From imagined community to imagined social space: The case of three international students

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-143
Author(s):  
Behnam Soltani ◽  
Ly Tran
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Space Data

Drawing on the concepts of imagined community and production of space, this article introduces the concept of imagined social space to understand hopes, dreams, worries, fears, sadness and happiness of three international students who have left their homelands to study in an unfamiliar academic social space. Data from qualitative in-depth interviews with three focal participants from an ethnographic study in a tertiary institution are presented to show that students’ desires, goals and future aspirations are determined by the interplay between social relationships and social conditions governing the social space. The findings of the study give insights into the development of an academic social space framework to capture the dynamic interactions of students’ investments, positionings and negotiations in their imagined space that can shape and reshape their identities.

scholarly journals “Because of the Christian Fellowship, I Decided to Stay”: How Participating in a Christian Community Shapes the Social Experiences of Chinese International Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Anke Li ◽  
Chi Nguyen ◽  
Jinhee Choi
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
American University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Fellowship ◽  
The University

This ethnographic study examines how participation in a Christian church community shapes Chinese international undergraduate students’ social experiences in an American university. Our findings reveal that Chinese international undergraduate students identify the church and its fellowship as (1) a social support community and (2) an informal learning community, one which fills in the gap in counseling services and interpersonal activities that the university fails to offer. Recommendations are made for higher education institutions to provide stronger support for international students, regardless of their nationalities and religions.

International students’ language socialization in an English-medium university

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behnam Soltani ◽  
Lawrence Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Classroom Interaction ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Interaction Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Field Notes

Abstract This article investigates second language socialization of three international students in a tertiary institute in New Zealand. To understand the experiences of international students, the article draws on the theoretical framework of the production of space to examine how the students experienced their new social space. The article uses multiple sources of data including video/audio recordings of the classroom interaction, field notes, interviews with the focal students/teachers/tutors/lecturers, diaries, and institutional documents to provide a thick description of students’ participation, language socialization, and identities. It does a within and across case analysis of the students’ experience to situate the learning experiences but at the same time to highlight the role of space as a participating social being in the socialization process. The concepts of language socialization and identities are reconceptualized as ever-evolving and ever-changing phenomena, whose production depends on the social conditions and relationships in the social space.

scholarly journals Mekânın Üretimi Kuramı ve Türkiye’de Kentsel Mekânın Üretimi: Ankara Örneği

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Husik Ghulyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Production Relations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Flexible Accumulation ◽  
Space Production

Turkish Abstract: Henri Lefebvre’in mekân kuramına dayanan bu tez çalışmasında Türkiye’de Ankara örneğinde Cumhuriyetin kuruluşundan günümüze mekânın üretimi süreçleri ele alınmaktadır. Lefebvre’in önerdiği mekân dönemselleştirmesinden yola çıkarak tez çalışmasında Cumhuriyetin kuruluşundan günümüze Ankara’da birbirine müteakip tarihsel mekân (1923-1930), soyut mekân (1930-1980) ile çelişkili mekânın (1980 sonrası) üretildiği varsayımı öne sürülerek bu tarihsel süreçte mekânın (yeniden) üretimi süreçlerinin Türkiye’de değişen üretim ilişkileri ile güçleri ve farklı dönemlerde öne çıkan üstyapısal paradigmaların değişim ile dönüşümü bağlamında ele alınmaktadır. Aynı zamanda toplumsal mekânın incelenmesi için Lefebvre’in önerdiği mekânsal üçlüye dayanarak çalışmada Ankara’da Cumhuriyetin kuruluşundan günümüze farklı dönemlerde toplumsal mekânın algılanan, yaşanan ile tasarlanan boyutları ele alınmaktadır. Türkiye’de 2000 sonrası dönemde egemen neoliberal-İslamcı üstyapısal paradigma ile ileri kapitalist esnek birikim rejimi bağlamında Ankara’da üretilmekte olan çelişkili mekân ise tez çalışmasında özel olarak ele alınan diğer konudur. Bu dönemde kentin toplumsal mekanının algılanan, yaşanan ile tasarlanan boyutları mevcut üretim ilişkileri ve egemen üstyapısal paradigma (neoliberal İslamcılık) ile Osmanlı-Selçuklu söylemi bağlamında değerlendirilmektedir. Lefebvre’in mekâna dair kuramsallaştırmalarından ilk önce ‘Mekânın Üretimi’ çalışmasının yapısal bir okumasına dayanan bu tez çalışması benimsediği yöntemsel çerçeve bakımından niteliksel bir çalışmadır.English Abstract: Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s production of space theory, this dissertation analyzes the processes of production of space in Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic up to the present, focusing specifically on Ankara. Considering the periodization of space framework proposed by Lefebvre, this dissertation posits that there are three consecutive periods of space production in Turkey: historical space (1923-1930), abstract space (1930-1980) and contradictory space (post-1980). In addition, this dissertation elaborates on the production of space in these periods in terms of changing relations and forces of production while also considering changing superstructural paradigms. At the same time, taking into consideration Lefebvre’s spatial triad, the dissertation elaborates on the lived, perceived and conceived moments of social spaces in Ankara for each period of its history of space since the establishment of the Republic up to the present time. The production of contradictory space in Ankara in the context of the dominant Neoliberal-Islamist superstructural paradigm and the flexible accumulation regime of advanced capitalism of the post-2000 period receives special focus in this dissertation. For this period, the lived, perceived and conceived aspects of the social space of Ankara are evaluated in the context of existing production relations, dominant superstructural paradigm (Neoliberal Islamism) and Ottoman-Seljuk discourse. The dissertation—which is based upon a structural reading of Lefebvre’s theorizations on space (first and foremost his ‘the Production of Space’ book)—adopts a qualitative methodological framework.

