Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society: An Afrocentric Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 002193472098009
Author(s):  
Eyo O. Mensah ◽  
Idom T. Inyabri ◽  
Benjamin O. Nyong
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Social Motivations ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
Afrocentric Paradigm ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Traditional Norms

This article explores the rejection of indigenous African (first) names and the preference for European and westernized names by some Nigerian youth, especially those living in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The article investigates the personal, cultural and social motivations for foreign names adoption and the subjective interpretations of both rejected and adopted first names. The study is rooted in the Afrocentric paradigm which is grounded in the historical and cultural reality of the African experience to express its core principles of cultural assertion, self-pride and Africa-centered identity. Data for the study was sourced through participant observations, semi-structured interviews and metalinguistic conversations with participants who have been involved in name-changing practices in the last 5 years. The study discovers that young people adopt foreign (first) names to challenge their stereotyped ethnic identities and to contest existing traditional norms about naming. This phenomenon tends to be propelled by additional social, personal and religious factors including, style, personal taste, creativity, religious conversion and the flow of other social capital. This often results in a dramatic drift in African traditional naming practices which tends to erase or subjugate African naming protocol and identities.

“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562097103
Author(s):  
Michael Matsuno ◽  
Deon Auzenne ◽  
Leanne Chukoskie
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Autistic Adults

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore daily experiences with music among a convenience sample of 12 autistic adults interning at a video game development lab. Our analysis indicates that music technologies enabled autistic individuals to explore new music and to engage reflexively with personal taste and self-curation. We also show that participants used music to accompany a range of cognitive and emotional tasks. These findings are consistent with broader sociological literature on music-listening habits of typically developing adults and indicate that autistic adults use music to meet their personal needs. Our cohort also described expressly creative and proactive engagement with music, suggesting that habits with music may differ among unique sub-populations of autistic individuals.

scholarly journals Beyond Pious Critical Agency: Women, Interfaith Marriage and Religious Conversion In Aceh

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ansor ◽  
Yaser Amri
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
The South ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interfaith Marriage ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist

<p><em>Most studies discussing about interfaith marriage and religious conversion are ignoring woman's autonomy in </em><em>selecting spouse</em><em> as well as choosing religion. This paper examines the agency of women who converted due to marriage based on the experiences of </em><em>four</em><em> women in two areas in Aceh, the South East Aceh, and Aceh Singkil. Data was collected through observation and semi-structured interviews of </em><em>four </em><em>converted women, her husband, and her relatives. The phenomenon of religious conversion on the reason of marriage is placed in the feminist poststructuralist discourse, especially the concept of pious agency and critical piety agency. This paper challenges the view that says religious conversion on the reason of marriage will give the result to those who converted that religion to them is merely administrative matters and they lose their focus on building personal piety. Instead, this article argued the possibility of </em><em>people </em><em>who convert to other religion represent their religiosity after conversion as well as before conversion</em><em>.</em></p>

scholarly journals A Qualitative Insight into Gendered Vulnerabilities: A Case Study of the Shishper GLOF in Hunza Valley, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8798
Author(s):  
Zainab Khalid ◽  
Xing-Min Meng ◽  
Abda Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Disaster Studies ◽  
Traditional Norms

Gendered vulnerability from women’s point of view has gained popularity in disaster studies in recent decades especially in the Global South. The positioning of women in society during normal times gives rise to vulnerabilities that are revealed when a disaster strikes. These vulnerabilities are often deep-rooted in societal makeup, cultural and traditional norms, and the economic fabric of society. In the context of Pakistan, the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs is still an under-researched area. In this paper, the gendered vulnerability progression in one of the mountain rural communities of Hassanabad in Hunza Valley (Northern Pakistan) is analyzed post-Shishper glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) in 2019 and 2020. The study uses empirical qualitative data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with men and women of different age groups within Hassanabad village. A thematic gendered analysis unveiled several interlinked social, economic, and institutional vulnerabilities. The gendered transitional phase of Hassanabad society positively indicates women’s involvement in different spheres of life, including disaster management and mitigation. However, the lack of gender consideration on a formal institutional level exacerbates the gendered vulnerabilities in Hassanabad village. The case study of Hassanabad demonstrated that women not only have an awareness of hazards but are also willing to participate proactively in disaster mitigation activities. Therefore, to reduce community vulnerability and yield long-term positive outcomes of disaster management and mitigation strategies, women must be involved at the formal institutional levels.

