Matt Reed and Joss Langford
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781789621266
- eISBN:
- 9781800852587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621266.003.0020
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Strategy
In this section we look at how you define ‘close’ when talking about university partners that may be spread across the globe. We provide guidance on how to balance the different types of proximity ...
More
In this section we look at how you define ‘close’ when talking about university partners that may be spread across the globe. We provide guidance on how to balance the different types of proximity and mitigate issues.Less
In this section we look at how you define ‘close’ when talking about university partners that may be spread across the globe. We provide guidance on how to balance the different types of proximity and mitigate issues.
Ann Burack-Weiss
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231151849
- eISBN:
- 9780231525336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231151849.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter discusses relationships with life partners, friends, and paid helpers, emphasizing and contrasting caregiving and care receiving.
This chapter discusses relationships with life partners, friends, and paid helpers, emphasizing and contrasting caregiving and care receiving.
David Bolton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780719090998
- eISBN:
- 9781526128546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090998.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The book concludes with the Postscript - a more personal reflection by the author on the impact of loss and trauma on individuals and the community affected by war, conflict and disaster. Beyond ...
More
The book concludes with the Postscript - a more personal reflection by the author on the impact of loss and trauma on individuals and the community affected by war, conflict and disaster. Beyond research and research findings, the author draws attention to the importance of empathy, to relationships, to the need for healing, to taking responsibility, to letting go, to social justice and fairness, to the need to invest in future generations after conflicts end, to the importance of hope, and the place of growth and resilience. He concludes with a plea for the human impact of war and conflict to be a key and early consideration, when peace is being made after conflicts end.Less
The book concludes with the Postscript - a more personal reflection by the author on the impact of loss and trauma on individuals and the community affected by war, conflict and disaster. Beyond research and research findings, the author draws attention to the importance of empathy, to relationships, to the need for healing, to taking responsibility, to letting go, to social justice and fairness, to the need to invest in future generations after conflicts end, to the importance of hope, and the place of growth and resilience. He concludes with a plea for the human impact of war and conflict to be a key and early consideration, when peace is being made after conflicts end.
Kenneth McK Norrie
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781845861193
- eISBN:
- 9781474406246
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781845861193.003.0028
- Subject:
- Law, Family Law
This commentary identifies a flaw created by the amendment of the Damages (Scotland) Act 1976 made by s.35 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which removed relationships of affinity from the ...
More
This commentary identifies a flaw created by the amendment of the Damages (Scotland) Act 1976 made by s.35 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which removed relationships of affinity from the category of relatives entitled to sue for wrongful death, but did not allow such relatives to make a claim based on being accepted as a member of the family. It calls for imaginative judicial interpretation, which was subsequently provided in Mykoliw v Botterill 2010 SLT 1219.Less
This commentary identifies a flaw created by the amendment of the Damages (Scotland) Act 1976 made by s.35 of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 which removed relationships of affinity from the category of relatives entitled to sue for wrongful death, but did not allow such relatives to make a claim based on being accepted as a member of the family. It calls for imaginative judicial interpretation, which was subsequently provided in Mykoliw v Botterill 2010 SLT 1219.
Sonja Tiernan
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526145994
- eISBN:
- 9781526152145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526146007.00016
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
An overview of the Constitutional Convention which was established to ensure ‘participative democracy’ in considering changes to the Irish Constitution. This chapter examines how in April 2013 ...
More
An overview of the Constitutional Convention which was established to ensure ‘participative democracy’ in considering changes to the Irish Constitution. This chapter examines how in April 2013 delegates overwhelmingly called for a constitutional change to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples and, significantly, to include amendments for parental rights in this regard. The chapter also describes the beginning of a great controversy, popularly referred to as ‘Pantigate’, which placed the issue of marriage equality centre stage in an open debate about homophobia.Less
An overview of the Constitutional Convention which was established to ensure ‘participative democracy’ in considering changes to the Irish Constitution. This chapter examines how in April 2013 delegates overwhelmingly called for a constitutional change to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples and, significantly, to include amendments for parental rights in this regard. The chapter also describes the beginning of a great controversy, popularly referred to as ‘Pantigate’, which placed the issue of marriage equality centre stage in an open debate about homophobia.
