De “La Legión contra la droga” a “Todos con la Patria”. Evolución de los 101 km en 24 h de Ronda (From "The Legion Against Drugs" to "All with the Homeland": Evolution of the 101 km in 24 h of Ronda)

Retos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 447-458
Author(s):  
Angel Acuna Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

  Iniciada en 1995, los 101 km en 24 h de Ronda se ha consolidado como una de las más emblemáticas y singulares ultra maratones del territorio español. En este trabajo focalizamos la atención en los relatos emitidos en torno a la prueba, interrogándonos sobre los motivos, valores y sensaciones expresadas por participantes, público y organizadores, a fin de entender las claves de su éxito y la filosofía que la envuelve. A partir de los datos producidos a través del trabajo de campo etnográfico, la experiencia práctica en esta carrera y la información documental, se reflexiona sobre las implicaciones y consecuencias de dos importantes mensajes emblemáticos empleados como consigna del evento, que marcan momentos históricos diferentes: de <<La Legión contra la droga>> del ayer al <<Todos con la Patria>> de hoy. De acuerdo a los resultados obtenidos se hace entendible cómo un acontecimiento así, a través del aparato simbólico que lo envuelve y los intereses económicos, sociales y políticos que genera, sobrepasa la esfera de lo estrictamente deportivo para convertirse en un poderoso vehículo de identidad individual y colectiva que alimenta un peculiar imaginario ideológico. Abstract. Started in 1995, the 101 km in 24 h of Ronda have established as one of the most emblematic and unique ultra-marathons in Spain. In this work we focus our attention on the stories issued around the race, asking about the motives, values ​​and sensations expressed by participants, public and organizers, in order to understand the keys to their success and the philosophy that surrounds it. Based on the data produced through ethnographic field work, the practical experience in this race and documentary information, we reflect on the implications and consequences of two important emblematic messages used as slogan of the event, which mark different historical moments: from <<The Legion (army) against drugs>> of yesterday to <<Everyone with the Homeland>> of today. According to the results obtained, it becomes understandable how such an event, through the symbolic apparatus that surrounds it, and the economic, social and political interests that it generates, goes beyond the strictly sports sphere to become a powerful vehicle of individual and collective identity which it feeds a peculiar ideological imaginary.

scholarly journals “Despite the Odds”: Unpacking the Politics of Black Resilience Neoliberalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Clay
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work ◽  
Policy Discourses

Through sustained ethnographic field work that inquired into youth participatory action researchers’ political identity development, I identified a politicized discourse engaged by youth during their early stages of action research that I have termed Black resilience neoliberalism (BRN). This study explicates BRN theory, tracing its connection to policy discourses related to Black youth and schools and exploring the ways its tenets are revealed in Black youth action researchers’ reflections on race/racism, inequality, and social change. I argue that BRN is both a conspicuous and an inconspicuous thread of neoliberal discourse and logic, which hides in plain sight as empowerment; however, it is entangled with the project of hegemony. To that end, destabilizing the legitimization of BRN is crucial to reconstituting empowerment.

scholarly journals Making Masculinity in Plasma Physics

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Helena Pettersson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Plasma Physics ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Field Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

The aim of this article is to analyse masculinity and experimental practices among plasma physicists. The study is based on ethnographic field work with observations and interviews among experimental plasma physicists in a laboratory in the United States. Through daily practices and hands-on situations, the experimental plasma physicists defined their experimental work as strongly associated with masculinity. Both practices and discourses about working with the experiments were fringed with connotations of a craft, of strength and physical efforts. Together, the practices and discourses were used as marks of identity for the laboratory and for the group of physicists within.

Narrating Fear, Tracing Landscape: Memory and Militancy ka Daur in Doda, Jammu and Kashmir

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802292095674
Author(s):  
Chakraverti Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Landscape Of Fear ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
The People ◽  
The Times ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

Jammu and Kashmir has been a theatre of conflict for almost three decades now. After the outbreak of militancy in 1989–1990 in the Kashmir valley, Doda belt was the first area outside the valley where armed conflict made inroads and affected lives variedly. Based on ethnographic field work, this paper addresses three interrelated questions about the manifestation of militancy in Doda: first, how did the armed struggle for the control of landscape invoked fear ( dehshat) in people and affect their way of living? Second, how did the violence by both non-state and state actors to seek control and assert power transformed the local landscape itself? Third, how did the locals negotiate with shifting landscapes embedded with fear and memories of violence? I approach these questions through memory ethnography of the times of militancy ( militancy ka daur). Based on conversations, narratives and participant observation, the article shows that militancy and resultant armed conflict sowed fear in people’s lives and altered their relation with space and time in multiple ways. Actors involved in the armed conflict shaped the local landscape by resorting to spatial strategies to control territory and exercise power through fear. As a consequence, locals negotiated with the landscape of fear by conforming to outright commands and through silence. Although militancy ka daur has passed in Doda, the paper argues that it has left deep imprints upon the collective memory of the people.