What’s in the Stomach is Used to Carry What’s on the Head: An Ethnographic Exploration of Food Metaphors in Efik Proverbs

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyo Offiong Mensah ◽  
Rosemary Arikpo Eni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Southeastern Nigeria ◽  
Cross River ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
Dietary History ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Afrocentric Paradigm

Food and foodways are essential components of the Efik biocultural system, as the Efik people of Southern Cross River State, Southeastern Nigeria, are famous for their rich dietary history and cuisine tradition. Food and foodways are, therefore, quintessential aspects of the Efik cultural history and social structure, which are intergenerational. This article explores the use of food symbolisms (embedded in rich metaphors) in Efik proverbs, which are perceptual frameworks or conceptual grids that highlight fundamental cultural values and mores as well as reinforce and instill acceptable social behavior. The study is rooted in the Afrocentric paradigm, which re-asserts the interpretation of Efik proverbs based on African values, perspectives, and narratives, and adds relevant ontological and epistemological analytic dimensions in operationalizing the collective and contextual understanding of Efik (African) proverbs. In this context, the Efik view the world through the lens of food, exploring the role of food and eating correlates as means of addressing their society’s psychodynamic challenges, which paradoxically are not about food.

scholarly journals Migration and the plurality of ethnic boundary work: A qualitative interview study of naming practices of migrants from former Yugoslavia in Germany

Ethnicities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146879682110107
Author(s):  
Daniel Drewski ◽  
Julia Tuppat
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Ethnic Boundaries ◽  
Ethnic Affiliation ◽  
Ethnic Boundary ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
The Relationship

Most research on migration and ethnic boundaries is concerned with boundaries between a specific migrant minority and the ‘majority society’ in the destination country. However, migrant groups are not homogenous; within-group boundaries that are relevant in their context of origin may also play a role in the host context. Focusing on migrants from former Yugoslavia, we analyse the relevance of ethnic boundaries between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats in Germany. We do so by interpreting migrant parents’ practices of first-name giving as instances of ethnic boundary work. In the case of migrants from former Yugoslavia, first names are a salient marker of ethnic affiliation. Based on 22 semi-structured interviews, we distinguish between three types of ethnic boundary work based on first-name giving. ‘Particularists ’ wish to express their ethnic affiliation via first names, and they maintain ethnic boundaries both towards the German majority society as well as other ethnic groups from former Yugoslavia. In contrast, ‘cosmopolitans’ reject names with specific ethnic references and base their choice on personal taste, often opting for international names, thereby rejecting ethnic boundaries towards other former Yugoslav groups. Finally, ‘negotiators’ stand in between. They blur boundaries towards the German majority society, but maintain boundaries towards other ex-Yugoslav ethnic groups. Overall, we find that ex-Yugoslav migrants’ strategies of ethnic boundary work are shaped by a multiplicity of reference groups, not just the relationship with the German majority society.

scholarly journals Ideology and mental health: analysis of the discourse of workers in the psychosocial area

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Barbosa de Pinho ◽  
Luciane Prado Kantorski ◽  
Agnes Olschowsky ◽  
Jacó Fernando Schneider ◽  
Annie Jeanninne Bisso Lacchini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Psychiatric Reform ◽  
Changing Practices

This study proposes to analyze the discourse of workers in a Psychosocial Care Center regarding the operation of the ideologies which express the dimension of social practices incorporated at this service. This was a qualitative research, and the corpus was originated by transcription of semi-structured interviews, applied to 17 out of the 25 workers of a substitute service in a city in southern Brazil. The theoretical-methodological analysis of the operation of ideologies by John Thompson was used. The discourse analysis of the workers' practice shows a plurality of ideological manifestations, so that they reserve the changing practices with innovative and creative features such as the maintenance of obsolete models, hindering or even preventing these changes. In conclusion, these issues should be worked continuously in everyday services, being a major challenge to the consolidation of the psychiatric reform in Brazil.

scholarly journals A folkcomunicação como estratégia de resistência dos grupos marginalizados: um estudo de caso de uma comunidade de catadores de caranguejo em Aracaju

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (41) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Flávio Santana
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Estudio De Caso ◽  
Waste Pickers