Sonja Tiernan
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526145994
- eISBN:
- 9781526152145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526146007.00019
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter examines the final stages of the campaigns for and against voting for marriage equality in the forthcoming referendum in May 2015. This includes an examination of the Catholic Church’s ...
More
This chapter examines the final stages of the campaigns for and against voting for marriage equality in the forthcoming referendum in May 2015. This includes an examination of the Catholic Church’s stance and their actions in the weeks before the referendum.Less
This chapter examines the final stages of the campaigns for and against voting for marriage equality in the forthcoming referendum in May 2015. This includes an examination of the Catholic Church’s stance and their actions in the weeks before the referendum.
Francis Wing-lin Lee
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028801
- eISBN:
- 9789882207226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028801.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter illustrates some of the trends and contemporary situations faced by young people in Hong Kong by looking at two studies. The first is “Youth Trends in Hong Kong 2004–2006” that shows ...
More
This chapter illustrates some of the trends and contemporary situations faced by young people in Hong Kong by looking at two studies. The first is “Youth Trends in Hong Kong 2004–2006” that shows findings regarding the young people's population and family, potentials and education, economic independence, social participation, physical and mental health, and behavioral health through acquiring and analyzing important statistics from government offices and departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The second study, “Family Relationships of the Only Children,” is a comparative study that attempts to look into how children from one-child families are affected by family relationships, and how the positive development of these children may be enforced through comparing data acquired from single children, and from children with one or more siblings.Less
This chapter illustrates some of the trends and contemporary situations faced by young people in Hong Kong by looking at two studies. The first is “Youth Trends in Hong Kong 2004–2006” that shows findings regarding the young people's population and family, potentials and education, economic independence, social participation, physical and mental health, and behavioral health through acquiring and analyzing important statistics from government offices and departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The second study, “Family Relationships of the Only Children,” is a comparative study that attempts to look into how children from one-child families are affected by family relationships, and how the positive development of these children may be enforced through comparing data acquired from single children, and from children with one or more siblings.
Ashley Baggett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815217
- eISBN:
- 9781496815255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815217.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book examines the changing public policies concerning intimate partner violence (commonly called domestic violence) in heterosexual relationships through the lens of shifting gender roles in New ...
More
This book examines the changing public policies concerning intimate partner violence (commonly called domestic violence) in heterosexual relationships through the lens of shifting gender roles in New Orleans from 1840 to 1900. In those sixty years, the concept of masculinity and femininity as well as race changed and fueled social and legal responses to abuse.Less
This book examines the changing public policies concerning intimate partner violence (commonly called domestic violence) in heterosexual relationships through the lens of shifting gender roles in New Orleans from 1840 to 1900. In those sixty years, the concept of masculinity and femininity as well as race changed and fueled social and legal responses to abuse.
Ashley Baggett
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815217
- eISBN:
- 9781496815255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815217.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Fighting for God, country, and home, southern men in the antebellum period fulfilled their ultimate role as protectors. This patriotic fervor started to wane as the war continued. Some letters from ...
More
Fighting for God, country, and home, southern men in the antebellum period fulfilled their ultimate role as protectors. This patriotic fervor started to wane as the war continued. Some letters from nurses and soldiers illustrate questioning not only the war but also the concept of a good death. After the Civil War, thousands of men returned physically or emotionally scarred. As men tried to make sense of what it meant to be a man in the postwar years, they were not alone. Women too threw off the rigid expectations of antebellum womanhood in large part due to their Civil War experiences. Serving as nurses, running the household, and living under occupation since 1862, New Orleans women acted in roles traditionally considered masculine. They emerged from the war more aware of the drawbacks of dependence and began expecting more reciprocal, although by no means egalitarian, relationships.Less
Fighting for God, country, and home, southern men in the antebellum period fulfilled their ultimate role as protectors. This patriotic fervor started to wane as the war continued. Some letters from nurses and soldiers illustrate questioning not only the war but also the concept of a good death. After the Civil War, thousands of men returned physically or emotionally scarred. As men tried to make sense of what it meant to be a man in the postwar years, they were not alone. Women too threw off the rigid expectations of antebellum womanhood in large part due to their Civil War experiences. Serving as nurses, running the household, and living under occupation since 1862, New Orleans women acted in roles traditionally considered masculine. They emerged from the war more aware of the drawbacks of dependence and began expecting more reciprocal, although by no means egalitarian, relationships.
