Everyday Level Research Articles

БАРЬЕРНЫЕ МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ ВИДЕОЗАДАЧИ В СИСТЕМЕ СМЕШАННОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ МЕТОДИКЕ ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ФИЗИКИ

The article deals with the interpretation of the concepts of a methodological task and a system of these tasks. It is being analyzed on the example of a methodological problem presented in a video format and experimental data on its solution by students - future physics teachers. It is noted that methodological video tasks can be successfully used in the format of mixed learning. The authors show that the spontaneous uncontrolled process of analyzing pedagogical situations underlying methodological tasks results in an imbalance of judgments about the pedagogical process and the lack of transfer of education from everyday level to scientific one.

Becoming privileged yet marginalized Other: American migrants’ narratives of stereotyping-triggered displacement in China

This study examines the understudied daily lives of Westerners in China, focusing on 35 American migrants’ experiences of being stereotyped as the foreign Other during their daily interactions with Chinese locals as an illuminating case. The interviewed Americans’ narratives reveal that the perceived stereotyping, triggered by their race and/or nationality, exposed them to (a) admiration because of whiteness, Westernness, and Americanness desired in Chinese society, (b) underestimation of Chinese cultural literacy due to foreignness-marked non-Chineseness, and (c) dissociation via essentialization and stigmatization of foreigners owing to the conflation of whiteness, foreignness, and Westernness in the Chinese gaze. Although not necessarily seeming hostile, the perceived stereotyping still left the interviewees an enduring sense of being displaced as privileged yet marginalized outsiders at the everyday level. In and through strategically dealing with the perceived stereotyping, these Americans ultimately claimed their non-Chineseness and became the paradoxical foreign Other with subjectivities in China.

China’s Push for Greater Influence in the Popular Culture Arena: The Ip Man Saga

ABSTRACT This article offers a critical analysis of four kung fu films that were co-produced by Hong Kong and Mainland China and depict the legend of Ip Man, Bruce Lee’s teacher. It discusses different representations in the Ip Man saga, and argues that while othering Japan and the West, the Chinese self is depicted in the saga as a benevolent but powerful actor. The texts of the films are thus found to echo past and present Mainland identity narratives and to be connected to the Mainland’s push for soft power. The article links popular culture to politics by showing how political narratives are made attractive at an everyday level, thus contributing to the literature on identity and soft power.

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Immobility infrastructures: taking online courses and staying put amongst Chinese international students during the COVID-19

ABSTRACT This paper draws attention to the current and possible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the (im)mobility trajectories of international students (IS) and the global higher education landscape. From the perspective of migration infrastructure, this paper specifically focuses on the immobility experiences amongst Chinese international students (CIS) who planned to enrol overseas in 2020 but instead chose to take online courses in China due to the COVID-19. It asks how online courses are both facilitated and constrained by a set of institutional and technological infrastructural forces. Particularly it also explores how some CIS exercise agency to mobilise their infrastructural surroundings and overcome certain infrastructural deficiencies they encounter, with the aim of improving studying/living quality while inhabiting immobilities in a transnational context. As such, this paper challenges the oppositional nature of mobility and immobility, arguing that immobility is not the ‘flip side’ to mobility or an outcome by default, and that being immobile can be affirming and empowering. Essentially, the paper brings this infrastructurally sensitive theoretical approach into international student mobility (ISM) studies, shifting the focus from examining how infrastructures move people to how they enable people to stay, and to how they are lived and reconstructed at an everyday level.

Radical democracy, the commons and everyday struggles during the Greek crisis

Set against theoretical and strategic debates about theories of radical democracy, left populism and the commons, this article analyses and evaluates everyday struggles in Greek politics after the global financial crisis. It focusses on the cases of Vio.Me – the first workers’ recuperated factory in Greece – and the Metropolitan Community Clinic at Helliniko, which is the largest social solidarity health clinic in Greece. Viewed from the perspective of commoning practices, the article identifies the logics that sustain the beliefs, values, infrastructures and institutions developed at an everyday grassroots level, finding traces of an incipient radical democratic ethos and rationality at work. The new initiatives highlight crucial and often neglected organisational, prefiguring and subjective prerequisites for radical democracy, while challenging elements of left populist political strategy. Our evolving perspective also problematises their political limitations and strategic dilemmas as they struggle to constitute a viable hegemonic alternative to neoliberal rationalities and governance.

