Foreign Bodies at Work: Good, Docile and Other-ed

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noorman Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe lived, and oftentimes silenced, experiences of "foreign workers" articulate the negotiation of power relations between "citizen" and "foreigner", and "Us" and "Them". These are translated into discursive practices that, in effect, legitimize and entrench differences — hence, inequalities — that effectively discipline the "foreign worker" as "not one of Us". By taking the example of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore as a case study, I argue in this paper that the workspaces of "foreign construction workers" in Singapore typify that of a "total institution", which correspondingly moulds the worker into a discursive ideal — the "good, docile Other". Such impositions and productions of Otherness, however, face rupture as workers (re)negotiate, (re)work, and (re)inscribe their everyday lives through the employment of what James Scott (1985, 1987) terms "everyday 'resistances'" in rising above that which subjugates them. I will present in this paper primary data elicited and collated from direct participant observation, fieldwork, and in-depth interviews conducted in a construction project in Singapore.

The pandemic and homeless people in the Turin area: the level of housing adequacy shapes experiences and well-being

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Leonardi ◽  
Silvia Stefani
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Homeless Services ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose Considering the case study presented, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the pandemic in local services for homeless people. Drawing from the concept of ontological security, it will be discussed how different services’ levels of “housing adequacy” shaped remarkably different experiences of the pandemic for homeless people and social workers in terms of health protection and agency. Design/methodology/approach This paper focuses on a case study concerning homeless services for people during the COVID-19 pandemic in the metropolitan and suburban area of Turin, in Northern Italy. In-depth interviews with social workers and participant observation during online meetings of workers from the shelters constitute the empirical data that have been collected during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy. Findings According to the findings, the pandemic showed shelters as unsafe places that reduce homeless people’s decision power and separate them from the rest of the citizenship. Instead, Housing First projects emerged as imore inclusive and safermore inclusive and safer spaces, able to enhance people’s power over their own lives. The pandemic did not create emerging issues in the homeless services system or discontinuities: rather, it amplified pre-existing problematic aspects. Originality/value The case study presented provides empirical insights to recognise at the political and organisational level the importance of housing as a measure of individual and collective security, calling for an intervention to tackle homelessness in terms of housing policies rather than exclusively social and emergency treatment.

Understanding the gendered impact of disasters on women, household dynamics and coping strategies: a case study of Bangladesh.

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
N. Rezwana
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Household Dynamics ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Post Disaster

Abstract This chapter discusses the vulnerability of women in Bangladesh, the strategies women adopt to cope and survive in post-disaster periods, and presents firsthand accounts of these dynamics from remote and disaster-prone regions of the country. The data were obtained through household surveys, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation in four research sites in Bangladesh during the period 2012 to 2019. This analysis recommends greater attention to gender mainstreaming in prevailing disaster management plans and policies, and suggests immediate actions to improve women's lives in the disaster-prone regions.

COMPROMISE IN TRADITIONAL CEREMONIES: A CASE STUDY OF THE RAMBU SOLO’ CEREMONY IN TORAJA REGENCY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasbi ◽  
Mohamad Fauzi Sukimi ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal Latief ◽  
Yusriadi Yusriadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Storage Period ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Motives ◽  
The Village ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose of the study: The rambu solo’ ceremony is a traditional death ceremony of the Tana Toraja regency with roots in local beliefs. However, over time, the tradition has become associated with social status and economic motives. These changes have led to many issues. This article analyses the motivations that drive the compromises that families must accept when selecting a form of rambu solo’. Methodology: This was a case study conducted in the village of Lemo in the regency of Tana Toraja. Primary data collected through in-depth interviews and observation. Informants consisted of cultural figures, religious figures, and indigenous locals with experience performing rambu solo’ — secondary data taken from existing literature about Toraja Regency. Main Findings: Results showed that compromises taken for motives of social status were irrational but comprised the most common reasoning behind rambu solo’ ceremony selection. For those families motivated by social status, choice of rambu solo’ ceremony form performed for one of two reasons: preserving their social status ascribed to them from birth (attributed status) Applications of this study: The selection of non-rapasanrambu solo’ ceremonies based on economic motives were rationally-sound but relatively rare. Avoiding wastefulness in the performing of rambu solo’ is done through simplifying the procession through shortening the storage period of the remains of the deceased before the rambu solo’ reducing the number of days of the rambu solo’ ceremony. Novelty/Originality of this study: This shows that irrational decision-making, in the context of traditional ceremonies, cannot be considered irrational; even irrational decisions can be justified and explained based on individual interpretations of rationality based on local culture. Interestingly, social status was the most common motive form selection based on economic motives were rational but less popular among the people sound choice theory

