A Code of Our Own

2016 ◽  
pp. 191-204
Author(s):  
Mark Vicars
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Research Narrative

Queerly located inquiry can be disruptive and unsettling, jolting habitual perceptions of what can constitute a research narrative and narratives of research. Queer work conceptually contests and problematizes understandings of “I,” “We,” “Us” as an “internal, subjective or perceptual frame of reference” (Combs & Syngg, 1959, as cited in Nelson Jones, 2011) and in doing so destabilizes the concept of identity as a social and cultural category of belonging. Queer work has critically interrogated the performativity of sexuality in and across social life, rearticulating textual, historical, and rhetorical understandings of same sex expressions and representations (Allen & Rasmussen, 2015). This chapter draws on three queerly operationalized research projects that investigated same-sex sexualities, sexuality-related diversity, equality and inclusion in educational domains. In interpretation it works from the ontological and axiological and epistemological margins with the aim of “integrating rather than eliminating the inquirer from the inquiry” (Montuori, 2013, p. 46).

A Code of Our Own

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-178
Author(s):  
Mark Vicars
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Teachable Moments

Queerly-located inquiry can be disruptive and unsettling as it conceptually contests and problematizes understandings of ‘I', ‘We', ‘Us' as an internal, subjective, or perceptual frame of reference' (Rogers 1962). Queer work has critically interrogated the performativity of sexuality in and across social life rearticulating textual, historical, and rhetorical understandings of same-sex expressions and representations. This chapter draws on three queerly-operationalized research projects that investigated same-sex sexualities, sexuality-related diversity, equality, and inclusion in educational domains. The author suggests queerly-narrated research provides teachable moments in which doubt and uncertainty have the potential to be a transformative presence for the reconceptualization of scholarship.

Child Development, the Human Group, and Survival

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hamburg ◽  
Beatrix A. Hamburg
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Old World Monkeys ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Continuous Contact ◽  
Males And Females

In the past several decades, the study of the behavior of nonhuman primates—monkeys and apes—has made rapid progress. We can learn from the dimly perceived past when our ancestors confronted the problems of survival without the sophisticated technological aids so inextricably linked to human adaptation in recent times. Our past is inaccessible to direct study. But by careful observation of our closest living relatives, monkeys and apes, we can begin to understand the nonhuman primate heritage from which our ancient ancestors took a long route over millions of years toward humanity. Nonhuman primates live in groups that are held together by strong and enduring bonds between individuals. These bonds may be reflected in a variety of ways: relationships between adult males and females, between adults of the same sex, between juveniles, and between adult males or females and their young. Altogether, in their natural habitats they have a rich social life. Compared with most other mammals, primates have fewer young at a time. Rather than litters, all Old World monkeys and apes have only one offspring at a time, and they give each one a great deal of attention. The young have longer periods of immaturity than other mammals, including prolonged nutritional dependence on the mother. A corollary of the prolonged physical immaturity and nutritional dependence of the primate infant is a longer and more intense mother- infant relationship and a longer period of tutelage and learning the customs and survival skills of the group. In all higher primates except humans, infants cling reflexively to their mothers from birth, and mother-infant contact is maintained virtually all of the time until the much older infant develops the ability to keep up with the mother on its own. Nursing occurs in many short bouts around the clock; in early infancy, it is initiated and terminated by the infant, an easy process, because the infant is always clinging to the mother’s body, anyway. This combination of clinging, carrying, continuous contact, and frequent nursing is characteristic of all higher nonhuman primates.

La pratique dans le cadre des modèles pastoraux

1983 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martien van Hemert
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
First Communion

In the preceeding article Leo Spruit outlined three pastoral models. In this article some results are presented of four research- projects in catholic parishes. The three pastoral models are the frame of reference. These projects investigated the three initial sacraments (baptism, first communion, confirmation) and the motivation of catholic parents who have their children baptized.

