Children out of place? Negotiating children’s places from the margins

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212199642
Author(s):  
Sofie Henze-Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Central Concept ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Insight Into

Inspired by a central concept in the sociology of childhood – that of ‘place’ – this article explores how childhood is constructed and experienced in an atypical place for childhood to unfold. The place in question is a refuge for women and their children who have experienced violence in the intimate sphere. In this article, ‘place’ has a dual meaning as referring to both social positions and physical locations. Employing this dual concept to investigate an atypical place provides insight into the dynamics that shape childhood space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with children, the analysis shows how children negotiate children’s places in challenging circumstances in a semi-public setting. It uncovers the plurality of children’s places and how these are shaped by the children’s positions in a protective context. The plurality of children’s places becomes apparent by paying attention to the temporality of these places, which foregrounds the relational qualities and fields of power that contribute to the shaping of childhood space.

scholarly journals Polluting pharmaceutical atmospheres: Compulsion, resistance, and symbolism of buprenorphine in Norway

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-285
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Bartoszko
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Opioid Substitution Treatment ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Opioid Substitution

This article offers a counter narrative to the current ethnographic studies on treatment with buprenorphine, in which notions of promised and experienced normality dominate. In some countries, introduction of buprenorphine led to a perceived “normalisation” of opioid substitution treatment, and this new modality was well received. However, in Norway the response has been almost the opposite: patients have reacted with feelings of disenfranchisement, failure, and mistrust. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Norway, this article offers comparative insight into local experiences and subjectivities in the context of the globalisation of buprenorphine. By outlining the ethnographic description of the pharmaceutical atmosphere of forced transfers to buprenorphine-naloxone, I show that the social history of the medication is as significant as its pharmacological qualities for various treatment effects. An analysis of the reactions to this treatment modality highlights the reciprocal shaping of lived experiences and institutional forces surrounding pharmaceutical use in general and opioids in particular.

Using Groupware to Gather and Analyze Intelligence in a Public Setting

2011 ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Etiënne Rouwette ◽  
Jac A.M. Vennix
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Electronic Meetings ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter focuses on the use of groupware to support local governments in activities in the intelligence cycle. Local governments in The Netherlands have a central role in developing integral safety plans for their district. However, in the implementation of safety plans the contribution of partner organizations such as the fire department and police force is indispensable. Each of the partners may have its own priorities with regard to safety. Using electronic meetings, representatives of all partner organizations identify safety problems within their district and decide on the priority of issues. In two meetings of four hours each, safety problems are analyzed and conclusions formulated to which partners feel committed. This article describes the design of the meetings and reports on results for nine municipalities. Results indicate that participants find that the electronic meetings contribute to intelligence activities. Participants feel the quality of communication in the sessions is high, and their insight into the problem is increased. The sessions support dissemination of intelligence, as shown by an increase in consensus on the problem and commitment to conclusions. Electronic meetings therefore seem an effective and practical way to support key activities in the intelligence cycle, and to develop policies that will be implemented.

Torah lishmah as a Central Concept in the Degel maḥaneh Efrayim of Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow

1996 ◽  
pp. 258-267
Author(s):  
Roland Goetschel
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
Ulterior Motives ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter focuses on R. Moses Hayyim Ephraim of Sudylkow, who is one of the most important figures in the second generation of the hasidic movement. This is due in part to his family connections. But an even more important factor in accounting for his status is the numerous passages in his collected teachings, the Degel maḥaneh Efrayim, where he reports statements in the name of such hasidic luminaries as the Baal Shem Tov, R. Jacob Joseph of Polonnoye, R. Nahman of Horodenka, and the Maggid of Mezhirech, making him one of the most valuable sources of information on the hasidic doctrine at its earliest stages of development. The Degel maḥaneh Efrayim is also important for another reason, in that it provides an insight into R. Moses Hayyim Ephraim's own method of integrating into his sermons the main themes of hasidic revivalism. The chapter then considers the torah lishmah—study of Torah ‘for its own sake’, without ulterior motives—as a central concept in R. Moses Hayyim Ephraim's work. It also looks at the significance of torah lishmah in the controversy between hasidism and mitnaggedim.

THE COMPREHENSION OF THE SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND ITS FORMATION IN LEGAL RELATIONS

2019 ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Olīvija Tuvi
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Insight Into

Social stratification has played an important role in legal relations since ancient times, because it involved the division of responsibilities between individuals in society. The central concept of the social stratification is a society, whose members interact with each other to ensure their existence. Ensuring the existence involves the division of functions by trying to arrange the social and legal relations, which leads to the process of social group formation and social stratification. Social stratification is also very topical today, because society, despite the equality of people defined in normative acts, is still divided according to different criteria. This work provides insight into concept and historical development of the social stratification, summarizes different ideas and problems about social stratification and its types.

scholarly journals Legal position of a notary public and specific features of his professional liability insurance

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Slobodan Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Public Services ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Liability Insurance ◽  
Professional Liability ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Public Setting ◽  
Notary Public ◽  
Insight Into

The legal position of a notary public and the types of services he provides crucially affect the complexity of his liability, which arises from performing legally prescribed activities. Actions to protect and realize the public and private interest for a fee represent a risk from which the professional liability of a notary public may arise, which is equated with errors and omissions insurance. This leads to multiple types of liability: civil, disciplinary, offence and criminal. In this paper, the author explores the interest of the state, parties and notaries public in relation to the performance of notary public services to the extent relevant to this paper, the legal basis and manner of concluding professional liability insurance of notaries public, setting cover limits and some specific excluded risks and specific features of occurrence of insured event in professional liability insurance by getting an insight into comparative legal solutions of the law regulating notary public services, and finally the views of domestic and foreign legal theory.

