government that is resistant to European models of culture.Keywords: Gilberto Gil; Culture; Anthropology, Democratization; Public Policies

scholarly journals Pomiędzy miłością agapiczną a erozyczną. Praktyki miłości i związków intymnych wśród indyjskiej miejskiej klasy średniej

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
Anna Romanowicz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork

Arranged marriages are the most common (and perceived as traditional) form of formalized heterosexual relationships in India. However, interest in relationships based on romantic love – especially among urban middle class –is increasing. The goal of the article is to present various practices related to romantic love, which cannot be inscribed in a rigid division for arranged and love marriages; to present everyday strategies and tactics, as they are being practiced by my research participants in context of sociocultural changes. The article is based on information gathered in ethnographic fieldwork (with a technique of participant observation) in Delhi.

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