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Pallasmaa, Juhani. "Existential homelessness. Placeless and nostalgia in the age of mobility." ANUARI d’Arquitectura i Societat, no. 3 (November 29, 2023): 16–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/anuari.2023.20471.
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Mobility is, of course, a huge subject matter extending from the movement cycles and patterns of the primordial human settlements of the world, the great expeditions and the European re-discovery of the world, to our characteristic bi-petal motion and horizontal gaze, and the mobility implied by countless human modes of livelihood, production and communication. This theme also contains matters such as our embodied mode of experiencing the world through constant motion, the fundamental human right of mobility as specified in the Declaration of Human Rights, and the significance of mobility for human interaction both on cross-cultural as well as social and intimate levels. The significance of human mobility also evokes essential ecological and ethical questions; we have already reached the very limits of unlimited and irresponsible mobility. We should not exclude the limitations in mobility caused by cultural conditions, gender, forced restrictions, economy, and physical incapabilities. I will, however, focus on the dimensions of mobility that are closest to my personal interests as an architect, cultural observer and frequent traveller: the notion and consequences of geographic mobility and, particularly, of motorized and increasingly accelerated movement that is one of the foundational phenomena of our concept and reality of modernity. I am intentionally going to valorize a very narrow strip of the spectrum of human mobility aware of the vastness of issues that I am excluding from my study.
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Todres, Les, and Kathleen Galvin. "“Dwelling-mobility”: An existential theory of well-being." International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 5, no. 3 (January 2010): 5444. http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v5i3.5444.
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Gaibazzi, Paolo. "Moving-with-Others." Migration and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2019.020104.
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The article argues for an intersubjective understanding of mobility among aspirant migrants in the Gambia. Among other factors, Gambian young men’s desire to reach Europe and other destinations may stem from an experience of dispersal and abandonment in migrant households. Emigration becomes a way of restoring the viability of relationships, in a socioeconomic sense of regenerating ties and flows between migrants and nonmigrants, as well as in an existential-kinetic sense of experiencing others as moving closer to oneself. By highlighting intersubjective mobility, the article contributes to widening the scope of an existential take on movement and stasis. It further revises popular and scholarly views on the role of families and migrants in shaping aspirations to emigrate.
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Lems, Annika. "Existential Kinetics of Movement and Stasis." Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 44, no. 2 (January 14, 2020): 59–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i2.77715.
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This article attempts to theorise people’s balancing acts between conditions of movement and stasis. Drawing on a radical empirical reading of one critical moment that occurred while conducting ethnographic research among Eritrean unaccompanied minors living in a Swiss educational institution, it thinks through what happens when this equilibrium is thrown out of whack and life’s flow is suddenly experienced as a standstill. By focusing on the experiences of one young man, it explores the importance of education as a vectorial metaphor for moving forward in one’s life. Zooming in on one critical moment in Abel’s life, it sheds light on what happens when hopes of ‘movement-through-education’ clash with the reality of a restrictive asylum system that curtails young refugees’ hopes for forward movement. By showing the dialectical ways mobility and immobility enter into and envelop each other, the article highlights how an existentially oriented ethnography can be utilised as an avenue for theorising migrant im/mobilities.
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Ménard, Anaïs, and Maarten Bedert. "Introduction." African Diaspora 13, no. 1-2 (November 11, 2021): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10021.
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Abstract This section introduction explores the imaginative dimension of mobility in two West African countries, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Building on literature that highlights the existential dimension of movement and migration, the authors explore three socio-cultural patterns that inform representations of im/mobility: historical continuities and the longue-durée perspective on mobile practices, the association of geographical mobility with social betterment, and the interaction between local aspirations and the imaginary of global modernity. The three individual contributions by Bedert, Enria and Ménard bring out the work of imagination attached to im/mobility both in ‘home’ countries and diaspora communities, and underline the continuity of representations and practices between spaces that are part of specific transnational social fields.
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Light, Duncan, and Lorraine Brown. "Dwelling-mobility: A theory of the existential pull between home and away." Annals of Tourism Research 81 (March 2020): 102880. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.102880.
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Sjöberg, Johannes, and Alexandra D’Onofrio. "Moving global horizons: Imagining selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnographic research." Culture & Psychology 26, no. 4 (May 28, 2020): 732–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x20922141.
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This article explores imagined selfhood, mobility and futurities through creative practice in ethnography. Globalisation allows people with varying socio-economic and geographical backgrounds to imagine themselves with more possibilities. How can creative practice such as improvisation in ethnofictions, storytelling and participatory animation be applied in ethnographic research to explore the imaginary realm of selfhood and expectations on being elsewhere? Drawing on fieldwork on migration from Africa to Europe, Brazilian transgender mobility and British youth in environmental transformation, the article will show how existential immobility inspires production of global horizons through imagination.
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Vestøl, Irene, Jonas Debesay, and Astrid Bergland. "Mobility—A Bridge to Sense of Coherence in Everyday Life: Older Patients’ Experiences of Participation in an Exercise Program During the First 3 Weeks After Hip Fracture Surgery." Qualitative Health Research 31, no. 10 (April 30, 2021): 1823–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10497323211008848.
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Our aim with this article was to explore the experiences of older people who participated in the evidence-based High-Intensity Functional Exercise (HIFE) Program during the first 3 weeks of rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery. Nineteen older people participated in the study. Data were analyzed using systematic text condensation. One overarching theme “Exercise is the key for regaining mobility and a sense of coherence (SOC) in everyday life” emerged from the analysis in addition to these five themes: (a) understanding the existential importance of mobility; (b) maintaining a positive self-image by regaining mobility; (c) regaining one’s old life and independence in everyday living; (d) maintaining interpersonal relationships through mobility; and (e) creating positive emotions by being able to move. The findings highlight the importance of exercise as a strategy for regaining mobility, illustrated by the essential role it played in the participants’ lives after suffering a hip fracture.
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Anasiudu, Okwudiri. "Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street." Journal of Gender and Power 14, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 123–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jgp-2020-0017.
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Abstract The mobility trope is a key aesthetic feature in Afropolitan fiction and it crystalizes as the act of travelling which has become an important subject-matter in postnationalist African fictions by women such as Chimamanda Adichie, Noviolet Bulawayo or Chika Unigwe as a way of intervention on the debate of the Afropolitan female quest for existential subjectivity in 21st century African fiction. This is against the backdrop of negative essentialism and the exertions of patriarchy evident in the representation of African women’s in 20th century African fiction. Drawing from the foregoing, this paper interrogates Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (Hence OBSS) to demonstrate how the writer deploys mobility trope which manifest as travelling as a signature of the Afropolitan female quest for existential subjectivity. I argue in this paper that, though existing studies on OBSS portray Efe, Sisi, Ama and Joyce as exported commodities in neoliberal sex market, their relocation however opens up a new vista to understanding their motivation and quest for new subjectivity, empowered fluid agency, individual autonomy and translation into Afropolitans. This is within Achille Mbembe’s phenomenological criticism of Afropolitanism and a methology that is based on qualitative content analysis of the text—OBSS. On the long run, the identity which travelling confers on the female characters is fluid, as they represent an African being in a globalized world and a strong sense of cultural mobility.
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Hof, Helena. "Opting out for Getting in: Existential Mobility in European Graduates’ Migration to Asia." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 18, no. 3 (May 7, 2020): 286–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2020.1755761.
