Struggling for Ordinary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
Media And Technology ◽  
Depth Interviews

What was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before Caitlin Jenner, Orange Is the New Black, Transparent, and the current transgender reality TV boom? Struggling for Ordinary answers this question by examining the role of media and technology in the everyday lives of transgender people before what some call the “transgender tipping point” in popular culture. It offers a snapshot of how transgender individuals made their way toward identity and a sense of ordinary life by integrating available media into their emotional, cognitive, and everyday experiences. Informed by in-depth interviews and participant observation with transgender communities over the course of four years, the book offers a careful and richly detailed account of transgender media use and world-making. It explores how media and technology operate as arbiters of possibilities, how they franchise what is and is not possible. Struggling for Ordinary shows how transgender people turn to both old and new technologies to cultivate an understanding of their identities and to achieve the common inclusions and routine affordances of everyday life from which they are often excluded. The book also looks at the emotional and affective toll media use takes on transgender individuals, along with their resilience in the face of media disempowerment. Finally, the book complicates the queer/normal binary—recognizing the ways transgender and queer everyday life is “queerly ordinary,” a hybrid of sameness and difference, assimilation and resistance, and ordinariness and queerness.

scholarly journals Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brita Ytre-Arne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Biographical Disruption ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Media Repertoires ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article analyses how changing life situations affect media use, conceptualized as a question of how biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection. To answer this question, the analysis draws on qualitative data from a comprehensive study of media use in Norway, with in-depth interviews and media diaries. The theoretical approach joins domestication and media repertoire theory with research on public connection, considering the ubiquity of digital media in contemporary society. Findings indicate that smartphone use is key to people’s reorientations in periods of change, and that intimate and emotional responses to mobile media warrant closer attention. The article contributes to debates on the transformation of media repertoires, a question of growing concern within research on cross-media use, and to long-standing interests in the role of media in everyday life and as central to public connection.

Generative pedagogies from and for the social production of habitat: Learning from HIC-AL School of grassroots urbanism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Wesely ◽  
Adriana Allen ◽  
Lorena Zárate ◽  
María Silvia Emanuelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Global South ◽  
Generative Learning ◽  
Social Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Depth Interviews

Re-thinking dominant epistemological assumptions of the urban in the global South implies recognising the role of grassroots networks in challenging epistemic injustices through the co-production of multiple saberes and haceres for more just and inclusive cities. This paper examines the pedagogies of such networks by focusing on the experiences nurtured within Habitat International Coalition in Latin America (HIC-AL), identified as a ‘School of Grassroots Urbanism’ (Escuela de Urbanismo Popular). Although HIC-AL follows foremost activist rather than educational objectives, members of HIC-AL identify and value their practices as a ‘School’, whose diverse pedagogic logics and epistemological arguments are examined in this paper. The analysis builds upon a series of in-depth interviews, document reviews and participant observation with HIC-AL member organisations and allied grassroots networks. The discussion explores how the values and principles emanating from a long history of popular education and popular urbanism in the region are articulated through situated pedagogies of resistance and transformation, which in turn enable generative learning from and for the social production of habitat.

scholarly journals El rol de Emiliano como mediador: prácticas organizativas de los campesinos en los proyectos estatales

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Jimena Ramos Berrondo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
North East ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
State Agents ◽  
State Projects ◽  
Depth Interviews

  El objetivo de este artículo es analizar en qué consiste el rol del dirigente de la Corriente Campesina Nacional (COCAN) como mediador de las estructuras de poder del Estado y los criollos del Impenetrable (una región localizada en la provincia del Chaco, noreste de Argentina) durante el periodo 2012-2015. Se aplica una metodología cualitativa, que consistió en observación participante y entrevistas en profundidad. Se concluye que la COCAN lleva a cabo múltiples prácticas organizativas para resolver las problemáticas de las poblaciones rurales: implementación y gestión de proyectos estatales, negociaciones con autoridades políticas y promoción de actividades culturales y productivas.  Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the role of the leader of the “Corriente Campesina Nacional” (COCAN) as a mediator between state agents and the “criollo” population in the “Impenetrable” (a region located in Chaco, north east of Argentina) during the period 2012-2015. A qualitative methodology is applied, using participant observation and in-depth interviews. The article concludes that the COCAN uses diverse organizational practices to solve rural community problems: implementation and management of state projects, negotiations with political authorities and promotion of cultural and productive activities.  

‘Don’t call the police on me, I won’t call them on you’: self-policing as ethical development in North Manchester

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Ethical Development ◽  
Urban Violence ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

This chapter explores self-policing of urban violence in Harpurhey, Manchester. Arguing that ethical decision-making is practiced regularly in the process of policing the actions and behaviours of others. The author addresses the questions of, what does self-policing in the city actually look like? How does one determine what one ‘ought’ to do in the face of illegal or unethical actions in this part of the city? It concludes by arguing that the act of judgment of the behaviours and actions of others, and the assessment of where, when and whether or not to draw upon the services of the state to fulfill the role of policing, suggest that self-policing is not simply an outcome of neoliberal ideologies of self-management, but is an ethical engagement with the quotidian aspects of everyday life on this Manchester social housing estate.

