scholarly journals The two faces of user involvement: Everyday life and local context

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen ◽  
Rasmus Antoft ◽  
Jette Primdahl ◽  
Kim Hørslev Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Set Up

In most developed countries, healthcare systems are increasingly faced with political demands to involve users in the planning and development of their services. This article reports findings from an ethnographic fieldwork that investigated an inter-organizational project involving user representation. The project was set up to develop an educational programme for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). By investigating user representatives’ experiences, our aim was to bring to light more general determinants and conditions of user involvement in health services. Drawing on an analytical framework within everyday life sociology, the analysis explored the dual concept of “conditions and conditionality”, metaphorically described in this article as “the two faces of user involvement”. From one perspective, everyday life experiences – living with RA, encounters with the health system and professional identities and work life – conditioned user representatives’ participation in the project. From another perspective, the local institutional context and interactions within the project framework conditioned the way in which users are involved. The ways in which these conditions changed over time are described, in relation to the specific spatial, temporal and social developments in both the everyday lives of the user representatives and in the local project.

Necessary Conformism: An Art of Living for Young People in Turkey

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demet Lðkðslð
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Do So

AbstractThis paper focuses on the everyday life experiences of the post-1980 generation in Turkey–a generation stigmatized for being depoliticized and apathetic. Rather than accepting this stigmatizing view, however, this analysis aims to better understand young people's actual lived experiences. To do so, it adopts the concept of “necessary conformism” developed in previous empirical research. This concept offers an alternative analytical framework that transcends the engaged/disengaged or political/ unpolitical dichotomy in young people's social participation. Specifically, the application of this concept reveals that apathetic behavior may actually mask powerful discontent and suffering that can be expressed neither through conventional politics nor open resistance. The necessary conformism of young people, therefore, is not apathetic behavior, but the expression of an underlying discontent and often a hidden agony.

scholarly journals Towards liberationist engagement with ethnicity: A case study of the politics of ethnicity in a Methodist church

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Hankela
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Diversity Discourse

The article calls for critical theological examination of the politics of ethnicity in the context of mainline churches in South Africa. The category of ethnicity is largely missing in the interrogation of diversity in the delineated context. Including this category of difference in the theological and religious studies diversity discourse would, if brought to bear on praxis, facilitate the building of inclusive worship spaces. On the contrary, neglecting the politics of ethnicity in the context of churches means neglecting a dynamic that impacts negatively on the everyday life of ordinary churchgoers. The argument is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in a Methodist church in Johannesburg primarily in 2009.

Making the invisible visible? Everyday lived experiences of ‘seeing’ and categorizing children’s well-being within a Danish kindergarten

Childhood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Houmøller
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

This article explores how pedagogues assess and categorize children’s well-being in the everyday life of a kindergarten caring for a large number of children considered socially vulnerable. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article focuses on a newly implemented well-being assessment tool oriented towards making all children’s needs visible through the pedagogues’ regular colour-categorizations of their state of well-being. The article problematizes this ambition and proposes that some children are rendered invisible in the process of categorizing. It is argued that the categorizations are more reflective of the structural conditions of the kindergarten and a gauged sense of urgency.

The Everyday Life of a Homo Sacer. Enclave Urbanism in Podgorica, Montenegro

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Čarna Brković
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract This article ethnographically follows the everyday life of a homo sacer—a young Roma woman who has lived her whole life in a camp for displaced persons. The camp has been built for Roma, Ashkalias, and Balkan Egyptians who in 1999 fled from the violence in Kosovo to Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. The key aim of the article is to see what happens with the concepts of ‘homo sacer’ and ‘bare life’ when ethnographically engaged in the context of Southeastern Europe. The article argues that ethnographic fieldwork in urban settings reveals in what way a homo sacer has an everyday life and a complex sociopolitical existence, and that camps are urban formations that can be related to very different sociohistorical and political projects.

scholarly journals Isolation, Solitude and Social Distancing for People Who Use Drugs: An Ethnographic Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Roe ◽  
Jesse Proudfoot ◽  
Joseph Tay Wee Teck ◽  
Richard D. G. Irvine ◽  
Stan Frankland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
People Who Use Drugs ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The World ◽  
Disciplinary Perspective

COVID-19 has resulted in deepened states of crisis and vulnerability for people who use drugs throughout Europe and across the world, with social distancing measures having far-reaching implications for everyday life. Prolonged periods of isolation and solitude are acknowledged within much addiction literature as negatively impacting the experiences of those in recovery, while also causing harm to active users – many of whom depend on social contact for the purchasing and taking of substances, as well as myriad forms of support. Solitude, however, is proposed by the authors as inherent within some aspects of substance use, far from particular to the current pandemic. Certain forms of substance use engender solitary experience, even where use is predicated upon the presence of others. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, this paper takes as its focus the urgent changes wrought by the pandemic upon everyday life for people who use drugs, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork with substance users in Scotland. Beyond the current crises, the paper proposes solitude, and by extension isolation, as an analytical framework for better apprehending lived experiences of substance use.

scholarly journals Everyday lives of middle-aged persons living with multimorbidity: protocol of a mixed-methods systematic review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e050990
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Gonzalez-Gonzalez ◽  
Robin Brünn ◽  
Julia Nothacker ◽  
Truc Sophia Dinh ◽  
Maria-Sophie Brueckle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Citation Index ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Sciences Citation Index

