El autoritarismo dictatorial como relato cultural. Una aproximación a los miedos sociales en el Chile actual

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.18 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 139

Author(s):

Paula Contreras

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Font Size ◽

Cultural Narratives ◽

Cultural Narrative ◽

Palabras Clave ◽

The Social ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World

Los relatos culturales dan sentido a la vida cotidiana, a nuestras experiencias y a la forma de entender y explicarnos el mundo en que vivimos. El presente artículo aborda los principales elementos que conforman hoy en día el relato cultural denominado Autoritarismo Dictatorial/Mejor Callar, así como sus implicancias en la configuración de los miedos sociales del Chile actual.Palabras Clave: miedos sociales, relatos culturales, autoritarismo dictatorial The dictatorial authoritarianism as a cultural narrative. An approach to social fears in the Chile currentThe cultural narratives give meanings to the everyday life, to our experiences and to the ways of understanding the world we live in. This paper will focus on the main elements that shape the current cultural narrative that we call Dictatorship Authoritarianism / Better Keep Quiet (Hush), and also their implications/effects on the social fears configuration of contemporary Chile. Keywords: social fears, cultural narratives, dictatorial authoritarianism

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Fragments d’un discours iconographique : Poétique de l’image dans L’Empire des signes de Roland Barthes

Quêtes littéraires ◽

10.31743/ql.248 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 149-160

Author(s):

Khalid Lyamlahy

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Social Group ◽

Roland Barthes ◽

Individual Subject ◽

The Social ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

Large Scope ◽

The Individual ◽

The Relationship

Roland Barthes was not only a literary theorist, a critic or a semiotician. Above all, he was concerned with signs, symbols and representations which shape the everyday life and nourish both identities of the individual subject and the social group. As the world celebrates in 2015 the centenary of his birth, the question of his intellectual and literary legacies has never been more relevant. In the large scope of his works, L’Empire des signes, published in 1970 following several trips to Japan, is rather a particular piece which hinges on a specific combination of text and images. By looking at the structure of Barthes’s work and the relationship between the author’s discourse and the meanings released through the images, this paper aims to highlight the poetics of the image as a founding element in L’Empire des signes. The study of three categories of images used in the volume and their confrontation with the author’s developments shed new light on the contribution of the iconographic element towards a valuable understanding of signs and significations.

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Assessing Contemporary Crises: Aligning Safety Science and Security Studies

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1733 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bibi van den Berg ◽

Ruth Prins ◽

Sanneke Kuipers

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Natural Sciences ◽

Security Studies ◽

Nation States ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Safety Science ◽

Key Topics

Security and safety are key topics of concern in the globalized and interconnected world. While the terms “safety” and “security” are often used interchangeably in everyday life, in academia, security is mostly studied in the social sciences, while safety is predominantly studied in the natural sciences, engineering, and medicine. However, developments and incidents that negatively affect society increasingly contain both safety and security aspects. Therefore, an integrated perspective on security and safety is beneficial. Such a perspective studies hazardous and harmful events and phenomena in the full breadth of their complexity—including the cause of the event, the target that is harmed, and whether the harm is direct or indirect. This leads to a richer understanding of the nature of incidents and the effects they may have on individuals, collectives, societies, nation-states, and the world at large.

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The ethics of absolute relativity: An eschatological ontological model for interpreting the Sermon on the Mount

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v35i1.883 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Andre Van Oudtshoorn

Keyword(s):

Social Construction Of Reality ◽

Sermon On The Mount ◽

The Social ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

Everyday World ◽

Ontological Model ◽

In Christ ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Church

Jesus� imperatives in the Sermon on the Mount continue to play a significant role in Christian ethical discussions. The tension between the radical demands of Jesus and the impossibility of living this out within the everyday world has been noted by many scholars. In this article, an eschatological-ontological model, based on the social construction of reality, is developed to show that this dialectic is not necessarily an embarrassment to the church but, instead, belongs to the essence of the church as the recipient of the Spirit of Christ and as called by him to exist now in terms of the coming new age that has already been realised in Christ. The absolute demands of Jesus� imperatives, it is argued, must relativise all other interpretations of reality whilst the world, in turn, relativises Jesus� own definition of what �is� and therefore also the injunctions to his disciples on how to live within this world. This process of radical relativisation provides a critical framework for Christian living. The church must expect, and do, the impossible within this world through her faith in Christ who recreates and redefines reality. The church�s ethical task, it is further argued, is to participate with the Spirit in the construction of signs of this new reality in Christ in this world through her actions marked by faith, hope and love.