Notes from Notes on Blindness: The challenges of the in-house1 film production model in independent cinema

Scene ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dusan Petkovic
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Sales Pitch

This article, derived from a larger ethnographic research created around the production of the award-winning independent film Notes on Blindness (2016) and conducted by a researcher active as a film professional, explores the deeper consequences of choosing to pursue a production ‘in-house’. Through participant observation, Actor-Network Theory and negotiation between film practice and research, the researcher finds independent filmmakers caught between the opposing trends of high-end industry and the digital economies. The organization forms observed in this article stand opposite to the prevalent globalized creative labour trends motivated by the internet and new technologies, and can best be described as a revival of Richard Sennett’s craft workshop in the digital era. These are ultra-dense creative spaces where craftspersons nurture their creative impulses and shield them from the negative aspects of the technological and economic upheaval. In the hope that the findings will inform future filmmakers in the role of this specific type of organization in delivering the intended output, this article offers insights beyond the industry self-avowal and sales pitch.

scholarly journals Leaving peace for war: An exploratory study of Swiss men’s trajectories toward engagement in Arab conflicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Ajil
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Depth Interviews

While the issue of foreign fighting has been very present in Swiss public discourse in recent years, little is known about the actual trajectories of young men who engage in this particular form of political violence. Based primarily on face-to-face in-depth interviews with four Swiss male nationals who travelled to conflict zones in the Arab World, the present analysis offers insights into the first phases of violent engagement, by investigating elements related to grievance formation such as collective memory and moral shocks, and elements facilitating violent action, such as legal cynicism. Further, the role of combat masculinity, a set of values providing guidance on behaviours and attitudes to be adopted in the face of injustice, is explored. Methodological considerations and some implications for policymaking are discussed.

scholarly journals The Role of Teachers in The Development of National Characters in Religion Based School: a Case Study In SD Muhammadiyah 3 Nusukan Surakarta Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Roy Ardiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Character ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Depth Interviews

<em>The phenomenon of the spread of religious-based elementary schools in the community will certainly have an impact on the development of the Indonesian Human Resources Development Index. This includes efforts to strengthen the National Character. The purpose of this study is to describe the role of teachers in religion-based elementary schools in strengthening the national character of students. This research uses a qualitative approach. The subjects of this study were 37 students and teachers. Data collection techniques used in this study were participant observation, in-depth interviews, literacy studies, and questionnaires. Analysis of the data used is Miles and Huberman Interactive Analysis. The results showed that teachers have an important role in strengthening the Nationality Character in Religion-Based Primary Schools, namely (1) Teachers not only teach about concepts but also emulate them, (2) Provide effective communication media between students and parents, (3) and supervise every student's behavior</em>

scholarly journals Face masks as layers of meaning in times of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2095754
Author(s):  
Luca Tateo
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
The Other ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Way

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought to the front a particular object: the face mask. I have explored the way people make-meaning of an object generally associated with the medical context that, under exceptional circumstances, can become a presence in everyday life. Understanding how people make meaning of their use is important. Using cultural psychology, I analyse preferences toward different types of face masks people would wear in public. The study involved 2 groups, 44 Norwegian university students and 60 international academics. In particular, I have focused on the role of the mask in regulating people affective experience. The mask evokes safety and fear, it mediates in the auto-dialogue between “I” and “Me” through the “Other”, and in the hetero-dialogue between “I” and the “Other” through “Me” The dialogue is characterized by a certain ambivalence, as expected. Meaning-making is indeed the way to deal with the ambivalence of human existence.

Fan Culture in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Anıl Sayan ◽  
Gunes Ekin Aksan
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Virtual Experience ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Virtual Presence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article seeks to examine the impact of the stadium and its emotional references on spectators' virtual presence and experience. Specifically, the transfer of such practices to the online fan forum Ali-Sami-Yen.net, one of the largest unofficial fan forums founded by supporters of the Turkish popular football team Galatasaray in 1999, is inspected and the significance of spatiality for the football fan cultures is scrutinized with Maffesoli's concept of the “neo-tribe” in this chapter. The notion of neo-tribe helps to discuss the role of shared ambiance and emotions for the construction of the virtual experience in a fan forum. Methodologically, content and interaction among the users on Ali-Sami-Yen.net is analyzed through the primary sources including in-depth interviews and participant observation. It is concluded that the stadium attendance with its specific terrace culture practices constitutes a distinctive source of identity among the Galatasaray fans and their online forum is the replica of this experience.

Adaptation from Flooring Level of Stilt House in Sustainable Settlement Musi Riverside Palembang

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1361-1368
Author(s):  
Bambang Wicaksono ◽  
Ari Siswanto ◽  
Susilo Kusdiwanggo ◽  
Widya Fransiska Febriati Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Process Characteristics ◽  
The Face ◽  
Physical Changes ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Musi River

The development of the Musi River edge house was influenced by the role of the river. The form of a house on the banks of the Musi river is a riverbank house and a stilt house. The choice to build a stilt house is inseparable from the land conditions in South Sumatra, which are generally wetlands. The level/height of the stage of the riverbank house is influenced by the condition of the house in the settlement layer, given the higher volume of water due to the denser density of the riverside houses. The high pole of the house is a form of adaptation to the high volume/tide of river water in the rainy season. One form of vernacular architecture on the banks of the Musi River is a sustainable home in the face of climate and weather in Palembang. The house on stilts or pillar houses is a sustainable alternative to the Musi Palembang riverbank community. The purpose of this study was to determine the trend of the adaptation of the stage floor height to the volume of water at the tidal currents of the Palembang Musi River. In achieving this goal, a study was conducted to identify architectural traces, explore activities and ideas of the Musi coastal communities. Data collection is done through field observations, in-depth interviews, and literature studies. Analysis was carried out qualitatively on variables, process characteristics, and products from identification of riverbank settlements. The results show that most of the houses on the banks of the river experience physical changes in buildings, both in terms of functions and building materials. Changes in the constituent elements of the house from wood material to permanent material occurred in most of the stilt houses on the Musi riverside settlement, resulting in riverside houses characterized by land houses.

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