scholarly journals KAWASAN RELIGIUS DAN PRODUKSI RUANG DI LINGKUNGAN MASJID PATHOK NEGARA PLOSOKUNING YOGYAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Rahmadi Agus Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
The Relationship

Study of religion and territory (space) is a new phenomenon in recent dec­ades along with the tendency of religious studies that change from normative to con­tex­tual approach. Plosokuning village as a religious area becomes research ob­ject that examines the relationship between religion and space. Furthermore, this re­search will explore how this religious region is formed and how it affects the beha­vior of the people in this village.This study uses a social theory known as the production of space proposed by Henri Lefebvre. In this theory, space is a social production, and always related to the social reality that surrounds it. Space never existed and manifested itself or held itself. In other words space has a historical dimension that helped shape it. The social space also influences the way of thinking and acting of society that exists in the space, as well as uses as control and domination.From the historical approach, it is found that the religious area of Plosokun­ing is a product of the palace (kraton Yogyakarta) that makes Plosokuning as a mutihan area (place of worship). This religious area is intended as a bastion of the spirituality of the palace and the implementation of the royal philosophy known as Kiblat Papat Lima Pancer. In this philosophy, the palace is in the middle and sur­rounded by a spiritual fortress in the form of four Pathok Negara Mosques, one of which is the Pathok Negara Mosque in Plosokuning.The religious area of Plosokuning, which is a palace product, has an influ­ence on the Islamic religiosity of the Plosokuning community. This religious beha­vior can be proved by the emergence of cultural products, both tangible and intangi­ble cultures. Tangible cultures are like the emergence of some boarding schools (pesantren), some musholla (small mosques), Muslim housing, and majelis ta'lim (place for Islamic studies). While intangible culture such as the emergence of Is­lamic art, religious rituals, as well as Islamic religious norms in society. Plosokun­ing as religious area continues to be inherited from generation to generation by continu­ing to revive the Islamic culture, both tangible and intangible culture.The study of the Plosokuning community also shows a strong relation be­tween religious space and the behavior of the people. By the existing of the reli­gious area,  so the sacred character of religion becomes strong in the environment of Pathok Negara Mosque Plosokuning. As a sacred area, it becomes a shame (ta­boo) when people conduct behavior or actions that violate Islamic norms and tradi­tions. The social function of this religion is also reinforced by giving social sanc­tions for people who violate the teachings of Islam. Keywords: Islam, production of space, sacred, Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals Mediatization of Social Space and the Case of Uber Drivers

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngai Keung Chan ◽  
Lee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatial Movement

Digital data have become a form of “objectivation”, which affect how we construct social knowledge and organize social space (Couldry & Hepp, 2017). The workplace is one sphere that is increasingly datafied. This study explores how Uber drivers, a form of digitally-enabled service workers, contribute to the normalization of the social production of space through their interpretative practices of digital data in an online forum. Drawing on Uber’s corporate discourse and an Uber driver online forum, we analyze two facets of the Uber app and drivers’ mediated experiences: (1) the quantification and discipline of drivers’ performance through Uber’s rating system and (2) the coordination of spatial movement through location-related metrics. We argue that the underlying workings of the Uber app premediate expectations of service encounters and spatial movement. Uber drivers meanwhile develop practices which respond to and circumvent their own data contributions to the system. Drivers’ practices, we argue, are largely in compliance with the calculative logics set by Uber. The article addresses implications of Uber drivers’ practices for the reproduction of social space and power-relations in digitally-enabled service work and the gig economy.

