The Concept of Subalternity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Zehmisch
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Ethnographic Writing ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Subaltern Theory ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Means Of Production

Chapter 1 explores the intellectual trajectory of the concept of subalternity. The first section revisits some key debates of subaltern theory which are considered relevant for the book. It demonstrates that subaltern theory may be fruitfully applied to understanding social inequality, especially when it comes to analysing the interlinked exclusion of subalterns from hegemonic frameworks of speech and, access to means of production in the modern state. The second part reflects on the methodological and theoretical consequences of applying subaltern theory to anthropological fieldwork and ethnographic writing. The author demands that the fieldwork method of participant observation is particularly suited to document the everyday life of subalterns, especially their often embodied practices and rituals. Beyond, he argues that the establishing of social relations with subalterns may serve as a precondition enabling the fieldworker to ‘speak with subalterns’ and thus to capture their voice in a more direct way.

scholarly journals Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita Elias ◽  
Shirin M. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Power And Agency ◽  
A Site

AbstractIt goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday – conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of everyday life and everyday political struggle infuse feminist analysis. This article seeks to interrogate the concept of the everyday – questioning prevalent understandings of the everyday and asking whether there is analytical and conceptual utility to be gained in articulating a specifically feminist understanding of it. We argue that a feminist political economy of the everyday can be developed in ways that push theorisations of social reproduction in new directions. We suggest that one way to do this is through the recognition that social reproductionisthe everyday alongside a three-part theorisation of space, time, and violence (STV). It is an approach that we feel can play an important role in keeping IPE honest – that is, one that recognises how important gendered structures of everyday power and agency are to the conduct of everyday life within global capitalism.

scholarly journals An Ethnographic Approach to School Convivencia

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 887-907
Author(s):  
Cristina Perales Franco
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract: Convivencia is a Spanish concept that addresses the ways of living together, living with others. School convivencia in particular is formed by the tapestry of social relations that construct the everyday life in schools, and it provides the relational elements and boundaries where the school experience is constructed. This article derives from an investigation of the relationships between two Mexican primary schools and their local communities and their implications for school convivencia. It presents two challenges of analysing school convivencia from an ethnographic perspective: the struggle between restrictive and comprehensive approaches and the tension between the specific and the complex in understanding convivencia.

Street Performance and the City

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
The City

This article examines the performative transformation of street spaces into performance places by considering the practices of street performers. Street performance here refers to a set of practices whereby either musical or nonmusical performances are undertaken in the street with the aim of eliciting donations from passersby. Drawing on ethnographic observations undertaken in Bath, U.K., and situating the discussion in recent conceptions of everyday life and public space, the specific sociospatial interventions that street performances make into Bath’s everyday life are considered. In doing so, the article focuses on the fleeting social relations that emerge from these interventions and what these can do to the experience of the everyday in terms of producing moments of sociality and conviviality. This is also reflected on in light of the various debates that have occurred in Bath as a result of these interventions relating to the increased regulation of street performances. The article then highlights the conflicted and contentious position that street performers occupy in the everyday life of such cities.

scholarly journals Plans, Changes, Improvisations

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Inês Faria
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Production History ◽  
Phd Thesis

This article addresses the challenges and reflections of a junior anthropologist while developing research on the delicate topic of reproductive health and infertility in Maputo, Mozambique. Based on participant observation notes, entries in fieldwork diaries, and interviews, and assuming the character of a reflexive ethnographic account, the article concerns personal and research challenges and opportunities experienced during the preparation and development of a research project and a PhD thesis. While reflecting more broadly on processes of knowledge production, history and colonial relations, and on the writing of a scientific account, it provides insights into the pragmatics of research in medical anthropology by detailing the everyday life of doing ethnography, including networking, bureaucratic processes, boredom, the exploration of new fieldwork landscapes, and positionality dilemmas.

Chewing Accidents

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 580-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegfried Saerberg
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Behavior ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Phenomenological Description ◽  
Life World ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Online Sources ◽  
Insight Into

This article compares two variations of bodily practices and bodily-grounded orientations and systems of relevance: the blind and the sighted life-worlds. Blindness is conceptualized as a particular style of perception being in no way a deficit but on equal footing with sight. Comparison will show differences and commonalities that may give a deeper insight into how bodily and sensory orientation and practice work in a mundane situation. This situation is feeding behavior and in particular its failure in “Chewing Accidents” focusing on three variations: tongue biting, swallowing a wasp, and biting on a cherry pit. Data are taken from participant observation, focused interviews, and online sources such as blogs and medical forums. By virtue of a detailed phenomenological description of chewing behavior, the article shows that blindness is not the contradiction of sight and vice versa. Invisibility is an element of the everyday life-world, with the latter being dependent on dark areas.

scholarly journals Vývoj a vliv tradiční a moderní hudby v každodennosti Kyrgyzů / The development and influence in traditional and modern music on the everyday life of the Kyrgyz people

