Daniel Ramírez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624068
- eISBN:
- 9781469624082
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624068.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
The concluding discussion joins the current deconstruction—offered by several theorists of migration, religion, and culture—of the notion of apolitical Pentecostals and rural-to-urban migrants on ...
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The concluding discussion joins the current deconstruction—offered by several theorists of migration, religion, and culture—of the notion of apolitical Pentecostals and rural-to-urban migrants on "social strike" in urban religious haciendas (Lalive D'Epinay). The recovered data from the early to mid-twentieth century demonstrates that folks can remain at once both Pentecostal and socially engaged or migratory and politically active—and politically active in unexpected ways. This historical awareness can help nuance the study of religion and politics in Latin America and Latino USA. In terms of culture viewed through theoretical lenses of habitus and everyday practice (Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau), the Pentecostal subaltern now appears to have been busily at work—adapting, poaching, and reassembling evangelicalismo's offerings—in the first six decades of the twentieth century. The Pentecostal subaltern's voice, it turns out, was never silent, but rather redacted out of the historical record. No longer.Less
The concluding discussion joins the current deconstruction—offered by several theorists of migration, religion, and culture—of the notion of apolitical Pentecostals and rural-to-urban migrants on "social strike" in urban religious haciendas (Lalive D'Epinay). The recovered data from the early to mid-twentieth century demonstrates that folks can remain at once both Pentecostal and socially engaged or migratory and politically active—and politically active in unexpected ways. This historical awareness can help nuance the study of religion and politics in Latin America and Latino USA. In terms of culture viewed through theoretical lenses of habitus and everyday practice (Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau), the Pentecostal subaltern now appears to have been busily at work—adapting, poaching, and reassembling evangelicalismo's offerings—in the first six decades of the twentieth century. The Pentecostal subaltern's voice, it turns out, was never silent, but rather redacted out of the historical record. No longer.
Kristian Kloeckl
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300243048
- eISBN:
- 9780300249347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300243048.003.0008
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This concluding chapter reviews the central arguments of the book and reflects critically on living with uncertainty and unpredictability as a form of critical mobility for urban living. It considers ...
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This concluding chapter reviews the central arguments of the book and reflects critically on living with uncertainty and unpredictability as a form of critical mobility for urban living. It considers how the focus on efficiency, data-driven predictability, and control in the narrative about cities over the past two decades strikingly recalls the early days of the twentieth century. What then was the idealized new and modern has become the smart of today. The development of technology has long pursued the superlatives of faster, higher, bigger, cleaner, stronger, better, and safer. This was a promising strategy when the scope and reach of technologies were limited. Today, however, networked information technologies pervade not only cities but also large and intricate parts of our everyday practice.Less
This concluding chapter reviews the central arguments of the book and reflects critically on living with uncertainty and unpredictability as a form of critical mobility for urban living. It considers how the focus on efficiency, data-driven predictability, and control in the narrative about cities over the past two decades strikingly recalls the early days of the twentieth century. What then was the idealized new and modern has become the smart of today. The development of technology has long pursued the superlatives of faster, higher, bigger, cleaner, stronger, better, and safer. This was a promising strategy when the scope and reach of technologies were limited. Today, however, networked information technologies pervade not only cities but also large and intricate parts of our everyday practice.
Natalie Bormann
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074707
- eISBN:
- 9781781701331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074707.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter further discusses missile defence, although it shifts from the official strategic documents to ‘everyday’ practices, first describing the realm of the everyday as one which covers an ...
