Family Stories Research Articles

Globalization, Citizenship and Subjectivity : An Analysis of the Changes in the Last Four Generations

Globalization is the process of connecting the world without any barrier and boarder. Particularly this process is impacting our society, culture, economy, polity, people’s thought, and everyday life. Globalization incorporates, integrates and diffuses all the human and non-human activities in all over the world without any boarder. Similarly, this process constructs, reconstructs, shapes and reshapes the citizen’s attributes, experiences, ideas, feeling, belief, expectation, perception, thoughts and socio-cultural understanding of the individual relating with respective community. In this article, the author tries to analyze interlink of globalization, citizenship and subjectivity with researcher’s family history and stories of close relatives. And also seeks the answer of the question that how people’s subjectivities have changed over the periods, in one generation to another? Additionally, this study provides insight not only into the author's family, but also into the comparative historical antecedents of Nepali society, and how its own subjectivity was shaped, molded, and influenced by globalization with the state-building and changing process.

Stories of Families with Chronically Ill Pediatric Patients during the War in Ukraine

Stories of Families with Chronically Ill Pediatric Patients during the War in Ukraine

House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace

What feelings foster peace? This question is rarely asked in International Relations. This article, therefore, sets out to analyse the way people involved in peace processes speak about feeling by using one particular set of metaphors and allegories, namely, such tropes that refer to family in any way. The article presumes that family metaphors are particularly well suited to speak about difficult feelings since they are inherently ambiguous: on one hand, families are a universal experience, which means that their use speaks to a wide and general public; on the other hand, families are a personal and subjective experience, so that metaphors and allegories can be left unspecified, for each listener to be filled with their own ideas. By looking at speeches by Nobel Peace Prize laureates, the article explores how this ambiguity is used when talking about peace. It finds that family metaphors can build bridges and imagined connectivity; but they can also be used to deny a shared relation between two parties. The article concludes that family metaphors and allegories are capable of not only breaking up conflict lines but also of cementing them in an elusive and subtle way.

“Analisis Wacana Pesan Dakwah Dalam Film I-Tanggang: Mother Of All Lies”

The film I-Tanggang: Mother of Lies tells the story of a disobedient child and a mother who lies, causing extreme conflict in 3 family stories that are told and have 12 episodes. It is important to explain that da'wah messages can be conveyed through various media, one of which is film media, so that when watching a film you don't just enjoy the storyline. But, also da'wah messages which are of course very useful. Thus, the researcher wants to review and describe the preaching message contained in the film I-Tanggang: Mother of All Lies. The problems to be uncovered in this study are: the macro discourse structure, the superstructure and the micro structure of the dakwah messages contained in the dialogue texts of the film characters I-Tanggang: Mother of Lies in the story of the character Syafiq. The type of research that the researchers used was a qualitative approach, collecting data through text observation and documentation, while the data analysis technique used was media text analysis using the Teun A. Van Dijk discourse analysis model. Based on the results of the research that the writer did, in the film I-Tanggang: Mother of All Lies, which tells the story of one of the main characters, namely the character Syafiq, there is a da'wah message about faith. (about reciting basmallah and surrendering to Allah SWT.), about sharia (punishment for those who commit adultery and the wife's obedience to her husband), and morals (about hard work and responsibility). The general theme in the film I-Tanggang: Mother Of All Lies is about a syndrome where sufferers always lie and manipulate circumstances, about the important role of parents in educating children, and how a teenager's patience in facing difficulties. life and the twists and turns of problems that he shouldn't have experienced, with mixed storylines (forward and backward plots).

‘Not intended to be perfect representations’: Photograph and Narrative in Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts (2007) and James Ellroy’s My Dark Places (1996)

This article will address James Ellroy’s My Dark Places and Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts as attempts and failures to tell familial stories of murder. These problematics of ‘telling’ will be teased out through the way both texts approach photographs. Ellroy actively reproduces photographs within his narrative, often accompanying them with highly poetic italicised sections of writing in which he vows not to forsake his mother. In contrast, Nelson refuses to reproduce crime scene photos, instead describing them in italicised sections which are aesthetically distinct from the rest of the text. The use, or deliberate non-use, of photographs allows for both authors to puncture and rupture their own texts, creating moments of anti-narrative in which the self’s inability to process the loss of family members is foregrounded.

