Sense Of Solidarity Research Articles

Community empowerment through mutual environmental development

KKN-PPM As a form of community empowerment. We are required to practice science, technology, and art. We are expected to be a motivator and facilitator of development efforts that are currently being actively carried out, especially in rural areas. The objectives are expected to be achieved are: 1. the implementation of mutual cooperation because the surrounding community has begun to pay no attention to environmental cleanliness and can cause a sense of solidarity and togetherness in the community. 2. The implementation of the TPA curriculum and teacher training courses as guidelines for the management of TPA management in each mosque, 3. The Implementation of training for the housewives to develop a home industry business by utilizing the nearby resources. 4. The implementation of the BUNDES seminar for village officials on the management of Village-Owned Enterprises as one source of income. The method of carrying out KKN-PPM activities in the form of socialization and involving the government and the community of Giri Kusuma Village. Some of the results achieved by the KKN-PPM activities this time are The creation of public awareness of a clean and comfortable environment, the availability of teaching teachers according to the TPA curriculum in each mosque, the growth of an entrepreneurial spirit of housewives and the availability of natural medicines from TOGA plants.

Mzabalazo On the Move: Organising on a South African Commuter Train

The existing literature on labour movements notes how trade unions have been weakened in recent years. This observable pattern is not unique to South Africa; arguably, this decline represents a global phenomenon characterised by the disintegration of erstwhile militant labour movements. In the case of South Africa, the post-apartheid neoliberal labour regime has fragmented the militant social-movement unionism (SMU) of the 1980s almost to the point of extinction. Despite this trend, various studies have detailed pockets of revival and resistance by workers spread across a variety of sectors and continents. My article seeks to contribute to this literature by drawing on the case study of Mamelodi Train Sector (MTS). MTS was formed in 2001 as a ‘mobilising structure’, aligned to the African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners. Using the notion of space as a theoretical tool, I attempt to understand MTS and the space it organises – the train. MTS utilises the travel time spent going to and from work to offer legislative education to largely unorganised/non-unionised workers. In addition to legislative education, MTS members (self-styled comrades) discuss community issues and matters pertaining to the ANC’s tripartite alliance as an attempt to foster a particular kind of identity politics. The data collected reveals that, among other contributions, MTS offers hope and a sense of solidarity to those workers without workplace representation. The comradely sense of belonging, buttressed by a common identity, potentially mitigates the impact of workplace fragmentation – experienced by the majority of workers in South Africa. Organising on the train points to one missing link in our current efforts to understand workers’ agency – the geography of transport in South Africa and its related possibilities as a site of revival. With a specific focus on the MTS as a case study, I suggest that the train, as a by-product of apartheid spatiality, represents a strategic location for worker organisation in South Africa.

KAJIAN KRIMINOLOGI TERHADAP TAWURAN YANG BERPOTENSI TINDAK PIDANA OLEH PELAJAR DI KOTA PADANG

Various efforts were made by the regional government and law enforcement officials to tackle brawls between students in the city of Padnag, but there was no formulation of countermeasures that could eradicate fights between students in the city of Padang. This research is a legal research with analytical descriptive specifications with a normative juridical approach supported by an empirical juridical approach. The results showed that the causes of brawls among adolescents who have the potential for criminal acts in the city of Padang include internal factors, which are quite low self-control, lack of religious values ​​in themselves and want to see their existence. Furthermore External Factors include egoistic community, because of friend's invitation, because of a sense of solidarity, because of school selfishness and because of pressure and invitation from school alumni. Efforts made to combat the occurrence of fights between adolescents who have the potential for criminal acts in the city of Padang include preventive efforts, including through family channels such as supervision and family attention to other family members, school paths in the form of lightning pesantren, character and other education etc. and routine supervision. Repersive measures such as School actions to provide disciplinary penalties, legal processes by the police and conduct acts of arrest and coaching by the Civil Service Police Unit.

