‘People want good graffiti’: Tensions, contradictions, and everyday politics surrounding graffiti in Hanoi, Vietnam

Area ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Kee ◽  
Sarah Turner ◽  
Danielle Labbé
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Politics

scholarly journals Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa by J. W. Paller

Ghana Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
Kajsa Hallberg Adu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Africa ◽  
Everyday Politics

Constitutional Dysfunction on Trial

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Farrier
Keyword(s):  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Public Deliberation ◽  
Federal System ◽  
War Powers ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Federal Judges ◽  
Legislative Processes

In an original assessment of all three branches, this book reveals a new way in which the American federal system is broken. Turning away from the partisan narratives of everyday politics, the book diagnoses the deeper and bipartisan nature of imbalance of power that undermines public deliberation and accountability, especially on war powers. By focusing on the lawsuits brought by Congressional members that challenge presidential unilateralism, the book provides a new diagnostic lens on the permanent institutional problems that have undermined the separation of powers system in the last five decades, across a diverse array of partisan and policy landscapes. As each chapter demonstrates, member lawsuits are an outlet for frustrated members of both parties who cannot get their House and Senate colleagues to confront overweening presidential action through normal legislative processes. But these lawsuits often backfire—leaving Congress as an institution even more disadvantaged. The book argues these suits are more symptoms of constitutional dysfunction than the cure. It shows federal judges will not and cannot restore the separation of powers system alone. Fifty years of congressional atrophy cannot be reversed in court.

Socially skilling toil: New artisanship in papermaking in late Chosŏn Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-193
Author(s):  
Jung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Unique Material ◽  
Choson Korea ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
State Production ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Made In

In pre-modern Korea, paper was renowned for its white glossy surface and cloth-like strength, becoming an important item in both tributary exchanges and private trade. The unique material of the tak tree and related technical innovations, including toch’im, the repeated beating of just-produced paper that provides sizing and fulling effects, were crucial to this fame. However, the scholar-officials who integrated papermaking into the state production system in order to meet administrative and tributary needs initially made toch’im corvée and then penal labor, thereby dismissing it as simple toil. They were not alone, though, in denigrating a form of manual labor. Historiographies of modern science and technology are generally silent about such work, focusing instead on how we invented the human out of drudgery. However, papermakers in late Chosŏn Korea (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) chose to identify their artisanship with toch’im and eventually succeeded in securing recognition for that technique as a highly paid specialty. By examining this skilling of toch’im, this paper seeks to change the historiographical silence about toil. It overcomes the archival silence that accompanies manual skills by tracing toch’im’s contours through its changing locations and associations in society’s changing social and material networks, revealing paper artisans’ social techniques, or everyday politics that eventually dignified their laborious technique. Paper artisans’ changing relationships with tak barks, tools and facilities, central and local authorities, farmers, merchants, and scholar-officials reveal how such social skilling was made in late Chosŏn Korea, where papermaking became a most successful industry. This tracing of toch’im re-situates creative toil and everyday politics of artisanal hands in the interconnected transformation of social relations, craft, and knowledge practices.

scholarly journals Mobile Payments, Social Money: Everyday Politics of the Consumer Subject

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Kremers ◽  
James Brassett
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Payments ◽  
Everyday Politics

Feeling at Home in the Neighborhood: Belonging, the House and the Plaza in Helsinki and Madrid

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-237
Author(s):  
Kaisa Kuurne (Ketokivi) ◽  
M. Victoria Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Web ◽  
At Home

Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork in two historic, attractive, and socially mixed neighborhoods, Kumpula in Helsinki and Malasaña in Madrid, this paper examines what makes people feel at home (or not) in their neighborhood. Marrying the literatures on social belonging and materiality, we analyze the interactions through which local places, people, and materials become familiar and personal. We identify the house in Kumpula and the plaza in Madrid as “everyday totems” that weave local life and community together. In both neighborhoods, the testimonies of home are accompanied with an attachment to the local totem and related lifestyle, but the house and the plaza generate different everyday politics of belonging. House–based belonging in Kumpula requires resources and long–term engagement that over time contributes to a personal, but rather exclusive web of belonging. Plaza–based belonging in Malasaña is more inclusive and elastic, but joining the web of belonging requires time and sociability.

scholarly journals The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiliano Treré
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Drawing on interviews with social movements and organizations in Mexico and Spain, this paper sheds light on the dynamics of ‘backstage activism’ with a focus on WhatsApp. It illustrates how activists have integrated this app into their media ecologies to reinforce collective identity, cement internal solidarity and lower the pressure of protest. It shows that within WhatsApp groups, campaigners have countered the paranoia experienced in the frontstage of social media exchanging ironical material and intimate messages. It demonstrates that WhatsApp has been used as a robust organizational device and it is now firmly integrated into the mechanisms of organizations and movements. Its communicative affordances (speed, reliability, mobility, multimediality) in conjunction with the omnipresent smartphone are often emphasized. Nuancing characterizations that tend to either disregard its role or stress its negative side, this qualitative exploration foregrounds the banality of WhatsApp. This article unpacks the multiple roles of this app within the submerged practices of movements and organizations.

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