scholarly journals Car Use of the Carless in Sweden: Everyday Life Conditions for Reducing Car Dependence

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10250
Author(s):  
Ellen Lagrell ◽  
Ana Gil Solá
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Time Geography ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
Trip Frequency ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Do So

For the sake of reducing car dependence, much can be learned from non-car owners about how everyday life can, and cannot, be organized without private car ownership. This study aims to explore carless mobility, including the role of the car, in relation to specific everyday projects and life situations. We do so through a descriptive analysis of data from the Swedish National Travel Survey 2011–2016, comparing carless mobility with that of car owners. Theoretically, our analysis builds on a constraints perspective with respect to mobility, which is rooted in time geography. We find that the constraints associated with activities and life situations seem to matter for how mobility is performed and for the feasibility of living a carless life. Managing the material flows of the household (for example, buying food and disposing of waste) is a project handled differently by non-car owners, through using nearby services and with a low degree of car use. On the other hand, our data suggest that maintaining social relations is car dependent and can potentially be more problematic for the carless. Moreover, an individual’s social network itself seems to be an important source of occasional car access. Results also indicate that the life situations of individuals may affect the mobility implications of carlessness, and the largest effect on trip frequency is found among carless retirees. From a planning perspective, and with the ambition to reduce private car use, this study identifies significant value in considering the different contexts of everyday life in which car use may or may not occur.

The terroir of bureaucratic practice: Everyday life and scholarly method in the study of policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merje Kuus
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Do So

This article seeks to connect political geographic scholarship on institutions and policy more firmly to the experience of everyday life. Empirically, I foreground the ambiguous and indeterminate character of institutional decision-making and I underscore the need to closely consider the sensory texture of place and milieu in our analyses of it. My examples come from the study of diplomatic practice in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. Conceptually and methodologically, I use these examples to accentuate lived experience as an essential part of research, especially in the seemingly dry bureaucratic settings. I do so in particular through engaging with the work of Michel de Certeau, whose ideas enjoy considerable traction in cultural geography but are seldom used in political geography and policy studies. An accent on the texture and feel of policy practice necessarily highlights the role of place in that practice. This, in turn, may help us with communicating geographical research beyond our own discipline.

scholarly journals Visual autoethnography and international security: Insights from the Korean DMZ

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Bleiker
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
North Korea ◽  
International Security ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Army Officer ◽  
Demilitarized Zone ◽  
Visual Autoethnography ◽  
Do So

AbstractThe purpose of this article is to introduce and explore the political potential of visual autoethnography. I do so through my experience of working as a Swiss Army officer in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Drawing on my own photographs I examine how an appreciation of everyday aesthetic sensibilities can open up new ways of thinking about security dilemmas. I argue that visual autoethnography can be insightful not because it offers better or even authentic views – it cannot – but because it has the potential to reveal how prevailing political discourses are so widely rehearsed and accepted that we no longer see their partial, political, and often problematic nature. I illustrate this potential in two ways: (1) how a self-reflective engagement with my own photographs of the DMZ reveals the deeply entrenched role of militarised masculinities; (2) how my positionality and my photographs of everyday life in North Korea show that prevailing security discourses are highly particular and biased, even though they are used to justify seemingly objective policy decisions.

scholarly journals The Sciences During the New Common: A Missed Opportunity?

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Maurits Kaptein
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Missed Opportunity ◽  
Do So

AbstractBy Wednesday, July 22, 2020, the coronavirus had killed over 611,000 people and infected over fourteen million globally. It devastated lives and will continue to do so for a long time to come; the economic consequences of the pandemic are only just starting to materialize. This makes it a challenging time to write about the new common. However, we need to start somewhere. At some point, we need to reflect on our own roles, the roles of our institutions, the importance of our economy, and the future fabric of everyday life. In this chapter, I will discuss one minor—and compared to the current crisis seemingly inconsequential—aspect of the new common: I will discuss my worry that we are on the verge of missing the opportunity to properly (re-)define the role of the sciences as we move from our old to our new common.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN DIGITALIZING FALAK SCIENCE IN ISLAMICASTRO APPLICATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajri Zulia Ramdhani
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Data Accuracy ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Three Stages