In the Mood for Kimono: Hayashi Mariko and the Weaving of Japanese Fashion into Popular Fiction

The field of postwar Japanese and international fiction has seen an expanding corpus of texts revolving around kimono. Many works, while tapping into the intricacies of sartorial traditions, contain actualized narratives of young girls and women experiencing or remembering kimono in prewar, postwar, and contemporary Japan. In these stories, the kimono—ever persisting, at times resisting—helps the protagonist to discover self-confidence and agency as they deal with loss, social expectations, family, and national history. This article focuses on Hayashi Mariko’s short story collection Stories about Kimono (Kimono o meguru monogatari, 1997) and her more recent novel The Imperial Visit to Ohara: The Story of an Obi-Making Family (Ohara gokō: Obi ni ikita kazoku no monogatari, 2014b). These two narratives work within all of these parameters and illustrate how authors can write consistently about the multiple meanings within kimono. Through analyzing how Hayashi describes kimono outfits and their implications, this article also explores how, as a literary device, the kimono connects with the concept of reality effect; emphasizes the power of the feminine gaze in Japanese literature; and reveals how the limits between fiction and reality can be broken down. When inspired by the specific mode of dress that is kimono, writers can prompt new inspirations for women to create their own stories with it, discarding the cliché of ‘yamato nadeshiko’ (lit: Japanese pink carnations, used to evoke Japanese demure, feminine beauty) to explore darker and/or more embodied experiences.

Historical family stories serve individual and collective functions for the following generations

Historical family stories serve individual and collective functions for the following generations

REMINISCING AND RECOLLECTION OF LIFE IN ILIJA TROJANOW’S NOVEL THE WORLD IS BIG, AND SALVATION LURKS EVERYWHERE

IIija Trojanow, one of the Bulgarian writers of Contemporary German Literature, penned the story of the Luxow family's migration from Bulgaria to Germany in his first novel, "The World is Big, and Salvation Lurks Everywhere" (Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall, 1996). Employing self-reminiscences ingrained in his autobiographic memoir, the author reveals how the oppressive communist regime of the 70s affected society in the novel's story of the Luxow family. The novel is composed employing modern and post-modern narration techniques. The past is rendered in the story of Alex Luxow, the main character, who loses his family in a traffic accident in Germany and cannot recall past events before this accident. In addition, the main character's journeys in tandem with his godfather Bai Dan, who helps him in the healing process both physically and spiritually, indicate the search for an individual and cultural identity. This study discusses how the main character's memories of the overshadowed past are revived and what they point to while surpassing individual/cultural boundaries in the context of memory objects in autobiographical and collective reminiscences.

MEMBANGUN KELUAGA QUR’ANI DI ERA DIGITAL, ANTARA HARAPAN DAN TANTANGAN

The Qur'anic family is a family that is close to the Qur'an, friendly to the Qur'an, always interacts with the Qur'an, and practices the Qur'an in everyday life. The Qur'ani family is not just a family that memorizes the text of the Qur'an, but is also able to practice Qur'anic values ​​in its family life. The Qur'an is a guide and reference in forming a real family. The Qur'an cites various family models as a reflection of today's modern family. For example, the bad family model reflects the Abu Lahab family (Qs. Al-Lahab: 1-5), the noble family reflects the family of Prophet Ibrahim (Qs. Ash-Shaffat: 101-113), Imran's family (Qs. Ali Imran: 33-34 ), the Luqman family (Qs. Luqman: 13-19) and so on. These are among the family stories (al-Qashash) that are revealed in the Qur'an as a reflection of today's family. Therefore, it is appropriate for every family to reflect on the various family models described in the Qur'an so that they can build a Qur'anic family

Living with siblings’ drug use. Bereaved siblings’ family stories

ABSTRACT Family members’ problematic drug use is challenging for siblings affecting their well-being and their relationships within the family. Research about siblings living with brothers or sisters’ problematic drug use and research on bereaved siblings’ experiences indicates that life situations and support needs for both minor siblings and adult siblings can easily be overlooked, both in practice and in research. This article contributes to this knowledge gap by examining how siblings provide meaning to their sibling’s drug use problem and how they position themselves and other family members accordingly. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were used for data collection, and fourteen bereaved siblings were interviewed. A narrative thematic analysis was chosen, and four themes were generated. These four themes, (1) Surviving difficult family life, (2) The relationships in continuous change, (3) It’s worse for the parents, and (4) “We”, as a synonym for the family, are presented in this article. Our findings demonstrated how complex and multifaceted siblings’ stories about living with their brothers or sisters’ ongoing drug use are. This study calls for more attention to siblings’ situations. Siblings’ lives are affected by their brothers or sisters’ problems, and siblings should also be involved in routine support and treatment practices.