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Gabrielli, Mara. "Vulnerability, Embedded Agency, and Downward Social Mobility of Young Asylum Seekers." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 39, no. 1 (April 20, 2023): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41037.
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From an intersectional perspective, the situational and inherent vulnerability faced by two young asylum seekers in Catalonia, Spain, were analyzed through case studies that illustrate how these young people navigated within unpredictable and changing environments that hampered their embedded agency. Their settlement as social navigation highlights the temporal dimensions of the migration process. Waiting was also a key element that marked and regulated their settlement from a normative, relational, and existential dimension. The results highlight downward social mobility and precarious integration into the host society due to institutional, structural, and socio-cultural constraints.
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Tošić, Jelena, and Annika Lems. "Introduction." Migration and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2019.020102.
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Th is contribution introduces the collection of texts in this special section of Migration and Society exploring contemporary patterns of im/mobility between Africa and Europe. It proposes an ontological-epistemological framework for investigating present-day movements via three core dimensions: (1) a focus on im/mobility explores the intertwinement of mobility and stasis in the context of biographical and migratory pathways and thus goes beyond a binary approach to migration; (2) an existential and dialogical-ethnographic approach zooms in on individual experiences of im/mobility and shows that the personal-experiential is not apolitical, but represents a realm of everyday struggles and quests for a good life; and (3) a genealogical-historical dimension explores present-day migratory quests through their embeddedness within legacies of (post)colonial power relations and interconnections and thus counteracts the hegemonic image of immigration from Africa as having no history and legitimacy.
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Guzman, Laura. "La place des dimensions subjectives au sein de la préparation linguistique des publics mobiles à l’ère de la mondialisation." Neofilolog, no. 61/2 (December 5, 2023): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/n.2023.61.2.4.
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In the era of globalization, preparing language learners to deal with intercultural exchanges and to succeed in their mobility projects is a major issue. We think that subjective dimensions have a big role to play in mobile learners’ linguistic preparation. For us, there are some personal and existential dimensions in the mobility of qualified candidates who go overseas to complete their studies, or to have new work experiences in order to further their careers. These subjective dimensions must be taken into account if we want to help these learners to achieve their mobility goals. We will see how these dimensions can be included in French for specific purposes programs and courses by using the concept of “project.” We will also consider what kind of pedagogical material, based on corpora (“récit-témoignage”), can be proposed to encourage students to manage their language learning in an autonomous way and to use critical and strategic thinking when handling their mobility projects.
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Cinnamon, Jonathan. "Platform philanthropy, ‘public value’, and the COVID-19 pandemic moment." Dialogues in Human Geography 10, no. 2 (June 10, 2020): 242–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820620933860.
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This commentary examines the COVID-19 pandemic as a moment of strategic advancement for digital platforms. Focusing on the redeployment of Google Maps data for tracking adherence to mobility restrictions, I argue that demonstrating such ‘public value’ uses of Google’s vast geolocation and behavioral data forms part of a larger effort to strengthen their economic and political position in the face of two existential threats—declining advertising revenues and platform regulation.
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Cangià, Flavia. "Immobile subjectivities." Migration and Society 6, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 121–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2023.060110.
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Abstract This article puts forward the concept of immobile subjectivities to understand the ambivalence marking the condition of existential immobility in migration. I look at the experiences of two migrant women in Switzerland—a refugee and the partner of a mobile professional—who each face the predicaments of mobility and yet continue to aspire to a career in the face of uncertain and unstable work. The trajectories of migrants who, like these two women, are confronted with disruption in their professional lives converge in the effort of navigating the codes of mobility and personal career aspirations. By focusing on these trajectories, the article aims to challenge the distinction between migrant categories and advance our understanding of immobility as an increasingly human condition.
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Buda, Dumitru-Mircea. "Immigrant Elites in South-East European Cultures During the 20th Century." Acta Marisiensis. Philologia 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2020): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/amph-2022-0019.
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Abstract The cultural and existential crisis of exile entails, above all, an abolition of time and space, a location outside of their identity. In a sort of “transculturality”, in Milan Kundera’s words, or, simultaneously, in two cultures at the same time. And the condition of exile, a wandering, remains the key status of the the writer, who is a traveler par excellence. A prophet that must carry into the world and into history his message, sentenced to mobility
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Fowler, Bridget. "Social Ageing: Fragments of an Autoanalysis." SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE, no. 126 (March 2022): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/sr2021-126003.
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This essay originally interprets self-objectivation as utterly exceptional liberty (and privilege) of sociological observers. The author touches upon several dimensions of her social identity. Starting with the process of downward mobility undergone by her family, she goes over private issues such as her loss of faith and marital dynamics (as well as political engagement and relationship with academic institutions), linking her existential course to certain broader topics in particular: e´migre´s' condition, split habitus, female subjugation, symbolic violence, interdisciplinarity.
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Lems, Annika, and Jelena Tošić. "Preface: Stuck in Motion?" Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 44, no. 2 (January 14, 2020): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i2.77714.
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In this special section we rethink the role of movement and stasis in an age of globalization from an existential perspective. We suggest that this theoretical avenue is particularly well suited to move beyond the dualistic binaries that have haunted much writing on mobilities. Rather than fixating movement and stasis into two opposite poles, this perspective allows us to productively work with the overlaps and paradoxes as they appear in the everyday, thereby carving out a dialectics of im/mobility. We argue that exploring the interplay of movement and stasis has become particularly important in the current global political climate, where the mobilities of people and groups deemed troublesome are violently cut short or obstructed in ways that keep them “stuck” in continuous loops of “motion”. By zooming in on the vectorial metaphors migrants and refugees seemingly stuck in immovable conditions deploy to make sense of their situations, we conceptualize both the existential orientation of migratory projects and the wider social and political coordinates impinging on these inner quests for (forward) movement and/or stillness.
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Phùng, Thanh. "Grounding the transnational: A Vietnamese scholar’s autoethnography." Research in Comparative and International Education 15, no. 3 (July 30, 2020): 217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745499920946225.
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Departing from the dominant trend of favoring flexibility, flattened relations, and deterritorialization in featuring the transnational, this autoethnographic inquiry theorizes and exemplifies how the gravity of place may give rise to the evolvement of scholarship in the context of transnational mobility. I examine my own career trajectory to demonstrate how groundedness results from the dynamics between displacement and emplacement. While recounting my experience of moving back and forth between Western universities and my home institution in Vietnam, I explore issues such as the nation building framework for transnational mobility, scholarly self-formation, and community cultivation. The study centers a mode of emplacement termed ‘existential commitment’. It calls attention to the cultivation of a small, immediate scholarly community as a form of scholarship in the global periphery. The emphasis is on how the transnational can be grounded in local academic practices that address the world at multiple layers and scales.
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Nóżka, Marcjanna. "The Use of Drawings and Sketch Maps to Identify Spatial Attitudes of the Inhabitants of Urban Enclaves." Ask: Research and Methods 31, no. 1 (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/ask.v31i1.0001.
