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.

Digital Childhood?

2020 ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Mariya Stoilova ◽  
Sonia Livingstone ◽  
Giovanna Mascheroni
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Smartphone Technology ◽  
Long Term Consequences

Mobile devices play a growing role in the everyday lives of children around the world, prompting important questions about their effects on childhood experiences. Exploring the recent global trends in children’s use of smartphone devices, the authors examine the reconfiguring of children’s communicative practices and cultures of connectivity, documenting the opportunities and risks that smartphone technology affords. Throughout the chapter the authors challenge the notion of “digital childhoods,” drawing on the most reliable research on children and smartphones including findings from Global Kids Online, which suggest that digital divides intersect with existing social inequalities, exacerbating the barriers for less privileged children. This raises further questions about the long-term consequences for children’s development, rights, and future access to opportunities and resources.

scholarly journals The Everyday Power of Liturgy: On the Significance of the Transcendental for a Phenomenology of Liturgy

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Neal DeRoo
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday Living

The task of this article is to articulate the everyday power of liturgy by clarifying the transcendental significance of ritual action. The paper makes three major claims: first, that liturgical practices function transcendentally, and therefore alter how we experience the world; second, that liturgical practices therefore exercise an immense formative power in our everyday living, including the power to open up or close down the possibility of encountering the sacred in our everyday lives; third, that this power of liturgy can be articulated theoretically through a transcendental phenomenological approach, thereby suggesting that a rigorous phenomenology of liturgy must necessarily include a transcendental element.

scholarly journals Everyday Belonging and Ageing: Place and Generational Change

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa May ◽  
Stewart Muir
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Temporal Shifts

In this paper, we discuss findings from a study on intergenerational relationalities in order to examine some aspects of how people over 50 years of age experience belonging in their everyday lives. Belonging emerged not as a single unitary ‘thing’, but a complex intersecting of relational, cultural and sensory experiences. We explore how people, place, time and cultural context intertwined in people's sense of belonging to place. Although much previous research on belonging has largely focused on geographical movement, we found that temporal movement, at an individual level in the form of ageing and at a collective level in terms of generational change, proved to be an important layer of our participants’ experiences of belonging and not belonging. Furthermore, we argue that people often come to understand and speak of temporal shifts in belonging in embodied terms, based on their sensory engagement with the world. The paper concludes by considering the consequences of this additional aspect of the experience of belonging for the study of belonging as a social and personal process, and how our findings contribute to debates around ‘ageing well’.

Dai Zhen (1724–77)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yü Ying-Shih
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World

Dai Zhen, a neo-Confucian philosopher, argues against the received neo-Confucian view of dao as a metaphysical entity. On the contrary, dao is immanent in the world and, in the case of the human world specifically, in the everyday lives of ordinary people irrespective of social status. His philosophical views had important political and social implications.

Mental Models of Risk

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Bostrom
Keyword(s):  
Mental Models ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Causal Beliefs ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Inference Engines ◽  
Illness Experiences ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Action Representations

Mental models of health risks are the causal beliefs that comprise one’s inference engines for the interpretation and prediction of health and illness experiences and messages. Mental models of health risks can be parsed into a handful of common elements, including beliefs about causes, consequences, and cures as well as identifying information such as symptoms and timing. Mental models research deriving from a risk and decision analysis framework emphasizes exposure sources and pathways as part of causal thinking as well as how interventions may reduce or increase the risk. Mental models can be developed as a function of one’s goals or the problem in a specific context, rather than as coherent, stable knowledge structures in long-term memory. For this reason they can be piecemeal and inconsistent in the absence of expertise or experience with the risk. Derived often by analogy with more familiar risks, mental models of health risks can lead to effective health behaviors but also to costly inaction or misplaced action. Assessing mental models of hazardous processes can contribute to the design of effective risk communications by identifying the concrete information message recipients need to cope with health risks, thereby making or strengthening common-sense links between risk and action representations. Although a wide variety of research methods are used to investigate mental models, achieving this level of specificity requires attention to substantive details. Researchers are beginning to better understand the interactions between mental models of risk and their social, cultural, and physical contexts, but much remains to explore.

scholarly journals Photography and the Visual Particularities of Young People on the Autism Spectrum

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uschi Klein
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
The World

Photographs are created, recreated and shared extensively and repeatedly, suggesting that people have little choice but to look at them. Nonetheless, the diverse ways of seeing in contemporary visual culture entail different visions, experiences and practices of visuality. This article suggests autistic people approach photography in their own ways to visually express their everyday lives. While sensory experiences differ in autistic individuals, they appear to embody visuality with their sensory modalities, using primarily their vision, but also their kinaesthetic experience and proprioceptive awareness to photograph the world around them.   Drawing from findings from an empirical study on the photographic practices of young people on the autism spectrum, this paper discusses how two participants use photography to capture the ways they see the world. Photography provides a context in which individuals can illustrate their visual experiences, and specific and diverse social and personal realities. The medium encourages them to make, use and discuss their own photographs, which, in turn, generates thoughts of lived experiences on which they may otherwise never reflect. While offering new insights into how photography mediates autistic individuals’ sensory perceptions of their visual world, this paper will further consider the contributions photography makes to the everyday lives of autistic people. 

scholarly journals Miami in Transformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Participatory Visual Culture Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-181
Author(s):  
Kaila Witkowski ◽  
John Vertovec ◽  
Natália Marques Da Silva ◽  
Raymond K. Awadzi ◽  
Farah Yamini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
American City ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, Miami, Florida is one example of the specific and unique ways in which this pandemic is experienced. Drawing on the concepts of visual culture analysis and disaster literature, this article analyses how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the everyday lives of people living in this subtropical American city. Specifically, this study draws on data collected from a digital participatory photography project implemented in July 2020, as the novel coronavirus began to rapidly spread. Through an inductive thematic analysis of participants’ photographs and captions, we discovered that the COVID-19 pandemic transformed not only basic daily needs but also lead to recognition of privilege and an awareness of the needs and vulnerabilities of others. While many of the complexities illustrated in this study are left unresolved, the photos and captions are useful examples of how visual depictions can be used to inform and realign the ways in which people interpret and respond to global public health crises. 

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.

scholarly journals Sensing freedom: Insights into long-term prisoners’ perceptions of the outside world

Incarceration ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 263266632110137
Author(s):  
Irene Marti
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Total Institutions ◽  
Ethnographic Data

In recent years, scholars have come to agree that ‘total institutions’ are in general more permeable than as outlined in prior studies. The idea of the ‘totality’ of prisons has been challenged, for example, by acknowledging the penetration of the outside world through media or external visitors. However, prison surroundings are often a topic that is not granted a lot of attention. Using ethnographic data on the everyday lives of prisoners sentenced to indefinite incarceration in Switzerland, this article explores long-term prisoners’ sensory perceptions of the outside world, in particular through hearing, seeing and smelling. It is argued that this affects not only the prisoners’ understanding of ‘the prison’ but also their experience of time and their sense of self. A closer look at their diverse ways of dealing with these (potential) connections to the outside world reveals their individual approaches to the indefinite nature of their incarceration.

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