Practices Of Everyday Life Research Articles

FREE Architecture

As architects, we study the behavior of the inhabitant, taking into account collective and individual subjectivity. However, it becomes difficult to generate transformative architecture when the user is seen as a bank of ergonomic data and space is understood as mere geographical coordinates. This results in the construction of spaces that are separate from existential depth, where the user is not actively involved in any of the design process, which affects his will, interests, and values. This also prevents interaction between different types of knowledge that arises from these spaces. Through this horizontal interaction, it is possible to obtain architectural design that transforms its context. Digital ethnography is a methodology that raises questions related to the practices of everyday life through a flexible and multilevel scheme where the virtual space reveals the social practices of a community, freeing up the space and scope of architecture and connecting lay with expert knowledge.

TOĞUŞLU Erkan (dir.), Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe.

Erkan Toguslu est chercheur a l’Universite de KU Leuven en Belgique. Diplome de l’EHESS, il est specialise sur les migrations, les musulmans en Europe et la religion dans l’espace public. C’est precisement l’articulation de ces trois centres d’interet qui constituent l’objet de recherche de l’ouvrage qu’il dirige. Les different-e-s contributrice/eur-s de l’ouvrage se sont penche-e-s sur des pratiques qui peuvent sembler banales a premiere vue: habitudes alimentaires, rapport a l’art, aux loi...

PERAN PONDOK PESANTREN TERHADAP PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER

Absolute education (character) is the basis of every human being that must be internalized in every soul as a human soul, it is a measure of whether someone is good or not. One institution that plays an important role in ahlak education is pondok pesantren. Emphasis in boarding school education is an effort to form a noble man with good personality, good behavior and virtuous, so that attitudes or morals in the world of boarding school education occupy an important position and become the ultimate goal of an education, namely giving birth to people with morals in addition to science. Therefore, moral position is very important for the world of pesantren education. Pondok pesanntren not only conveys material through classic books, but rather to practice in everyday life, so that character education is easily embedded into the souls of students as objects in character education in a boarding school environment. Until now, education is one of the basic education that has been maintained, not displaced by anything, despite continuing trials and panic from various sectors. So that Islamic boarding school educational institutions continue to get good responses from the community. This journal tries to reveal the vital role of pesantren in professional education. Trying to reveal the involvement of Islamic boarding schools in the process of planting ahlak education from the beginning until now.

Steering demand? Exploring the intersection of policy, practice and lives in energy systems change in Ireland

Recent advances in sociological investigations of energy-systems-change highlight the influence of a wide range of policies, beyond those typically considered relevant to energy, on energy demand. To this, a new field of (‘non-) energy policy’ scholarship is exploring the ways in which policies across multiple societal sectors ‘steer’ demand. However, much of this work has been conducted at the scale of institutions and systems, with comparatively little work exploring the intersection of policy and everyday life. As a result, little is known about the ways in which (non-)energy policies shape demand in the context of situated, domestic energy practices. This paper seeks to advance (non-)energy policy scholarship by connecting recent developments in systems-based perspectives with situated practice-theoretical investigations of everyday practices. Drawing on biographic-narrative analysis of Irish individuals’ energy practices and their evolution over time, it highlights the potential of experience-centred inquiry for generating novel empirical insights regarding the contexts and processes by which policies and practice intersect. An illustrative discussion of ‘traces of policy’ and their influence on individuals’ conduct reveal insights into the everyday contexts and socially differentiated ways in which policy ‘steers’ action. Analysis reveals that (non-)energy policies of various kinds have worked to steer action by setting agendas, shaping public discourse and delimiting action. Individuals are posited as active agents mediating the intersection of policy and practice in everyday life. The paper concludes by outlining the parameters of a new research agenda for experience-centred explorations of the intersections of policy, practice and lives in energy-systems-change.

