“There Are No Gay People Here”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Place And Identity

This chapter explores the intersections between place and identity. The quote in the title is from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork in Kentucky, during which a politician indicated that no one identified as queer in his district because he represented a rural region of the state. This led the author to consider further the logic through which queer identity is associated with urban identity, and what that means for rural queer youth. She offers the concept of “boundary publics” to discuss the ways in which ephemeral experiences of belonging are created within more validated and recognized public spheres. She gives examples of how rural Kentucky queer young people, for example, create spaces for belonging within shared social networks and available public spaces, such as parks, churches, and Walmart.

Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryll Alipio
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
At Home

Since the state institutionalization of migrant labour began in the Philippines, countless children have been ‘left behind’ bereft of one, or even both, parents. Consequently, the moral evaluation of familial and financial responsibility has intensified. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in the various institutions involved in the quotidian lives of young people, this chapter uses Cheryl Mattingly’s (2013) notion of the ‘moral laboratory’ at home and in school to explore lived engagements with money, morality, and mobility. In the reimagining and pursuit of future possibilities beyond a life of poverty and unemployment, this chapter contends that young people’s experimentation with money as a form of mobile or migrant aspiration reflects their strategic moral values and maturation.

Crossing the mountain and negotiating the border: Human smuggling in eastern Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 89-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özge Biner
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Human Smuggling ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

AbstractHuman smuggling is a complex process. Made up of actions both organized and chaotic, it compels migrants to deal with different structures and agents of power, among them smugglers, the state(s), and migrants’ own social networks. The current literature on human smuggling provides a detailed analysis of the different phases of this process, within which discussion of the structure and operation of this “business” can be situated. However, only minimal attention has been paid to migrants’ agency in the smuggling process. Engaging with recent perspectives in migration studies, which emphasize the need to conceptualize human smuggling by focusing on the interdependencies between the different actors involved, the analysis developed in this article aims to explore the different phases of the human smuggling process by focusing on the multilayered relations between smugglers and undocumented people. Drawing upon qualitative ethnographic fieldwork conducted with migrants on the Turkish-Iranian border, the article examines how the physical and sociopolitical conditions of border crossing affect people’s ways of thinking, behavior, and engagement with different structures of power. In doing so, the article attempts to further our understanding of how smuggled migrants mobilize their agency in such a way as to manipulate and challenge the system, as well as of how this process transforms migrants’ capacity to simultaneously recognize and unsettle state bordering practices.

scholarly journals Tecnologias digitais, ação comunicativa e ética do discurso em redes sociais

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-317
Author(s):  
Úrsula Cunha Anecleto
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
Communicative Rationality ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Subject

RESUMO: As tecnologias digitais contribuíram para o surgimento de uma nova sociedade interconectada, favorecendo a criação de redes de comunicação, que ampliaram as participações do sujeito em diversos espaços públicos. Nesse sentido, a interação passou também a estruturar-se por nova ética e outras estéticas, que levassem em conta necessidades comunicativas das pessoas, suas lógicas argumentativas e pretensões de validade do discurso. Nessa perspectiva, este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar análise teórico-conceitual sobre a ética do discurso como fundamento para a ação comunicativa nas interações em redes sociais tecnológicas. Teoricamente, ancora-se nos estudos sobre racionalidade comunicativa, ética do discurso e esfera pública (HABERMAS, 1889, 1990, 2007, 2012), e redes sociais (RECUERO, 2009; ARAÚJO, 2016; PRIMO, 2005; FRANCO, 2012; BUZATO, 2016). Metodologicamente, apresenta-se a partir de uma análise hermenêutica, tendo como enfoque pressupostos interpretativo-críticos (HABERMAS, 1982, 2006, 2010). Como contribuição, o estudo aponta que a comunicação em rede, fundamentada em princípios éticos, proporciona ao sujeito participação em esferas públicas, de forma livre e democrática, alicerçadas no diálogo, na reestruturação dos papéis comunicativos e na emancipação discursiva, a partir da formação de uma identidade pós-convencional. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: redes sociais; ação comunicativa; ética do discurso.   ABSTRACT: Digital technologies have contributed to the emergence of a new interconnected society, favouring the creation of communication networks, which extended the participation of the subject in various public spaces. In this sense, the interaction also happened to be structured from new ethics and other and aesthetics, which took into account people's communicative needs, their argumentative logics and pretensions of discourse validity. In this perspective, this article aims at presenting theoretical-conceptual analysis on discourse ethics as the basis for communicative action in the interactions through technological social networks. Theoretically, it is based in the studies on communicative rationality, discourse ethics and public sphere (HABERMAS, 1889, 1990, 2007, 2012), and social networks (ARAÚJO, 2009; ARAÚJO, 2016, PRIMO, 2005; FRANCO, 2012; BUZATO, 2016). Methodologically, it is based on a hermeneutical analysis, grounded on interpretative-critical assumptions (HABERMAS, 1982, 2006, 2010). As a contribution, the study points out that network communication, based on ethical principles, provides participation in public spheres, in a free and democratic way, based on dialogue, on the restructuring of communicative roles and on discursive emancipation, from the formation of a postconventional identity. KEYWORDS: social networks; communicative action; ethics of the discourse.

