Young Salafi-niqabi and hijrah:agency and identity negotiation

This article analyzes the life of young millennial Salafi-niqabi in Surakarta and their strategies in dealing with power relations in their everyday lives. Studies on Salafi in Indonesia have focused more on global Salafimovements, power politics, links with fundamentalist-radical movements, state security and criticism of Salafi religious doctrine. Although there are several studies that try to portray the daily life of this religious group, the majority of previous studies focused on formal institutions and male Salafi. Very few studies have addressed the lives of Salafi women. This is likely due to the difficulty of approaching this group because of their exclusivity, and their restrictions on interacting with the outside world. Using Macleod’s theory of ‘accommodating protest’ within the

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Stalin’s Heirs

Scorched Earth ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300136982.003.0007 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jörg Baberowski

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Daily Life ◽

Foreign Minister ◽

The State ◽

Party Leader ◽

State Security ◽

Nikita Khrushchev ◽

Internal Affairs ◽

Made In

This chapter examines the changes that were made in Russia after Joseph Stalin's death. Within weeks of Stalin's death, the charges against the “murderer doctors” had been dropped, the use of torture had been outlawed, and the punitive authority of the security apparatus had been limited. Furthermore, the last remaining victims of the “Mingrelian Affair” were released from prison, and Solomon Mikhoels, the assassinated chairman of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, was rehabilitated posthumously. Despotism, the hallmark of Stalinism, would disappear from daily life, and fear and dread would no longer be the ruling standard. Nikita Khrushchev became the new party leader, Georgi Malenkov was made prime minister, Vyacheslav Molotov was allowed to return to his former post as foreign minister, and Stalin's executioner Lavrenty Beria assumed control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the state security apparatus. Throughout the years of de-Stalinization, it remained the great exception for any of the crimes against defenseless individuals to be prosecuted.

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The Everyday lives and coping Strategies of women in Delhi; Discerning roots of Psychological Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0402.198 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Swati Sharma ◽

Dr. Anita Gupta

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Psychological Empowerment ◽

Daily Life ◽

Inductive Reasoning ◽

Field Work ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

Positive Coping ◽

Task Oriented

This is an ethnographic study based on inductive reasoning inspired by everyday life coping of slum women in Delhi. Evidences from field work were found to be congruent with the underlying assumptions of Humanistic and analytical psychology, perspectives which ascertain positive human values and life orientation such as growth, and fulfillment, making it difficult to completely neglect strategies for adaptability, positive coping, and adjustment, which are having a positive influence in everyday lives of slum women in their day-day life. The focus of this study is not to explore the daily life concerns, but to highlight how these concerns are addressed by slum women, with regard to their coping strategies. The objective of this study was to bring into light the phenomenon of positive adaptability towards daily life concerns, in context with slum women by exploring three coping strategies given by Endler and Parker. Task-oriented strategy, Emotion-oriented strategy, and, Avoidance-oriented strategy three categories which were used to categorize the responses towards daily life stressors. Finally this study attempts to fill in the prevailing literature gap in the context of the conceptualization of psychological empowerment for slum women based on the findings of this study and trace the roots of psychological empowerment using the perspectives of psychology. This study illustrates analysis of ethnographic records of 50 informants from various slums in Delhi.

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Changing (?) Gender Roles Within Conservative Communities: An Analysis of Group Interview Narratives of Bedouin Women

Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society ◽

10.1093/sp/jxaa013 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 486-509

Author(s):

Ayelet Harel-Shalev ◽

Rebecca Kook ◽

Feniar Elkrenawe

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

Power Relations ◽

Group Interview ◽

Women's Agency ◽

Multiple Modes ◽

Everyday Lives ◽

The Face ◽

Women’S Agency ◽

Group Interviews

Abstract This article focuses on the creative and innovative modes of negotiation that women in severely patriarchal societies often exhibit in their attempts to actively pursue their own goals in the face of risk. Based on group interviews with Bedouin women in southern Israel about their everyday lives, the research explores both the risks and the ways in which the women deal with them. The research expands on discussions about the nature of women’s agency in the context of the power relations prevalent in specific communities, paying attention to the multiple modes of subordination experienced by the women of such communities.

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Power Relations in the Force Field of Academia: A Close Reading of Srividya Natarajan’s No Onions Nor Garlic

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244019837444 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 215824401983744

Author(s):

Averi Mukhopadhyay

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Daily Life ◽

Code Of Conduct ◽

Close Reading ◽

Men And Women ◽

University Campuses ◽

Second Homes ◽

Course Of Action ◽

The Difference ◽

The One

University campuses serve as second homes for students, teachers, administrators, and parents coming from diverse regions, religions, classes, castes, and different genders. Interaction and camaraderie between the major characters in the academe develop. The bonhomie that exists between the stakeholders of the academe has its own rules, rules that are marked by the interference of power. The one wielding more power by virtue of one’s position, class, caste, or gender tries to dictate the terms of a particular relationship. Relations evolve as power relations, whereby a specific code of conduct regarding speech, behavior, thought, writing, love, and life is laid down for all—from administrators and professors to students and parents. This article studies how in a location as specific as Chennai University as described in Srividya Natarajan’s No Onions Nor Garlic, the ideological prejudices and hierarchical divisions highlighted by the play of power affect the daily life of the academe and chart out the course of action for everyone, from professors, students, high caste, low caste to men and women, involved in power relations. On the basis of that, this article suggests power in general serves not only to suppress the powerless but is productive also, as countering power with power creates a proper kind of resistance that blurs the difference between the agent and the target of power in power relations.