This research starts from academic awareness when realizing Falak keyword in the Play Store. It shows fifteen Falak aplications by programmers without validated Falak competence.This is crucial, because Falak regulates not only astronomical or social relations, but also theological. One of these applications were developed by Falak youth, namely Muhammad Faishol Amin with his Islamicastro. This research discusses digitization of Falak by Islamicastro and youth Falak contributions. This research is qualitative type that based going exploring. Primary and secondary data collection is done by documentation and interviews. The research data is processed in three stages, codification, presentation, and conclusion drawing. Then data were analyzed with descriptive analysis and inductive thingking methods. The conclusion is Islamicastro helps Falak practitioners by his data accuracy in the field. From literatures, algorithm of Islamicastro uses the ephemeris method, the spherical astronomy, and the renewal of vincety method. Muhammad Faishol Amin are agents of change as UU No. 40 of 2009 whose part is anacted role, prescribed role, and role models.

scholarly journals TIL KONSULTATION HOS ÅNDERNE: Om klarsyn, energier og magi i Danmark

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibeke Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Term Energy ◽  
The Subject

There is a long-standing anthropological tradition of studies where the concept of magic is related to crisis and the re-establishment of order, whether on a social or an individual level. The risk of this approach, however, is that we may mistake the intention with magic for its result, and thus overestimate the role of crisis, the management of problems and the construction of meaning. This article demonstrates that instead of providing answers and solutions, the engagement with magic may just as well open up for new questions and new problems. The subject of the study is spiritualism and second sight as practised in contemporary Danish society primarily by women. In this context, magic is not necessarily something extraordinary that people turn to when facing severe trouble, but rather a way of dealing with social relations in everyday life. My approach is inspired by Evans- Pritchard’s classic work on witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande in the sense that the concept of magic forms only one leg in a triangle with energies and second sight as the other two. Second sight is provided by mediums passing on messages from deceased relatives or other spirits at platform demonstrations or in private consultations. The messages often deal with distance and proximity in social relations and how to protect yourself against feelings of being drained of energy or invaded by other human or spiritual beings. The term energy provides a sense of physical reality to these otherwise subtle feelings and makes it possible to deal with them in concrete situations through spells, invocations, and other kinds of magic manipulation. Keywords: Spiritism, social relations, the boundaries of self , women.  

scholarly journals Karakteristik, Tipologi, Urban Sprawl

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Firdaus Firdaus ◽  
Febby Asteriani ◽  
Anissa Ramadhani
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Spatial Approach ◽  
Private Car ◽  
The City

