Maternal Silences: Motherhood and Voluntary Childlessness in Contemporary Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Llewellyn
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Voluntary Childlessness ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Church Teaching ◽  
Maternal Bodies

In Christianity, there is an ideology of motherhood that pervades scripture, ritual, and doctrine, yet there is an academic silence that means relatively little space has been given to motherhood and mothering, and even less to voluntary childlessness, from a faith perspective. By drawing on qualitative in-depth interviews with Christian women living in Britain, narrating their experiences of motherhood and voluntary childlessness, I suggest there are also lived maternal silences encountered by women in contemporary Christianity. There is a maternal expectation produced through church teaching, liturgy and culture that constructs women as ‘maternal bodies’ (Gatrell 2008); this silences and marginalises women from articulating their complex relationship with religion, motherhood, and childlessness in ways that challenge their spiritual development. However, this article also introduces the everyday and intentional tactics women employ to disrupt the maternal expectation, and hereby interrupt the maternal silence.

The Catholic Church and Married Women's Sexuality: Habitus Change in Late 20th Century Ireland

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Intact Families ◽  
Reflexive Modernity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Church Teaching

This article is based on data taken from a larger study of family change in Ireland in which mothers of intact families were interviewed in 1975 and revisited in 2000. It charts a process of change in the relationship between these women and the Roman Catholic Church, particularly in relation to the areas of sexuality and the transmission of church teaching. Through the analysis of depth interviews a process of transformation is discerned which is illustrative of Beck's (1992) conceptualisation of individualisation and reflexive modernity.

scholarly journals Makna Kekerabatan Dalam Budaya Lonto Leok Pada Proses Pilkada Di Manggarai Barat

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Benedictus Simangunsong ◽  
Felisianus N. Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Political Process ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Election Process ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

                                                                        Abstrak Budaya memainkan peran yang sangat penting dalam politik karena menjadi cerminan masyarakat dalam menentukan sikap dan pilihan politik atau membentuk karakteristik masyarakat dalam berpolitik. Contoh dari hubungan antara budaya dan politik bisa tergambarkan pada isu kekerabatan  pada pilkada Manggarai Barat 2020 yang dibahas dalam penelitian ini. Fenomena kekerabatan yang dimaksud adalah adanya kecenderungan dari masyarakat Manggarai Barat pada umumnya untuk memilih pemimpin yang seasal atau karena faktor kekerabatan dan kekeluargaan atau dikenal sebagai budaya lonto leok yang masih kuat mempengaruhi kehidupan masyarakat termasuk politik. Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma interpretif dengan metode penelitian Fenomenologi. Adapun pengumpulan data penelitian dilakukan dengan data primer yaitu melakukan wawancara mendalam dan dokumentasi serta data sekunder berupa studi kepustakaan. Wawancara dilakukan kepada para informan yang melakukan lonto leok menjelang Pilkada Mabar Tahun 2020 dan juga pada pilkada-pilkada sebelumnya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa makna kekerabatan dalam budaya lonto leok pada proses pilkada di Manggarai Barat adalah kebersamaan dan ketergantungan. Sementara peran budaya lonto leok dalam proses politik adalah pada saat pengambilan keputusan dan menumbuhkan ikatan kekerabatan.   Kata kunci: Budaya, Politik, Kekerabatan, Lonto Leok, fenomenologi, makna kekerabatan                                                                   Abstract   Culture plays a very important role in politics because it reflects the everyday life of society in determining political attitudes and choices or shaping the characteristics of society in politics. One of them many examples about the relationship between culture and politics can be illustrated in the issue of kinship in the 2020 West Manggarai regional election discussed in this study. The kinship phenomenon in question is the tendency of the West Manggarai community in general to choose leaders who are in the same kinship and it is known as the lonto leok culture which still strongly influences people's life, including politics. This study uses an interpretive paradigm with phenomenological research methods. The research data collection was carried out with primary data, namely conducting in-depth interviews and documentation and secondary data in the form of literature study. Interviews were conducted with informants who conducted lonto leok ahead of the 2020 Mabar Pilkada and also in the previous pilkada. The results showed that the meaning of kinship in the lonto leok culture in the election process in West Manggarai was togetherness and dependence. Meanwhile, the role of lonto leok culture in the political process is at the time of making decisions and fostering kinship ties.   Keywords: Culture, Politics, Kinship, Lonto Leok, phenomenology, meaning of kinship  