When Solidarity is Trampled by Religious Sentiment: Outlining Indonesian Muslim Solidarity toward Rohingya Refugees

The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar has drawn international attention due to gross violations of human rights, which have occurred in the conflict. This condition forces the Rohingya to flee from conflict areas in the attempt to seek protection from neighbouring countries including Indonesia. To deal with the refugees, the Indonesian government, alongside Muslim organizations, have taken immediate steps in tackling the crisis. However, behind the humanitarian solidarity lays a critical problem related to the religious sentiment toward the Buddhist community in Indonesia. The sentiment that tarnished the humanitarian principles and threatened Indonesian multiculturalism showed the versatile side of identity. To provide a better understanding of identity-based conflict, this article explored how a group’s sense of collectivity can easily turn into sentiment. By conducting multiple interviews with the representatives of Muslim Organizations and also collecting secondary data related to the Islam conservative agenda, this paper aimed to outline the paradox of Indonesian Muslim response toward the Rohingya’s refugees crisis. Using Ross’s theories of identity conflict and using Galtung conception of social conflict, the findings concluded that religious sentiment in Indonesia during the Rohingya’s refugee crisis are led by blind fanaticism toward certain religious beliefs that bitterly trample the nation’s sense of solidarity.

Giving Back to the World, the Nation and the Family: Cosmopolitan Meaning-making and Notions of Solidarity Among Young Elite Students

This article addresses debates on the relationship between elite cosmopolitanism and localism through the study of young elite cosmopolitans’ rationales in the context of talking about their future lives. Drawing on interviews with 24 students at an elite university, the article delineates three types of cosmopolitan meaning-making. Students embracing the first type talked about their cosmopolitanism in terms of individually chosen actions. They said they did not feel obliged to their nation but to their family; most of them had sought a career abroad. Students embracing the idea of ‘rooted cosmopolitanism’ (second type) stated that they wanted to make their home country a better place, not least because of their family’s mediating influence. They said they wanted to return home, as did those students who combined a sense of solidarity with humans around the globe with a longing for familiarity (third type). Implications for cosmopolitanism and youth studies are discussed.

Statelessness, Refugees, and Hospitality

AbstractAs the war in Syria and the destruction of the Calais camp in France in 2016 bitterly demonstrate, declarations of human rights and asylum devolve into empty promises without a common sense of solidarity and an implicit understanding that we share responsibility for the world and one another. Today’s refugee crisis demonstrates that many of the problems that Hannah Arendt identified during the first half of the twentieth century are still with us. National security and the state of exception increasingly place refugees and migrants at the borders of international law. This article argues that Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace and Arendt’s postwar reflections on the stateless as modern pariahs continue to frame current debates on hospitality, human rights, and responsibility. Without a recognition of our common humanity and shared world, sovereign states will continue to find exceptions to the legal status of refugees and migrants, thus enabling their exclusion from political life and the very laws that should protect them. Falling outside human rights law and the rights of refugees leads to the uncertainty of the pariah.

Sense of Solidarity Among Parents of Sons or Daughters Who Have Attempted Suicide: An In-depth Interview Study

A suicide attempt is a significant burden on the suicidal person, the family, and the community. The psychosocial strain on parents after their offspring’s suicide attempt is significant. The aim of this study was to gain insight into how a parent’s relationship with a partner was affected after their son or daughter’s suicide attempt or serious suicide threats. Individual in-depth interviews were made of 19 parents recruited through a Danish non-governmental organisation in 2013. Data were analysed using a generic thematic analysis. A key category “Sense of solidarity” and two sub-categories “Challenges to the relationship” and “Responding to different reactions and coping strategies” were constructed. Sense of solidarity was important for the parents’ co-parenting and how they engaged with the situation as a couple. The group of participants was heterogeneous and had learned to manage the stressful situation in different ways. Interventions to support parents of sons or daughters who have attempted suicide should include a stronger focus on parents’ co-parenting abilities in the family system in order to support the well-being of the whole family.