“Son, Black People are Like Superman. But Cops Can Be the Kryptonite:” Communication About Police Brutality in the Black Family

ABSTRACT Even with heightened scrutiny and augmented visibility of cases, the Black community continues to experience police brutality more than their racial counterparts. Previous research has highlighted the prominence of the Black family in the process of racial socialization and identity construction, and other research has reinforced the family as an influential factor in one’s perception of police. However, still, there is a significant absence of communication-centered research that analyzes the issue of police brutality, especially within the Black family. This is true even though police brutality has a well-documented and long-lasting impact on the Black family. Therefore, guided by core tenets of Critical Race Theory, this qualitative study utilized interviews to analyze how interviewees from Black families communicate about police brutality. The following themes emerged from the analysis: (1) Critical Cases: family members remember Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland, (2) Critical Incidents: communication about first-hand accounts and familial stories, and (3) Critical Conversations: stages of “the Talk.” Findings from this study can be used to understand better how Black families navigate police brutality, an issue known to increase stress, trauma, and rates of race-based mortality. This study’s findings can be applied to social work, family therapy, and mental health fields.

A transnational family story: A narrative inquiry on the emotional and intergenerational notions of ‘home’

At the core of migratory experiences lie key questions pertaining to one's emotional changing Self: the complexity of conflicting identities, feelings of (un)belonging, varying degrees of emotional place (un)attachment, and the fundamental (re)conceptualizations of ‘home’. Though well-studied from various angles, ‘home’ as an emotional concept in the context of generational family migration research has many gains yet to be made. Through an in-depth study on three generations of one author's own family, this paper provides personal insight into the intergenerational and emotional dimensions of this topic. Unanimously, the findings demonstrate that notions of ‘home’ as where family is remain predominant, with ties to transnationally dispersed family members rendering ‘home’ as multiple. Places of familial heritage further remain central in conceptualizations of ‘home’ through a retainment of cultural practices and values derived from familial homelands. Despite these cross-generational similarities, challenges and emotional uncertainties on the topic are seen to be increasingly prevalent in the youngest generation. Above all, interviewees' post-migration reflections demonstrate that such conceptualizations are intricate, relational and do not exist in an emotional vacuum.

‘Painting’ Ruth

In accordance with the idea of mise en abyme, Mieke Bal and Harold Fisch identify aspects in the Book of Ruth that allude to earlier episodes in the Old Testament. As well as building the House of Israel and Ruth's role in it, there are textual references to the laws of family (Levirate Law) and land (Redemption). While Fisch sees moral progression through the allusions to Ruth's foremothers, Walter Benjamin does not countenance the notion of progression in the domain of history. Instead, Benjamin extracts the details of history from the detritus of the past to explain the present and forecast the future. With Fisch and Bal, I am learning to live with loss by removing the linearity of time that mise en abyme affords. From Benjamin, I am collecting fragments of family stories by ploughing into the past in order to understand the present.

Development of the Family Chronicle for Family Nursing Assessment

Objective: The objective of this study was to develop the Chronological Table of the Plot of Family Story (PFS) as a new tool for assessment of the family chronicle, based the Concentric Sphere Family Environment Theory proposed by Hohashi. Method: Five researchers considered the PFS so as to enable use of the family chronicle, based on the records of family ethnography (family interviews/meetings, participant observation and others) conducted in Japan, China (Hong Kong), the Philippines and Indonesia and family case studies. Results: The four-page PFS consists of “a chronological table indicating the relationship and process of the plot of family story, family drama, family story, degree of family events, and condition of changes in the family (family signs/symptoms, family beliefs, family cognition/decisions/acts, etc.).” Conclusion: The PFS is an effective family nursing tool that can visibly indicate to what degree and in what manner the plot acts on family signs/symptoms.

Rediscovering Identity: Autobiographical Memory and Media Discourses of Russian-Germans in Germany and Russia

This paper compares the processes of rediscovering identity in autobiographical memory and media discourses of Russian-Germans living in Germany and in Russia. According to R. Brubaker, the Russian-Germans are viewed as a transnational group with a specific “hybrid identity”, whose identification varies depending on the cultural project, which they are involved in. In Germany and Russia, the boundaries of this identification are the politics of memory of the host society and the dominant narratives regarding this group as repatriates (Germany) and as a diaspora with its own culture (Russia). Our analysis, which was based on the methodology of the critical discourse analysis by S. Jäger, revealed that such a dominant narrative in Germany is the “narrative of return”. In Russia, however, there are two discursive threads: the image of Russian-Germans as a repressed group and the narrative about the outstanding role of Russian-Germans in the history of Russia. The curves of autobiographical and family narratives of the three generations of Russian-Germans in Russia and Germany were analyzed and compared according to the biographical method of F. Schütze. People aged 30–50 were the most open to the influence of collective “standardized” narratives both in Germany and in Russia. Despite the fact of living in Russia, those respondents who were preparing to repatriate to Germany actively reproduced the “return narrative” and used international mnemonic frameworks to structure their autobiographical and family story. Our study showed that the influence of the discursive media environment on the autobiographical and family memory of Russian-Germans living in Germany and Russia depends on the respondent’s individual life experience (the curve of their biography), age, and some peculiarities of their family history.