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Based on the results of the author’s research conducted in 2014-2016 with the participation of the inhabitants of two urban enclaves of poverty in Poland, the article focuses on mobility and various spatial attitudes which have been identified on the basis of the participants’ drawings and sketch maps related to their place of residence: the yard, the nearest neighbourhood and the city. When constructing the model of attitudes, the author was inspired by Stomma’s ethnological description of world and anti-world, and the levels of existential space distinguished by Norberg-Schulz. The model includes: imaginations and feelings towards specified spaces, by some seen as their own and tamed (orbis interior), while by others as foreign and wild (orbis exterior); and spatial mobility, determined on the basis of spatial orientation (implosive, explosive) and spatial behaviour of the subjects (exploratory, escapist, inertial). A typology of spatial attitudes is proposed based on these variables.
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Schielke, Samuli. "A Bigger Prison." Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 44, no. 2 (January 14, 2020): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i2.77709.
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How does existential mobility—the sense of being able to move forward in one’s life—relate to the experience of borders and limitations? Tawfiq is an Egyptian man who once longed to migrate to Europe or the United States, but has since then worked on and off as migrant worker in the Arab Gulf states. He has reflected on this question by using the metaphor of walls: prison walls over which one wants to jump, new walls which one faces next, walls that gently guide you to a certain direction, and the idea that facing and overcoming obstacles is what human life is about. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork with Egyptian labour migrants to the Gulf, this article takes up migrant labourers’ reflections about different senses of migration and travel, dreams, money, walls, limits, escape, steps, stability, return, postponement, forward movement and loops. Such ideas are helpful for thinking about the existential pursuits of moving forward in life, the moral shape of social becoming, and the political economy of migrant labour. Taken together, they also contribute to a non-binary understanding of movement and stasis, limits and openings, and the direction and magnitude of steps on the path of social becoming.
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Quassoli, Fabio, and Iraklis Dimitriadis. "“Here, There, in between, beyond…”: Identity Negotiation and Sense of Belonging among Southern Europeans in the UK and Germany." Social Inclusion 7, no. 4 (November 7, 2019): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i4.2386.
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Whilst most of the research on intra-EU mobility has mainly focused on the reasons behind young Southern Europeans leaving their home countries, and secondly on their experiences within the new context, little is known about their sense of belonging and identities. This article aims to fill this gap by exploring Italian and Spanish migrants’ social identity repositioning and the cultural change characterising their existential trajectories. Drawing on 69 semi-structured interviews with Italians and Spaniards living in London and Berlin, this article shows that the sense of belonging to one or more political communities and boundary work are related to individual experiences and can change due to structural eventualities such as the Brexit referendum. While identification with the host society is rare, attachment to the home country is quite common as a result of people’s everyday experiences. Cultural changes and European/cosmopolitan identification are linked to exposure to new environments and interaction with new cultures, mostly concerning those with previous mobility experience, as well as to a sentiment of non-acceptance in the UK. However, such categories are not rigid, but many times self-identification and attachments are rather blurred also due to the uncertainty around the duration of the mobility project. This makes individual factors (gender, age, family status, employment, education) that are often considered as determinants of identification patterns all but relevant.
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Boczkowska, Kornelia. "The Outlaw Machine, the Monstrous Outsider and Motorcycle Fetishists: Challenging Rebellion, Mobility and Masculinity in Kenneth Anger’s "Scorpio Rising" and Steven Spielberg’s "Duel"." Text Matters, no. 9 (December 30, 2019): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.09.05.
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The paper analyzes the ways in which Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963) and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1971) draw on and challenge selected road movie conventions by adhering to the genre’s traditional reliance on cultural critique revolving around the themes of rebellion, transgression and roguery. In particular, the films seem to confront the classic road movie format through their adoption of nomadic narrative structure and engagement in a mockery of subversion where the focus on social critique is intertwined with a deep sense of alienation and existential loss “laden with psychological confusion and wayward angst” (Laderman 83). Following this trend, Spielberg’s film simultaneously depoliticizes the genre and maintains the tension between rebellion and tradition where the former shifts away from the conflict with conformist society to masculine anxiety, represented by middle class, bourgeois and capitalist values, the protagonist’s loss of innocence in the film’s finale, and the act of roguery itself. Meanwhile, Anger’s poetic take on the outlaw biker culture, burgeoning homosexuality, myth and ritual, and violence and death culture approaches the question of roguery by undermining the image of a dominant hypermasculinity with an ironic commentary on sacrilegious and sadomasochistic practices and initiation rites in the gay community. Moreover, both Duel’s demonization of the truck, seen as “an indictment of machines” or the mechanization of life (Spielberg qtd. in Crawley 26), and Scorpio Rising’s (homo)eroticization of a motorcycle posit elements of social critique, disobedience and nonconformity within a cynical and existential framework, hence merging the road movie’s traditional discourse with auteurism and modernism.
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Khamidulin, Artem. "Philosophy of History of N.A. Berdyaev: The Existential End of History or an Apocalipsis Interiorized." Logos et Praxis, no. 1 (December 2020): 35–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2020.1.4.
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The article analyzes the philosophy of history of N. A. Berdyaev. The starting point of the article is the thesis about the relationship between the problematics of time and historical science. It is noted that for Berdyaev, the philosophy of time is one of the main themes of his philosophy of history. Attention is drawn to the feeling of dissatisfaction experienced by Berdyaev with the fluidity and mobility of time. The perception of the philosopher of time as solicitude and, to a large extent, as an evil or a disease that must be overcome is explicated. The reality of the past and future times equal to the present is revealed. The author demonstrates the bliss inspired by actual experience and philosophy of time. Concept of psychological time of Augustine, which justifies the reality of the past, present and future. Teaching about the instantaneity of the present as a point of interaction between time (historical and cosmic) and eternity (celestial time) of Berdyaev is considered. The possibility of experiencing this kind of moment is considered by Berdyaev on the basis of the existential dimension of time that flows in the depths of the human spirit. The author notes the influence of the teaching about the moment by Danish philosopher Sшren Kierkegaard on Berdyaev. A parallel is drawn between teaching on the meaning of the moment by Berdyaev and the concept of "kairos" of German theologian Paul Tillich. The article analyzes eschatology of Berdyaev, which determines his belonging to the traditions of the Russian religious philosophy of history. Two possible ways to overcome time are revealed: in an instant, i.e. repeatedly during human life, and as a result of the total end of history, which, according to Berdyaev, is also to a large extent a phenomenon of the existential sphere of being. According to Berdyaev, this kind of exit from time gives the opportunity to learn the meaning of history, on the one hand, and to free oneself from the enslaving power of time, on the other. It is concluded that Berdyaev understood the end of history existentially as a special spiritual experience that allows us to overcome time and look at history in terms of eternity.
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Willmann-Robleda, Zubia. "Uncertainty, Existential Immobility and Well-Being: Experiences of Women Seeking Asylum in Norway." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 22 (November 18, 2022): 15239. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215239.
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In recent years, European countries have made their asylum systems increasingly stricter. Norway has been no exception, taking additional measures to tighten its asylum system to make it less attractive to seek asylum. How does the asylum procedure and living in asylum centres influence psychosocial well-being and, in turn, the prospects of incorporation into a new society? This article identifies the main challenges that a group of women face while seeking asylum and living in asylum centres in Norway, and it explores the influence that these challenges have on their mental health and well-being. To do this, it draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during approximately one year (2017–2018) with nine women—of different nationalities, ages and backgrounds—living in asylum centres in Norway. The analysis shows five main elements of the Norwegian asylum and reception system that result in the main challenges that the women deal with during their wait in the asylum centres. These elements are the wait and uncertainty around their asylum application coupled with the inability to influence their circumstances, the limitations to engage in meaningful activities as well as the financial and mobility limitations imposed by the Norwegian authorities. The interconnections of these five elements make the women often feel powerless, unable to influence their circumstances and feel stuck in the present, unable to plan their future, thus, experiencing high levels of uncertainty and existential immobility (Hage 2009). This, in turn, leads to frustration, apathy and even depression in the women, which can have a negative effect on their future incorporation into the Norwegian society.