Folklore, Anthropology, and the Government of Social Life

1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uli Linke
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Government

Despite the enormous diversity of research within the anthropological tradition, a common unifying theme has been the “reach into otherness” (Burridge 1973:6), the venture of discovering humanity through the exploration of other cultures. From the inception of anthropology as a distinct domain of knowledge, this ethnographic curiosity has been staged within a comparative frame of reference (Hymes 1974). Early inquiries into different customs and social forms were based on the writings of European travelers, whose observations about people in distant lands provided the narrative material for constructing a plausible vision of their own world. Initially, insights into the workings of society remained implicit, hidden beneath the projected images of “otherness.” By the second half of the eighteenth century, these encounters with the unfamiliar through travel and commerce had begun to generate a conscious desire for societal self-knowledge among Europeans. The haphazard collection of ethnographic information was gradually transformed into a reflective methodology.

scholarly journals The Material Presence of Absence: A Dialogue between Museums and Cemeteries

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Meyer ◽  
Kate Woodthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Dead

This is an exploratory paper that aims to stimulate a dialogue between those interested in two particular spaces in society: the museum and the cemetery. Using empirical evidence from two research projects, the paper considers similarities and differences between the two sites, which are further explored through theoretical ideas about the social life of things and the agency of absence. Examining the materiality of these spaces, the paper addresses the role of objects in these two spaces and their respective associations with death, either through the dead themselves or the representation of those who have once lived. In particular, it explores the ‘presence of absence’ through three key points: its spatiality, its materiality, and its agency. Museums and cemeteries are, in this sense, directly comparable, as both spaces are shaped by and built upon the practice of making the absent present. Called ‘heterotopic’ by Foucault (1986) in that they are layered with multiple meanings, this paper will also argue for an understanding of museums and cemeteries as being able to transcend absence. Underpinning this is the belief that there remains much scope for future connections to be made between these two sites, theoretically, politically and practically.

scholarly journals FAMÍLIA, HOMOSSEXUALIDADE E CONSERVADORISMO: discursos no Congresso Nacional brasileiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 366
Author(s):  
Claudio Henrique Miranda Horst
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Civil Marriage ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Pass Through

O artigo analisa os discursos que atravessam os projetos de lei no Congresso Nacional, que propõem regulamentar a união civil/casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo buscando identificar as características que esses discursos assumem. Pesquisa documental envolvendo sete projetos de lei que foram propostos entre 1995-2013. As defesas expressaram hegemonicamente a negação da totalidade da vida social, ocultando as determinações sociais, econômicas, políticas e culturais, advindas do modo de produção que afetam as famílias, atribuindo às famílias homoparentais a “culpa” por uma suposta “crise” ou “desestruturação” da família nuclear. Defendem uma concepção de família patriarcal, justificada pelo desejo de procriação, tido como natural e constituído apenas entre homens e mulheres.Palavras-chave: Família. Congresso Nacional Brasileiro. Família homoparental.FAMILY, HOMOSEXUALITY AND CONSERVATISM: discourses at the Brazilian National CongressAbstractThis article analyses discourses that pass through bills of law on the National Congress, proposing the regulation of civil/marriage union/partnership between people of the same sex, aiming to identify the characteristics assumed by thosediscourses. Documental research evolving seven bills of law that were issued between 1995-2013. Their pleads have expressed mostly the denial of totality of social life, hiding social, economic, political and cultural determinations originated from capitalism, that affect families, and attributing to homoparental families the “blame” for a supposed “crisis” or “restructuring” of families. They’ve defended a concept of patriarchal family, justified by the desire of procreation, conceived as natural and constituted only of men and womenKeywords: Family. Brazilian National Congress. Homoparental family.

scholarly journals Islam, gay, and marginalization: a study on the religious behaviours of gays in Yogyakarta

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Koeswinarno Koeswinarno ◽  
Mutolehudin Mustolehudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Marriage Ceremony ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Gay Communities ◽  
Religious Aspects

