Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al-Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
The City ◽  
Woman Leader ◽  
Secessionist Movement

This chapter analyzes the role of Adeni women in the Southern Movement and their involvement in the formation of a southern national identity. Kevin A. Davis argues that women are critical for the Southern Movement through their symbolic roles in representing a prosperous and cosmopolitan past in the city of Aden, and framing the desires of the current secessionist movement. This study is based on ethnographic research and interviews, specifically framed through the work of Um Sahar, a prominent female activist in the Southern Movement. Her role in the nationalist struggle highlights conflicting roles and expectations for women in contemporary Aden. She represents the views of liberal and progressive Adenis who struggle against conservative social norms imposed on them by the greater Yemeni society.

Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis

Anthropos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Guo ◽  
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The Common

Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on ‘common pot’ dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the ‘common pot’ in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol manifesting the strength and public role of local lineages in the rapidly growing mega-city. We present two cases, the Wen lineage and the Huang lineage. In case of the Wen, we show how the practice relates to their role as landholding groups, organized in a ‘Shareholding Cooperative Companies’ that is owned collectively by the lineage. In the Huang case, identity politics looms large in the context of globalization. In large-scale ‘big common pot festivals’ of the global Huang surname association, traditional conceptions of kinship merge with modernist conceptions of national identity.

scholarly journals Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment

Urban Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Liora Bigon
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Distorted Image ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
The City

This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official “index”, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on which critical toponymy scholars rely in interpreting modern urban spatialities—e.g., lists of street names, official street signage, gazetteers, archival materials, etc. The argument is that in Southern urban contexts, where informality in planning can reach up to about 80 percent of the city, researching official naming and signage renders a distorted image of the city and its namescape production. A comment is thus made on the need to embrace more innovative and almost ethnographic research methodologies for understanding place referencing, place attachment and everyday navigational channels in Southern cities. These will generate a more substantial contribution towards the creation of global urban toponymy and a further de-colonization of Eurocentric presumptions regarding governmentality, urban management, and the accompanying role of street naming systems.

scholarly journals An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Iza Kavedzija
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Meaningful Existence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

In this article I explore ideas of the good and meaningful life in older age, based on ethnographic research with older Japanese in the city of Osaka. Some of my interlocutors and friends in the field spoke about the approaching end of their life. When speaking about the time remaining, many expressed their sense that the future ‘will somehow turn out [all right]’ (nantonaku). This statement of quiet hope acknowledged change and encapsulated a desire to support others; it also shifted emphasis away from the future. This is not to say that the experience was for my interlocutors primarily marked by an orientation towards the past: by reminiscing and recollection. Inhabiting the moment was equally important. While reminiscing and narrating past events clearly relate to meaning-making, then, what is the role of dwelling in the moment for maintaining a meaningful existence? I will argue that dwelling in the moment allows for the cultivation of an attitude of gratitude, which lends meaning to a life. This attitude of gratitude binds together both reflection on the past and attention to the present moment in its fullness. It also, I suggest, opens up space for a particular kind of hope, grounded in the moment. Thus, the sense of the good and meaningful life that my older friends conveyed encapsulates an attitude of gratitude as a way of inhabiting the present, rather than dwelling in the past or leaping towards the future. 

scholarly journals It’s All Up to My Fellow Citizens. Descriptive Norms as a Decisive Mediator in the Relationship Between Infrastructure and Mobility Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Rollin ◽  
Sebastian Bamberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Descriptive Norms ◽  
Online Experiments ◽  
Mobility Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Following the implementation of temporary pop-up bike lanes in Berlin, traffic counts by the city administration show an increased number of cyclists. This present paper aims to understand reasons behind this observation. To this end, we focus on the role of mobility-related descriptive social norms as mediators of this effect. Results from one correlational and two experimental online studies are reported. The correlational study confirms the expected association of mobility-related descriptive social norms and self-reported mobility behavior. Moreover, it demonstrates that, as expected, mobility-related descriptive social norms reliably reflect differences in cities’ objective transport structure and mediate the impact of these infrastructural differences on mobility behavior. Results from two online experiments provide additional causal evidence that participants use the visual cues provided by manipulated photos to form their perceived mobility-related descriptive social norms. Furthermore, the second online experiment provides evidence that the combination of infrastructural cues and observable mobility behavior has the strongest impact on perceived mobility-related descriptive social norms.

scholarly journals Filmgoing or cinemagoing? The role of the film text within cinema memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
Jamie Terrill
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Film History ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film Texts ◽  
Film Text

Drawing upon original ethnographic research of rural Welsh audiences, this article meets a burgeoning trend within cinema history studies of reconsidering the importance that film texts can have in benefitting our understanding of social or cultural past. Arguing a perceived separation between the approaches of the New Film History and New Cinema History, the author highlights the benefits of incorporating text-based foci into his research, prompted by a notable separation between those that recalled the social environment of the cinema and those who discussed films, with little crossover between the two. With a dataset that largely recollects the late-1950s and 60s, these fresh textual considerations prompt modifications to existing scholarship pertaining to Britain’s previous generation of cinema audiences, highlighting a particularity of period that primarily revolves around the emergence of pop-stars and the teenage subculture. Equally, cultural factors such as a rising sentiment of Welsh nationalism are explored through film centred memories and textual analysis, highlighting the vivid semiotics and structures of Welsh national identity. These nuances of Welsh national identity and strengthened feelings of nationalism from the recollected period are explored through analysis of How Green Was My Valley, a US production, and its somewhat counterintuitive popularity with respondents as a “Welsh” film.

PROBLEMS OF STRAY ANIMALS IN NOVOSIBIRSK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Elena E. Rinchinova ◽  
Diyara A. Takumova ◽  
Irina I. Bochkareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City

The article discusses main issues of organizing activities for the treatment of stray and street animals in the city of Novosibirsk. The important role of successful solving the problem of stray animals in ensuring environmental comfort and safety of the urban population is noted. Definitions of the concepts “stray animals” and “street animals” are given, the differences between them are emphasized. The main regulatory and legal documents governing the handling of stray and street animals are listed. The ways in which domestic animals get into a stray state are described briefly. The results of the collection and analysis of information on the activities of shelters for stray animals in Novosibirsk are described. The information on the quantitative indicators of the shelters are given. Conclusions on how to solve the problem of stray animals, relying on the latest regulations are drawn.

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