[ID] Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui karakteristik, tipologi, dan tingkat urban sprawl yang terjadi di Kota Pekanbaru. Sampel penelitian sejumlah 99 dari 7.646 jumlah bangunan yang terdigitasi. Mengetahui karakteristik dan tipe urban sprawl digunakan analisis deskriptif dengan pendekatan spasial dan untuk tingkat urban sprawl dilakukan dengan pemberian  scoring pada variable urban sprawl. Hasil penelitian menunujukkan bahwa karakteristik urban sprawl dicirikan dengan penggunaan lahan terpisah yang terletak jauh dari pusat-pusat permukiman, kepadatan penduduk rendah sekitar 4.499 jiwa/km2,  penggunaan mobil pribadi yang tinggi pada jam sibuk yakni sebesar 5.945 unit setiap hari.  Tipe urban sprawl yang dominan adalah perembetan memanjang dan perembetan meloncat terjadi pada jalan arteri maupun kolektor, sedangkan perembetan meloncat terjadi di beberapa kelurahan. Kelurahan Delima dan Kelurahan Tuah Karya termasuk pada tipologi ke-1 dengan tingkat urban sprawl rendah, dan tipologi ke-2 dengan tingkat urban sprawl sedang terjadi di Kelurahan Sidomulyo Barat, sedangkan Kelurahan Simpang Baru termasuk pada  tipologi ke-3 dengan tingkat urban sprawl tinggi. [EN] This study aims to determine the characteristics, typology, and levels of urban sprawl that occur in the city of Pekanbaru. The study sample numbered 99 out of 7,646 numbers of digitalized buildings. Knowing the characteristics and types of urban sprawl used descriptive analysis with a spatial approach and for the level of urban sprawl carried out by giving scoring to urban sprawl variables. The results of the study show that the characteristics of urban sprawl are characterized by separate land uses located far from residential centers, low population density of around 4,499 people / km2, high private car use during peak hours which is 5,945 units per day. The dominant type of urban sprawl is longitudinal infiltration and jumping leaks that occur on arterial roads and collectors, while leachates jump in several villages. The Delima and Tuah Karya Villages included in the 1st typology with a low level of urban sprawl, and the second typology with the level of urban sprawl was occurring in Sidomulyo Barat Village, while the Simpang Baru Village was included in the 3rd typology with high urban sprawl.

scholarly journals Circles of Support and Accountability: The Role of Social Relations in Core Member Desistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2096409
Author(s):  
Kelly Richards
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
Sexual Recidivism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Core Member ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Previous Scholarship ◽  
Do So

Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) appear to reduce the sexual recidivism of core members (i.e., individuals convicted of sexual offending). It remains unclear, however, how they do so. While much previous scholarship has hypothesized that the relations between core members and CoSA volunteers promote desistance from sexual offending, there has been no theoretically-informed research that specifically interrogates these relations. This article begins to address this gap by examining the relations formed in and by CoSA through the lens of Donati’s theory of relational reflexivity. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 62 CoSA participants across six CoSA programs located in the USA and Canada, it proffers a new theorization of the role of social relations in core members’ desistance. Findings from the study will enable CoSA practitioners around the globe to explicate and deepen their practice around more rigorous theoretical precepts.

scholarly journals Conservative Modernity

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-182
Author(s):  
Katrin Schreiter
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
German Society ◽  
West Germany ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Living Space ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Right

This chapter focuses on the role of functionalism on living space in East and West Germany. Implementation of modernization in everyday life happened gradually in the postwar German countries and there were a host of reasons for this. Thee analysis in this chapter suggests that functionalist discourse diffused German society, yet not with the consistency that the disciples of modernism would have liked. It was a conservative modernity that showed widespread awareness of the right materials, the wrong embellishments, and the need for the emotional comfort of traditions and social relations. The population accepted the practicality of functionalism's clear lines and rectangular shapes for small apartments. However, it did not accept the emotional emptiness of the functionalist extreme.

scholarly journals Marrying in a single moment: Zimbabwean Baptist ethics and the management of kin relations

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 893-912
Author(s):  
Leanne Williams Green
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Moral Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Kin Relations ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

AbstractScholarship about Southern Africa registers a persistent tension between the prospect of relations created in a processual manner over time and the role of discrete ritual or lifecycle events. Marriage is one of the sites where this tension becomes particularly evident, not only in bridewealth transactions but also in an increasing prominence given to European-style ‘white weddings’. For Baptist Christians living in urban Zimbabwe, the tension raises a host of ethical considerations. This group of Christians seeks to establish and maintain social relations that they value for cultural and for religious reasons, while also facing the ethical task of moderating the degree of obligation that these relations can exert over them. They do so in order to maintain the moral autonomy necessary to live ethical Baptist lives, and attempt to achieve this goal by creating marriages according to a model of immediate transformation, rather than one of gradual unfolding. I suggest that drawing from recent discussions in the anthropological study of ethics offers a way to discuss choice and evaluation in marriage practice in ways not reducible to class interest or social and material expediency alone.

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