Equality and Difference Queering Guyane?

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Bill Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Class Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Reality

This chapter begins by presenting the role of Christiane Taubira in defending and promoting the 'mariage pour tous' legislation in France, including the references made to the work of Léon Gontron-Damas. This is then linked to two conceptual signposts: firstly, Tzvetan Todrov's La Conquête de l’Amérique (1982) and his exploration of 'the two elementary figures of alterity'; and secondly, Didier Eribon's Une Morale du minoritaire (2001), which makes links between the social processes of inferiorisation inherent to class society, colonialism, and homophobia. This conceptual section will then be followed by an analysis of Caribbean sexualities, and their theorisations, in relation to the specificities of Guyane, including the racial and sexual inversions associated with the period of the penal colony. Positing an active queerING in this context – with the emphasis on the process - and its capacity creatively to build on the anomalies of Guyane's history and contemporary reality, the article ends by looking at recent fiction that exemplifies this process.

scholarly journals El concepto de Pertenencia (Belonging) como marco analítico para la investigación sobre la juventud de origen inmigrante

2017 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Concepción Maiztegui ◽  
Esther Aretxabala ◽  
Aitor Ibarrola ◽  
Pedro J. Oiarzabal
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social

<p>This article describes and explores an analytical framework based on the concept of belonging, which, in turn, takes into consideration the personal, social, and performative dimensions of the integration process of young migrants. The concept of belonging is becoming one of the central pillars in current research on migration and integration, since it allows us to look into the subjective experiences of individuals and into the social environments that have an impact on the daily lives and give shape to the identity frameworks of young migrants. Approaches based on this concept also take into account the role of participation in social processes.</p><p><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2017</p>

scholarly journals On the specificity of the worldview of Erzya and Moksha matrimonial myths

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Elena Sharonova ◽  
Aleksandr Markovich Sharonov
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Class Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Context ◽  
Family Based

Mythology is the form of consciousness of the primitive and early class society, which reproduces the views of a human on cosmos, God, and society. The object of this research is Erzya and Moksha myths on matrimonial relations. The subject of this research is the specificity of the worldview of Erzya and Moksha myths founded on the matrimonial relations. Detailed analysis is conducted on the specificity of reflection of philosophical and sociological motifs in the Erzya and Moksha matrimonial myths that emerged in the context of formation of the patriarchal family based on the social, moral and legal norms of existence. The author also explores the uniqueness of matrimonial relations with deities and people. Which gives a conceptual perspective on the type and character of the ethnic family, and the role of family in human life. The conclusion is made that stating a family by deities and people is a continuation of creation of the world in the sphere of family and social life. The author&rsquo;s special contribution to this research consists in the proof that the presence of the indicated aspect in the myth is the reflection of the naive idealistic ideas and spontaneous materialistic views; substantiation of the high humanistic status of a woman in family life; designation of the heroic traits given to a woman by birth as fundamental; comprehension of matrimonial relations between deities and people through the prism of co-creation. This article is first to analyze the peculiarities of the worldview of matrimonial myths and introducing it into the scientific context, which defines its novelty.

Role of Infrastructure Development to Empower Women

2018 ◽  
pp. 906-924
Author(s):  
Indrani Basu
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
The Other ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Actual Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
Infrastructure Services

A modern economy is market focused. It is held that when a woman becomes a participant in the market on her own term as a rational economic agent she is empowered in an economic sense. It does not take into account the other spectrums of empowerment viz. gender political, cultural and like. A nation's infrastructure provides the basic scaffolding for development. The differences in how men and women use infrastructure services have important implications for sector policies, investment priorities, and program designs. This chapter will analyse how the infrastructure development programme as an economic process assist women to enhance capability of them within society and how its actual impact is mutually constituted by other non-economic social processes and make it an over determined matter. Our study has shown that adequate access of the social infrastructure services has fetched benefits for women and ensures empowerment of women.

scholarly journals Elementos y obstáculos a tomar en cuenta en la conceptuación y apropiación de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos / Elements and Obstacles to Be Taken into Account in the Conceptualization and Appropriation of Sexual and Reproductive Rights

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Ortiz-Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Social Legitimacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Rights

