The social life of mangroves: Neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in the changing landscape of Kutch

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110453
Author(s):  
Shilpi Srivastava ◽  
Lyla Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Western India ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Marginal Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Synergistic Relationship ◽  
Mangrove Conservation

This article explores the convergence of neoliberal development and mangrove conservation in marginal environments, which are becoming the new resource frontiers. We focus on Kutch, a border district in western India and highlight how the contested trajectories of accelerated and aggressive industrialisation and its convergence with state and corporate-led conservation programmes are shaping the social life of mangroves on the Kutchi coast. We focus on the discourses, practices and politics of value-making and un-making that constitute the multiple modalities of repair as mangroves are depleted and securitised simultaneously. Although these trends are augmenting capitalist accumulation on the coast, they are also giving rise to new kinds of alliances that seek to challenge the logic and practice of repair by highlighting the synergistic relationship of coastal communities with their mangrove habitats.

Between Acculturation and Conversion

2013 ◽  
pp. 257-293
Author(s):  
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
World View ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
German Society ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes the relationship of the enlightened Jewish women to Judaism and to religion in general, including their attitude to conversion to Christianity. One of the most significant features of the act of conversion in the case of these Jewish women is the fact that, for them, it came in most cases at a relatively advanced age, despite the fact that their close involvement with German society and culture had started years before, in their teens or early twenties. All these women, then, spent many years distancing themselves in practice from the traditional Jewish way of life, blurring the borders that separated the Jewish and Christian worlds. During those years, they usually lived as non-observant Jews, who gradually abandoned Jewish practices but nevertheless remained affiliated to the Jewish people. As such, despite the indisputable importance of religious conversion, in most cases, the act itself did not mark a decisive point of departure in either the social life or the world-view of these women. The act of conversion constituted not a sudden leap from one world to another so much as one more step in a continuing process of acculturation in German society and alienation from the Jewish world.

scholarly journals NELAYAN SEBAGAI IDE PENCIPTAAN TARI TAREK PUKAT DALAM KAJIAN INTERAKSI SIMBOLIK

Imaji ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitriani Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Message Content ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
The Social

Tarek Pukat merupakan salah satu dari bentuk kesenian yang merupakan wujud kebudayaan hasil olah pikir, gagasan masyarakat pesisir Aceh. Tarek Pukat adalah gambaran aktivitas masyarakat pesisir yang memiliki rasa keindahan (estetika) yang ditimbulkan dari gerak, syair, dan musik. Setiap komponen terdapat kearifan lokal yang memiliki makna, isi pesan tentang norma-norma sosial, nilai-nilai budaya, dan sebagai wujud kebudayaan yang mengatur sistem sosial dalam menata aktivitas kehidupan sosial masyarakatnya. Interaksi simbolik lebih menekankan studinya tentang perilaku manusia pada hubungan interpersonal, bukan pada keseluruhan kelompok atau masyarakat. Proporsi paling mendasar dari interaksi simbolik adalah perilaku dan interaksi manusia itu dapat dibedakan, karena ditampilkan lewat simbol dan maknanya. Mencari makna dibalik yang sensual menjadi penting didalam interaksi simbolis. Tari Tarek Pukat ini difungsikan sebagai bentuk apresiasi terhadap budaya dan tradisi masyarakat Aceh pesisir, khususnya saat menangkap ikan di laut. Tarian ini dimaknai sebagai gambaran sikap gotong royong. Kata Kunci: Tarek Pukat, Interaksi Simbolik FISHERMAN AS THE IDEA OF CREATION OF TAREK PUKAT DANCE IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION STUDYAbstractTarek Pukat is one of arts which is formed of cultural thoughts, or ideas of coastal communities of Aceh. Tarek Pukat describes coastal community activities that have a sense of beauty (aesthetics) arising from motion, poetry, and music. Each component has a local wisdom that has a meaning, a message content about social norms, cultural values, and cultural forms that regulate the social life of the community. Symbolic interaction focuses more on the study of human behavior on interpersonal relationships, not on the whole group or society. The most fundamental proportion of symbolic interaction is that human behavior and interaction can be distinguished, because of events through symbols and their meaning. Seeking the meaning behind the sensuality becomes important in symbolic interaction. Tarek Pukat dance is functioned as a form of appreciation of the culture and traditions of coastal communities, especially when fishing in the sea. This dance is interpreted as a picture of mutual cooperation.Keywords: Tarek Pukat, Symbolic Interaction

scholarly journals Study of Population Activities in Establishing the Economic Welfare of Belawan Coastal Communities, North Sumatra

