scholarly journals Reflective Critical Inquiry on Critical Inquiry:A Critical Ethnographic Dilemma Continued

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Kanpol
Keyword(s):  
School Change ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Catch 22

This manuscript argues that there is an intimate connection between a "critical" ethnographer's personal history and the data collected. The author traces elements in his personal life, such as school, religion, immigration and forms of discrimination, and connects dominant values within the above to the various studies he has conducted over the last decade. The author reflects back on how he may have unconsciously been seeing the everyday experiences of subjects he was studying as a reflection of his own personal experiences at various times in his life - all which relate to forms of institutional and cultural political resistance. The author argues that the educational Left can only be caught in a theoretical and cynical "catch 22" logic if the interpretation of "critical data" remain at the structural level. Moments of joy and emancipatory possibility , the author maintains, becomes a possibility particularly when the critical ethnographer's personal voice is entered into the whole ethnographic picture. That in mind, the author argues that school change on any level of liberation can only occur when the researcher and researched can attain a level of intersubjective compromise, where both their personal voices and relationships to structure are better understood.

A Sea of Whiteness: Teaching Sexuality through a New Sociology at a U.S. American University

2021 ◽  
pp. 0092055X2110224
Author(s):  
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Social Location ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
American University ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

This article connects sociological analyses of race to sexuality to rethink the teaching of the sociology of sexualities. Through the use of the image of the sea, I locate whiteness as a root for the challenges in current pedagogical approaches at my institution, knowing that it is merely an example of multiple others facing similar problems at the structural level. Using autoethnography as a method to illustrate personal experiences in the classroom and the institution, I engage in two interrelated topics that structure this article. First, I explore how teaching sexualities studies from a sociological angle requires teaching about power. In the second part, I delve into how a neoliberal engagement with individualism and students’ singular social location influence the potential in students’ learning. The discussion and concluding parts propose thinking through some of the previous teaching on the sociology of sexualities to create it anew.

scholarly journals I Can't Sleep At Night, Praying He Returns Home Alive: The Experiences Of Black Mothers Raising Black Sons In The Greater Toronto Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebiboloemi Fuludu Ambekederemo
Keyword(s):  
Police Brutality ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Parental Responsibility ◽  
Critical Race Feminism ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shed Light

<div>This is a qualitative narrative study of how self-identified Black mothers raising Black sons in the Greater Toronto area respond to the everyday likelihood that their sons may be killed by the police. The goal of this research is to shed light, create space, and give voice to Black mothers to share their personal experiences of police brutality in the Greater Toronto Area, and some ideas for how to better support these women. Additionally, it is meant to create an understanding that behind every murdered, incarcerated or racially profiled Black male, there is a Black mother suffering in silence. This research is grounded in Critical Race Feminism and Anti-Black Racism.</div><div><br></div><div>KEY WORDS: Constant fear, Parental responsibility, Lack of resources in Black communities/criminality, and Powerlessness/systemic change.</div>

scholarly journals Into the Interstices: Everyday Practices of Refugees and Their Supporters in Europe’s Migration ‘Crisis’

Sociology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Fontanari ◽  
Maurizio Ambrosini
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Migration Crisis

This article investigates the interconnections between migration to Europe for asylum and the multiple ‘crises’ of the border regime that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on 22 months of ethnographic research with refugees in Italy and Germany, the article highlights the tensions between migration policy and legislation at the structural level and the agency of refugees. The case study focuses on a protest staged by refugees in Berlin and the active involvement of its civil-society supporters. The everyday practices of refugees, including building relationships with local residents, cross-border mobility within Europe and ‘inhabiting’ the grey zones where different national jurisdictions intersect, generate frictions that open up spaces of autonomy: the ‘interstices’. Territorial, social and judicial interstices develop out of the power relations in Europe’s migration ‘battleground’.

Between Two Scholarly Cultures: Reflections on the Reorganization of the East German Historical Profession after 1990

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-522
Author(s):  
Simone Lässig
Keyword(s):  
Academic Life ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Teachers Colleges ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
German Research ◽  
East German ◽  
Everyday Realities ◽  
Historical Profession

Studies of the East German historical profession and what became of it after 1990—which are now numerous—have primarily dealt with institutes in Berlin affiliated with the Akademie der Wissenschaften or the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED). Little attention has been paid to the academic institutions where most of the German Democratic Republic's historians and history teachers received their scholarly and political training, namely the history departments of the country's universities and the teachers' colleges (pädagogische Hochschulen). In this essay, in which I draw in part upon my personal experiences, I will therefore be less concerned with the well-researched “nerve centers” of the East German research establishment than with the long-neglected “academic provinces” and the everyday realities of academic life that, however absurd they might seem in hindsight, shaped the experiences of countless students, instructors, and professors.

scholarly journals Review: How to Steal a City: The Battle for Nelson Mandela Bay, an Inside Account by Crispian Olver

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thina Nzo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
South African ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Politicians ◽  
Insight Into

The insider account of 'How to Steal a City' undoubtedly is one of the few books that offers a much needed insight into the everyday workings of local government politics and administration in South Africa. This book is underpinned by rich descriptions of local government politics and administration generated through the personal experiences of Crispian Olver. Researchers, scholars, local politicians, municipal officials and practitioners of local government who wish to learn more about South African local government politics should have a good reason to pay close attention to this book.