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE TOURIST VILLAGES MANAGEMENT BASED ON JAVANESE LOCAL WISDOM ‘MEMAYU HAYUNING BAWONO’ BEST PRACTICE OF DESA WISATA PENTINGSARI, YOGYAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Ramang H. Demolinggo ◽  
Darmawan Damanik ◽  
Kadek Wiweka ◽  
Putu Pramania Adnyana
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Tourist Village ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Purpose of the Study: This study aims to identify the potential of Pentingsari Tourist Village and tourist characteristics and analyze the presence of local wisdom Memayu Hayuning Bawono in Pentingsari Village, especially its implementation in the sustainable Tourist Villages management. Methodology: This research uses a "multi-method" or mixed-method approach. In addition to conducting non-participant observation in the Pentingsari tourism village, researchers also conducted in-depth interviews with a purposive sampling method. While the accident sampling method was adopted to distribute questionnaires involving 72 respondents (tourists). Main Findings: This research found that tourism and local wisdom have become unity and seem to strengthen one another. In other words, harmonization between the environment, arts and culture, and community life aspects through local wisdom, can become a tourism commodity. On the other hand, tourism provides economic and social impacts to preserve the local sense of the community. Implication/Applications: This case study can be useful as a role model of sustainable tourism management based on local knowledge. Besides, this study can enrich references related to the concept of sustainable tourism based on local wisdom. Originality of the study: The paper is original, and this is the current study to examine the local wisdom Memayu Hayuning Bawono in Pentingsari Village, particularly related to tourism issues.

scholarly journals El territorio como campo de transformaciones socio-productivas. La posición de los agentes/ The territory as a field of socio-productive transformations. The position of agents

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graciela Maria Preda
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Institutional Agents ◽  
The North ◽  
Reproduction Strategies ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Methodological Strategy

La expansión del capitalismo, a fines del siglo pasado, ha provocado profundas transformaciones en las estructuras sociales y en las relaciones de producción en el agro. En el norte de Córdoba, Argentina, lugar donde se realizó este estudio de caso, la ampliación de la frontera agraria con centralidad en la soja propició la inclusión de nuevos agentes productivos y la exclusión de otros. Así, coexistían diferentes formas de ocupación y modalidades de apropiación y puesta en producción de la tierra. Asimismo, la selección de lugares aptos para que el capital desplegara sus estrategias de reproducción generó la fragmentación del espacio geográfico. Este artículo se propone identificar a los productores que configuran la estructura social agraria y comprender cómo estos agentes –definidos por el volumen y la estructura de capital que poseen– generan el campo productivo y las relaciones de fuerza que lo caracterizan. La estrategia metodológica combina el análisis de datos secundarios y primarios provenientes de entrevistas en profundidad realizadas a productores, referentes técnicos y agentes institucionales de la región. Abstract The expansion of capitalism at the end of the last century has led to profound changes in social structures and in the relations of production in agriculture. In the north of Córdoba, Argentina, where this case study was carried out, the expansion of the agricultural frontier with centrality in soy allowed the inclusion of new productive agents and the exclusion of others. Thus, different forms of occupation and modalities of appropriation and putting into production of the land coexisted. Likewise, the selection of suitable places for capital to display its reproduction strategies generated the fragmentation of the geographical space. This article aims to identify the producers that shape the agrarian social structure, and understand how these agents, defined by the volume and structure of capital they possess,  generate the productive field and the relations of force that characterize it. The methodological strategy combines the analysis of secondary and primary data from in-depth interviews with producers, technical referents and institutional agents in the region.

scholarly journals KURIKULUM PESANTREN MULTIKULTURAL (Melacak Muatan Nilai-Nilai Multikultural Dalam Kurikulum Pondok Pesantren Sunan Drajat Banjarwati Paciran Lamongan)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sulton
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Case Study Design ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Snowball Sampling Technique

<p>The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach with case study design. Data collection was conducted by the researcher himself as a key instrument, whereas for determining the human data source using snowball sampling technique. Data was collected by means of; (1) in-depth interviews; (2) participant observation; and (3) study the documentation. For data analysis using descriptive techniques whose application is done in three flow of activities, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion or verification. To determine the credibility of the data, conducted by a variety of techniques, namely (1) triangulation; (2) checking colleagues; and (3) checking members.</p>

scholarly journals TURNKEY PROJECT DAN DINAMIKA PENGATURAN KETENAGAKERJAAN ASING DI INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Muhammad Badaruddin ◽  
Suciliani Octavia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Project Scheme ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Chinese Workers