‘Urfi marriage, an Egyptian Version of Cohabitation?

1970 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Ikran Eum
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
State Pension

In Egypt, the term ‘urfi2 in relation to marriage means literally “customary” marriage, something that has always existed in Egypt but nowadays tends mostly to be secretly practiced among young people. Traditionally, according to Abaza,3 ‘urfi marriage took place not only for practical purposes (such as enabling widows to remarry while keeping the state pension of their deceased husbands), but also as a way of matchmaking across classes (since men from the upper classes use ‘urfi marriage as a way of marrying a second wife from a lower social class). In this way a man could satisfy his sexual desires while retaining his honor by preserving his marriage to the first wife and his position in the community to which he belonged, and keeping his second marriage secret.

EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE IN PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Davlatbek Qudratov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Military Mobilization ◽  
Second World

The article analyzes the state of schools and education in General during the Second World war. The slogan "Everything for the front, everything for victory!" defined the goal not only of all military mobilization activities of the Soviet state, but also became the center of all organizational, ideological, cultural and educational activities of the party and state bodies of Uzbekistan.

ELECTION SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
The State ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Election System ◽  
The Republic

This article discusses the general characteristics of the electoral system of Kazakhstan by the example of elections of the President of the Republic, the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan and deputies of the Mazhilis. The features of dividing this system into majority and proportional are also disclosed. The article analyzes the features of the appointment and conduct of elections and the principles on which they are based. It is also shown how the active activity of the state in the field of legal education of young people and their familiarization with the electoral system affects the high participation rates of citizens in elections.

‘Party in the street’: The partisan politics of space

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110338
Author(s):  
David Jenkins ◽  
Lipin Ram
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
State Power ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Public space is often understood as an important ‘node’ of the public sphere. Typically, theorists of public space argue that it is through the trust, civility and openness to others which citizens cultivate within a democracy’s public spaces, that they learn how to relate to one another as fellow members of a shared polity. However, such theorizing fails to articulate how these democratic comportments learned within public spaces relate to the public sphere’s purported role in holding state power to account. In this paper, we examine the ways in which what we call ‘partisan interventions’ into public space can correct for this gap. Using the example of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM), we argue that the ways in which CPIM partisans actively cultivate sites of historical regional importance – such as in the village of Kayyur – should be understood as an aspect of the party’s more general concern to present itself to citizens as an agent both capable and worthy of wielding state power. Drawing on histories of supreme partisan contribution and sacrifice, the party influences the ideational background – in competition with other parties – against which it stakes its claims to democratic legitimacy. In contrast to those theorizations of public space that celebrate its separateness from the institutions of formal democratic politics and the state more broadly, the CPIM’s partisan interventions demonstrate how parties’ locations at the intersections of the state and civil society can connect the public sphere to its task of holding state power to account, thereby bringing the explicitly political questions of democratic legitimacy into the everyday spaces of a political community.

scholarly journals Role of Narrative and Social Networks in Thwarting Violence and Sexual Abuse in Young People’s Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 2172-2190
Author(s):  
Margareta Hydén ◽  
David Gadd ◽  
Thomas Grund
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Young People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention

Abstract Combining narrative analysis with social network analysis, this article analyses the case of a young Swedish female who had been physically and sexually abused. We show how she became trapped in an abusive relationship at the age of fourteen years following social work intervention in her family home, and how she ultimately escaped from this abuse aged nineteen years. The analysis illustrates the significance of responses to interpersonal violence from the social networks that surround young people; responses that can both entrap them in abusive relationships by blaming them for their problems and enable them to escape abuse by recognising their strengths and facilitating their choices. The article argues that the case for social work approaches that envision young people’s social networks after protective interventions have been implemented. The article explains that such an approach has the potential to reconcile the competing challenges of being responsive to young people’s needs while anticipating the heightened risk of being exposed to sexual abuse young people face when estranged from their families or after their trust in professionals has been eroded.

scholarly journals School and Shaping Students’ Identities: A Report on the Studies into Youth in the Silesian Voivodeship

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Alina Szczurek-Boruta
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
School Year ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Two Stages

The identity of young people, and the state of a school’s fulfilment of its tasks, as presented in the article, are based on the results of the author’s own field explorations carried out in the school year 2003/2004 and repeated in the same territory of the Silesian Voivodeship in the zone of intensive social and economic development in 2016/2017. The results of the research conducted have shown that schools brought young people with different personal and social resources, and living in different historical and socio-cultural contexts, to a similar value of identity capital. The study, conducted in two stages with an interval of 13 years, has revealed the greatest shifts in the following areas: extension of the range of interactions (change 13.2%); ambivalence (change 8.1%); revitalization (change 7.7%); and ethos (change 6.8%). The least change occurred in the provision of offers of identification (1.7% change). A slight decline was noted in the extension of the developmental moratorium (1.5% change). The identified, described and empirically verified tasks of a school form a specific map of educational activities, which can be successfully used as a matrix to describe and interpret a school’s participation in the shaping of young people’s identities.

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