scholarly journals Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography

2021 ◽  
pp. 147035722110392
Author(s):  
Christos Varvantakis ◽  
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Cultural Domination

Drawing on ethnographic research with children in Athens, the authors examine sensual, performative and embodied aspects of children’s photographic representations of a monument that is central in the Greek national, cultural and historical discourse, the Acropolis. Moving away from the hermeneutics of cultural domination, the focus of this article is on how the pictures depicted the monument and how they were used by the children. Assuming an analytical framework which incorporates aspects of sensual experience in the analysis of the photography, the authors discuss how the children’s pictures of the Acropolis not only make visual records of the monument, and thus are not simply visual evidence of the centrality of the mainstream Greek national and historical discourse, but also how they entail the children’s embodied relation to it, and what this relation might tell us about childhood expressions of heritage and belonging, and by extension about politics in childhood. The analytical focus on embodied aspects of children’s photography illuminates complexities of cultural representation and their gestural, discursive and political significance.

‘I’d say it’s around me’: Introducing field analysis into bouncer ethnography – the case of a Czech city

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Kupka ◽  
Tomáš Šmíd ◽  
Václav Walach
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Research

Bouncers have recently attracted the interest of criminologists, some of whom have utilized Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts to grasp the sociocultural realities of bouncing. The present study continues this line of enquiry, aiming to demonstrate that bouncer ethnography will benefit from yet another of Bourdieu’s concepts, that of the field. A study of bouncers in a Czech city is utilized to argue that (1) field analysis is a valuable analytical framework for ethnographic research in this context, (2) it allows relationships both among bouncers and between them and other relevant agents to be explored, (3) it has the potential to investigate these relationships without criminalizing them, and (4) it provides a framework for comparative studies of bouncing in different contexts.

scholarly journals Seeing like a scientist: subjunctive forensics and shared ways of seeing in the Spanish forensic archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Lee Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Mass Grave ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Contemporary Spain ◽  
Shed Light

For two decades, Spaniards have turned to forensic science as a mode of unearthing diverse forms of evidence that shed light on the mechanics of fascist repression that emerged during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship that followed it. Due to the lasting effects of Spain’s Amnesty Law, which prohibits defining Franco’s victims as victims of crime, these exhumation projects exist at the unruly boundaries of legal procedure. In the absence of courts equipped to manage the evidence exhumed and produced in these endeavors, photographs documenting the forensic process are not sequestered by the law. Instead, they are made to be seen. Drawing on what the author describes as subjunctive forensics, she analyzes the emergence of new bodies of knowledge —or what could be called the forensic archive— in order to understand how visual evidence that straddles the scientific and the political, particularly photography, is produced, circulated and safe-guarded in contemporary Spain. Drawing on ethnographic research and the experience of photographing mass grave exhumations, the author explores how shared forms of seeing are produced, acquired, and shared among the community of practice surrounding historical memory work. By focusing on how professional and skilled visions are constituted, the article argues that it is in the production, circulation, and display of forensic photography that Spaniards visualize an uncomfortable past while also imagining alternative political futures.

Ethical tensions in designing ethnographic research with schoolchildren in rural Karnataka

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-131
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ipe
Keyword(s):  
Rural District ◽  
Potential Change ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Critical Exploration ◽  
Higher Institutions

This article provides an overview of the ethical tensions of preparing for ethnographic research with children in a rural district in Karnataka, India. Such children are at the receiving end of policy and international organisation interest, which alternately frames them as both victims of poverty and conflict and as agents of potential change in their communities. Additionally, researchers must often negotiate particularly muddy ethical waters when working with Majority World children from marginalised backgrounds. A critical exploration of the various complexities is provided in order to develop a working ethical framework. Of key importance is the need for reflexivity when journeying from western higher institutions (the ‘ivory tower’) to the ‘field’, a space and time carrying different weight and implications for the participants than the researcher. This article argues for the need to critically examine and weave in the multiple discourses of power that permeate children’s lives and engage with children’s responses to these discourses. While rural Karnataka provides a case study for the ethical tensions of ethnographic research with Majority World children from marginalised backgrounds, the principles espoused here are broadly applicable to children in a variety of contexts.