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This chapter further discusses missile defence, although it shifts from the official strategic documents to ‘everyday’ practices, first describing the realm of the everyday as one which covers an entire network of socially embedded meaning, and then stating that NMD connects with the sphere of daily life in various ways. The next section considers the use of the image of the defence shield to describe the function of NMD and takes a look at the place where missile defence – as identity practice – is reproduced in and intersects with daily life discourses. The chapter also introduces David Tanks' analogy, where the defence system is compared to the stages of a baseball match, and the intimate correlation between popular culture and the textual practices of US foreign policy.Less
This chapter further discusses missile defence, although it shifts from the official strategic documents to ‘everyday’ practices, first describing the realm of the everyday as one which covers an entire network of socially embedded meaning, and then stating that NMD connects with the sphere of daily life in various ways. The next section considers the use of the image of the defence shield to describe the function of NMD and takes a look at the place where missile defence – as identity practice – is reproduced in and intersects with daily life discourses. The chapter also introduces David Tanks' analogy, where the defence system is compared to the stages of a baseball match, and the intimate correlation between popular culture and the textual practices of US foreign policy.
Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American ...
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This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.Less
This book explores the historical and theoretical relationship between the racial formation of Asian Americans and the mundane. More specifically, it considers how the paradox of Asian American racial formation is sustained through the mundane's ambiguous relationship to the body: it is enacted by the body, but may or may not be of the body. It highlights the social significance attached to certain everyday practices and to the possibility of adopting and transferring those practices across racial lines. It also examines the relationship among racialization, theatricality, and the racial mundane by reading two plays: The Yellow Jacket by J. Harry Benrimo and George C. Hazelton, Jr., and Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Lucie Vidovićová and Lucie Galčanová
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447340645
- eISBN:
- 9781447340690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447340645.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter discusses the ways in which a literary character from The Grandmother: A story of country life in Bohemia, written in 1855 by Božena Němcová, is translated into the contemporary ...
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This chapter discusses the ways in which a literary character from The Grandmother: A story of country life in Bohemia, written in 1855 by Božena Němcová, is translated into the contemporary conceptualization of the ‘typical’ grandmother in popular culture and an archetype in the sociological meaning of the word, and how it serves as a frame of reference for narrative expressions of identity among contemporary Czech grandmothers. The results are based on the analysis of cultural production and qualitative interviews with Czech active agers, who connect the literary character both positively and negatively to changing social role performances via everyday practices such a food preparation, care and appearance. The chapter concludes by enhancing existing typologies of grandparental roles and shows how the normativity of the ideal operates within the narrative accounts of today´s young-old persons..Less
This chapter discusses the ways in which a literary character from The Grandmother: A story of country life in Bohemia, written in 1855 by Božena Němcová, is translated into the contemporary conceptualization of the ‘typical’ grandmother in popular culture and an archetype in the sociological meaning of the word, and how it serves as a frame of reference for narrative expressions of identity among contemporary Czech grandmothers. The results are based on the analysis of cultural production and qualitative interviews with Czech active agers, who connect the literary character both positively and negatively to changing social role performances via everyday practices such a food preparation, care and appearance. The chapter concludes by enhancing existing typologies of grandparental roles and shows how the normativity of the ideal operates within the narrative accounts of today´s young-old persons..
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317545
- eISBN:
- 9781846317217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317217.003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His ...
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This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His The Practice of Everyday Life develops a different concept of the body, closer to language and psychoanalysis. He believes that Azouz Begag's immigrant experience can be strongly associated to the experience of space and time. For Certeau and Begag, space is less produced than developed through dynamic movement and practice among ordinary people who reinvent the everyday to ‘make’ the city from heteroclite ways of living and from the encounter between immigrants and natives.Less
This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His The Practice of Everyday Life develops a different concept of the body, closer to language and psychoanalysis. He believes that Azouz Begag's immigrant experience can be strongly associated to the experience of space and time. For Certeau and Begag, space is less produced than developed through dynamic movement and practice among ordinary people who reinvent the everyday to ‘make’ the city from heteroclite ways of living and from the encounter between immigrants and natives.
Sue Newell and Marco Marabelli
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738237
- eISBN:
- 9780191801686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738237.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
This chapter focuses on practices aimed at supporting knowledge mobilization to improve coordination across a network of organizations that are each involved in the care of children with complex ...
