An Anthropological Case Study on the Relation of Space, Language, and Social Order: The Bisa of Burkina Faso

10.1068/a345 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 2189-2203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Dafinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
West African ◽  
African Society ◽  
Spatial Order ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Order Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Theoretical Frame

This paper outlines certain benefits that spatial analysis offers to anthropological research, and shows how anthropology and related linguistic research may in turn contribute to the understanding of the social determinants of spatial order. It presents a case study of spatial order in a rural West African society. Although the examples are from a particular setting, the theoretical frame is a general one: the analysis will focus on the connections between social order, language, and the perception of space.

scholarly journals Anatomy of Place-Making in the Context of the Communication Processes: A Story of one Community and one Square in a Post-Socialist City

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Kotus ◽  
Tomasz Sowada ◽  
Michał Rzeszewski ◽  
Patrycja Mańkowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Social

Abstract The article presents a discussion on the anatomy of place-making within the framework of the communication processes against the background of social order in a post-socialist city. The main aim of the text is to look at the social mechanisms of place-making processes “under the microscope”. The place-making activities are very often associated with planning and urban design. However, behind that planning veil is the social world of urban neighbourhood communities. In the article we propose, the social communication and participation processes are among the key factors responsible for creating urban spaces. We are presenting a place-making case study, using the example of Asnyk Square in Poznań. In this context, we are analysing social attitudes and social communication, which took place in the course of the place-making processes and influenced urban planning activities. The discussed case is complicated and provides no easy solutions.

scholarly journals Destruction as Deviant Leisure in EVE Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Bergstrom
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Leisure Studies ◽  
Massively Multiplayer Online Game ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiplayer Online Game ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

In this article, I argue for the inclusion of ‘deviant leisure’—a concept borrowed from the neighboring field of Leisure Studies—to provide Game Studies with a more robust theoretical toolkit to examine negative player-to-player interactions within online gameworlds. As a means of adding additional vocabulary to describe norms violating behavior, this article uses the Massively Multiplayer Online Game EVE Online as a case study to demonstrate how deviant leisure can be an effective framework for unpacking some of the behaviors observed within gameworlds that don’t quite fit into other commonly used categories such as dark play, griefing, trolling, or toxicity. Of particular value for Game Studies, deviant leisure has within it an embedded critique of the social order. In this article, I argue that what is happening in EVE is a rejection of games being coopted by society into becoming an activity that must be productive, and instead via the lens of deviant leisure we can recast these events as a struggle for gameplay to return to leisure for leisure’s sake.

Resource Exchange in Urban Governance

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caelesta Poppelaars
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Immigrant Organizations ◽  
Broad Variety

An explanatory framework based on the classic resource dependency perspective is used to explain a broad variety of urban government-interest group interactions that are not fully explained by current urban governance theories. A case study of Dutch urban immigrant integration shows that one must combine considerations of information and intermediation capacity to explain why Dutch urban governments interact with immigrant organizations, in addition to common findings about institutional heritage. Their information and intermediation capacity allows local governments to get in touch quickly with immigrant groups during periods that potentially threaten the social order and public safety and creates incentives to maintain grants and keep in touch, whereas contributions of such groups to effective implementation are at least doubted.

Mothers, whores and spells: Tradition and change in Portuguese sexuality

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Machado Pais
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Northern Portugal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town

This article presents a case study looking at the social upheavals generated by the presence of young Brazilian women in a town in northern Portugal (Bragança) with strong traditionalist traits. Due to their situation as prostitutes, seducers and immigrants, these women were regarded as disturbing the social order. A number of women of the town, calling themselves the Mothers of Bragança, organized themselves into a social movement to drive the Brazilian women out of the town, accusing them of bewitching their husbands with charms and magic. Focusing on issues of social change, the research takes up the challenge of interpreting the mothers’ movement, the stereotypes associated with this movement and the Brazilian incomers, and also certain dilemmas of masculinity.

scholarly journals Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Monk ◽  
Joanna Gilmore ◽  
William Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

This article seeks to consider the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, from November 2013 to April 2014. We argue that women at Barton Moss were considered by the police to be transgressing the socio-geographical boundaries that establish the dominant cultural and social order, and were thus responded to as disruptive and disorderly subjects. The article draws upon recent work on pacification, which views police power as having both destructive and productive dimensions, to consider the impact of police violence on women involved in protest. We seek to explore the ways in which this violence impacts not only on those involved in protest but also those on the peripheries. The article suggests that the threat and use of sexual violence by police towards women aims to enforce compliance within the protest movement and to send a message, specifically to those on the fringes of the movement, that protest is illegitimate and inherently dangerous. As such, sexual violence forms part of the social production and construction of gender and is instrumental in the making and remaking of subjectivities. The case study suggests that police brutality towards women at Barton Moss, therefore, operated as a disciplinary function to regulate acceptable forms of protest and acceptable forms of femininity.

scholarly journals The Pandemic in India and Its Impact on Footloose Labour

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Breman
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Safe Side ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is deepening the divide between people on the safe side of the social order and those at risk. The former are not only better equipped to protect their immunity, but can also count on support and care if they become infected. In a civilization haunted by the purity–pollution syndrome, the virus amplifies the stigma of impurity in which substantial segments of the population are forced to work and live. Social distancing fits well with a customary code of segregation. The transition to an informalized economy should be seen in the context of India’s ingrained social inequality resulting in widespread pauperism. In the havoc the pandemic created, politics and governance have further distorted the already highly skewed balance between capital and labour. An overview of the impact of the pandemic on the workforce kept adrift should also allow for the regional diversity that exists. Underlying my appraisal is the anthropological research I have carried out in the state of Gujarat, a major destination for footloose labour from other parts of the country. Since circular migrants are not allowed to settle down and set up home where they have gone to, they are bound to return to their place of origin after shorter or longer bouts of casual employment without effective legal protection and social security. They are kept floating because both capital and government want it that way.

