Indonesian street children's negotiation of play

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-373
Author(s):  
Vina Adriany ◽  
Lia Aprilianti ◽  
Euis Kurniati
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Multiple Meanings

Street children are often constructed as fragile individuals who lose their innocent childhood since they have to work and do not have the opportunity to play like most of their peers. Using Bourdieu's concept of field, capital and habitus, this article seeks to go beyond the existing notion of play by exploring how street children in Bandung, Indonesia, understand and negotiate play with working as part of their everyday lives. The authors took an ethnographic approach to collect data from 14 street children and their guardians, mainly through observation and ongoing conversation. The findings suggest that the children are able not only to navigate the meaning of play, but also to negotiate their social position with adults on the street. This article serves as an invitation for educators and policymakers to develop educational programmes that are sensitive to multiple meanings of play, children and childhood.

scholarly journals Between Product and Cuisine: The Moral Economies of Food among Young Chinese People in Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-399
Author(s):  
Jamie Coates
Keyword(s):  
Moral Discourse ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Security Concerns

Trade and consumption of food in the Sino-Japanese context connects the two countries’ tense political relationship to the everyday lives of its citizens. Previous research has shown how food-related incidents have imbued Sino-Japanese relations with political and moral discourse that connects security concerns to everyday fears. This article explores how young Chinese people in Japan navigate multiple moral economies related to food. Through analysis of “products” ( chanpin/shipin) and “cuisine” ( cai/liaoli), this article shows the differing meanings of Chinese moral economies of food from the perspective of young Chinese people living in Japan. In the Sino-Japanese context, products embody more metonymic and nationalised values associated with modernity, whereas the metaphoric possibilities of cuisine afford young Chinese people to negotiate dominant moral economies of food in Japan. Using this example, I argue that greater semiotic attention needs to be paid to the multiple meanings of food and its moral economies.

scholarly journals Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-62
Author(s):  
Don Seeman ◽  
Michael Karlin
Keyword(s):  
Contemplative Practice ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Buddhist Modernism ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mindfulness Practices

Amid growing interest in mindfulness studies focusing on Buddhist and Buddhism-derived practices, this article argues for a comparative and ethnographic approach to analogous practices in different religious traditions and to their vernacular significance in the everyday lives of practitioners. The Jewish contemplative tradition identified with Chabad Hasidism is worth consideration in this context because of its long-standing indigenous tradition of contemplative practice, the recent adoption of ‘mindfulness’ practices or terminology by some Hasidim, and its many intersections with so-called Buddhist modernism. These intersections include the personal trajectories of individuals who have engaged in both Buddhist and Hasidism-derived mindfulness practices, the shared invocation and adaptation of contemporary psychology, and the promotion of secularized forms of contemplative practice. We argue that ‘Hasidic modernism’ is a better frame than ‘neo-Hasidism’ for comparative purposes, and that Hasidic modernism complicates the taxonomies of secularity in comparable but distinctive ways to those that arise in Buddhist-modernism contexts.

scholarly journals The Weight of Social Position: the Unequal Health Trajectories of Children With a Diagnosis of Overweight or Obesity

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-238
Author(s):  
Andrea Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Obesity Management ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Overweight Or Obesity

Abstract This article studies the impact of the social position on the health trajectories of children who follow a therapy for overweight or obesity management. Based on a qualitative study conducted within a Swiss hospital with 29 families, the author explains how the social position influences children’s relationship to health norms. The study results show that children belonging to wealthy families internalize more easily the therapeutic prescriptions in their everyday lives than the children from underprivileged families.

Searching for Ontological Security via Homeland Media Use: The Case of Korean Temporary Visa-Status Migrants in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-422
Author(s):  
Claire S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ethnographic Approach

Temporary visa-status migrants initially might be perceived as emancipated mobilities who are privileged enough to enter and exit the United States without taking any major risks. This article examines the struggles involved in the experiences of the Korean temporary visa-status migrants living in the United States, and especially the role of media in their transnational everyday lives. Using a quasi-ethnographic approach by conducting qualitative interviews with 40 Korean visa-status migrants, this article argues that the homeland media, both television and Internet, sustain “ontological security” throughout the radical transitions, feeling of “existential outsideness,” and transnational insecurities and precariousness. The study offers a helpful insight in both understanding the contemporary dispersed audiences and contextualizing different migrant positions within the easily lumped category of mobile elites or cosmopolitans.

Suicide and the Media

Crisis ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Warwick Blood ◽  
Jane Pirkis
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Causal Association ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Media ◽  
Actual Suicide ◽  
Multiple Meanings

Summary: The body of evidence suggests that there is a causal association between nonfictional media reporting of suicide (in newspapers, on television, and in books) and actual suicide, and that there may be one between fictional media portrayal (in film and television, in music, and in plays) and actual suicide. This finding has been explained by social learning theory. The majority of studies upon which this finding is based fall into the media “effects tradition,” which has been criticized for its positivist-like approach that fails to take into account of media content or the capacity of audiences to make meaning out of messages. A cultural studies approach that relies on discourse and frame analyses to explore meanings, and that qualitatively examines the multiple meanings that audiences give to media messages, could complement the effects tradition. Together, these approaches have the potential to clarify the notion of what constitutes responsible reporting of suicide, and to broaden the framework for evaluating media performance.

Who Are the Street Children?

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 706-708
Author(s):  
John Poertner
Keyword(s):  
Street Children
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