Adolescents and family history: Memories, testimonies, narratives, and perspectives

Kouseri

텍스트마이닝을 통해 본 남녀 화자별 구비설화 전승 양상의 차이 - 『한국구비문학대계』와 『증편 한국구비문학대계』를 대상으로

This study examined the differences in ttransmission patterns based on the gender of speakers using folklore narratives included in the 『Comprehensive Korean Oral Literature』 and 『Complementary Edition of Comprehensive Korean Oral Literature』. To do this, visualized the transmission types for male and female speakers and compared them using the “Associative word network analysis technique by co-occurring word pairs”.
 As a result, it was confirmed that male speakers focus on “the story of origin” and female speakers focus on “the story of family”. Accordingly, we examined the difference in the transmission pattern of stories narrated by male and female speakers, focusing on “the story of origin” and “the story of family”. At this time, in the case of “family stories,” the tales involving “daughter-in-law” and “son-in-law” were categorized as the “new family” type, stories about “son,” “good son,” and “daughter” were categorized as the “parent-child” type, and narratives about “husband” were classified under the “couple” type. The differences in the transmission patterns between male and female speakers, focusing on each of these types, are as follows.
 First of all, in the case of “the story of origin,” male speakers tend to pass on “the legend associated with historicality” with interest, but female speakers tend to express “the legend of which historicality has been removed.” On the other hand, in the “family story” type of “new family member”, the female narrators pass down the stories of “daughter-in-law and son-in-law reflecting their position in the married family” with interest, but the masculine narrators prefer “the story of a man fulfilling his desire” and He seemed to enjoy narrating the story of “a folktale male character who gets lucky with his individual ability and wit”.
 Next, in the “parent-child” type, female narrators interestingly tell stories about “approaching family issues from an ethical level” centering on “duties to be observed between parents and children”, while male narrators are “emphasizing the ideological dimension” showed a tendency to enjoy them with interest. Accordingly, it was found that male narrators intensively handed down The daughter who stole the good grave of her parents, a type in which “the notion that a married daughter is not a family is inherent” in the “daughter” storytelling. He showed the appearance of narrating more stories that reveal his “subjective aspect”.
 Lastly, in the “couple” type, it was confirmed that female narrators mainly narrate the type of narration of “marital relationship at a realistic level”, but male narrators are interested in stories to “emphasize the ideology of heat and filial piety”.

Symbols for Hijabs in The Proudest Blue The Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali

This study aimed at analyzing symbols that represent hijab as depicted in The Proudest Blue The Story of Hijab and Family written by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali and illustrated by Hatem Aly. This study was a qualitative study that analyze a text, so that the data were in the form of sentences and illustrations taken from the book. The data were collected by reading the book, identifying the data, and classifying the data. Then, the collected data were analyzed using the semiotic theory from Peirce. Based on the findings, there were five symbols representing hijab. The first two symbols are related to the authors’ choice of color. The author uses the pink to illustrate that hijabs are related to love and the blue color that is related to religious symbol of piety and chastity or sincerity. The blue color was the most dominant symbol in the book. In addition, the authors recommend that hijab is not a whisper, a laugh, and a tablecloth. These three symbols represent hijabs as something strong, not a joke to be laughed at and not only a thing to cover. All symbols used by the author are positive ones which challenge the negative stereotypes about hijab in which it is associated with radicalism and terrorism.

METHODS AND EVALUATION IN THE HISTORICAL MAPPING OF CITIES

Abstract. Through a (re)mapping and spatial modeling of a city’s past, exploratory web applications can be built to examine urban histories and dynamically engage scholars and the public. Working on Emory University’s OpenWorld Atlanta project (OWA), researchers used geospatial technologies and methods to extract data from archives and other sources to build historical data models, geodatabases, and geocoders that enabled the development of web-based dynamic map interfaces. With a focus on the early stages of urban development of the city of Atlanta in the southeastern United States, this platform provides exploratory visualizations of city history along with a wealth of detail for specific time periods, specifically circa 1878 and 1928, given the opportunity provides by key map publications of the city. These dynamically enabled historical maps were then connected to digital images, geospatial vector data, descriptive text, and labels and then structured in a content management system.While this project began as a digitization project centered on two atlases in the Rose Library collection at Emory University, it has grown to include contributors from several partner institutions. Therefore, this paper outlines the OWA project within a larger consortium of institutions and researchers focusing on production methods, platform development, interface design, and evaluation using open-data and open-source methods and software in cities' historical mapping and modeling. Drawing upon historical maps, city directories, archival collections, newspapers, and census data, projects like OWA allow researchers to analyze spatially grounded questions. In addition, they may serve the public as a valuable informational resource to learn about their neighborhood’s past and even contribute materials from family archives or stories.