Jackfruit seeds from Jharkhand

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Tea Plantations ◽  
Social Alliances ◽  
Political Milieu

This article examines how adivasis in Assam assert their sense of belonging to the land. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted along the foothills bordering Assam and Nagaland, I present the everyday lives of adivasi villagers in a militarised landscape and examine how adivasi belonging and identity are constructed in a political milieu where ideas of indigeneity and territoriality are deeply internalised. I look into how adivasi accounts highlight the weaving together of the histories of the tea plantations and social alliances with neighbours in the villages. I argue that these narratives are used to assert rights and claim an identity of belonging. Specifically focusing on adivasi accounts situated outside the tea plantations in Assam, this article seeks to contribute towards scholarship about everyday practices of belonging, memory and social relations in Northeast India and beyond.

Sooner or later we will melt together: Framing the digital in the everyday

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

Digital technologies are increasingly pervading our everyday lives. Many of our everyday practices involve the appropriation of digital technologies. The aim of this piece is to discuss two central issues surrounding this digitalisation of everyday life: (i) what constitutes digital culture?; and, (ii) how do digital technologies transform ownership? These questions are considered in this work with the intention of creating a benchmark from which future explorative (empirical) case studies can be developed. The central argument of the piece is that the study of digital technologies should be framed within everyday life. In other words, the study of digital technologies should be redefined as the study of the digitalisation of everyday life.

scholarly journals Refugees’ Encounters With Nordic Rural Areas–Darkness, Wind and “Hygge”!

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise Herslund ◽  
Gry Paulgaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Rural Places ◽  
Empirical Material

The paper investigates how refugees settled in rural Norway and Denmark experience and interact with their new rural places of residence. Theoretically, the paper finds inspiration in “phenomenology of practices” (Simonsen, Prog. Hum. Geogr., 2012, 37, 10–26), which emphasizes the bodily and sensory experiences of daily life that spur feelings of, for example, “orientation” or “disorientation”. The empirical material is based on fieldwork and qualitative interviews with refugees and local volunteers in 2016/2017/2019 in small towns in the rural north of Norway and rural Denmark. There are several differences between the Norwegian and Danish rural areas, in relation to distances, climate and population density. Nonetheless, the ways in which the rural areas are experienced from within, by refugees settled there, show surprisingly many similarities. Many of the informants, in both the Norwegian and Danish cases, initially expressed frustration at being placed in rural areas without having any say in the matter. Those who were former city-dwellers especially experienced moments of disorientation, as their encounters with Nordic rural life were experienced as the opposite of their urban backgrounds. Limiting structural conditions very much shape the everyday lives of refugees in the first years, when they do not have a car or the financial capacity to find their own house. They feel stressed, with busy everyday lives made up of long commuting hours on public transport. In these first years of uncertainty, the dark and harsh weather very much adds to the feeling of stress and insecurity. What seem to add “orientation” are social relations with other refugees and local volunteers organizing activities.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Sarah Hillewaert
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Project

The conclusion returns to debates about globalization, global Islam, and global terror, but links these overall concerns to the everyday lives of young Muslims in Lamu. This book challenges portrayals that concentrate on young Muslims’ supposed conflicting engagements with Western modernity. The conclusion therefore does not reflect upon “Islam and the West” and its transpiration in young people’s lives, but rather considers the moral urgency that underlies discussions of self-fashioning and embodiment in contexts of rapid change. The detailed discussion of language and self-fashioning that formed the focus of the book sought to provoke broader discussions of ethical living in contexts of change. The conclusion reflects upon how self-fashioning is always also a political project, whereby young people position themselves locally but also translocally in relation to a range of “others.” The ambiguity of social evaluations, and the uncertainity as to how “others” evaluate young people’s everyday practices, forms a central focus of this discussion.