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Rahmad ◽  
Fellix Rimba ◽  
Mona Adria Wirda
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Population Activity ◽  
Coastal Community ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Transfer Of Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

utilizes the resources in adaptive technology with coastal conditions. The social life of coastal communities is notmuch different from the social life of other coastal communities in Indonesia, such as low education, seasonallydependent productivity, limited business capital, lack of means to support poor market mechanisms and the long transfer of technology and communications that result in coastal community income , Especially the processing fishermen become erratic. The purpose of this study is to determine the activity of the most dominant population around the coastal area of Bahari Village Medan Belawan, Indicator of community welfare, Effect of population activity on the welfare of the people of Bahari Village, Medan Belawan District. The location of research in Bahari Village Medan Belawan District. The timing of this research is started from the preparation of the proposal on 25 April, Implementation of research on May 1, 2017, and preparation of final report May 19, 2017. The methodology in this research is descriptive qualitative. Population in this research is head of environment and coastal community of Bahari village, Medan Belawan District. Some technical problems that hamper the welfare of fishers, among others, most are still traditional fishermen with socio-cultural characteristics that have not been conducive. Then, the fleet structure of capture that is still dominated by small/traditional businesses with weak scientific and technological skills. In addition to the low interest of schools in the surrounding coastal communities, the uncertainty of income received by fishermen, the indifference of most of the population will be the assistance provided by the government.

Life in small urban spaces of “Sanskari Nagari – Vadodara”

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Abhilash Kolluri ◽  
Garbhit Naik ◽  
Shubham Kaushal
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Western India ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Life Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Dynamics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

This paper envisages the situation of social life in the city of, “Vadodara – Sanskari Nagari” during and post-pandemic. In the globalization hub of Western-India, the city Vadodara stands true to its name – “Sanskari Nagari”, which still celebrates its rich heritage and culture to its fullest. The social life of people in Vadodara is not only a part of their culture but also part of their routine, which can be perceived from the world’s largest “Garba-gathering”; to every day’s post office hour “Chai-meetup”; to relishing their free time playing “Ludo” by the sides of bridges across the city. With the presence of COVID-19, city people are hesitant about social gatherings and meeting people. Ultimately, life is resuming but at a slow pace and there is an urge to “reimagine” the public spaces and public behaviour so that city doesn’t lose its charm. Referring to the city assessment of William H. Whyte, the mentor of Street Life Project for Public Spaces, Pedestrian behaviour, and City Dynamics, through his book – “Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces,1980” forms the prelude for the research. This paper draws attention to similar spaces for the city of Vadodara as referred to in the book. We see what we do not expect to see, and get acquainted to see crowded spaces. Hence, this paper analyses the selected “Urban-blocks” and “Neighbourhood-spaces” of different typology and their diverse activities. Conclusion focus on the rational segregation and “re-defining” of Urban Spaces based on their safe carrying capacity.

Cultivating Democracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukulika Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
The People ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Cultivating Democracy is the first study of its kind of the world’s largest democracy that shows how the values of republicanism are essential for successful democratic practice. In 1950, after independence, India constituted itself as a sovereign democratic republic. While democracy indicated the character of the vertical representative nature of the relationship between citizens and state, the term republic outlined the horizontal relationship of fraternity between people and an active engagement by citizens. The discussion of Indian politics in this book thereby attends to both its institutional form and its democratic culture and shows how the project of democracy is incomplete unless it is also accompanied by a continual cultivation of active citizenship of republicanism. This book is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in India, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages, both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. The analysis shows how an agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. The ethnographic microscope on a single paddy growing setting allows us to examine how the various social institutions of kinship, economy, and religion are critical sites for the continual civic cultivation of cooperation, vigilance, redistribution, inviolate commitment, and hope—values that are essential for democracy.

