scholarly journals Language Practices and Performances of Identity of Young Adults Within Spaces of a Private University in Bangladesh

BELTA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Shaila Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Private University ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Education Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
Alternative Identities

This paper explores in what ways students from diverse education, demographic, and socio-economic backgrounds interpret spaces and locate themselves within a vertically built hi-tech cosmopolitan private university in Bangladesh. The data are drawn from an ethnographic study on a group of students in a private university in Bangladesh. The analysis of the data shows that the interpretation and realisation of university spaces of these students are relational and relative. These spaces are the site of exhilaration and excitement, on the one hand, and constant struggle, and resistance, on the other. They carry students’ enthusiasm of being part of the newer Western education movement in Bangladesh; they bear with their dreams, desires, and aspirations, not to mention, their conflicts and contradictions and struggles and anguishes; these are also the spaces where they engage in subversive activities and perform alternative identities. These spaces, with students’ individual and collective realisation, transform students while they are transformed too in the process. The paper concludes that the pro-English hi-tech university gives rise to alternative realities for students and these realities need to be understood critically and sympathetically.

Transglossic language practices

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaila Sultana
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The One

This paper contributes to a recent development in Applied Linguistics that encourages research from trans- approaches. Drawing on the results of an ethnographic research project carried out in a university of Bangladesh. It is illustrated how young adults actively and reflexively use a mixture of codes, modes, genres, and popular cultural texts in their language practices within the historical and spatial realities of their lives. The paper shows that the interpretive capacity of heteroglossia increases when complemented by an understanding derived from transgressive approaches to language. The paper proposes a reconceptualised version of heteroglossia, namely transglossia, which explores the fixity and fluidity of language in the 21th Century. On the one hand, transglossia is a theoretical framework that addresses the transcendence and transformation of meaning in heteroglossic voices. On the other hand, a transglossic framework untangles the social, historical, political, ideological, and spatial realities within which voices emerge. Overall, it is suggested that transglossia and a transglossic framework can provide us with an understanding of language that notions such as code-mixing or code-switching or any language-centric analysis fail to unveil.

scholarly journals Evangelical and Catholic Timespace in Work: An Argument against a Homeless Eschatology

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Maria Ledstam
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Business As Mission ◽  
Achievable Goal ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article engages with how religion and economy relate to each other in faith-based businesses. It also elaborates on a recurrent idea in theological literature that reflections on different visions of time can advance theological analyses of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. More specifically, this article brings results from an ethnographic study of two faith-based businesses into conversation with the ethicist Luke Bretherton’s presentation of different understandings of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism. Using Theodore Schatzki’s theory of timespace, the article examines how time and space are constituted in two small faith-based businesses that are part of the two networks Business as Mission (evangelical) and Economy of Communion (catholic) and how the different timespaces affect the religious-economic configurations in the two cases and with what moral implications. The overall findings suggest that the timespace in the Catholic business was characterized by struggling caused by a tension between certain ideals on how religion and economy should relate to each other on the one hand and how the practice evolved on the other hand. Furthermore, the timespace in the evangelical business was characterized by confidence, caused by the business having a rather distinct and achievable goal when it came to how they wanted to be different and how religion should relate to economy. There are, however, nuances and important resemblances between the cases that cannot be explained by the businesses’ confessional and theological affiliations. Rather, there seems to be something about the phenomenon of tension-filled and confident faith-based businesses that causes a drive in the practices towards the common good. After mapping the results of the empirical study, I discuss some contributions that I argue this study brings to Bretherton’s presentation of the relationship between Christianity and capitalism.

scholarly journals Contesting “Conversion” and “Reversion” among Young Adult Asian American Buddhists

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Chenxing Han
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This paper engages the perspectives of thirty young adult Asian American Buddhists (YAAABs) raised in non-Buddhist households. Grounded in semi-structured, one-on-one in-person and email interviews, my research reveals the family tensions and challenges of belonging faced by a group straddling multiple religious and cultural worlds. These young adults articulate their alienation from both predominantly white and predominantly Asian Buddhist communities in America. On the one hand, they express ambivalence over adopting the label of “convert” because of its Christian connotations as well as its associations with whiteness in the American Buddhist context. On the other hand, they lack the familiarity with Asian Buddhist cultures experienced by second- or multi-generation YAAABs who grew up in Buddhist families. In their nuanced responses to arguments that (1) American convert Buddhism is a non-Asian phenomenon, and (2) Asians in the West can only “revert” to Buddhism, these young adults assert the plurality and hybridity of their lived experiences as representative of all American Buddhists, rather than incidental characteristics of a fringe group within a white-dominated category.