Indigenous childhood in Argentina: Parenting, care and formative experiences of Qom and Mbyá children

2020 ◽  
pp. 204361062095968
Author(s):  
Mariana García Palacios ◽  
Ana Carolina Hecht ◽  
Noelia Enriz
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
South American ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Linguistic Development ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
Monolithic Approach ◽  
Ways Of Being

Recent investigations in South American anthropology have focused on children in a range of contexts. In ethnographic research with children from indigenous communities in Argentina, we have considered social categories that result in different ways of being a child. In this way, this article presents a model that departs from a traditional, monolithic approach to childhood. The aim is to examine the first stage of life, guided by nominal references, childrearing and the formative experiences of children, with a focus on the network of social relations during this stage of live, particularly, linguistic development, religion and play.

scholarly journals Dios me cuida a mí y a mi “tono”. Experiencias sobre diversidad religiosa entre niños afromexicanos

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Citlali Quecha Citlaliq
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Mexican Pacific ◽  
Costa Chica ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
The Way

Resumen: Este artículo presenta algunos resultados de la investigación realizada con niños afrodescendientes de dos comunidades de Oaxaca: Collantes y Corralero en la Costa Chica del Pacífico Mexicano. En particular, se brinda información de la manera en que las niñas y niños experimentan sus prácticas religiosas, y la forma en que conviven con sus “pares-animales”, es decir, sus “tonos”. Se describe el contexto de diversificación de credos en los últimos años en la región. El marco analítico de esta pesquisa se basa en los planteamientos de la antropología de la infancia. Abstract: This article presents some results of research with children of African descent from two communities in Oaxaca: Collantes and Corralero, in the Mexican Pacific Coast. In particular, it provides information on the way girls and boys experience their religious practices, and the way they live with their "par-animal", that is, their “tones”. It describes the context of the diversification of creeds in recent years in the region. The analytical framework of this research is based on the approaches of the anthropology of childhood.

scholarly journals Anglophone culture through the Western Balkan lens: a corpus-based study on the strategies used for rendering extralinguistic elements of culture in Montenegrin subtitling

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Petar Božović
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Shed Light

One of the most demanding aspects of intercultural communication is rendering the elements of foreign culture from source to target linguocultural system. As today more people are exposed to audiovisual than any other form of text, cultural representation is an important issue as these texts can be a powerful tool for construction or deconstruction of cultural and sociological stereotypes, dissemination of ideas, facilitating intercultural communication, etc. Hence, this study attempts to shed light on how the Anglophone culture is rendered in subtitling and what could be some underlying reasons for that. To this end, we have constructed a morphosyntactically annotated parallel English – Montenegrin corpus of TV subtitles consisting of 110 episodes of three different TV series that were broadcast on the public service broadcaster of Montenegro and scrutinized it to map the strategies used for rendering extralinguistic elements relying on the analytical framework proposed by Pedersen (2011).

Ambiguous Masculinities: Gender and Sexual Transgression in Contemporary Dance Works by Senegalese Men

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Amy Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Sexual Transgression ◽  
Global Entanglement

AbstractContemporary dance in Senegal emerged and thrives at the interstices of the local and the global. Multiple expectations and values, of which gender and sexuality are no small part, converge at the site of creation and production, enlisting choreographers to navigate oftentimes conflicting ideologies. Based on ethnographic research, this article examines three works by Senegalese men that employ gender and sexual transgressions alongside the artists’ seemingly contradictory verbal articulations of their work. Using the local-global entanglement as an analytical framework, I argue that these works offer ambiguous assemblages of masculinities that challenge conventional masculinity in Senegal, thereby elucidating the potentiality for contemporary dance to transcend singular meaning-making capacity.

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