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Giguère, Christian. "A New Hegemonic Hope: Daemonic Agency in the Techno-Thriller Novels of Daniel Suarez." Excursions Journal 4, no. 1 (September 13, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/exs.4.2013.160.
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The article reflects on how contemporary science fiction has initiated a paradigmatic shift in the conceptualization of hegemonic force. Focussing on the figure of the Daemon depicted in two recent techno-thriller novels – Daemon (2009) et Freedom (2010) by American author Daniel Suarez – I show how the pervasive conceptions surrounding the agency of modern technology that we find in the late writings of Martin Heidegger are confronted in twenty-first century narratives that question the way we conceptualize the hegemonic directing of human consciousness by re-examining the figures of Ancient Greco-Roman thought. In the article, I pay particular attention to how what I call the “daemonic mobility” of human thought that we find in the writings of the Neo-Platonist Apuleius is eliminated by Augustine in his devising (in City of God and his other writings) of a permanent locus of existential consciousness, and how this contributes to Heidegger’s understanding of the essence of technology as the “coming to presence of art”. By re-investing the figure of the daemon and the mobility of human thought, Suarez narratives allow us to renew our understanding of the nature of this poeisis.
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Ganguly, Sriti. "Social Construction of a Segregated Urban Space and Its Effects on Education." Contemporary Education Dialogue 15, no. 1 (January 2018): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973184917744972.
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While segregation of Dalit habitations is assumed to be a characteristic primarily of the rural, studies indicate that a similar spatial organisation is reproduced in urban spaces as well where large populations, particularly of poor Dalits, continue to live in segregated settlements. This article draws on an exploratory study conducted in one such low-income Dalit neighbourhood in Delhi and examines the different ways in which a socially marginalised community constructs its socio-spatial environment ( mahaul) and perceives it as shaping their educational outcomes and at the same time being shaped by these outcomes. These constructions not only reveal how disadvantages in the form of existential struggles and low levels of parental education continue to influence the education of the present generation but also provide insights into their ideas about education, change and mobility.
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Yurieva, A. V. "Existential and Architectural Space in the Human World: Gender Aspect." Discourse 8, no. 1 (February 25, 2022): 38–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2022-8-1-38-50.
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Introduction. Space acts as a basic category for many phenomena of the human world. Therefore, a full understanding and analysis of space is possible only when we take into account the presence of a person in it. The purpose of the study is the need to trace the close interrelation of human existence and space, their mutual influence and interdependence. The relevance of the paper is connected with the need to enlarge the category of space in the gender aspect of being. The research novelty consists in the attempt to systematize the accumulated knowledge in the field of the study of the category of space and its gender characteristics.Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of the work are philosophical analysis and cultural analysis. The main approach in the work is interdisciplinary. We used as sources philosophical works related to the problem of space (M. Heidegger, M. Foucault, M. Merleau- Ponty, G. Marcel) and gender (G. Marcuse, M. Foucault, J. Derrida, J. Lacan, Ju. Kristeva), theoretical works on architecture (A. Ikonnikov, A. Nekrasov, K. Nornberg-Schultz, A. Gabrichevsky), as well as some sociological works (P. Bourdieu, M. Vilkovsky, S.O. Khan- Magomedov). Separate works on semiotics (U. Eco) and the issues of metaphorization in culture (O. Freudenberg, E.S. Kubryakova) provided tangible assistance in the preparation of this text.Results and discussion. Being a fundamental ontological category, space is explored in various aspects of humanitarian discourse. The history of culture shows us the mobility of the categories “masculinity” and “femininity”, therefore, a natural question arises about the regular revision of these concepts, that affect the spatial characteristics of being in a specific historical epoch. In the course of the study, the following results were obtained. Based on the analysis of works from the field of anthropology, the study of the body and gender, as well as by identifying the features of the formation of architectural space, we can say that there is a close relationship between space and person. Our research shows that the body is the background of cognition of the world and the individual oneself, therefore it acts as the basis for the formation of a gender metaphor. We have studied the works of architects, and it was concluded that it is impossible to “catch” a specifically feminine or masculine manner in the professional activity of an architect. The reason is that, first of all, the architect is faced with a specific order and certain technical tasks.Conclusion. As a basic characteristic of human existence, space appears in human existence also as a communicative sphere. The primary bodily experience of space, that a human being gets from birth, largely determines the background of cognition of the world. Moreover, the space can carry gender-marked or gender-neutral information, and that gives us a reason to talk about the problem of perception and influence on a person. This can be traced through the metaphor of the architectural language, the ways of space organizing, highlighting with color, shape and construction. Therefore, architecture is distinguished from other types of art by its great dependence on social reality that generates it, since it is a part of the human living environment.
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Hailemariam, Leule M., and Denamo A. Nuramo. "Examining Challenges in Complying with the Principles of Sustainability for the Design of Urban Bridges in Ethiopia." Sustainability 15, no. 2 (January 10, 2023): 1346. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15021346.
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Existential issues obstruct the practice of incorporating sustainability concepts, which is the holistic consideration of urban bridge design factors. Bridge infrastructure is considered a connecting structure for separated highways and railways. The case for ensuring the safe mobility of people and goods across obstacles from one urban corner to another is viewed as an essential component of transportation infrastructure. The design and provision of urban bridges to attain sustainability are associated with tremendous challenges because of a lack of awareness and existential issues and obstacles. The problem in the practice of urban bridge design in Ethiopia is indicated as being “traditional” in delivery, with a lack of accommodation for many essential components of sustainable design. Therefore, a change in thinking is needed to address sustainability. The question of how designers could make design practice sustainable is complicated by multiple challenges. In this research, we used a survey questionnaire to collect the opinions of design professionals. Principal component analysis was employed to explore the major gaps in sustainable urban bridge design practice. A lack of sustainable design impact; sustainability awareness; design codes, practices, and standards that consider sustainability criteria; working guiding protocols and frameworks; and support for sustainability practice were identified as major challenges. Addressing the design problem requires a mechanism to consider the challenges through the defined participation of the designer, client, and public during rule setting, monitoring, and evaluation. Sustainability rating tools must also be deployed to evaluate and quantify the performance of urban bridges.
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Hay, Melissa E., and Denise M. Connelly. "Exploring the Experience of Exercise in Older Adults With Chronic Back Pain." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 28, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 294–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2019-0030.
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Physical inactivity and chronic back pain are prevalent among older adults; however, there are individuals who persist in exercising despite daily pain. This research explored the meaning of exercise in the lives of older adults with chronic back pain. Hermeneutic phenomenology, valuing everyday experiences and highlighting meaning, was employed. Individual in-depth interviews with 10 adults aged 65 years and older gathered rich descriptions of their experiences. Data collection and analyses were iterative processes. The experience of exercise was inextricably connected with older adults’ chronic back pain. The essence of embodied relief from pain offered by exercise was considered through themes reflecting the restoration of existential coherence—enjoying exercise experiences, social engagement, gratitude, learned latitudes, maintaining mobility, and aging. Understanding that older adults can live in their bodies pain-free for some time with regular physical activity may endorse adherence to exercise participation for maintained or improved well-being.