China’s aggressiveness to conduct its belt and road initiatives through the Pacific Rim meets Presiden Joko Widodo’s ambition to attract foreign investment. The Indonesian President has been very ambitious in reaching high economic growth that requires readiness of infrastructure support. In dealing with China, Indonesia is required to accept China’s turnkey project scheme for infrastructure development, particularly in welcoming Chinese workers and equipments as an integral part of the project package. As a consequence, Indonesia has to loose its foreign worker regulation despite creating new contradictions with its domestic policy. This article is trying to investigate China’s funding and investment influence in Indonesia particularly in the foreign worker management during the period of President Joko Widodo Administration. The research conducted with qualitative method particularly the case study to analyze a sequential case in the field. Result of this research shows that the China’s turnkey project scheme impacts the foreign worker management in Indonesia. Our data displays pretty massive cases related to Chinese workers, extending from the violation of immigration regulation to the increase number of smuggling and other criminal activities. This research also highlight the indication that the Joko Widodo Administration tend to loose the Indonesian foreign worker regulations, as well as being less assertive in processing varous immigration cases which related to Chinese foreign workers. Moreover, the Jokowi administration has changed lots of regulations despite it has conflicting issues with the Law on Foreign Worker. On the other hand, the Parliament’s Special Committee on the Foreign Worker Issue has recommended the Jokowi Administration to pay more serious attention on cases related to the Chinese workers.   Keywords: Turnkey Project, Foreign Investment, Foreign Aid, Regulation on Foreign Worker, Illegal Foreign Worker     Abstrak   Agresivitas Pemerintah China dalam menjalankan belt and road initiatives ke berbagai negara yang terpetakan dalam road map-nya, bertemu dengan kepentingan Indonesia di bawah Pemerintahan Joko Widodo. Yakni ambisi untuk mengejar target pertumbuhan yang tinggi yang mempersyaratkan dibangunnya berbagai proyek infrastruktur sebagai penunjangnya. Pembangunan berbagai proyek tersebut membutuhkan ketersediaan anggaran yang cukup besar dalam waktu cepat. Salah satu strategi pemenuhannya adalah dengan mencari investasi maupun pinjaman luar negeri, terutama asal China yang secara koinsiden juga sedang agresif berekspansi. Kehadiran investasi dan pinjaman asal China di Indonesia dengan skema turnkey project ternyata menimbulkan ekses yang tidak sederhana. Skema tersebut menjadi salah satu pintu masuk tenaga kerja asal China melalui proyek-proyek infrastruktur yang ternyata menimbulkan permasalahan baru dalam pengaturan sektor ketenagakerjaan asing (TKA) di Indonesia. Irisan fenomena dari keinginan untuk merealisasikan proyek infrastruktur secara cepat, kebutuhan anggaran yang cukup tinggi terhadap pendanaan proyek dari China, dan kekurangsiapan dalam pengaturan masuknya tenaga kerja asing adalah fokus dari penelitian yang hasilnya penulis tuangkan dalam artikel ini. Dari penelitian yang dilakukan, terdapat peningkatan berbagai kasus yang terkait dengan kehadiran TKA asal China, antara lain adalah penyalahgunaan visa, penyalahgunaan status kerja, sampai pada meningkatnya angka penyelundupan dan tindak kriminalitas. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan menganalisis secara triangular beberapa data yang didapatkan melalui wawancara terhadap narasumber primer, pengolahan dokumen-dokumen resmi, analisis terhadap berbagai literatur dan pemberitaan media massa.   Kata Kunci: Turnkey Project, Investasi Asing, Pinjaman Asing, Tenaga Kerja Asing, Peraturan Ketenagakerjaan

scholarly journals KERAGAAN KEMITRAAN DI KOPERASI PRODUKSI SUSU (STUDI KASUS DI KPS BOGOR, KEDUNG BADAK, KOTA BOGOR)

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Indah Kartika ◽  
Sara R. Qanti
Keyword(s):  
Milk Production ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Milk Consumption ◽  
Joint Operation ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Forward Linkage

