scholarly journals Circos brasileiros de lona, um campo em constante movimento e transformação simbólica

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisângela Domingues Michelatto Natt ◽  
Ana Rosa Camillo Aguiar ◽  
Alexandre De Pádua Carrieri
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
Legal Difficulties ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This paper analyzes the circus universe, that is, the circuses and the individuals involved in the daily activities to create, maintain, and develop the circus organization, and is based on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. Empirically, we sought to build a qualitative and diversified corpus based on 28 circuses and 116 interviews, as well as recorded conversations, newspaper articles, and by accompanying circuses and watching performances. Particularly, the semi-structured interviews based on the “snowball” technique have the people who work, live, and roam with and in the circus as a common element. Seeking to resist stereotypes and give voice to those who create organizations, we conducted this study so that the various voices of the agents in the field are heard, which, in turn, clarifies how the circus subjects and organizations (the actual circuses) are built and intertwined. No clear domination of an agent over the other has been identified in the field. Except for the legal difficulties pointed out by smaller circuses, power relations are much more visible when it comes to staying in the field. The further the agents are from accessing the symbolic and power resources, the more they are subjected to disappearance or precarious continuity.

scholarly journals Harmoni Lintas Agama Masyarakat Tengger

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Mohamad Ali Hisyam ◽  
Wan Zailan Kamarudin Wan Ali
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Social Involvement ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
Interactionist Approach

This paper attempts to closely portray interreligious harmony, especially between Muslim and Hindu community in Tengger, East Java. Tengger community are ingrained with their own culture and practicing their unique tradition. Through symbolic-interactionist approach, this paper supposes that this reality represents a cultural process which is simultaneously and flexibly flowing and growing. In the name of brotherhood and humanity, Tengger people are running their daily activities, discounting subjective differences among them. Sociologically, they are focusing on facing the reality as objective necessities where the self and the other are mutually understanding and complementing each other. In this regard, they have improved the way of interaction, from <em>saya</em>-and-<em>mereka</em> perspective to <em>kami</em>-and<em>kita</em> approach. Social activities and religious/cultural rites symbolically become communicative device of inter-relation among the people. Muslim and Hindu harmony in this community denotes multicultural interaction that entails social involvement of members of community. Tengger people, as an animal symbolicum, strive to construct, expand and (re)interpret the symbols for building harmony.

scholarly journals Looking across the river

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Galasiński ◽  
Ulrike H. Meinhof
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Border Communities ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Town ◽  
East West

The paper reports results of an ongoing ESRC-funded project into constructions of identity in German and Polish border communities. We are interested here in how our informants from different generations position themselves and their communities with regard to those on the other side of the river. The data come from a set of semi-structured interviews conducted in the towns of Guben (Germany) and Gubin (Poland) separated by the river Neisse, with some reference to the data elicited in the similarly split communities on the former East West German border on the Saale. For the people living in our target communities, the official narratives of the nation were re-written not just once, but in the case of the older generation at least three times. This meant a challenge of how to construct their own cultural identity in response to official changes and in relation to oppositional constructions of the nation on the other side of the border literally by ‘looking across’ at the Other in their every-day lives. In this paper we discuss how members of the oldest generation living on both sides of the river Neisse in the respective German and Polish towns of Guben and Gubin construct each other in their discourses. We show that the discourses of the Other are ridden by a mismatch in the constructions of the ownership of the past and the present. While the Polish narratives construct the German neighbours in terms of threat to the present status quo of the town, the German narratives position Gubin mostly in terms of the nostalgic past.

Reanalysing International Conflicts: Proposals from the Sociology of Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-271
Author(s):  
Guillem Farrés-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social System ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Abstract Entities

This article opens a dialogue between different notions of conflict and the sociology of power and suggests a new theoretical framework for the analysis of international conflicts. Refusing to consider abstract entities as actors, it helps us better determine who the relevant actors are in each international conflict and gives special attention to the existing power relations between them. Accordingly, it is considered that a large social system is made up of numerous actors with multiple conflicts between them. Thus, in the case of international conflicts, we do not face one single conflict, but a conflictual complex involving a multitude of actors with their different power resources, who weave a network of conflicts and power relations between them, and at its top a dominant conflict, the conflict around which the other conflicts evolve. Acknowledging the complexity of international conflicts, this new theoretical approach should better explain both the behaviour of the actors and the evolution of the conflictual complex itself.