Caffeine and alcohol – Friends or foes of human iron stores?

Background & AimsThere is clear evidence that lifestyle factors affect iron bioavailability. However, information regarding the effect of alcohol and caffeine consumption on iron metabolism is limited. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of caffeine and alcohol consumption on iron metabolism in healthy men, regarding their everyday physical activity level. MethodsThe study enrolled 83 men (59 physically active and 24 sedentary men) aged 18–32 years. Fasting blood samples were collected. ELISA kits were used to determine levels of ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor, hepcidin, hemojuvelin, and C-reactive protein (hsCRP). Level of physical activity was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Caffeine and alcohol intake was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire. A general linear model was performed to evaluate the relationship between caffeine intake and levels of serum ferritin, ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor, hepcidin, hemojuvelin, and hsCRP. ResultsPhysically active men (but not sedentary men) who consumed alcohol in excess presented higher ferritin levels when compared to moderate drinkers and abstainers (R2 = 0.35, p = 0.0001). Heavy drinkers presented the highest hepcidin levels when compared to both abstainers and moderate drinkers (p < 0.0001 for physically active, and p = 0.0267 for sedentary men). However, moderate drinkers showed significantly lower hsCRP levels when compared to heavy drinkers and abstainers drinkers (p < 0.0001 for physically active, and p = 0.0116 for sedentary men). Greater caffeine intake was generally associated with greater serum hepcidin levels, with the strongest effect on moderate drinkers. A significant influence of caffeine intake on hsCRP was shown for physically active men but not for sedentary men - greater caffeine intake was connected with higher hsCRP levels for participants who drank alcohol. ConclusionBased on the presented results it can be assumed that high caffeine consumption may lead to suppression of iron bioavailability through increased inflammation. Furthermore, physical activity and moderate alcohol consumption seemed to benefit reduction of inflammatory response, at least as represented by hsCRP levels.

Культурный код города

The article explores one of the modern trends in the semiotic analysis of the city and urban environment — the study of the cultural code of the city. In the contemporary aca­de­mic discourse, the importance of studying the cultural code of the city is growing not so much as a phenomenon but as a system of decoding and cognizing each specific city in its own con­text. This aspect is closely related to the analysis of the problem of enhancing urban identity and local patriotism, as well as identifying the unique cultural meanings of the city as part of exp­loring its image in the external environment. As the basis for the study of the cultural code of the city, it is proposed to consider the following factors encoding of urban environ­ment: a) nature and climate, b) texts, where the city is conceptualized and presented in litera­ry context, c) historical events associated with the city, d) spatial characteristics, e) symbolic relationship with famous individuals (“geniuses of place”). The process of coding is inf­luenced by other features of the city, which form economic, culinary, tourist, digital and other codes of the city, and their decoding can be carried out both on the everyday level and on the expert (academic) level. The author identifies the main ways of expressing, capturing and communicating the city’s cultural code in signs of different origin.

Герои национальных нарративов в зеркале исторической памяти Рунета (на материале больших данных социальной сети «ВКонтакте»)

