scholarly journals Racism in the everyday life of Finnish children with transnational roots

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Rastas
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Transnational Adoptees ◽  
Vast Area

In the vast area of studies of racism children’s experiences have been overlooked. Questions of racism are often related to immigrants and their children, but in many European countries increasing numbers of children of mixed parentage, as well as children adopted from other continents, confront racism. My ethnographic study of racism in the everyday lives of Finnish children with “transnational roots” focuses on the experiences of transnational adoptees and those young Finnish citizens who have one Finnish-born parent, but whose Finnishness and right to belong is often questioned by others because of their parental ties to other countries and nations. This article explores the different manifestations of racism in their daily lives and concludes with a discussion of the importance of identifying those social and culturalfactors which make it especially difficult for children to talk about and deal with their experiences of racism.

Labour Woman and the Housewife

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses how Labour Party women engaged with the newly-enfranchised housewife between the wars. It focuses on how Labour Woman represented the working-class housewife and the degree to which it enabled her to speak for herself. It chose everyday domestic life, traditionally assumed to be beyond politics, as the way to connect with unorganised women in their homes. In its Housewife Column the relevance of politics to women’s daily lives was explored through domestic topics such food prices, housework, washing and making clothes. Even with the increasing dominance of recipes and dress patterns in the 1930s, the journal continued to see the housewife as having agency and a distinct experience shaped by class. For Labour Woman interwar domesticity was neither cosy nor rationalised and modern, it was a space which provided the means to engage with the everyday lives of ordinary women.

Laws and How They Affect the Everyday Lives of People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Rhoda Olkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Disability Laws ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Impact

For persons who are minorities, the impact of laws can be very directly experienced in day-to-day life. The myriad laws related to disability are scattered across many laws and throughout many agencies and can be hard to locate. Some of the laws, rules and regulations help, but some also hinder, the daily lives of the disabled. How the labyrinth of laws places a burden on people with disabilities is highlighted. There are four activities in this chapter. The first has students focus on laws that affect their everyday lives. In the second activity the concept of ‘separate but not equal’ is the focus. A third activity entails a comparison of social justice versus distributive justice as it applies to disability. In the fourth activity a game of ‘Eye Spy’ concentrates on the application of disability laws.

scholarly journals Dominion, Stewardship and Reconciliation in the Accounts of Ordinary People Eating Animals

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Anna Sofia Salonen
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday

Despite the growing popularity of vegetarian foods and diets, the vast majority of people in North America and other parts of the affluent world still eat meat. This article explores what ordinary people think about eating animals and how they navigate the ethical questions inherent in that praxis. Drawing from interviews with 24 people living in Ottawa, Canada, the study shows how the concepts of dominion, stewardship and reconciliation manifest in the everyday lives of ordinary people as models for human relations with nonhuman others and the environment. These ideas resonate in the lives of ordinary people, both religious and nonreligious, and entwine as people try to make sense of how to live with the fact that their everyday food consumption causes suffering and harm. This study shows that in the context of everyday life, dominion, stewardship and reconciliation are not alternative views, but connected to each other, and serve different purposes. The study highlights a need for analyses that constitute practical ways to renew the broken relationships within creation and which incorporate nonreligious people into the scope of analyses that focus on the relationships between humans and nonhuman creation.

Sooner or later we will melt together: Framing the digital in the everyday

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

Digital technologies are increasingly pervading our everyday lives. Many of our everyday practices involve the appropriation of digital technologies. The aim of this piece is to discuss two central issues surrounding this digitalisation of everyday life: (i) what constitutes digital culture?; and, (ii) how do digital technologies transform ownership? These questions are considered in this work with the intention of creating a benchmark from which future explorative (empirical) case studies can be developed. The central argument of the piece is that the study of digital technologies should be framed within everyday life. In other words, the study of digital technologies should be redefined as the study of the digitalisation of everyday life.

scholarly journals Friends of the Family in the Cofigurative and Prefigurative Culture Behaviours

Pedagogika ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 112 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
Krystyna Ferenz
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Borders ◽  
Communicative Space

Opening the political borders triggered cultural diffusion in the European countries as the open communicative space accelerated the pace of globalization processes. As a result, changes occurring within a society influence the lives of fundamental social groups, i.e. the families. The last decades in Poland have marked a period of intense changes in the everyday life culture, and the examples of the persons coming from three generations reflect the significance of prefigurative and cofigurative cultures.

scholarly journals Implementing The Values of Pancasila in the Everyday Life of the Millenials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Octavia Putri Balaw
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future

Introduction: It’s safe to say that Pancasila, as the moral compass of the people and the nation, is held as a foundation—in which, the stronger a foundation is, the sturdier the country ought to be. For the last couple years, the millennial generation has taken the reins concerning the future life of the people and the nation of Indonesia. With the effects of ceaseless tech development, an effort to properly implement Pancasila values in their everyday lives is needed, so that the negative repercussions of globalization would not heavily impact the behavioral shift of the millennials. Methods: This article is written using the method of literature review from publications regarding the corresponding topic, along with determined criteria. Results: The millennial generation has shown the withering of Pancasila values through their behavior in recent times. Seeing that the millennials currently play a major part in the success of the people and the land, it is compulsory that the cultivation of Pancasila is given in schools and higher education, to then help the society build the values in prospect for a more altruistic and stronger character. Conclusion: The efforts of implementing Pancasila values in everyday life should be practiced more frequently. Even if it starts with just one principle, gradual progress will show unwittingly, as the five principles all correspond to each other.