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Colando fragmentos do mundo da vida social: recortes do cotidiano de camponeses do baixo tocantins paraense

ILUMINURAS ◽

10.22456/1984-1191.119005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (57) ◽

Author(s):

Vitória Mendes Alves ◽

Israel Martins Araujo

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Daily Life ◽

Environmental Indicators ◽

Life World ◽

Daily Work ◽

Sensory Ethnography ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

Technical Learning ◽

The Relationship

Este ensaio visual trata do mundo da vida cotidiana de camponeses agroextrativistas no Pará, especificamente no baixo Tocantins, região das ilhas do município de Mocajuba. Segue o método da etnografia sensorial, discute a relação entre corpo, ambiente e formas de aprendizagem técnica com a virtuosidade dos indicadores socioambientais e argumenta que tais técnicas não são transmitidas, mas ensinadas e aprendidas por meio de um complexo engajamento sensorial com o ambiente.Palavras-chave: Camponeses agroextrativistas. Cotidiano. Trabalho. Etnografia Sensorial. Corpo. Ambiente. Glueing fragments of the world of life: cuttings from the daily life of peasants from downtown Tocantins paraense Abstract: This visual essay deals with the respect of the everyday life world of agro-extractivist peasants in Pará, specifically in the lower Tocantins, region of the islands of the municipality of Mocajuba. It follows the method of sensory ethnography, discusses the relationship between body, environment and forms of technical learning with the virtuosity of socio-environmental indicators and argues that such techniques are not transmitted, but taught and learned through a complex sensory engagement with the environmentKeywords: Agroextractive peasants. Daily. Work. Sensory Ethnography. Body. Environment.

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Cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje | Scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today

Revista PHILIA | Filosofia, Literatura & Arte ◽

10.22456/2596-0911.110604 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 78-92

Author(s):

José Edilson Amorim

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Everyday Life ◽

20Th Century ◽

Rio De Janeiro ◽

The Third ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

The Media ◽

Media Politics

ResumoA partir de uma crônica de Bráulio Tavares, este artigo reflete sobre cenas da precariedade de ontem e de hoje. A primeira cena está em Lima Barreto, em Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha, ao referir a Revolta da Vacina no Rio de Janeiro do século XX, comparada às manifestações de 2013 e 2014 no país; a segunda é a espetacularização da mídia sobre as manifestações de rua em 2013 e 2014, e sobre o processo de impedimento do mandato presidencial de Dilma Rousseff em 2015; a terceira é uma cena da vida cotidiana de uma moça de Brasília em outubro de 2014. As três situações revelam o mundo da classe trabalhadora e seu desamparo em meio ao espetáculo midiático.Palavras-chave: Trabalho. Mídia. Política. Espetáculo. AbstractFrom a chronicle by Bráulio Tavares, this paper reflects about scenes of the precariousness of yesterday and today. The first scene is in Lima Barreto’s novel Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha (Memories of the scrivener Isaías Caminha), when referring to the Vaccine Revolt in the Rio de Janeiro of the 20th century, compared to the manifestations of 2013 and 2014 in Brazil; the second is about the media spectacularization of the street manifestations between 2013 e 2014 in Brazil, and also on Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process in 2015; the third one is from the everyday life of a girl from Brasília in October of 2014. All those three situations reveal the world of the working class and its helplessness in the face of the media spectacularization.Keywords: Work. Media. Politics. Spectacle.

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Szerb hadifoglyok Bihar vármegyében, 1914–1920

Belvedere Meridionale ◽

10.14232/belv.2020.2.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 22-41

Author(s):

Oszkár Gorcsa

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

20Th Century ◽

Small Proportion ◽

Point Of View ◽

General Treatment ◽

World War ◽

The People ◽

The Everyday ◽

The World ◽

The Great War

The World War can be justifiably called the great seminal catastrophe of the 20th century, because the war that should have ended every further war, just disseminated the seeds of another cataclysm. From this point of view it is comprehensible why lots of historians deal with the named period. Numerous monographies and articles that deal with the destructing and stimulating eff ect of the Great War have seen the light of day. However, the mentioned works usually have serious defi cenceis, as most of them deal only with the battlefi elds, and a small proportion deals with the question of everyday life and hinterland, and the ordeals of the POWs are superfi cially described. In case of Hungary, the more serious researches related to POWs only started at the time of the centenary. This is why we can still read in some Serbian literatures about the people annihilating endeavors of the „huns” of Austria–Hungary. My choice of subject was therefore justified by the reasons outlined above. In my presentation I expound on briefly introducing the situations in the austro–hungarian POW camps. Furthermore, the presentation depicts in detail the everyday life, the medical and general treatment, clothing supply, the question of the minimal wages and working time of the prisoner labour forces. Lastly, I am depicting the problem of escapes and issues dealing POWs marriage and citizenship requests.