Editor's Note: Black and Polyamorous

Editor's NoteBlack and Polyamorous Ruby Bouie Johnson (bio) The dominant culture (cisgender, white, male, middle class, Christian, monogamous, etc.) has created a hegemonic model and philosophy for intimate and/or romantic relationships in U.S society. Monogamy is that model. A definition of monogamy is being in a relationship or married with one person at a time. Some definitions, explicitly identify a dynamic between a man and a woman. As a result of the internet and the rapid exchange of information, there is an exposure to alternative relational dynamics. Polyamory is an alternative. The translation of polyamory is poly is Greek for "many" (or "multiple") and "amor" is Latin for "love." One can define polyamory [poly] as the possibility of having multiple concurrent partnerships that are romantic or platonic with everyone's consent and awareness. There is not an assignment of gender, sexual orientation, or goal to escalate relationships to marriage. The poly relationship's configuration, goals, and duration are determined by the individuals within the relationship versus dominant social norms. The difficulties with transitioning from a monogamy to polyamory is that there are very few studies, books, or social structures (e.g., media, television shows, fairytales, church, families, movies, etc.) devoted to polyamory. The concept of polyamory and the possibility of a myriad of relational configurations is slowly becoming an option that many are choosing. In the article, Updated Estimate of Number of Nonmonogamous People in the US, Sheff (2019) states that approximately 21% of people in the U.S. have participated in a form of consensual nonmonogamy (i.e. swinging, polyamory, open marriage/relationship, etc.). Furthermore, within the study, Sheff (2019) reports that there is very little variation across demographics including race. [End Page vii] Polyamory and Black Partnership: A New Relational Dynamic As a sex therapist, my private practice consists predominantly of clients in polyamorous relationships. I have found that the shared racial and cultural backgrounds are invaluable when navigating the transition from monogamous to polyamorous relationships. A sense of solidarity, common experiences, and shared history create comfort, reliability, and security within Black relationships. Individuals need security and familiarity as they gain the knowledge and develop the relational skills that are necessary to thrive within poly relationships. Communication, negotiation, and boundary development are some of the relational skills that strengthen and secure the connections. Navigating the space of a dyadic relationship lends itself to the comfort of "it's you and me against the world." The comfort of the unspoken "I see you" is a strength of intraracial relationships. Regardless of the relationship structure, the need for belonging and significance to another does not change. For the Black community, there are cultural, historical, and political ties that bind the community together that are unique to the Black experience. In the past, and sometimes in the present, Black people congregating and connecting with others in public has been illegal. The dominant culture (white, cisgender male, middle class, heterosexual, conservative, Christian) uses isolation and alienation as weapons to negatively skew relational ties. Polyamory is about building relationships and connections. To build relationships and connections, there needs to be likeminded people that share the same intentions within relationships. In my experience, I have found kinship (i.e. intentional family) and solidarity (i.e. "We are in this together.") are inherent attributes of Black polyamorous communities. These same attributes create an opportunity for those who are questioning, curious, or experienced with polyamory to find help, guidance, and support from community members who look like them or possibly identify with the culture or experiences of Black history or culture. Black and Polyamorous Community The underrepresentation and invisibility of the Black polyamorist in the media, dearth of popular social networks in the poly community; and absence of large scale polyamorous events offer the impression that there are very few Black people who are poly. This was the experience of Ron Young a few decades ago. In various podcasts and interviews, Mr. Young discusses [End Page viii] the challenges of being the only black person or one of a few at poly social and online spaces. As a result, Ron founded Black and Poly™. Black and Poly™ is one of the...

The Many Dimensions of a Kuni Folktale

Engaging with a superficially simple folktale from the Kuni of Papua New Guinea, I identify a number of far-flung and quasi-universal themes as well as some widely distributed Melanesian ones. I suggest the main function of the etiological folktale is to obviate aspects of everyday existence, then to restore and reaffirm them. I attribute the grip of etiological tales, more generally, to a human drive for explanation. An added attraction for the Kuni is the sense of solidarity gained in public semi-ritualised retellings. Finally, I analyse some of the ‘inside’ meanings contained in this tale of Kolukolu and the Moon.

FRAMING GERAKAN FORUM MASYARAKAT MINANGKABAU DAN ADVOKASI KEBIJAKAN INVESTASI DI KOTA PADANG: KASUS PT. LIPPO TBK

Social movements are a typical form of community activism, where there is a form of collective action with a clear conflictual orientation and bound by a sense of solidarity and a strong collective identity. This article highlights the success strategies of the Minangkabau community movement that are members of the Minangkabau Community Forum (FMM) rejecting Siloam's investment, and advocating for the policies of the Padang City Government (Pemko) regarding the principle permit for utilization of room number 650.44 / Bapeda / II-2013. FMM assesses that the City Government's policy has threatened the values of the customs and religion, mobilizing collective action based on cultural issues, where Adat Bersandi Sarak, Sarak Bersandi Kitabullah is used as the main frame to mobilize the community to support advocacy.

