scholarly journals Precarity, Permits, and Prayers: “Working Practices” of Congolese Asylum-Seeking Women in Cape Town

2021 ◽  
pp. 000203972110500
Author(s):  
Henrietta Nyamnjoh ◽  
Suzanne Hall ◽  
Liza Rose Cirolia
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
And Gender

This paper provides an ethnographic reading of how Congolese women, in particular aslyum seekers with temporary permits, navigate Cape Town's informal urban economy. We argue that the intersections of temporary permit status and gender, as well as the particularities of diaspora flows and settlements, compound the precarity of everyday life. We engage with how precarity shapes and is shaped by what we define as “working practices.” These practices include the everyday livelihood tactics sustained on shoestring budgets and transnational networks. We also show how, in moments of compounded crises – including the COVID-19 pandemic – marginal gains and transnational networks are rendered more fragile. In these traumatic moments, working practices extend to include the practices of hope and reliance on prayer as social ways of contending with exacerbated precarity.

How I Walk through the Gang Streets in Manenberg, South Africa

Politeia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denver Davids
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
Gang Violence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Many

Gang violence is pervasive in the everyday life of residents of Manenberg, Cape Town, South Africa. Historical social displacement and socio-economic circumstances have led to an increase in street gangs among the youth and in youth violence. This article analyses the many ways in which the youth navigate their community to avoid or deal with this violence as well as the ways in which they manage to endure the effects of poverty, drug abuse and domestic difficulties. It looks at how young men spend their time on the streets, where they are vulnerable to the actions of local street gangs that operate in Manenberg. Despite facing the pervasive challenges of membership uptake in gangs and of related crime and violence, some youths find ways to safely make a life and survive in Manenberg. This article ethnographically explores the experiences and stories of these youths. Further, it explores factors that are determinants in building and maintaining resilience to violence, which assists young men not to become members of gangs.

The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura E. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Marilynne Robinson ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Interracial Romance ◽  
Phenomenological Studies ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
And Gender

Framing Robinson’s fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson’s novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and revelatory. Although the heightened apprehension of the quotidian in Robinson’s novels often registers powerfully and beautifully in representational terms, its aesthetic intensity is enacted at the expense of characters who patrol the margins of the ordinary with unceasing vigilance. Inhabiting the everyday self-consciously, her protagonists perform a forced relationship to the ordinary that seldom relaxes into the natural or the familiar; scarred by grief, illness, aging, and trauma, they inhabit a world of transcendent beauty suffused with the terrifying threat of loss. The signature acts of transfiguration that punctuate Robinson’s narratives originate from and anticipate the inevitability of absence: the death of loved ones (Housekeeping), the impending death of the self (Gilead), the fracture of family (Home), the repetition of trauma and abandonment (Lila), and the prohibition of everyday intimacy in interracial romance (Jack). Highlighting the tensions of the uncomfortable ordinary that disrupt a trajectory of transcendence in her fiction, this book situates Robinson’s novels within sociological, psychological, and phenomenological studies of trauma, grief, aging, race, and gender, as well as narrative theory and everyday life studies. Focusing on the experiential dynamics of the lived worlds her novels invoke, The Elusive Everyday argues for the complexity, relevance, and contemporaneity of Robinson’s fiction.

scholarly journals K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek) E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Alba

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Alexandra Halkias
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Albanian Immigrants ◽  
And Gender

<p>No abstract (available). </p><p>K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Albania and Ukrania (vol. II), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 261, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>M. Thanopoulou, Gender and Immigration. Intergenerational relationships and gender relations in families of Albanian immigrants (vol. III), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 268, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p> </p>

Problems of citizenship, violence and gender

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-32
Author(s):  
Suzanne Franzway ◽  
Nicole Moulding ◽  
Sarah Wendt ◽  
Carole Zufferey ◽  
Donna Chung
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Persistent Violence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Material Conditions

This chapter draws together theoretical perspectives in developing an argument about gendered violence and women's citizenship. It suggests that the state's role in securing, enabling, and maintaining the rights of citizens plays an important part in how violence is perpetrated and challenged. The apparent failure of the state to protect women as citizens from persistent violence is examined, with particular attention to the sexual politics of power and violence and the interconnections of material conditions, discourses, and subjectivities in the everyday life of the citizen. The chapter proposes that the persistence of domestic violence is implicated in the sexual politics of citizenship. In addition, the discursive impact of a politics of ignorance serves to deny or obscure how women's inequality, materially and discursively, is produced and reproduced in everyday life.

Everyday Life in Argentina in the 1960s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Cosse
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Economic Instability ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S

The 1960s in Argentina was a time convulsed by profound social, cultural, and political changes. Reflecting on the effect these processes had on the everyday, conceived as the spaces and routines involved in the reproduction of life that vary according to social class, generation, and gender, provides a valuable perspective for studying historical phenomena. It gives substance to and evidences the social nature of personal experience. Through that prism, the study of everyday life will be the gateway to understanding the turbulence produced by cultural effervescence, growing consumerism, the expansion of the media, the problems triggered by economic instability and escalating inflation, and the ruptures caused by political and social radicalization and the rise of repressive violence.

LIVING WITH HEPATITIS: THE EFFECT OF INFECTED SUBJECTS ON EVERYDAY LIFE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis B ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Life Change Events ◽  
Life Change ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Content Review

To identify changes in the everyday life of hepatitis subjects, we conducted a descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative analysis. Data from 12 hepatitis B and/or C patients were collected in October 2011 through a semi-structured interview and subjected to thematic content review. Most subjects have been diagnosed with hepatitis B. The diagnosis period ranged from less than 6 months to 12 years, and the diagnosis was made predominantly through the donation of blood. Interferon was used in only two patients. The findings were divided into two groups that define the interviewees' feelings and responses, as well as some lifestyle changes. It was concluded that the magnitude of phenomena about the disease process and life with hepatitis must be understood to health professionals. Keywords: Hepatitis; Nursing; Communicable diseases; Diagnosis; Life change events; Nursing care.

Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Point Of Departure

From a remarkably innovative point of departure, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) suggests that modernist literature and art were not the only cultural practices concerned with reclaiming the everyday and imbuing it with significance. At the same time, Roger Caillois was studying the spontaneous interactions involved in games such as hopscotch, while other small scale institutions such as the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London attempted to reconcile systematic study and knowledge with the non-systematic exchanges in games and play. Highmore suggests that such experiments comprise a less-often recognised ‘modernist heritage’, and argues powerfully for their importance within early-twentieth century anthropology and the newly-emerged field of cultural studies.

«Documentary survey» the everyday life of soviet teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-480
Author(s):  
Oksana Hodovanska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Everyday

"SHACKLE (KANDALNY) PATH" TO SIBERIA BY RAIL IN 60-70S OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE DEPORTATION SYSTEM AND EVERYDAY LIFE OF POLITICAL EXILES

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Aleksei S. Gulin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article deals with actually little studied questions about the ways and methods of transporting political exiles to Siberia by rail, about the everyday life of that category of exiles in the new conditions of deporting in the 60–70s of the 19th century.

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