Language as a means of law expressing: theoretical principles

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Andrii Liashuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Law ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to formulate the theoretical foundations of the usage of the language as the main means of the law expression. Methodics. The methodics involves a comprehensive analysis and generalization of the available regulatory material and scientific positions and the formulation of the relevant problematic aspects of the law language because, it is based on the language of everyday communication, but at the same time it serves certain business purposes. During the research the following methods of scientific cognition were used: dialectical, hermeneutic, historical-legal, systemic and formal-legal one. These methods allow form the theoretical foundations of the language as a means of the law expression. Results. In the course of the research it has been stated that the language of the law is a system in which language is a means of the realization of all spheres of the social life, including the legal one, because the legal reality as a reflection of reality is inconceivable without the language. The former is the material carrier of the subject. Without language, all the factors common in the legal literature will remain far from reality, as they will not reflect modern socio-cultural processes. It is determined that traditionally the language of law is perceived as no more than a means of communicating legal information to the addressee. However, it is a more complex phenomenon than just a means of transmitting information. In general, language is the only way to access mental processes: it captures the experience of mankind, its thinking and, as a consequence, language is a mechanism of cognition. At the same time, legal language, “serving” the legal life of society with its resources, becomes it’s kind of cognitive reflection. Scientific novelty. In the course of the research the problematic aspects of the functioning of the language of law in the general language system have been established as socially and historically conditioned system of ways and rules of verbal expression of concepts and categories, developed and used to regulate the relationship of subjects in the legal life of society. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used to improve the mechanism of the application of the language of law in law-making, law-interpreting, law enforcement spheres.

War and Social Policy1

2018 ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Effects Of War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern War ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on the relationship of war and social policy. So far as the story of modern war before 1939 is concerned, little has been recorded in any systematic way about the social arid economic effects of war on the population as a whole. Only long and patient research in out-of-the-way documentary places can reveal something of the characteristics and flavour of social life during the experience of wars in the past. In discussing social policy, the chapter pertains to those acts of governments deliberately designed and taken to improve the welfare of the civil population in time of war. It also asks whether there were any recorded accounts of the movement of civilian populations in past wars as a calculated element in war strategy.

scholarly journals WOMEN IN MALAVIKAGNIMITRA OF KALIDASA

HARIDRA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (06) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Sapna OP
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study is intended to understand the diversity of the depictions of female characters in the play Malavikagnimitra by Kalidasa.This is Kalidasa's first play that features historical characters. The storytelling style is male-centric. But one thing that seems most interesting is the abundance and variety of female characters in this play. It also examines the relationship of female characters to the main character in the context of the social system of the time. It is an attempt to understand the personal and social life of women marked in Malavikagnimitra.

scholarly journals DISCOURSE AGONALITY AND RESOURCES OF ITS REALIZATION

2016 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
O. Kochubeynyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Contest Competition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article problematize the relationship of discourse to inequality, exclusion, subjugation, dominance and privilege. The linkages between discourse, modes of social organization, lived experience and strategies of resistance is discussed. Discourse is understood as both an expression and a mechanism of power, by which means particular social realities are conceived, made manifest, legitimated, naturalized, challenged, resisted and reimagined. The term discourse has also been used to designate particular ‘modes of talking’ associated with particular social institutions and reproduced by them. It means that social institutions produce specific ways or modes of talking about certain areas of social life, which are related to the place and nature of that institution. The main attention in the article is paid to illuminating the generative power of discourse in constructing, sustaining and challenging inequitable modes of social organization. The author has proposed a model that accounts for the two ways in which power is present in discourse and thus in society - a model which might be used as a basis for the development of a framework for discourse analysis as well as for the conceptualization of social change and its relation to language change. The author has used the notion of agon to explain some processes which occurred in constructing of social reality. Agon comes from the Greek word agōn, which is translated with a number of meanings, among them «contest,» «competition at games,» and «gathering». Agonality (agon) is declared as main specialty of discourse. It is proposed to see in the agonality the striving of discourse to its own self-assertion, which is manifested in the clash of forces, which potentially lies in social inter-relations. The author also considers the category of «symbolic violence» as a function of the power, the ability to impose values and recognize their legitimacy. In the social system of symbolic violence is implemented through the discursive implications and is carried out in two ways - through the textual and non-textual resources.

scholarly journals Cultural and Social Life of Turkish Pasha in Belgrade – Example of Ali Riza Pasha

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danko Leovac
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Upper Echelons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of

This paper focuses on the analysis of a very peculiar relationship of the last commander of the Belgrade fortress Ali Riza-Pasha towards the social and cultural life of the Serbian capital. Having in mind that the relations between the Serbs and Turks at the time were very specific, this pasha decided to break with the shackles of the past and became the first pasha up until that time to get himself fully immersed in the Serbian social life. He personally participated in numerous festivities, while his wife Meyra became known as the first wife of a pasha to organize parlour receptions for women from the upper echelons of the Serbian society at the time. Her oriental-themed salons left a deep mark on the society of the Serbian capital. Our goal in this paper is to present a folkloric and cultural dimension of the life of a Turkish pasha, but also the life at court by showing the activities of his wife.

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