scholarly journals Laboratizing the border: The production, translation and anticipation of security technologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Bourne ◽  
Heather Johnson ◽  
Debbie Lisle
Keyword(s):  
Security Threats ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Device Development ◽  
Detection And Identification ◽  
Constitutive Process ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Integrated Device ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Eu

This article critically interrogates how borders are produced by scientists, engineers and security experts in advance of the deployment of technical devices they develop. We trace how sovereign decisions are enacted as assemblages in the antecedent register of device development through the everyday decisions of scientists and engineers in the laboratory, the security experts they engage, and the material components of the device itself. Drawing on in-depth interviews, observations, and ethnographic research of the EU-funded Handhold project, we explore how assumptions about the way security technologies will and should perform at the border shape the development of a portable, integrated device to detect chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives (CBRNE) threats at borders. In disaggregating the moments of sovereign decision-making across multiple sites and times, we question the supposed linearity of how science comes out of and feeds back into the world of border security. An interrogation of competing assumptions and understandings of security threats and needs, of competing logics of innovation and pragmatism, of the demands of differentiated temporalities in detection and identification, and of the presumed capacities, behaviours, and needs of phantasmic competitors and end-users reveals a complex, circulating and co-constitutive process of device development that laboratises the border itself.

Punishment and Pleasure: Women, Food and the Imprisoned Body

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Powerful Source ◽  
Dominant Meaning ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Promotional Discourse ◽  
Depth Interviews

Food assumes enormous importance in prison: for many prisoners it conditions their life in custody and, in many respects, is symbolic of the prison experience. This article explores the complex relationship between gender, food and imprisonment through an analysis of data obtained from in-depth interviews and group discussions conducted in three women's prisons in England. The findings indicate that, in prison, where control is taken away as the prisoner and her body become the objects of external forces, food is experienced not only as part of the disciplinary machinery, but also as a powerful source of pleasure, resistance and rebellion. The implications of such findings for health promotion in the prison context are discussed. Here, the pleasures and consolations of food may well constitute a redefinition of what it is to be healthy in this context, one that challenges the dominant meaning constructed in current health promotional discourse.

scholarly journals Lost and unfulfilled relationships behind emotional loneliness in old age

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1068-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELISA TIILIKAINEN ◽  
MARJAANA SEPPÄNEN
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Older People ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Emotional Loneliness ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Depth Interviews

ABSTRACTUsing a qualitative approach, this article examines how the experiences of emotional loneliness are embedded in the everyday lives and relationships of older adults. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted in 2010 with older people who reported feeling lonely, often or all the time, during a cohort study in southern Finland. The research reveals the multifaceted nature of loneliness and its causes. Behind emotional loneliness, we identified lost and unfulfilled relationships, involving the loss or lack of a partner, the absence of a meaningful friendship, complex parenthood and troubling childhood experiences. Most of the interviewees have faced loneliness that only began in old age, but for some, loneliness has been present for nearly a lifetime.

Old Menace in New China: Coastal smuggling, illicit markets, and symbiotic economies in the early People's Republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 1561-1597
Author(s):  
PHILIP THAI
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Black Markets ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Capitalist World

AbstractThis article explores the ambiguous role of coastal smuggling during the first decade and a half of Communist rule (1949–65). Fearing that the illicit flow of commodities siphoned critical revenues and undermined foreign policy, Communist China repurposed and expanded Nationalist China's war on smuggling while employing novel tactics of mobilization. Yet smuggling was not just a threat; it was also a lifeline that alleviated widespread material shortages and supplied the everyday needs of individuals and firms during the tumultuous transition to central planning. Businesses from ‘underground factories’ to state-owned enterprises relied on black markets to meet ambitious production targets and circumvent bottlenecks in official supply channels. Smuggling was thus more than just ‘corruption’ practised by officials—it was also a ‘creative accommodation’ employed by broad swaths of social actors coping with the enormous changes. This article argues that the nascent command economy and the vibrant underground economy existed symbiotically rather than antagonistically. Exploration into this complex relationship reveals many cross-border connections between Communist China and the capitalist world that both complemented and undermined domestic state consolidation.