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Miranda, Ruy Antônio Wanderley Rodrigues de, and Hiran Pinel. "THE BLIND STUDENT AND HIS BODY FEELINGS: WAYS OF BEING AND PERCEIVING THE SCHOOL THROUGH TACTILE MAPS DURING PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES." HOLOS 1 (February 15, 2016): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.15628/holos.2016.3738.
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Historically, physical education in Brazil has been coming through a long process for achieving its position in regular schools. Conquering this place is owed to a large set of debates about the most varied pedagogical concepts. This study aims at analyzing the body feelings of a blind student and phenomenologically describing this student’s perceptions of school spaces when influenced by the use of tactile maps. The study adopted a qualitative approach from a theoretical-methodological perspective of the case study with phenomenological-existential inspiration. Based on the dialogues in this study, the authors understood that tactile maps, mediated by the student’s body feelings, represented significant importance to boost memorization of school spaces. This allowed more reliable guidance and safer mobility to that blind student and his own challenges of overcoming physical and attitudinal barriers when he needed to move around daily at school and during physical education classes.
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Bendrat, Anna. "The Impossibility of Fleeing: The Deconstruction of Urban Space in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 11, no. 1 (May 1, 2023): 120–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2023-0007.
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Abstract In The Ontology of the Accident, Catherine Malabou describes the phenomenon of a “form born of the accident, born by accident, a kind of accident,” when due to a “deep cut” in a biography, the individual’s path of life trajectory splits and a “new, unprecedented persona comes to live with the former person” (1–2). This article proposes that Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer-awarded drama Cost of Living can be understood through Malabou’s extensive work on physical trauma and ruptures to the human life cycle as a result of accidents. In Majok’s work, two intertwining impositions of a new form on an old form are explored through the characters of Ani, a Polish immigrant who has become quadriplegic following a tragic car crash, and Jess, a first-generation graduate who struggles both financially and emotionally to find her place in a city hostile to immigrants. The city backdrop of the play, described by Majok as “the urban East of America” (5), acts as perimeter of and boundary to mobility, but also as a conceptual frame. The article uses Malabou’s concept of destructive plasticity to explore how the city with its inbound and outbound mobility becomes a spatial and political frame for articulating the consequences of the lack of exteriority which usually serves as a mental escape and space of existential relief.
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Zowisło, Maria. "ALL-ROUND WANDERINGS. ETHOS AND EPIPHANIES OF THE ABODE." Folia Turistica 49 (December 31, 2018): 313–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.0833.
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Purpose. To expose the ethos and epiphanies of “all-round wanderings”, i.e. deliberate microtravels in dwelling places. This concept is implication of the idea of a place as ethos, i.e. the axiosphere of the abode according to one of fontal senses the ancient Greeks assigned to ethos. The aura of genius loci values uncovers the epiphanic potential of the all-round world. Understood as such, ethos may become a premise to construct the ethics of travel in general, i.e. travel sensu stricto, world travel. A presentation inter alia, of Marc Augé’s concept of “non-places” serves as an introduction to these reflections. According to this concept, there is a decline of traditional places, sedentism, homedwelling and rootedness in the area of so-called “hypermodernity” which is marked by extraordinary human mobility, artifact transfers and diffusion of cultures. The main exit point of the presented article is the polemic thesis to such a view. The author advocates the attitude that the abode not only remains a persistent and indefeasible existential value in modern life but also possesses the wandering potential as a niche of micro-travels. Method. Literary criticism and philosophical analysis of journey essays by selected authors explicated with reference to the fundamental ontology of Martin Heidegger and the eidetic micro- philosophy of Stefan Symotiuk. Understanding the interpretation (hermeneutical) directed towards existential meanings, values and ideas, comparison, synthesis. Findings. Indication of some axiological components of the ethics of travel understood as a preserving of ethos, careful and responsible form of feeling at home en route into the world. Epiphanic experience from being „here and there”, in the area surrounding the abode and within the remote world may be a leeson of authentic and responsible feeling the reality in its details and vast perspective of geo-physical and cultural horizon of life. Research and conclusions limitations. The work is not empirical but analytical and descriptive. Practical implications. Ethics is practical knowledge from sources. Reconsidering the basics of ethics of travel and tourism in the context of dwelling, the world may form an interesting proposal for the ideological and axiological complement of existing ethical codes in tourism. Originality. The concept of non-oppositional understanding of the ideas regarding place and route, dwelling and travel mobility. Type of paper. The article presents theoretical concepts from the field of culture studies and philosophy together with literary criticism of selected travel essays.
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Zowisło, Maria. "THE CONTRIBUTION OF ”FOLIA TURISTICA” IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND POPULARISATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH ON TOURISM." Folia Turistica 50 (September 30, 2019): 21–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4503.
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Purpose. A review and discussion of philosophical works published in the "Folia Turistica" journal and the categorical, thematic and problematic contribution of philosophical reflections contained in them to multidisciplinary research on tourism. Method. Query of 49 issues of "Folia Turistica", selection of articles and reviews on tourism from the perspective of philosophical disciplines or selected philosophical concepts. Analysis, comparison, interpretation oriented towards an existential sense, values and ideas, synthesis. Findings. The review of philosophical publications in the "Folia Turistica" journal has demonstrated the quantitatively and qualitatively significant contribution of philosophical approaches, interpretation and conceptualisation of tourism and the mobility of human travel to tourism research. The specificity of the philosophical problematisation of the phenomenon of travel consists in highlighting and analysing its ideal, essential, existential, epistemic and symbolic qualities and meanings that find its significance in the axiological preferences, in the area of intentionality, attitudes and experiences. Research and conclusions limitations. The work is limited to the description and comparative analysis of articles published on the pages of one journal, its results and generalisations are, therefore, not a universal concept. Practical implications. Promotion of the "Folia Turistica" journal in the Polish and global academic debate on the multi-faceted phenomenon of tourism. Outlining the philosophy of tourism as an innovative and inspirational field of research. Originality. The work is a discussion and interpretation of publications by other authors-philosophers, but it contains elements of independent interpretation and synthetic recapitulation. Type of work. Presentation, description and qualitative interpretation of theoretical analyses of tourism in the field of philosophy and its sub-disciplines, as well as investigations conducted from the perspective of selected philosophical positions (phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, metaphysics of hope, etc.).
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Zowisło, Maria. "The Contribution of ”Folia Turistica” to the Development and Popularisation of Philosophical Research on Tourism." Folia Turistica 50, no. 2 (October 31, 2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.5104.
