scholarly journals Nation, Ethnicity, Milieus, and Multiple “We’s”. The Case of Kenya

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Dieter Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The One

The title of the volume “Future Africa—beyond the nation?” has several implications. Nation is presented as an entity relevant to identification and identity; and in the combination with “future”, nation implies a political vision. It is not hard to find good examples in respect of these implications. However, there are other entities important for to political identification. Often, they do not go beyond the nation but refer to smaller collective identities, such as ethnicity. The revived debate on “the middle class” implies that particular social groupings, such as class, may play a role, too. The question is how relevant are the nation and other collective political identities in Africa, and are they exclusive? Looking at the case of Kenya, we see on the one hand that collective (political) identities, such as ethnicity, are mobilized especially during elections. On the other hand, these collective identities are less dominant in everyday life and give way to different conducts of life (conceptualized as “milieus”) that are less politicized. We see people maneuvering between multiple “we’s”. Strong political identities are mobilized only in particular conflict-loaded situations that restructure identities in simple binary oppositions of “we” and “they”.

scholarly journals City of Nostalgia: The Semiotics of Urban Retrotopias

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Abstract The Casa da Nostalgia, or “Nostalgic house,” in the Taipa area of the special administrative region of Macau, is a museum devoted to temporary exhibitions reconstructing everyday life in the city, especially in the epoch of Portuguese ruling. Just opposite the museum, on the other side of a large pond, a giant casino, the Venetian Macau, reproduces Venice both with its external architecture and its interior design. The article analyzes these two urban settings in order to develop a semiotic understanding of as many ways of symbolically reconstructing cities. On the one hand, cities can be reconstructed in a nostalgic form; the essay inquires on the origin and the consequences of urban nostalgia; on the other hand, cities can be reconstructed as ersatz. The article further investigates the dialectics between predominantly temporal or prevailingly spatial urban reconstructions, with reference to the socio-cultural dynamics that have changed Macau in the last decades. The article concludes with the methodological suggestion that the study of urban re-constructions requires the combined efforts of several disciplines, jointly investigating why, how, but also to what effect cities are re-built.

scholarly journals Heritage, geographical scale and didactic potentiality: Students and teachers’ perspectives

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251398
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Ponce Gea ◽  
Carlos Martínez Hernández ◽  
María Luisa Rico Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Geographical Scale ◽  
Specific Community ◽  
The One ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

Heritage and space establish reciprocal relations that have been studied for decades. On the one hand, heritage has been described as an inherently spatial phenomenon. On the other hand, places are defined according to the attributes that make up their identity, among which heritage is a fundamental instrument. On the basis of the idea that education plays an important role in the socialization process, transmitted by the inherited culture, to integrate each subject within the specific community, and the notion of scale as the closest to heritage, we defined as general objectives to determine the relationships between geographic scales, heritage perspective and the didactic potential granted to heritage, within the framework of the construction of collective identities, and to contrast the perspectives of students and teachers regarding the geographical scale, heritage and their didactic potential, deducing implications for educational practices. In order to answer to these objectives, we carried out a non-experimental quantitative research, with a relational-predictive objective. Specifically, we used a survey method, being the context the whole of the local scale (Fuente Álamo, Murcia, Spain) and acting as participants all students and teachers of Secondary Education (n = 459) linked to social sciences. They answered the Test on Didactic Potentiality of Heritage according to Scale (TDPHS), and its information was analysed through different procedures (Spearman’s correlations, descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U…), using the statistical programs SPSS. The results show, on the one hand, that the scalar perspective scores are generally low, heritage perspective is consistent with the consideration of the scales, and the perceived didactic potential in relation to heritage is related to the importance given to each of the scales; and, on the other hand, the contrast in the perspectives of students and teachers regarding the geographical scale, heritage and their didactic potential is minimal.

