Interactive Spaces in Times of Racial Segregation

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Maren Röger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Interactive Spaces

This chapter assesses how German occupiers and Polish men and women interacted during times of racial segregation. Curiosity, a thirst for adventure, and specific offers gave rise to observable intimate relationships, especially in the first weeks and months of the German occupation. One measure intended to curb contact between German and locals was physical separation by the German racial thinking. However, in everyday life and in some places, the segregation between groups was enforced less strictly than the regulations demanded. Instead, the German men's need for female company was an open secret, and was, to some extent, tolerated by both military and civilian authorities. Most couples who had intimate relationships lasting for longer periods got to know each other at work, however. This was the most logical and least dangerous space for interaction because men and women met here daily anyway, meaning that neither side would attract suspicion. Contact with local women could also arise from military or professional duties: police and customs officers got to know women during questioning and arrests. Sexual barter transactions, and also sexual blackmail, could develop from such encounters.

Gender Inequalities and Risk During the ‘Rush Hour’ of Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Bowman ◽  
Eve Bodsworth ◽  
Jens O. Zinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Normative Expectations

Increasingly, social policies combine to intensify old risks and create new social risks with unequal consequences for men and women. These risks include those created by changing normative expectations and the resulting tensions between social policy, paid employment and family life. Policy reliance on highly aggregated standardised outcome data and generalised models of autonomous rational action result in policies that lack an understanding of the rationales that structure everyday life. Drawing on two Australian studies, we illustrate the importance of attending to the intersections and collisions of social change and normative policy frameworks from the perspective of individual ‘lived lives’.

The Purchase of Intimacy

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviana A. Zelizer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Distinctive Pattern ◽  
Payment Systems ◽  
Monetary Transfers ◽  
Intimate Relations

This chapter examines the question: Under what conditions, how, and with what consequences do people combine monetary transfers with intimate relationships? It suggests that intimate relations involving monetary transfers include a variety of social relations, each marked by a distinctive pattern of payment. First, people routinely differentiate meaningful social relations; among other markers, they use different payment systems to create, define, affirm, challenge, or overturn such distinctions. Second, such distinctions apply to intimate social relations, including those having a sexual component. People regularly differentiate forms of monetary transfers in correspondence with their definitions of the sort of relationship that obtains between the parties. They adopt symbols, rituals, practices, and physically distinguishable forms of money to mark distinct social relations. The chapter shows that when payments within intimate relations become matters of legal dispute, lawyers and judges apply their own differentiating categories, which also turn out to be relational. It explores how this application of categories leads to a problem of translation, as participants in disputes go from categories of everyday life to legal classifications and back.

Temporality in Mobile Lives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanthi Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Work Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Transnational Mobility

This book provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of 'chronomobilities', which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', the book demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, the book deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.

The Devil’s Gonna Get You

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gussow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Bessie Smith ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
The Devil

This chapter explores a major theme within the blues lyric tradition: the devil as a figure who haunts intimate relationships between African American men and women. In some cases, men imagine themselves as footloose, mistreating devils; in other cases, they complain about romantic rivals who act in that way; in still other cases, they rage as their women, in thrall to the devil, grow cold to the touch or transfer their feelings to some other man. Artists covered include Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Skip James, and Sonny Boy Williamson, along with Bessie Smith, Koko Taylor, and other black women who call on the devil to punish their no-good man—or, alternately, reject him as a mistreating devil rather than the angel he appeared at first to be.

Innovation, Innovativeness, and Gender

2015 ◽  
pp. 244-263
Author(s):  
Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Economic Culture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Genome Model ◽  
Traditional Approaches

The chapter deals with the search for the sources of broadly understood creativity in solving various problems: social, political, practical (related to everyday life), family, economic, culture, religious, etc. wherever traditional approaches proved ineffective. These creative solutions - unconventional and having their practical application - became innovations. How multi-dimensional one's predispositions to solve problems are affects the person's capabilities to develop innovations. In view of the growing importance of gender studies, the already mentioned elements should be supplemented with one more - gender. Hence, the concept of Innovative Gender is introduced where men and women are granted equality of measures, opportunities, and situations encompassed by the innovation genome model. The starting point for Innovative Gender research is the establishment of four dedicated matrixes containing information (variables) that describes a given area, taking into account gender issuer, with collaboration playing a major role here.

I did NOT feel like this at all before the accident: do men and women report different health and life consequences of a road traffic injury?