Religious Lightness in Infinite Vortex

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Hall ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World

Dance is intimately connected to both Kierkegaard’s personal life and his life in writing, as exemplified in his famous nightly attendance at the dance-filled theater, and his invitation to the readers of “A First and Last Explanation” to (in his words) “dance with” his pseudonyms. The present article’s acceptance of that dance invitation proceeds as follows: the first section surveys the limited secondary literature on dance in Kierkegaard, focusing on the work of M. Ferreira and Edward Mooney. The second section explores the hidden dancing dimensions of Kierkegaard’s “leap” and “shadow-dance” (Schattenspiel). And the third section reinterprets the pseudonymous works richest in dance, Repetition and Postscript, concluding that the religious for him is the lighthearted dance of a comic actor through the everyday theater of the world.

Academic Autobiography and Transdisciplinary Crossings in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-457
Author(s):  
ROCÍO G. DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Professional Writing ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Autobiographical Performance ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Professional Perspectives ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
And Function

The growing number of academic autobiographies published in recent years has sparked interesting debates on the nature and function of life writing. We now grapple with the question of the degrees to which autobiographical and professional writing function in conjunction – if we can read autobiographical writing from professional perspectives or, alternatively, to what extent scholarship grows from personal experiences. This approach to the academic autobiography links our notions about processes of self-inscription to the forms of production of historical and cultural knowledge. This essay examines these ideas by reading Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces (1997). Lim's literary and scholarly production superlatively illustrates the development of contemporary perspectives on national identity and language, migration, and homelands. Her work, which includes poetry collections, novels, short stories, academic studies and a memoir – compels readers to engage the interplay between the competing forces of race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality within spaces that embody these conflicts. I argue that a comparative reading of personal and professional narratives invites us to reconsider how, working within specific epistemic contexts, academics like Lim consciously negotiate the intersection between personal history and academic commitment, a vital subtext in their autobiographical performance.

scholarly journals On a Country in Captive: A Review on Aruni Kashyap’s There Is No Good Time for Bad News

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bad News ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
The People ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Conversational Style

Aruni Kashyap’s poetry is an organic blend of powerful realities and raw emotions. While many of his contemporary poets devote their attention towards the technical nuances of poetry, Kashyap’s focus beams on what he wants to say rather than the how behind it. The form never overpowers the ideas that he ardently tries to convey through the perfectly cut lines of his debut poetry collection, There Is No Good Time for Bad News, which depicts the plight of a state that was brought to nemesis by the insurgency. His poems offer a spatial tour through the unexplored regions of the Northeast to the streets of Manhattan, where numerous lives are entwined into a single destiny. It resonates with the traumatic experiences and suppressed voices of the survivors of the Assam insurgency alerting the world to the brutality inflicted by the authoritarian state which deprives the people of a happy and peaceful life. The poet draws deep from the turbulent personal experiences of the people around him which he then fine-tunes into the shared experiences of the narrator, narrated and the reader. These verses are stained with the everyday violence encountered by the people of his homeland and unquestionably create a lasting impact, with the conversational style of language that is astutely employed by the poet.

scholarly journals Dichtbij Marco. Over de ritualisering van nabijheid in het celebritytijdperk

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stijn Reijnders ◽  
Marlies Spijker ◽  
Johan Roeland
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Emotional Involvement ◽  
Close Encounters ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media

Close encounters: ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity Close encounters: ritualizing proximity in the age of celebrity For many celebrities, organizing meet-and-greets with fans and followers has become a permanent feature of their public appearances. As yet little is known about the role and importance of such meetings within the everyday constitution of celebrity culture. Why would fans be interested in the possibility of direct, personal contact with people they already know from the media? To find an answer to this question, this article presents ethnographical research into meet-and-greets with the Dutch artist Marco Borsato. Results show that these meet-and-greets constitute a special and meaningful experience for those involved. Firstly, the meet-and-greet provides a means for the fans to validate and enhance their emotional involvement with the music and with Borsato himself. Secondly, it has become clear that the meet-and-greet is a status symbol much in demand within the fan community. Thirdly, the meet-and-greet can fulfill a vital role in personal life-narratives of healing.

scholarly journals Multiform invasion of life by work among basic education teachers and repercussions on health

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Peixoto da Silva ◽  
Frida Marina Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Clinical Pictures ◽  
Full Day ◽  
Significant Attention

INTRODUCTION: Several studies have pointed to a scenario of precariousness and illness among teachers. However, the way the profession resonates with the personal life of teachers has not received significant attention, even if it is common for them to take work home. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the repercussion of work on the everyday life of teachers and its implication on the health-disease process. METHODS: This is a qualitative study based on individual semi-structured interviews, complemented by a form of sociodemographic characterization. Data were analyzed by thematic coding with the aid of the MAXQDA 12 software. This study included 29 teachers from four public schools of the municipal and state networks of regular and full day education of São Paulo, in addition to the principal of each school. RESULTS: The results indicated that the illnesses arising from work have been projected on the personal life of teachers. We identified four main forms of manifestation of this type of invasion: continuous link with work by successive frustrations; moral harassment; uninterrupted pending matters; and interference over the private course of life. CONCLUSION: The social and pathogenic suffering caused by the invasion of life by work pointed to this phenomenon as one of the elements that can help explain the recurrent clinical pictures of illness among teachers.

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