scholarly journals Teaching engaged ethnography and socio-cultural change: Participating in an urban movement in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Eleftheria Deltsou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Engaged Ethnography ◽  
Academic Teacher

How can ethnographic research be taught? What kinds of ethnographic environments are involved in the study of contemporary socio-cultural issues? How / where can socio-cultural change be spotted? Where do ethnographic reflexivity and engaged ethnography stand with regard to comprehending and furthering socio-cultural change? Can/should ethnographic work fully conflate with critical activism? Can the teaching of engaged ethnographic research instigate critical awareness of the researcher’s positionality-ies? Considerations of the above questions will be endeavored via the participation of the author in an urban movement in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her double engagement as resident and academic teacher will expose the interrelatedness of these issues and the methodological, epistemological, and political implications that engaged ethnography raises.

Rotary Club of Madras: Open Defecation Free Communities Project

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Ashis Jalote Parmar ◽  
G. Raghuram
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rotary Club ◽  
Village Communities

This case describes the social cultural challenges confronted by Mr. Srikanth, President, Rotary Club, Chennai in making a village near Chennai in rural Tamil Nadu, Open Defecation Free (ODF). It highlights the role of a non-profit organization such as the Rotary Club and behavioral change consultants such as Feedback Foundation in the effective deployment of toilet construction and bringing about a social cultural change in village communities towards acceptance of ODF. The case also points to the of critical need of Swachh Bharat Mission addressing the socio cultural issues and bringing behavioural change, towards acceptance of ODF.

Anthropologists Meet the 15M: The Rise of Engaged Ethnography

1969 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-344
Author(s):  
Beltran Roca ◽  
Iban Diaz-Parra ◽  
Vanessa Gómez-Bernal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Engaged Ethnography ◽  
Feminist Movements

In 2011 we were involved as activists in labour, 15M, and the housing and feminist movements. Part of our scientific production became intertwined with our militancy. In addition, drawing on our research and militant experiences in the cycle of struggle that started in 2011, we noticed that the process of questioning and delegitimisation was also affecting the ambit of the social sciences. Thus, we undertook a review of the scientific literature on the 15M in order to ascertain whether the epistemological perspectives and the methodological choices of these studies were related in some way to the crisis of representation that was affecting other social institutions. This is the objective of this article. First, it explains the strategy we followed in searching the literature on the 15M. Second, it introduces the findings of the literature review on this social movement, both in Spanish and in international academic journals. Third, it proposes a typology of engaged ethnographic research. Fourth, it provides a series of limitations and precautions that researchers should bear in mind when putting this research technique into practice. Fifth, it includes a final section synthesising the main conclusions of this article regarding the anthropological production of the 15M, the types of engaged ethnography, and the limitations of this technique.

scholarly journals Interrogating the Role and Value of Cultural Expertise in Law

Laws ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
John Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Expert Evidence ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Appellate Courts ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Legal Evidence ◽  
Marriage Customs ◽  
Published Research

It is common for litigation to draw upon expert evidence to assist a judge to arrive at a balanced decision. This paper examines the role of one type of expert evidence submitted to courts, namely cultural expertise (CE), which provides information on socio-cultural issues such as kinship, family, marriage, customs, language, religion, witchcraft and so on. This type of evidence is primarily the result of qualitative, ethnographic research. I begin by examining the views of experts who have provided CE to courts/mediators; I then look at how judges view and make use of CE, and finally I examine lawyers’ views on CE. To address gaps in published research, I interviewed British barristers to understand how they make use of experts in the cases they litigate. Finally, I have surveyed legal decisions made by all British appellate courts to arrive at an approximate idea of the extent to which CE has been submitted in English and Welsh courts. I conclude that the extent to which CE—and other types of socio-legal evidence—is submitted varies considerably depending upon the legal/evidentiary procedures followed in different jurisdictions and in different countries.

