Domestic architecture and the materiality of public-making in pre-Columbian Eastern Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Guengerich
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Residential Architecture ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Industrial Societies

Understanding how publics were constituted in specific socio-historical settings is critical to understanding political practice in past societies. Yet the persistent use of terms such as “public space” and “public architecture” belies the influence of binary models of public and private life that still impact understandings of domestic life and residential architecture. I argue that the continued influence of these models results from the notion that publics in pre-industrial societies were produced primarily through large gatherings associated with standardized kinds of places such as plazas and monuments. This paper, in contrast, takes advantage of the exceptionally well-preserved site complex of Tambillo in Eastern Peru in order to explore how the material qualities of architecture, rather than its spatial layout, mediate the production of publics. I consider how three different modes of engagement with domestic architecture in particular—construction, discourse, and affiliation—generated multiple, diverse publics among the communities of Tambillo. This example demonstrates the variety of ways in which built environments create publics and underscores the need to acknowledge the role of domestic architecture within a broader ecology of the built environment as a whole.

Writing Urban Space: Street Art, Democracy, and Photographic Cartography

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine B. Ulmer
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
The Arts

In this article, the street is both a place of travel and a space for critical discourse. As tensions between public and private spaces play out in the streets, street artists claim visible space through multiple forms of art. Through a critical performance geography and a qualitative inquiry of the street, I photograph the movement of art across walls, doorways, windows, sidewalks, lampposts, alleyways, gutters, and dumpsters over a 7-month period in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Detroit ( N = 806). After describing street art as a fluid genre that has developed into a diverse spectrum of post-graffiti, I explore how street art contributes to a changing visual terrain through discussions of racism, decolonization, gentrification, and the role of art in spatial justice. Photographic cartography is introduced as (a) a visual method of performance geography that illustrates material-discursive “fault lines” and (b) a critical means of analyzing conversations in contested public space. Significantly, street artists simultaneously work within and against urban renewal policies in “creative cities” such as Detroit. Given that the arts are at the center of sophisticated visual discourse regarding neoliberalism, democracy, and the battle over public space, researchers might continue to examine how street artists inscribe social justice in, on, and around the streets.

The Portable Home: The Domestication of Public Space

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishan Kumar ◽  
Ekaterina Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Privileged Site

Much commentary indicates that, starting from the 19th century, the home has become the privileged site of private life. In doing so it has established an increasingly rigid separation between the private and public spheres. This article does not disagree with this basic conviction. But we argue that, in more recent times, there has been a further development, in that the private life of the home has been carried into the public sphere—what we call “the domestication of public space.” This has led to a further attenuation of public life, especially as regards sociability. It has also increased the perception that what is required is a better “balance” between public and private. We argue that this misconstrues the nature of the relation of public to private in those periods that attained the greatest degree of sociability, and that not “balance” but “reciprocity” is the desired condition.

scholarly journals From patriotism to political totalitarianism: the role of collective narcissism

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Dmitry S. Grigoryev
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Motivational Orientation ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Background. Patriotic education is carried out in many countries, being an integral part of the process of socialization of the younger generation. At the same time, patriotism is often used by autocracies to maintain power and total state control over all aspects of public and private life. What is the socio-psychological aspect of this possible transformation? Objective. The aim of the study was to test the model of the relationship between patriotism, nationalism, rightwing authoritarianism and political totalitarianism, as well as to examine the role of collective narcissism in these relationships. We hypothesized that patriotism is not directly related to totalitarianism, this connection is mediated by nationalism and right-wing authoritarianism, while patriotism and nationalism are connected only under the condition of a high level of collective narcissism (i.e., collective narcissism demonstrates the effect of moderation). Design. The study of the role of collective narcissism in the relationship between patriotism, nationalism, rightwing authoritarianism and political totalitarianism was carried out in 2018 on a gender-balanced sample of residents of Russia (N — 232) aged 16 to 61 (M — 28.5; SD — 10.2). Reliable and valid tools were used for measurements: cultural patriotism and nationalism (Grigoryan 2013; Grigoryan, Lepshokova, 2012), collective narcissism (Golec de Zavala et al., 2009), right-wing authoritarianism (Bizumic, Duckitt, 2018). A cross-sectional single-sample correlation design was applied using data from a socio-psychological survey. The data was collected in 2018 through an online survey conducted by an independent commercial research company as a result of a survey of their own panel of respondents. The survey was conducted using various Likert scales. All scales that had not previously been translated into Russian were adapted by double translation and cognitive interviews using the “think-aloud” technique (Batkhina, Grigoryev, 2019). Results. The hypotheses that were put forward were confirmed. It was found that (1) patriotism is not directly related to totalitarianism: nationalism and authoritarianism mediated the relationship between patriotism and totalitarianism, and nationalism mediated the relationship between patriotism and authoritarianism; (2) patriotism is positively associated with nationalism only if the level of collective narcissism is high; (3) nationalism is positively associated with authoritarianism and totalitarianism, and authoritarianism with totalitarianism. Conclusions. Collective narcissism may reflect the process of compensating for low self-esteem and lack of control over their lives in people, and generate belief in an exalted image of the in-group and its right to special recognition. Subsequently, this helps to use patriotism as a basis for supporting political totalitarianism. Nationalism and authoritarianism can carry an instrumental function in this process acting as certain strategies for the implementation of the motivational orientation set by collective narcissism.

