scholarly journals Palimpsests and urban pasts: The janus-faced nature of whitechapel

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0251064
Author(s):  
Shlomit Flint Ashery ◽  
Nurit Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
World City ◽  
Everyday Experiences

This article examines how palimpsests in city spaces are mediated and negotiated by pedestrians’ individual everyday experiences. The literature on city spaces and palimpsests is rich; however, it has not examined the sharing and fusing of palimpsests into everyday life. To fill this lacuna, we explore how pedestrians mediate the physical path of the parcellations and the layers of meanings accrued over the years. We describe what we term the “Janus face of Whitechapel Road” that characterizes the multidimensional and ever-changing face of London as a world city. We look at the different traffic hinges distributed throughout the urban setting and track people as they encounter these historical and aesthetic landmarks. The experience of London’s palimpsests is an exemplar of this Janus’s face, governed by transitions, time, duality, and passages.

scholarly journals Transparency as Ideology, Ideology as Transparency: Towards a Critique of the Meta-aesthetics of Neoliberal Hegemony

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 654-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge I. Valdovinos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Social Consensus ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Relations Of Power

Abstract Along with the increasing commodification of all aspects of culture and the persistent aestheticisation of everyday life under late capitalism, there is an equally increasing longing for objectivity, immediacy, and trust. As the mediation of our everyday experiences augments, a generalised feeling of mistrust in institutions reigns; the sense of a need to bypass them increases, and the call for more “transparency” intensifies. As transparency manages to bypass critical examination, the term becomes a source of tacit social consensus. This paper argues that the proliferation of contemporary discourses favouring transparency has become one of the fundamental vehicles for the legitimation of neoliberal hegemony, due to transparency's own conceptual structure-a formula with a particularly sharp capacity for translating structures of power into structures of feeling. While the ideology of transparency promises a movement towards the abolition of unequal flows of information at the basis of relations of power and exploitation, it simultaneously sustains a regime of hyper-visibility based on asymmetrical mechanisms of accountability for the sake of profit. The solution is not “more” transparency or “better” information, but to critically examine the emancipatory potential of transparency at the conceptual level, inspecting the architecture that supports its parasitic logic.

The hustle economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Adeline Thieme
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Resonant Condition ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Life Work

This article deploys the conceptual frame of hustle to examine the everyday dealings associated with uncertainty and accepted informalities that pervade realms of everyday life amongst youth in precarious urban geographies. In doing so, the discussion advances the theoretical linkages between prolonged periods of ‘waithood’, alternative interpretations of work, and experiments within the everyday city more broadly. The article argues that the hustle economy is a localized but globally resonant condition of contemporary urbanism, coupling generative possibilities that emerge from everyday experiences of uncertainty and management of insecurities associated with ‘life work’ outside the bounds of normative social institutions.

scholarly journals For feminist geographies of austerity

2022 ◽  
pp. 030913252110651
Author(s):  
Sarah Marie Hall
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Voice And Silence

Austerity policies and austere socio-economic conditions in the UK have had acute consequences for everyday life and, interconnectedly, the political and structural regimes that impact upon the lives of women and marginalised groups. Feminist geographies have arguably been enlivened and reinvigorated by critical engagements with austerity, bringing to light everyday experiences, structural inequalities and multi-scalar socio-economic relations. With this paper I propose five areas of intervention for further research in this field: social reproduction, everyday epistemologies, intersectionality, voice and silence, and embodied fieldwork. To conclude, I argue for continuing feminist critique and analyses given the legacies and futures of austerity.

scholarly journals What Does a Pandemic Sound Like? The Emergence of COVID Verbal Art

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pennesi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Recorded Performances ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Policies And Practices

In times of social upheaval, people create and engage with verbal art for entertainment and a feeling of connection. While millions of people were forced to stay home to reduce the spread of COVID‑19 from March to July 2020, verbal artists posted recorded performances online and viewers had more time than usual to watch and share them. COVID verbal art refers to songs, poems, and comedy skits that mention social and physical distancing, quarantine and isolation, hygiene and cleaning practices, everyday experiences during the pandemic, as well as social and political critiques of policies and practices that explicitly mention COVID‑19 or coronavirus. An examination of 227 verbal art performances posted on YouTube and TikTok provides an ethnographic record of how everyday life has changed over time during the COVID‑19 pandemic, and how the focus shifted from initial confusion to political critique.

Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-140
Author(s):  
Omar Dewachi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genetic Makeup ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Decades of war and western interventions in Iraq have produced toxic legacies of wounding and affliction that have redefined geographies and everyday experiences of vulnerability and care. Building on what I call anthropology of wounding, I explore a number of methodological insights related to conducting ethnographic research on war injury across conflict landscapes in the Middle East. Taking the “wound” as a method, I explore what is “revealed” in such wounds as they map the incongruent trajectories, terrains and relations of vulnerability and care in everyday life. Anchoring my analysis in a deeper understanding of the changing ecologies of war, I show how an anthropology of wounding further unravels the biosocial relations of distress and care, and provides a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of war and the body, as well as the inscription of a history of war in the molecular and genetic makeup of the environment.

scholarly journals Pleasure, arousal, dominance, and judgments about music in everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Krause ◽  
Adrian C. North
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Day Reconstruction Method ◽  
Dominance Model ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Experiences

The aim of the present research was to consider what particular features are significant predictors of whether music is present in a given situation, as well as what factors influence a person’s judgments about the music. Applying Mehrabian and Russell’s (1974) Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance model to everyday experiences of music, 569 people reported on their activity for the previous day via the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). Data concerning each event included the activity and location, and characterization of the experience using the Pleasure–Arousal–Dominance measure. Moreover, for those events where music was present, participants also indicated how they heard the music and made four judgments about the music. Results indicated that the location, activity, and the person’s perception of dominance were significant predictors of the presence of music during everyday activities and that person’s judgments about the music. Contrary to prior research that has considered predominantly situational pleasure and arousal variables, the present results demonstrate that dominance is arguably the important variable in contextualized music listening.

scholarly journals From Danger to Uncertainty: Changing Health Care Practices, Everyday Experiences, and Temporalities in Dealing With COVID-19 Policies in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110057
Author(s):  
Christian Bröer ◽  
Gerlieke Veltkamp ◽  
Carolien Bouw ◽  
Noa Vlaar ◽  
Femke Borst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Policy Shifts ◽  
Over Time

Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents’ changing everyday experiences and health care practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March to June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving COVID-19 prevention policies, (a) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. (b) Following the lockdown, risk management changed from fear to insecurities and (c) simultaneously, emotion management transitioned from solidarity to fragmentation. (d) Increasingly, pragmatic considerations allowed parents to tackle uncertainties and created room to normalize everyday life. We studied “change” by using a novel conceptual model for temporality and found distinct temporalities in parents’ accounts. In sum, we interpret this as a shift from danger to uncertainty, induced by policy shifts and pragmatically translating those to the lifeworld.

“We Are Three Parents, but Legally Two”: Absent Legality, Present Display

2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2098337
Author(s):  
Nola Cammu
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Parents Experiences

Parental constellations, by which more than two adults decide to conceive and raise children together, are unrecognized by most jurisdictions. Via in-depth-interviews with 21 parents living in Belgium and the Netherlands, this article explores the legal experiences of parents within intentional plus-two-parent constellations through the methodological framework of “display work” (i.e., families are not only done but also displayed (Finch, 2007)). The parents’ everyday experiences with absent legality were found to be playing out via complex interplays among internal and external levels of display. In addition, researcher’s positions are believed to play a role in how certain forms of display are carried out. Consequently, the concept of display work grants us more insight into the wide array of parents’ experiences with (the lack of) legal framework and its repercussions for everyday life, as well as the parents’ aim to contribute to a broader context of awareness-raising and policymaking.

scholarly journals Contemporary Hungarian Women’s Writing and Cosmopolitanism

Porównania ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Ágnes Györke
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Hungarian Literature ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article investigates contemporary Hungarian women’s writing in the context of cosmopolitan feminism. The literary works explored are Noémi Szécsi’s The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, Noémi Kiss’s Trans and Virág Erdős’s Luminous Bodies: 100 Little Budapest, which I read as examples of a cosmopolitan feminist engagement with urban space. As opposed to the Kantian concept of cosmopolitanism, which has been critiqued for failing to take the experiences of particular social groups and geographical regions into account, cosmopolitan feminism focuses on the local and the embodied. The discussed texts thematise border crossing both on the level of form and content, while they engage with the mundane, affective aspects of everyday life in an emphatically urban setting. This cosmopolitan feminism challenges parochial, heavy, national literary traditions and points towards a distinct feministaesthetics in contemporary Hungarian literature.

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