Environmental activists’ hysteresis as a driving force for establishing environmental actions against urban forest privatization in Bandung, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092199332
Author(s):  
Meredian Alam
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Movement Organization ◽  
Environmental Actions ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Depth Interviews

Despite the huge and growing environmental movement to protect urban forests in Indonesia, the tensions between environmental activists’ past engagements with nature and the emerging environmental problems are under-studied. The inner contradiction between the intensive nature of the connections and experiences that the actor maintains and the recent external threat to the environment is the key energizer of an environmental movement. Through Pierre Bourdieu’s seminal concept of hysteresis, this article explores how activists’ previous experiences with nature suffer disjuncture caused by the threat of urban forest privatization occurring in their neighborhood. Drawn from in-depth interviews with the co-founders of an environmental movement organization, the activist narratives in this article reveal that the development of their current struggles was driven by feelings of disappointment, anxiety, anger and a fear of losing the urban forest. The urban forest, for them, not only constitutes a physical space, but serves social and spiritual purposes, represents local identity and is the basis for everyday life.

Recollections of emerging hybrid ethnic identities in Soviet Central Asia: the case of Uzbekistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1026-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timur Dadabaev
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
Ethnic Policy ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

This paper is a contribution to the debate about how people in Central Asia recall Soviet ethnic policies and their vision of how these policies have shaped the identities of their peers and contemporaries. In order to do so, this paper utilizes the outcomes of in-depth interviews about everyday Soviet life in Uzbekistan conducted with 75 senior citizens between 2006 and 2009. These narratives demonstrate that people do not explain Soviet ethnic policies simply through the “modernization” or “victimization” dichotomy but place their experiences in between these discourses. Their recollections also highlight the pragmatic flexibility of the public's adaptive strategies to Soviet ethnic policies. This paper also argues that Soviet ethnic policy produced complicated hybrid units of identities and multiple social strata. Among those who succeeded in adapting to the Soviet realities, a new group emerged, known asRussi assimilados(Russian-speaking Sovietophiles). However, in everyday life, relations between theassimiladosand their “indigenous” or “nativist” countrymen are reported to have been complicated, with clear divisions between these two groups and separate social spaces of their own for each of these strata.

BEYOND THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE: ANALYZING THE IMAGINATION OF PLACE AND TRAVEL IN EVERYDAY LIFE

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Individual State ◽  
Imaginary World ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article advocates a new agenda for (media) tourism research that links questions of tourist experiences to the role and meaning of imagination in everyday life. Based on a small-scale, qualitative study among a group of seventeen respondents of diverse ages and backgrounds currently residing in the Netherlands, we offer an empirical exploration of the places that are of importance for people’s individual state of mind and investigate how these places relate to (potential) tourist experiences. The combination of in-depth interviews and random-cue self-reporting resulted in the following findings: 1) all our respondents regularly reside in an elaborate imaginary world, consisting of both fictional and non-fictional places; 2) this imaginary world is dominated by places which make the respondents feel nostalgic; 3) in this regard, the private home and houses from childhood are pivotal; 4) the ‘home’ is seen as topos of the self and contrasted with ‘away’; 5) the imagination of ‘away’ emerges from memories of previous tourist experiences, personal fantasies and, last but not least, influences from popular culture. We conclude that imagining and visiting other locations are part of a life-long project of ‘identity work’ in which personal identities are performed, confirmed and extended. By travelling, either physically or mentally, individuals anchor their identity - the entirety of ideas about who they are, where they come from and where they think they belong - in a broader, spatial framework.

scholarly journals Wschodni model współczesnego wychowania państwowego na przykładzie rosyjskiego korpusu kadetów. Zarys problemu

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Przemysław Jastrzębski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Military Schools ◽  
State Education ◽  
External Threat ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Corps Of Cadets ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Military

The modern model of state education in Russia promotes patriotism and devotion to the authorities. Young people must be proud of their origin and, in spite of deteriorating material conditions, should stay in the country contributing to its development. Cadet Corps Alumni are an example of a patriotic education model. Several years of learning in the military school shapes their beliefs and teaches them complete surrender to authority. Patriotism, combined with the sense of external threat, has become the driving force behind the reconstruction of the Russian superpower. One of the cornerstones of the school is the acceptance of Putin’s Russia by spreading the vision of becoming an international representative of the country. The increase in military spending and functioning of military schools such as the Corps of Cadets give rise to fears that in the future Russia the army will become one of the tools of the superpower on the arena of foreign policy.

scholarly journals Me, my place, and I: exploring consumer-place attachment in Brazil’s Northeast region

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-622
Author(s):  
VITOR MOURA LIMA ◽  
RAFAEL CUBA MANCEBO ◽  
LUÍS ALEXANDRE GRUBITS DE PAULA PESSÔA ◽  
ALESSANDRA DE SÁ MELLO DA COSTA
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Extended Self ◽  
Northeast Region ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Consumers, whether more or less consciously, attach their identity to places in order to give meaning to their lives. In this research, we discuss the process by which consumers attach their identity to commercial settings, based on the extended self and place attachment theories. Through observations, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis, this study explores the bonds people make with a place, taking a Brazilian heritage market as a research context. The findings suggest that the link between consumers’ identities and commercial settings occurs in different forms, based not only on their self-narratives but also on the physical space.

Authenticity and Buddhist Experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Monica Gilli
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
True Self ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Depth Interviews

Aim of this paper is the analysis of two Tibetan Buddhist Centers in Italy. The topic was the perception of authenticity by visitors. Our survey is based on 21 in-depth interviews to visitors of two Tibetan Buddhist Centers in Piedmont. What seems to emerge is that this experience is mainly nourished by the so-called “existential-experiential” authenticity, a notion of authenticity that is mainly spent on an individual level, which means searching for that “true self” that society and everyday life tend to inhibit. Although less important, the aspects of authenticity as a social construction and the so-called “objective authenticity” appear to be significant.

