scholarly journals O Aurora e Prática do Sem Preço: Reflexões sobre Política, Infraestrutura e Dinheiro na Vida Ordinária

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Rosa Neves
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Contrasting Effect ◽  
Constant Exchange

O presente artigo faz uma análise sobre o ato de pagar a partir da discussão antropológica sobre infraestrutura. Mais especificamente, se apoia em ferramentas conceituais que apontam para a dimensão ordinária, banal e invisível com a qual as infraestruturas se revelam para as pessoas em suas interações. A reflexão enriquecida por um caso empírico em que este itinerário burocrático de consumo, pagar por algo, acontece de modo diferente: trata-se de um restaurante em que a refeição não tem um preço fixo, pré-estabelecido ou mesmo sugerido. O Aurora propõe o “sem preço” como uma prática “corresponsabilização e apoio mútuo” por entenderem o valor relativo do dinheiro em nossa sociedade. O efeito de contraste que tal experiência engaja permite aprofundar nossos comprometimentos naturalizados com as lógicas de funcionamento das infraestruturas.Beyond Price at Aurora. Reflection on politics, infrastructure and money in ordinary lifeAbstract: This article analyzes the act of paying from the anthropological perspective on infrastructure. More specifically, the argument relies on its conceptual tools that point out the ordinary, banal and invisible dimension in which infrastructures are revealed to people in their daily interactions. This reflexive exercise is enriched by an empirical case that this bureaucratic consumption itinerary, paying for something, is organized in a different way: a restaurant in which the meal does not have a fixed, pre-set or even suggested price. The Aurora proposes the “sem preço” (without price) as a practice of “co-responsibility and mutual support” based on the understanding that money has different values in our society for each person. The contrasting effect this experience engages allows us to deepen the understanding about our naturalized commitments to the logic of the functioning of infrastructures through the constant exchange between materiality and ideology in which we are always agents and subjects.Keywords: Infrastructure. Daily Life. Money, Consumption. Political Action.

Poverty on the Farm

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Huffman
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Village Life ◽  
The Village

Comparison is theme of this chapter, which looks at rural poverty as a way of understanding what was universal and what unique about urban poverty. After a look at the nature-and season-dominated village setting, the work examines daily life: hard work in the rice fields, raising silkworms, the role of women in both fields and homes. A special theme is the importance community played, in setting rules, providing mutual support, and giving children a more productive place than they enjoyed in the hinminkutsu. The pursuit of pleasure also is seen as important in village life: in baths, in relatively open sexuality, and in the constant festivals. A summary shows that villages, the source of most of the urban migration, were at least as poor as city slums but that the rural poverty’s effect was softened by the natural setting and the village sense of community.

Building permanence: fire outbreaks and emergent tenure security in urban Ghana

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (03) ◽  
pp. 437-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Paller
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
The Future ◽  
Squatter Settlement

AbstractFire outbreaks are common sources of anxiety and insecurity in informal settlements, but they can also provide new opportunities for claim making and governance of urban space. This article examines how a series of four fires in Accra, Ghana – three of which took place in its largest squatter settlement – offered new opportunities to experiment with governance, or a new way for residents and leaders to imagine and construct the future. Empirically, I document how, in the process of reconstruction, residents redrew property lines and reshaped social relations. They did this through the emergent political action I call building permanence, or a physical claim to the urban space one inhabits, as well as a new existential state of being and living in environs that will last and remain unharmed. The article offers a possible way towards achieving more secure tenure beyond formalization and infrastructure upgrades, and focuses attention on how institutions change in the context of daily life after a moment of crisis.

Rejection sensitivity and interaction quality in everyday life

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752110342
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Bayer ◽  
Penny Triệu ◽  
Nicole Ellison ◽  
Sarita Y. Schoenebeck ◽  
Emily B. Falk
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rejection Sensitivity ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Interaction Channel

The elevated satisfaction that comes from interacting with close ties, as opposed to distal ties, is well-established in past research. What remains less clear is how the quality of daily interactions between close versus distal ties may vary as a function of personality. Drawing on data from a 2-week experience sampling study ( N = 108 participants, N = 7755 observations), we consider how trait rejection sensitivity (RS)—or the tendency to worry about potential social rejection—interacts with perceived closeness and interaction channel (i.e., face-to-face vs. technology-mediated) in daily life. We find that individuals who are high (vs. low) in rejection sensitivity not only view distal tie interactions as less satisfying, they also perceive close tie exchanges as more enjoyable and supportive—but only for technology-mediated (vs. face-to-face) interactions. We also find that individuals who are high in rejection sensitivity have higher variability in the perceived quality of their interactions. These findings demonstrate the interlocked factors of personality tendencies, perceived closeness, and interaction channel in shaping the variability in the quality of daily interactions.