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This chapter focuses on practices aimed at supporting knowledge mobilization to improve coordination across a network of organizations that are each involved in the care of children with complex health needs. Improving knowledge mobilization in network settings is particularly challenging because there are typically no formal hierarchical relationships that can be used to “impose” change. The chapter therefore explores the power of everyday practices that can promote changes associated with improved knowledge mobilization and overall care coordination. Using data from a longitudinal in-depth case in Canada, it demonstrates the power of talk, text, and objects to promote and make durable improved knowledge mobilization across healthcare networks. The practice view of power used in the analysis provides, as we illustrate, very different insights into what allows network change to happen when compared with the view that assumes this depends on the power and resources that can be mustered by individuals “in charge.”Less
This chapter focuses on practices aimed at supporting knowledge mobilization to improve coordination across a network of organizations that are each involved in the care of children with complex health needs. Improving knowledge mobilization in network settings is particularly challenging because there are typically no formal hierarchical relationships that can be used to “impose” change. The chapter therefore explores the power of everyday practices that can promote changes associated with improved knowledge mobilization and overall care coordination. Using data from a longitudinal in-depth case in Canada, it demonstrates the power of talk, text, and objects to promote and make durable improved knowledge mobilization across healthcare networks. The practice view of power used in the analysis provides, as we illustrate, very different insights into what allows network change to happen when compared with the view that assumes this depends on the power and resources that can be mustered by individuals “in charge.”
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780252044014
- eISBN:
- 9780252052941
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252044014.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This book examines how fashion became an important vehicle for expressing modern gender identities and promoting feminist ideas during the long twentieth century. Arguing against narratives that view ...
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This book examines how fashion became an important vehicle for expressing modern gender identities and promoting feminist ideas during the long twentieth century. Arguing against narratives that view fashion only as an oppressive force, it demonstrates how different groups of women used clothes in empowering ways that allowed them to experience and express new freedoms. Especially for those who were barred from positions of power due to their class or race, the rise of mass media and culture turned fashion into an accessible route to advance claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. Drawing on a variety of written, visual, and material sources, it shows how instead of being a hindrance to women’s political engagement, fashion enabled the mainstreaming and popularization of feminism in public discourse. In foregrounding fashion as an everyday feminist practice, the book revises our understanding of feminism, shifting the attention to its cultural manifestations. By examining the fashionable politics of the Rainy Day Club of the 1890s, early twentieth-century suffragists, the modernist avant-garde, flappers, mid-twentieth-century fashion designers, and women’s liberationists, the book highlights the continuities in women’s sartorial practices to express ideas of freedom, independence, and equality. As these women employed mainstream fashion styles, they expanded the spaces of feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements, reclaiming fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness.Less
This book examines how fashion became an important vehicle for expressing modern gender identities and promoting feminist ideas during the long twentieth century. Arguing against narratives that view fashion only as an oppressive force, it demonstrates how different groups of women used clothes in empowering ways that allowed them to experience and express new freedoms. Especially for those who were barred from positions of power due to their class or race, the rise of mass media and culture turned fashion into an accessible route to advance claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. Drawing on a variety of written, visual, and material sources, it shows how instead of being a hindrance to women’s political engagement, fashion enabled the mainstreaming and popularization of feminism in public discourse. In foregrounding fashion as an everyday feminist practice, the book revises our understanding of feminism, shifting the attention to its cultural manifestations. By examining the fashionable politics of the Rainy Day Club of the 1890s, early twentieth-century suffragists, the modernist avant-garde, flappers, mid-twentieth-century fashion designers, and women’s liberationists, the book highlights the continuities in women’s sartorial practices to express ideas of freedom, independence, and equality. As these women employed mainstream fashion styles, they expanded the spaces of feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements, reclaiming fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness.
Susan Fraiman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231166348
- eISBN:
- 9780231543750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166348.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” ...