THE SOLIDARITY IN ADDRESSING TERMS OF RJ. PALACIO’S CHILDREN NOVEL ‘WONDER’: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Physical deficiencies sometimes cause bullying, but there are also many people who have senseof solidarity. “Wonder” (2012) by RJ. Palacio tells about a boy with this deficiency and thisstudy was meant to analyze the addressing terms used among the characters illustratingsolidarity. The aims of the research were to find kinds of solidarity addressing terms chosen bythe characters; the reason and the kind of situation of using the addressing terms. The dialogueswere framed and foregrounded to collect the data. Wardhaugh (2006) addressing terms andLindenberg et. al. (2006) solidarity behaviour indicators were used as the main theories toanalyze the data. The result revealed that there were four kinds of addressing terms foundmentioning first name, kinship term, nickname, and endearment name used in various butmostly friendly, quarreling and serious situation.

Exploring the ‘shashification’ of teenage slang

The study of the paradigmatic traits of teenage slang has shown that a sense of togetherness is predominant (Eble, 1996; Allen, 1998; Mattiello, 2005, 2008; Smith, 2011). This cohesive linguistic device is not consciously intended to exclude unwished members from conversations or common understanding, but the idea of relying on a preserved sense of solidarity and acceptance is a human urge, especially among teenagers or young adults (cf. Mattiello, 2005: 13). These features are a necessary starting point to understand that the colloquial nature or social restriction of these words and phrases are precisely aimed to ‘establish or reinforce social identity within a group or with a trend or fashion in society at large’ (Eble, 1996: 11).

2018평창동계올림픽 레거시 기대효과와 지역사회의식 및 행동의도 간 관계분석

The purpose of this study was to investigate relations between expected effect of legacy for 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, community consciousness and behavior intention. For this purpose, the study selected, as the population, local residents living in Pyeongchang-gun, Gangneung-si and Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do during the Olympics. The study analyzed data of 226 persons using convenience sampling among local residents in three areas during the Olympics. Collected data, using SPSS ver 22.0, underwent frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The study found outcomes as follows.BR First, expected effect of legacy had a positive effect on sense of solidarity in the order of its economic/industrial effect and sociocultural effect, while expected effect of legacy had a positive effect on sense of belonging in the order of its economic/industrial effect and environmental effect. Second, community consciousness had a positive effect on the variable of recommendation in the order of its sense of belonging and sense of solidarity. Third, expected effect of legacy had a positive effect on visit in the order of its economic/industrial effect and environmental effect, while expected effect of legacy had a positive effect on recommendation in the order of economic/industrial effect and sociocultural effect.

That in the Martyā Which is Amṛta: a Dialog with Ramchandra Gandhi

This philosophical meditation, which deals with death as question, presence, and even teacher, begins with Ramchandra Gandhi’s (RCG’s) penetrating essay ‘On Meriting Death.’ What does it mean ‘to merit’ death? To provide an answer, I travel through RCG’s corpus, in dialog with contemporary theorists such as Sri Aurobindo, Daya Krishna, and Mukund Lath. RCG implies that the question about ‘meriting’ death, and life, is not and cannot be ‘personal’ or ‘isolated’. For X to die, is for his close and distant samāj a matter of losing him and living without him. Hence meriting death, as also life, is a joint venture which involves deep understanding regarding non-isolation as the heart of the human situation. RCG’s creative thinking, or svarāj in ideas, reaches its peak when he dares to offer an answer of his own to the piercing question kim āścaryam, ‘what is amazing?’ raised in the Yakṣa-praśna episode of the Mahābhārata. For RCG, the heart of the matter is not the ‘ungraspability’ of one’s unavoidable death, or the perennial search for ‘permanence’ in vain, but our failure to perceive ‘that in the martyā which is amṛta,’ i.e., a sense of solidarity in the face of death, connecting ‘I and Thou,’ which he derives from the icchā mṛtyu of his grandfather, the famous Mahatma.

Introduction: Solidarity and Utopia

Introduction: Solidarity and Utopia

‘It’s not like it used to be’: Respect and nostalgia in the policing of nightlife

Contemporary debates regarding criminal justice, law and order, and also the occupational consciousness of policing itself, are often concerned with a mythical period of heightened ‘respect’ for authority that is contrasted with the decline of such respect in contemporary work patterns and interaction with the public. This nostalgia features most prominently in discussions about spaces and work practices where officers feel threatened, challenged or ‘under-siege’. One such site is the night-time economy, where expansion of drinking-based leisure and a long-term liberalisation of regulatory controls have exerted more pressure on police and produced urban spaces where this ‘lack of respect’ is keenly felt. This paper analyses themes that emerged from 15 interviews conducted with current and former members of the New South Wales Police Force to argue that the emergence and growth of urban nightlife have played a key role in promoting a nostalgic discourse that reflects ambivalence about historical efforts to lift police–community relations and the more formal regulation of interaction with the public. Such nostalgia also serves as a personal, social and existential resource that helps fortify shared meaning and a sense of solidarity in the working lives of officers.