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Hasselberg ◽  
Marie Kirsebom ◽  
Josefin Bäckström ◽  
Hans-Yngve Berg ◽  
Ritva Rissanen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Road Traffic Injury ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Traffic Injury ◽  
Physical Consequences ◽  
A Minor

BackgroundWorldwide, injuries represent one of the leading causes of mortality, and nearly one-quarter of all injuries are road traffic related. In many high-income countries, the burden of road traffic injuries (RTIs) has shifted from premature death to injury and disability with long-term consequences; therefore, it is important to assess the full burden of an RTI on individual lives.ObjectiveTo describe how men and women with minor and moderate injuries reported the consequences of an RTI on their health and lives.MethodsThe study was designed as an explorative qualitative study, in which the answers to an open-ended question concerning the life and health consequences following injury were analysed using systematic text condensation.ParticipantsA total of 692 respondents with a minor or a moderate injury were included.ResultsThe respondents reported the consequences of the crash on their health and lives according to four categories: physical consequences, psychological consequences, everyday life consequences and financial consequences. The results show that medically classified minor and moderate injuries have detrimental long-term health and life consequences. Although men and women report some similar consequences, there are substantial differences in their reported psychological and everyday life consequences following an injury. Women report travel anxiety and PTSD-like symptoms, being life altering for them compared with men, for whom these types of reports were missing.ConclusionThese differences emphasise the importance of considering gender-specific physical and psychological consequences following an RTI.

Gender Differences in the Motivations for the Use of Sanctions in Conflicts Within Muslim and Jewish Couples

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052093549
Author(s):  
Wafaa Sowan-Basheer ◽  
Zeev Winstok
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Preliminary Estimate ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
First Time ◽  
Empirical Implications

This study aimed to examine differences between men and women and between Muslims, secular Jews, and religious Jews in their motivations for using sanctions within their intimate relationships. This work involved heterosexual couples from the general population. The sample included 95 Muslim, 68 secular Jewish, and 70 ultra-orthodox Jewish couples (466 participants). The findings of the study show that sanction use during times of conflict is prevalent among the vast majority of couples. Motivations for the use of sanctions are stronger among women than men. In addition, the strongest motivation expressed by both genders was a motivation for conflict resolution. This is the first time that sanctions, as a tactic to cope with conflict, have been addressed in a scholarly manner. This study provides a preliminary estimate of how commonly these types of behaviors are used in intimate relationships. Theoretical and empirical implications of the theoretical framework and the findings are discussed, including the role of the use of sanction in the escalation of intimate partner conflicts.

The Experience of Respite during Home-Based Family Caregiving for Persons with Advanced Cancer

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki R. Strang ◽  
Priscilla M. Koop ◽  
Jacqueline Peden
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Interpretive Study ◽  
Home Based ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this qualitative interpretive study was to explore the experience of respite during home-based family caregiving for persons with advanced cancer. Fifteen caregivers were interviewed twice after the death of their family member. Three main themes emerged from the data analysis. First, caring for a dying family member at home is an emotionally intense, exhausting, and singular experience, set in a world apart from everyday life patterns. Second, the caregivers differentiated between cognitive breaks and physical (getting away from) breaks of respite. To achieve a cognitive break and yet remain within the caregiving environment was viewed as important, whereas the physical separation from it was significant only if it contributed in some meaningful way to the caregiving. Third, the meaning of respite is rooted in the desire to bring a measure of quality and normalcy to the life of the dying person. Respite means staying engaged in living life with the dying family member.

scholarly journals Colonial crossovers: Nazi Germany and its entanglements with other empires

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
International Context ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
The One

Abstract Nazi Germany’s place in the wider world is a controversial topic in historiography. While scholars such as Ian Kershaw argue that Hitler’s dictatorship must be understood as a unique national phenomenon, others analyse Nazism within comparative frameworks. Mark Mazower, for example, argues that the international concept of ‘empire’ is useful for comprehending the German occupation of Europe. Using an approach native to transnational cultural studies, my contribution goes a step further: I analyse how the Nazis themselves positioned their regime in a wider international context, and thus gave meaning to it. My main thesis is that, while the Nazis took a broad look at international colonialism, they differentiated considerably between the various national experiences. French and British empire-building, for instance, did not receive the same attention as Japanese and Italian colonial projects. Based on new archival evidence, I show that the act of referring in particular to the Italian example was crucial for the Nazis. On the one hand, drawing strong parallels between Italian colonialism and the German rule of eastern Europe allowed Hitler to recruit support for his own visions of imperial conquest. On the other hand, Italian colonialism served as a blueprint for the Nazis’ plans for racial segregation. The article thus shows the importance of transnational exchange for understanding ideological dynamics within the Nazi regime.

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