scholarly journals Espaços compartilhados e práticas vividas: cartografia social e espaços de mobilização do bairro de Santo Amaro – Recife/PE

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vânia Fialho ◽  
Maria Jaidene Pires ◽  
Rita de Cássia Maria Neves ◽  
Emmerson Pereira da Silva ◽  
Maria Marluce S. Gomes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Social Cartography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soccer Teams ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The City

O texto objetiva compreender o bairro de Santo Amaro, situado na cidade de Recife/PE, nordeste brasileiro, a partir da caracterização dos seus espaços sociais. Identifica os lugares de socialização do bairro, conhecido por apresentar um dos maiores índices de violência dos centros urbanos brasileiros, a fim de destacar o seu potencial de mobilização política e identitária. Dialogando com a antropologia urbana, utiliza o conceito de lugar como um espaço na dimensão cultural-simbólica, assim como parte da ideia de unidade de mobilização para identificar o potencial de articulação dos moradores do bairro. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa seguiu os princípios da nova cartografia social, considerando-a uma forma de fazer etnografia. Como resultado, obtivemos uma leitura do espaço social do bairro e das suas dinâmicas locais. Foram realizadas oficinas de cartografia e produzidos mapas a partir da mobilização em torno dos clubes e times de futebol que exercem importante função no bairro.  Buscou-se, a partir da realização de “cartografias sociais”, contribuir para a compreensão das questões urbanas e dar visibilidade às criativas estratégias de articulação social.Palavras chave: Espaço urbano. Cartografia social. Unidade de mobilização.Shared Spaces and Experienced Practices: social cartography and spaces of mobilization in the neighbourhood of Santo Amaro – Recife/PE This paper aims to understand the neighborhood of Santo Amaro, located in the city of Recife/PE, Northeastern Brazil, through the characterization of its social spaces. In order to highlight its potential for political mobilization and identity, we identify places of socialization within the neighborhood, which is recognized as having one of the highest rates of violence in a Brazilian urban center. In dialogue with the urban anthropology, the study employs the concept of place as a space within cultural symbolic dimensions, as well as part of the idea of a mobilization unit to identify the potential for linking the residents of the neighborhood.In methodological terms, the study has followed the principles of the new social cartography, considering it as a manner of performing an ethnographic study. As a result, we obtained a reading of the social space of the neighborhood and its local dynamics. Cartography workshops were conducted and maps were produced from the mobilization surrounding the clubs and soccer teams that play an important role within the neighborhood. By implementing "social cartography", we sought to contribute to the understanding of urban issues and provide visibility to the creative strategies for social articulation.Keywords: Urban space. Social cartography. Mobilization unit. 

scholarly journals La construcción social y local del espacio áulico en un grupo de escuela primaria

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
Dra. Gabriela Naranjo Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pedagogical Relationships ◽  
Empty Chair

Se presenta un estudio etnográfico que muestra la construcción social y local que un grupo de escuela primaria de la ciudad de México hace de su espacio áulico y cómo con ello define el tipo de relaciones pedagógicas que ahí se sostienen. Para ello, se incorporan diversas herramientas teórico-metodológicas del enfoque multimodal (Kress et al., 2005), las cuales permiten, por un lado, abordar la materialidad del aula como un complejo de signos multimodales cuyos posibles significados regulan la vida social del aula y, por otro, ver a maestros y alumnos como activos productores de significados que contribuyen a constituir su espacio físico y social. Se destaca el ejemplo de un “asiento vacío”, el cual es constituido como un espacio de apoyo para la inclusión académica y social de un alumno ciego.AbstractThis paper is an ethnographic study about how a group of primary school students constructs their classroom as a social space, while at the same time defining the pedagogical relationships they hold. It incorporates the use of several methodological and theoretical tools from multimodal perspective, which allow: 1) to deal with the materiality of the classroom as a complex of multimodal signs whose potential meanings can regulate the social interactions and 2) to see the participants as active producers of meanings that play an active role in the physical and social construction of their space. One of the examples shown here is an ‘empty chair’ which is constructed as a supportive space for the academic and social inclusion of a blind student.Recibido: 2 de noviembre de 2009Aceptado: 20 de febrero de 2010

Cross-space Consumption among Undocumented Chinese Immigrants in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Xiangyi Li
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Currency Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Migrants