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar como a Folkcomunicação serve de estratégia de resistência dos grupos marginalizados, a partir de um estudo de caso da comunidade do Povoado Coqueiro, localizada na Região Metropolitana de Aracaju (RMA). Deste modo, foram analisadas entrevistas semiestruturadas coletadas na comunidade, a fim de entender como os catadores enxergam o processo midiático na preservação de sua identidade. Constatamos que a comunicação massiva segue uma lógica que não condiz com a realidade cultural da comunidade e a população local segue indiferente, na construção de suas próprias expressões de resistência. Aracaju; Caranguejo; Identidade; Folkcomunicação; Grupos marginalizados. This article aims to analyze how Folkcommunication serves as a resistance strategy for marginalized groups, based on a case study of the community of Povoado Coqueiro, located in the Metropolitan Region of Aracaju (RMA). Semi-structured interviews collected in the community were analyzed in order to understand how waste pickers see the media process in the preservation of their identity. We found that mass communication follows a logic that does not match the cultural reality of the community and the local population remains indifferent in the construction of their own expressions of resistance. Aracaju; Crab; Folkcommunication; Identity; Marginalized groups. El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar como la folkcomunicación puede ser estrategia de resistencia de grupos marginados, a partir de un estudio de caso de la comunidad Povoado Coqueiro, ubicada en la Región Metropolitana de Aracaju (RMA). Con el objetivo de comprender cómo pescadores de cangrejo ven el proceso mediático en la preservación de sus identidades, se realizaron entrevistas semiestructuradas a miembros de la comunidad. Constatamos que la comunicación masiva sigue una lógica que no se corresponde con la realidad cultural de la comunidad y la población local continua indiferente en la construcción de sus propias expresiones de resistencia. Aracaju; Cangrejo; Identidad; Folkcomunicación; Grupos marginados.

scholarly journals Exploring entrepreneurial learning during formal business rescue processes: Insights from the South African experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anéa Burke-le Roux ◽  
Marius Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Learning Content ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Managerial Implications

Orientation: Currently, little is known about entrepreneurial learning under turnaround and rescue conditions. A better understanding of the content dimensions as well as the factors that drive or restrain entrepreneurial learning during business rescue (BR) is relevant for theory and industry development.Research purpose: BR is a fairly new regime in South Africa that extends beyond turnaround practices. It is acknowledged that business failure can fuel cognitive processes and subsequently entrepreneurial learning but to what extent in the context of formal BR proceedings requires exploration. Practice suggests that the role of the business rescue practitioner (BRP) as ‘disproportionate influencer’ can affect the learning of filing entrepreneurs.Motivation for the study: In the absence of guidelines, this study set out to explore and make sense of the specific content dimensions that entrepreneurs learn during such proceedings to assist role players.Research design, approach and method: The research question for this exploratory investigation obtained first-hand accounts from subjects that have been directly involved in BR proceedings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. ‘Investigator triangulation’ was also used to extract as much richness and data as possible applying interpretative phenomenological analysis.Findings: We extracted three key content dimensions which entrepreneurs learned during BR: rescue process, business related and personal learnings. Entrepreneurs with ‘positive’ experiences of BR learned more than those with negative experiences. The key driving and restraining factors to entrepreneurial learning were both associated with the behaviour of the BRP.Practical/managerial implications: BR has introduced another dimension to learning from business failure. Understanding the content dimensions learned by entrepreneurs during BR broadens insights of the Regulator, BRPs and educators about the potential long-term effects of BR on the factors that can either drive or restrain learning during BR proceedings.Originality and value: The findings led to an enriched understanding of specific entrepreneurial learning content dimensions that take place under BR proceedings. It also directs future research into entrepreneurial learning when effected by BR.

scholarly journals THE RELIGIOUS CONVERSION PROCESS AS AN UNUSUAL LIFE EXPERIENCE TO THE MALAYSIAN CHINESE MUSLIM CONVERTS IN THE CONTEXT OF ADULTHOOD SELF-DIFFERENTIATION DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (32) ◽  
pp. 164-173
Author(s):  
Tuck Yee Loo ◽  
Nadiyah Elias ◽  
Mariny Abdul Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Conversion Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenology ◽  
Self Differentiation ◽  
Malaysian Chinese

This study explores the role of religious conversion as unusual life experience in facilitating adulthood self-differentiation development in the context of Malaysia Chinese Muslim converts. It is a qualitative phenomenology study, five participants from the northern religion of Malaysia were taking part, and data were collected by semi-structured interviews. This study has identified the religious conversion has placed the Chinese Muslim converts in the hardships of (a) marginalized minority, (b) deviation and (c) association status which might facilitate self-differentiation development.

scholarly journals Conflicts of Traditional Norms in the Packaging of Ikom Monolith for Tourism in Cross River State

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Onah Gabriel Owojoku ◽  
Ajoma Simon Okwoche ◽  
Anunobi Helen Nwando ◽  
Tawo Alfred Oyong
Keyword(s):  
Cross River ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
Traditional Norms
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