The article presents the results of a study of narratives about national heroes in the historical communities of the most popular Russian social network VK. The study is based on 332,781 unique text messages extracted by automated methods using the VK open API. For data processing, the nodes of the PolyAnalyst analytical platform are used: the search query, sentiment analysis, text clustering, summaries, visualization nodes, and a number of nodes for text preprocessing. The data was interpreted on the base of the theoretical and methodological provisions of modern narratoLogy, according to which any communication process can be represented as a form of narration. The authors argue that historical personalities are regularly included in modern national contexts as a component of a single sign space that determines national identity and self-consciousness. Among the most popular are Vladimir Lenin (17,092 references), Josef Stalin (13,830 references), Nicholas II (4,917 references). The main narratives associated with Lenin relate to his faith in the struggle to improve people's Life and the foundation of Soviet Union, later marked by the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Lenin's name remains significant at the everyday Level. Opinions about Stalin are traditionally controversial. The Largest cluster of texts about StaLin reveals the narrative of the Great Patriotic War and the man who Led his country to the Great Victory. The family narrative dominates in the texts about Nicholas II. For some modern Runet users, the Last Russian emperor is a symbol of “Russia that we have lost" Statistically significant are also narratives about NichoLas II as a saint, a martyr, a bad ruLer, and about renunciation. The appLied analysis of unstructured big data of sociaL media aLLows soLving fundamentaLLy new tasks of identifying new features of the mass historicaL consciousness, which expands our understanding of the historical memory space and specific characteristics of the nationaL identity of modern Russia.

ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИИ КАК СПОСОБ ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЯ ДИСКРЕТНОСТИ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО СОЗНАНИЯ

The article deals with the actual problem of overcoming the discreteness of historical consciousness, which arose as a result of the acquisition of traumatic experience of experiencing negative historical phenomena. The author notes that the historical conditions in which the acquisition and experience of traumatic experience occurs, as a result of which the discreteness of historical consciousness is formed and manifested, are carried out during periods of serious socio-cultural transformations and shocks at the individual and collective level. The author notes that such shocks are events associated with various social disasters, military conflicts, natural and man-made disasters, etc.). The collective trauma acquired in these conditions affects the process of formation of discrete historical consciousness, qualitative and quantitative transformation of the social structure, influencing the sphere of ideology. As a result of the research, the author came to the conclusion that the specificity of historical representations is associated with the level of development of historical consciousness of society; with the historical and socio-cultural context in which they are formed; with the level of development of historical science and scientific communications aimed at the formation of historical consciousness. At the conceptual and everyday level, different ways of historical representations are used, with the help of which it is possible to understand what kind of experience a society or an individual is experiencing. The author states that historical representations differ in their insufficiency and riskiness.

Gate Bolt

At current scenario, welfare and safety of children is one of the vital thing all need to be engrossed as many parents are leaving their child unaided in home in order to look their professions. The situation makes the intruders to get touch with unassisted child, this make many unwelcomed problems. To make over the above situation, this project would upkeep state of affairs to assist the parents who are in apprehension about child’s safety. A parent deeply impacts his child’s safety. This gets very tricky when both the parents are working. It reduces the amount of attention that your child gets, thereby affecting his psychological as well as behavioural aspects. An everyday home security level improved the security to our home with the help of AI based face recognition system. To create the door, unlock system by facial recognition uses the basic of camera facility and the network connection (internet). The doors be opened only when the face recognised by the system. This project helped to further improves the safety, security, automation control especially in the home. This system will restrict the entry of unauthenticated person and if so the new persons image captured by the system and the intimation sent to the admin person. The framework ought to likewise uphold the secret phrase opened framework.

Religious-Secular Reality of Individual Consciousness In The Context of COVID-19

The question of the secularity of society still remains open, since scientists have proposed only cautious speculative answers, while every scientist understands that in the social sciences it is a sad experience of predictions, that history is random and therefore unpredictable and the future always remains fundamentally open. The process of transformation of postmodern society, the development of which is actively influenced by the current pandemy of COVID-19, entailed the revival of religious values ​​and the formation of a qualitatively new religious consciousness. In connection with the rise in the social status of religious consciousness and the widespread dissemination of religious ideas, primarily at the everyday level, the analysis of individual religious consciousness as one of the ways to comprehend the world is of particular importance. The social nature of religious consciousness is manifested not only in the fact that religious values ​​are perceived as a kind of khanism of social regulation, but also in the fact that they serve as epistemological guidelines and often compete with scientific values. This determines the growing philosophical interest in the analysis of the epistemological functions of religion and secular reality, as well as the cognitive capabilities of religious consciousness, which is impossible without a consistent study of the methodological basis of religious knowledge.

