scholarly journals Beautiful Barriers: Art and Identity along a Belfast ‘Peace’ Wall

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryanna T. Hocking
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Ongoing Project

This article explores the representational implications of an ongoing project along Belfast’s main peace wall to transform the loyalist side of the barrier into an outdoor art gallery. Drawing in part on the interplay between social production and social construction (Low 2000) in the analysis of public space, the wall’s art is assessed as one means through which both elites and ordinary people inscribe meaning in the landscape. Particular attention is focused on a recently added mural, created as part of a European Union-funded initiative to promote ‘shared cultural space’, and the identity this promotes for the local population.  Using ethnographic data gathered through participant observation as well as interviews with policymakers, artists, community stakeholders and residents, I suggest that while the wall’s art is not necessarily received or experienced by the Protestant community in the manner it is intended, it broadly serves as a touchstone by which narratives of conflict and communal ties are activated, and the neighbourhood’s evolving identity as an element in a new tourist-oriented economy is brought to the fore.

‘Come Night-time, It’s a War Zone’: Women’s Experiences of Homelessness, Risk and Public Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1136-1154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Menih
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This paper explores constructions of ‘risk’ in the lives of women experiencing homelessness in Brisbane, Australia. Drawing on ethnographic data, including in-depth interviews, informal conversations and participant observation field notes, two main themes emerged: the narratives or risk; women navigating risk on the streets by employing transiency, invisibility and squatting. The analysis indicates that women consider the ways in which risk calculations are spatially and temporally located and argues that risk is embedded in social and cultural discourses of gender. Women experiencing homelessness face particular risks due to gendered spatiality and have to manage their spatialized selves to avoid everyday risks on the streets.

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 Eksistensi Dā’iyah di Tengah Domestikasi Citra Diri Perempuan Shalihah: Perspektif Feminis Eksistensialis

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Faridatus Sholihah
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Depth Interview

Being an empower women by actively showing her existence in the publicity is not easy. Moreover when it is related to leadership in the religion issues, where it is still dominated by men. This study aims to describe the existence that is fought by <em>dā'iyah</em> in the public space, whereas social construction holds them with domestication. This research uses descriptive qualita­tive methods. Techniques of collecting data by an in-depth interview, and validating by triangulation. The results show that “shalihah” concept is still closely related to domestic works, while the “imam” concept in the religion is still understood as a status that must be played by men. The criteria by sex are still in line with the quality of da’wah materials, da’wah methods, or even the knowledge of the missionary. So, <em>dā'iyah</em> feels a dilemma in carrying out their roles in the public and domestic space. For this reason, various strategies have been carried out by <em>dā'iyah</em> to maintain their existence.

scholarly journals INTERAKSI SOSIAL ORANG TANAH TORAJA PADA MASYARAKAT LOKAL DI KABUPATEN KOLAKA

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dewi Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Nickel Mining ◽  
Depth Interviews

Tanah Toraja tribe community who came to nickel mining in Maniang Island are from five regions in Tanah Toraja areas such as Mamasa, Baruppu, Buakayu, Makale, and Mengkendek, who eventually settled in Pomalaa, Kolaka district and interact with the local population Tolaki Mekongga. Interaction between migrant communities (Tator Tribe) and local the key of all social life that occurs in communities (Tolaki Tribe) of mining area, Pomalaa. The purpose of this study is to determine the interaction of Tanah Toraja people in Tolaki Mekongga society and to know the local culture support in the welcoming of Tanah Toraja Society in Kolaka. This study uses qualitative method with phenomenological approach, in which the data collection method uses the participant observation and in-depth interviews by setting informants. The results of social interaction between Tator people and local communities basically run well, although sometimes hidden conflicts appear on the Tolaki Mekongga as local ethnic favoritism Tator in everyday life who are likely to be exclusive and luxurious, especially in the traditional rituals.