We consider cross-space consumption as a form of transnational practice among international migrants. In this paper, we develop the idea of the social value of consumption and use it to explain this particular form of transnationalism. We consider the act of consumption to have not only functional value that satisfies material needs but also a set of nonfunctional values, social value included, that confer symbolic meanings and social status. We argue that cross-space consumption enables international migrants to take advantage of differences in economic development, currency exchange rates, and social structures between countries of destination and origin to maximize their expression of social status and to perform or regain social status. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic study of consumption patterns in migrant hometowns in Fuzhou, China, and in-depth interviews with undocumented Chinese immigrants in New York and their left-behind family members, we find that, despite the vulnerabilities and precarious circumstances associated with the lack of citizenship rights in the host society, undocumented immigrants manage to realize the social value of consumption across national borders and do so through conspicuous consumption, reciprocal consumption, and vicarious consumption in their hometowns even without being physically present there. We conclude that, while cross-space consumption benefits individual migrants, left-behind families, and their hometowns, it serves to revive tradition in ways that fuel extravagant rituals, drive up costs of living, reinforce existing social inequality, and create pressure for continual emigration.

REKONSTRUKSI DAN REAKTUALISASI LITERASI EKOLOGI SOSIAL ISLAM

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The State ◽  
Ecological Literacy ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social

Literasi ekologi sosial Islam adalah interaksi manusia dengan lingkungan alam, teknologi, dan sosial yang didasarkan pada prinsip dasar Islam. Rekonstruksi literasi ekologi sosial Islam yang bisa direkonstruksi adalah prinsip dasar Islam yang menegaskan posisi manusia sebagai “pemimpin” yang diberi “amanah” untuk mengelola “bumi” atau “lingkungan alam dan sumber daya alam” sebaik-baiknya. Rekonstruksi literasi ekologis inilah yang kemudian akan diaktualisasikan pada masyarakat. Proses aktualisasi adalah kegiatan aktual dalam menanamkan kesadaran ekologi sosial Islam pada masyarakat yang mana dilakukan dalam ruang sosial keluarga, masyarakat, dan sekolah yang diorganisasi oleh negara melalui kebijakan dan peraturan per undang-undangan. Dengan proses rekonstruksi dan aktualisasi yang terstruktur ini, maka negara akan aktif membangun kesadaran ekologis sosial Islam dengan aktif dan terstruktur dengan baik guna mewujudkan basis kesadaran, ilmu pengetahuan, dan tata nilai ekologi sosial Islam pada masyarakat. Literacy on Islamic social ecology is the human interaction with the natural environment, technology, and social which is based on the basic principles of Islam. Reconstruction of literacy on Islamic social ecology that can be reconstructed is a basic tenet of Islam that affirms the human position as a "leader" by "mandate" to manage "Earth" or "natural environment and natural resources" as well as possible. Reconstruction of ecological literacy is then to be actualized in society. The process of actualization is actual activity in instilling awareness of the social ecology of Islam in the society which is done in the social space of families, communities, and schools organized by the state through policies and regulations. With the process of reconstruction and actualization, then the state will actively build social-ecological awareness of Islam in order to realize a base of awareness, knowledge, and values of Islamic social ecology in society.

SOCIAL CONFLICT: ARCHETYPAL NATURE AND RESOLUTION MECHANISM

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 294-305
Author(s):  
Ruslan Rafisovich Hasanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Constructive Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge

On the basis of the archetypic analysis of development trends of a conflictological paradigm the author’s model of minimization of conflict potential in modern society is offered. Institutional construction is the basis for model that is harmonized with a factor of societal identity.It is noted that the problems of social conflicts, according to data from monitor- ing studies of the Ukrainian school of archetype, are increasingly shifted into the sphere of interpersonal relations. It is stimulated by the progression in society of so-called self-sufficient personalities, the “subjectification” of the social space, and at the same time narrowing down to the solution of entirely specific situations in which there is a collision of the interests of two or more parties.Instead, in order to find the optimal solution for resolving the conflict, it is necessary to have interdisciplinary knowledge, in particular understanding of the deep nature of such conflicts. Collision of points of view, thoughts, positions — a very frequent phenomenon of modern social life. In order to develop the correct line of behavior in various conflict situations, it is important to adequately under- stand the nature of the emergence of the modern conflict and the mechanisms for resolving them in substance. Knowledge of conflict nature enriches the culture of communication and makes human life and social groups not only more calm, but also creates conditions for constructive development. It is proved that in modern life one can not but agree with the statement that an individual carries first re- sponsibility for his own life and only then for the life of the social groups to which he belongs. And while making decisions within the framework of modern mecha- nisms (consensus), the properties of human psychology such as extroversion, emo- tionality, irrationality, intuition, externality, and executive ability will not at least contribute to such a task.That is why in the author’s research attracted attention to the archetypal na- ture of the conflict — the primitive images, ideas, feelings inherent in man as a bearer of the collective unconscious.

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