0px; "> Man does not intend to be born gay, whose existence is not welcomed in the society including within his spiritual religious expressions. In Wonosobo, in the year of 2016, a marriage ceremony almost happened between a male and a male. This phenomenon is interesting to be studied in detail. In a specific way, this article uncovers the religious behaviours of gays in Yogyakarta. Usingan anthropological approach, the researchers were directly involved in the subjects’ lives in the social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects. In texts, same-sex relationships were found in the narratives of Prophet Luth written in the Al-Quran books Al-A’raf verse 81, Al-Shu’ara’ verses 165-166, An-Nisa verse 16, and Hud verses 77-83. These verses are used as the basis for rejecting homosexuality. From the social life happening in Yogyakarta there arise conflicts between the gays and their families so that they run away from their families to join gay communities and form economic and even religious groups.Furthermore, in their citizenship status, there is marginalization or administrative abuse for their identities in the identification card.Manusia tidak berniat untuk dilahirkan sebagai gay, yang keberadaannya tidak disambut baik di masyarakat termasuk dalam ungkapan spiritualnya. Di Wonosobo, pada tahun 2016, sebuah upacara pernikahan hampir terjadi antara sesama jenis lelaki. Fenomena ini menarik untuk dikaji secara detail. Artikel ini mengungkap perilaku religius kaum gay di Yogyakarta. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan antropologis, peneliti secara langsung terlibat dalam kehidupan subyekdalam aspek sosial, ekonomi, budaya, dan agama. Dalam teks, hubungan sesama jenis ditemukan dalam narasi Nabi Luth yang ditulis dalam buku Al-Quran AlA’raf ayat 81, ayat Al-Shu’ara 165-166, An-Nisa ayat 16, dan ayat-ayat Hud 77- 83. Ayat-ayat ini digunakan sebagai dasar untuk menolak homoseksualitas. Dalam kehidupan sosial di Yogyakarta, timbul konflik antara kaum gay dan keluarga mereka. Konflik ini membuat mereka melarikan diri dari keluarga dan bergabung dengan komunitas gay dan membentuk kelompok ekonomi dan bahkan kelompok keagamaan. Dalam status kewarganegaraan, mereka mengalami marginalisasi atau penyalahgunaan administratif dalam kartu identitas mereka.

Outing Biology: Finding a Place for the Natural Sciences in Queer Discourses

INvoke ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Marlow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Fluidity ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
The Relationship

This paper critically responds to Stacy Alaimo’s “Eluding Capture: The Science, Culture and Pleasure of Queer Animals” (2010), from Queer Ecologies by Bruce Erickson and Catrina Mortimer-Sandilands. Here, I focus on how the author addresses the relationship between social sciences and natural sciences, how social structures impact the ways in which we understand and interpret scientific data, and how she suggests we embrace the concept of “Naturecultures” in order to move forward in recognizing that heteronormative accounts of life, while dominant, are not the only possible lenses through which nature and sex can/should be seen. I explore Alaimo’s arguments against various different accounts of “same-sex” sexual activity in nature, whilst also reiterating that she does not wish to use animal sex as a form of validation for the LGBTQ+ community, reducing its mere existance to that of biological essentialism and erasing any possible discussions of gender/sexual fluidity by doing so. Instead, she cleverly uses rhetoric regarding animal sex and their perceived sexuality to expose the intrinsic heteronormativity that permeates even the supposedly “empirical” biological sciences, whilst bringing forward what I perceive as a very valuable discussion regarding how social life influences biological life, as opposed to the other way around.  Keywords: naturecultures, biopolitics, sexuality, queer

Shakespeare. Same Sex. Marriage

2016 ◽  
pp. 250-268
Author(s):  
Julie Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
The Relationship

‘Shakespeare. Same-sex. Marriage.’ looks at the relationship between feminist and gay and lesbian criticism of Shakespeare over the last three decades, particularly as it concerns the relationship between same-sex relations and marriage and the family. It examines this relationship both in the context of contemporary historiography—how historians have conceived of marriage and the family in Shakespeare’s lifetime—and contemporary feminist and gay/lesbian and queer politics—how scholars have seen marriage as the antithesis of homosexuality, and, more recently as its happy apotheosis. Throughout, the essay focuses on marriage’s surprisingly stable role not only as the central organizing principle of social life, but as the terminus for most forms of gender and sexual freedom.

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