scholarly journals Toward an ordinary ethics of mediated humanitarianism: An agenda for ethnography

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Distant Suffering

This article takes stock of the insights and approaches advanced by the last 15 years of critical research in humanitarian communication and distant suffering while arguing for a new agenda for ethnography. Ethnography lays bare the messy and fertile terrains of human experience and disrupts idealized figures of witness and sufferer, aid worker and aid recipient, event and the everyday. Bringing into dialogue the anthropology of aid literature and media and cultural studies, this article proposes three important shifts for future research: (1) a focus on processes rather than principles in production studies of humanitarian communication, (2) a focus on ethics arising from everyday life rather than from events of distant suffering, and (3) and a focus on the lifeworlds of the poor and vulnerable rather than those of witnesses.

CONSTRUCTED AND CONSUMED: THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE POOR IN 4TH C. CAPPADOCIA

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 439-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan R. Holman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poverty Relief ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Theological Understanding

Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa each include detailed depictions of the poor in their sermons on poverty relief. This paper examines their rhetorical constructs in order to look for the everyday life of these destitute, who often elude the archaeological record. Sharing some features with the later Byzantine exempla, these images had rhetorical power precisely because they were recognisably comparable with ‘real’ poor known to their audiences. Here four stereotypes are considered: the parent who must sell a child; the exiled sick; the famine victim (with an emphasis on impoverished women and questions of status); and the debtor. The paper concludes that these authors’ constructed images of the poor body must be understood in the context of their theological understanding of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation.

The Everyday Life of Cultural Studies

1996 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-403
Author(s):  
David Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Everyday

The everyday skills that get us by: Non-representational theories for a linealogy of quotidian cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942091986
Author(s):  
Shaun Moores
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
Selection Of

In this article, I have three key aims. Firstly, I want to offer a particular definition and a bold defence of ‘non-representational theories’, indicating the importance of their anti-rationalist and anti-structuralist tendencies, and also pointing to their positive assertion of the primacy of practices or movement. Although a non-representational theoretical approach is closely associated today with contemporary geographic thought, I make a case here for an understanding of non-representational theories as a far broader cross-disciplinary project. Secondly, in the light of non-representational theories, I will be revisiting an old debate between culturalists and structuralists on matters of experience and representation. I consider, in a spirit of re-evaluation, Stuart Hall’s now classic essay on two paradigms in the development of cultural studies, as well as a selection of related interventions made by Hall. Thirdly, I will look to potential future directions for empirical research that is informed by a non-representational theoretical approach, in an area which I call ‘quotidian cultural studies’. My recommendations are for work that might explore, for example, acquired habits or ways of the hand in the uses of new media technologies (among other skills of tool use), and paths that are trodden along the ground on foot and through narrative or other media settings. A critical appropriation of Tim Ingold’s writings in anthropology leads me to describe such work as ‘linealogical’ investigations of everyday life.

scholarly journals (Im)possible conversations? activism, childhood and everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas ◽  
Christos Varvantakis ◽  
Vinnarasan Aruldoss
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Usa

The paper offers an analytical exploration and points of connection between the categories of activism, childhood and everyday life. We are concerned with the lived experiences of activism and childhood broadly defined and especially with the ways in which people become aware, access, orient themselves to, and act on issues of common concern; in other words what connects people to activism. The paper engages with childhood in particular because childhood remains resolutely excluded from practices of public life and because engaging with activism from the marginalized position of children’s everyday lives provides an opportunity to think about the everyday, lived experiences of activism. Occupying a space ‘before method’, the paper engages with autobiographical narratives of growing up in the Communist left in the USA and the historical events of occupying Greek schools in the 1990s. These recounted experiences offer an opportunity to disrupt powerful categories currently in circulation for thinking about activism and childhood. Based on the analysis it is argued that future research on the intersections of activism, childhood and everyday life would benefit from exploring the spatial and temporal dimension of activism, to make visible the unfolding biographical projects of activists and movements alike, while also engaging with the emotional configurations of activists’ lives and what matters to activists, children and adults alike.

scholarly journals The Culture of Wine in Ukrainian Baroque Poetry

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Nataliia Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Baroque Poetry ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Secular Power

The article represents the results of the culturological analysis of Ukrainian baroque poetry with ‘wine’ for the prominent image. Just as the conceit of wine was never researched profoundly by culturologists and linguists, this article is an attempt to conceptualize the imagery of wine and culture of its consumption in Ukrainian literary criticism and cultural studies. Upon researching Ukrainian baroque poetry, the author of this article revealed some new connotations of the image of wine. First of them is a symbol of reproach declared to the authorities of either sacral or secular power (the conceptual pattern of it are the writings by Ukrainian polemist Ivan Vyshensky). However, even the strongest judgements sounded hopefully thanks to stylization in the mood of Christian liturgy. Secondly, wine was a reflection of joy of life, love, or friendship in Epicurean style. Thirdly, it was set up as a philosophical image of the human self as the most precious thing in the world. This idea was also supported staunchly by H. Skovoroda. Henceforth, wine in baroque poetry is not only an image of something material within the framework of the everyday life and rituals; it is a factor of reconciliation of Christian and Pantheistic worldview in the Ukrainians. Further researches of ‘wine’ conceit in Ukrainian poetry (and Ukrainian culture as a whole) would allow confirming anew the vision of a human-within-the-world as the world-within-a-human.

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.

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