“Bad Things” and “Good Hearts”: Mediation, Meaning, and the Language of Illinois Christianity

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Neal Leavelle
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Gregorian Chant ◽  
The People ◽  
The Church

A delegation of Illinois Indians on a diplomatic mission astonished the residents of New Orleans in 1730 with their ardent participation in the Catholic ritual life of the colonial capital. The Jesuit Mathurin le Petit observed that during their three–week stay “[the Illinois] charmed us by their piety, and by their edifying life. Every evening they recited the rosary … and every morning they heard me say Mass.” People crowded into the church to witness the spectacle of “savage” Indians worshiping and singing before the altar. The highlight for the audience was a responsive Gregorian chant in which Ursuline nuns “chanted the first Latin couplet, … and the Illinois continued the other couplets in their language in the same tone.” The Illinois appeared to be very well educated in Catholic practice, pausing during their daily activities to recite a variety of prayers. “To listen to them,” concluded the missionary, “you would easily perceive that they took more delight and pleasure in chanting these holy Canticles, than the generality of the Savages.” Le Petit was correct in a sense. The performance that so delighted the people of New Orleans represented the results of more than a generation of intercultural and linguistic exchange between the Illinois and the French.

scholarly journals Norminis vyriškumas tėvystės praktikose

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 33-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Šumskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Analyse Power ◽  
Study Participants

Vilniaus universiteto Lyčių studijų centrasDidlaukio g. 47, VilniusTel. (8-5) 244 24 43El. paštas: [email protected]  Straipsnyje nagrinėjami autorės 2011–2013 m. atlikti 30 pusiau struktūruotų interviu su 23–44 m. vyrais, turinčiais mažamečių vaikų. Straipsnio tikslas yra panagrinėti norminio vyriškumo kuriamus galios santykius tyrimo dalyvių tėvystės praktikose. Tyrimo dalyvių patirčiai analizuoti pasitelkiami R. W. Connell hegemoninio, T. Coleso mozaikinio vyriškumo sampratos ir istoriškai šalyje susiformavę tėvystės modeliai.Tyrimo analizė atskleidė, kad Lietuvos visuomenėje dominuojančios vyriškumo sampratos pasireiškia tiriamųjų tėvystės praktikose. Vieno norminio vyriškumo bruožo neatitikimas kelia nepasitikėjimą savimi ir skatina vyrus pabrėžti kitus norminio vyriškumo bruožus tėvystės praktikose arba permąstyti visuomenėje vyraujančias vyriškumo normas ir ieškoti alternatyvių būdų, kad užsitikrintų pasitikėjimą savimi būdami vyrai ir tėvai.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: norminis vyriškumas, hegemoninis vyriškumas, galios santykiai, tėvystės praktikos.Normative Masculinities in Fathering Practices Lina Šumskaitė Summary In the article, there are analysed 30 semi-structured interviews conducted by the author in 2011–2013 with men aged 23–44 and having small children. The aim of the study was to analyse power relations in fathering practices created by normative masculinity. The study participants’ experiences are analysed by using R. W. Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity and T. Coles’ concept of mosaic masculinity as well as the fatherhood models historically formed in the country. The survey has revealed that the normative masculinity conceptions prevailing in Lithuanian society are manifested out in the study participants’ fathering practices. Non-compliance to one feature of normative masculinity undermines their confidence in themselves and encourages men to highlight the other features of normative masculinity in fathering or to rethink the prevailing norms of masculinity and to search for alternative ways to secure confidence in themselves as men and fathers. Key words: normative masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, power relations, fathering

Design, power and colonisation: decolonial and anti-oppressive explorations on three approaches for Design for Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas B. TORRETTA ◽  
Lizette REITSMA
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
The People ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Design Power ◽  
Relational Issue

Our contemporary world is organized in a modern/colonial structure. As people, professions and practices engage in cross-country Design for Sustainability (DfS), projects have the potential of sustaining or changing modern/colonial power structures. In such project relations, good intentions in working for sustainability do not directly result in liberation from modern/colonial power structures. In this paper we introduce three approaches in DfS that deal with power relations. Using a Freirean (1970) decolonial perspective, we analyse these approaches to see how they can inform DfS towards being decolonial and anti-oppressive. We conclude that steering DfS to become decolonial or colonizing is a relational issue based on the interplay between the designers’ position in the modern/colonial structure, the design approach chosen, the place and the people involved in DfS. Hence, a continuous critical reflexive practice is needed in order to prevent DfS from becoming yet another colonial tool.

The Other Entrepreneurs - Migrant Economies as Spaces for Social Innovation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Claudia Lintner
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
False Dichotomy ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
The One

This article analyses the relationship between migrant entrepreneurship, marginalisation and social innovation. It does so, by looking how their ‘otherness’ is used on the one hand to reproduce their marginalised situation in society and on the other to develop new living and working arrangements promoting social innovation in society. The paper is based on a qualitative study, which was carried out from March 2014- 2016. In this period, twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with migrant entrepreneurs and experts. As the results show, migrant entrepreneurs are characterised by a false dichotomy of “native weakness” in economic self-organisation against the “classical strength” of majority entrepreneurs. It is shown that new possibilities of acting in the context of migrant entrepreneurship are mostly organised in close relation to the lifeworlds and specific needs deriving from this sphere. Social innovation processes initiated by migrant entrepreneurs through their economic activities thus develop on a micro level and are hence less apparent. Supportive networks are missing on a structural level, so it becomes difficult for single innovative initiatives to be long-lasting.