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Purpose. A review and discussion of philosophical works published in the “Folia Turistica” journal and the categorical, thematic and problematic contribution of philosophical reflections contained in them to multidisciplinary research on tourism. Method. Query of 49 issues of “Folia Turistica”, selection of articles and reviews on tourism from the perspective of philosophical disciplines or selected philosophical concepts. Analysis, comparison, interpretation oriented towards an existential sense, values and ideas, synthesis. Findings. The review of philosophical publications in the “Folia Turistica” journal has demonstrated the quantitatively and qualitatively significant contribution of philosophical approaches, interpretation and conceptualisation of tourism and the mobility of human travel to tourism research. The specificity of the philosophical problematisation of the phenomenon of travel consists in highlighting and analysing its ideal, essential, existential, epistemic and symbolic qualities and meanings that find its significance in the axiological preferences, in the area of intentionality, attitudes and experiences. Research and conclusions limitations. The work is limited to the description and comparative analysis of articles published on the pages of one journal, its results and generalisations are, therefore, not a universal concept. Practical implications. Promotion of the “Folia Turistica” journal in the Polish and global academic debate on the multi-faceted phenomenon of tourism. Outlining the philosophy of tourism as an innovative and inspirational field of research. Originality. The work is a discussion and interpretation of publications of other authors-philosophers, but it contains elements of independent interpretation and synthetic recapitulation. Type of work. Presentation, description and qualitative interpretation of theoretical analyses of tourism in the field of philosophy and its sub-disciplines, as well as investigations conducted from the perspective of selected philosophical positions (phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, metaphysics of hope, etc.).
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Muliarchuk, Y. I. "From Anthropocentrism to Care for Our Common Home: Ethical Response to the Environmental Crisis." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 19 (June 30, 2021): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15802/ampr.v0i19.236023.
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Purpose of the study is explication of ethical and existential conditions of realization of human responsibility for the protection and recreation of the environment on a scale of the common world with all the other living beings. The crisis of the environment is the crisis of human morality. For responsible environmental management, it is necessary to form the ecological consciousness of society and reinterpret the anthropocentrism on the ethical foundations. The theoretical basis of the research is the analysis of ethical and existential dimensions of understanding of the human environment ranging from the sphere of the home and the natural environment to the dimension of the common world of people and all the entities. The work clarifies the genesis of the concept of home from the ancient "oikos", household to the idea of home as a "hub", a base for mental and physical mobility in the contemporary technosphere. Correspondent to the transformation of the living world of mankind is the concept of communication and universal discourse of norms and values of human coexistence of J. Habermas, К.-О. Apel, D. Böhler, W. Kuhlmann, and others. The domain of the ecological consciousness and behaviour also requires motivation at the level of human feelings, beliefs, and convictions, which is represented by the philosophic and religious thought of H. Jonas, O. Leopold, K. M. Меуеr-Abich, A. Naess, the pope Francis, and others. As the result, the study proves the relevance of the concept of care about the common home based on the recognition of the value of the existence of all beings. Originality. The study explicates the genesis and meaning of the ethos of the common home with values of love, care, openness, solidarity, freedom, and responsibility which is proved to be the ethical and existential condition of the solution of the environmental crisis. The traditional anthropocentrism is reinterpreted towards the duty of people to be the centre of the responsibility for the existence of all beings that requires both reason and care. Conclusions. The ethics of care for our common home completes the moral duty of people as providers of the universal discourse who represent the interests of all beings. Concern for the preservation of the human environment and of all creation makes it possible for humanity to realize its universal responsibility in the world. The contemporaneous science and religious thought modify anthropocentrism to the holistic ethical understanding of human’s mission to be responsible for all beings.
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BILDTGÅRD, TORBJÖRN, and PETER ÖBERG. "Time as a structuring condition behind new intimate relationships in later life." Ageing and Society 35, no. 7 (August 29, 2014): 1505–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x14000452.
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ABSTRACTAlthough mobility in and out of intimate relationships has become more common in later life, it has been a neglected issue in social gerontology. In this article, we ask what characterises the formation of new intimate relationships in later life, and whether there are any specific conditions that separate these from relationships in earlier stages of the lifecourse. On the basis of qualitative interviews with 28 persons aged 63–91 who have established a new intimate heterosexual relationship after the age of 60 or who are dating singles, we argue that time constitutes such a central structuring condition. We discuss and theorise two aspects of time – post-(re)productive free time and remaining time – which have an important formative power on new late-in-life relationships. We argue that together these aspects form a central existential structure of ageing in many Western societies – the paradoxical condition of having lots of available free time but little time left in life – which, besides influencing new late-in-life relationships, might also be relevant to other aspects of and choices in later life.
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Atari, Jonathan, and Jackie Feldman. "Hiking the Via Alpina." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 32, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320203.
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Abstract Can long-distance hiking present an alternative to the mechanisation, uncertainty and alienation of contemporary European life? Through interviews with hikers on the Via Alpina in the European Alps, we explore this question, applying Ning Wang's insights on tourism as exemplifying the ambivalence of modernity. Modern technologies increase communications, mobility and efficiency, while enabling leisure space for tourism. Via Alpina hikers do not ‘opt out’ of the social frameworks governed by Logos modernity but undertake solitary walking in search of an intrapersonal existential authenticity by reconnecting with nature, the body and an alternative experience of time. The Logos-directed elements of planning and navigating through digital devices are limited to the essential required to progress on the path and enable them to inhabit smooth time, free of the restrictive syncopations of work schedules and pressing obligations. Thus, hikers harness Logos modernity to enhance the Eros space of sensuality and emotional release. Through knowledge learned along the way, hikers strive for a positive, responsible freedom that broadens their sense of being in the world.
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Nastoiashcha, K. V. "Modern life-design practices: vectors of transformations in the focus of globalization trends." Науково-теоретичний альманах "Грані" 21, no. 11 (December 27, 2018): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/1718149.
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The article is devoted to the life-style designing practices of modern man. Contrary to conventional, traditional, background practices, the practice of living constructions is constructive, transformative practices. They are conditioned by more individual contexts than cultural ones. However, these practices as well as religious practices tend to transcendental, sacred meaning, and therefore often subjective due to the fact that by building a strategy of his life one way or another, the person thus also responds to existential, semiotic issues. Globalization has brought in their adjustments by changing the general vector of these practices, influenced by its main trends – individualization, virtualization, mobility and universalization of culture. And here it is worth mentioning Enghelhard postmaterialization with its emphasis on the quality of life, the protection of the rights and freedoms of the individual, tolerance, the orientation of the modern man to self-development, self-realization, life for life, life for themselves, ecologism, etc. Due to the influence of global trends, modifications of practices, variations of life styles, heterogeneity of culturals capitals of actors are increasing. Globalization and processes associated with it endow sociality with new qualities, new vectors. And this has different consequences. For us, the first changes the practice of life design by expanding the spectrum of choice of activities forms, life styles, life strategies, as well as their intensification and deprivation of social filters in the form of gender, age, social status. Due to the fact that the practices of life-building are becoming more individualistic, subjective, creative, poly-stylistic, often separated from social-traditional life styles, socially necessary scenarios, which, on the one hand, creates a problem and causes social tension, with the second - hides the powerful potential for further transformation of the social system. That is why modern life-building practices are mostly focused on self-employment, not in the context of professional self-realization, in order to generate income, but in the sense of taking on a variety of interesting activities, such as master classes, trainings, trips, clubs of interests, but more so has a leisure and developing character than applied or self-improving. The spread of downshifting practices, the reduction of vertical mobility, the so-called «slow life» and the popularization of practices of «awareness» is due not only to the antithesis of redundancy of alternatives to choice, but also to other factors, in particular the deepening of existential issues for both modern humans and for humanitarian thinking in general, that seems to already have a protective trend – the antithesis to technologization of science and relevant methodologies.