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 Performing Values Practices and Grassroots Organizing: The Case of Solidarity Economy Initiatives in Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1741-1765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Daskalaki ◽  
Marianna Fotaki ◽  
Irene Sotiropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

This article discusses solidarity economy initiatives as instances of grassroots organizing, and explores how ‘values practices’ are performed collectively during times of crisis. In focusing on how power, discourse and subjectivities are negotiated in the everyday practices of grassroots exchange networks (GENs) in crisis-stricken Greece, the study unveils and discusses three performances of values practices, namely mobilization of values, re-articulation of social relations, and sustainable living. Based on these findings, and informed by theoretical analyses of performativity, we propose a framework for studying the production and reproduction of values in the context of GENs, and the role of values in organizing alternatives.

scholarly journals Manly Merchants

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Port City ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
International Trading ◽  
Trading Networks

This article explores intersections between masculinity, mobility, generation and commerce through the everyday lives of Afghan men who make up trading networks that are active across Eurasia. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Afghan traders in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa and in the international trading city of Yiwu in China. Building on recent work in anthropology concerning the ‘emergent’ nature of Middle Eastern masculinities, the article brings attention to the flexible and adaptable nature of the notions of masculinity held and performed by mobile Afghan traders. It emphasises the need for such conceptions of masculinity to be treated historically and draws attention to the forms of caregiving that are especially important to the traders’ intimate lives and self-understandings. The article also highlights the significance of complex notions of trust both to the traders’ articulation of conceptions of manliness and to their everyday modes of securing a livelihood.

scholarly journals “I Do Not Really Belong Out There Anymore”

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaug S. Lian ◽  
Geir Fagerjord Lorem
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Medically Unexplained

In this article, we explore relations between health, being, belonging and place through an interpretive thematic analysis of autobiographic text and photographs about the everyday lives of 10 women and men living with medically unexplained long-term fatigue in Norway. While interpreting their place-related illness experiences, we ask: How do they experience their being in the world, where do they experience a sense of belonging/not belonging, and why do places become places of belonging/not belonging? The participants describe experiences of (a) being socially detached and alienated, (b) being imprisoned, (c) being spectators who observe the world, and (d) senses of belonging. They describe senses of being and belonging/not belonging as closely attached to physical and symbolic aspects of places in which they reside, and they wistfully reflect on the question of “why.” The study illustrates the influence of experienced place—material as well as immaterial—on health and illness.

scholarly journals Rethinking Vocational Rehabilitation through Institutional Ethnography

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siri Yde Aksnes
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Activation Policy ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Institutional Boundaries

In Norway, vocational rehabilitation for people with support needs involves complex inter-professional and inter-organizational processes that do not have clear institutional boundaries. Every process involves a new constellation of actors, representing divergent practices, ideas and objectives. This article argues that much of the current research on the implementation of activation policy inadequately captures the mechanisms and processes that influence vocational rehabilitation practices. The article proposes the use of institutional ethnography (IE) to empirically examine vocational rehabilitation, and argues that IE provides methodological concepts and tools that enable researchers to link and make visible the everyday practices, the social relations and the institutional contexts that make up vocational rehabilitation processes.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Anita Hardon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract The everyday lives of contemporary youth are awash with chemicals to boost pleasure, energy, sexual performance, appearance, and health. What do pills, drinks, sprays, powders, and lotions do for youth? What effects are youth seeking? The ChemicalYouth ethnographies presented here, based on more than five years of fieldwork conducted in Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Cayagan de Oro, Paris, Makassar, Puerto Princesa, and Yogyakarta, show that young people try out chemicals together, compare experiences, and engage in collaborative experiments. ChemicalYouth: Navigating Uncertainty: In Search of the Good Life makes a case for examining a broader range of chemicals that young people use in their everyday lives. It focuses not just on psychoactive substances—the use of which is viewed with concern by parents, educators, and policymakers—but all the other chemicals that young people use to boost pleasure, moods, vitality, appearance, and health, purposes for using chemicals that have received far less scholarly attention. It takes the use of chemicals as situated practices that are embedded in social relations and that generate shared understandings of efficacy. More specifically, it seeks to answer the question: how do young people balance the benefits and harms of chemicals in their quest for a good life?

Lifeworlds at the edge of Europe: photography, place and ireland in the new millennium

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-446
Author(s):  
Justin Carville
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Celtic Tiger ◽  
Geographical Imagination ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
New Millennium

Drawing on the concept of the ‘geographical imagination’ and the phenomenologically based theory of human geography, ‘lifeworlds’, this essay discusses the work of several Irish photographers who circumvent the objectification and polar opposites of inside and outside in representations of place by highlighting the everyday connectedness and sense of belonging of people and their environments. Discussing Irish photography from after the global economic crash of 2008, the essay argues that presence has emerged as a visual trope in recent Irish photography, to explore the everyday social relations between people and place following the transformations to the Irish landscape as a result of the Celtic Tiger economy of the 1990s and the financial collapse of 2008.

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