“Raising Another’s Child”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Brown
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
Social Motivations ◽  
African Context ◽  
Child Fosterage ◽  
Natal Home ◽  
Kinship Ties ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

African childrearing has been documented as primarily social in nature and driven by responsibility and respect for elders. Socially distributed care is common and reflects strong kinship ties that serve as a social welfare system in times of need. This chapter describes the practice of child fosterage in a southern African context among the Owambo of northern Namibia and explores parenting practices and communication between families and children. Relying heavily on ethnographic field work, the chapter paints a portrait of child fosterage and attempts to capture the complexities of how economic, moral, and social motivations to foster children in and out of the natal home play out in the organization and texture of family life. Ultimately, the chapter explores how parents “parent from afar” within the culturally normative system of child fosterage.

Ethnographic field work in requirements engineering

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Reddivari ◽  
Asai Asaithambi ◽  
Nan Niu ◽  
Wentao Wang ◽  
Li Da Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

Beyond a single organization: challenges and opportunities in doing field level ethnography

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammar B. Zilber
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Field Level ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a road map for carrying out field-level ethnography, focussing on the inter-organizational space collectively constructed and shared by communities of organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The argument is developed through a critical and integrated review of relevant literature. Findings – Field-level ethnographic work requires researchers to define the field they are exploring, locate their specific research site within it, capture the field through ethnographic practices that take into account the unique characteristics of this local field as a social phenomenon, and deploy various conceptualizations of inter-organizational spheres in order to enrich their analysis and interpretations. Practical implications – This paper offers practical insights for practitioners of field-level ethnography. Originality/value – As organizations are open-systems that reside and take part in much broader, inter-organizational spaces, the author makes a case for going beyond the more common practice of carrying out ethnographic field work in a single organization, to doing field-level ethnography. The paper discusses various theorizations of the inter-organizational sphere, suggest how to carry field-level ethnography in practice, and note its peculiar challenges.

scholarly journals Antropološko proučavanje turizma

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Ivan Kovačević ◽  
Ana Banić-Grubišić
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

In this paper, the authors follow the history of development of anthropology of tourism from the 1960s to the present. In addition to the distinct methodology (ethnographic field work), the essential aspect of anthropological study of tourism is an emphasis on the socio-cultural dimension of tourism. Within the anthropological research of tourism, the research interest is focused on understanding the social and cultural nature of tourism.

Homogeneous River and Heterogeneous Communities: Implications of Local Practices of Sustainable River Basin Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraja K. S.
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Field Work ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Development Discourses ◽  
Ethnographic Field Work

This paper examines the concept of resources and communities as it is rigorously used in the sustainable development discourses. The legitimisation of the local practices of sustainable development in turn conceptualise natural environment as a resource which needs to be protected with the help of local participation and local knowledge. As a result of this process of sustainable management of environment, the complexity of heterogeneity exists in the community as well as the natural life supporting system is ignored. The discussion draw on the qualitative ethnographic field work conducted at Thirunelli Grama Panchayath in Wayanad, Kerala which is complexly comprised of six different tribal communities and other different non-tribal settler communities from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

scholarly journals Symbolic efficiency in ultra marathons: the Ultra Sierra Nevada and 101 km in 24 h cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (43) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Personal Challenges ◽  
Psychological Demands

Nowadays the high physical and psychological demands of ultra marathons have not prevented this type of races from becoming popular and an important way to demonstrate authenticity in personal work. Through the ethnographic work, the historical review and practical experience in two competitions, such as the Ultra Sierra Nevada of Granada and 101 km. In 24 h. of Ronda, we show significant evidence to understand how and to what extent, through the symbolic burden they have, both contribute to the formation of one self for those who organice and participate in them. The overcoming of personal challenges, the popularization of heroism, the formation of a collective identity, the consideration of the sacred and the claim or projection of an ideology with military values are interpreted as the main results obtained.

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