Zen and the Art of Democracy: Contemplative Practice as Ordinary Political Theory

In recent years, contemplative practices of meditation have become increasingly mainstream in American culture, part of a phenomenon that scholars call “Buddhist modernism.” Connecting the embodied practice of meditation with the embodied practice of democracy in everyday life, this essay puts the radical democratic theory of Jacques Rancière into conversation with the Zen writings of Shunryu Suzuki and Thomas Merton. I show how meditation can be understood as an aesthetic practice that cultivates modes of experience, perception, thinking, and feeling that further radical democratic projects at the most fundamental level. Reading the landscape of Buddhist modernism to draw out democratic possibilities, we can understand contemplative practices like meditation as a form of political theorizing in a vernacular register. Buddhist modernism works as a practice of everyday life that ordinary users can employ to get through their days with more awareness and attentiveness, to reclaim and reauthorize their experience, and to generate more care and compassion in ways that enable, enact, and extend the project of democracy itself.

Wektor poetycki w biografiach artystów: Olga Boznańska, Wojciech Weiss, Jerzy Tchórzewski

Starting from the contemporary trends in biography and referring to findings in the field of anthropology of writing and new materialism, the author analyzes poetic forms created in painting studios. She considers the works of O. Boznańska, W. Weiss and T. Tchórzewski as poetic manifestations of the literary practice of everyday life, a type of poeticised documents. The presence of poetry in artists’ lives is multi-faceted: loose pages preserved in a scrapbook, entries in a journal and autonomous works printed in the press, hence their role in creative biography is different. The common ground is a syncretic perception of creativity; the preserved texts co-create a kind of artistic site where the boundaries between the publication, the exhibition and the project performance blur, requiring special editing operations.

Becoming Chapels and Everyday Congregations: How the Repair and Maintenance of London’s Wesleyan Chapels Illustrates Their Communities’ Everyday Practices and Experiences (1851–1932)

Abstract This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or repair of Wesleyan chapels necessary, or occurred because of these processes, it considers what maintenance and repair reveal about everyday practices and experiences within these communities. This article’s approach allows it to draw conclusions about individuals’ personal and mundane engagements with Wesleyanism in London during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As such, it overcomes some of the problems that historians interested in the everyday have traditionally faced as a result of the shortage of surviving personal testimonies about the everyday nature of church attendance during this period. Using Wesleyan chapels from London’s northern suburbs and East End as case studies, this article particularly focuses on the repair and maintenance of organs and chapel interiors. It uses these examples to reflect on the practicalities of everyday life in Wesleyan communities, demonstrating how considering moments of repair and maintenance highlights the (sometimes fraught) interrelationships between the spiritual, social, and practical priorities of Wesleyan communities.

Negotiating polyvocal strategies: Re-reading de Certeau through the lens of urban planning in South Africa

The Practice of Everyday Life (de Certeau M (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) has become a canonical text in urban studies, with de Certeau’s idea of tactics having been widely deployed to understand and theorise the everyday. Tactics of resistance were contrasted with the strategies of the powerful, but the ways in which these strategies are operationalised were left ambiguous by de Certeau and have remained undertheorised since. We address this lacuna through an examination of the planning profession in South Africa as a lieu propre– a strategic territory with considerable power to shape urban environments. Based on a large interview data set examining practitioner attitudes toward the state of the profession in South Africa, this paper argues that the strategies of the powerful are themselves subject to negotiation. We trace connections with de Certeau’s earlier work to critique the idea that strategies are univocal. We do this by examining how the interests of different powerful actors can come into conflict, using the planning profession as an exemplar of how opposing strategies must be mediated in order to secure changes in society.

Expressive Wearables

Self-expression is a vital practice for a functioning social life. Wearables have become expressive everyday products, while studies showed how physical collocation can be an opportunity for social technology. This article identifies a perspective for future design of wearables as an extension of the body in its social context: designing for diversity in expression with respect to social boundaries. The collected literature demonstrates the development of new forms of expressive wearables that challenges norms of dress and three groups of participatory methods enable re-search into everyday life practices. The two initial studies—inquiring into everyday life and exploring the wearable design for new practices—exemplify these methods and point a way forward with a focus for design on distinct practices of self-expression.