Robert J. Losey
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066363
- eISBN:
- 9780813058573
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066363.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The study of our long-term relationships with dogs faces many theoretical and methodological challenges. Recent changes in social sciences provide profound new insights on how dogs and humans share ...
More
The study of our long-term relationships with dogs faces many theoretical and methodological challenges. Recent changes in social sciences provide profound new insights on how dogs and humans share their lives. Animals are no longer mere background in stories of human history. Rather, dogs and other animals are critical elements in the assemblages of things interacting to shape our shared experiences and long-term histories. In turn, developments in biological sciences now push us to go beyond analyses of canid remains simply for the purposes of taxonomic identification. Borrowing methods from human osteology and palaeontology, zooarchaeology is increasingly better positioned to explore details of dogs’ lives.Less
The study of our long-term relationships with dogs faces many theoretical and methodological challenges. Recent changes in social sciences provide profound new insights on how dogs and humans share their lives. Animals are no longer mere background in stories of human history. Rather, dogs and other animals are critical elements in the assemblages of things interacting to shape our shared experiences and long-term histories. In turn, developments in biological sciences now push us to go beyond analyses of canid remains simply for the purposes of taxonomic identification. Borrowing methods from human osteology and palaeontology, zooarchaeology is increasingly better positioned to explore details of dogs’ lives.
Morag C. Treanor
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447334668
- eISBN:
- 9781447334712
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447334668.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and ...
More
Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and political imagination quite as much as the issue of lone parents. It is an area with strong connections to poverty, disadvantage, gendered inequalities, and the supposed breaching of normative values and expectations. I engage with myths and assumptions about lone parents and reveal the corrosive effect of demonising lone-parent family life on children’s lives and wellbeing. I show that relationships are dynamic, that lone parents are not a homogenous group, that a large proportion of children will spend time in a lone parent formation, and that how a government responds to lone parents in policy terms directly relates to how impoverished their children will be. This chapter also discusses how poverty and emotional mal-being are not inevitable consequences of separation and divorce. The role of separated fathers in lone parent families, particularly their financial contribution and involvement in their children’s lives, are explored.Less
Chapter four explores the importance of, and relationship between, family formation, or ‘breakdown’ and lone parenthood in the context of childhood poverty. Few subjects excite the public and political imagination quite as much as the issue of lone parents. It is an area with strong connections to poverty, disadvantage, gendered inequalities, and the supposed breaching of normative values and expectations. I engage with myths and assumptions about lone parents and reveal the corrosive effect of demonising lone-parent family life on children’s lives and wellbeing. I show that relationships are dynamic, that lone parents are not a homogenous group, that a large proportion of children will spend time in a lone parent formation, and that how a government responds to lone parents in policy terms directly relates to how impoverished their children will be. This chapter also discusses how poverty and emotional mal-being are not inevitable consequences of separation and divorce. The role of separated fathers in lone parent families, particularly their financial contribution and involvement in their children’s lives, are explored.
Tom McInally
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474466226
- eISBN:
- 9781474491280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466226.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed ...
More
With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed freedom of movement between the societies.Lack of detailed records on Strachan’s movements between Paris and Constantinople via Sancta Terra (The Holy Land) has caused a lacuna in his life story which this chapter fills by accounts given by other western travellers of the time. Pietro Della Valle, who makes several references to his friendship with George Strachan, is a rich source, as is George Sandys. Their descriptions of travelling in the region, again together with the findings of modern scholarship, provide meaningful insights into Strachan’s likely experiences.Less
With reference to a range of recent scholarship, an outline is given of the political and mercantile relationships between West and East, particularly Venice and the Ottoman empire, which allowed freedom of movement between the societies.Lack of detailed records on Strachan’s movements between Paris and Constantinople via Sancta Terra (The Holy Land) has caused a lacuna in his life story which this chapter fills by accounts given by other western travellers of the time. Pietro Della Valle, who makes several references to his friendship with George Strachan, is a rich source, as is George Sandys. Their descriptions of travelling in the region, again together with the findings of modern scholarship, provide meaningful insights into Strachan’s likely experiences.
