The influence of gender and ethnicity in the creation of social space amongst women in rural Sri Lanka

2015 ◽  
pp. 407-412
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Creation

Creating effective illustrations for pictorial assembly instructions

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schumacher
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Assembly Instructions ◽  
The Creation

Pictorial assembly instructions are a common element of many consumer products however there is very little research published about their design, particularly regarding the creation of effective illustrations. This paper reviews published work that offers best practice guidelines for the design of pictorial assembly instructions. The application of the guidelines is discussed in the context of a project to design assembly instructions for a flat pack wheelchair for distribution in developing countries. The paper will present findings from diagnostic testing with users in Sri Lanka.

Religion, nationalism, and gender: Perspective from South Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 205789111989852
Author(s):  
Nandini Deo
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
British Colonies

Religious mobilization often takes the form of engagement with “the woman question”: how should women as carriers of culture comport themselves? This article shows that many of the debates over the role of women and religion in South Asia are misunderstood when they are seen as instances of religious fundamentalism. Rather, the theoretical framework to make sense of public religion and gender debates should be through the lens of postcolonial nationalism. The creation and consolidation of the nation is what is at stake—not the creation of the religious community as such. In order to make this argument, the article offers both a review of the literature on secularism and gender as well as short case studies from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. These three former British colonies have each struggled to arrive at a secular settlement and often the contestation over the place of religion has centered on the rules and roles of women in these societies.

Gay-Made Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Amico
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
The Creation ◽  
East West

This chapter explores the relationships among spatiality, orientation, and corporeality by focusing on the ways in which a post-Soviet, gay social space is engendered, in part, via popular music. It first compares temporality and spatiality in relation to homosexuality in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras before discussing popular music's relationship to sexuality and the post-Soviet experiences of detemporalization and deterritorialization. It then assesses the importance of virtual, mediated, musical spaces in the creation of the self. It also analyzes how geographic spaces, cyberspaces, and media spaces, the material and the virtual, both conform to and act upon the embodiments of homosexuality, and how Russian gay men continually create and re-create salubrious spaces and places, in part via their experience as embodied subjects whose corporeal existence links them to others in shared spaces and places. The chapter shows that seeming binaries—inside/outside, here/there, now/then, us/them, East/West—as experienced via musical spaces do not preclude the formation of a situated, stable, sexual self, one affectively and physically connected to both sound and space.

Christian Monasticism in Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 557-574
Author(s):  
Matteo Nicolini-Zani
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Present State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Asian Context

The chapter begins with an overview of the history of Christian monasticism in the various countries of Asia, giving attention to major publications in the field. It reconstructs the process of documenting early foundations and their later evolution, with particular reference to China, Korea, and Sri Lanka. It then considers the ways in which contemporary Western monasticism has responded to the manifold challenges of the Asian context. Two themes are explored: the creation of a distinctive ‘monastic missiology’ for Asia; and the role of some key figures in the historical encounter of Western monastics with their Eastern confrères. The chapter addresses, finally, the present state of Christian monasticism in Asia. It charts the number of Christian monasteries throughout Asia, and it identifies the major issues that now face Christian monasticism there.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN NILAI-NILAI TOLERANSI DALAM RELASI SOSIAL SUNNI-SYI’AH DI PERKAMPUNGAN CANDI DESA BANJARAN–JEPARA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Fathimatuz Zahra ◽  
Muhammad Ghufron
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Dynamic Phenomenon ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
The Creation

Differences are part of dynamic phenomenon of human communities that interact with each other. Because, religion as a source of inspiration for the creation of ethics, justice and sosial life as its main mission. Sunni and Syi’ah as historial facts for muslim in Indonesia. Both mazhab that have contributed in the process of indigenization of Islamic Nusantara. Now, these both mazhab are often bumped in difference. Escalation of conflict between the two increased until burning occurs and expulsion of Syi’ah groups at some places such as Sampang, Madura. This research is portraits occur in the Sunni-Syi’ah social space at Candi village Banjaran, Jepara. Researching dynamic of two communities Sunni-Syi’ah social relation at the Banjaran Village is established in a harmonious interaction, mutual respect in difference, upholding the values of peace and humanity. The result of this research showed the description of the development tolerance of both parties maintain brotherhood ukhuwah Islamiyah, through intercommunity of civic networks cultivation mutual trust in the pattern of negotiation and cooperation patern. As well as develop the power of social capital, cultural capital and symbolic capital in some activities that involve each other.

scholarly journals Dzielenie przestrzeni, praktyki graniczenia. Parkowanie, własność i przynależność na polskich osiedlach mieszkaniowych

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-167
Author(s):  
Karol Kurnicki
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

Space gains significance through processes of social differentiation and bordering, and in consequence is connected with the creation and maintenance of social divisions. The author seeks confirmation of this fact at the level of everyday practices in housing settlements, tracking the mechanisms used by people in situations of contact and confrontation with others in the social space. He sets himself several aims: (1) he attempts to analyze selected spatial practices (parking within the settlement, the creation of belonging), reflecting the internal structuring strategies of housing settlements; (2) he points to the causes of that structuring, that is, the main contexts in which these practices occur and are strengthened; (3) he highlights the important role of space in processes of bordering and differentiation. Practices connected with parking and the creation of belonging, although apparently disparate and deriving from contrary spheres of social life make it possible to hypothesize that the striving for separation and the increased importance of space determine the organization of borders, divisions, and social relations in housing settlements.

scholarly journals Public Opinion on Peace as a Reflection of Social Differentiation and Politicisation of Identity in Sri Lanka

PCD Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Kristian Stokke ◽  
Pradeep Peiris
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Political Field ◽  
The Public

This article provides a critical analysis of the public opinion on peace in Sri Lanka, with consideration to two determinants: social differentiation and politicisation of identities. Specifically, it aims at developing arguments about the correlations between public opinion, social position, and political mobilisation. Inspired by Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, social space, and political field, this article develops an empirical analysis of the links between ethnic identity and public opinion on peace, and between social differentiation and opinions within the Sinhalese majority community in Sri Lanka. This article argues that ethnic polarisation and politicisation were the foremost determinants of public opinion during the peace process in 2002-2009.

Topographies of the Possible

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laila Huber
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

This article explores the creation of new structures of participation and counter imaginaries within the city between the poles of arts and politics. On the basis of two case studies, one situated in the non-institutionalised artistic field and one in the non-institutionalised political field, I will explore narratives of a 'topography of the possible' in the city of Salzburg. Aiming to outline collage pieces of a topography of the possible and of counter-narrative in and of the city – the city is looked at in terms of collage, understood as overlapping layers of the three spatial dimensions materiality (physical space), sociability (social space) and the imaginary (symbolic space). These are understood as differing but interrelated spatial dimensions, each one unfolding forms of collective appropriation of a city. The focus lies on the creation of social relations and collective imaginaries on the micro-level of cultural and political self-organised initiatives, looked at under terms of narration and storytelling. My ethnographic project asks for the creative potentiality of a city and for the creative power of social relations and collective imaginaries.

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