Resilience and the Mobility of Identity: Belonging and Change among Turkana Herders in Northern Kenya

Ideas of resilience are not new; they have travelled across several disciplines, stretching their original meanings to a considerable degree, turning into a 'key political category of our time' (Neocleous 2013). For the case of pastoralist groups, discussions about resilience predominantly concern the state of pastoralism as a unitary and fixed entity and its prospects for survival in a world in turmoil (climate change, diseases and epidemics, conflicts, socio-economic transformations). In this context, references to resilience generally allude to local vulnerability, purporting the need for external support. These accounts tend to ignore local voices and perceptions and neglect the role of identity, culture and change in self-presentation and everyday life. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the northern Kenyan drylands, this article flips dominant perspectives on pastoralism and resilience, following the herders' self-definition, their construction of a shared identity and their, at times contradictory, positioning as part of a broader society. It argues that part of their resilience rests in the feeling of belonging and solidarity around a collective identity, built in opposition to urbanities along symbolic boundaries. The article however shows how such identity remains nonetheless flexible and responsive to change, disrupting dichotomies and weaving different social worlds, such as rural and urban, together. Such flexibility is also an important element of resilience for the capacity to change, stay attentive, and mobile.

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Green and single: The role of green distinction among environmentalists

Human Affairs ◽

10.1515/humaff-2017-0017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Lukáš Kala

Keyword(s):

Identity Construction ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Social Differentiation ◽

Tribal Community ◽

Specific Group ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Potential Partner ◽

Research Questions

AbstractThis paper examines profiles on online dating sites for environmentally aware singles identifying as ‘green single’. The research was motivated by these research questions: What kind of people use these sites to search for a partner? How do green singles earn ‘green distinction’, the markings of a green identity? The main objective of this research is to find out how green singles impress a potential partner on dating sites. The paper discusses recent research influenced by the work of Bourdieu and Maffesoli. It considers a specific group of singles obtained from the quantitative and qualitative analysis of one thousand randomly selected profiles. It investigates self-presentation strategies, characteristic green performances and identity construction among green singles, particularly ‘green cultural codes’ and ‘green scripts’. The paper contributes to the knowledge on symbolic boundaries, social differentiation and collective identity in the environmentalist subculture, discussed as a kind of neo-tribal community.

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Supplemental Material for Masculine Self-Presentation and Distancing From Femininity in Gay Men: An Experimental Examination of the Role of Masculinity Threat

Psychology of Men & Masculinity ◽

10.1037/a0039545.supp ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Gay Men ◽

Experimental Examination ◽

Self Presentation ◽

Masculinity Threat

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Paradoxical Relations Between Depressive Symptoms and Sleep Quality During and After Treatment for Breast Cancer: The Role of Self-Presentation

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e705562011-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Christine A. Hovanitz ◽

Jenny Rademacher ◽

Laura Roush ◽

Elyse Lower

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Self Presentation

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MULTI - DIMENSIONAL ROLE OF A PHARMACIST IN HOSPITAL: A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER

Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research ◽

10.31069/japsr.v1i3.13585 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Singh S ◽

Virmani T ◽

Virmani R ◽

Geeta . ◽

Gupta J

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Drug Product ◽

Hospital Pharmacist ◽

Therapeutic Monitoring ◽

Direct Patient Care ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Rural And Urban

The objective of this study was to point out multi-dimensional role of a pharmacist with a special emphasis on the hospital pharmacist. Apharmacist is a person who is involved in designing, creating or manufacturing of a drug product, dispensing of a drug, managing and planning ofa pharmaceutical care. They are experts on the action and uses of drugs, including their chemistry, pharmacology and formulation. Theprofessional life of a hospital pharmacist might seem insignificant as compared to that of doctors, but actually they are highly trained healthprofessionals who plays important role in patient safety, patient compliance, therapeutic monitoring and even in direct patient care. With thepassage of time and advancements in health care services and pharmaceuticals, the role of a hospital pharmacist has become more diversified. Toa career, a hospital pharmacist must possess a diploma/degree in pharmacy from an accredited pharmacy college and must be registered with thestate pharmacy council of their respective region. In this study, we have assessed the behavior, communication skills, qualifications of thepharmacist, prescription handling ability and other factors to evaluate the diversified role of hospital pharmacist and their comparison withpharmacists practicing in rural and urban areas. Current surveys show that the pharmacists are not practicing as per the standard due to lack ofproper guidelines and watch over their practicing sense. The rules and guidelines prescribed by the Food and drug administration (FDA) andIndian pharmacopeia commission (IPC) were not followed by the pharmacist.

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Literary Histories

10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0038 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Eva-Marie Kröller

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Literary History ◽

English Language ◽

South Pacific ◽

The South ◽

Cultural Elite ◽

Historical Methodology ◽

Literary Histories

This chapter discusses national literary histories in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific and summarises the book's main findings regarding the construction and revision of narratives of national identity since 1950. In colonial and postcolonial cultures, literary history is often based on a paradox that says much about their evolving sense of collective identity, but perhaps even more about the strains within it. The chapter considers the complications typical of postcolonial literary history by focusing on the conflict between collective celebration and its refutation. It examines three issues relating to the histories of English-language fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: problems of chronology and beginnings, with a special emphasis on Indigenous peoples; the role of the cultural elite and the history wars in the Australian context; and the influence of postcolonial networks on historical methodology.

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Romantic Partners’ Group-Based Identity Accommodation as a Predictor of Older Adults’ Romantic Relational Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Shared Identity with Third-Party Family Members

Southern Communication Journal ◽

10.1080/1041794x.2021.1957997 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Quinten S. Bernhold ◽

Howard Giles

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Family Members ◽

Romantic Partners ◽

Third Party ◽

Relational Satisfaction ◽

Shared Identity ◽

Party Family ◽

Moderating Role

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‘We’re all in this together’: Perspectives from within the Gulf Cooperation Council Women’s Games

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/1012690221999803 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 101269022199980

Author(s):

Hussa K Al-Khalifa ◽

Dwa Al-Khalifa

Keyword(s):

Social Development ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Soft Power ◽

Arabian Gulf ◽

Gulf Cooperation Council ◽

Social Goals ◽

Shared Identity

Sport has often been advocated as a tool to achieve various social development (SD) goals. It has also been used as a way of expanding soft power (SP) influence. Combining both concepts provides an opportunity to understand how SP and SD may interrelate through the use of domestic SP strategies in sport. In this paper, we discuss the identified themes of unity, pride, and collective identity that arise from a regional women’s sporting competition in the Arabian Gulf among the Gulf Cooperation Council members, as factors that strengthened the prominence of athletes’ shared identity and connectedness. Using the perspectives of the authors who were immersed in the sporting competition, we argue that this information is important for sports organisers to use as bases for SP strategies to achieve inwards-focused social goals.

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Studying Palestinian-Israeli Relations at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA)

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin ◽

10.1017/s0026318400042401 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 38-40

Author(s):

Deborah L. Wheeler

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Collective Identity ◽

Television News ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Media Culture ◽

The Past ◽

Shared Identity ◽

P 16 ◽

The Creation ◽

Words And Images

For the Past Five Decades, media texts, broadcast over television air waves, have created a shared identity among viewing audiences. John B. Thompson notes that if culture is understood as “the ways in which meaningful expressions of various kinds are produced, constructed and received by individuals”, then mass media can be understood as central to the creation and maintenance of culture (pp. 122-23). The words and images that construct a media culture are the very building blocks of collective identity. As Michael Schudson observes, “news is part of the background through which and with which people think” (p. 16).

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