La cultura come bene comune

What happens if we look at culture as commons? My effort is to capture sense of culture as commons in an ever new practice of everyday life (De Certeau 2005). The aim of this paper is not to explore the concept of culture and commons, rather to investigate, through three good practices, the consequences that culture, seen as a common good, can bring to places. The three cases presented show what it means to invest in culture as a common asset and resource of difference. To manage culture as a common good, therefore, means investing in the revolutionary force of culture. It is possible to compare, in a certain sense, the revolutionary force of culture to the revolutionary demands of art recalled by Walter Benjamin. Benjamin hypothesizes the possibility of a political use of art.

Du corps reconstitué au corps reconfiguré. Pour une compréhension éthique de la prothèse à l’ère du techno-enchantement

This research note presents a thesis research led on the social representations of the amputated body fitted with prostheses, in the light of the contemporary collective imagination. The main aim was to observe, compare and analyse the way in which the public and media consider the field of prostheses, and bring these collective projections and imaginations face to face with how the amputees (but also the caregivers who surround them) see themselves and construct their own social and bodily identity. The goal was to reveal the existence of a certain gap between what the collective discourse producers (media, scientists) think to know about amputees and prostheses, and the reality observed on site (practical problems, customs and practices of everyday life). The final aim was to formulate proposals to overcome these ambiguous conceptions, to question the notions of social inclusion and exclusion of disability and the technological repairs of the body, and to put the amputees at the heart of more rational, pragmatic and ethical considerations, far from any prediction, speculation and phantasmagoria.

Significados de la corrupción en universitarios dominicanos, docentes en formación

De manera general, la corrupción se caracteriza como el abuso de un poder encargado, con el fin de obtener un beneficio particular. La gran corrupción ha sido abundantemente abordada desde diferentes perspectivas en las ciencias sociales, pero solo en tiempos relativamente recientes se ha otorgado una mayor importancia al estudio de la pequeña corrupción, la que emerge y se reproduce en prácticas cotidianas que se confunden con la lógica del intercambio privado de favores. Este interés ha implicado la adopción de una mirada culturalista para la comprensión de los significados que en contextos particulares le asignan los sujetos al fenómeno. Siguiendo este camino, nos preguntamos aquí por los significados que un grupo de estudiantes universitarios articulan colectivamente en torno a la corrupción, cuando se encuentran en situaciones sociales de habla. Suponemos que las interacciones lingüísticas que allí ocurren permiten identificar repertorios interpretativos, esto es, recursos culturales compartidos, disponibles para la descripción y la evaluación del fenómeno, recursos con los que los sujetos adoptan frente a la corrupción una posición no exenta de variaciones y tensiones. El acercamiento a estos significados se realizó desde una perspectiva cualitativa, empleando la técnica del grupo focal. La población del estudio son estudiantes de la carrera de educación, en la ciudad de San Pedro de Macorís, en República Dominicana. Identificamos tres de estos repertorios: el de la victimización, el de la aceptación-justificación y el de la superación ética.

Aesthetic-based competences lead to a sustainable learning practice

PurposeThe purpose of the article is to explore how aesthetic-based competences are developed in and through leaders’ organisational practice and how these competences may lead to a sustainable learning practice in everyday life in organisations. Design/methodology/approach: The article focuses on how aesthetic-based experiments can change leaders’ organisational practice, when instrumental rationality is transformed into aesthetic rationality. This happens when leaders learn to move the everyday drama, the so-called social drama, into an aesthetic drama in order to transform organisational habits and devastating paradigms. Findings: The study of how leaders learn to transform their practice, based on a study at Copenhagen Business School in the period 2014–2017, documents that leaders can learn aesthetic performance that transforms their organisational practice when the learning processes are integrated into everyday life. Originality/value: The combination of aesthetic performance and learning processes has potential for a lasting and sustainable transformation, when the learning concept is rooted in leaders’ organisational practice as a bodily embedded aesthetic rationality.