Alexandra Cox
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428462
- eISBN:
- 9781447307259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428462.003.0012
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter is concerned with the construction and expression of responsibility by and for young offenders. It examines some of the ways in which the expression of responsibility is demanded of ...
More
This chapter is concerned with the construction and expression of responsibility by and for young offenders. It examines some of the ways in which the expression of responsibility is demanded of young people within youth justice systems, and then how young people respond to these demands. The data reveals that young people involved in the youth justice system have a strong desire for having their expression of responsibility beyond their criminal case recognized and made visible— especially as it relates to their social and familial relationships and as it is grounded in their social context.Less
This chapter is concerned with the construction and expression of responsibility by and for young offenders. It examines some of the ways in which the expression of responsibility is demanded of young people within youth justice systems, and then how young people respond to these demands. The data reveals that young people involved in the youth justice system have a strong desire for having their expression of responsibility beyond their criminal case recognized and made visible— especially as it relates to their social and familial relationships and as it is grounded in their social context.
Benjamin D. Hagen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781949979275
- eISBN:
- 9781800341692
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781949979275.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter develops an extensive reading of Lawrence’s first novel, The White Peacock (1911), in the context of his early career as an elementary schoolteacher. Though the novel itself does not ...
More
This chapter develops an extensive reading of Lawrence’s first novel, The White Peacock (1911), in the context of his early career as an elementary schoolteacher. Though the novel itself does not take place in a school, the author reads the relationships among its main characters as literary expressions of three pedagogical problems, which Sedgwick’s meditation on “cats and pedagogy” helps frame: the mobility and asymmetry of teacher–student positions; the complicity of anti-pedagogical resistance in the intensification of pedagogical attachments and needs; and the pedagogical static that can result, for students, from the competing demands of multiple teachers. Undergirding these relational problems is a patterned, thematic link in the novel between misogyny and the failure of relationships, lives, and lessons.Less
This chapter develops an extensive reading of Lawrence’s first novel, The White Peacock (1911), in the context of his early career as an elementary schoolteacher. Though the novel itself does not take place in a school, the author reads the relationships among its main characters as literary expressions of three pedagogical problems, which Sedgwick’s meditation on “cats and pedagogy” helps frame: the mobility and asymmetry of teacher–student positions; the complicity of anti-pedagogical resistance in the intensification of pedagogical attachments and needs; and the pedagogical static that can result, for students, from the competing demands of multiple teachers. Undergirding these relational problems is a patterned, thematic link in the novel between misogyny and the failure of relationships, lives, and lessons.
James Brophy
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474460460
- eISBN:
- 9781474490801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474460460.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter reads Beckett's Endgame alongside another prominent work of the mid-century French literary context, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. It proposes that queer readings of ...
More
This chapter reads Beckett's Endgame alongside another prominent work of the mid-century French literary context, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. It proposes that queer readings of Beckett's play have emphasized queer sexual relations and sexual acts at the cost of attending to the experience of love as itself a potentially queered condition. Emphasizing the relationship of Clov and Hamm as an ongoing dialogue in the sense of that undertaken by Barthes's figure of the plagued Romantic lover, or l'amoureux, this reading finds in Barthes's work precisely the critical vocabulary to make the queer experience and relations of Beckett's play visible.Less
This chapter reads Beckett's Endgame alongside another prominent work of the mid-century French literary context, Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. It proposes that queer readings of Beckett's play have emphasized queer sexual relations and sexual acts at the cost of attending to the experience of love as itself a potentially queered condition. Emphasizing the relationship of Clov and Hamm as an ongoing dialogue in the sense of that undertaken by Barthes's figure of the plagued Romantic lover, or l'amoureux, this reading finds in Barthes's work precisely the critical vocabulary to make the queer experience and relations of Beckett's play visible.
Linn J. Sandberg
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781447355465
- eISBN:
- 9781447355519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447355465.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter discusses experiences of sexual and intimate relationships among people with Alzheimer’s disease themselves and their partners. The aim was to go beyond narrow conceptualisations of ...