scholarly journals Social Construction of Masculine Women Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.21) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Zikri Fachrul Nurhadi ◽  
Ummu Salamah ◽  
Yully Destari ◽  
Novie Susanti Suseno
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Study Finding ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Environments ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study to discover and reveal the social construction of masculine woman identity in terms of externalization, objectivation, and internalization. This study used a qualitative approach, with a method or theory of social reality construction of constructivism paradigm. Data collection was done through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and literature. The study finding showed that the social construction of masculine woman identity in terms of externalization is influenced by internal and external factors. Internal factor is influenced by a family that makes informants show the social construction of masculine woman identity to the public. While external factor is influenced by association with male friend and technological advances (mass media) that have contributed to the formation of character, appearance style, and feeling to others. In general, social identity construction of masculine woman constructs her identity in a way  showed that masculine woman does not always have a negative character. In this case, a masculine woman can survive and adapt to the family, campus and community environments. The research finding showed that appearance changes will only happen if there is a will from the masculine woman herself, and the comfort level of masculine appearance can not change the identity.  

scholarly journals Improvising urban spaces, inhabiting the in-between

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Müller ◽  
Elena Trubina
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Boris Yeltsin

This paper discusses improvisation as a liminal practice of inhabiting the in-between that marks urban spaces from squats and brownfields to communal gardens, from infrastructural maintenance and urban living labs to political protest and solidarity in times of crisis. It shows how improvisation emerges in the interstices between uncertain flux and ossified rigidities to construct in-between spaces of ambiguous political openings even in ostensibly formal, rigid contexts. To that end, it draws on documents, media reports, interviews and participant observation to analyse the multiple mutations of what eventually became the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre in Ekaterinburg, a cultural flagship in Russia’s third largest city. Morphed from an abandoned office block into a memorial multi-purpose complex, the Yeltsin Centre is the product of elites and ordinary people responding to conjunctural openings in seemingly inert structures. While highlighting the political openings made possible by improvisation inhabiting the in-between, the paper also underscores the ambiguous nature of this practice and its limits.

Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Festivals: Between Liberation and Domination

2020 ◽  
pp. 120633121989703
Author(s):  
Lasse Koefoed ◽  
Maja de Neergaard ◽  
Kirsten Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Body ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Negotiation Of Identity ◽  
Aesthetic Politics

This paper is part of a wider research project on Paradoxical Spaces: Encountering the Other in Public Space that explores how cultural difference is practiced and negotiated in different public spaces in Copenhagen. The present case focus on encounters at two urban festivals: Kulturhavn (Cultural Harbur) and Smag Verden (Taste the World)—both multicultural and both initiated by the Municipality of Copenhagen. The festivals are seen as sites for ongoing dialogue and negotiation of identity and belonging. The celebration, performances, and pleasure of festivals can empower the body, break down social and cultural distance, and for a moment suspend everyday life. They are related to laughter and freedom, but can also be exclusive, alienating, and a vehicle of the inserting of the hegemonic order. The aim of the paper is to discover how the festivals work as social and material mediators of cross-cultural encounters—how they give rise to different modes of encounters and how they balance between liberation and similarities. They are both organized by the municipality of Copenhagen, who invite voluntary organizations and cultural associations every year to participate in organizing the two festivals. They both cover a broad range of cultural activities such as dance, music, food, sport, and theatre, and they share the vision of celebrating the cultural diversity of the city. We chose these two festivals in order to explore variations in the way the festivals are experienced and encountered; the focus of the analysis is on how festivals with many similarities in location and formal conditions can give rise to rather different modes of encounters. The aim of the paper is to explore how the festivals work as social and material mediators of cross-cultural encounters. How do the two festivals give rise to different modes of encounters? How do they balance between liberation and domination in a differential way? Drawing on empirical material obtained through participant observation and framed by theoretical conceptualization of cross-cultural encounters, multicultural festivals, and aesthetic politics, the paper explores embodied encounters at the two festivals. It focuses on the role of the festivals as social and material mediators of encounters and negotiation of identities. The paper concludes on the paradoxical character of the festivals, involving antagonistic embodiments of performance, pleasure, and politics.

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