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Miloš Jodas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
National Pride ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The principal aim of this paper is to define Kyrgyz music in Kyrgyzstan ethnomusicology in order to assess whether the traditional Kyrgyz music has an essential impact on the identity of the Kyrgyz people and, if so, how does this impact manifest itself. In order to assess the impacts during research, the author was concerned with the influence of urbanization, globalization on processes related to music, the preference of either traditional or modern music, and how music is perceived in a cross-generational perspective. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on related phenomena including folk music instruments of the Kyrgyz or the Kyrgyz storytellers and musicians, who call themselves aqyns and manaschi. Additionally, the relationship of the national pride and music or the most common forms of music education of children and adolescents and its financial and spatial availability are being explored and scrutinized. The unifying theme of this thesis is music in everyday life of the Kyrgyz. The analytical part of this research mainly draws on the results of the author’s month-long field research from 2018 which took place in various diverse regions of Kyrgyzstan. The research includes a questionnaire, overt participant observation, and semi-structured interviews.

scholarly journals CIRCLE DANCING IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ELDERLY PERSON

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Maciel Silva ◽  
Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke ◽  
Michelle Kuntz Durand ◽  
Ivonete Teresinha Schülter Buss Heidemann ◽  
Joanara Rozane da Fontoura Winters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Work Community ◽  
The Everyday

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the everyday life of the elderly person who practices circle dancing. Method: a interpretative qualitative research based on Comprehensive sociology and the daily life. Data collection occurred between September 2016 and March 2017 through in-depth interviews and participant observation. There was a total of 20 participants, with 17 of them practicing the dancing and three circle dance leaders in the Basic Health Units of a municipality in southern Brazil. Data analysis included preliminary analysis, ordering, key links, coding and categorization. Results: two thematic categories emerged: The daily life of the elderly person; Experiencing circle dancing in everyday life. The daily lives of the elderly are involved in domestic activities, family care, volunteer work, community groups and physical activities. The elderly expressed that circle dancing brought changes, made them more balanced, calm, cheerful, attentive, interactive, with pain relief and improved family and social relationships. Conclusion: circle dancing in the daily life of the elderly person causes emotional, physical, social and, mainly, family changes in their everyday way of living, making them more positive, loving and sensitive, healthier, it also contributes to health promotion and a better quality life.

Household Structures and Activities

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 271-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matina Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Village Women ◽  
The Village

The study lasted two months during the summer of 1972 (19th July–14th September) and was approached by means of three techniques:1. participant observation;2. observation;3. interviews.The first consists in the researcher entering the household, establishing contact with the family, and then studying the everyday life by direct observation and participation in the activities. This technique allows freer access to the household than would normally be possible utilizing other techniques, and thus facilitates the collection of detailed data. This technique was applied to one household (referred to as the “study household”) in the village. Although data were collected on many aspects of daily life, special emphasis was placed on obtaining information about those activities which it was felt would have some relevance to archaeological problems in general.The second approach involves general observations of the village women at work, and in particular, observations of five other village households with which other members of the project co-operated.The third approach involved questioning the “study household” and the other five on general topics, such as the length of time taken to perform certain activities.

scholarly journals Digital Ascendancy and Madrasah Education: The Influence of Media Technology on the Life-worlds of Female Madrasah Student

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Muneeba Khusnood ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
Tasmia Jahangir
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Selection Of

The present research explores the phenomenological reflections on the everyday life of madrasah students to comprehend their life-worlds in the context of growing media technology in Pakistan and how religious personalities on media influence the lifeworlds of madrasah students? This ethnographic research was conducted in Ahl-e-Hadith Madrasah, located in Rawalpindi. The research design employed participant observation (PO) and in-depth interviews of madrasah students and teachers belonging to diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. The findings suggest that the teachings and principles of the Ahl-e-Hadith sect taught in madrasah profoundly influence the life-worlds of female madrasah students. The major areas of students' life-worlds that are influenced by madrasah discourses include sectarian associations, selection of spouse, dressing patterns, media aesthetics, the configuration of entertainment, and the influence of ulemas on students' everyday life.

scholarly journals The Politics of Collective Repair. Examining Object-Relations in a Postwork Society.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Graziano ◽  
Kim Trogal
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Surface Tensions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Ecological Action

In this article we look at repair as an emergent focus of recent activism in affluent societies, where a number of groups are reclaiming practices of repair as a form of political and ecological action. Ranging from those that fight for legislative change to those groups who are trying to support ecological and social change through everyday life practices, repair is beginning to surface tensions in everyday life and as such poses opportunities for its transformation. We survey a few ofthe practices that make up this movement in its various articulations, to take stock of their current political import.While we suggest that these practices can be seen as an emergent lifestyle movement, they should not be seen as presenting a unified statement. Rather, we aim to show that they articulate a spectrum of political positions, particularly in relation to the three specific issues of property, pedagogy and sociality. These three dimensions are all facets of current internal discrepancies of repair practices and moreover express potential bifurcations as this movement evolves. Drawing on a diverse methodology that includes discourse analysis and participant observation, we suggest some of the ways in which this growing area of activity could play a significant role in resisting the commodification of the everyday and inventing postwork alternatives.

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