Cultural influences on developmental processes and outcomes: Implications for the study of development and psychopathology

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
CYNTHIA GARCÍA COLL ◽  
ANNA AKERMAN ◽  
DANTE CICCHETTI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Developmental Processes ◽  
Literature Reviews

The purpose of this paper is to trace the role of culture as an explanatory construct in developmental processes and outcomes, and its implications in the understanding of developmental psychopathology. Literature reviews were conducted by historical period: 1930–1939, 1960–1969, and 1990–1999. The percentage of the total articles and chapters pertaining to cultural issues increased as a function of time. Both conceptual and methodological continuities and discontinuities were observed among the three periods. The preponderance of comparative studies using deficit models still remains, but more enlightened alternative conceptual models, within culture studies, and measures of cultural processes, are emerging. In contrast, although contextual influences are considered important in developmental psychopathology, the field lags in its empirical consideration of cultural influences. The need to seriously address these issues will increase as globalization and rapid cultural change become even more the norm than the exception.

scholarly journals Teaching English as Discourse in Sultan Qaboos University

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Khalid Mohammed Al-Balushi
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
Sultan Qaboos University ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Linguistic Conventions

In this paper, I argue that English could be of more relevance to the Arabian Gulf if we conceptualized it as an educational forum for familiarizing students with socio-linguistic conventions relating to a wide variety of text types and for sharpening their critical awareness of the political implications of the uses of English. I make my case against the backdrop of a particular local context in the Arabian Gulf: the current BA programme in English at the College of Arts and Social Science, Sultan Qaboos University, the Sultanate of Oman. I maintain that the programme is predicated upon conceiving of English as a field (or rather fields) of knowledge, as academic disciplines of English literature, linguistics and translation, each with its own sets of concepts and frames of reference. As such, the programme both falls short of being fully theoretically coherent and fails to take into account the recent educational developments in Oman. Drawing upon the theoretical construct of discourse, I propose an outline of an alternative BA programme in English that revolves around the uses of English and their political implications.

scholarly journals Migration and Redefining Self

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Saideh Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
German Society ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Over Time

This article explores how Afghan (Hazara) women negotiate and sift their religious understandings and identities over time after migrating to Germany. Migration experiences and exposure to German society has impacted their self-narration and conceptualisation of cultural change in their own identity. This ethnographic research illustrates the notion of acceptance or rejection to change among Hazara immigrant women in their lived religion in diaspora. Based on my fieldwork, three different trajectories along religious lines occur in the Afghan diaspora: a group of immigrants, enhancing Islamic values, whose relationship to and involvement in religion intensified and increased; the second group largely consider themselves secular Muslims trying to fully indulge into the new society; the third group has an elastic religious identity, blending Islamic values with Western-inspired lifestyles.

scholarly journals DE USUNDE: Sundhedsantropologens møde med multisyge ældre på Lolland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Health Perceptions ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Critical Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
Inequality In Health

Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson: The Unhealthy. Anthropological Encounters with Priorities and Health Perceptions of Older People Living with Multimorbidity Based on ethnographic research among the chronically ill elderly in Lolland, the article demonstrates how “health” as a morally weighted concept is reproduced by the fieldworker. Recognition of such positionality emerges gradually throughout the author’s fieldwork, and the article shows how increasing critical awareness is reflected in the fieldwork itself. It is argued that medical anthropological studies require constant reflection on how the fieldworker produces empirical objects. Owing to this, the perspective termed “empathic research” is introduced; “empathic” refers to the anthropologist’s responsibility to make practices, experiences and narratives understood within the specific local context. The analysis stresses the need for anthropologists to remain critical towards positioning and normative groundings within the research project and seek for knowledge on how individuals are embedded within a society sat in a contextual frame of time and politics. Following this, a focus towards social inequality in health must become a commitment to engage in the world as anthropologists. The discussion establishes grounds for an empathetic way of collecting knowledge that entails an epistemological focus on situational existence. Keywords: research ethics, empathic knowledge production, fieldwork, multimorbidity, Denmark   Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson: De usunde. Sundhedsantropologens møde med multisyge ældre på Lolland Med udgangspunkt i feltarbejde blandt ældre på Lolland med flere samtidige kroniske sygdomme vises, hvordan forestillingen om sundhed som noget moralsk befæstet ubevidst reproduceres af antropologen. Erkendelsen af denne positionering kommer gradvist, og artiklen viser, hvordan en stigende kritisk bevidsthed afspejles i feltarbejdet. Der argumenteres for, at medicinsk-antropologiske studier kræver en konstant refleksion over skabelsen af det empiriske objekt. Derfor introduceres empatisk vidensproduktion som forskningsposition. Med empatisk refereres til antropologiens ansvar for at gøre lokale praksisser, erfaringer og udsagn forståelige i deres kontekst. Artiklen fremhæver antropologens forpligtelse til at forholde sig kritisk over for normative indlejringer i sit projekt og i stedet søge at skabe viden om det enkelte menneskes indlejring i og bidrag til fællesskabet set i en kontekstuel og subjektiv optik. Der argumenteres for, at et fokus på social ulighed, her i sundhed, er en forpligtelse, vi som antropologer bør tage på os og dermed bruge vores fag til at engagere os i verden. Det foreslås, at empatisk vidensproduktion som forskningsstrategi med fokus på de situationelle eksistenser kan modvirke berøringsangst over for politisk og moralsk ladede felter. Søgeord: forskningsetik, empatisk vidensproduktion, feltarbejde, multisygdom, Lolland  

“You Go Girl!”: Twitter and Conversations About Sport Culture and Gender

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmy Sanderson ◽  
Kelly Gramlich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Assistant Coach

On August 5, 2014, the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA) made history by hiring Becky Hammon as the first full-time, paid assistant coach in mainstream North American sport. Hammon’s hiring provided an impetus to examine how Twitter opened avenues for discussions around gender in sport culture to generate and permeate. Using Radian6 social media extraction software a sample of 1,434 tweets were obtained. A thematic analysis was conducted and revealed three themes: (a) opening the space for conversation; (b) offering evidence of sport cultural change; and (c) expressing resistance to sport cultural change. The results suggest that Twitter functions as a space where aspects of sport culture are disseminated and contested in ways that transcend traditional media’s treatment of these topics. As people share content that is personally meaningful and relevant and participate in shared conversations about sport cultural issues, it invites them to engage in active citizenry through joining in these discussions.

scholarly journals Transformation! Innovation? Perspectives on Taiwan Culture. Edited by Christina Neder and Ines Susanne Schilling. [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003. 235 pp. €58,00. ISBN 3-447-04791-7.]

2004 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 835-837
Author(s):  
Bi-Yu Chang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Traditional Arts ◽  
The Impact

Taiwan studies in Europe are still underdeveloped and have largely concentrated on political issues rather than culture. Transformation! – Innovation? Taiwan in her Cultural Dimensions addresses this critical absence. It is a collection of 14 papers, compiled after an international workshop held at Ruhr University in 2001. This volume not only analyses literary and artistic expression, but also explores the drastic cultural change that has taken place since the lifting of martial law in 1987. The democratization of Taiwanese society in the 1990s led the old China-centric ideology and cultural hegemony that had dominated Taiwan under Kuomintang (KMT) rule to be overturned within a few years. Rather than focusing on political reform, this book concentrates on cultural issues, such as the rise of indigenous literature, the changing status of traditional arts, and the impact of cultural policy during this period.

Trends and Opportunities in North African Music Scholarship

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-781
Author(s):  
Alyson E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Present Climate ◽  
African Music ◽  
North African ◽  
Video Recordings

In the present climate of political and social change in North Africa, studying music offers exciting new possibilities for enhancing our understanding of the region. Scholars in ethnomusicology and related disciplines are conducting archival and ethnographic research on music, often integrating sound and video recordings, transcriptions, and musical and textual analysis into their studies. Their work highlights how music not only reflects cultural change but also predicts and creates it.

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