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Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” domesticities: the non-normative households of gender rebels; the marginal households of those dealing with dislocation and economic insecurity. Offers an extensive analysis of Luce Giard’s neglected study, “Doing-Cooking,” a model for appreciating the devalued, everyday domestic lives of women. Argues for Giard’s importance as a pioneer of everyday life studies alongside her more celebrated collaborator, Michel de Certeau.Less
Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” domesticities: the non-normative households of gender rebels; the marginal households of those dealing with dislocation and economic insecurity. Offers an extensive analysis of Luce Giard’s neglected study, “Doing-Cooking,” a model for appreciating the devalued, everyday domestic lives of women. Argues for Giard’s importance as a pioneer of everyday life studies alongside her more celebrated collaborator, Michel de Certeau.
Yuriko Saito
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199672103
- eISBN:
- 9780191838682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199672103.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This chapter argues for the importance of cultivating aesthetic literacy and vigilance, as well as practicing aesthetic expressions of moral virtues. In light of the considerable power of the ...
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This chapter argues for the importance of cultivating aesthetic literacy and vigilance, as well as practicing aesthetic expressions of moral virtues. In light of the considerable power of the aesthetic to affect, sometimes determine, people’s choices, decisions, and actions in daily life, everyday aesthetics discourse has a social responsibility to guide its power toward enriching personal life, facilitating respectful and satisfying interpersonal relationships, creating a civil and humane society, and ensuring the sustainable future. As an aesthetics discourse, its distinct domain unencumbered by these life concerns needs to be protected. At the same time, denying or ignoring the connection with them decontextualizes and marginalizes aesthetics. Aesthetics is an indispensable instrument for assessing and improving the quality of life and the state of the world, and it behooves everyday aesthetics discourse to reclaim its rightful place and to actively engage with the world-making project.Less
This chapter argues for the importance of cultivating aesthetic literacy and vigilance, as well as practicing aesthetic expressions of moral virtues. In light of the considerable power of the aesthetic to affect, sometimes determine, people’s choices, decisions, and actions in daily life, everyday aesthetics discourse has a social responsibility to guide its power toward enriching personal life, facilitating respectful and satisfying interpersonal relationships, creating a civil and humane society, and ensuring the sustainable future. As an aesthetics discourse, its distinct domain unencumbered by these life concerns needs to be protected. At the same time, denying or ignoring the connection with them decontextualizes and marginalizes aesthetics. Aesthetics is an indispensable instrument for assessing and improving the quality of life and the state of the world, and it behooves everyday aesthetics discourse to reclaim its rightful place and to actively engage with the world-making project.
Ryan A. Quintana
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469642222
- eISBN:
- 9781469641089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469642222.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book’s argument, explaining the emphasis on state space, developmental politics, and slavery. It examines the broader historiography of political ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book’s argument, explaining the emphasis on state space, developmental politics, and slavery. It examines the broader historiography of political development in early America, and the South in particular. And it explains the importance of focusing on the everyday practices of the enslaved to better understand the production of the modern state.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book’s argument, explaining the emphasis on state space, developmental politics, and slavery. It examines the broader historiography of political development in early America, and the South in particular. And it explains the importance of focusing on the everyday practices of the enslaved to better understand the production of the modern state.
Claudia Müller and Lin Wan
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- April 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198733249
- eISBN:
- 9780191797736
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198733249.003.0012
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Computational Mathematics / Optimization
Increasing life expectancy and reduced birth rates as results of the recent demographic changes are linked to drastic changes in age structures. Aging societies are facing enormous challenges that ...