Reclaiming Romani-ness

Drawing on theories of identity postulated by cultural theorists, scholars of gender identity, and critical race theorists, I explore issues of identity politics and “Otherness” as they pertain to Romani identity, history and activism. By critiquing the latent bifurcation of identity and subjectivity in Judith Butler’s theory of performativity as well as her explicit adherence to universalism, I begin to outline a (post-Hegelian) hermeneutic in which narratives of self enable political processes of self-determination against symbolic and epistemic systems of racialization and minoritization.[1] Roma identity both serves as an oppressive social category while at the same time empowering people for whom a shared ethnic group provides a sense of solidarity and community. In re-conceptualizing, reimagining and re-claiming Romani-ness, we can make movements towards outlining a new Romani subjectivity – a subjectivity that is firmly rooted in counterhistories of Roma, with porous boundaries that both celebrate our diversity and foster solidarity. I come to the subject of Romani identity from an understanding that our racialized and gendered identities are both performed and embodied – forming part of the horizon from which we make meaning of the world. I wish to recast the discourse surrounding Romani identity as hybridized and multicultural, as well as, following Glissant, embedded into a pluritopic notion of history.

A Linguistic Landscape in Purwokerto: Power and Solidarity Stand Strong in a Culinary Center

This paper is about the existence of linguistics landscape along the Soeharso’s street Purwokerto which shows the diverse people in using language of their stores, restaurants, eateries, cafes, or street vendor banner whereby traders use their own prominent language in monolingualism, bilingualism, or multilingualism. For restaurants, eateries, or street vendors, they include person’s name as their stall name, and also include the origin of the food pioneer to show their sense of solidarity, while shops, distros, cafes include English as a powerful weapon in attracting customers based on prestige. Both phenomenon are evidence of how the power and sense of solidarity are raised into the name of business places they build as their strategy in marketing and introducing their business.

Grief and Solidarity Reactions 1 Week After an On-Campus Shooting.

The impact of interpersonal violence extends beyond the victims and perpetrator(s). The purpose of this research was threefold: (a) to identify whether college students' very early reactions to an on-campus shooting were associated with well-known predictors of distress, (b) to examine whether grief and distress reactions were distinguishable in the early days following a shooting, and (c) to investigate whether a compassionate self-identity was uniquely associated with grief but not distress. Beginning just 3 days after an early morning shooting that killed one student and injured three others, university students (N = 408) completed an online questionnaire. Grief, but not distress, was associated with a sense of solidarity with other students and a compassionate self-identity. General distress was associated with prior mental health difficulties and exposure to the shooting. Acute stress was positively associated with being female, having prior mental health difficulties, media exposure, perceived similarity to victims, less victim blame, social support, and social strain. Results suggest that grief reactions that arise in the early days following a collective loss may serve as important psychosocial resources in coping with interpersonal violence.

‘But I liked it, I liked it’: Revealing agentive aspects of women’s engagement in informal economy on the EU external borders

The aim of this article is to shed light on women’s experience of informal trade on one of the EU external borders: Belarus–Lithuania. The article suggests looking at the informal economy beyond the notion of precarity and to pay attention to how women themselves understand their involvement in trading practices. The author argues that, although economic necessity is an important motivation for women to start trading activities, this experience rewards them not only financially but also through non-economic aspects such as self-respect, solidarity and socializing. Theoretically, the article brings together the discussion of the gendered nature of informal work with the feminist theory of agency. It shows that women’s experience of informal cross-border trade is agentive. Trade provides women with a sense of pride, self-confidence and respect and enables them to recognize their self-sufficiency. However, it is also argued that agency is not synonymous with autonomy and individualism. Theoretically and empirically, the article stresses a relational understanding of agency. On the one hand, women acknowledge their financial achievements as the capability to take proper care of their children, especially in situations when the second breadwinner is absent. On the other hand, they also value their trading experience as a space of socializing with other women. The success of cross-border trade depends on the sense of solidarity and collective action to resist the system represented by customs and border control.