Impacts of Welfare Reform on Families with Haitian Backgrounds

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Annie Mundeke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
African Woman ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Fictive Kin

During 1997 and 1998 I did field work on the influences of social networks on the school experiences of children of Haitian immigrants in the Tampa Bay Area. I had many opportunities to interact regularly with children and their caregivers. Rather than living in one neighborhood, the Haitian community was dispersed in the Tampa Bay area. Welfare reform was not my research topic per se, but still I had opportunities to hear about welfare and gathered some data on the issue. Observation, participant-observation, and ethnographic interviews, mainly through visits and socializing, were strategies used to collect data. The study used social network analysis as tool for research. While I was studying participants' social networks, I met many people and made friends, even fictive kin. Perhaps especially because I am an African woman, the Haitians received me as a sister, a cousin, a daughter, an aunt, and a friend.

scholarly journals Forging Political Cadres for Re-Peasantization: Escuela de Acción Campesina (Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4061
Author(s):  
David Gallar-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Global North ◽  
Training Schools ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
La Via Campesina

Bolstering the political formation of agrarian organizations has become a priority for La Vía Campesina and the Food Sovereignty Movement. This paper addresses the Spanish case study of the Escuela de Acción Campesina (EAC)—(Peasant Action School), which is a tool for political formation in the Global North in which the philosophical and pedagogical principles of the “peasant pedagogies” of the Training Schools proposed by La Vía Campesina are put into practice within an agrarian organization in Spain and in alliance with the rest of the Spanish Food Sovereignty Movement. The study was carried out over the course of the 10 years of activist research, spanning the entire process for the construction and development of the EAC. Employing an ethnographic methodology, information was collected through participant observation, ethnographic interviews, a participatory workshop, and reviews of internal documents. The paper presents the context in which the EAC arose, its pedagogical dynamics, the structure and the ideological contents implemented for the training of new cadres, and how there are three key areas in the training process: (1) the strengthening of collective union and peasant identity, (2) training in the “peasant” ideological proposal, and (3) the integration of students as new cadres into the organizations’ structures. It is concluded that the EAC is a useful tool in the ideological re-peasantization process of these organizations.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Motivations & Perceived Usefulness of a Weather Radar Display in Tampa Bay

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Michelle E. Saunders ◽  
Jennifer M. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Weather Radar ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Factors Influencing

CapsuleThis study is a novel exploration of how Tampa Bay Area residents use radar and identifies several important factors that influence the perceived usefulness of radar displays.

scholarly journals O Turismo Comunitário como ferramenta de desenvolvimento local nos territórios quilombolas

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosijane Evangelista da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Community Tourism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tourism Resources

O artigo faz reflexão sobre a prática turística nos territórios quilombolas, buscando analisar o processo de inserção da comunidade de Filipa, Maranhão, no contexto do turismo comunitário. O estudo aborda questões referentes à territorialidade (ALMEIDA, 1989) das comunidades quilombolas. Contextualiza o turismo comunitário como modelo de atividade que favorece e determina a participação e gestão de pequenas comunidades no processo de gerenciamento dos atrativos, garantindo-lhes autonomia e preservação cultural e ambiental de seus recursos turísticos. Oportunizando, dessa forma, que os benefícios gerados pela atividade contemplem as necessidades da comunidade. Partindo-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo, alicerçada pela observação participante, conclui-se que o legado sociocultural da comunidade de Filipa pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento do local, por meio de um aproveitamento turístico balizado nos princípios do turismo comunitário. The Community Tourism as a local development tool in the Quilombolas territories ABSTRACT The article provides insights on the touristic practice in the quilombolas territories, and it seeks to analyze the process of insertion of Filipa community, Maranhao state, in the context of a community-based tourism. The study has an approach the issues about the territory (ALMEIDA, 1989) of quilombolas communities. It contextualizes the communitarian tourism as a model of activity which contemplates and defines the participation and management of small communities in the process of management of attractions, and these factors can assure autonomy, and cultural and environmental preservation of their tourism resources. And, this way it maximizes the benefits originated in the activity itself can contemplate the needs of the community. Based on the literature review and field work, supported by participant observation, the conclusion is that the social and cultural heritage of Filipa Community can contribute to local development by a tourism optimization guided by community-based tourism principles. KEYWORDS: Quilombolas Communities, Community-based Tourism, Filipa, Local Development.

Reality-Based Approach to Stated Preference Surveys

2005 ◽  
Vol 1917 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
Xuehao Chu
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Revealed Preference ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
Design Procedures ◽  
Street Crossing ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Stated Preference Data ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Pedestrian Street

This paper defines a reality-based approach to soliciting stated preference data. It is related to existing preference methods in regard to both a common conceptual framework and recent trends in the literature. The reality-based approach is compared with the standard approach in both general characteristics and design procedures. Its expectations-based validity is illustrated with an application to pedestrian street-crossing behavior in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. The approach combines the realism of revealed-preference surveys and the flexibility of standard stated preference surveys. It adds to the toolbox of travel behavior research.

