scholarly journals Theoretical reflections on the life world of Tanzanian street children

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Wiencke
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Life World ◽  
Emic Perspective

In this article I reconstruct the life world (Lebenswelt) of the street children of the Tanzanian city Mwanza from an emic perspective that emphasises meaning-making, in order to depict them as subjects solely responsible for their actions. Accordingly I shall present how two youths conveyed to me, in numerous colour drawings, their everyday urban life, which is associated with their village history. Furthermore I will present some theoretical reflections on the "life world": I will explore the life world of the children and youths with reference to the construction and formation of identity. It thus becomes clear that even violent and materially difficult living conditions can generate collective identities. The term "street children", which is generally perceived as derogatory, receives a more positive connotation in this way. This is deepened by the description of the street children's relationships, which alternate between solidarity and conflict.

Two Cultures into One?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Blockmans
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Biological Data ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Over the last few decades, two developments have brought fundamental changes to the study of the humanities. The digital revolution triggered the construction of huge databases, universally accessible and searchable on an unprecedented scale. As a consequence, new ways of thinking in wider contexts and organizing research on a larger scale came within reach of disciplines that had previously mostly been active on an individual level and focusing on particular phenomena. Moreover, applications of new scientific methods led to breakthroughs in fundamental humanities issues such as environmental and biological data that were essential for living conditions and for the formation of collective identities. The increased collaboration between disciplines led to major innovations.

scholarly journals Landscapes of hoping – urban expansion and emerging futures in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Hauer ◽  
Jonas Østergaard Nielsen ◽  
Jörg Niewöhner
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Life Trajectories

Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, it is co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.

KEHIDUPAN ANAK TERLANTAR DI LKSA YUDA MANDIRI SOMBA OPU

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-145
Author(s):  
Syamsudin Syamsudin
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Neglected Children ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Welfare Institution ◽  
Analyze Data

Abstract. The life of an abandoned child certainly needs protection so that he can be independent. The article aims to analyze the living conditions of neglected children who have been coached by social workers and supervisors at the Yuda Mandiri Somba Opu Child Welfare Institution. The type of research is descriptive qualitative, obtaining data from informants through in-depth interviews and observations, to analyze data by way of data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results obtained regarding the life of street children are the pre-Karangtina situation through assessment, the availability of dormitories, in school, mental guidance and moral guidance, group and individual recitation in the afternoon. Abstrak. Kehidupan anak terlantar tentu membutuhkan perlindungan agar ia bisa mandiri. Artikel bertujuan untuk menganalisi kondisi kehidupan anak terlantar yang selama ini di bina para pekerja sosial dan pembina Lembaga Kesejahteraan Sosial Anak Yuda Mandiri Somba Opu. Adapun jenis penelitian adalah deskriptif kualitatif, perolehan data dari informan melalui wawancara mendalam maupun observasi, untuk menganalisis data dengan cara reduksi data, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil yang diperoleh tentang kehidupan anak jalanan yaitu situasi pra karantina melalui assessment, tersedianya asrama tempat tinggal, di sekolahkan, pendampingan bimbingan mental dan pembinaan akhlak, pengajian di sore hari secara berkelompok maupun individu.

scholarly journals Young People’s Social and Psychological Satiety with Life in a Megapolis: Conceptual Approach and Research Results

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Drobysheva ◽  
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Ivan V. Larionov ◽  
Evgeniya B. Filinkova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Protective Function

The relevance of the study is associated with the study of viability resources of young city dwellers in the context of growing urbanization processes. The article presents theoretical and empirical research data regarding the problem of operationalization of the phenomenon of social and psychological satiety, which is a psychological state generated by peculiarities of the urban environment. The article presents concept description, gives data on its operationalization, formulates the hypothesis and shows some results of its empirical verification. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyse the interconnection between emotional experiences and preferred coping strategies with the state of satiety with living conditions in a metropolis in a group of young people. The major hypothesis of the study involves an assumption that there is a connection between feelings of satiety caused by the intense influence of the phenomena of the urban environment on the psyche and behavior of respondents, and their preferred methods of coping with the satiety situation. The study involved 159 people aged 19 to 30 years. Research methods: questionnaires developed by the authors and aimed at studying manifestations of social and psychological satiety (T. V. Drobysheva, I. V. Larionov). The questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic characteristics. It is shown that in the group of respondents the state of socio-psychological satiety with living conditions in a metropolis is experienced as a feeling of apathy, boredom, irritation caused by imposed contacts with strangers, advertising activities of trading companies and overpopulation of the city. These phenomena of urban life are perceived by young people as violating their psychological privacy and making them want, first of all, to leave, to change the environment or activity, to find new forms of leisure or other places to spend their free time. The results found in the work indirectly indicate the protective function of socio-psychological satiety, expressed through the desire of respondents (young city dwellers) to reduce the intensity of negative emotional experiences related to living conditions in a metropolis. The questionnaires developed by the authors in the course of the study are of practical importance for researchers of the urban environment.

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost: Critically Reflective Research for a New HRD Landscape

2020 ◽  
pp. 152342232097342
Author(s):  
Oliver S. Crocco ◽  
Robin S. Grenier
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Developmental Theory ◽  
Constructive Developmental Theory ◽  
Constructive Developmental ◽  
Emic Perspective

The Problem The pandemic and subsequent changes to norms and practices in the workplace mean that for many, existing meaning-making structures are challenged and the limits of existing ways of knowing are revealed. The problem for HRD scholars and practitioners is that dominant approaches to research are largely insufficient for understanding individuals’ meaning making in response to the pandemic. The Recommendations Two critically reflexive method/ologies are presented and overlaid with Constructive-Developmental Theory (CDT) to offer not only a means of capturing data about individuals’ experiences during/post-pandemic but for interpreting the data with an understanding of the mental complexities associated with capturing an emic perspective. The Stakeholders Stakeholders include HRD scholars and practitioners who conduct research in organizations.

