scholarly journals Infraestrutura, Temporalidades e Vigilância: Um Estudo Etnográfico na Monitoração Eletrônica do Estado do Paraná.

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Patini Lancellotti
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
Monitoring Center ◽  
The Way

O artigo apresenta parte da minha pesquisa de doutorado sobre as tornozeleiras eletrônicas, tendo como fio condutor os estudos de infraestrutura, objetos e vigilância. O estudo debruça-se sobre o uso das tornozeleiras eletrônicas como um objeto fluído e parte de uma infraestrutura do monitoramento eletrônico, composta por uma rede de elementos humanos e não humanos atuando de forma conjunta, tendo como finalidade o acompanhamento e vigilância de pessoas presas. Os dados são provenientes de observações realizadas no cotidiano de trabalho dos agentes penitenciários em funções administrativas na Central de Monitoração do Paraná e no espaço de manutenção desses aparelhos. Ao longo da pesquisa foi possível apreender como múltiplas temporalidades coexistem nesse trabalho de bastidores – distante de uma noção de infraestrutura como um projeto acabado – além de que seguir esses sistemas formados por materiais é também pensar em formas de governar pessoas e seus efeitos nas vidas cotidianas. Infrastructure, Temporalities and Surveillance: A Study of Ankle Bracelets in State of Paraná.Abstract: This article presents part of my doctoral research on electronic ankle bracelets. The reflections are guided by infrastructure, objects, and surveillance studies. This study focuses on the use of electronic ankle bracelets as a fluid object and part of an electronic monitoring infrastructure, composed of a network of heterogeneous elements - human and non-human - that act together in order to monitor people arrested. The data comes from observing the work of prison officers in administrative functions in the Electronic Monitoring Center of Paraná and in the space of maintenance of these devices. Throughout the research it was possible to apprehend the way in which multiple temporalities coexist in this work - far from a notion of infrastructure as a finished project - in addition to following this network formed by materials is to think of ways to govern people and their effects on daily lives.Keywords: Electronic Ankle Bracelets, Anthropology of Infrastructure, Surveillance Studies, Electronic Monitoring.

scholarly journals The Triad of Colonialism, Anti-Communism, and Neo-Liberalism: Decolonizing Surveillance Studies in South Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 730-733
Author(s):  
Minkyu Sung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
State Power ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
The Way

This paper critically examines three intersectional hegemonic forces of maintaining a surveillance regime—the triad of colonialism, anti-communism, and neo-liberalism—that I argue are necessary for decolonizing surveillance studies in South Korea. I discuss South Korea’s Resident Registration System (RRS) as the contemporary incarnation of modern colonial power’s control over its colonial subjects, calling into question the maintenance of the colonial legacies within RRS policy innovations. I critically examine the way in which the legitimacy of neo-liberal surveillance is embraced by the anti-privacy scheme entrenched in the colonial and anti-communism legacies that relentlessly allows state power to control and intervene in individual realms. Questioning the triad of colonialism, anti-communism, and neo-liberalism can recast a critical work for decolonizing surveillance studies in South Korea.

Research in a Minefield: Relating with Tea Party Activists

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Douzou
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
French Woman ◽  
Party Activists ◽  
The Way

Based on a doctoral research project on Tea Party groups in Pennsylvania, this article deals both with the various pitfalls I had to learn to avoid and the significant impact that being a young, white French woman had on the way activists interacted with me. In addition, I reflect upon the general ramifications of studying a right-wing social movement while not aligning with it politically. The automatic distance—and presumed ensuing objectivity that this viewpoint initially seems to afford—is much more fragile and complicated than apparent at first glance.

scholarly journals Racial surveillance and the mental health impacts of electronic monitoring on migrants

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-36
Author(s):  
Monish Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Since the late 1990s, the government has used outsourced electronic monitoring (also known as tagging) in England and Wales for criminal sentencing and punishment. Under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants) Act 2004, s36, the use of this technology extended to immigration controls, and individuals deemed as ‘high risk’ of harm, reoffending or absconding can be fitted with an ankle device and subjected to curfew. The tagging of migrants is not authorised by the criminal court and therefore not considered a punitive sanction. It is managed by the immigration system and treated as an administrative matter. Nevertheless, people who are tagged experience it as imprisonment and punishment. Drawing on data from an eighteen-month ethnographic research project, this article examines the impact of electronic monitoring on people seeking asylum, who completed their sentences for immigration offences. It uncovers the psychological effects and mental health impacts of such technologies of control. The article sheds light on how tagging is experienced by racialised minorities, and adds to the literature on migration, surveillance studies, state racism and violence.