Understanding Religion and Politics in Africa: A Call for the Re-enchantment of the Scholarly Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Anicka Fast
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Postcolonial Africa

Abstract In his 2015 book Christianity, Development, and Modernity in Africa, Paul Gifford argues that Christianity in Africa is bifurcated into an ‘enchanted’ and a ‘disenchanted’ form. He presents the conundrum that the enchanted form is pervasive yet incompatible with modernity and consistently ignored by scholars. In this review article I draw on Gifford’s conundrum as a springboard to propose a new angle from which to analyse religion and politics in postcolonial Africa: one that moves beyond received dichotomies between tradition and modernity, public and private life, or this-worldly and otherworldly concerns. The work of Michael Schatzberg, Peter Geschiere, Ogbu Kalu, and Emmanuel Katongole moves in various ways past the oppositions that undermine Gifford’s work. In dialogue with these scholars, I articulate a plea to scholars of religion and politics in Africa to develop an appreciation for the powerful role of the religious imagination in African and global arenas of power.

RethinkingDover: Religion, Science, and the Values of Democratic Citizenship

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-462
Author(s):  
Susan P. Liebell
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
School Science ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractTheDoverdecision restricted the mention of Intelligent Design in a public school science classroom yet theDoveropinion offers an inadequate defensive position. Liberal democracy can exclude Intelligent Design based on the Establishment Clause yet courts do not affirm the teaching of best available science or connect teaching science to other constitutional rights, duties, or institutions. AlthoughDoverhas triggered a debate over the role of religion in public and private life, the case reveals complex issues regarding science, citizenship, and the values of liberal democratic civic identity. In three sections, this article (1) reviews the creationism jurisprudence; (2) dissects theDoverdecision; and (3) suggests an alternative juridical approach grounded in an education case,Plyler v. Doe, in which education creates citizens who are politically competent, economically fit, and capable of self-development. The conclusion reframes the debate over Intelligent Design as one of civic identity and political reproduction arguing that liberals, using the ideas of Brennan, Marshall, and Breyer must make a positive case for the role of science in shaping the liberal citizen, worker, and person.

scholarly journals Housing habitability in times of COVID-19 in Mexico. Case of Culiacan

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-112
Author(s):  
Mercedes Verdugo López ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Short Time

The prolonged social distancing caused by the Covid-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented condition that has severely impacted on the different aspects of public and private life in Mexico. One of the most affected areas is the role of housing and its habitability. In a very short time, homes have become a place of work, a school, and sometimes a medical care facility. This article exposes the importance of the inhabitant's bond with their home and the habitability that is reconfigured in the social conditions imposed by the current health crisis. We believe that preventive isolation can contribute to containing contagions if the living conditions encourage to the collaboration of citizens. The methodology consists of a case study carried out in Culiacán, one of the Mexican cities most affected by the pandemic. The analysis is derived from the statistical processing of an online survey, applied in two times to the target population. In the first, 231 questionnaires were processed as a filter and in the second 50, which contained the most significant topics on the subject.