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Mobile Phone Culture: The Impacts of Mobile Phone Use

Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8239-9.ch055 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 658-672 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Seung-Hyun Lee

Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Mobile Phones ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Social Problems ◽

Mobile Phone Use ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Implications ◽

The World ◽

The Way

From being a simple communication technology to a key social tool, the mobile phone has become such an important aspect of people's everyday life. Mobile phones have altered the way people live, communicate, interact, and connect with others. Mobile phones are also transforming how people access and use information and media. Given the rapid pervasiveness of mobile phones in society across the world, it is important to explore how mobile phones have affected the way people communicate and interact with others, access the information, and use media, and their daily lifestyle. This article aims to explore the social and cultural implications that have come with the ubiquity, unprecedented connectivity, and advances of mobile phones. This article also focuses on the discussion about people's dependence on, attachment and addiction to mobile phones, social problems that mobile phones generate, and how people value mobile phone use.

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Stability and Change in Everyday Knowledge: From Taken for Granted to Social Representation

10.1093/oso/9780197617366.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 59-78

Author(s):

Francesca Emiliani

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

Social Representations ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Social Representation ◽

Stability And Change ◽

Ordinary Life ◽

The Social ◽

The Everyday ◽

The Relationship ◽

Everyday Knowledge

What do we talk about when we talk about everyday life? This chapter considers everyday life as a “metasystem” in Moscovici’s terms, a normative system that checks and organizes knowledge and thought. Looking at social representations theory, the chapter considers the structuring power of this metasystem, referring to two kinds of research where the absence (for deprived children) or suspension (in the first COVID-19 lockdown in Italy) of everyday life causes delays in children’s development and dismay in adults. The suspension of ordinary life highlights the social representation of “normality.” The structure of the “everyday life” metasystem is largely taken for granted, and this calls into question the relationship between the taken-for-granted and the knowledge that constructs social representations or, in other words, between stability and change in common knowledge.

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Skrifgebruik en samelewing die Apostoliese Geloofsending van Suid-Afrika

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v26i3.1422 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

W. J. Wessels

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Local Church ◽

Intellectual Development ◽

Early Stages ◽

The Bible ◽

The Social ◽

Spontaneous Interaction ◽

The Everyday ◽

The Church

This article is an attempt to describe the use of the Bible in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM). From the early stages of the church's humble beginnings, the use of Scripture changed in accordance with the social and intellectual development of its members. In the early stages there seemed to have been a more spontaneous interaction with the Bible which later made way for a more argumentative approach. Factors like the development of a centralised church system and the need to be accepted in the local church society in the country had a definite influence on the use of Scripture. Although strong emphasis was placed on the experiental aspect of faith, some of the leading members felt the need for theological training. Those who felt this need studied mostly at Reformed faculties which undeniably influenced their new of Scripture. From a spontaneous application of the Bible in the everyday life of the believer, a more formal attitude has developed towards the Bible and its application. From the research it is clear that there is a noticeable correlation between the use of Scripture in the AFM and the society in which the church finds itself

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African Indigenous Religions

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.661 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Walter E.A. van Beek

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

The Other ◽

Social Structures ◽

Indigenous Religion ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

The World ◽

Other World ◽

Indigenous Religions ◽

The Village

There is not one African indigenous religion (AIR); rather, there are many, and they diverge widely. As a group, AIRs are quite different from the scriptural religions the world is more familiar with, since what is central to AIRs is neither belief nor faith, but ritual. Exemplifying an “imagistic” form of religiosity, these religions have no sacred books or writings and are learned by doing, by participation and experience, rather than by instruction and teaching. Belonging to specific local ethnic groups, they are deeply embedded in and informed by the various ecologies of foragers, pastoralists, and horticulturalists—as they are also by the social structures of these societies: they “dwell” in their cultures. These are religions of the living, not so much preparing for afterlife as geared toward meeting the challenges of everyday life, illness and misfortune, mourning and comforting—but also toward feasting, life, fertility, and togetherness, even in death. Quiet rituals of the family contrast with exuberant public celebrations when new adults re-enter the village after an arduous initiation; intricate ritual attention to the all-important crops may include tense rites to procure much needed rains. The range of rituals is wide and all-encompassing. In AIRs, the dead and the living are close, either as ancestors or as other representatives of the other world. Accompanied by spirits of all kinds, both good and bad, harmful and nurturing, existence is full of ambivalence. Various channels are open for communication with the invisible world, from prayer to trance, and from dreams to revelations, but throughout it is divination in its manifold forms that offers a window on the deeper layers of reality. Stories about the other world abound, and many myths and legends are never far removed from basic folktales. These stories do not so much explain the world as they entertainingly teach about the deep humanity that AIRs share and cherish.

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