Ancient Musical Writings as Persuasive Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Massimo Raffa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This contribution is meant to shed light on how ancient Greek music theorists structure argumentations and address their readership in order to be understandable, effective and persuasive. On the one hand, some of the most important treatises, e.g. Ptolemy’s Harmonics (with Porphyry’s Commentary) and what remains of Archytas’ and Theophrastus’ works, are taken as case studies; on the other hand, the paper deals with some argumentative patterns recurring in harmonics demonstrations, especially with reference to the usage of everyday life experience as evidence supporting acoustic and harmonic theories.

scholarly journals Salafi’s Da’wah and the Phenomenon of Religious Piety among Hijrah Artists

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-249
Author(s):  
Ahmad Zaenuri ◽  
Habibie Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Common Term ◽  
Religious Piety ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

In the last decade, along with the huge social media, religious piety among national celebrities has increased dramatically. This trend is characterized by the emergence of a number of artists with traditional Islamic-Salafi fashion community. Trousers above the ankle, bushy beards, thin mustaches, women's veils and the common term of akhi and ukhti, as well as many other anomalies. Salafi da’wa is, on the one hand, a condensed way of da’wa (not much by fiqh logic). His opinions concentrated more on the actual understanding of the Quran and the Sunnah. But, on the other hand, a lot of artists who are typically middle-class, educated and rationalist suit the community. This article seeks to address the question of why the phenomenon of religious piety of artists is more in line with the trend of the Salafi communities? Phenomenological descriptive methodology is the analysis tool used. To address the above question, the author presents the paradigm of Benford and Snow da’wa. The results of this study reveal that the Salaf da’wa was able to frame its da'wah concepts in accordance with reason, Islamic, modern standards, and to respond to the demands of the Ummah in such a way that many artists followed.

scholarly journals Pemahaman Hadis Misoginis dalam Kitab Uqudul Lujayn di Pondok Pesantren An-Nur Semarang

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Akhmad Khozin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The One ◽  
Description Form

This research is based on the problems in society related to the rights and roles of women who are neglected, because the indications of Hadith misogynically interpreted by classical commentators, on the one hand upholds the dignity of women, but on the other hand castrates women's rights by limiting the women's role in marriage life and closing their steps to contribute in the environment. The purposes of this study are; (1) to know the extent to which the students' understanding of the Hadiths studied in  uqudul lujayn book; (2) to dig into the understanding built in the study of the lqliya texts related to the misogynical Hadith; (3) to imply the understanding to everyday life. The method used in this study is a qualitative method by presenting data through verbal and then changed into description form, not numbers. The results showed that; (1) the santri who studied lqya lujayn book initially did not understand the existence of the misogynous Hadith and only understood the book and the teacher's information, after in-depth study, the students sought to re-understand by combining; (2) in the classical and hermeneutic method of interpretation  can be understood that there is no misogynist Hadith, but Hadits misogynically interpreted; (3) the understanding is implied on the activities of santriwati an-Nur in everyday life.

The Role of Humanoid Robotics in Health Care System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bittmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Humanoid Robotics ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Care System

In Japan, new developments in the field of robotics are being received with interest and enthusiasm by the population and used in everyday life. This can be explained on the one hand by a long tradition of stories that report positively on artificial servants for humans. These stories continue into modern manga comics. Robots take on positive roles, expanding the capabilities of humans and being of service to them. On the other hand, Japanese religions and philosophies such as Buddhism and Shintoism influence attitudes towards robots.

Race Man or Race Menace?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Moore
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sporting Culture ◽  
The One

Black fighters’ construction of manhood straddled the line between Victorian respectability and sporting manhood. In other words, many tried to emulate their middle-class brothers. Despite spending their leisure time in the sporting culture, when they had a chance most black prizefighters publicly placed themselves as economically responsible patriarchs. They wanted to prove that their manhood went beyond their physicality, on the one hand, and was not solely rooted in the disreputable sporting culture, on the other hand. As part of the black-middle class’s strategy to prove their equality, race men grounded their manhood in thrift and patriarchy. If the pugilist could avoid the perils of the sporting world, he could properly represent the aspirations of the black middle class.

