The way Syrian refugees in Turkey use media: Understanding “connected refugees” through a non-media-centric and local approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Smets
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Local Approach ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Music Television ◽  
Unstable Position

Abstract This paper reports on an exploratory, qualitative study of media use among Syrian refugees in Turkey, focusing on two locations: a refugee camp in Sanliurfa (South-Eastern Turkey) and a community center in Istanbul. It seeks to provide new angles for conceptualizing the “connected refugee” by adopting a non-media-centric and ethnographic approach that emphasizes diversity, local contexts and everydayness. Firstly, the paper discusses the interplay between individual and collective ownership of media and ICTs, which is linked to certain power dynamics and an informal economy of solidarity. Secondly, the role of popular media (e.g., music, television series, football) for establishing ontological security in an interstitial and unstable position is discussed.

scholarly journals Giving Aid Inside the Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Christin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Distant Suffering ◽  
Set Up

Through a hospitality lens, the article looks at an Evangelical grassroots organization’s practice of house visits to Syrian refugees in Mafraq, Jordan. It begins by situating the hosting practices of European volunteers in the context of Mafraq’s multi-layered NGO environment and within the emerging literature on the role of transnational support networks in faith-based humanitarianism. A review of philosophical and anthropological literatures reveals how power dynamics and bordering practices shape the hospitality encounter. Its function as a scale-shifter between the local and the national makes “hospitality” well-suited for the study of displacement. Subsequent parts of the article explore volunteers’ acts of infringement on Syrians’ hospitality code that allow them to “contain” refugees’ demands for aid. The final section revisits Boltanski’s theory of a “politics of pity” in communicating distant suffering. The set-up of house visits forces refugees to perform “suffering” which provides the raw material for volunteers’ moving testimonies back home.

The Future of Anglican Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski ◽  
Joy Ann McDougall ◽  
Lizette Larson-Miller ◽  
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook ◽  
Kwok Pui-lan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The State ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Interdisciplinary Assessment ◽  
Respective State

Abstract The papers in this forum offer an interdisciplinary assessment of the state of the field of Anglican Studies and perspectives on future trajectories. The first three papers, on liturgy, history, and world Anglicanism, offer an assessment of the respective state of these areas of Anglican Studies. The second set, on theology, sociology of religion, and biblical studies, stake out positions on how these disciplines inform the work of Anglican Studies. A concluding essay offers a synthesis of these papers, focusing on the themes of local contexts for Anglicanism, a further complexification of decolonizing processes in Anglicanism, and the critical role of conversation in Anglican Studies regarding disciplines, languages, and power dynamics.

scholarly journals ‘Blood Doesn’t Become Water’? Syrian Social Relations during Displacement

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Lokot
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
The Family

Abstract Humanitarian discourses emphasize that displacement results in disruptions to family structures. This article challenges simplistic descriptions of change during displacement, highlighting the powerful role of the family in Middle Eastern societies through an anthropological exploration of social relations among Syrian refugees in Jordan. It contributes to academic analysis on social relations among refugees by presenting a more mixed picture of social dynamics within and outside the family—both before conflict and during displacement. It explores how the hold of the family among Syrians may limit social interactions with ‘outsiders’ during displacement, as well as how displacement may offer opportunities for tighter social regulations to be unravelled. These findings highlight that social relations among refugees must be analysed more carefully, and with consideration of intersectional power dynamics.

scholarly journals Giving Aid Inside the Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Ann-Christin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Distant Suffering ◽  
Set Up

Through a hospitality lens, the article looks at an Evangelical grassroots organization’s practice of house visits to Syrian refugees in Mafraq, Jordan. It begins by situating the hosting practices of European volunteers in the context of Mafraq’s multi-layered NGO environment and within the emerging literature on the role of transnational support networks in faith-based humanitarianism. A review of philosophical and anthropological literatures reveals how power dynamics and bordering practices shape the hospitality encounter. Its function as a scale-shifter between the local and the national makes “hospitality” well-suited for the study of displacement. Subsequent parts of the article explore volunteers’ acts of infringement on Syrians’ hospitality code that allow them to “contain” refugees’ demands for aid. The final section revisits Boltanski’s theory of a “politics of pity” in communicating distant suffering. The set-up of house visits forces refugees to perform “suffering” which provides the raw material for volunteers’ moving testimonies back home.

THE ROLE OF THE SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE ON THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN KOSOVO

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmond Beqiri ◽  
Violeta Beqiri ◽  
Napolon Beqiri
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Information Exchange

Leading Professionals

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Empson
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Investment Banks ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Consulting Firms ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Plural Leadership ◽  
External Stimuli

This book analyses the complex power dynamics and interpersonal politics that lie at the heart of leadership in professional organizations, such as accounting, law, and consulting firms, investment banks, hospitals, and universities. It is based on scholarly research into many of the world’s leading professional organizations across a range of sectors, including interviews with over 500 senior professionals in sixteen countries. Drawing on the latest academic theory to analyse exactly how professionals in organizations come together to create ‘leadership’, it provides new insights into how leaders lead when there is no traditional hierarchy to support them, their own authority is contingent, and they must constantly renegotiate relationships with relatively autonomous professional peers. It explores how leaders persuade highly intelligent, educated, and opinionated professionals to work together; how change happens within professional organizations; and why leaders so often fail. Part I introduces the concept of plural leadership, analysing how leaders establish and maintain their positions within leadership constellations, and the implications for governance in the context of collective or distributed leadership. Part II examines the complex, challenging relationships between professionals as they seek to influence their organizations, including the phenomena of leadership dyads, insecure overachievers, social control, and the rise of the management professional. Part III examines the shifts in the locus of power as professional organizations grow, adapt, and react to external stimuli such as mergers and acquisitions and economic crises. The conclusion identifies the paradoxes inherent in professional organizations and examines the role of leaders in attempting to reconcile them.

Health(y) education: A critical analysis of the role of public health regulation in and on tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032199501
Author(s):  
Susan Shaw ◽  
Keith Tudor
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Public Health Regulation

This article offers a critical analysis of the role of public health regulation on tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand and, specifically, the requirements and processes of Responsible Authorities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act for the accreditation and monitoring of educational institutions and their curricula (degrees, courses of studies, or programmes). It identifies and discusses a number of issues concerned with the requirements of such accreditation and monitoring, including, administrative requirements and costs, structural requirements, and the implications for educational design. Concerns with the processes of these procedures, namely the lack of educational expertise on the part of the Responsible Authorities, and certain manifested power dynamics are also highlighted. Finally, the article draws conclusions for changing policy and practice.

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