scholarly journals An anthropological comparison between two studies of everyday life

2003 ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Ivana Petkovic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Political Survival ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Warrior Culture ◽  
Global World

The paper is based on the experiences of a fieldwork researcher. Two studies of everyday life are compared. In spite of the differences in theoretical frameworks and methodologies, important similarities are identified, leading to identical basic results. These similarities are to be found in the (exclusive) dependence of the everyday survival on political survival, of everyday life on political life, of coping on political developments. The similarity is proved by pointing to the shared broader socio-historical framework in which both studies have been located, and to the uniqueness of the environment/area in which both have taken place. This leads to the final conclusion on the relation between the character of everyday life and the collective character/mentality, where the key mediator is political life and the character shaped within its domain. In a culture basically structured as a warrior culture, in the circumstances of huge civilizational changes at the global world scene, the local political mentality assumes specific features, somewhat modified in comparison with the traditional ethos. These features in turn directly shape the everyday, particularly of ordinary people, beyond the centers of power and global decision-making.

Coming to Everyman

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-142
Author(s):  
Steven J. Osterlind
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Calculus Of Variations ◽  
Celestial Mechanics ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Morality Play

This chapter focuses on how quantification began to increase in the everyday life of ordinary people, who are represented in this chapter by the allegorical figure “Everyman” (from the fifteenth-century anonymous morality play Everyman). It discusses the invention of the chronometer and explores the effect that the increasing availability of luxury items such as sugar, as well as the quantifying ideas that were coming into use at that time, had on the general populace. The chapter then introduces Pierre-Simon Laplace, who assiduously worked to bring the newly formed probability theory to Everyman, especially through his efforts on the orthodrome problem in Traité de mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics), his ideas on scientific determinism (symbolized by “Laplace’s demon”), and his General Principles for the Calculus of Probabilities. The chapter also introduces Joseph-Louis Lagrange, whose work on the calculus of variations had a great influence on Laplace.

Gender Mainstreaming in Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 870-886
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kurebwa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Policies And Practices

Gender mainstreaming means the consistent use of a gender perspective at all stages of the development and implementation of policies, plans, programmes, and projects. Mainstreaming gender differs from previous efforts to integrate women's concerns into government activities in that, rather than ‘adding on' a women's component to existing policies, plans, programmes, and projects, a gender perspective informs these at all stages and in every aspect of the decision-making process. Gender mainstreaming starts by analyzing the everyday life situation of women and men. It makes their differing needs and problems visible and examines what this means for specific policy areas. In this way, it ensures policies and practices are not based on incorrect assumptions and stereotypes. It recognizes that gender is one of the most fundamental organizing features in society and affects our lives from the moment we are born.

scholarly journals Dominion, Stewardship and Reconciliation in the Accounts of Ordinary People Eating Animals

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Anna Sofia Salonen
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday

Despite the growing popularity of vegetarian foods and diets, the vast majority of people in North America and other parts of the affluent world still eat meat. This article explores what ordinary people think about eating animals and how they navigate the ethical questions inherent in that praxis. Drawing from interviews with 24 people living in Ottawa, Canada, the study shows how the concepts of dominion, stewardship and reconciliation manifest in the everyday lives of ordinary people as models for human relations with nonhuman others and the environment. These ideas resonate in the lives of ordinary people, both religious and nonreligious, and entwine as people try to make sense of how to live with the fact that their everyday food consumption causes suffering and harm. This study shows that in the context of everyday life, dominion, stewardship and reconciliation are not alternative views, but connected to each other, and serve different purposes. The study highlights a need for analyses that constitute practical ways to renew the broken relationships within creation and which incorporate nonreligious people into the scope of analyses that focus on the relationships between humans and nonhuman creation.

scholarly journals Impacts of Historical Pandemics on India: Through the Lens of 20th Century Hindi Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 294-314
Author(s):  
Prachi Priyanka
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Hindi Literature ◽  
The Ganges

India has been swept by pandemics of plague, influenza, smallpox, cholera and other diseases. The scale and impact of these events was often cataclysmic and writers offered a glimpse into the everyday life of ordinary people who lost their lives and livelihoods and suffered the angst and trauma of mental, physical and emotional loss. This paper focuses on the devastation caused by pandemics especially in the Ganges deltaic plains of India. Through selected texts of 20th century Hindi writers – Munshi Premchand, Phanishwar Nath Renu, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Bhagwan Das, Harishankar Parsai, Pandey Bechan Sharma – this paper aims to bring forth the suffering and struggles against violence, social injustices and public health crises in India during waves of epidemics and pandemics when millions died as they tried to combat the rampant diseases.