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Increasing life expectancy and reduced birth rates as results of the recent demographic changes are linked to drastic changes in age structures. Aging societies are facing enormous challenges that are linked to increased age, reduced physical and mental capabilities, and the risk of social isolation and reduced autonomy. In an attempt to address these challenges, the fields of active aging and ambient assisted living currently focus on the use of technological innovations, which aim at developing innovative products as well as services and concepts to be implemented in care settings such as dementia care. However, sustainable implementation of these IT-based innovations often fails, because such innovations are not embedded in the everyday practices of elderly people and their surrounding social networks. Practice-based design enables acknowledging the often complex organizational, ideological, and practical issues that form part of a moral universe.Less
Increasing life expectancy and reduced birth rates as results of the recent demographic changes are linked to drastic changes in age structures. Aging societies are facing enormous challenges that are linked to increased age, reduced physical and mental capabilities, and the risk of social isolation and reduced autonomy. In an attempt to address these challenges, the fields of active aging and ambient assisted living currently focus on the use of technological innovations, which aim at developing innovative products as well as services and concepts to be implemented in care settings such as dementia care. However, sustainable implementation of these IT-based innovations often fails, because such innovations are not embedded in the everyday practices of elderly people and their surrounding social networks. Practice-based design enables acknowledging the often complex organizational, ideological, and practical issues that form part of a moral universe.
Peggy J. Miller and Grace E. Cho
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199959723
- eISBN:
- 9780190698898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199959723.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Chapter 5, “Praise and Affirmation,” is the first of three chapters that examine families’ everyday practices, based on ethnographic observations of six Centerville families over the course of a ...
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Chapter 5, “Praise and Affirmation,” is the first of three chapters that examine families’ everyday practices, based on ethnographic observations of six Centerville families over the course of a year. This chapter describes parents’ use of praise and affirmation in and around the home. Consistent with their expressed belief that praise boosts children’s self-esteem, parents dispensed praise for a wide array of accomplishments, however small, in dramatic contrast to the ethnographic cases discussed at the beginning of the chapter. Praise ranged from the automatic to the strategic and inventive. By age three, children were adept at praising themselves and soliciting praise from adults. The chapter presents vignettes of observed episodes that illustrate the complex ways in which praise was garnered, enacted, and sustained by parents and children. This chapter also describes praise and affirmation dispensed by others outside the home, including teachers and coaches who regularly interacted with the children.Less
Chapter 5, “Praise and Affirmation,” is the first of three chapters that examine families’ everyday practices, based on ethnographic observations of six Centerville families over the course of a year. This chapter describes parents’ use of praise and affirmation in and around the home. Consistent with their expressed belief that praise boosts children’s self-esteem, parents dispensed praise for a wide array of accomplishments, however small, in dramatic contrast to the ethnographic cases discussed at the beginning of the chapter. Praise ranged from the automatic to the strategic and inventive. By age three, children were adept at praising themselves and soliciting praise from adults. The chapter presents vignettes of observed episodes that illustrate the complex ways in which praise was garnered, enacted, and sustained by parents and children. This chapter also describes praise and affirmation dispensed by others outside the home, including teachers and coaches who regularly interacted with the children.
Fiona Allon
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198758662
- eISBN:
- 9780191818585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198758662.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Modern water, waste, and energy infrastructures are inseparable from everyday practices, bodily habits, and political ideals at both intimate and public levels. In the twenty-first century such ...
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Modern water, waste, and energy infrastructures are inseparable from everyday practices, bodily habits, and political ideals at both intimate and public levels. In the twenty-first century such infrastructures are in crisis, and they are being radically rethought in terms of both the delivery of public services and individual consumption. The chapter takes this historical conjuncture as its starting point, investigating the identities, norms of resource use, and political values that are “baked in” to infrastructures. This focus allows a consideration of the roles played by both human and nonhuman agents in the coevolution of ways of life, ethics, and politics formed over time and across space. The chapter also addresses the range of amateur, DIY, and everyday household practices that are using and managing water, energy, and waste in new and innovative ways, and thereby creating new biopolitical norms and relations between nature/culture, public/private, and the human/nonhuman.Less
Modern water, waste, and energy infrastructures are inseparable from everyday practices, bodily habits, and political ideals at both intimate and public levels. In the twenty-first century such infrastructures are in crisis, and they are being radically rethought in terms of both the delivery of public services and individual consumption. The chapter takes this historical conjuncture as its starting point, investigating the identities, norms of resource use, and political values that are “baked in” to infrastructures. This focus allows a consideration of the roles played by both human and nonhuman agents in the coevolution of ways of life, ethics, and politics formed over time and across space. The chapter also addresses the range of amateur, DIY, and everyday household practices that are using and managing water, energy, and waste in new and innovative ways, and thereby creating new biopolitical norms and relations between nature/culture, public/private, and the human/nonhuman.