‘Are we on the same wavelength?’ International nurses and the process of confronting and adjusting to clinical communication in Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonia Crawford ◽  
Peter Roger ◽  
Sally Candlin
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Clinical Communication ◽  
Professional Experiences

Effective communication skills are important in the health care setting in order to develop rapport and trust with patients, provide reassurance, assess patients effectively and provide education in a way that patients easily understand (Candlin and Candlin, 2003). However with many nurses from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds being recruited to fill the workforce shortfall in Australia, communication across cultures with the potential for miscommunication and ensuing risks to patient safety has gained increasing focus in recent years (Shakya and Horsefall, 2000; Chiang and Crickmore, 2009). This paper reports on the first phase of a study that examines intercultural nurse patient communication from the perspective of four Registered Nurses from CALD backgrounds working in Australia. Five interrelating themes that were derived from thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews are discussed. The central theme of ‘adjustment’ was identified as fundamental to the experiences of the RNs and this theme interrelated with each of the other themes that emerged: professional experiences with communication, ways of showing respect, displaying empathy, and vulnerability.

Komparasi Unsur Budaya (Kepercayaan) pada Masyarakat Talaga, Majalengka dan Masyarakat Nagoya, Jepang

Metahumaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 306
Author(s):  
Asri Soraya Afsari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Field Method ◽  
The Other ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji perbandingan kepercayaan masyarakat Talagadi Majalengka dan masyarakat Nagoya di Jepang. Kepercayaan yang dimaksud dalampenelitian ini adalah kepercayaan yang berhubungan dengan tabu atau pamali dankepercayaan yang berhubungan dengan keberuntungan pada kedua masyarakat tersebut.Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut digunakan metode deskripstif kualitatif. Dalam memupudata digunakan metode lapangan karena peneliti terjun langsung ke masyarakat. Disamping itu, digunakan pula metode survey melalui penyebaran daftar kuesioner. Hasilpenelitian menunjukkan bahwa bentuk kepercayaan yang berhubungan dengan tabu ataupamali pada masyarakat Talaga dan Nagoya meliputi kegiatan yang dilakukan oleh manusia.Adapun kepercayaan yang berhubungan dengan keberuntungan pada kedua masyarakattersebut berkaitan dengan binatang, benda, dan kegiatan manusia. Sampai saat ini baikmasyarakat Talaga maupun Nagoya masih memegang teguh kepercayaan tersebut.Kata kunci: kepercayaan, Talaga, Nagoya, deskriptif kualitatif, komparasi budaya.AbstractThe aim of this research is to review the comparison of belief between the society ofTalaga in Majalengka and the society of Nagoya in Japan. The intended belief on this study isthe one related with a taboo or pamali, and the belief correlated to luck on both societies. Inachieving the goal, this research uses a descriptive qualitative method. To get the data, thewriter uses a field method that he (/she) directly involves with the people. On the other hand,the writer also uses a survey method by distributing questioners. The result shows that the beliefcorrelated with the taboo or pamali of Talaga and Nagoya societies covers the activities doneby human. Also with the belief related to luck of both societies corresponds to animals, things,and human’s activities. Until now, either Talaga society or Nagoya’s still keeps those beliefs.Keyword: belief, Talaga, Nagoya, descriptive qualitative, cultural comparison.

The Hierophanic Facets of the Seraphic Hymns

Trictrac ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petru Adrian Danciu
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Material World ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The People ◽  
Musical History ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

Starting from the cry of the seraphim in Isaiahʹ s prophecy, this article aims to follow the rhythm of the sacred harmony, transcending the symbols of the angelic world and of the divine names, to get to the face to face meeting between man and God, just as the seraphim, reflecting their existence, stand face to face. The finality of the sacred harmony is that, during the search for God inside the human being, He reveals Himself, which is the reason for the affirmation of “I Am that I Am.” Through its hypnotic cyclicality, the profane temporality has its own musicality. Its purpose is to incubate the unsuspected potencies of the beings “caught” in the material world. Due to the fact that it belongs to the aeonic time, the divine music will exceed in harmony the mechanical musicality of profane time, dilating and temporarily cancelling it. Isaiah is witness to such revelation offering access to the heavenly concert. He is witness to divine harmonies produced by two divine singers, whose musical history is presented in our article. The seraphim accompanied the chosen people after their exodus from Egypt. The cultic use of the trumpet is related to the characteristics and behaviour of the seraphim. The seraphic music does not belong to the Creator, but its lyrics speak about the presence of the Creator in two realities, a spiritual and a material one. Only the transcendence of the divine names that are sung/cried affirms a unique reality: God. The chant-cry is a divine invocation with a double aim. On the one hand, the angels and the people affirm God’s presence and call His name and, on the other, the Creator affirms His presence through the angels or in man, the one who is His image and His likeness. The divine music does not only create, it is also a means of communion, implementing the relation of man to God and, thus, God’s connection with man. It is a relation in which both filiation and paternity disappear inside the harmony of the mutual recognition produced by music, a reality much older than Adam’s language.

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