scholarly journals Sociological Analysis of Divorce: A Case Study from Pokhara, Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Acharya Ram Bala
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research

This article is based on field study among different caste and ethnic groups residing in Pokhara sub-metropolitan city of Nepal. It tries to identify the causes of divorce in those groups. Probably, it is the first sociological study on divorce based on empirical fact in Nepal, so it may contribute a little bit to the direction of the sociological study. The tradition of sociological and anthropological research on social institutions and processes is not dominant in Nepal. Sociologists have found that there are different natures of changes on social institutions, economy, culture and political structure. This is a universal phenomenon around the world. However it could be fruitful to analyze causes and consequences of the social events or changes from the sociological perspective in the different social and cultural context. This study focuses on divorce basically the legal separation of the husband and wife. However customary divorce practices are in different communities of the Nepalese society.DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v1i0.284Dhaulagiri Vol.1 (2005) pp.129-145

scholarly journals Self-Education and Late-Learners in  The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joe Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Aulus Gellius ◽  
The Social ◽  
Simple Definition

<p>This thesis was motivated by expressions of self-education during the early Roman Empire, an unusual topic that has never before been studied in detail. The elite cultural perspective nearly always ensured that Latin authors presented the topos of self-education as a case of social embarrassment or status dissonance that needed to be resolved, with these so-called autodidacts characterised as intellectual arrivistes. But the material remains written by self-educated men and women are expressed in more personal terms, complicating any simple definition and hinting at another side. The first half of this thesis builds a theory of self-education by outlining the social structures that contributed to the phenomenon and by investigating the means and the motivation likely for the successful and practical-minded autodidact. This framework is influenced by Pierre Bourdieu, whose work on culture, class, and education integrated similar concerns within a theory of habitus. As with other alternatives to the conventional upbringing of the educated classes, attempts at self-education were inevitable but ultimately futile. An autodidact by definition missed out on the manners, gestures, and morals that came with the formal education and daily inculcation supplied by the traditional Roman household. In most instances it is unlikely that education could ever have contributed to social mobility. The latter half of this thesis treats Gellius's Attic Nights as a case study of self-education on two levels. A self-consciously recherche miscellany, the Nights at once encourages respectable gentlemen to improve themselves with a short-cut to culture, yet also humiliates any socially marginal figures attempting to educate themselves. This process reproduces the social order by undermining the integrity of any rivals to the elite cultural model while at the same time lionising the author and members of his circle as intellectual 'vigilantes'.</p>

scholarly journals Self-Education and Late-Learners in  The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joe Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Aulus Gellius ◽  
The Social ◽  
Simple Definition

<p>This thesis was motivated by expressions of self-education during the early Roman Empire, an unusual topic that has never before been studied in detail. The elite cultural perspective nearly always ensured that Latin authors presented the topos of self-education as a case of social embarrassment or status dissonance that needed to be resolved, with these so-called autodidacts characterised as intellectual arrivistes. But the material remains written by self-educated men and women are expressed in more personal terms, complicating any simple definition and hinting at another side. The first half of this thesis builds a theory of self-education by outlining the social structures that contributed to the phenomenon and by investigating the means and the motivation likely for the successful and practical-minded autodidact. This framework is influenced by Pierre Bourdieu, whose work on culture, class, and education integrated similar concerns within a theory of habitus. As with other alternatives to the conventional upbringing of the educated classes, attempts at self-education were inevitable but ultimately futile. An autodidact by definition missed out on the manners, gestures, and morals that came with the formal education and daily inculcation supplied by the traditional Roman household. In most instances it is unlikely that education could ever have contributed to social mobility. The latter half of this thesis treats Gellius's Attic Nights as a case study of self-education on two levels. A self-consciously recherche miscellany, the Nights at once encourages respectable gentlemen to improve themselves with a short-cut to culture, yet also humiliates any socially marginal figures attempting to educate themselves. This process reproduces the social order by undermining the integrity of any rivals to the elite cultural model while at the same time lionising the author and members of his circle as intellectual 'vigilantes'.</p>

scholarly journals Anima animus

2012 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Ian Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Biological Gender ◽  
Female Masochism

This essay explores Jennifer Jason Leigh’s portrayal of the young prostitute Tralala in Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel, 1989) as a case study in performance style that can be usefully understood as bisexual. Drawing firstly upon Joan Riviere’s concept of womanliness as a masquerade, it examines how Tralala’s feminine performativity masks a confused, neurotic and androgynous gender identity and a raging bid for phallic power. As played by Leigh, Tralala’s snarling speech and undulating swagger evokes the wounded rage, rebellion and alienation of 1950s Method “bad boy” stars such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Montgomery Clift, and the result is a performance style that oscillates freely between male and female subjectivities. Reading the male Method stars in terms of alternative masculinities that transgress the social order, the article argues that Tralala’s essential masochism is fuelled by a similar disavowal of her biological gender. In this regard, she demonstrates a desire to annihilate the self that has less to do with standard screen representations of female masochism than with the explosive psychic processes of classic Method masculinity.

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