scholarly journals ETHNIC RELATIONS AND HARMONIOUS COEXISTENCE THROUGH CROSS-CULTURAL MARRIAGE: ITS NEW PROSPECT IN THE GLOBAL AGE

SOSIETAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masanori Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Global Age ◽  
American Black

It is said that the age of globalization of Japan started at 15century like other Western countries. It was the beginning of world-wide dispersal of the Japanese in history such as the trade by Wako ships to the Southeast Asia (Befu Harumi 2002). Since then, Japan entered the age of isolation by the Tokugawa Shogunate and closed the door for other countries except for the Dutch. The new age began after the American Black ships came to Japan at the end of 19th century. Japan accepted the foreign culture, especially western culture which was the aspiration of the Japanese in those days enthusiastically. However, it was through the experience of the overseas migration and the dispatch as soldiers at war and colonization that the general Japanese lived in and learned from the foreign culture directly.This paper considers ethnic relations and harmonious coexistence through cross-cultural marriage between Japanese and Indonesian nationals in the anthropological perspective. We asked how the couples crossed the cultural difference and how they obtained the harmony by maintaining their ethnicity in their daily life.The Japanese do not always recognize their ethnicity or culture in their daily life and are not aware of multiplicity of cultures in Japan. Once they meet with other culture, they start to recognize how to understand and how to live with other culture and people more seriously.I focus on the cross-cultural marriage because we can learn the process of learning, negotiating and understanding other culture and ethnicity based on the concrete data.

After the Vote

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Israels Perry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Political Party ◽  
York City ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Political Action ◽  
City Government ◽  
Women In Politics ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Tammany Hall

Soon after his first inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms he had installed almost a hundred women as lawyers, board and commission members and secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. These “Women of the La Guardia Administration” met frequently for mutual support and political strategizing. This book tells their stories. It begins with the city’s suffrage movement, which prepared them for political action. After they won the vote in 1917, they joined political party clubs and began to run for office. Their plan was to use political platforms to enact feminist and progressive public policies. Circumstances unique to mid-twentieth-century New York City advanced their progress. In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized an inquiry into alleged corruption in the city’s government, long dominated by the Democratic Party’s machine, Tammany Hall. The inquiry turned first to charges of Vice Squad entrapment of women for sex crimes and their treatment in the city’s Women’s Court. Outraged by the inquiry’s disclosures and impressed by La Guardia’s pledge to rein in Tammany, many New York City women activists supported him for mayor. As appointees in his administration, they then helped him fulfill his plans for modernizing city government. This book argues that La Guardia’s women appointees contributed to his administration’s success and left a rich legacy of experience and political wisdom to oncoming generations of women in politics.

scholarly journals Mídia e representação do cinismo no drama político

Matrizes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Tito Vagni
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
Daily Events

This essay proposes an investigation on the forms of contemporary cynicism, combining the interpretation of political drama with reflections of the daily life sociology, particularly referring to Simmel, Goffman and De Certeau. In an expanded historical perspective from the 21st century metropolis to the communication media of the 20th century, it proposes a reconstruction of the political action and of certain moment of its imagination. A moment that shall be studied as from its relations with money, time acceleration and sensory overstimulation, which institute a new image of social relations. Cynicism seems to be, in the conditions created by metropolis and media, the cultural form more suitable for management and organization of daily events in public sphere.

scholarly journals Collectors of Daily Life: The Literary Journalist, the Anthropologist, and Their Fieldwork

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 798-815
Author(s):  
Beatriz Guimarães de Carvalho ◽  
Rafael De Almeida Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Theoretical Reflection ◽  
Production Conditions

