scholarly journals Universal Rights versus Exclusionary Politics: Aspirations and Despair among Eritrean Refugees in Tel Aviv

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja R. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Global Order ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Cosmopolitan Citizenship ◽  
The Relationship

By investigating contemporary refugees, this paper analyses the contradictory dynamics of a global order whereby universal rights are distributed unequally through nation-state politics. It uses an ethnographic case study of Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv as its empirical base in order to investigate refugeeness as a condition of everyday life. The paper demonstrates how a repressive environment within Eritrea has made people refugees, and how that condition is being reinforced by the Israeli government's refusal to recognise these refugees as such. It further interrogates the relationship between persecution and belonging that characterises the lives of Eritreans as refugees in Israel. The paper concludes by arguing that being a refugee does not preclude feeling a strong sense of national belonging. Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv do not aspire to gain cosmopolitan citizenship rights but are driven by the desire to be rightful citizens of Eritrea.

Gender, Resource Management, and Social Unrest: An Ethnographic Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-256
Author(s):  
Anindita Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge System ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims at locating the relationship between gender and resource management, especially the indigenous knowledge system of women for natural resource management of the Kondh tribe of Nayagarh district, Odisha. The Kondh live within the forest and they are highly dependent on forest for maintaining their livelihood. Specifically, women, who take family and community responsibilities, usually go through a continuous struggle from inside the family, as well as from the outside. Further, this study explains the case of the community’s role in maintaining the forest through social unrest. This work further intends to study how government policies, particularly forest policy, affect indigenous Kondh, when the destruction of natural resources has been increasing, and how women raise voices to sustain their environment.

Complicating the Relationship Between Sport and National Identity: The Case of Post-Socialist Slovenia

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojca Doupona Topič ◽  
Jay Coakley
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Identity ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Relationship

Sociology of sport knowledge on national identity is grounded in research that focuses primarily on long established nation-states with widely known histories. The relationship between sport and national identity in postsocialist/Soviet/colonial nations that have gained independence or sovereignty since 1990 has seldom been studied. This paper examines the role of sports in the formation of national identity in postsocialist Slovenia, a nation-state that gained independence in 1990. Our analysis focuses on the recent context in which the current but fluid relationship between sport and Slovenian national identity exists. Using Slovenia as a case study we identify seven factors that may moderate the effectiveness of sports as sites for establishing and maintaining national identity and making successful global identity claims in the twenty-first century. We conclude that these factors should be taken into account to more fully understand the sport-national identity relationship today, especially in new and developing nations.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI ASPEK PERLAWANAN PADA DOMINASI PATRIARKI BUDAYA BALI DALAM KARYA I GAK MURNIASIH DAN CITRA SASMITA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Fika Khoirun Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Visual Symbols ◽  
The Relationship

In the current Indonesian art discourse, the reading of works is no longer limited only to the results of the analysis and interpretation of formal elements, but also considering the relationship with the socio-cultural factors of artists so as to give a picture of the multifaceted character of art. This study was designed to identify the representation of resistance aspects in the dominance of Balinese cultural patriarchy in Indonesian fine art and interpret its symbols. The artists whose works were chosen as a case study in this study are I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih and Citra Sasmita. This study used a multidisciplinary approach (Feminism and Semiotics). Based on the results of the analysis, the aspect of resistance is represented through visual symbols that are typical in the two works of artists tend to be born from the experience of the environment that is close to everyday life to a traumatic experience that gives birth to pain and fear. For both of them, painting is a catharsis process and as a medium to transform ideas and alignments so that the message to be conveyed can reach a wider scope.

scholarly journals The Political and Economic Dimensions of Everyday Life: The Conflict as a Political Institution of a Landless-Cooperative in Brasil

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-410
Author(s):  
Dan Furukawa Marques
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Landless Movement ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Political Principles ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Taking as a case study a cooperative belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) of Brazil, this article analyzes the place of conflict and the relationship between the economic and political dimensions of daily life. It presents an analysis on the way to balance the political principles and practices of cooperativism and the constraints imposed by the market economy, by trying to understand how the political experiences of the subjects participate in establishing a social order around a common political project, under permanent construction.

Identities as an Everyday Life Strategy: A Case Study of Vietnamese Marriage Immigrant Women in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-168
Author(s):  
Annie Yuan Cih Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Life Strategy ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

This paper discusses the identity complex of Vietnamese marriage immigrants in Taiwan through aspects of everyday life such as food preference and cooking, vehicle ownership and access, leisure, and religious belief. These are in parallel with acculturation, cultural hegemony, spatial and social mobility, social network-building, social capital accumulation, and the strategy of resistance to the stigmatisation of prearranged remittances. This article also analyses identities as pragmatic strategies for Vietnamese wives to demonstrate their agency, and negotiate and bargain their social places within the Chinese-dominated cultural sphere through conforming to mainstream ideologies and acquiring social capital in the local community. The relationship between happiness and identities construction is examined, too. The methodology is based upon in-depth interviews and participant observations undertaken during ethnographic fieldwork in Taiwan.

