New Afrikan Lifestyle Politics

Free the Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 113-157
Author(s):  
Edward Onaci

Using interviews with Republic of New Afrika citizens and participant observation, this chapter seeks to understand New Afrikan lifestyle politics more deeply. Personal stories about the real and imagined RNA family, educational choices, and career paths as paper-citizens in an oppressive nation add more depth to the historical and sociological discussions about social movement activism. Because New Afrikans were members of organizations such as the Black Panther Party, because they experienced incarceration, and because they participated in all manners of activism, sometimes from their youth into adulthood, the people who have carried the NAIM into the twenty-first century provide unique opportunities to question and review the life course consequences of social movement activism.

Author(s):  
Jack Santino

Since the nineteenth century, attention in folklore and folklife studies has shifted from viewing certain customary symbolic actions such as “calendar customs” and rituals of the life course to a more inclusive performance-oriented perspective on holidays and customs. Folklorists recognize the multiplicity of events that people may consider ritual and festival, and the porous nature of these categories. The concept of the “sacred” has expanded to include realms other than the strictly religious, so as to include the political and other domains, both official and unofficial. A comprehensive study of ritual and festival incorporates a close study of folk and popular actions as well as institutional ceremony. In the twenty-first century, approaching events as both carnivalesque and ritualesque allows folklorists to describe purpose and intention in public events, and to account for political, commemorative, celebratory, and festive elements in any particular event.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Rada Schultze

Partiendo de la premisa de que la vejez es una construcción en el curso de la vida, siendo la diversidad su característica principal, este escrito analiza cómo el género y la sexualidad son aspectos valiosos en los modos en los que se construye diferencialmente la vejez en el curso de la vida. En este artículo se sostiene que el haber pertenecido a una minoría sexual históricamente estigmatizada impactó en las formas de envejecer y por consiguiente en el tipo, calidad y esperanza de vida de las personas.Desde el Paradigma del Curso de la Vida, el influjo del tiempo histórico y el significado que los actores le atribuyen son considerados puntos de inflexión (turning point). Estos hitos significativos en la vida de las personas operan como bisagra en el desarrollo de la trayectoria vital, dando como resultado un envejecimiento y una vejez diferencial.Mediante técnicas cualitativas de recolección de la información como son el método biográfico e historias de vida, las entrevistas en profundidad y la observación participante, se persigue dar cuenta de cuál es la percepción que las personas mayores lesbianas, gays y trans tienen sobre su propio envejecer y vejez. Así, apelando a la reminiscencia de los actores se busca develar cuáles son los hechos significativos que consideran puntos de inflexión en el curso de su vida y de qué modo han dado como resultado una vejez diferencial. AbstractStarting from the premise that old age is a construction in life course and diversity its main feature, this paper analyzes how gender and sexuality are valuable aspects of the ways in which old age is built differently. This paper argues that having belonged to a sexual minority historically stigmatized it has impacted on the ways of aging and therefore in the type, quality and life expectancy of the people.From the Life course paradigm, the influence of the historical time and the meaning that the actors attributed to it are considered turning points. These significant milestones in people’s life act as a hinge in the development of their life trajectory, resulting in an ageing and an old age differential.Through qualitative techniques for information gathering, such as the biographical method and life stories, in-depth interviews and participant observation, it intends to give an account of the perception that the elderly gays, lesbians and trans have on their own aging and old age. Thus, appealing to the reminiscence of the actors it is expected to unveil what the facts are that they consider significant turning points in their life course and if they resulted in an old age differential.


Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
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1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 843-844
Author(s):  
Johannes J. Huinink

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-148
Author(s):  
Marion Perlmutter

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