scholarly journals Everyday Lives in Peripheral Spaces: A Case of Bengal Borderlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-23
Author(s):  
Sampurna Bhaumik
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The West ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Borderland Communities

This article (part of a special section on South Asian border studies) is an ethnographic study of the daily lives and narratives of borderlands communities in the border districts of Cooch Behar and South Dinajpur along the West-Bengal–Bangladesh border. In order to emphasise the significance of borderland communities’ narratives and experiences to our understanding of borders, this paper explores the idea of borders as social spaces that are inherently dynamic. In attempting to understand the idea of borders through everyday lives of people living in borderland communities, this paper highlights tensions and contradictions between hard borders manifested through securitization practices, and the inherently dynamic social spaces that manifest themselves in people’s daily lives. Conceptually and thematically, this paper is situated within and seeks to contribute to the discipline of borderland studies. Key Words: Borders, Social Spaces, Security, Bengal Borderlands, South Asia 

scholarly journals Surveillance on/off: Examining home surveillance systems from the user's perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liisa A Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Control Devices ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Traditional Understanding

Surveillance equipment, especially cameras and access control devices, are increasingly introduced into homes and other private dwellings. Residents use the equipment in their daily lives in places where they are both operators and targets of these systems. Thus far, the concrete practices of these systems use or the users’ feelings towards them have not been investigated. This article sets out to examine the surveillance produced with home surveillance systems and the meanings and implications of that surveillance to the resident.The data consist of 13 interviews conducted in Finland with people who have installed surveillance systems in their homes. Through qualitative content analysis of the interviews, this article argues that five types of surveillance is produced with these systems. The first two types are comparable to traditional understanding of surveillance motivated by control and care. Besides these two, the equipment is used for recreational and communicational surveillance which are motivated by more playful purposes. The fifth type of surveillance analyzed here is ‘sincere’ surveillance. Domestic surveillance is sincere in the sense that the residents consider it, along with their motives for conducting it, innocent. The users as overseers wish to separate themselves from voyeurs.This article offers important insight into the everyday life practices of surveillance and expands our previous understanding of domestic surveillance. The surveillance produced with home surveillance systems needs to be understood more broadly than in mere control-care-setting. The playful and entertaining usages of the systems, however, do not remove the ambiguities of domestic surveillance. 

Rational Believers: Religion, Tradition and Spirituality among Indian Scientists

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Renny Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Scientific Research Institute ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Modes Of Existence

Thischapter attempts to discuss, through detailed ethnographic description, the manner in which scientists in a leading Indian scientific research institute defined and practiced religion and atheism(s). Instead of posing science and religion as dichotomous categories, the chapter demonstrates their easy coexistence within the everyday lives and practices of Indian scientists. The hyper-rationalism associated with modernity and Western science did not over determine their everyday life and practices. The ‘religious’ scientists did not perceive their religiosity in opposition to science, nor did they accept the conflictual view of science and religion. For them, science and religion are two different ‘modes of existence’, and they perceived the science-religion conflict as an artificial one. Likewise, the ‘atheistic’ scientists did not find any contradiction in following a ‘religious’ lifestyle and simultaneously identifying themselves as atheists or non-believers. The chapter argues that the acceptance of a Western canonical understanding of atheism or belief imposes a closure on the multiple cultural meanings assumed by these categories. Any attempt to universalize or homogenize the experiences of belief and unbelief against the scale of Western modernity runs the risk of neglecting the enmeshing of these categories within the complex life worlds of Indian scientists. The chapter questions the tacit acceptance of the distinctions between science and religion and seeks to evolve new vocabularies to talk about these categories.

scholarly journals Moving Spaces: Mapping the Drama Room as Heterotopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Elsa Szatek
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
A Performance

This article is aimed at exploring the political characteristics of the drama space, which reflects, juxtaposes, and opposes particular sites in a participant’s everyday life, such as the school. By putting spatial theories to work, this article investigates the drama space belonging to an all-girls community group in Sweden, participation in which is voluntary and where the artistic work produced relies on a democratic process, with the girls’ input being vital. I conceptualise the drama room as a heterotopia that functions as an exclusive and excluding space as a well as a space of resistance. Based on interviews with the girls, this ethnographic study challenges the conventional notion that applied drama is only an interrelational matter between the drama participants. By examining the drama room’s role as the ‘other place’ in the girls’ everyday lives while being connected to ‘everyday’ places, this article demonstrates the drama room as an important space for the girls to have agency, there and elsewhere. When placing space and place in the foreground, a ‘dramaspaceknowledge’ emerges, the influence of which stretches beyond the drama room. This article argues that the girls’ dramaspaceknowledge is utilised when creating a performance and while challenging structures and norms elsewhere, such as in their schools and communities.

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