Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Sarah Hillewaert
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Project

The conclusion returns to debates about globalization, global Islam, and global terror, but links these overall concerns to the everyday lives of young Muslims in Lamu. This book challenges portrayals that concentrate on young Muslims’ supposed conflicting engagements with Western modernity. The conclusion therefore does not reflect upon “Islam and the West” and its transpiration in young people’s lives, but rather considers the moral urgency that underlies discussions of self-fashioning and embodiment in contexts of rapid change. The detailed discussion of language and self-fashioning that formed the focus of the book sought to provoke broader discussions of ethical living in contexts of change. The conclusion reflects upon how self-fashioning is always also a political project, whereby young people position themselves locally but also translocally in relation to a range of “others.” The ambiguity of social evaluations, and the uncertainity as to how “others” evaluate young people’s everyday practices, forms a central focus of this discussion.

Moving stories: using mobile methods to explore the everyday lives of young people in public care

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Ross ◽  
Emma Renold ◽  
Sally Holland ◽  
Alexandra Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mobile Methods

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 Precarity, rights and resistance in the everyday lives of children and young people

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-421
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Everyday

This article addresses the relevance of the concepts of precarity, rights and resistance in general terms in relation to children and young people in ‘developed’ societies. It then specifically explores how this triple lens enables children’s perspectives and experiences of growing up in ‘post-conflict’ Belfast to be understood. The concept of ‘generagency’ is introduced as providing a useful conceptual tool for exploring the multiple and contradictory landscapes of childhood and how precarity, rights and resistance are experienced generationally.

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 Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Anita Hardon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Psychoactive Substances ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shared Understandings ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract The everyday lives of contemporary youth are awash with chemicals to boost pleasure, energy, sexual performance, appearance, and health. What do pills, drinks, sprays, powders, and lotions do for youth? What effects are youth seeking? The ChemicalYouth ethnographies presented here, based on more than five years of fieldwork conducted in Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Cayagan de Oro, Paris, Makassar, Puerto Princesa, and Yogyakarta, show that young people try out chemicals together, compare experiences, and engage in collaborative experiments. ChemicalYouth: Navigating Uncertainty: In Search of the Good Life makes a case for examining a broader range of chemicals that young people use in their everyday lives. It focuses not just on psychoactive substances—the use of which is viewed with concern by parents, educators, and policymakers—but all the other chemicals that young people use to boost pleasure, moods, vitality, appearance, and health, purposes for using chemicals that have received far less scholarly attention. It takes the use of chemicals as situated practices that are embedded in social relations and that generate shared understandings of efficacy. More specifically, it seeks to answer the question: how do young people balance the benefits and harms of chemicals in their quest for a good life?

Trust in the West or «West-Pakete» from the GDR?!Consumption of East German Clothing by Soviet Women in the Brezhnev Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-366
Author(s):  
Anna Tikhomirova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
East German ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal

Trust in the West or «West-Pakete» from the GDR?! Consumption of East German Clothing by Soviet Women in the Brezhnev Era The article aims to challenge the widespread assumption in the historiography that, in the Brezhnev era, the «trickle-down» of Western fashion into the USSR undermined not only consumers’ trust in Soviet goods, but also trust in the «Soviet» itself. However, the overwhelming majority of studies explicitly consider only capitalist countries the «West». These studies fail to take into account the mediated «trickling down» of the West into the Soviet Union through consumer goods imported from socialist states such as the GDR. In my article, I argue that this phenomenon can be seen as one of the stabilising mechanisms that allowed Soviet civilisation to function. Drawing primarily on oral history interviews that I conducted and memoirs written by Soviet women of the «last Soviet generation» (A. Yurchak), I identify channels, dimensions, levels and functions of trust-building in the everyday practices of both imaginary and actual consumption of East German goods. One of the key symbolic connotations of Soviet consumers’ trust in fashion made in the GDR was «trust in the West». This trust also comprised «trust in the typical German virtues» and «trust in proper socialism». The latter type of trust indicates that the political dimension of trust in commodities made in the GDR cannot be reduced to distrust in the actual Soviet state; instead, this distrust coexisted with trust in the ideal-theoretical version of a socialist society.

‘Free country, free internet’: the symbolic power of technology in the Hungarian internet tax protests

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Government

In 2014, the Hungarian government announced the introduction of a tax on internet usage. The proposal generated large protests, which led to its eventual withdrawal. In this article, I investigate the puzzling success of the ‘internet tax’ protests: how could a small tax on internet consumption generate so much contestation? I argue that the internet tax was able to give way to a broader mobilization against the government, because of the symbolic power of the idea of ‘the internet’, to which different political meanings can be attached. Through interviews with Hungarian activists, I reconstruct how the internet was associated with a mobilizing discourse that I term ‘mundane modernity’, which reproduces tropes of Western modernity about the equalizing properties of technology, progress, and rationality, while grounding them in the everyday practices of internet use. I then discuss the types of freedom embedded in mundane modernity and assess its political limitations.

The use of assistive technology in the everyday lives of young people living with dementia and their caregivers. Can a simple remote control make a difference?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 2011-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Jentoft ◽  
Torhild Holthe ◽  
Cathrine Arntzen
Keyword(s):  
Remote Control ◽  
Young People ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTBackground:This study was a part of a larger study exploring the impact of assistive technology on the lives of young people living with dementia (YPD). This paper focuses on one of the most useful devices, the simple remote control (SRC). The objective was to explore the reason why the SRC is significant and beneficial in the everyday lives of YPD and their caregivers.Methods:This qualitative longitudinal study had a participatory design. Eight participants received an SRC. The range for using it was 0–15 months. In-depth interviews and observations were conducted at baseline and repeated every third month up to 18 months. A situated learning approach was used in the analysis to provide a deeper understanding of the significance and use of SRC.Results:Young people having dementia spend a substantial amount of time alone. Watching television was reported to be important, but handling remote controls was challenging and created a variety of problems. YPD learned to use SRC, which made important differences in the everyday lives of all family members. Comprehensive support from caregivers and professionals was important for YPD in the learning process.Conclusions:The SRC was deemed a success because it solved challenges regarding the use of television in everyday lives of families. The design was recognizable and user-friendly, thus allowing YPD to learn its operation. Access to professional support and advice regarding assistive technology is vital for establishing a system for follow-up and continued collaboration to make future adaptations and adjustments.

Consuming the Car: Anticipation, Use and Meaning in Contemporary Youth Culture

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamonn Carrabine ◽  
Brian Longhurst
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Personal Mobility ◽  
Car Use ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Science Discussion

Drawing on evidence from a recently conducted study of the everyday lives of young people in Manchester, UK, this article considers the place of cars in contemporary youth culture. The article acknowledges the recent beginnings of sociological and social science discussion of cars but concurs with the view that this topic has been much neglected. More specifically the study of young people and personal mobility has been constrained by approaches that emphasise the problematic nature of this phenomena or locate it within a theory of subculture. Taking its cue from recent studies of consumption, this paper offers an alternative theorisation. Refinement of the work on television consumption by Roger Silverstone leads to a discussion of more affluent young people's relationships to cars under three heads: anticipation, use and meaning. It is suggested that car use must be seen in the framework of sociability and networks and that it also critically and suggestively mediates ordinary consumption with imaginative possibilities.

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