scholarly journals Everyday life of the railway construction in the North of Russia: building of the Murmansk highway and changes in the revolutionary 1917

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2021) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Dubrovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Strain Condition ◽  
Social Strain ◽  
Railway Construction ◽  
The North ◽  
Chinese Workers

Based on archive materials and published sources the paper studies the questions of railway builders' every-day life during the construction of the Murmansk railway as well as in 1917, the period of revolutionary changes. The author suggests aspects of transformation of some social values, which provoked social strain condition and strengthened old psychological stereotypes at the same time. The study shows such daily structures as human being attitude to surrounding world’s belongings, relationship with other people and social mood. The railway builders, who have become unwilling settlers in the North of Russia, felt polycultural character of the region they found themselves together with thousands of other working migrants to Karelia and Kola North. Increasing of ethnic criminality connected with arriving of Chinese workers is identified as one of the factors, which made every-day life of construction workers and office- workers unstable.

scholarly journals Reducing Substance Use and Improving Mental Health Among Construction Workers: An Interview With Chris Trahan Cain

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110301
Author(s):  
Alando Hall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Building Trades ◽  
The North ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Prevention Methods

Construction workers, their unions, and the construction industry face important challenges in addressing substance use disorders and mental health issues. To examine these issues further, we spoke with Chris Trahan Cain, Executive Director of CPWR—The Center for Construction Research and Training, a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with North America’s Building Trades Unions and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. As the chair of the North America’s Building Trades Unions opioid task force, she has been working with construction unions and employers to develop primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods to help combat the opioid epidemic, other substance use disorders and to improve worker mental health.

Humans, Heroes and Artists: (Re)Creating the Unexpected Situation

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Coessens
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Music Improvisation ◽  
Time Experience ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Urgent Action

Life is difficult, never the same, always challenging acquired patterns of behavior and expectation, urging the human being to improvise. Improvisatory acts in everyday life are the result of unexpected situations, where the encounter between self and environment suddenly disrupts the banal rituals of life. Over time, experience and knowledge enhance ways to cope with unexpectedness, and to 'improvise' better, or even 'less.' In music, improvisation is often a situation of choice. The unexpected situation is created, set up, purposively leading to an improvisatory encounter between body and environment. The musician knows he/she will 'improvise' the next hour. But it can also resemble life, by way of sudden unexpected moments which the musician still did not 'set up.' Experience and expertise enhance the fluidity of improvisational acts in the arts. This paper seeks to explore these tensions between improvisation in everyday life and in arts: between 'urgent action' and 'play,' between determined and created situations. It will be argued that the shift is not radical, and the tensions but a matter of degree. The 'artification' of improvisation originates in everyday life by play, tactics (de Certeau) and experience (Dewey) and reaches an aesthetic and ethic level of kairos (Aristotle) in art, exploring actions of choice and risking failure by (re)creating unexpectedness. The artist, like the human being in life, but now from his/her own free choice, is challenged to leave security and encounter the unexpected. But isn't that also the quest of the hero?

Enslavement and Everyday Life: Living with Slave Raiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott MacEachern
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Social Proximity ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Economic Process

The northern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon have been a focus of slave raiding for the past five centuries, according to historical sources. Some captives from the area were enslaved locally, primarily in Wandala and Fulbe communities, while others were exported to Sahelian polities or further abroad. This chapter examines ethnohistorical and archaeological data on nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave raiding, derived from research in montagnard communities along the north-eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon. Enslavement and slave raiding existed within larger structures of day-to-day practice in the region, and were closely tied to ideas about sociality, social proximity and violence. Through the mid-1980s at least, enslavement in the region was understood as a still-relevant political and economic process, with its chief material consequence the intensely domesticated Mandara landscape.

Afghanistan

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Anthony Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Soviet Invasion ◽  
The Church

With Turkic and Tajik peoples to the north, Tajiks and Pashtuns in the west, ethnic Hazaras in the central highlands and the Pashtuns to the south and east, Afghanistan’s diversity stems from its history as a regional crossroads. Christianity began in Afghanistan in the fourth century and was later revived by missionaries in the frontier areas, but there was little concerted effort to spread the faith until after 1945, when the Pashtun monarchy sought to modernise Afghanistan. However, the Soviet invasion prompted fighters to repel the forces under the banner of Islam. Amidst a civil war, Christian NGO’s continued until expelled by the Taliban in 2001. The new government allowed Christian NGO’s to expand into new areas of the country. For the sake of believers’ security the most visible fellowships have been limited to foreigners. Most find it difficult to sustain everyday life in the country while openly professing Christianity due to ostracism from society. While Islam has been linked with Afghan identity, worldview has begun to change. Unfortunately, there has been an exodus of Afghan believers, usually after social and legal ostracism. Nevertheless, due to sacrifices by Afghan believers, the church is growing in numbers despite all the challenges.

scholarly journals Creativity in Everyday Literacy Practices: The contribution of an ethnographic approach

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Tusting ◽  
Uta Papen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Community Based ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Ethnographic Approach

In this article we explore creativity in everyday literacies. We arguethat much creativity can be found in the seemingly mundane and repetitiveacts of text production and text use that are part of everyday life and work.Such creativity can only be identified, however, if we look beyond the textsthemselves and examine the practices of making and engaging with texts.Once we leave aside conventional text-based notions of creativity, whichfocus on aesthetic features of language, we can understand creativity as a‘popular’ and ‘ubiquitous’ event. To support our argument, we giveexamples from two different contexts: research on literacy in a parishcommunity in the North-West of England and a study of literacy in relationto community-based tourism in Namibia.

Everyday Life of the North American Indian

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
Ronald N. Satz ◽  
Jon Manchip White
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Indian

Four Burials from the Coeur d'Alene Region, Idaho

1954 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-390
Author(s):  
Tom O. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Junior College ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Coeur D'alene ◽  
The North ◽  
Position And Orientation ◽  
As If

This is a report of four burials recovered from the Coeur d'Alene area, Kootenai County, north Idaho, in minor salvage operations.lOKtl (b-1). During the fall of 1949 construction workers on the North Idaho Junior College campus in Coeur d'Alene unearthed one burial. Workmen turned over the skull and longbones and a large iron blade into a box, to the Junior College. There was some green patination on the back of the skull, as if it had been in contact with copper. The blade or point measured 13.6 in. by 2.9 in., and was slightly under 0.3 in. in thickness. It is reported to be a type common in the trade material in the Plateau. Position and orientation are not known.Roselake Burial. In the spring of 1950 a retired resident of Roselake, Idaho, discovered a skull and some longbones weathered or scraped out of the bank of thfe Coeur d'Alene River, at Roselake.

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