IntroductionMultimorbidity is the simultaneous occurrence of several (chronic) diseases. Persons living with multimorbidity not only have complex care needs, but the burden of care often has a negative impact on their family lives, leisure time and professional activities. The aim of this project is to systematically review the literature to assess how multimorbidity affects the everyday lives of middle-aged persons, and to find out what abilities and resources help in the development of coping strategies to overcome the challenges of living with it.Methods and analysisWe will systematically search for studies reporting on the everyday life experiences of middle-aged persons (30–60 years) with multimorbidity (≥2 chronic conditions) in MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded, PSYNDEX and The Cochrane Library from inception. We will include all primary studies that use quantitative, qualitative and mixed methodologies, irrespective of publication date/study setting.Two independent reviewers will screen titles/abstracts/full texts, extract data from the selected studies and present evidence in terms of study/population characteristics, data collection method and the phenomenon of interest, that is, everyday life experiences of middle-aged persons with multimorbidity. Risk of bias will be independently assessed by two reviewers using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. We will use a convergent integrated approach on qualitative/quantitative studies, whereby information will be synthesised narratively and, if possible, quantitatively.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval is not required due to the nature of the proposed systematic review. Results from this research will be disseminated at relevant (inter)national conferences and via publication in peer-reviewed journals.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021226699.

scholarly journals Becoming Citizen: Spatial and Expressive Acts when Strangers Move In

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-228
Author(s):  
Peter Kærgaard Andersen ◽  
Lasse Mouritzen ◽  
Kristine Samson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Retirement Home ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Town

This article examines the conditions and expressions of how refugees in Denmark become citizens. Through visual and collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, which took place during 2017, the case study follows the everyday life of an Eritrean community living in a former retirement home in the town of Hørsholm. The article investigates how becoming citizen can be understood as mediatised, spatial and expressive negotiations between the refugees and the local society. We look at the conditions of becoming citizen through the local framing of the Eritrean community—understood as political, social, cultural and material framing conditions. We draw on Engin Isin’s concept of performative citizenship (Isin, 2017), and we suggest how everyday life and becoming potentially hold the capacity to re-formulate and add to the understanding of citizenship. We suggest that becoming citizen is not merely about obtaining Danish citizenship and civic rights nor tantamount with settling down. On the contrary, the analysis shows that becoming citizen is a process of expressed and performed desires connected to global becomings beyond the sedentary citizenship, and therefore holds capacity for transforming and diversifying the notion of citizenship.

scholarly journals East Germany's Red Woodstock: The 1973 Festival between the “Carnivalesque” and the Everyday

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-610
Author(s):  
Katharine White
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
German Capital ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
East German

AbstractScholars often depict the 1973 World Festival of Youth and Students—or, more colloquially, the Red Woodstock—as a momentary “departure” or “break” from everyday life, when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) briefly opened its borders to the youth of the world. Similarly, they suggest that, when the festival's nine days of festivities came to an end, the “pathos of revolution” disappeared just as quickly as it had come about, resulting in a return to the restraints of everyday life behind the “Iron Curtain.” By contrast, this article reconsiders the festival's significance by adopting an analytical framework from postsocialist theorists. In doing so, it reconceptualizes the Red Woodstock as a moment of globalized influences and youth engagement that not only reflected shifting societal norms, but also the East German state's commitment to international socialist solidarity. Soviet theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s work on the “upside-down” nature of the carnival, as well as on society’s “grotesque body,” is useful in this regard, as it sets in sharp relief the extent to which one of the East German state’s greatest challenges resulted from its own embrace of international socialism. This was the case as young people from the GDR and beyond transformed the East German capital through a subtle appropriation, transformation, and even subversion of the state-generated discourse on international solidarity, in ways that had a lasting effect during the late socialist period.

Logics, tensions and negotiations in the everyday life of a news-ranking algorithm

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110633
Author(s):  
Jakob Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ranking Algorithm ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
News Ranking ◽  
Human Practices

This article attends to tensions and negotiations surrounding the introduction and development of a news-ranking algorithm in a Swedish daily. Approaching algorithms as culture, being composed of collective human practices, the study emphasizes socio-institutional dynamics in the everyday life of the algorithm. The focus on tensions and negotiations is justified from an institutional perspective and operationalized through an analytical framework of logics. Empirically the study is based on interviews with 14 different in-house workers at the daily, journalists as well as programmers and market actors. The study shows that logics connected to both journalism and programming co-developed the news-ranking algorithm. Tensions and their negotiations around these logics contributed to its very development. One example is labeling of the algorithm as editor-led, allowing journalists to oversee some of its parameters. Social practices in the newsroom, such as Algorithm-Coffee, was also important for its development. In other words, different actors, tensions between them and how these were negotiated, co-constituted by the algorithm itself.

scholarly journals The Culture of Wine in Ukrainian Baroque Poetry

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Nataliia Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Baroque Poetry ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Secular Power

The article represents the results of the culturological analysis of Ukrainian baroque poetry with ‘wine’ for the prominent image. Just as the conceit of wine was never researched profoundly by culturologists and linguists, this article is an attempt to conceptualize the imagery of wine and culture of its consumption in Ukrainian literary criticism and cultural studies. Upon researching Ukrainian baroque poetry, the author of this article revealed some new connotations of the image of wine. First of them is a symbol of reproach declared to the authorities of either sacral or secular power (the conceptual pattern of it are the writings by Ukrainian polemist Ivan Vyshensky). However, even the strongest judgements sounded hopefully thanks to stylization in the mood of Christian liturgy. Secondly, wine was a reflection of joy of life, love, or friendship in Epicurean style. Thirdly, it was set up as a philosophical image of the human self as the most precious thing in the world. This idea was also supported staunchly by H. Skovoroda. Henceforth, wine in baroque poetry is not only an image of something material within the framework of the everyday life and rituals; it is a factor of reconciliation of Christian and Pantheistic worldview in the Ukrainians. Further researches of ‘wine’ conceit in Ukrainian poetry (and Ukrainian culture as a whole) would allow confirming anew the vision of a human-within-the-world as the world-within-a-human.

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