Literary journalists and anthropologists conduct their fieldwork with similar tools and goals. Both use listening and observation to establish contact with the Other - the group being studied - and therefore identify, understand and interpret daily interactions and scenes. In spite of the similarities, their conduct in the field suffers interference due to the certain particularities of each one of them: production conditions, professional relations, social roles, methodological principles, professional ethics and the commitment to the final product – scientific research or literary reporting. In this article, we put forth a theoretical reflection about the similarities and contrasts between the fieldwork of literary journalists and anthropologists. At the same time, we reflect on what characterizes each of these professional researchers and their respective disciplines. For this purpose, we explore authors such as Harrington (2003), Martinez (2008; 2017), Lago (2010), Brandão (2007), Travancas (2002; 2014) and Gillespie (2012).Jornalistas literários e antropólogos vão a campo com ferramentas e buscas em comum. Ambos usam a escuta e a observação para estabelecer contato com o Outro – o grupo pesquisado – e, assim, identificar, compreender e interpretar relações e cenas cotidianas. Apesar das proximidades, a conduta de cada um deles em campo sofre interferências devido a particularidades carregadas na bagagem: condições de produção, vínculos de trabalho, papéis sociais, princípios metodológicos, ética profissional e compromisso com o produto final – a pesquisa científica ou a reportagem literária. Neste artigo, levantamos uma reflexão teórica acerca das conexões e contrastes entre o trabalho de campo praticado pelo jornalista literário e pelo antropólogo. Ao mesmo tempo, buscamos refletir sobre o que caracteriza cada um desses profissionais-pesquisadores e suas respectivas disciplinas. Para tal, são explorados autores como Harrington (2003), Martinez (2008; 2017), Lago (2010), Brandão (2007), Travancas (2002; 2014) e Gillespie (2012).Periodistas literarios y antropólogos van al campo con herramientas y búsquedas en común. Ambos usan la escucha y la observación para establecer contacto con el Otro - el grupo investigado - y así identificar, comprender e interpretar relaciones y escenas cotidianas. A pesar de las similitudes, la conducta de ambos en campo sufre interferencias debido a particularidades cargadas en el equipaje: las condiciones de producción, los vínculos de trabajo, los papeles sociales, los principios metodológicos, la ética profesional y el compromiso con el producto final - la investigación científica o el reportaje literario. En este artículo, levantamos una reflexión teórica acerca de las conexiones y contrastes entre el trabajo de campo practicado por el periodista literario y el antropólogo. Al mismo tiempo, buscamos reflexionar sobre lo que caracteriza cada uno de esos profesionales-investigadores y sus respectivas disciplinas. Con este objectivo, se exploran autores como Harrington (2003), Martinez (2008; 2017), Lago (2010), Brandão (2007), Travancas (2002; 2014) y Gillespie (2012).

scholarly journals Fi Ra Wali: Revitalisasi Folklor “Saguku Hidupku” Sebagai Identitas Kultural dalam Kosmologi Masyarakat Sentani-Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Cleopatriza Thonia Ruhulessin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Cultural Reality

This article aims to describe and explain how the philosophy of fi ra wali (in English: my sago my life) shapes the identity of Sentani people. The objective is to explain this notion (fi ra wali) features as the cultural identity of the Sentani people whichconstructed in everyday engagement (daily interactions) of the Sentani communities. Data for the study was obtained through  ethnographic research and phenomenology techniques including participant observation, interviews and literature study. Identity is usually constructed institutionally based on juridical and normative agreements collectively. This article reveals that identity can be constructed narratively, in daily interactions in society. Everyday angagement (daily life) gives birth to authentic experiences that are sacred in social relations, both in physical space and spiritual space of the Sentani people. Identity shapedfrom cosmic-cultural reality that exists in cosmology, is able to integrate society in sui generis (clans), in order to face modernization, which has caused social changes in Sentani society. This article concludes that the fi ra wali as a cultural identity has important contribution to deal with multicultural contexts.

William Morris

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
William Morris ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Do So

This chapter highlights the place of romanticism and Protestantism in William Morris's socialism. His romanticism led him to seek self-realization through an art based on naturalness and harmony. His Protestantism led him to do so in the everyday worlds of work and home. Morris inherited from John Ruskin a sociology that linked self-realization in daily life to the quality of art in a society. Even when Morris turned to Marxism, he still defined his socialist vision in terms of good art produced and enjoyed within daily life. His overriding concern to promote a new spirit of art then led him to a purist rejection of political action.

scholarly journals When Students Do Not Aspire To Become Professional Anthropologists

Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Leonidas Sotiropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Folklore Studies

Studies in anthropology have been influential in Greece in the recent decades. Anthropological concepts and analysis have prompted a critical assessment of Greek culture and brought this academic discipline close to history and folklore studies. Furthermore, today in Greek universities one finds several courses that teach this subject, plus some whose approaches are influenced by ethnography and the anthropological perspective. Given that only a small percentage of the students learning anthropology in Greek universities will eventually become professional anthropologists, my teaching experience leads me to the position that their acquaintance with anthropology should include a correlation of knowledge received during their studies to aspects of their daily life. Consequently, this article examines how teaching may encourage a fragmentary use of ethnography and a strong reflexive attitude from the students’ side, leading the latter to the exploration and evaluation, in a heuristic way, of their personal worldview and ethos.   

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