The Politics of Illegality: Mumbai Hawkers, Public Space and the Everyday Life of the Law

2012 ◽  
pp. 91-108
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Law

Street Performance and the City

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
The City

This article examines the performative transformation of street spaces into performance places by considering the practices of street performers. Street performance here refers to a set of practices whereby either musical or nonmusical performances are undertaken in the street with the aim of eliciting donations from passersby. Drawing on ethnographic observations undertaken in Bath, U.K., and situating the discussion in recent conceptions of everyday life and public space, the specific sociospatial interventions that street performances make into Bath’s everyday life are considered. In doing so, the article focuses on the fleeting social relations that emerge from these interventions and what these can do to the experience of the everyday in terms of producing moments of sociality and conviviality. This is also reflected on in light of the various debates that have occurred in Bath as a result of these interventions relating to the increased regulation of street performances. The article then highlights the conflicted and contentious position that street performers occupy in the everyday life of such cities.

Commemoration and the New Frontiers of War in Ukraine

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
Catherine Wanner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
The Dead

The war in eastern Ukraine continues to produce casualties and an ever growing number of refugees and displaced persons every day. When urban public space is dedicated to commemorating the dead who have died since the Maidan protests, the frontiers of war become inscribed in the urban landscape and in the everyday life of many Ukrainians. These commemorative spaces are an unrelenting reminder of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine that threatens to remake political borders once again. Commemorative practices articulate new understandings of relatedness as symbolic statements that, once inscribed in public space, have the potential to affect the thinking of locals and far outlive the actual armed conflict that produced them.

scholarly journals Everyday incivility and the urban interaction order

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mervyn Horgan
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Interaction Order ◽  
Moral Dimensions

Abstract Treating uncivil encounters as breaches of the ritual contract of civil inattention (Goffman 1963), this article connects ritualized interaction between strangers in everyday life and the production and maintenance of moral order more generally. The ongoing enactment of the ritual of civil inattention maintains and characterizes the particular kind of moral order that strangers collectively produce in urban public spaces. Drawing on select empirical materials – from unsolicited commentary to queue-jumping – gathered under the auspices of the Researching Incivility in Everyday Life (RIEL) Project this article builds upon the ‘everyday incivilities’ approach pioneered by Smith, Phillips and King (2010) to examine moral dimensions of everyday encounters between strangers. Preliminary analysis of the RIEL data indicates that ritual dimensions of interaction between strangers in public space provide interactants with moral affordances, that is, opportunities to align themselves with an idealized moral order through projective moral action.

Impossible Migrants

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-532
Author(s):  
Svati P. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Field Level ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Law

In the wake of the twinned specters of authoritarianism and antidemocratic governance that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns in India have both exacerbated and facilitated, the author argues that scholarship on sex work deployed through a critique of labor will be pressed to rethink its analytic focus on the law. Instead, the author argues for a field-level focus built around both the everyday life of surviving sex work in the informal economy and the understanding that enforcement of the law regularly diverges from the letter of the law itself. Unless it accounts for prevailing epistemic conditions, new critical work on sex work as a labor strategy may afford opportunities to be taken up in support of reductive narratives of sex work, built around the trope of injury. The consequences of not addressing the conditions of the production of our critiques will be the continued erasure of sex workers as migrant workers and as economic agents. In the post-COVID-19 world, these critiques will be stressed even further, as the informal sector expands along with uneven policing, and as sex work continues to serve as a measure of security for some, against a backdrop of extreme and intensifying precarity.

scholarly journals Caviar and Friendship: Sensational Trials and the Reinvention of Public Space

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-70
Author(s):  
Nicola Evans
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Continuous Use

Sensational trials are a venue for the performance of social knowledge—the kind of knowledge that does not regularly make an appearance on the front pages of national newspapers. if sensational trials routinely catapult private matters into the public sphere, it is less such exciting revelations that concern me here, than the dross kicked up in their wake. Sensational trials, I contend, are a point of entry into everyday life, that far more elusive zone of ordinary beliefs and practices situated between the institution and the bedroom, in the interstices of the scripted and chronicled domains of private and public life. To address the everyday is to confront those undocumented procedures and forms of knowledge that exist beyond the realm of official discourse, practices that cultural theorists are increasingly eager to explore and increasingly sceptical of finding. As Barry Sandywell recently observed, ‘Like the omnipollent term “community”, “everyday life” is in continuous use within lay and theoretical discourse and yet continuously evades definition. Perhaps ... we should ask “where is everyday life”?’ This paper argues that one answer to this question lies in the study of sensational trials.

scholarly journals The Every Day Work of Studying the Law in Everyday Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan S. Silbey
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Academic Training ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Regulatory Enforcement ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Management School ◽  
The Law ◽  
Theoretical Inference