scholarly journals The Impact of Social Media on Italian Shamanism and Folk Magic

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Angela Puca
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Group I ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

In the last decade, the use of social media has become widespread among all age groups in Italy. Facebook, in particular, has fostered the spreading of information and aided the gathering of like-minded individuals. This process has slowly but steadily affected communities involved with indigenous and trans-cultural shamanism. From the evolution towards a more inclusive and syncretic approach within autochthonous traditions to the wider reception and reinterpretation of imported shamanism, the narratives created online have translated into a tangible change of how practitioners position themselves within the affiliated tradition. By analysing data collected on a Facebook group I created ad hoc for my doctoral research and the content posted on public profiles and groups, I will argue that the use of Social Media reshapes the way practitioners construct their traditions and practices. In the case of vernacular healers, this prompted the development of a shared terminology while fostering a discussion on autenticity among trans-cultural shamans.

scholarly journals Digital food and foodways: How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora in London

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Marino
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Group Relationships ◽  
Italian Diaspora ◽  
The Way

The article discusses the role of online food practices and narratives in the formation of transnational identities and communities. Data has been collected in the framework of a doctoral research project undertaken by the author between 2009 and 2012 with a follow-up in 2014. The working hypothesis of this article is that the way Italians talk about food online and offline, the importance they give to ‘authentic’ food, and the way they share their love for Italian food with other members of the same diaspora reveal original insights into migrants’ personal and collective identities, their sense of belonging to the transnational community and processes of adjustment to a new place. Findings suggest that online culinary narratives and practices shape the Italian diaspora in unique ways, through the development of forms of virtual commensality and online mealtime socialization on Skype and by affecting intra and out-group relationships, thus working as elements of cultural identification and differentiation.

The impact of role identity on student expectations

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Davis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Student Expectations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Student Role ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoint that student role identity, its dimensions and salience, impact strongly on student expectations of college-based higher education (CBHE) within the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on doctoral research undertaken within the context of CBHE in the UK and is further supported through engagement with a range of pertinent literature. Findings – The paper suggests ways in which the individually constructed student role identity may impact on the expectations of the experience of CBHE. In so doing, the paper highlights the way in which expectations of higher education recursively influence, and are influenced by, perceptions and actions played out from within the student role. Research limitations/implications – The empirical research, from which the paper draws its theme, was undertaken in one large institution. The author recognises that a wider, longitudinal study would be beneficial in recognition of the diversity of provision in the CBHE sector. Practical implications – The paper proposes that greater awareness of the way in which students construct and moderate their perceptions and understandings of studenthood would be beneficial to a range of strategic considerations, such as promotional information, partnership activity, peer relations and the nature of pedagogies and learning architectures. Social implications – The paper foregrounds the political remit of CBHE as a progression route for “non-traditional” students, and considers the varied understandings of the meaning of the student role adopted by students attending colleges. Engagement with issues of multiple roles, identity salience and variable role porosity highlights social and pyschosocial issues faced by many such students. Originality/value – The paper considers role identity in the context of Kurt Lewin’s conceptualisation of life space and uses this framework to highlight issues that may face students and colleges in raising awareness of student expectations. It challenges the homogenous conceptualisation of the term “students” through consideration of the psychic state at a given moment in time.

scholarly journals The Global Turn to Authoritarianism and After

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 357-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Murakami Wood
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Global South ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
The North ◽  
Global North ◽  
Common Situation ◽  
The Way

This editorial introduces the special responsive issue on the global turn to authoritarianism. It points out the lack of any systematic political theory of the way in which authority and surveillance relate within Surveillance Studies and sketches some possible outlines for such a theory, that involves relationships between surveillance, democracy, authoritarianism, colonialism and capitalism. It argues that the contemporary turn to authoritarianism is predominantly a Global North phenomenon, that adds to an already common situation in the post-colonial Global South, and that the fears that drive the turn to authoritarianism in the North are rooted in fears of the breakdown of a post-colonial global order that was so favourable to the Global North. Finally, it proposes three possible trajectories: multiplying and deepening authoritarianism; the return of neoliberalism on a planetary scale; and new forms of platform authoritarianism that emerging from surveillance capitalism. However, it rejects all of these in favour of the rediscovery of collective desires.