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A Educação do Campo e suas especificidades: um estudo do Projeto Político Pedagógico de uma escola do campo no município de Londrina-PR

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo ◽

10.20873/uft.rbec.e9938 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Juliana Fernandes Lanca ◽

Tania da Costa Fernandes

Keyword(s):

Rural Education ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Rural Community ◽

Power Relations ◽

Daily Life ◽

School Education ◽

Pedagogical Practice ◽

Political Project

Education gains importance in the constitution of society, influencing economic and power relations and, in the humanistic dimension, it contributes to the incorporation of ethical and sensitive principles, expanding a more inclusive and emancipatory worldview. However, respect for diversity is still a challenge and there is a need for school institutions whose projects operate in different perspectives, among them in the countryside. This article aims to present aspects of rural education, understanding its peculiarities and correlating them to the Pedagogical Political Project of a country school, unveiling what is established (or not) as the purpose of a rural pedagogical practice. The methodology is based on a qualitative analysis, with a bibliographic and documentary approach. The results show a conception of rural education that is attentive to the needs of the rural community and that the pedagogical project of the investigated College, in general, converges with this conception. It was concluded that school education in the countryside needs to ensure specificities in its pedagogical project, respecting practices typical of the daily life of these rural communities and, thus, carrying out a humanistic and emancipatory process of the subjects.

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Un/covering: Making Disability Identity Legible

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v37i1.5556 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Heather Dawn Evans

Keyword(s):

Chronic Illness ◽

Disability Studies ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Daily Life ◽

Identity Negotiation ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Disability Identity ◽

Social Settings ◽

Disability Stigma ◽

Invisible Disabilities

This article examines one aspect of disability identity among people with non-apparent or "invisible" disabilities: the decision to emphasize, remind others about, or openly acknowledge impairment in social settings. I call this process "un/covering," and situate this concept in the sociological and Disability Studies literature on disability stigma, passing, and covering. Drawing on interviews with people who have acquired a non-apparent impairment through chronic illness or injury, I argue that decisions to un/cover (after a disability disclosure has already been made) play a pivotal role for this group in developing a strong, positive disability identity and making that identity legible to others. Decisions to pass, cover, or un/cover are ongoing decisions that stitch together the fabric of each person's daily life experiences, thus serving as primary mechanisms for identity negotiation and management.

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The Demands of Liberal Non-Domination

Justice and Egalitarian Relations ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190084240.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 94-126

Author(s):

Christian Schemmel

Keyword(s):

Social Norms ◽

Moral Agency ◽

Power Relations ◽

Personal Relationships ◽

Formal Institutions ◽

Life Options ◽

Intensive Programs ◽

Policy Mandate

This chapter develops the specific demands of liberal non-domination. It argues that they cover protection against dominatory groups as well as against power relations which are not mediated by authority, or otherwise public; demonstrates how different choices, such as those falling under the basic liberties, connected to intimate personal relationships, or at stake in resource-intensive programs and policies to enhance life options, call for different thresholds of intensity of protection; and how protection must itself be appropriately respectful of people’s moral agency. It goes on to show how the resulting requirements give a wide policy mandate to combat domination not only through formal institutions, but also by fostering a societal ethos and informal social norms, and argues that liberals should not be worried by this wide mandate. It concludes by analysing in which ways demands of protection against domination can, and cannot, be understood as distributive demands.

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Directly elected mayors in Germany: leadership and institutional context

Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447327011.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Björn Egner

Keyword(s):

Regression Models ◽

Power Relations ◽

Local Politics ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Institutional Context ◽

Formal Institutions ◽

German State ◽

Municipal Council ◽

Formal Power ◽

The Relationship

Each German state has adopted its own municipal code which defines the horizontal power relations between the two most powerful players in local politics, the mayor and the municipal council. The aim of this chapter is to find our whether variances in formal power between states are connected to the assessment of mayors and councillors concerning the relationship between them. For that purpose, an index of mayoral power is established. Within reference to six regression models, the explanatory power of formal institutions is found to be relatively weak.

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Bourdieusian Reading of Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money

English Language and Literature Studies ◽

10.5539/ells.v5n4p21 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 21

Author(s):

Pegah Marandi ◽

Alireza Anushiravani

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Social Life ◽

Power Relations ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Power Politics ◽

Caryl Churchill ◽

The Social ◽

Second Wave Feminism ◽

The Matrix ◽

Material Conditions

Caryl Churchill is one of the most widely performed female dramatists in contemporary British theatre. She is arguably the most successful and best-known socialist-feminist playwright to have merged from Second Wave feminism. Her plays have been performed all over the world. In her materialist plays, she shows the matters of culture, education, power, politics, and myth. Her oeuvre hovers over the material conditions which testify to the power relations within society at a given time in history. Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, and theorist in cultural studies points out the dynamics of power relations in social life throughout ideas such as capital, field, habitus, symbolic violence, theories concerned with class and culture. The overarching concern for the purpose of this essay is to analyse Churchill’s Serious Money (1987) in the light of Bourdieu’s sociological concepts. In accordance with Bourdieu, there exist various kinds of capital (cultural, economic, social, and symbolic) which distinguish every individual’s status both in society and in relation to other individuals. The present study attempts to show that in Serious Money, the capital especially economic capital forms the foundation of social life and dictates one’s position within the social order and respectively, determining the power discourse in the matrix of social life.

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