Friendship potential: Conversation-based programming and immigrant integration

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 670-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Case Based

Using Contact Theory as a lens, this article presents the results of a case-based study in Norway on language cafes and integration. The methodology includes participant observation and questionnaires for both the programmes’ participants and volunteers. The results show that the programming reduces intergroup prejudice by fostering the following four processes: learning about the out-group, changing behaviour, generating affective ties, and in-group reappraisal, as well as offering a high degree of friendship potential. Thus, the programming supports the expansion of social networks across intercultural lines and, thereby, facilitates integration.

Convergence between performance and amateur management of a social organisation

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1493-1509
Author(s):  
Victor Meyer Jr ◽  
Diórgenes Falcão Mamédio ◽  
Alechssandra Ressetti Oliveira ◽  
Natália Brasil Dib
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
And Performance

Purpose Understanding social organisations requires considerable effort because of their complex reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance and amateur form of management of an organisation of scavengers, with significant results for society. Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative in-depth case study. Data were collected through ethnographic interviews, non-participant observation and document analysis. The association of scavengers in question was identified as being strongly representative of the 23 similar associations in Curitiba. The city is the first Brazilian capital to create conditions for direct disposal of selective waste collected by waste pickers, as recommended by the National Solid Waste Policy. Findings Three main aspects of evidence are highlighted in the proposed model: unique features, performance management and multiplicity of practices. The findings showed a strong presence of utilitarian behaviour due to the need of the members of the organisation to generate income for survival, forcing social and environmental concerns into the background. The combination of community values, informal practices, collective learning and amateur management has had a positive effect on the social organisation’s performance. Social implications The outcomes were identified for individuals, the community and society by contributing to social inclusion, economic growth and environmental care. Originality/value The differentiated approach lies in the convergence between performance and amateur management in social organisations, with relevant environmental, economic and social results. A model is proposed to demonstrate the complex relationship between unique features, multiplicity of practices and performance with regard to the amateur management analysed in this study.

Narrating Fear, Tracing Landscape: Memory and Militancy ka Daur in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802292095674
Author(s):  
Chakraverti Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Landscape Of Fear ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Times ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

Jammu and Kashmir has been a theatre of conflict for almost three decades now. After the outbreak of militancy in 1989–1990 in the Kashmir valley, Doda belt was the first area outside the valley where armed conflict made inroads and affected lives variedly. Based on ethnographic field work, this paper addresses three interrelated questions about the manifestation of militancy in Doda: first, how did the armed struggle for the control of landscape invoked fear ( dehshat) in people and affect their way of living? Second, how did the violence by both non-state and state actors to seek control and assert power transformed the local landscape itself? Third, how did the locals negotiate with shifting landscapes embedded with fear and memories of violence? I approach these questions through memory ethnography of the times of militancy ( militancy ka daur). Based on conversations, narratives and participant observation, the article shows that militancy and resultant armed conflict sowed fear in people’s lives and altered their relation with space and time in multiple ways. Actors involved in the armed conflict shaped the local landscape by resorting to spatial strategies to control territory and exercise power through fear. As a consequence, locals negotiated with the landscape of fear by conforming to outright commands and through silence. Although militancy ka daur has passed in Doda, the paper argues that it has left deep imprints upon the collective memory of the people.

The Fathers' Rights Movement

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARL BERTOIA ◽  
JANICE DRAKICH
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Equitable Treatment

Family law reforms brought about a new social movement and lobby group—fathers' rights. This article, based on a 2-year study involving participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and document analysis examines the contradictions between the public and private rhetoric of fathers rightists. Thirty-two members from four fathers' rights groups were interviewed about their postdivorce parenting experiences, their personal troubles with family law practices, and their posturing on the fathers' rights' platform. The fatherhood project of family law reform, although viewed as serving all fathers, is primarily driven by fathers' personal stake in the issues and the hope of changing their current situation. The fathers in this study presented a uniform voice in support of the fathers' rights' public image of caring fathers who want men to be recognized as fathers and who are requesting equitable treatment in matters of child custody, support, and access. However, the interviews revealed that individual members did not support the full application of the concept of equality in postdivorce parenting, child care, and responsibilities.

Jewish Dating or Niche-making?

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Gromova
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Theoretical Idea ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Religious Couples

In this article I am approaching the topic of Jewish dating among the young Russian-speaking Jews who live in Berlin. Using the analytical concept of space and applying grounded theory, I am presenting data I collected in 2010 using the methods of ethnographic interviews and participant observation. The article is organised around three main questions. Firstly, I am interested in the motivation of my interviewees, who are generally children of inter-ethnic and inter-religious couples, to find a solely Jewish partner. Secondly, I am asking for existing strategies applied within a relatively small Jewish community of around thirty to fifty thousand in Berlin in order to find a Jewish partner. Thirdly, I am looking for the concrete spaces and places used or constructed for the purpose of finding a Jewish girlfriend or boyfriend. Beside these empirical results, I am introducing the theoretical idea of Jewish niches, which is discussed against the background of 'Jewish space' as promulgated by Diana Pinto.

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