Tragic Beauties: Heroin Images and Heroin Users

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheline Duterte ◽  
Kristin Hemphill ◽  
Terrence Murphy ◽  
Sheigla Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Heroin Use ◽  
Heroin Users ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
Youth Subculture ◽  
Depth Interviews

We present selected findings from “An Ethnography of Young Heroin Users” concerning media and youth-subculture influences on the initiation and continuation of heroin use among young adults ages 18–25. One hundred and two male and female participants were administered depth interviews and structured questionnaires pertaining to heroin initiation and continuation practices. A number of participants mentioned media depictions of heroin and membership in specific youth cultures in relation to their own heroin use. This complex relationship between heroin use, media, and subcultures is discussed. A common theme emerged from the depth interviews of fatalistic life outlooks, which were often linked with negative childhood experiences as well as with heroin use. Some of these young addicts romanticized heroin use and the tragedy of overdose. These findings are discussed with reference to further research and possible interventions.

scholarly journals Experience of Spiritual Coaching for Peer Educators

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Preenapa Choorat ◽  
Nanchatsan Sakunpong ◽  
Surawut Patthaisong
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Work Capacity ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Spiritual Identity ◽  
Peer Educators ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
Effective Coaching ◽  
Depth Interviews

BACKGROUND: To protect against burnout syndrome and enhance the work capacity of peer educators who work with those who inject drugs under “A project to end AIDS, reduce new HIV infections and decrease tuberculosis in vulnerable populations of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID)”. This research aimed to study the process of the spiritual development of peer educators through exposure to spiritual coaching. The spiritual coaching in this study incorporated theoretical techniques of counseling psychology as well as an effective coaching approach.METHODS: This study was a qualitative research using the narrative approach. The data were collected from five in-depth interviews of peer educators who received spiritual coaching. The data were then analyzed by using thematic analysis.RESULTS: Three focus areas of the spiritual development of peer educators were found to be important/central: 1) knowledge and understanding, 2) enhancing experience and practice, and 3) belief in the spiritual to help with the field work.CONCLUSION: Base on the interaction between the counseling psychology theories and other related theories, the results of this study supported the benefits arising from improvements in the spiritual identity of the peer educators. This was reflected in the enhanced mental energy and work strategies. The latter finding can be applied to other peer educators who work with those who inject drugs in other settings.

scholarly journals Gender Caring: The Everyday Construction of Black African Parents in Finland

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 143-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias E. Ebot
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Black African ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
African Families ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Nordic countries are now firmly ensconced in academia as gender-friendly welfare states. They are seen as pioneering countries with respect to changes in family life and gender relations and thus present an interesting forum for family research. This paper explores how gender caring relates to gender, religion and parenting in Sub-Saharan African families in the context of immigration to Finland. A constructionist perspective is employed to illuminate how guidelines or scripts established in these parents’ cultures are actively used and how they in turn influence their gender relations. Gender caring is conceptualized as an ethic of reciprocity, solidarity and obligation to ensure interdependence and strong bonds among black African parents. The article draws on in-depth interviews conducted with twelve couples mainly in the Helsinki area (which includes Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen).

scholarly journals Narrative Identity Formation in Midlife Korean Christian Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Beatrice H. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
Women's Ministry ◽  
Depth Interviews

This qualitative study explores the narrative identities and redemptive self of midlife Korean Christian women through their life stories. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with 23 midlife Korean Christian women in Southern California, which provided thick and rich descriptions of their life experiences. The findings revealed five major themes in each of two categories—narrative identity and redemptive self. Understanding how these Korean Christian women reconciled two master narratives, culture and spirituality, in their narrative identity formation, can provide insight in the consideration of women’s ministry.

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