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Putra, Allen Pranata, and Erwan Aristyanto. "Analysis of Existential Feminism Struggle of Women Online Drivers During the Covid-19 Pandemic." HUMANISMA : Journal of Gender Studies 5, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.30983/humanisme.v5i2.4928.
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<p align="center"> </p><p><em>This article discusses the women's movement to sustain its existentialism in the COVID-19 pandemic by moving and taking high risks to become female online drivers. Based on research conducted by Simone De Beauvoir, who analyzed the film "The Second Sex" using existentialist feminism theory, women are often used as objects and men as subjects because of the man's masculinity and biological circumstances that are considered to support inter-subjective in men. The contribution of this research is the use of existentialist feminism as an anti-thesis of male masculinity by applying it to the empirical conditions of women. The study used feminist ethnographic methods that combine ethnographic interviews and participant observations. The focus of this study lies on the class struggle of women to maintain their existentialism despite having to take high job risks and the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus due to high mobility. This research data analysis technique uses data reduction, data display, and data triangulation. The results showed that women worked as online drivers to become subjects for themselves and act as breadwinners and housewives in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Women's struggles in the COVID-19 pandemic undermine the social stigma of society that often makes them objects.</em></p><p>Artikel ini membahas tentang gerakan kaum perempuan untuk mempertahankan eksistensialnya di masa pandemi COVID-19 dengan bergerak dan mengambil resiko tinggi untuk menjadi driver online perempuan. Berdasarkan penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Simone De Beauvoir yang menganalisis film <em>“The Second Sex”</em>menggunakan teori feminisme eksistensialis, perempuan seringkali dijadikan sebagai objek dan laki-laki sebagai subjek karena maskunilitas dari seorang laki-laki dan keadaan biologis yang dianggap mendukung adanya inter-sebujektif pada laki-laki. Kontribusi penelitian ini adalah penggunakan feminisme eksistensialis sebagai <em>anti-thesis</em> maskulinitas laki-laki dengan menerapkan pada kondisi empiris perempuan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode etnografi feminis yaitu menggabungkan <em>ethnographic interview </em>dan <em>participant observations. </em>Fokus penelitian ini terletak pada <em>class struggle</em><em> </em>kaum perempuan untuk mempertahankan eksistensialnya meskipun harus mengambil resiko pekerjaan yang tinggi dan resiko tertular virus COVID-19 akibat mobilitas yang tinggi. Teknik analisis data penelitian ini menggunakan reduksi data, <em>display </em>data, verifikasi data dan triangulasi data. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa kaum perempuan bekerja sebagai <em>driver online</em><em> </em>untuk menjadi subjek bagi dirinya sendiri sekaligus berperan sebagai pencari nafkah dan ibu rumah tangga dalam kondisi pandemi COVID-19. Perjuangan perempuan dalam pandemi COVID-19 meruntuhkan stigma sosial masyarakat yang seringkali menjadikan mereka sebagai objek.</p>
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Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan, and Sue Mawson. "Homes of Stroke Survivors Are a Challenging Environment for Rehabilitation Technologies." JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies 8, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): e12029. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12029.
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The design of digital technologies that support poststroke rehabilitation at home has been a topic of research for some time. If technology is to have a large-scale impact on rehabilitation practice, then we need to understand how to create technologies that are appropriate for the domestic environment and for the needs and motivations of those living there. This paper reflects on the research conducted in the Motivating Mobility project (UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council: EP/F00382X/1). We conducted sensitizing studies to develop a foundational understanding of the homes of stroke survivors, participatory design sessions situated in the home, and experimental deployments of prototype rehabilitation technologies. We identified four challenges specific to the homes of stroke survivors and relevant to the deployment of rehabilitation technologies: identifying a location for rehabilitation technology, negotiating social relationships present in the home, avoiding additional stress in households at risk of existential stress, and providing for patient safety. We conclude that skilled workers may be needed to enable successful technology deployment, systematizing the mapping of the home may be beneficial, and education is a viable focus for rehabilitation technologies.
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Christou, Georgina. "Agitative pauses, intentional moorings: Stasis as resistance." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 4 (July 7, 2021): 685–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02637758211027577.
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Stasis has reemerged in recent accounts of resistance. In this paper that draws from ethnographic research with a youth antiauthoritarian community in Cyprus and their long-term occupation of a city square, I provide a broader theorization of this multi-semantic concept that has hitherto been missing from accounts on stasis commonly found in literature on the squares movement(s). I argue that stasis constitutes a key form of resistance to modern forms of power by pausing the circulation of capitalism and scheduled time and subverting the production of subjectivities that support such circulation. By drawing on Nicole Loraux’s interpretation of stasis as “movement at rest,” I overturn the negative connotations often associated with stasis as (unwanted) immobility by showing how stasis can be a desired political action that includes forms of mobility and circulation within it. Developing this theorization further, I analyze stasis as a threshold to critical political subjectivization, as productive of ipostasis (existence) that enables the subjects under stasis to appear in political terms and exercise their right to politics. I thus contribute to recent literature on the political potential and existential necessity of occupying practices that allow for a politicizing of the urban everyday.
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Mtotywa, Matolwandile, Smilo P. Manqele, Thulani J. Manqele, Mankodi Moitse, Modjadji A. Seabi, and Nontando Mthethwa. "The perceived societal impact of the fourth industrial revolution in South Africa." International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478) 11, no. 9 (December 25, 2022): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.20525/ijrbs.v11i9.2139.
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Societal impact reflects the changes that transform the society which affect the well-being of individuals and their families. This study aimed to understand the perceived societal impact of the fourth industrial revolution in South Africa. The investigation used an exploratory mixed research method, with six experts in round table discussion (focus group) and a survey questionnaire with 1,1105 responses. The findings of the study confirm the existential relational proposition that the fourth industrial revolution has a societal impact in South Africa. It is influenced by socio-demographic (province, age) and socio-economic (education and employment) factors. The findings also revealed that the perceived highest impact of fourth industrial revolution’s will be on improved re-industrialisation (RII = 68.6 percent), increase in work mobility (RII = 68.1 percent) and improved service delivery (65.1 percent). Regarding benefits, if correctly leveraged, these new disruptive technologies create a significant opportunity to leapfrog the advancements made in the previous industrial revolutions and help develop society. However, this might widen socio-economic gaps further, especially if there is no action to change the status quo of the highly unequal society in South Africa.
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Kazakova, L. P., V. A. Koshel, and E. V. Chankova. "Humanities students’ views on the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of post-materialistic values." Professional education in the modern world 11, no. 3 (October 15, 2021): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/2224-1841-2021-3-05.
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The transition of universities to distance learning during the CODID-19 pandemic caused discussions about the development of the educational system in the context of digitalization of society. The question arose about the readiness of universities, students, and teachers to use digital educational tools. Studies of students’ ideas about distance learning have revealed its difficulties, positive and negative effects. The analysis of the survey data made it possible to reveal the problems of forming the basic competencies of students taking into account the requirements of the digital economy. The authors conclude, based on the analysis of the results of a survey of humanities students, that the previously discovered difficulties of distance learning persist during the «second wave» of the pandemic. They reveal the relevance of survival values for students (according to R. Inglehart and K. Welzel). The authors suggest that the decline in significance of self-expression values and the decrease in the sense of existential security may be a consequence of the pandemic crisis. The possibilities of digitalization of education to strengthen the resources of the subject and increase its mobility have come into conflict with the return of students to settledness when introducing distance learning to implement epidemic restrictions.