Development and use of English evaluative expressions in narratives of Chinese–English bilinguals

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANG CHEN ◽  
RUIXIA YAN
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The One

This study compares the development and use of evaluative expressions in the English narratives elicited from 80 Chinese–English bilinguals and 80 American monolingual peers at four ages – five, eight, ten, and young adults – using the wordless picture book Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). Results revealed both similarities and differences between monolingual and bilingual groups. On the one hand, regardless of bilingual status, there is a clear age-related growth in the development and use of evaluative expressions. On the other hand, bilingual children in our study differed from monolingual children in the quantity and quality of evaluative clauses used. The results are discussed with respect to linguistic and cultural differences between English and Chinese.

scholarly journals Młodzież i młodzi dorośli wobec kryzysu indywidualnego – potrzeba wsparcia społecznego w rozwoju psychicznej niezależności (i dojrzałej tożsamości)

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-248
Author(s):  
Jolanta Suchodolska
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth And Young Adults ◽  
The One

The study refers to the problem of the presence of the crisis in psychosocial development of young people – adolescents and young adults. Both the youth and young adults go through numerous, naturally present in human development, moments of increased tension resulting from the appetite for independence and self-sufficiency. This seems to be a common feature for both groups; both adolescents and young adults experience the burden due to overlapping obligations and commitments made to oneself and to the world and which comes from the specific social roles they assume as well as the development – related tasks they perform. The challenges are taken up to find self-fulfillment in numerous new roles, to achieve ambitions of everyday life as well as the future ones. Not surprisingly, in this period a man is believed to be, on the one hand, exposed to the experience of crisis (relating to the search for oneself and one’s own place in life, in social relationships and professional life) and, on the other hand, a young adult most intensely makes its network of social support for further years. In the study, the author refers to the research in which young adults confirm the presence of the crises in their lives. They identify and name these crisis situations and formulate their expectations of the sources and forms of support in the crisis.

Convergence and de-convergence of Chinese journalistic practice in the digital age

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1380-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Li
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Convergence Model ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The existing literature broadly suggests that newsrooms are adapting to the media convergence world at the cost of traditional quality journalism. However, based on my ethnographic study of the Beijing News, I propose a convergence and de-convergence model of journalistic practice. The model explains how one Chinese newspaper preserves the legacy of critical journalism, on the one hand, while negotiating the challenges of adapting to the converging trends on the other. I argue that a well-established organizational culture and a working routine are crucial in the newspaper’s transformation, which makes it impossible to redesign the newsroom and redefine journalism with technology alone. Moreover, the article calls for a more nuanced understanding of the transformation of legacy media in the digital age, especially considering a non-Western context. I argue that the Chinese newspaper’s response to technological and economic impacts brought by the Internet is in fact mediated by political concerns.

scholarly journals Frontiers in Environmental Education: Philosophical Reflections on the Impact of Power Epistemology and Consumerist Pedagogy in Environmental Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Ronald S. Laura ◽  
Ting Liu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Educational Ideology ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Radical Shift