Residential Architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 433-452
Author(s):  
Roald Docter
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Residential Architecture ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Iron Age Levant ◽  
High Level

For more than thirty-five years, the story of Phoenician-Punic residential architecture has always taken its cue from the 1982 volume of Frank Braemer that dealt with the Iron Age Levant. In the West, a similar source had been virtually absent. A remarkable number of new studies and publications of archaeological discoveries over the last decade, however, have allowed us to complement this eastern perspective. This chapter addresses a wide range of aspects of domestic architecture: urban vs. rural; the relations between residential and artisanal, commercial, and religious functions; the special contribution of Carthage; house typology and size; the relation between exterior and interior space; and constructive elements and techniques. Phoenician-Punic domestic architecture emerges as characterized by a high level of functional permeability in which residential, agricultural, artisanal, commercial, and religious spheres mingled, all the while often with no evidence of strict separation between private and public space. Moreover, in a comparative Mediterranean perspective, Phoenician-Punic residential architecture shows a high level of technical ingenuity and sophistication.

Religious Freedom and Human Rights in Kazakhstan

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-127
Author(s):  
Roman Podoprigora ◽  
Nurlan Apakhayev ◽  
Aizhan Zhatkanbayeva ◽  
Dina Baimakhanova ◽  
Elina P Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Church Relationships ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract Many post-Soviet governments are still unable to identify the attitude to religious freedom and religious activity. The human rights trend adjoins with a very suspicious attitude to the religious phenomena as a relic of the Soviet regime of the state–church relationships. Moreover, the professional communities and society as a whole were not appropriately prepared for the religious diversity or the new role of religion in public and private life. This article discusses why the government is very careful in the regulation of religious processes. The article also explains the reasons of inattention by Kazakhstani lawyers to human rights and religious issues and analyses the situation regarding religious freedom within frames of existing legislation in Kazakhstan.

scholarly journals A contribuição da igreja Católica na trajetória feminina na política brasileira: Da Primeira República à Contemporaneidade

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (310) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Clélia Peretti ◽  
Karen Freme Duarte Sturzenegger
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political History ◽  
Western World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
First Republic ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Catholic Church

O artigo em questão, trata da trajetória do posicionamento da mulher na história política brasileira, que se inicia, mesmo que de forma tímida, no período da Primeira República e vai até a contemporaneidade. Para isso, o artigo discorrerá sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade, o processo de emancipação feminina, suas conquistas, desafios e trajetória no mundo ocidental e no Brasil, destacando a contribuição da Igreja católica para estimular a inserção da mulher no espaço público. Tudo isso, para pleitear, sim, a necessidade de espaço público mais justo e solidário, com respeito e equanimidade, sem preconceitos e cerceamento para todos os cidadãos, mas, de forma especial, para as mulheres.Abstract: The article in question deals with the trajectory of the position of women in Brazilian political history that begins, even if in a timid manner, in the period of the First Republic and goes to contemporaneity. For this, the article will discuss the role of women in society, the process of women’s emancipation, their achievements, challenges, trajectory, in the Western world and in Brazil. The article will also mention the contribution of the Catholic Church to encourage the insertion of women in public space. It will also reflect on the growing need for a fairer and more solidary space for all citizens, especially for women, where there are no prejudices and constraints, but respect and equanimity.Keywords: Female emancipation; Women’s rights; Women’s public and private space; Catholic Church.

Public and Private Spaces: Sport and the Construction of Middle Class Femininity in Sydney Independent Girls’ Schools 1880-1922

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Steve Georgakis
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
School Sports ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educational Ideology ◽  
Girls School

This article documents the history of sport in independent girls’ schools in Sydney, Australia, from the introduction of compulsory education in 1880 until the formation of the Girls Secondary School Sports Union in 1922 to organize interschool sporting connections. While there have been many vigorous studies that have followed the history of sport in Australian independent boys’ schools, this has not been replicated in the role of sport in Australian independent girls’ schools. The Australian independent girls’ school sector, however, accounts for a significant portion of the total student population. This article demonstrates that sport was significant in Australian independent girls’ schools and became dominant to the education of middle class girls. Modeled after the English Public Schools that had embraced the educational ideology of ‘athleticism’, Australian girls’ independent schools also reinforced the ideology that sport was a part of a well-rounded education. By the early 1920s sport was part of the independent girls’ schools extracurricular accomplishments and the sporting landscape became a ‘public space’ where middle-class femininity was constructed.

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