Performing Numbers

2020 ◽  
pp. 241-259
Author(s):  
Robert Prey
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores the implications of performance metrics as a source of self-knowledge and self-presentation. It does so through the figure of the contemporary musician. As performers on-stage and online, musicians are constantly assessed and evaluated by industry actors, peers, music fans, and themselves. The impact of powerful modes of quantification on personal experiences, understandings, and practices of artistic creation provides insight into the wider role that metrics play in shaping how we see ourselves and others; and how we present ourselves to others. Through in-depth interviews with emerging musicians, this chapter thus uses the artist as a lens through which to understand everyday life within the “performance complex.”

‘A Peculiarly English Institution’: Work, Rest, and Play in the Labour Church

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 357-367
Author(s):  
Krista Cowman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
The West

The Labour Church held its first service in Charlton Hall, Manchester, in October 1891. The well-attended event was led by Revd Harold Rylett, a Unitarian minister from Hyde, and John Trevor, a former Unitarian and the driving force behind the idea. Counting the experiment a success, Trevor organized a follow-up meeting the next Sunday, at which the congregation overflowed from the hall into the surrounding streets. A new religious movement had begun. In the decade that followed, over fifty Labour Churches formed, mainly in Northern England, around the textile districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Their impetus lay both in the development and spread of what has been called a socialist culture in Britain in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and in the increased awareness of class attendant on this. Much of the enthusiasm for socialism was indivisible from the lifestyle and culture which surrounded it. This was a movement dedicated as much to what Chris Waters has described as ‘the politics of everyday life …. [and] of popular culture’ as to rigid economistic doctrine. This tendency has been described as ‘ethical socialism’, although a more common expression at the time was ‘the religion of socialism’.

Urban Design and Dilemmas of Space

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Madanipour
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Time Constant ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The City ◽  
Psychological Dimensions ◽  
Meaningful Communication

My aim in this paper is to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. Social scientists, geographers, architects, urban planners, and designers use the term space in their academic and professional involvement with the city. But when they meet each other their discourse seems to be handicapped partly because of a difference in their usage and understanding of the concept of space. I will argue that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication can become possible, we need to confront such fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. I will argue for a concept of space which would refer to our objective, physical space with its social and psychological dimensions, a dynamic conception which accommodates at the same time constant change and embeddedness, and that can only be understood in monitoring the way space is being made and remade, at the intersection of the development processes and everyday life.

scholarly journals TERRITÓRIO, CAMPESINATO E TRADIÇÃO: A CUCA (KUCHEN) COMO ELEMENTO EMBLEMÁTICO DA ALIMENTAÇÃO NO MÉDIO VALE DO ITAJAÍ E SUA RELAÇÃO COM O DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Daniela Matthes ◽  
Marilda Checcucci
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Food System ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Typical Food ◽  
Food Anthropology ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Do So

Este artigo apresenta resultados de uma investigação no Médio Vale do Itajaí (estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil) cujo objetivo foi analisar a Cuca (Kuchen) como elemento emblemático de identificação dos seus moradores e a sua relação com o desenvolvimento no território. Entendemos que a Cuca (Kuchen) tem posição de elemento emblemático dentro do sistema alimentar que se formou no Médio Vale do Itajaí. Isto porque está frequentemente presente na mesa de seus moradores até os dias atuais, estando relacionada à uma tradição e identidade local. Trata-se também de um importante produto do comércio étnico (ligado diretamente à manutenção da agricultura familiar) e recentemente vem sendo percebida como alimento “típico”, enquantoatrativo do turismo gastronômico local. Este estudo busca preencher a lacuna existente nos estudos relativos à relação entre identidade,alimentação e desenvolvimento entre grupos oriundos de imigrantes no Brasil, especificamente do Médio Vale do Itajaí. Para tanto, partimos do arcabouço da Antropologia da Alimentação e do método etnográfico com oito entrevistas em profundidade, além de pesquisas de campo, para obter informações relevantes ao estudo sobre a Cuca (Kuchen). Observamos que a Cuca (Kuchen) resultou de um sistema alimentar que foi constituído pelos imigrantes teutos na região, tendo se tornado ao longo do tempo um elemento essencial de sua identidade no terrirório e fez parte do desenvolvimento da região, acompanhando suas transformações. Palavras-chave: Cuca. Identidade. Médio Vale do Itajaí. Território. Desenvolvimento regional.ABSTRACTThis article presents results of an investigation in the Middle of Itajaí (Santa Catarina state, Brazil), whose objective was to analyze the Cuca (Kuchen) as an emblematic element of the identification of the inhabitants and the relation with the local development. We understand that Cuca (Kuchen) has a position as an emblematic element within the food system in the Middle Itajaí Valley because it is frequently present at the table of its residents, being related to local identity, it is important product of the ethnic trade (directly linked to the maintenance of agriculture familiar) and has recently been perceived as “typical” food, capable of being attractive to local gastronomic tourism. This study seeks to fill the gap in the studies related to the identity and feeding relationship between groups originating from immigrants in Brazil, specifically in the Middle Vale do Itajaí. To do so, we started with the framework of Food Anthropology and the ethnographic method with eight in-depth interviews, as well as field surveys, to obtain information relevant to the study on Cuca (Kuchen)Keywords: Cuca. Identity. Médio Vale do Itajaí. Territory. Regional development.

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