GENDER FACTOR OF INTERNET ACTIVITY AND CONSUMPTION OF DIGITAL SERVICES

The article analyzes the gender factor of differences in Internet activity and use of digital services. The information base includes data from a survey on Russia conducted by the Higher School of Economics and Rosstat, and the results of a sociological survey conducted in the Vologda Oblast in 2020. A comparison is made of the goals of visiting the Internet, the availability and level of development of digital skills, the use of state and municipal services in an online format for men and women using the methods of system-structural and cross-tabulation analysis. Shown that at the everyday level there are elements of the digital gender divide, largely due to gender stereotypes formed in society.

Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq

Taking as a starting point the conviction that everyday interactions carry the potential to be either conflictual or peaceful, this article examines people’s everyday behaviour in the deeply divided city of Kirkuk, Iraq. Using the historic bazaar in Kirkuk city as a site of analysis, and through a research survey of 511 people, it focuses on interactions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen. The article draws on Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic capital and takes an intersectional approach to analyse the everyday interactions in the bazaar to create a better understanding of the role of space and privilege. The results demonstrate that for the most part, at the everyday level people carry out acts of everyday peace rather than conflict. However, when everyday conflict does occur, those with the highest symbolic capital are the most likely actors. Additionally, although gender does influence people’s actions, ethnosectarian identity has greater influence in many areas related to everyday peace and conflict. On a practical level, the article argues that such an understanding can connect better to policymaking and peacebuilding as it can point to where and how peacebuilders should focus their attention in order to promote and enhance peace within people’s everyday lives.

OPERATIONALIZATION OF THE STUDY OF THE «CHRONOTOPE OF COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES OF CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY» CONCEPT

Usage of a special psychology concept – chronotope of communicative activity of preschool children with delay of mental development is substantiated by the author in the paper. It is made clear, that chronotope of communicative activity is the complex socio-psychological phenomenon which is constructed by personality as a result of his / her real and virtual co-operation and communication in measuring of everyday and unordinary reality with Other, that is opened out in timeline and value-semantic continuum of life. The constituents of space of communicative activity at everyday level of consciousness that are incarnated in research of direct co-operation and communication with adults and same-year fellows are marked. The constituents of space of communicative activity have been exposed at extraordinary level of consciousness which is realized in the mediated co-operating and communication with a favourite toy and imaginary partner, with animation personages. It was emphasised that the conceptual framework of the developed concept is integrity based at different approaches, at systematic, axiology, cultural, historical; social and psychological; subject-environmental and body-based, technique scientific approaches that are synthesized in the personality-oriented paradigm of education.

It Matters How You ‘Do’ Gender in Peacebuilding: African Approaches and Challenges

The article draws attention to the consequences of simplistically equating gender, sex and women when doing peacebuilding. Drawing on the ambivalent nature of security architecture interventions from the African continent, I make a case for keeping a variety of conceptual approaches to gender mainstreaming in mind in order to avoid a narrow fixation on adding women. I show through selected examples how institutional frameworks and commitments may appear progressive but could have potentially exclusionary effects. Gender is an important lens to analyse peacebuilding practices and commitments, but only if viewed as an action or means of ‘doing’ that disrupts additive liberal approaches to peacebuilding. As an alternative, the article proposes a gender-relational and intersected analysis of everyday securities and peacebuilding. A focus on lived, gendered and racialised experiences of insecurity and peacebuilding at the everyday level offsets the abstract and universalised approach adopted by states as well as regional and continental players. The article concludes that approaches to gender mainstreaming through sameness, difference and diversity should be seen as complementary to allow space for a context-specific, thick analysis of gender relations on the ground as well as gendered processes of structural or institutional change.

