Dana Hercbergs, Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. 292 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 328-330
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
State University ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
Family Living ◽  
Border Narratives ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
The City

Dana Hercbergs’ Overlooking the Border is a study of popular narratives on Jerusalem, based on the fieldwork she did in the city between 2007-2008 and 2014-2016. More precisely, she deals with stories told by contemporary Jerusalemites—both Israeli Jews and Palestinians, who come from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Enriched with maps and photographs, the well-written text moves between past and present as the narrators recount their everyday life experiences, inevitably touching upon the ways their lives are influenced by political and social realities. Hercbergs does not limit her sources to informants and storytellers, or to interviews, guided tours, or a visit to a family living in the Shu’afat refugee camp. She also rightly considers material expressions such as street plaques, posters, architectural projects, a permanent photography exhibit of family portraits and street scenes in West Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Heritage Museum. The border that the book discusses is multidimensional: social, physical, ethnic, and national....

The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Urban Condition ◽  
The People ◽  
Hard State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Material Form

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people’s everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its inhabitants’ memories, aspirations and meaningful interpretations challenges the reduction of Singapore as a Generic City. Taking the imaginative field as the point of departure, the forms and modes of intellectual and creative articulations of Singapore’s urban condition probe the resilience of cities and the people who reside in them, through the images they convey or evoke as a means for collective expressions of human agency in placemaking.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Abhishek Choudhary ◽  
Rhys Machold ◽  
Ricardo Cardoso ◽  
Andreas Hackl ◽  
Martha Lagace ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
State University ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Political Ethnography ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
System A ◽  
Border Narratives

How Rivalries End by Karen Rasler, William R. Thompson, and Sumit Ganguly. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 280 pp. 4 illus. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4498-4.The Privatization of Israeli Security by Shir Hever. London: Pluto Press, 2018. 256 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-7453-3720-3.Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola by Jon Schubert. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. 270 pp. 5 illus. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-5017-1369-9.Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. 284 pp. 46 illus. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-8143-4108-7.Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone by Mariane C. Ferme. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 336 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-52029-438-7.Sporadically Radical: Ethnographies of Organised Violence and Militant Mobilization Edited by Steffen Jensen and Henrik E. Vigh. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. 290 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-8-76354-602-7.

scholarly journals Karya Patung Abstrak Lisa Widiarti Ditinjau Dari Bentuk Dan Medium

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Khairun Nisa ◽  
Elvis Elvis ◽  
Armen Nazaruddin
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Metal Plate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
State University ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Abstract Sculpture ◽  
Abstract Shapes ◽  
The City

This study discusses the form and medium used by Lisa Widiarti in making abstract sculptures. This study also briefly discusses Lisa Widiarti's short artistic journey. The discussion uses qualitative research methods, which include: observation, interviews, and literature study as well as research conducted in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. Based on the results of research on Lisa Widiarti's abstract sculpture, Lisa has produced dozens of abstract sculptures and almost every year always participates in exhibition events. Lisa tends to bring objects with the themes of love, social, everyday life, and beauty into her sculptures which are made with abstract shapes, and the mediums used in her work are various such as resin, stone, wood, cement, gypsum, metal plate and slurry. paper. Lisa is a female sculptor who is also a lecturer at Padang State University. Lisa is still able to survive with her abstract sculptures and become a resilient, creative, and active female sculptor in West Sumatra. Much can be learned andresearched from Lisa Widiarti's sculptures, especially abstract sculptures in terms of form and medium. It is hoped that research on Lisa Widiarti's abstract sculpture can be a reference so that there are opportunities for other researchers to research from a different scientific point of view. 

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF SCHOOLSTUDENTS P. P. MAKSIMOVICH

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Ольга Константиновна Ермишкина
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
State University ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Tver Region ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The City

В статье рассматриваются вопросы организации быта (жилье, питание, одежда) и досуга учениц школы П.П. Максимовича и их влияние на формирование мировоззрения будущих учительниц. Рассматривается процесс адаптации учениц к новым бытовым условиям, особенности социализации в новом коллективе. Отмечается, что трансформация бытовой культуры воспитанниц происходила под влиянием социально-культурной обстановки в городе и норм, принятых в школе: правильные и здоровые правила гигиены, неформальные, творческие традиции в постановке внеклассной работы, уникальная атмосфера взаимовыручки, поддержки, доверия между учителями и ученицами, разнообразные формы досуга. Формирование у воспитанниц новых правил и привычек в повседневной жизни сопровождало процесс трансформации их социальной роли и приобщения к традициям русского учительства Статья написана на основе материалов фонда редких книг Научной библиотеки ТвГУ, фонда школы П.П. Максимовича в Государственном архиве Тверской области, воспоминаний преподавателей и учениц школы. The article discusses the issues of organizing everyday life (housing, food, clothing) and leisure of the schoolchildren of P.P. Maksimovich and their influence on the formation of the outlook of future teachers. The process of adaptation of schoolgirls to new living conditions, features of socialization in a new team are considered. It is noted that the transformation of the everyday culture of the pupils took place under the influence of the socio-cultural situation in the city and the norms adopted at school: correct and healthy rules of hygiene, informal, creative traditions in the organization of extracurricular work, a unique atmosphere of mutual assistance, support, trust between teachers and students, various forms of leisure. The formation of new rules and habits among the pupils in everyday life accompanied the process of transformation of their social role and introduction to the traditions of Russian teaching. The article was written on the basis of materials from the fund of rare books of the Scientific Library of Tver State University, the fund of the P.P. Maksimovich in the State Archives of the Tver Region, memoirs of teachers and schoolgirls.

Esther Schely-Newman. Our Lives are but Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2002. 232 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-387
Author(s):  
Susan Sered
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
State University ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
Women's Narratives

Our Lives are but Stories is a welcome and appealing addition to the small but valuable corpus of studies of Jewish women whose ethnic heritages, as much as their Judaism, shape their life experiences and their narratives telling of those experiences. Joining books such as Lisa Gilad's Ginger and Salt: Yemeni Jewish Women in an Israeli Town (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989); Jael Silliman's Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001); Joelle Bahloul's Le Culte de la Table Dressée: Rites et Traditions de la Table Juive Algérienne (Paris: A. M. Métailié: Diffusion, Presses universitaires de France, 1983); Rachel Simon's Change Within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992); and my own Women As Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem (New York: Oxford University Press 1992), Schely-Newman's Our Lives are but Stories makes a substantial contribution to the study of Jewish women of Asia and North Africa.

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