scholarly journals Everyday Practices, Everyday Water: From Foucault to Rivera-Cusicanqui (with a Few Stops in between)

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Furlong ◽  
Denisse Roca-Servat ◽  
Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero ◽  
María Botero-Mesa
Keyword(s):  
Reference Points ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday

In this article, we explore elements of the literature on practices and the everyday to provide reference points for water researchers. We cast a wide net in recognition of the complex and multifaceted nature of human relationships to water that cannot be reduced to a single perspective. The article begins with the work of prominent French theorists including Foucault, Lefebvre, Bourdieu and de Certeau. Each grapples with the interrelationship between wider socio-political processes and practice in different ways. This leads us to pragmatism and non-representational theory in the second section, which argue that to understand socio-political processes, one must begin from practices. In the third section, we engage with work on practices in conditions of instability and precarity, which are widespread under contemporary conditions of post-colonial neoliberalism, and the role of “care” in mitigating their effects. In section four, we discuss the scholarship and practice of Silvia Rivera-Cusicanqui, who explores and extends many of the approaches elaborated above. The article concludes with a reflection on what this means for engaging with the multiple realities and ways of living with water.

A Typology of International Judicial Practices

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L Dunoff ◽  
Mark A Pollack
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
International Courts ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Judicial Opinions

This chapter discusses the inner working of ICs, such as the drafting of judicial opinions; practices concerning separate opinions; the role of language and translation; and the roles of third parties. It also presents a preliminary effort to identify and examine the everyday practices of international judges. In undertaking this task, the authors draw selectively upon a large literature on ‘practice theory’ that has only rarely been applied to international law in general or to international courts in particular. A typology and synoptic overview of practices is presented.

scholarly journals Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dew ◽  
P Norris ◽  
J Gabe ◽  
K Chamberlain ◽  
D Hodgetts
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Natural Production ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
Health Experts

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This article extends our understanding of the everyday practices of pharmaceuticalisation through an examination of moral concerns over medication practices in the household. Moral concerns of responsibility and discipline in relation to pharmaceutical consumption have been identified, such as passive or active medication practices, and adherence to orthodox or unorthodox accounts. This paper further delineates dimensions of the moral evaluations of pharmaceuticals. In 2010 and 2011 data were collected from 55 households across New Zealand and data collection techniques, such as photo- and diary-elicitation interviews, allowed the participants to develop and articulate reflective stories of the moral meaning of pharmaceuticals. Four repertoires were identified: a disordering society repertoire where pharmaceuticals evoke a society in an unnatural state; a disordering self repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify a moral failing of the individual; a disordering substances repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify a threat to one's physical or mental equilibrium; a re-ordering substances repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify the restoration of function. The research demonstrated that the dichotomies of orthodox/unorthodox and compliance/resistance do not adequately capture how medications are used and understood in everyday practice. Attitudes change according to why pharmaceuticals are taken and who is taking them, their impacts on social relationships, and different views on the social or natural production of disease, the power of the pharmaceutical industry, and the role of health experts. Pharmaceuticals are tied to our identity, what we want to show of ourselves, and what sort of world we see ourselves living in. The ordering and disordering understandings of pharmaceuticals intersect with forms of pharmaceuticalised governance, where conduct is governed through pharmaceutical routines, and where self-responsibility entails following the prescription of other agents. Pharmaceuticals symbolise forms of governance with different sets of roles and responsibilities.

scholarly journals Moral discourses and pharmaceuticalised governance in households

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Dew ◽  
P Norris ◽  
J Gabe ◽  
K Chamberlain ◽  
D Hodgetts
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Natural Production ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
Health Experts

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. This article extends our understanding of the everyday practices of pharmaceuticalisation through an examination of moral concerns over medication practices in the household. Moral concerns of responsibility and discipline in relation to pharmaceutical consumption have been identified, such as passive or active medication practices, and adherence to orthodox or unorthodox accounts. This paper further delineates dimensions of the moral evaluations of pharmaceuticals. In 2010 and 2011 data were collected from 55 households across New Zealand and data collection techniques, such as photo- and diary-elicitation interviews, allowed the participants to develop and articulate reflective stories of the moral meaning of pharmaceuticals. Four repertoires were identified: a disordering society repertoire where pharmaceuticals evoke a society in an unnatural state; a disordering self repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify a moral failing of the individual; a disordering substances repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify a threat to one's physical or mental equilibrium; a re-ordering substances repertoire where pharmaceuticals signify the restoration of function. The research demonstrated that the dichotomies of orthodox/unorthodox and compliance/resistance do not adequately capture how medications are used and understood in everyday practice. Attitudes change according to why pharmaceuticals are taken and who is taking them, their impacts on social relationships, and different views on the social or natural production of disease, the power of the pharmaceutical industry, and the role of health experts. Pharmaceuticals are tied to our identity, what we want to show of ourselves, and what sort of world we see ourselves living in. The ordering and disordering understandings of pharmaceuticals intersect with forms of pharmaceuticalised governance, where conduct is governed through pharmaceutical routines, and where self-responsibility entails following the prescription of other agents. Pharmaceuticals symbolise forms of governance with different sets of roles and responsibilities.