More
This chapter discusses experiences of sexual and intimate relationships among people with Alzheimer’s disease themselves and their partners. The aim was to go beyond narrow conceptualisations of sexuality among people with dementia as either non-existing or problematic, which are often reflected in both the scientific literature and practice, and instead explore the complex meaning-making on sexuality among couples. The chapter draws on a qualitative interview study with persons who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and partners of a person with Alzheimer’s disease, aged 55-87. The chapter focuses on the themes of responsibility, reciprocity and recognition and argues that the sexual and intimate relationship must be understood in relation to the influence of dementia on the relationship overall. Gender was of particular significance to experiences of sexuality and intimacy among participants. Gendered inequalities in the past and present had a significant impact on how women experienced the sexual and intimate relationship and the emergence of their sexual subjectivities.Less
This chapter discusses experiences of sexual and intimate relationships among people with Alzheimer’s disease themselves and their partners. The aim was to go beyond narrow conceptualisations of sexuality among people with dementia as either non-existing or problematic, which are often reflected in both the scientific literature and practice, and instead explore the complex meaning-making on sexuality among couples. The chapter draws on a qualitative interview study with persons who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and partners of a person with Alzheimer’s disease, aged 55-87. The chapter focuses on the themes of responsibility, reciprocity and recognition and argues that the sexual and intimate relationship must be understood in relation to the influence of dementia on the relationship overall. Gender was of particular significance to experiences of sexuality and intimacy among participants. Gendered inequalities in the past and present had a significant impact on how women experienced the sexual and intimate relationship and the emergence of their sexual subjectivities.
Kirstine Szifris
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781529205541
- eISBN:
- 9781529205572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529205541.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Chapter 8 continues the focus on Full Sutton but moves towards a discussion of trust and relationships. Intimately related, these two issues are gradually overcome in the philosophy classroom and the ...
More
Chapter 8 continues the focus on Full Sutton but moves towards a discussion of trust and relationships. Intimately related, these two issues are gradually overcome in the philosophy classroom and the chapter articulates the how philosophical conversation provided a space for trust to grow and relationships to emerge. Overtime, the atmosphere of the philosophy classroom changed as participants began to engage more with the conversation. Throughout this chapter, Szifris interweaves existing literature ultimately concluding that philosophy provided a sage space for participants to articulate themes – a rare feat in the prison environment.Less
Chapter 8 continues the focus on Full Sutton but moves towards a discussion of trust and relationships. Intimately related, these two issues are gradually overcome in the philosophy classroom and the chapter articulates the how philosophical conversation provided a space for trust to grow and relationships to emerge. Overtime, the atmosphere of the philosophy classroom changed as participants began to engage more with the conversation. Throughout this chapter, Szifris interweaves existing literature ultimately concluding that philosophy provided a sage space for participants to articulate themes – a rare feat in the prison environment.
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447319368
- eISBN:
- 9781447319399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447319368.003.0006
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Urban Geography
The social networks, community engagement, activities outside of work and transnational relations of undocumented migrants are considered in this chapter. Most people had effectively and ...
More
The social networks, community engagement, activities outside of work and transnational relations of undocumented migrants are considered in this chapter. Most people had effectively and strategically built networks of friends while in the UK and this was instrumental to everyday lives, especially when looking for work. Family relations were often more complex than those with friends and difficulties could be accentuated between family members when it involved working relationships. By living in London, our interviewees either lived in enclave areas or had access to such areas, though this did not necessarily mean that these areas were always visited or explored; in some cases they were actively avoided. Nevertheless ethnic clusters facilitated community organisation, neighbourhood encounters, and sometimes conviviality, access to faith groups and cultural activities, as well as jobs and social lives and they were almost always with people from the same ethnic and/or linguistic group. While a minority participated in activities outside of work, either community based or some limited social activities, most were limited by finances and long working hours as well as the need try and stay hidden. Networks were carefully managed and this could result in loneliness and feelings of isolation.Less
The social networks, community engagement, activities outside of work and transnational relations of undocumented migrants are considered in this chapter. Most people had effectively and strategically built networks of friends while in the UK and this was instrumental to everyday lives, especially when looking for work. Family relations were often more complex than those with friends and difficulties could be accentuated between family members when it involved working relationships. By living in London, our interviewees either lived in enclave areas or had access to such areas, though this did not necessarily mean that these areas were always visited or explored; in some cases they were actively avoided. Nevertheless ethnic clusters facilitated community organisation, neighbourhood encounters, and sometimes conviviality, access to faith groups and cultural activities, as well as jobs and social lives and they were almost always with people from the same ethnic and/or linguistic group. While a minority participated in activities outside of work, either community based or some limited social activities, most were limited by finances and long working hours as well as the need try and stay hidden. Networks were carefully managed and this could result in loneliness and feelings of isolation.