scholarly journals ‘I Want There to be no Glass Ceiling:’ Evangelicals’ Engagements with Class, Education, and Urban Childhoods

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-160
Author(s):  
Anna Strhan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Educational Provision ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Church ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Faith Schools

While class has been an enduring focus for sociologists of education, there has been little focus on the interrelations between class, religion, and education, despite widespread public anxieties about faith schools potentially encouraging both social class segregation and religious separatism, which have become more pronounced as the expansion of free schools and academies in England has increased opportunities for religious bodies’ engagement in educational provision. This article explores the importance of class in relation to the intersections of religion and education through examining how an ‘open evangelical’ church engages with children in schools linked with it, drawing on eighteen months’ ethnographic fieldwork with the church, its linked schools, and other informal educational activities run by the church. Through analyzing the everyday practices through which evangelical leaders seek to affect children's lives and how they speak about their involvements with children, the article reveals the significance of class in this context, providing insight into how evangelicals’ primary aspiration in this setting is for children's ‘upward mobility’, as their ambitions are shaped through middle-class, entrepreneurial norms, in which developing a neoliberal ethic of individual self-discipline and ‘productivity’ is privileged. Through focusing on the ‘othering’ of the urban poor in these discourses, the article adds to our knowledge of the complex interrelations between evangelicalism and class, and deepens understanding of how secular neoliberal norms become interwoven with an alternative evangelical moral project of forming the self.

scholarly journals Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412110493
Author(s):  
Helena Cleeve ◽  
Lena Borell ◽  
Lena Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Insight Into

This article brings methodological insight into in-situ drawings as representations of daily life with dementia. As part of ethnographic fieldwork in dementia care units in a nursing home, drawings were made on site by a researcher. We suggest that the ambiguity of in-situ drawings, and the ensuing possibilities to disambiguate them, is valuable. Inspired by Asdal and Moser’s (2012) concept of “contexting,” we experimented with arranging the drawings with fieldnotes, discussing them with staff members, as well as with configuring multiple drawings and fieldnotes in sequences. This led to reflexive engagements with the drawings, creating space for discussing concerns in research practices and care practices. Switching between different forms of contexting produced tensions, revealing that what was cared for through the practices of researchers, staff members, and residents, diverged. In this way, we argue that contexting in-situ drawings may intervene in ways of knowing, caring for, and living with dementia.

"Eyes, Ears, and Wheels"

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Colona ◽  
Tessa Diphoorn
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Security Companies ◽  
State Police ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Security Companies

Research on policing in Africa has provided tremendous insight into how non-state actors, such as gangs, vigilantes, private security companies, and community initiatives, increasingly provide security for urban dwellers across the continent. Consequently, the state has been categorized as one order among many whose authority is co-constituted through relations with other actors. Drawing on our ethnographic fieldwork in the past two years, we highlight how the state police dominates security arrangements in Nairobi and asserts itself not just as one order among many. We show how, in various policing partnerships between police, private security companies, and residents’ associations, the state police acts as a coagulating agent of such practices. In order to elucidate this relationship, we utilize the “junior partner” model from the criminology literature and expand based on the community policing initiatives that in Nairobi act as the “eyes, ears, and wheels” of the police.

Displaying family at a women’s refuge

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110346
Author(s):  
Sofie Henze-Pedersen ◽  
Margaretha Järvinen
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Public Setting

This article explores the family relationships of mothers and children living at a women’s refuge because of intimate partner violence. Theoretically, the article contributes to the sociological literature analysing family relationships in terms of ‘doing’ and ‘displaying’ rather than ‘being’ a family. Empirically, it is based on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews with children living at a refuge in Denmark. The article shows that family display at the refuge is conducted by both mothers and children and sometimes in conflicting ways, not least when it comes to the question of how to define the position of the father (who has committed the violence) in the family’s future life. This highlights how display – as an evaluative practice – can be done in different ways in order to protect or reject family relationships, both internally and when addressing external audiences. Furthermore, the article analyses family relationships in a semi-public setting (the refuge) where powerful audiences are active interpreters of the family display enacted, and participants in decisions concerning the families’ futures.

scholarly journals Humanitarianism as Politics: Civil Support Initiatives for Migrants in Milan’s Hub

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Sinatti
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Italian City ◽  
Insight Into

Humanitarianism is increasingly used to address migration in Europe, from search and rescue operations at sea to reception on land. Scholars often interpret humanitarianism as a means for states to depoliticize migration and prioritize securitization. In this article, I analyze perspectives on humanitarianism among civil society volunteers and workers who, alongside institutions, deliver humanitarian support to migrants. Civil initiatives in this field by independent volunteers, non-governmental organizations and charities have surged, thus shifting tasks traditionally under the responsibility of the state to non-state actors. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in and around the premises of the Hub (a center providing humanitarian assistance to migrants transiting in the Italian city of Milan), I show that engaging in such civil support initiatives raises the levels of political awareness and activism among ordinary citizens. Through insight into the daily actions, motivations and aims of the men and women operating at the Hub, I show that their involvement in humanitarian assistance marks the beginning of a personal journey in which they gradually conceive what they do as far from being in support of depoliticizing state securitization policies and rather as politically loaded.

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