scholarly journals Collecting the personal: stories of domestic energy and everyday life at the National Museum of Scotland

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Cox ◽  
Katarina Grant ◽  
Haileigh Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Domestic Energy

Caring for Autism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
User Friendly

When a professional states, "Your child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)", it is enough to make your whole world fall apart. What does it mean to be on the autism spectrum? How will this affect your child's life, your life, the life of your family, and others you interact with? What sorts of medications, therapies, and alternative methods are used to help manage the disorder? What are the financial and legal ramifications? How will this affect schooling, your spiritual growth, and everyday life? These are just a few of the questions that will rapidly cross your mind. Caring for Autism: Practical Advice from a Parent and Physician delves into all these questions and more. As the father of a daughter with ASD and as a trained psychiatrist who specializes in ASD, Dr. Michael A. Ellis provides a holistic view of what comes after diagnosis. In user-friendly tones, he answers the most commonly asked questions about what it's actually like to live with ASD, what medications and therapies are available, and the global impact it has on the child's environment. With the help of his wife, Lori Layton Ellis, to provide a mother's perspective, Dr. Ellis shares personal stories of their 10-year journey in order to provide insight and support for anyone - patient, parent, caregiver - traversing the difficulties of autism.

scholarly journals The Importance of National Museums in Preserving Collective Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Mateja Kos
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Original Function ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
National Museums

Research into memory, which has been carried out in recent decades by researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities, is also important in the field of museology.Museums collect objects that, at the time of transition, lose their original function they have in previous everyday life and acquire a new one. Objects are generators of memory, and memory works through objects. However, the stories of individual objects are necessarily less comprehensive than stories that are made up of broader semantic wholes. At some stage of the narrative a transition from the collection of individual memories or memories of individuals to a wider whole appears – a collective memory. It is not composed of a multitude of individual memories, but is processed and transformed into a whole that corresponds a particular community. Memory is connected with time, and individual memories are fixed at the points of collective time.Museums are creators of collective memory. Collective memory is connected with the concepts of historical memory, (cultural) heritage and witnessing. The collective memory generated by objects creates an identity. This can be created at every level, from personal to local, from regional to national. Structuring a particular past has an extremely important role in structuring identity. The concepts of memory, heritage, witnessing and history in the field of cultural heritage refer to national museums in the purest form. Each national museum is a guardian, researcher and promoter of a professionally and scientifically transformed collective memory, and thus a constitutive element of national consciousness.

scholarly journals Narrating family histories: Negotiating identity and belonging through tropes of nostalgia and authenticity

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
The World ◽  
Over Time

Studying change is at the heart of any investigation into social life, whilst continuity is seen as central to a stable identity over time. Change is an unsettling, but inevitable, part of everyday life; continuity speaks of repetition over time, unity and the comfort of belonging. This article examines how themes of nostalgia and authenticity are evoked in telling family histories in order to negotiate change and create a continuous story of belonging. Three family histories demonstrate how material objects, places and claims of family resemblances are used to create both authentic identities and authentic selves belonging to the wider community. Where there is a break in the family story and the ‘world of restorable reach’ is no longer available nostalgia creeps in to replace personal stories with communal ones. Through using both nostalgia, to inform a sense of loss and sometimes a shared past, and authenticity, to create a sense of continuity within an overall arc of change, this article shows how family histories can work to maintain identities over time, retaining a sense of ontological security and belonging in place.

The Life of Concepts

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-332
Author(s):  
Veena Das
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Post War

This chapter is a reflection on how thinking and living an anthropological life are joined together. The discussion proceeds through an exegesis of two books on loss—one, a book of poems written by Renato Rosaldo, years after the death of his wife, Michelle Rosaldo; and the second, on the women raped and rehabilitated as bironganas (war heroines) in the national imagery in post-war Bangladesh. Rosaldo allows the searing grief at the death of his wife to find expression in different voices imagined as those of actual people from his earlier fieldwork. The refraction of his grief into these different voices reveals the omens and premonitions that convey the menace and dangers that lurk in everyday life. Nayanika Mookherjee finds a way of conveying the fine grains of experience in the extreme history (charam itihas) that the women said they were offering to her and in which they lived as khota—damaged, stained women. It is argued that the book itself might be regarded as written in an autobiographical voice though this voice is defined not through personal stories but through the self-knowledge that comes when writing from the impersonal region of the self.

