scholarly journals The Mohajir Identity in Pakistan: The Natives’ Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Fouzia Rehman Khan ◽  
Fehmida Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Linguistic Groups ◽  
A Site

Analysing narratives as a site of identity constructions and negotiation is an expanding genre in the field of linguistics. The present study explores the Mohajir identity of Urdu Speaking in Pakistan through the narratives of the natives. This research is a qualitative analysis of the narratives that are formed through the semi structured private interviews of Urdu Speaking Mohajir/ immigrants in Pakistan. The interpretive analysis of the interviews reflected the subjective reception of the discursive practices, which were found to be negative and the term “Mohajir” was declared to have an undesirable connotation with the associated discourses having a similar impact. The study recommends that the word “Mohajir” should be excluded from the everyday discourse. There is a need for avoidance of the racist, exclusionary and discriminatory discourses and discursive practices because such discourses eventually become public and generate anti-immigrant sentiments. At the same time discourses of unification should be promoted so as to establish harmonious discursive practices for a peaceful coexistence of different ethnic and linguistic groups living in Pakistan.

Doing Fieldwork in the Andamans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Zehmisch
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Andaman Islands ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site

Chapter 2 contextualizes the Andaman Islands as a fieldwork location. It has two major objectives: First, it serves to introduce the reader to the Andamans as a geographical, ecological, and political space and as a site of imagination. This representation of the islands concentrates on the interplay of discourses and policies which have shaped their global, national, and local perception as well as the everyday life of the Andaman population. Second, the chapter underlines the conflation of anthropological theory, fieldwork, and biographical transformations. It demonstrates how recent theoretical trends and paradigm shifts in global and academic discourse have become enmeshed with the author’s experiences in and perceptions of the field. Elaborating on these intricate personal and professional ‘spectacles’ of the fieldworker, the author thus contextualizes the subjective conditions inherent in the production of ethnography as a type of literature.

Risk, propriety, and sexual assault

2009 ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Diana Young
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Risk Theory ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
A Site ◽  
Traditional Norms

- Legal theorists often conceive of the law as a closed system of reasoning, and as the central mechanism through which the uses of power are conferred and circumscribed. However, social theory challenges this conception of law by telling us that a great deal of power is non-juridical in nature, operating through discursive practices that define and normalize conduct. This raises doubts as to whether juridical power can be used to achieve social transformation. Risk theory uncovers discursive practices that operate as non-juridical sites of power, by showing how risk analyses normalize contingent values through the use of value-neutral terms of statistical probabilities. For example, feminist criminologists, drawing on risk theory, have shown us how risk discourses can be used to reinforce traditional norms of femininity, particularly by responsibilizing women for minimizing the risk of sexual assault. Using an example from the Canadian law of sexual assault, this paper considers whether the law inevitably reproduces the very discourses of femininity that many law reformers are trying to disrupt, or whether it might act as a site wherein these discourses may be challenged.

scholarly journals Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita Elias ◽  
Shirin M. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Power And Agency ◽  
A Site

AbstractIt goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday – conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and governed. Given the longstanding grounding of feminist research in everyday gendered experiences, many would ask: Why do we need an explicit feminist theorisation of the everyday? After all, notions of everyday life and everyday political struggle infuse feminist analysis. This article seeks to interrogate the concept of the everyday – questioning prevalent understandings of the everyday and asking whether there is analytical and conceptual utility to be gained in articulating a specifically feminist understanding of it. We argue that a feminist political economy of the everyday can be developed in ways that push theorisations of social reproduction in new directions. We suggest that one way to do this is through the recognition that social reproductionisthe everyday alongside a three-part theorisation of space, time, and violence (STV). It is an approach that we feel can play an important role in keeping IPE honest – that is, one that recognises how important gendered structures of everyday power and agency are to the conduct of everyday life within global capitalism.

scholarly journals Writing on the Ground

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Klostermann
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Recent Statement ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

This essay responds to the recent “Statement on Writing Centres and Staffing” (Graves, 2016), making visible differing conceptualizations of writing in it. More particularly, I will make visible traces of the statement that position writing as a measurable skill, aligning with the priorities of university administrators, and traces of the statement that position writing as a complex social practice, aligning with the needs of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists. I trouble understandings of writing that maintain the university as a site of exclusion, while pushing for future contributions that take seriously the everyday, on the ground work of student writers and writing centre tutors/specialists.

Akan Deities as Agents of Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Seth Tweneboah
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Delivery Method ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
The Everyday

The chapter takes an integrative look at a largely neglected field of conflict resolution mechanism in Ghana: the extent to which belief in traditional deities both enhance and undercut justice delivery systems in society. It contends that through duabɔ (imprecation) there is an enduring influence of traditional deities as part of legal regulatory frameworks in society. The chapter, thus, uncovers the hidden resources of traditional deities as useful channels of conflict resolution. The chapter draws on proceedings from the Akan customary conflict resolution mechanism to demonstrate both the usefulness and challenges of traditional justice delivery method in contemporary Ghana and encourages the need for its modification to suit the needs of legal modernity. The chapter is the product of a qualitative analysis of empirical ethnographic material gathered from the everyday facts of Ghanaian religious communities and public domain.