El presente artículo ubica el concepto de derechos sexuales en el ámbito de las ciencias políticas, y muestra el papel que diversos actores y procesos sociales han tenido en la evolución del concepto, que aún lucha por ganar legitimidad social. Se evidencia cómo los derechos sexuales pertenecen al terreno de la ética, el derecho y el ejercicio de la ciudadanía, en contraste con la perspectiva de las religiones ortodoxas que no consideran que la sexualidad sea terreno del derecho sino de la naturalidad. Frente a dicha perspectiva se enfatiza el papel de los movimientos sociales y de las conferencias de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para facilitar la construcción de discursos. Finalmente el artículo ofrece una evaluación de la apropiación de los derechos sexuales por mujeres en el México contemporáneo. AbstractThe article places the concept of sexual rights within the sphere of the social sciences. It shows the role of various actors and social processes in the evolution of a concept that it is still struggling to gain social legitimacy. It shows how sexual rights belong to the sphere of ethics, law and the exercise of citizenship as opposed to the view of orthodox religions, which consider that sexuality belongs to the sphere of nature rather than law. The author contrasts the religious position with the role of social movements and the United Nations Conference in facilitating the construction of discourse. Finally, the article ends by offering an evaluation of the appropriation of sexual rights by women in contemporary Mexico.

scholarly journals (Circular) Path Dependence—The Role of Vineyards in Land Use, Society and Regional Development—The Case of Lubuskie Region (Poland)

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 8425
Author(s):  
Pamela Jeziorska-Biel ◽  
Katarzyna Leśniewska-Napierała ◽  
Konrad Czapiewski
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Circular Path ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Level

The main goals of the article are: (a) presentation of the wine traditions of the region in the context of the concept of path dependence and wastescapes, as well as their impact on the spatial, social and promotional aspect of wine making; (b) identification and characteristics of the vineyards in Lubuskie Region in 2021; and (c) linking wine traditions with creating the identity of the region and implementing activities supporting its development. A case study was performed in accordance with the triangulation of research methods and techniques: (1) analysis of existing data and relating them to the activities of vineyards; (2) covert participant observation technique; and (3) qualitative field interviews with vineyard owners or managers. The vineyards of the Lubuskie Region are an important tourist attraction and local wines enrich the local food offers. However, the scale of production, still being rather small, comes with higher costs of obtaining the final product. At the social level, wine-growing activity presents a great deal of value and importance, and appears to be a reflection of positive endeavours. Wine making in the region is a complex example of contemporary cultural and social processes that are only just beginning to be observed in area.

scholarly journals Counter Class and Counter Identity: Confrontations of Power in Tony Harrison's Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Younes Poorghorban
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Class Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Struggles ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

Tony Harrison is a contemporary British author whose poetry is highly influential in encountering the issue of identity and class struggles. As a working-class student, Harrison was subject to prejudice and discrimination for his working-class accent. This paper investigates two of his highly admired poems, “On Not Being Milton” and “Them & uz” from a cultural standpoint, mainly concentrated on John Fiske’s theory of power and language. The role of language in the context of his poems is probed. The multiaccentuality of language is represented in his poetry and these two poems become the site of struggle for the imperialising and the localising power. It is intended to illuminate the sought space of identity which Harrison is constantly referring to as a member of the English working-class society. Lastly, the social and personal relationship between Harrison and Milton has been explored positing Harrison in a transcendental context in his relationship with Milton.

scholarly journals A social subject’s identity in everydayness: a reflection on waldenfels’s legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03047
Author(s):  
Tatiana Fanenshtil ◽  
Olga Ivenkova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

Bernhard Waldenfels formulates the concept of everydayness as a “crucible of rationality”, in which everydayness is viewed as a social boundary and non-reflective social background of the subject’s interactions with the world of social reality. We explore the potential of everydayness in the detection of the identity of a social subject and rethink Waldenfels’s concept of everydayness. The research method is a phenomenological analysis. In everyday activities of the subject, structures of the humanity’s material culture are replicated and changed. The role of everydayness is growing in the modern world, along with the subjective role of a particular individual. The identification of the social subject in everydayness occurs at the level of natural and social corporeality, which is provided by the heuristics of the adaptive response to the transformation of social processes in the context of the subject’s everyday interactions. Everydayness is represented as constituent and constructive modes of the social being of the subject.

Role of Infrastructure Development to Empower Women

2017 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Indrani Basu
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
The Other ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Actual Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
Infrastructure Services

A modern economy is market focused. It is held that when a woman becomes a participant in the market on her own term as a rational economic agent she is empowered in an economic sense. It does not take into account the other spectrums of empowerment viz. gender political, cultural and like. A nation's infrastructure provides the basic scaffolding for development. The differences in how men and women use infrastructure services have important implications for sector policies, investment priorities, and program designs. This chapter will analyse how the infrastructure development programme as an economic process assist women to enhance capability of them within society and how its actual impact is mutually constituted by other non-economic social processes and make it an over determined matter. Our study has shown that adequate access of the social infrastructure services has fetched benefits for women and ensures empowerment of women.

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