Research into Practice: Using Money to Teach about the Decimal System

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Analúcia Dias Schliemann
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arithmetic Operations ◽  
Decimal System ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Number Words ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
The One ◽  
Value Decomposition

Children learn much mathematics in everyday life. When they buy things, for example, they have to count their money and calculate their change. Counting money is a special type of counting. On the one hand, when children count objects, they establish a one-to-one correspondence bet ween objects and number words; only absolute value, as opposed to relative value, is involved. On the other hand, when counting money children must bear in mind both types of value; while they deal with the coins one by one (absolute value), they must also take into account the relative value of the coins. Counting money thus helps children understand the decomposition of numbers; a large amount (for example, sixty-eight) is made up of smaller amounts—tens and ones—that can be repeated (six tens and eight one). All these ideas—relative and absolute value, decomposition, and repetition of equal values—are basic both to the understanding of the decimal system and to the undertanding of important properties of arithmetic operations.

‘Trans-skin’: Analyzing the practice of skin bleaching among middle-class women in Dar es Salaam

Ethnicities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
The Other ◽  
Skin Bleaching ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
Empirical Material

This essay analyses skin bleaching among middle-class Tanzanian women as performative practice. It draws on empirical material from interviews with middle-class Tanzanian women as well as from advertisements in Dar es Salaam. Skin bleaching is situated at a ‘site of ambivalence’ (Butler), revolving around ‘light beauty’ as postcolonial regulatory ideal. Thus on the one hand, skin bleaching is analyzed as a practice of ‘passing for light(-skinned), embodying urban ‘modern’ forms of subjectivation. On the other hand, the decolonizing potential of skin bleaching becomes apparent as the interviewed women’s forms of embodiment renegotiate postcolonial Blackness putting forward notions of ‘browning’ (Tate). However, ‘light beauty’ then also appears as norm, according to which forms of embodiment can only ‘fail’. In this regard, skin bleaching challenges essentialized notions of Blackness, embodied in the color of one’s skin, while it also illustrates the performativity of racialized embodiment and its intersections with other structural categories.

scholarly journals FRELST OG REDDET FRA AIDS?: Unge pigers håndtering af risikoen for hiv i det sydvestlige Uganda

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Wimberley
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Hiv Aids

Kristina Wimberley: Saved from AIDS? The Manoeuvres of Adolescent Giris in Relation to the Risk of HIV in Southwestern Uganda This articles discusses the representation of adolescent giris in the literature on AIDS and in AIDS interventions. In these contexts an image is created of adolescent giris as passive victims of a static inequality in societies pervaded by patriarchy, and as driven by economic want. On the basis of fieldwork material from Ankole, southwestern Uganda, the articles discusses the meaning of “being saved” for adolescent giris in relation to the risk of HIV. For the giris concemed, “being saved” is characterized by conversion to a new lifestyle in which they are virtuous, honest, kind, and above all: avoid and reject men. However, at some point even saved giris enter into relationships with men. In this situation, the giris may find it advantageous to continue to be “really saved” in certain contexts. From the analysis put forward here it emerges that “being saved” as a form of discourse and action enables giris to create a room for manoeuvre that empowers them to tackle the dangers they face - including HIV/AIDS. This agency emerges in the interplay of, on the one hand the constraining and enabling effects of the various life worlds of giris in Ankole, and on the other hand the way in which gendered identities and relationships are negotiated in everyday life between giris and men, as well as among the giris themselves. It is concluded that the standard analysis of giris’ vulnerability in relation to the risk of HIV/AIDS could benefit from an actor-oriented approach that encompasses the interplay between structure and process. An analysis of this kind may reveal the agency of giris, and not exclusively in relation to economic want. This focus on agency could be a point of departure for more effective HIV/AIDS interventions.

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