<p class="BodyA"><em>I</em><em>n this paper we argue that an educational ideology, based on an epistemology of power and consumerism, has become embedded within the structural foundations of Western Education. The combination of a power-based epistemology which informs curriculum design on the one hand, coupled with a consumerist educational ideology of universal commodification on the other, have served to provide the basis for a persuasive but pernicious philosophy of nature. Virtually every relationship we have with nature, and in turn with each other, is reduced to a saleable item for exchange. The radical shift in socio-cultural perspective which has resulted from what we call an </em><em>“ideo-epistemic pedagogy</em><em>” has been both monumental and inimical to the ostensible goals of environmental education. Motivated by an ideology in which knowledge is construed as a “form of power”, and linked to relentless economic consumption, contemporary environmental education will simply reproduce, albeit in beguilingly inferential ways, the same contextual dynamics of technological invasiveness and mindless expropriation of natural resources that continue to lead ineluctably, and almost imperceptibly to the decimation and degradation of nature.</em></p>

The Business of Homelessness

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Joe Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Organizational Growth ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Rather than the streets, the focus of this article will be upon other spaces in the city that homeless individuals occupy. Within a context of the purported punitive or revanchist city, the paper examines a seemingly more accommodating, social welfare response to homelessness—“spaces of care”—enacted by frontline workers who interact with homeless individuals in one mostly volunteer-run day center in Brighton, United Kingdom (Cloke et al, 2010: 10). The research focused on how the organization is financed because of a shift in model of funding—from a reliance on smaller donations to relationships with larger corporate organizations—and how this affected service provision. I surmise that funding from larger corporate organizations does not usually come with conditions, but what was found at the day center was that the presence of the funders created limitations on what the service could and could not do with its service-users. Drawing on the research carried out from an ethnographic study of a mostly volunteer-run homeless day center based in central Brighton. The focus of this article is on these funding relationships in order to assess the tensions organizations like the day center in Brighton face between, on the one hand, organizational growth and restructuring in order to provide good quality services, and the freedom for its frontline workers to outwardly contest the punitive measures that their service-users experience on the other.

scholarly journals Serviço Doméstico: elementos políticos de um campo desprovido de ilusões

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurema Brites
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The One ◽  
Female Occupation

Em um estudo etnográfico acerca do serviço doméstico, estudei elementos, aparentemente paradoxais, que dão sustentabilidade às relações da maior categoria ocupacional feminina no Brasil. Uma das questões que meu trabalho levantou foi o descompasso entre as análises acadêmicas e as perspectivas das empregadas domésticas quanto às relações de trabalho e a perspectiva política decorrente de tais leituras. As empregadas encontravam vantagens no serviço doméstico, inexistentes no mercado de trabalho formal. Estas coincidiam justamente com aqueles fatores que os pesquisadores da condição feminina consideram como as raízes da subordinação que o serviço doméstico acarreta: relações personalistas e clientelistas estruturadas na organização da família patriarcal. Procurando uma perspectiva, onde o ponto de vista das pessoas investigadas exista como plausibilidade lógica, busquei compreender como as relações clientelistas se reproduzem neste campo de forma mais adequada que as promessas aportadas pela democracia cidadã. Abstract In an ethnographic study on domestic workers (household maids), I studied several apparently paradoxical elements which underlie relationships involved in Brazil’s major female occupation. One important question which emerged from my research is the divergence between, on the one hand, most academic analyses and, on the other, domestic workers’ expectations as well as their political perspectives with regard to their work relations. The domestic workers found in their form of work advantages and bargaining space they did not encounter in the formal job market. Curiously, these advantages coincided to a great extent with those elements which feminist researchers generally point to when decrying the subordinate status of female domestic workers: personalistic and clientelistic relations embedded in the patriarchal family. Seeking to reveal the logical plausibility of my interviewees´ opinions, I propose to explore how, in this field, clientelistic relations are more readily accepted than the promises proffered by the democratic state to its citizens.

Men, prison and aspirational masculinities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Time

This chapter reflects on the findings from the author’s ethnographic study in a prison for adult males. The author’s focus is on the men’s changing visions and expectations of their futures as men, which she frames as ‘aspirational masculinities’. The experience of time in prison may encourage negative and aggressive forms of masculinity on the one hand, but does allow opportunity for reflection and a reappraisal of life priorities on the other. In particular, she highlights shifts over time in the ‘audiences’ that men consider important for the performance of their masculinity, reflecting changes in values, attachments and expectations of life and identities beyond the prison wall.

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