The unanchored past: Three modes of collective memory

2019 ◽  
pp. 175069801989469
Author(s):  
Paul O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Over Time

All forms of collective memory embody attempts at meaning-making - efforts to integrate experience and provide a coherent foundation for individual and collective identities. However, different modes of collective memory have different meaning-making potentials. In this article, I will assess three modes of remembering, namely folk, commemorative and mediatised memory, from the perspective of how they generate integrative meaning. Each of these modes of remembrance will be examined through the prism of a case study examining the nature of the memories associated with a specific lieux de memoire. I will suggest that over time, memory becomes progressively ‘unanchored’ from localised contexts due to its increasing technological and institutional mediation and that this has important implications for the depth and kind of meaning it provides.

scholarly journals Controversing the datafied smart city: Conceptualising a ‘making-controversial’ approach to civic engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395172110255
Author(s):  
Corelia Baibarac-Duignan ◽  
Michiel de Lange
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Frame Design ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Urban Futures ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

In this paper, we propose the concept of controversing as an approach for engaging citizens in debates around the datafied city and in shaping responsible smart cities that incorporate diverse public values. Controversing addresses the engagement of citizens in discussions about the datafication of urban life by productively deploying controversies around data. Attempts to engage citizens in the smart city frequently involve ‘neutral’ data visualisations aimed at making abstract sociotechnical issues more tangible. In addition, citizens are meant to gather around issues already defined externally by others. Instead, we focus on how people might become engaged and develop the capacity to shape alternative urban futures. We suggest that making controversial apparently less contentious issues in the smart city allows people to identify their own issues, come together temporarily as a public, imagine alternative possibilities and thus develop capacities for action. In this context, controversies can act as agents of change and open up new spaces for participation and action. We develop the notion of controversing as a deliberate strategy of making datafication controversial, and operationalise the term along the dimensions of recontextualisation, meaning-making and agency. We then look at two cases from the mid-sized city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands, first to test the conceptual potential of controversing to expose how frictions shape citizen engagement, and second to analyse how controversing may frame design-oriented methods aimed at involving diverse participants in discussing datafication and defining public values in the datafied smart city.

scholarly journals Grandes urbes y nuevas visibilidades de la diversidad

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Liliana Ester Tamagno ◽  
Carolina Andrea Maidana
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

Resumen: En el presente trabajo reflexionaremos sobre las dialécticas: tradición/modernidad, local/global, formal/informal, pasado/presente, memorias/aprendizajes en surelación con las migraciones indígenas, y las respuestas de esta población a las condiciones dela vida urbana. El análisis de las migraciones internas entendidas como desplazamientos de individuos y/o colectivos en busca de trabajo y de mejores condiciones de existencia (Castells,1979 y Tamagno, 2001) y la relación entre urbanización, desigualdad y diversidad se realizaen este trabajo poniendo énfasis en los denominados “procesos de territorialización”, noción quenos permite dar lugar a la comprensión de las formas en que los territorios de pertenencia seconstruyen históricamente como resultado de la conjunción de factores políticos, económicos y socioculturales; algo de suma importancia dado el actual contexto de demandas territoriales y de la consecuente lucha por legitimar las presencias indígenas en el medio urbano.Palabras  clave: Ciudad; indígenas; migración; nucleamientos; procesosde territorialización. Abstract: This paper addresses the dialectics tradition/modernity, local/global,formal/informal, past /present, memory/learning, related to indigenous migration and there sponses of this population to the urban life conditions. The analysis of internal migration movements is understood as the product of individuals or groups looking for jobs and forbetter living conditions (Castells, 1979 and Tamagno, 2001), and the relationship between urbanization, inequality and diversity is emphasized in what we call “territorializationprocesses”, a concept that allows us to understand how the belonging territories are historical lyconstructed as a result of political, economic and sociocultural factors. these are very relevantissues if we consider the current context of territorial claims and the consequent struggle tolegitimize the indigenous presence in urban areas.Keywords: City; indians; migration; nucleations; territorialization processes.

scholarly journals STREET CHILDREN IN INDIA: A STUDY ON THEIR ACCESS TO HEALTH AND EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilika Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Access To Health

Street life is a challenge for survival, even for adults, and is yet more difficult for children. They live within the city but are unable to take advantage of the comforts of urban life. This study focused primarily on access to health and education in street children from 6 to 18 years old in the Indian metropolises of Mumbai and Kolkata. The study also aimed to assess the role of social work interventions in ensuring the rights of street children. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies was used. Convenience sampling was used to recruit 100 children. Data were collected on a one-to-one basis through semi-structured interview schedules and by non-participant observation. Findings revealed that extreme poverty was the primary cause for the increasing numbers of street children. Lack of awareness among illiterate parents regarding educational opportunities kept most children away from school attendance. Factors such as lack of an educational ambience at home made it difficult for the children to work on their lessons outside the premises of the institution. It was evident that those living with their parents had better access to health care facilities than did those living on their own; however, nongovernmental organizations made significant efforts to redress this imbalance, setting up health check-up camps at regular intervals. Although exposure to harsh reality at an early age had resulted in a premature loss of innocence in most, making them sometimes difficult to work with, the nongovernmental organizations were striving to ensure child participation and the growth of individual identity. The interventionists therefore focused on developing a rights-based approach, rather than a charitable one.

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