Understanding Romanians’ cross-border mobility in Europe: movers, stayers and returnees

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-224
Author(s):  
Roxana Barbulescu ◽  
Irina Ciornei ◽  
Albert Varela
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday

This chapter investigates the everyday practices of cross-border mobility of Romanian citizens in the light of the concept of ‘space-set’ (Recchi 2013 and 2015). Using mixed methods, we distinguish between stayers, movers and returnees and examine the role of frequency, reason for travel, destinations and personal significance. Findings show that Romanians’ long-term mobility, motivated especially by work, is amplified by more short-term mobility in the form of holidays, trips or visits to friends and families abroad. However, not all benefit from the rise in international mobility: two thirds of the stayers did not cross the border in the past two years. This finding suggests that first, mobile Romanians are pioneers of everyday European integration (Recchi and Favell 2009) and, second, long-term mobility has a ‘sticky’ nature and predicts short-term mobility irrespective of individual socio-economic resources. These insights counter stereotypes of Romanians, and also question what we call the ‘migratisation of mobilities’ where all forms of mobility are assimilated to a migration paradigm.

Religion and Displacement in Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 290-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lauterbach
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Christian Congregations

This article is about the role of religion in contexts of displacement. The article looks at the role churches and church leaders play in the lives of refugees and more particularly the assistance that these actors provide. The analytical approach is to take into consideration both religious ideas and experiences as well as the everyday practices of people and the socio-economic structures within which they live. The empirical focus is on Congolese Christian congregations in Kampala, Uganda that for the most are founded and attended by refugees. I analyse the forms of assistance that are provided to refugees, how this is conceptualised as well as the practices in a perspective that includes the intersection between religious ideas (compassion and sacrifice) and ideas around social relationships, gift-giving and reciprocity.

The Scandal of Enlightenment and the Birth of Disciplines: Is International Law a Science?

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhakar Singh
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Third World

AbstractToday’s mainstream international law scholarship (MILS) is concerned primarily with the issue of its scientificity. This brings us to the larger epistemological questions of linear modernity, narratives of circular progress, role of colonisation and rejection of pre-science. International law is not a self-contained regime as it draws insights from all the other disciplines that were born after the Enlightenment. This article makes a psychological investigation using Nandy’s psycho-political framework under the third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). It also sees, as a case in point, the invasion of modernity via late capitalism into tribal life as modernity’s apology for the “third” disenchantment. International Law’s evolutionary scientificity, therefore, has been examined through psychology and mythology in the post-colonial world.

scholarly journals Performing Values Practices and Grassroots Organizing: The Case of Solidarity Economy Initiatives in Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1741-1765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Daskalaki ◽  
Marianna Fotaki ◽  
Irene Sotiropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

This article discusses solidarity economy initiatives as instances of grassroots organizing, and explores how ‘values practices’ are performed collectively during times of crisis. In focusing on how power, discourse and subjectivities are negotiated in the everyday practices of grassroots exchange networks (GENs) in crisis-stricken Greece, the study unveils and discusses three performances of values practices, namely mobilization of values, re-articulation of social relations, and sustainable living. Based on these findings, and informed by theoretical analyses of performativity, we propose a framework for studying the production and reproduction of values in the context of GENs, and the role of values in organizing alternatives.

Skin Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lafrance ◽  
R Scott Carey
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
Clinical Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Electronic Support

In this article, we carry out a four-part study of why and how those with acne work on their skin. In the first part, we engage extensively with the clinical literature and reflect critically on what it has to offer. In the second part, we present our notion of ‘skin work’ and how it allows for a consideration of how acne sufferers relate reflexively to the surface of their bodies. In the third part, we discuss our data – which consists of over 200 threads from the electronic support group acne.org – and how we approach it in order to better understand the everyday practices associated with working on the skin. Finally, in the fourth part, we discuss our findings by focusing on three prevalent types of skin work and how they both shape and are shaped by identity categories such as gender and sexuality.

scholarly journals LIBRARIES IN DAILY LIFE OF YENISEI PROVINCE TOWNSPEOPLE IN 1920s

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-757
Author(s):  
S. V. Bershadskaya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
The State ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Transformation Processes

The problems of transformation processes of the leisure sphere in the conditions of the new society formation on the example of the urban population of the Yenisei province in the 1920s are studied. During the study period, the everyday practices of people, including traditional forms of leisure activities, fell into the focus of attention and regulation of the state. The role and place of libraries in the diversification of leisure practices of citizens is revealed. The mechanisms of emergence of common leisure practices of townspeople, i.e. participation in the work of libraries, which possibilities the state tried to use most effectively in the formation of a new Soviet way of life, are considered. The role of local authorities, mass media, and the townspeople themselves in the formation of a new way of life is noted. The positive side of the changes in the leisure sphere of the urban population of the province is emphasized. The article is based on the text materials of the local periodical “Krasnoyarsk Worker” (Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy) for the understanding of the local situation in the conditions of the lack of personal origin materials; normative-legal acts and historical sources.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Religious Practices using Paradigm of Malayness in Burgess’ Beds in the East

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Nurhanis Sahiddan ◽  
Mardian Shah Omar . ◽  
Thaharah Hilaluddin .
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Six Elements

Burgess’ (1917-1993) trilogy of novels, The Malayan Trilogy (1964), is probably one of the most underestimated English literary texts on the Malay World. It has been suggested that the third novel of the trilogy, Beds in the East (1959), depicts the everyday practices of the Muslim Malay characters that go against their religion, Islam, through their conversations with other Muslim Malay characters and nonMuslim characters in the novel. In this study, I utilise one of the elements under the paradigm of Malayness in literature as proposed by Ida, which is Islam. According to this concept, the paradigm of Malayness consists of everyday-defined social realities, or the six elements, the Malay language, Islam, the Malay rulers, adat/culture, ethnicity and identity. From a close textual reading of the novel, my findings show that the Malay characters in the trilogy are portrayed as wayward Muslims in their beliefs and practices. It is hoped that these findings will contribute to the on-going study on Malay Muslims, discourse and the paradigm of Malayness in literature. These findings could also be utilised by foreign students in studying the Malay culture and the Malay language.

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