Body in migration: Bodily experiences and strategies amongst foreign scholars in China

AbstractTaking an embodied approach, this paper conducts ethnographic research on foreign scholars working at Sino‐foreign universities. First, it examines both bodily comfort and dissonance they encounter while living in China. Second, it investigates how some scholars deploy bodily strategies at everyday and transnational level to overcome bodily discomfort and reframe lived experiences. As such, the paper demonstrates that embodiments, especially in the context of migration, are always, and necessarily, situated, multiple and ever‐changing, as they are structurally positioned, agentively reconstructed and temporally/spatially distributed. Critically, with a focus on the newly emerged academic mobility pattern moving from the Global North to the South, this paper brings a bodily sensitive theoretical framework into academic migration studies, unpacking the interacting dynamics between places, migrant bodies, agency and subjectivities. It thus expands the analytic utility of the approach of bodies/embodiments and further facilitates the body turn in migration studies in new theoretical and empirical directions.

Banal bordering: Everyday encounters between migrants and security officers

Abstract The encounter between a migrant and the state is almost always fraught. The power of the state to approve or deny immigration status produces a power imbalance whereby the migrant is subject to the whim of the state. This research extracts encounters between migrants, police, immigration officers, and interpreters in the UK to conceptualise how the minutia of these encounters, and the standardised practices they involve, might impact the ability of migrants to express themselves and exercise their own voice in interactions. Adopting a reflexive ethnographic methodology, and using data gathered with police workers as a pilot case, I consider how the varied objectives of agencies and actors in the migration sector intersect with migrant experiences in practice. Ultimately, implications for migrant security lie in the recognition that migrant voice can be obscured as a result of mundane and everyday procedures. Banal bordering processes can go unnoticed and unaddressed by policy makers, but are often loaded with meaning for migrants subject to them. The vulnerability of migrants and the unbalanced nature of encounters between migrants and the state highlights how state power manifests at an everyday level, suggesting that insecurity is not unique to migrants without documents, but is present in all encounters between migrants and the state. Nevertheless, the professionals who are interacting with migrants are often in a position whereby they have the experiential expertise to offer workable, though limited, solutions, although they do not always have access to the channels or the resources necessary to implement them.

Decolonizing “Protestant” Death Rituals for the Chinese Bereaved: Negotiating a Resistance that is Contextually Relevant

Abstract This paper is a postcolonial reading of the Protestant practice of continuing bonds between the living and the dead in Hong Kong. It sees the practice as an imperfect indigenization that, in the post-colonial Hong Kong context, can be interpreted as an everyday resistance, a notion advanced by James Scott. The postcolonial relevance of an everyday resistance is explained. The findings of a qualitative study are reported to substantiate the claims. It concludes that a practical theology of imperfect indigenization understood as resistance on everyday level is a public theology recommendable to the post-colonial Hong Kong and Asia.

Housing Search Strategies of Workers in the 1920s (case of Kharkiv)

This article addresses the study of the housing search strategies and tactics by Kharkiv workers in the 1920s. The author investigates the problem of implementation of the housing policy of the Soviet power on everyday level, analyses the distribution practices of departmental housing, as well as problems of interaction between NEPmen and factory workers. With the help of microhistory methods and cultural history of everyday life we have discovered workers’ strategies to find accommodationBased on the texts of statements, analysis and letters of the workers to Kharkiv local authorities, it was revealed that they were co-authors of the class discourse “from below”. The workers in their appeals to the authorities actively used Soviet rhetoric and, guided by their own interests, accused or defended NEPmen. The study of the workers as the subjects of Soviet politics is a possible way for further updating of national studies on labour history.It can be stated that during the 1920s, Kharkiv workers chose the following strategies while searching for housing: obtaining a room from the enterprise, searching for free living space, evicting the NEPmen or cooperating with them. Generally, factory workers combined these strategies, tried to use them comprehensively to achieve the goal: to obtain an apartment. Employees of enterprises were not passive observers of the departmental housing distribution. They actively participated in this process, defended their rights at trade union meetings, guided by their own ideas of justice. The Bolsheviks’ social initiatives to raise the living standards of the workers in their “everyday life” led to the emergence of new, unpredictable social practices. The introduction of benefits for workers in housing and communal services led to the increased interaction between social groups that were antagonistic from the point of view of the authorities. Workers were not only the object of the government’s social policy but also the entity that, on the one hand, ensured the implementation of this policy, and on the other hand, corrected and changed it.Manuscript received 18.03.2020