Assessing sonic affects in everyday life: looking for metacognition and metaemotion

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Everyday

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how material gathering and elicitation can induce metacognition and metaemotions in interviewees and its usefulness for the study of affective phenomena. Design/methodology/approach – The author will draw on the exploratory study on sound affects conducted with five individuals in Lisbon’s metropolitan area in order to discuss these aspects. After presenting the methodology, the author will address the concepts of metacognition and metaemotion. Afterwards, the author will explain how these occur during the gathering of data by ordinary people and the use of elicitation of materials during interviews. Findings – Metacognitive and metaemotional experiences can be triggered through material gathering and their elicitation during interviews with the purpose of identifying aspects of the everyday experience that are usually unnoticed. Furthermore, they are instrumental to obtain empirical data that illustrates subjects in their everyday lives as simultaneously affective-reactive and reflexive, meaning-making individuals. Originality/value – The interview has often been disregarded as a method for interpreting affective phenomena. However, the author argue that this method remains very useful to address the distinct interpretations that subjects make of themselves and their emplaced experiences, by calling for attention to the role of metacognition and metaemotions, an instrumental yet unrecognized tool for interpreting affective phenomena.

Gender Mainstreaming in Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kurebwa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Specific Policy ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Policies And Practices

Gender mainstreaming means the consistent use of a gender perspective at all stages of the development and implementation of policies, plans, programmes, and projects. Mainstreaming gender differs from previous efforts to integrate women's concerns into government activities in that, rather than ‘adding on' a women's component to existing policies, plans, programmes, and projects, a gender perspective informs these at all stages and in every aspect of the decision-making process. Gender mainstreaming starts by analyzing the everyday life situation of women and men. It makes their differing needs and problems visible and examines what this means for specific policy areas. In this way, it ensures policies and practices are not based on incorrect assumptions and stereotypes. It recognizes that gender is one of the most fundamental organizing features in society and affects our lives from the moment we are born.

Creative Engagement in Everyday Life – Learning from Aesthetic Experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Pałęga
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract In recent years the concept of aesthetics has become broader and more focused on the aesthetic experience resulting from the interaction between the person and the environment. A lot has been written about the way people experience settings that are explicitly designed as sites for aesthetic engagement, such as museums and art galleries, but very little attention has been given to ordinary people and how they make sense of such experiences in their everyday lives. This research study explores the everyday aesthetic experiences that lay people find meaningful in their daily encounters through a phenomenological approach. The findings indicate that everyday aesthetic experiences result from being open to creatively engage, are a blend of serendipitous events and planned encounters and a significant dimension of lived experience.

scholarly journals Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Zebracki ◽  
Brian Doucet ◽  
Toha De Brant
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City

This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “decaying” city. Residents were asked what images they would use to “see” and represent the city. Photo elicitation interviews revealed interlaced lived experienced and narrated reminiscences of local life and the material urban fabric beyond the prevailing narratives of mere neglect and abandonment. This study develops further knowledge of how photography can simultaneously operate as a critical socio-spatial research subject and an empowering tool for research participants. Through shifting the hegemonic locus of media agents toward residents’ positionalities, findings indicated potentials for redressing the misunderstood spaces of the everyday life of ordinary people.

scholarly journals Physiological norms in Silappatikaram

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Shopana Tharmenthira
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Epic Poetry ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Community Membership ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The People

Silappatikaram an epic poetry was written by Ilanko Adikal.  Silambu and Context (Athikaram) are combined and becomes Silappatikaram. The story of Silmba (Anklet) is therefore called Silappatikaram. It is called the Citizen's Epic because it was sung by ordinary people like Kovalan and Kannaki. It is the book that makes the life of the people very clear. Individuality, Family, Relative, Community Membership, Citizenship are Physiological Sites and characteristics that human beings need to protect, tasks to perform, and the norms by which an ordinary man can live in everyday life. The integrity of the political life, the rise of femininity, the belief in morality are the high principles of the Tamil people; Silappatikaram explains these. It persuades moral principles through fiction. In this way, it is considered to be the study of the Physiological norms of these People's through dance.

scholarly journals Drama Out of a Crisis? Poststructuralism and the Politics of Everyday Life

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain MacKenzie ◽  
Robert Porter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Everyday

Time and again we have been told that poststructuralism is in crisis. Poststructuralism, we hear, is ontologically exhausted, epistemologically and normatively confused, and politically irrelevant to the contemporary economic and institutional conditions that have already domesticated, assimilated and recuperated it. While there is clearly merit and provocation in such critiques, for us, they underestimate the extent to which poststructuralist concepts can be transformed and made relevant to concerns we may have in our current political conjuncture. In order to counter those who would simply dismiss and depoliticise poststructuralist thought as crisis-ridden or politically outmoded, we will suggest that poststructuralism is a drama that we can productively participate in, here and now. Furthermore, we think this poststructuralist drama should be played out in the rough and tumble of everyday political life. There is what we will call a ‘politics of everyday life’ to be found in the poststructuralist archive, and the poststructuralist archive can be recast, revitalised and even transformed when placed into the light and life of the everyday.

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