Personal stories in migration museums and our notions of hospitality: A case study from France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110168
Author(s):  
Helga Lenart-Cheng
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form

The number of migration museums is growing all over the world. These new museums seek to actively shape debates about immigration, and they often rely on immigrants’ personal stories to engage museum visitors and immigrant communities in dialogue. The article uses the case study of France’s National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris and its collection of personal stories (The Gallery of Gifts) to explore this new form of story-activism and our concepts of hospitality. Drawing on Hélène du Mazaubrun’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Joan Stavo-Debauge’s and Paul Ricoeur’s ideas about gifting, hospitality, and recognition, I examine some challenging politico-ethical questions prompted by these immigrant story exhibitions.

scholarly journals Conflicts in Everyday Life: The Influence of Competing Goals on Domestic Energy Conservation

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 5963-5980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneli Selvefors ◽  
I. Karlsson ◽  
Ulrike Rahe
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Domestic Energy

scholarly journals Speaking vulnerable issues into existence: Their consequences for psychotherapy

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (66_suppl) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anbjørg Ohnstad
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Research Interview

Background: Healthcare has traditionally been dominated by norms making the sexual orientation of clients invisible. Aim: To explore processes counteracting or promoting invisibility. Method: A single case study based on notes from psychotherapy and a research interview. Results: The client's story can be understood in terms of pathology but also in terms of finding her lesbian lifestyle. A special focus is required for transcending heterosexuality and for realizing the meaning of being a lesbian in everyday life. Conclusion: In conducting inquiries, practitioners need to be aware of how their own norms take heteronormativity for granted. This aids recognition of the important need for gay and lesbian clients to tell their personal stories.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ESCAPISM OF MODERN YOUTH AS AN EXTREME MANIFESTATION OF VIRTUALIZATION OF EVERYDAY

PRIMO ASPECTU ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Ekaterina I. EFIMENKO ◽  
Natalya V. KOCHETKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the analysis of the impact of information technology on changes in the daily life of young people. The problem of escapism among young people is investigated by studying the records of the Hikikomori community in the VKontakte social network and the personal stories of subscribers in the Hikikomori telegram channel. In this work, escapism in online spaces is defined as an extreme manifestation of the virtualization of human everyday life.

scholarly journals Výstavní politika oddělení novodobých českých dějin v letech 1973–1989

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Marek Junek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preparatory Stage

The National Museum started increasingly to engage in exhibitions devoted to twentieth-century history, subsequent to the foundation of the Department of modern Czech history. Until then, it had left this subject area to the Party museums in Prague. Individual exhibitions were particularly devoted to anniversaries marking the emergence of KSČ (the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia), the Slovak national uprising, the end of the War, the year 1948 and building socialism. They varied in standard, and were based on ideas from the document “Lessons from the evolution of the crisis in the party and society after the 13th KSČ congress of 1970” and on the associated museological methodologies. However, at the same time they were conceived in a manner that reflected the acquisition conception of the Department, and sought to present political as well as cultural, economic and social topics. They also endeavoured to portray everyday life. All these exhibitions may thus be considered a preparatory stage that culminated in the permanent exhibition on the history of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Printed by Parkinson’s: a neurological art project linking patient stories and biosignals

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia K. Feldmann ◽  
Andrea A. Kühn
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Patient Interviews ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
The Many ◽  
Patient Stories ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract “Printed by Parkinson’s” is an innovative project with the main aim to raise awareness for the many aspects of Parkinson’s disease and their implication for everyday life. In a cooperation of Innocean Worldwide GmbH and the Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Section, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, design and medical and neuroscientific expertise were combined to create unique artworks: Bronze sculptures were created when combining personal objects selected by each patient, and their neurophysiological individual health data. As a core element, patient interviews in an accompanying film shed light on the personal stories behind the art objects. Public presentations raised interest in the topic and very positive reactions by patients and relatives, and we think that the possibility to use art for improved communication in the field of medicine holds promise for the future.

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