Susan Silbey began her academic training in political science and in the course of her studies became a sociologist of law, the last two decades as a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's anthropology department and management school. The disciplinary transformations ground, in part, her attention to the ways in which the everyday life of scholarship has led her to study the everyday life of the law. In this article, she describes her scholarly life through seven chapters of relatively distinct challenges and themes. Across the arc of her life, she identifies the recurrent influence of both serendipity and theoretical inference acting within the immediate constraints of family and personal capacity. Reading across descriptions of her work on regulatory enforcement, dispute negotiation and mediation, and popular legal culture and consciousness, she points to the necessity of reconciling on-the-ground vicissitudes of doing legal work with the theories and narratives social scientists construct to make sense of institutions and history. She muses on theoretical attempts to align the particular and the general, the micro and macro forces working in legal cultures, and concludes by celebrating the ubiquity of social ordering whose own momentum both seduces and frustrates social scientists.

scholarly journals The Use of Community Greenways: A Case Study on A Linear Greenway Space in High Dense Residential Areas, Guangzhou

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxiu Chi ◽  
Guangsi Lin
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Urban Open Space ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Impact

The community greenway is a kind of greenway that goes through high-density residential areas in the city and is closely related to residents’ life. However, few scholars focus on how this type of greenways serves the everyday life of the community as an integrated resource. This aspect is important because the everyday life in the public space involves multiple activities. How to coordinate and satisfy these activities relates to the benefits of community greenways. Therefore, this paper takes a representative community greenway in Haizhu District of Guangzhou as an example, to study whether community greenways match the needs of necessary activities, optional activities and social activities. The usage patterns, the evaluation of the current status, the impact on everyday activities, and the importance of different construction factors were surveyed. The applied methods include site observation, questionnaires and interviews. The results show that more than 90% of users are from communities within 1 mile from the community greenway. More than half of the users (55%) are satisfied with the community greenways. Furthermore, the community greenways benefit the everyday activities of residents, such as transportation, recreation, social interaction and also other minor but important everyday activities. However, from the perspective of residents’ requirements for construction factors, the status of service facilities needs to be improved. The characteristics, overall benefits, and construction implications of community greenways are therefore discussed. Community greenways can be important open space for residents and this paper is significant on community greenways meeting the needs of residents’ everyday activities, thus, to provide a better community living environment and to build a better urban open space system.

scholarly journals Comércio de rua e requalificação de espaços públicos em Salvador-BA: uma agenda de pesquisa/Street trade and requalification of public spaces in Salvador-BA: a research agenda

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Angelo Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMOPretende-se, nesse artigo, analisar a relação entre comércio de rua e processos de requalificação do espaço público, a partir de uma abordagem geográfica do problema, buscando-se delinear as táticas e estratégias dos agentes envolvidos e suas trajetórias e práticas no cotidiano da metrópole. Busca-se também traçar um panorama preliminar dos contextos conjunturais dos embates relativos aos comerciantes e prestadores de serviço de rua, frente às ações dos agentes hegemônicos de produção do espaço metropolitano e aos processos de requalificação/refuncionalização dos espaços públicos na Capital baiana, a partir do final dos anos 1990 até os dias atuais.Palavras-chave: comércio de rua; serviços de rua; espaço público; requalificação; territorialização; metrópole. ABSTRACTThe aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between street trade and requalification processes in public spaces based on a geographical approach to the problem. It is intended to pursue and, therefore, make explicit the tactics and strategies of the agents involved in those projects and their trajectories and practices in the everyday life of the metropolis. We hope to outline the conjunctural contexts of the existing conflicts too, which are related to street traders and service providers, as opposed to the actions of the hegemonic agents of production of the metropolitan space and to the processes of requalification/refunctionalization of public spaces in the capital of Bahia state - Salvador, from the late 1990s to the present day.Keywords: street trade; street services; public space; requalification; territorialization; metropolis.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood events and the visibilisation of everyday life: The cases of Turro (Milan) and Norra Fäladen (Lund)

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastiano Citroni ◽  
Mattias Karrholm
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
City District ◽  
Public Character ◽  
Comparative Ethnography

While scholars agree on the reasons behind the current proliferation of urban, small-scale, pre-organised events, the implication of these events for public life is more controversial, and involves polarised debates between enthusiasts and critics. This paper develops an international comparison between one city district in Milan (Italy) and one in Lund (Sweden), in order to explore how the variety of events that took place there between 2013 and 2015 possibly affected the local and on-going everyday public life. In both cases, the observed events aimed to de-stigmatise the broader urban districts in which they were staged, as well as to enhance a vibrant urban life in relatively disadvantaged areas. In the study, we identify three different ways in which these events make the public character of everyday life visible, and even redefine patterns of urban civility. The main argument deriving from our comparative ethnography is that the salience of events in the everyday life that they supposedly disrupt can be analytically addressed by developing a pragmatist approach to public space, discussing it in terms of territorial complexity.

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