Peter Robb
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198099185
- eISBN:
- 9780199083053
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099185.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter focuses on the management of works on the Calcutta circular road and its northern extension at Saum Bazar (Shyambazar), and especially on underhand trade-offs between them and the ...
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This chapter focuses on the management of works on the Calcutta circular road and its northern extension at Saum Bazar (Shyambazar), and especially on underhand trade-offs between them and the parallel project at Government House, designed to conceal the latter’s excessive cost and protect the profits of its architect, Charles Wyatt. Issues include the recruitment and control of labour, the supply of materials, land acquisition, and the official scrutiny of progress and quality. Once again, a mode of ‘friendly cooperation’— here involving economical practice, professional reputation, favours, and social influence—was more important than forms and regulations, in combating malice, self-interest, and incompetence. A contrast is made between the ‘back-scratching’ and irregularities of public works, in everyday practice, and contemporary protestations about the ‘wise and auspicious’ administration of Wellesley and the ‘mild and just’ imperial rule by Britain.Less
This chapter focuses on the management of works on the Calcutta circular road and its northern extension at Saum Bazar (Shyambazar), and especially on underhand trade-offs between them and the parallel project at Government House, designed to conceal the latter’s excessive cost and protect the profits of its architect, Charles Wyatt. Issues include the recruitment and control of labour, the supply of materials, land acquisition, and the official scrutiny of progress and quality. Once again, a mode of ‘friendly cooperation’— here involving economical practice, professional reputation, favours, and social influence—was more important than forms and regulations, in combating malice, self-interest, and incompetence. A contrast is made between the ‘back-scratching’ and irregularities of public works, in everyday practice, and contemporary protestations about the ‘wise and auspicious’ administration of Wellesley and the ‘mild and just’ imperial rule by Britain.
Frank Trentmann
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198768784
- eISBN:
- 9780191822124
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198768784.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
The modern world has involved an unprecedented ballooning of stuff. How can historians make sense of this massive surge? This chapter offers some conceptual and methodological tools and suggestions. ...
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The modern world has involved an unprecedented ballooning of stuff. How can historians make sense of this massive surge? This chapter offers some conceptual and methodological tools and suggestions. Instead of opting for either micro or macro histories, it argues that we need to move between these scales to capture, analyse, and explain the forces that drive greater consumption. The chapter links locally situated material culture with the aggregate global analysis of material flows. It discusses the influence of empire and political economy on taste, norms, and conventions and reflects on the dynamics of demand in contemporary societies by showing how everyday practices, energy systems, and networked infrastructures are interdependent and need to be studied together. It challenges a neat separation between demand and supply and calls on historians to straddle different spatial scales of the material world.Less
The modern world has involved an unprecedented ballooning of stuff. How can historians make sense of this massive surge? This chapter offers some conceptual and methodological tools and suggestions. Instead of opting for either micro or macro histories, it argues that we need to move between these scales to capture, analyse, and explain the forces that drive greater consumption. The chapter links locally situated material culture with the aggregate global analysis of material flows. It discusses the influence of empire and political economy on taste, norms, and conventions and reflects on the dynamics of demand in contemporary societies by showing how everyday practices, energy systems, and networked infrastructures are interdependent and need to be studied together. It challenges a neat separation between demand and supply and calls on historians to straddle different spatial scales of the material world.