Asylum Seekers Struggle to Recover the Everyday: The Extended “Emergency Shelter” at Tempelhofer Feld as a Site of Continuous Crisis

Sociologus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fazila Bhimji
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emergency Shelter ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site

Abstract This study describes how the iconic hangars at Tempelhofer Feld, which are designed to accommodate asylum-seekers temporarily prior to relocating them to various other parts of Germany, have for some of them turned into a more permanent and more regimented site of accommodation in Berlin. The shelters have housed several hundred asylum-seekers for two and a half years, and in many respects they contradict the so-called Willkommenskultur (‘welcome culture’) on which Germany has prided itself. Drawing on Vigh’s (2008) notion of continuous crisis, this study argues that these asylum-seekers have found themselves residing in a state of perpetual regimentation, which they understand as detrimental to their well-being. It also shows that they have nevertheless sought to find well-being and to dignify their lives by striving to normalize this situation.

Male homosocial bonds and perceptions of human–robot relationships in an online sex doll forum

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072093238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Middleweek
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
White Male ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Online Interactions ◽  
Porous Interface ◽  
Robot Technology ◽  
Heterosexual Sex ◽  
Male Heterosexual ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Debates about human–machine relationships have intensified following the launch of the world’s first commercially available sex robot ‘Harmony’, a hyperrealistic sex doll with AI-capabilities. With the likely consumer market for these devices among white, male, heterosexual sex-doll owners, their views about sex robot technology and the niche online communities in which they discuss their doll relationships have received little scholarly attention. Through a qualitative analysis of the discursive practices of male users of a major sex doll forum, this study found complex and dynamic homosocial relations characterized men’s online interactions. In their discussion of a sex robot future, men negotiate competing structures of masculinity and sexuality and create a safe, online space for others to express their sexual desires and preferences. Using the concept of the ‘seam’ or join, the results reveal the way male users of sex dolls position themselves subjectively and are positioned by technology and the increasingly porous interface between human and machine.

Sweating the “small stuff”: High-reliability organizing as a foundation for sustained superior performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Vogus ◽  
Claus Rerup
Keyword(s):  
High Reliability ◽  
Relative Performance ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mindful Organizing ◽  
Approaches To Study ◽  
Operational Activity ◽  
Organization Research

Achieving and sustaining superior relative performance is central to strategic organization research. Recently, strategic organization researchers have turned their attention to the broader set of people doing strategy work, how they do it, and what contributes to superior performance. We deepen this focus by arguing that operational activity on the front line is strategic. To illustrate how everyday operations become strategic, we draw on insights from high-reliability organizing to illustrate how leaders, through practices and behaviors, support a more strategic front line and a specific set of discursive practices known as mindful organizing. The everyday mindful work of front line operations is a crucial source of emerging opportunities and threats that underlie superior relative performance. We discuss the methodological implications of applying high-reliability organizing approaches to study strategic organization and how strategic organization research can broaden and enrich research on high reliability.

scholarly journals Performing “home” in the sharing economies of tourism: the Airbnb experience in Sofia, Bulgaria

2018 ◽  
Vol 196 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje Roelofsen
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
A Site

This article explores how “home” is performed in the emerging sharing economies of tourism, drawing on the example of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria. Based on an (auto)ethnographic approach, this article analyses the sometimes contested ways in which both hosts and guests engage in the everyday embodied practices of home-making. In doing so, it challenges Airbnb’s essentialized idea of home as a site of belonging, “authenticity” or “localness”. It also shows how the political and historical specificities, as well as the materialities of people’s homes significantly shape the ways in which ordinary practices of homemaking play out and consequently affect feelings of (un)homeliness as part of the Airbnb experience. By using performance theory as an analytical framework, this article seeks to contribute to a critical understanding of the contemporary geographies of home in relation to the global sharing economies of tourism, one that is attuned to openness, interrelatedness, and a constant mode of becoming.

Everyday

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
A Site ◽  
First Time

The central issue surrounding the “everyday” in relation to literature and to literary study is etymological: a distinction between the “everyday,” a Romantic-period neologism that names both a site of interest and a representational alternative to both the probable and the fantastic; and “everydayness,” a mid-19th-century coinage, reflecting developments particular to urbanization, industrialization, and the rise of capital. This distinction has largely vanished, reflecting the influence of social science, and theory on the humanities and the flight in general from phenomenology. Nevertheless, as the first discourse actually to register the uncanniness of the everyday, literature provides an approach to everyday life that is not only in contrast to the limitations and routines linked to everydayness but also a reminder of possibilities and enchantments that are always close at hand. Although Maurice Blanchot’s axiom that “the everyday is never what we see a first time, but only see again” is as applicable to “everyday life studies” as it is to literature and to related theories of perception, there are fundamental differences. From the perspective of the human sciences and social theory, this discovery is recursive: “the everyday” proceeds from something that “escapes”—which, like ideology, is never quite seen—to something suddenly visible or seen again but with no alteration apart from being retrieved and corralled as a condition of being understood and in many cases lamented. In literature, the escape is ongoing. A parallel world of which we are unaware, or unmindful, becomes visible as if for the first time, but as a condition of remaining missable and always discoverable.

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