scholarly journals Learning Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Through Real Business Projects

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-242
Author(s):  
Lucy Hatt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

Abstract Enterprise and entrepreneurship are widely regarded as important for economic, social and political change, and higher education (HE) institutions are seen as appropriate places to develop entrepreneurial competencies. This chapter describes an experiential, real world approach to entrepreneurship education in HE known as ‘Team Academy’ and suggests a complementary conceptual grounding to the accepted curriculum using candidate entrepreneurship threshold concepts and pedagogical approaches identified from doctoral research. Four case studies taken from the two oldest and largest UK Team Academy programmes illustrate the approach and highlight the way in which an understanding of a selection of candidate entrepreneurship threshold concepts have been successfully developed in the students.

The ‘Tracking’ Controversy: The Roots of Mentoring and Electronic Monitoring

Youth Justice ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Nellis
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Electronic Form ◽  
The Way

Nowadays, the term ‘tracking’ has only a faint presence in the youth justice field but throughout the 1980s, in England and Wales, it was the focus of a controversy out of all proportion to its incidence. Then, as now, it was used to denote a method of monitoring the whereabouts and time-use of young and young adult offenders. While many youth justice workers ardently defended it, many vigorously condemned it as too intrusive. In practice, its emphasis changed from something primarily surveillant to something primarily supportive, although its tough-sounding name was considered by its advocates to be discursively useful in a law and order culture. Rather paradoxically, the term faded from use in the aftermath of the Home Office’s (1988) Punishment in the Communityinitiative. Although aspects of the controversy were noted in contemporaneous studies of youth justice (Ely, Swift and Sutherland, 1987; Curtis, 1989, Blagg and Smith, 1989) some of which heightened its surveillant elements in order to critique it (Davies, 1986; Pitts, 1990), it tends to be ignored in more recent accounts (Haines and Drakeford, 1996). Yet tracking left a legacy, contributing to the emergence in modern youth justice of two ostensibly divergent practices - mentoring and electronic monitoring. This paper aims mainly to document a neglected aspect of youth justice history but it also considers the way in which the tracking ideal lives on, and has been reconfigured in a more genuinely surveillant - electronic - form.

scholarly journals Por entre pontes e rios: a imersão nos papeis ocupacionais de idosos ribeirinhos amazônicos/Between bridges and rivers: immersion in the occupational roles of elderly amazonian rivers

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Gomes Nascimento ◽  
Ronald Oliveira Cardoso ◽  
Denise Siva Pinto ◽  
Celina Colino Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Occupational Roles ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Way

Esta criação foi inspirada nos registros fotográficos obtidos no processo de pesquisa de doutorado sobre interações ecológicas entre as condições de saúde e fragilidade, o modo de vida e o contexto ribeirinho amazônico. A abordagem transcultural adotada neste percurso de pesquisa permitiu a utilização de técnicas diferenciadas como a de fotografia. Assim, o acervo de imagens construído e posteriormente analisado de forma crítica e contextualizada pelos pesquisadores auxiliou na compreensão de diversos aspectos subjetivos envolvendo, especialmente, o modo de vida e os papeis ocupacionais desses idosos. Uma das principais percepções alcançadas foi o intenso desempenho das funções cotidianas, quase sempre moldadas por aspectos culturais muito peculiares, o que revelou tanto a preservação da funcionalidade desses idosos, quanto dos papeis ocupacionais nos ambientes domiciliares e/ou sociais, apontando para um envelhecimento nitidamente ativo às margens dos rios amazônicos. Abstract This creation was inspired by the photographic records obtained in the doctoral research process on ecological interactions between health conditions and fragility, the way of life and the Amazonian riverside context. The cross-cultural approach adopted in this research allowed the use of different techniques such as photography. Thus, the collection of images constructed and later analyzed in a critical way and contextualized by the researchers helped in the understanding of several subjective aspects involving, especially, the way of life and the occupational roles of these elderly people. One of the main perceptions reached was the intense performance of everyday functions, almost always shaped by very peculiar cultural aspects, which revealed both the preservation of the functionality of these elderly people and the occupational roles in the home and / or social environments, pointing to a marked aging active on the banks of the Amazonian rivers.Keywords: Health Behavior; Healthy Aging; Photography; Aged; Riverside

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