Review: Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830, by Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Gauvin Alexander Bailey Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604–1830 Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 640 pp., 7 maps, 287 color illus. $75 (cloth), ISBN 9780773553149 My reading of Gauvin Alexander Bailey's hefty and beautifully illustrated tome on French colonial architecture was interrupted by my participation in a conference in one of France's former colonial capitals, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Given that the title of the conference was Colonial Cities in Global Perspective, I expected to see some synergy with Bailey's book, but I also assumed there would be little obvious overlap.1 Only a couple of the papers delivered at the conference touched on architecture, and none with the range or depth of Bailey's discussions of ideology, buildings, and labor. However, I was struck by the ways that the physical landscape of Saint-Louis evoked the critical gaps that Bailey describes between French ideals, imagination, and reality. While the history of Saint-Louis continues to be touted for the sake of tourism and research, the city is also a resolutely Senegalese one where colonial architectural forms can be obscured by the practices of everyday life. One of Bailey's main goals is to trace the disjuncture between French attempts to glorify state and church through architecture on one hand and the violent realities of colonialism on the other. His first couple of chapters outline French ideologies about urbanism and architecture. Chapters 3–7 then examine the history of builders, contractors, and artisans, including Amerindians, Africans, and enslaved and free people of color, as well as French civilian and royal architects.2 Chapters 8–11 focus on urbanism and planned cities. In the final section of the book (chapters 12–16), Bailey looks closely at changing secular and ecclesiastical architecture in the French colonial context, including the development of vernacular styles such as the open gallery or veranda that assumed particular cultural meaning and significance in France's Atlantic empire. On several occasions during the conference in Senegal, certain buildings in the city immediately reminded …

Cultures of Enthusiasm: An Ethnographic Study of Amateur Map-Maker Communities

Further attention should be paid to contextualizing the spaces and practices of amateur map-making. Doing so will provide further insight into the ways that maps, mapping epistemologies, and mapper identities emerge in the practices of everyday life. In order to deconstruct the map, and ultimately the power of maps, it is necessary to investigate maps from the bottom up as well as the top down. The motivations of amateur cartographers, the contexts in which map-making takes place, and the technological processes involved are all important factors to consider when examining how and why maps are produced. Empirical ethnographic evidence from a study of OpenStreetMap and humanitarian “mapping parties” is presented here to demonstrate how the often overlooked cultures of amateur map-making offer novel perspectives on who contemporary map-makers are and what motivates them to map. It is shown that amateur map-making is a broad category that includes close-knit hobby communities and more diverse groups of enthusiastic volunteers. As cartography continues to open up and become more accessible through a range of digital mapping technologies, studying these shifts will be important for understanding how and why the role of the map in contemporary life is changing.

Digital Social Futures Research

Social research is almost inevitably digital: in its subject matter because the digital, social and material dimensions of our worlds and lives are now inseparably entangled; and in its methods as our research techniques and encounters are, even if indirectly, implicated with digital technologies, platforms and practices. Social scientific renderings of digital technologies and media and everyday life propose a range of discipline-specific ways of understanding this relationship between the online/offline and digital/material, and a large and growing literature about digital methods and practice for research and its dissemination. The new challenge is to advance from this strong base of critical research and scholarship within the social sciences and humanities, in two ways. First towards interdisciplinary interventions that will bring theory, methods and concepts into dialogue with technology and design disciplines, and policy and industry agendas; and second to engage with emerging digital technologies and communication, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Automated Decision Making (ADM), and the new socialities, everyday life practices and business models associated with these technological possibilities.

Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space

Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space

Wandering and Placemaking in London: Iain Sinclair’s Literary Methodology

Wandering and Placemaking in London: Iain Sinclair’s Literary Methodology

Museum quality: Katherine Philips, Violet Trefusis, Vita Sackville-West and the queer early/modern

ABSTRACTThis essay tracks the poetics and erotics of queer early/modern association as a discontinuous it-narrative. Beginning with Keats’ well-known letter in praise of Katherine Philips and the documented bookplate of Violet Trefusis in a notable copy of Philips’ Poems (1667), I retell the story of an infamous modernist sapphic scandal for my own purposes: the tragic history of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West viewed through their privileged immersion in Renaissance places, objects and texts. Continuing this line of sapphic assemblage, I explore forms of attachment imbricated in the everyday life and textual practices of these queer early/modern lovers and their readers. Sometimes fragmentary and speculative, overwhelmingly generative or done to death, these bits and pieces of textual evidence disclose a ‘queer deep love’.

Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler. Alex Garganigo. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2018. Pp. ix+332.

<i>Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler</i>. Alex Garganigo. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2018. Pp. ix+332.