Brand believers : reconciling journalistic and organizational identity at a city magazine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joy M. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Civic Capital ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses an ethnographic case study to examine the perspectives and representational practices of local journalists through a case study of an award-winning city magazine, D Magazine in Dallas, Texas. The study assessed how staff members discursively constructed their journalistic identity within a geographically focused media organization. The study also considered the relationship between journalistic identity and organizational identity by addressing how the staff members described their surrounding community and their organization's function within it as well as how those understandings shaped D and its members. Lastly, the study used field theory to address how external and internal influences on newswork informed staff members' ideologies, routines, and perceptions of D's local function. The findings suggest that staff members operated within a networked hierarchy through which they collaborated both within individual publications and across departments while also fulfilling corporate needs for entrepreneurship and innovation. Within this environment, staff members balanced journalistic- and audience-oriented editorial emphases through reinforcing a city-magazine mentality that dictated and legitimized topic selection and content approaches. Lastly, the study recognized how D attracted and engaged various forms of capital while also shifting its focus to amassing civic capital as a means of manifesting its local agenda in tangible ways.

Walk Score and tourist accommodation

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Ram ◽  
C. Michael Hall
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Walk Score ◽  
Tourist Accommodation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Score Index

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the research on tourist walkability and Walk Score® by posing the question “does tourist accommodation benefit from being located in walkable places?”. Design/methodology/approach Using Tel Aviv municipality as a case study, the prices and number of reviews of 81 hotels and 97 Airbnb listings were associated with their corresponding Walk Score® measures. Findings The relationship between Walk Score and prices and number of reviews was not linear or strong. However, the most expensive accommodation and more popular hotels were below the median Walk Score of Tel Aviv. Research limitations/implications The findings may reflect the specific conditions associated with Tel Aviv, such as city compactness, topography and planning regulations. Practical implications The study suggests that accommodation is beneficial if it is located on the margins of very walkable areas. This raises regulatory and promotion issues for accommodation, and challenges for transport and tourism planners. Originality/value The study adds to the limited knowledge regarding tourism-related walkability, and is the first examination of links between walkability (measured by Walk Score index) and tourist accommodation (hotels and Airbnb).

Diversification of diversity: Migrations, cultural pluralism and urban transformations in Palermo (Italy): a case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212098334
Author(s):  
Roberta Teresa Di Rosa ◽  
Giuseppina Tumminelli
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
School System ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Italy experienced the transition from a country of emigration to a country of immigration only in the last decade of the 20th century. The extreme heterogeneity of the Italian scene – from the distribution and variety of productive sectors and local economic dimensions, to the geographical, cultural and linguistic varieties – results in an incredibly differentiated background on which the phenomenon of migrations fits as multiplier of diversity. But there are some particular fields in Italy where the challenges of superdiversity appear to be more prominent: the impact on the school system, in terms of linguistic-cultural pluralism; the change in religious belonging and identities; the dynamics of cohesion/marginality in everyday life; and the relationship between spaces and identities in a superdiverse context.

Design for Elderly – A Meeting Point for Ethnography and Usability

i-com ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cordula Endter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Methodological Approaches

AbstractEthnographic research methods are getting more and more popular in disciplines that have mainly been dominated by quantitative or experimental methodological approaches. Especially in technology-driven research, ethnography seems to enrich common approaches by investigating the use of technology in the everyday life of prospective users. By participating in and observing the users and their mundane activities, routines and rituals ethnography provides insights that can be integrated in the design process to improve the usability of the artifact. This article discusses the intersection of ethnography and usability by introducing ethnographic methods, discussing their application in the context of design for elderly and presenting results of an ethnographic case study in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL).

Introduction

Jazz Bubble ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
The Relationship

The Jazz Bubble proceeds from the idea that there is a story to be told about the relationship between jazz, culture, and contemporary financial capitalism. I argue that jazz may provide us with an unexpected avenue of approach as we seek to understand the cultural dynamics of neoliberal ideologies and institutions, in an era in which the volatility of the financial markets has come to inform the texture of everyday life. As a window onto the complex issues I aim to tackle here, I would like to begin here with a case study that in my view shows us, rather than telling us, why this line of inquiry is an important one....

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