Connor J. Fitzmaurice and Brian J. Gareau
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300199451
- eISBN:
- 9780300224856
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300199451.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter addresses some of the big issues consumers and scholars assume, even implicitly, matter to committed organic movement farmers: the environment and health. Certainly, these concerns play ...
More
This chapter addresses some of the big issues consumers and scholars assume, even implicitly, matter to committed organic movement farmers: the environment and health. Certainly, these concerns play a role in organic practices. However, this chapter shows that they are rarely explicitly addressed. Instead, such issues take on an instrumentalism and practicality in everyday experiences. Concerns about health and the environment were directly related to visceral experiences of farming, like experiencing the simple pleasure of eating a sun-warmed tomato off the vine. The big issues of sustainability acquire a taken-for-granted character, propagated in farmers’ networks of relationships. This chapter shows, once again, the centrality of lifestyle considerations in the making of organic practices. However, lifestyle concerns can also thwart more sustainable practices. For some farmers, the pursuit of a comfortable lifestyle required abandoning hallmarks of organic practice, like fallow periods for their fields in order to increase the amount of land under cultivation. As farmers struggle for livelihoods, they can become caught in a cycle of intensification that gradually erodes alternative practices. The chapter also discusses how the ability to remain alternative in light of such pressures is necessarily tied to forms of privilege—especially access to land and consumers.Less
This chapter addresses some of the big issues consumers and scholars assume, even implicitly, matter to committed organic movement farmers: the environment and health. Certainly, these concerns play a role in organic practices. However, this chapter shows that they are rarely explicitly addressed. Instead, such issues take on an instrumentalism and practicality in everyday experiences. Concerns about health and the environment were directly related to visceral experiences of farming, like experiencing the simple pleasure of eating a sun-warmed tomato off the vine. The big issues of sustainability acquire a taken-for-granted character, propagated in farmers’ networks of relationships. This chapter shows, once again, the centrality of lifestyle considerations in the making of organic practices. However, lifestyle concerns can also thwart more sustainable practices. For some farmers, the pursuit of a comfortable lifestyle required abandoning hallmarks of organic practice, like fallow periods for their fields in order to increase the amount of land under cultivation. As farmers struggle for livelihoods, they can become caught in a cycle of intensification that gradually erodes alternative practices. The chapter also discusses how the ability to remain alternative in light of such pressures is necessarily tied to forms of privilege—especially access to land and consumers.
Anna Servaes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462104
- eISBN:
- 9781626745599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462104.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
La Guiannée celebration eludes the historical colonial context, but is documented in France as early as the twelfth century. It is most likely a derivative of a Celtic tradition and belongs to a ...
More
La Guiannée celebration eludes the historical colonial context, but is documented in France as early as the twelfth century. It is most likely a derivative of a Celtic tradition and belongs to a category of begging quests throughout the Carnival season, typically November-March or April. Similarities between the disguises used in twentieth century Prairie du Rocher and twelfth century France creates a strong cultural connection. Other festive elements such as masking, singing, drinking, and the giving of gifts have significant importance for the maintenance of socio-cultural relationships. Throughout the Midwest, La Guiannée is the one festive celebration that maintained its continual French presence since the founding of these communities. Newspaper and personal accounts describe in detail the twentieth and twenty-first century celebration and its evolution from medieval to colonial disguises.Less
La Guiannée celebration eludes the historical colonial context, but is documented in France as early as the twelfth century. It is most likely a derivative of a Celtic tradition and belongs to a category of begging quests throughout the Carnival season, typically November-March or April. Similarities between the disguises used in twentieth century Prairie du Rocher and twelfth century France creates a strong cultural connection. Other festive elements such as masking, singing, drinking, and the giving of gifts have significant importance for the maintenance of socio-cultural relationships. Throughout the Midwest, La Guiannée is the one festive celebration that maintained its continual French presence since the founding of these communities. Newspaper and personal accounts describe in detail the twentieth and twenty-first century celebration and its evolution from medieval to colonial disguises.