ABSTRAKPeningkatan produksi susu di Indonesia masih belum mencukupi kebutuhan konsumsi susu diIndonesia yang juga terus meningkat. Koperasi Produksi Susu (KPS) hadir untuk memfasilitasi parapeternak sapi perah. KPS tidak dapat menjalankan seluruh kegiatannya sendiri maka KPS menjalinkerja sama dalam memenuhi sarana produksi, distribusi, kualitas, dan kontinuitas. Tujuan penelitianini adalah untuk mengetahui pola dan keragaan kemitraan yang terjadi pada KPS Bogor. Penelitiandilakukan di KPS Bogor di Jln. Baru Kedung Badak, Kelurahan Kedung Badak, Kecamatan TanahSareal, Kota Bogor, Jawa Barat. Penelitian dilakukan dengan desain deskriptif kualitatif dan teknikpenelitian studi kasus. Responden dan informan ditentukan dengan sengaja. Data yang digunakanadalah data primer dan sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa KPS Bogor memiliki enamperusahaan mitra yaitu PT. AMS, CV. MAJU, Cimory, Indolakto, Nutrifood, dan Unican. Hanya satudari enam perusahaan ini yang memiliki perjanjian tertulis yaitu PT. AMS dalam bentuk Kerja SamaOperasi (KSO). Perjanjian tidak tertulis dengan Indolakto, Cimory, Nutrifood, dan Unican dalambentuk kemitraan subkontrak, dan CV. MAJU dalam bentuk vertical forward linkage. Dalampelaksanaan kerjasama antara KPS dan mitra, banyak proses yang dilakukan secara spontan.Kata kunci: susu, keragaan, kemitraan, kerja sama bisnis, spontanABSTRACTMilk production in Indonesia is still insufficient to fulfil increasing milk consumption in Indonesia.West Java is one of the largest milk production centre in Indonesia and also place where there aremany milk production cooperatives (MPC). MPC presents to facilitates the dairy farmers. MPC wasnot able to run the entire business itself, then it cooperates with various partners in term ofproduction facilities, distribution, quality control, and continuity. The purpose of this study is todetermine the pattern and the performance of partnerships at the MPC in Bogor. The study wasconducted at the MPC in Bogor located at Jln. Baru Kedung Badak, Kedung Badak Village, TanahSareal District, City of Bogor, West Java. Descriptive design and a qualitative case study researchtechnique were used in this study. Primary data were collected by using participant observation andinterviews. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. Important results suggest thatMPC in Bogor has six partner companies, namely PT. AMS, CV. MAJU, Indolakto, Cimory,Nutrifood, and Unican. Only one (PT. AMS) of these six companies has written agreement and inform of Joint Operation. The unwritten agreements with Indolakto, Cimory, Nutrifood, and Unicanare in subcontract partnerships form, and CV. MAJU is in vertical forward linkage form. In theimplementation of partnerships, many processes are carried out spontaneously.Keywords: milk, the performance, partnerships, business collaboration, spontaneous

scholarly journals Inventing animate floats: transformation and interpretation in Nigeria’s Abuja Carnival

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 267-280
Author(s):  
Michael Adérèmí Adéoyè
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Theatre Design ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on the technical process through which available materials and space are transformed into motif-based animate floats and desired landscapes for carnival performances. Carnival performances are often guided by underlying conceptual scripts which basically depend on the technical processes of theatre design as a major requirement in connecting the carnival performance with its audience and which has not received adequate attention from existing theatre scholarship. The study adopts Roland Barthes’ semiotic theory, Intertextuality as the framework for analysing the interplay of carnival performances, material objects, technical process of theatre design and the carnival audience. The research design combined case study and survey. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, key informant interviews and participant observation. Ahmed Yerima, whose works in carnival productions informed this study, was selected as a case study. The study concludes that the technical process of theatre design is central to carnival performances because it catalyses the underlying imaginative dramatic scripts into visual pictures and animate carnival floats, thereby eliciting meaning from the conceptual dramatic scripts to the carnival audience. Adequate attention should therefore be paid to theatre design as the process of transforming imaginative scripts into visible pictorial carnival floats. Keywords: Materials, Animate objects, Theatre design, Carnival performance, Transformation

scholarly journals Analysis Of Virtual Product Marketing Strategies To Increase Customer Satisfaction (Case Study On Bukalapak Partners)

2022 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-109
Author(s):  
Jessica Artanti ◽  
Prima M. Agustini ◽  
Arief Saptono ◽  
Gilang Kartika Hanum ◽  
Regina D.O.
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Product Positioning ◽  
Sensitive Issue ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research Analysis ◽  
Initial Target

This study aims to analyze the marketing strategy of Mitra Bukalapak in increasing customer satisfaction. In this study, the researcher uses a qualitative approach, which aims to find out what strategies are used by Bukalapak's internal partners to increase Customer Satisfaction. The data used for this research are primary data and secondary data. The results of the research analysis using in-depth interviews with the internal parties of Bukalapak Partners and Bukalapak Partners as triangulators where they transact using the Bukalapak Partner application as a place to transact. The segment of Mitra Bukalapak is for all levels, where the initial target is the klontong shop and the product positioning offered is virtual and wholesale products. From the 7P marketing mix implemented by Bukalapak Partners internally, there are several strategies that still need to be addressed, one of which is the price strategy because the price is still a sensitive issue, especially for buyers who are price-sensitive. However, there are also strategies that have been created and implemented that can accepted by Bukalapak Partners.

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