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Metzger, Gaudenz Urs. "Confronting Loneliness with Devotion." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 12, no. 2-3 (November 30, 2023): 340–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10085.
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Abstract Today, the practice of religion is strongly influenced by digitalisation, in not only everyday life but also liminal situations such as dying. Apps, social networks, and virtual church services offer believers opportunities for participation when their mobility is impaired due to ageing and severe illness. This short-term ethnography explores Bible (e-)reading and (religious) encounters in a palliative care unit of a Swiss hospital, drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentary photography. Using the case of a devout Protestant, who was chosen as a case study from a sample of 12 terminally ill patients, I will investigate 1) the existential issues involved in the dying process, 2) how Bible (e-)reading alleviates these issues, and 3) the networks and encounters with which the practice is connected. The results show that anticipation of death in conjunction with personality and social issues bestow a complex emotional tone on the Christian’s end-of-life journey. Bible reading, performed both through mobile mediation and face-to-face with companions, is an avenue through which to gain strength and hope in this difficult situation. Another important finding is that the devotional practice involves an exchange of gifts, which transposes the practice into a moral economy of compassion and care.
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Landwehr, Margarete J. "Empathy and Community in the Age of Refugees: Petzold’s Radical Translation of Seghers’ Transit." Arts 9, no. 4 (November 19, 2020): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9040118.
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Petzold’s film constitutes a radical translation of Seghers’ novel by transforming her tale of political refugees in Vichy France into an existential allegory depicting the fluidity of identities and relationships in a globalized world. The transitory existence of Petzold’s war refugee serves as an extreme example of the instability of modern life, which allows spectators to identify and empathize with migrants’ unpredictable journeys. Moreover, the director conveys the universality of his protagonist’s story by portraying him as an Everyman bereft of distinctive personality traits, by intermingling the past (Seghers’ plot) with the present (contemporary settings), and by situating his experiences in non-descript, liminal “non-places.” Both thematically and aesthetically, narrative is portrayed as establishing a community in an unstable contemporary world. Like the anti-hero of many modern Bildungsromane, Petzold’s protagonist fails to develop a stable identity and enduring friendships that anchor him in a community, but he creates his own family of listeners through his storytelling. In a similar vein, the film’s voice-over/narrator that bridges the fictional world with that of the audience underscores the film’s (and the novel’s) central theme: in a world of rapid change and mobility, the individual who may not be able to establish a stable identity or relationships, can create, as a narrator, a community of empathic listeners.
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Katernyi, I. V. "Reconceptualization of status liminality in the sociological theory." RUDN Journal of Sociology 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 226–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2020-20-2-226-238.
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This article aims at filling some theoretical gaps in understanding status liminality as a transition state in the processes of social mobility. Based on the ideas of A. van Gennep and V. Turner on the nature of rites de passage, the author reconstructs the types of status liminality - ascending, descending, recursive, permanent liminality and liminoidity. The article identified some features that distinguish liminality from marginality and deviance: transitivity - the altered preliminal position and identity combined with the incomplete metamorphosis; temporality - normative temporal and (possibly) spatial boundaries of the transition period; consequentiality - social significance of the postliminal status transformation for both its bearer and society or social groups involved. The phenomenon of communitas discovered by Turner is of particular importance for understanding the state of liminality for it represents a tendency of liminal people to depart from the mundane domain into the anti- and non-structural social-psychological state in which social ties are vividly affective and social experience has a profound existential effect. For each type of status liminality, the author provides examples from the traditional and modern societies using research in sociology of death, medical sociology, criminal sociology, sociology of tourism, social psychology, etc. To conclude, the author considers such phenomena as precariat, morphological freedom and edgework in the liminality perspective. Thus, the heuristic potential of the concept liminality can make a significant contribution to the study of social changes and understanding mechanisms of reproducing social order at the individual, group and societal levels.
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Vuilleumier, Louis. "Lost in Transition to Adulthood? Illegalized Male Migrants Navigating Temporal Dispossession." Social Sciences 10, no. 7 (July 1, 2021): 250. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070250.
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The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ has been portrayed as an invasion that threatens Europe and calls its sovereignty into question, prompting exceptional emergency responses. These (re)bordering processes highlight Europe’s uneven, discriminatory, and racialized filtering system. European nation-states sort desired and undesired migrants through sets of precarious administrative statuses that translate into limited access to resources, most notably the formal labor market. European border regimes impose specific spatialities and temporalities on migrants through long-term physical and social deceleration: territorial assignation, enduring unemployment, forced idleness, and protracted periods of waiting. These temporal ruptures interrupt individual biographies and hinder the hopes of a young population seeking a better future. However, some find ways to navigate the socio-spatial deceleration they face. In this paper, I explore how European border regimes affect the trajectory of Sub-Saharan male migrants and how they appropriate such temporal dispossession. I use biographical analysis and participant observations of a squatting organization in a Swiss city to scrutinize the everyday practices and aspirations of a population made illegal and, as a result, denied access to social markers of maturity. I investigate how time intersects with physical, social, and existential im/mobility. I argue that, in navigating spaces of asymmetrical power relationships, impoverished migrants find autonomy in illegality. Neither victimizing nor romanticizing illegalized migrants’ trajectories, this paper offers an ethnographic analysis of the capacities of an impoverished population to challenge European border regimes.
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KHODUS, Olena. "«LIFE IN-BETWEEN»: SPACE, TOPOS, SELF IN THE CONTEXT OF POLIMEDIA REALITY." Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education Herald. Series: Philosophy, Pedagogy, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023) (September 5, 2023): 6–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.54891/2786-7005-2023-1-1.
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The theoretical analysis of the article focuses on understanding the topology of modern socio-cultural space, the peculiarities of which (re)configuration can be explained by the dynamic construction of the «in-between». The configurative format «in-between» means the ontological quality that most vividly embodies the experience of hybrid existence in the modern «multimedia environment», the zone of dynamic multiplicity of real and virtual, public and private, the main feature of which is mobility. It is shown that under the conditions of the new mobility, life becomes more variable, fluid, multilayered, that is, it corresponds to a reality that cannot be reduced to an either/or alternative. Therefore, the heuristic possibility of essentialist binary dichotomies, which excessively narrow the pragmatics of modern human existence, is questioned. It is noted that in the context of the social and existential challenges of the digital culture, the configuration of human life-space is no longer contained within modern ontological binary oppositions such as public/private, outside/inside, closedness/openness, stable/turbulent, own/other. It is proved that, in contrast to the binary world order of the «first»/organized modernity, the topological position of the «in-between» is made possible by a completely different logic, the fundamental points of which are the processes of constant transfers of public/private, performativity and situationality, procedurality, (de)localization, flexibility, transparency, topological multiplicity. It is argue changes in the nature of subjectivity (here: the ability to act). In particular, under the conditions of a multimedia, networked reality, the ability to «live in motion», i.e., to be mobile, tuned to constant movement, the endless search for new places, relationships, impressions, identities, locations, are the sought-after qualities of human subjectivity. It has been established that together with new opportunities, digital network structures also dictate a new life imperative, which enables appropriate behavioral practices marked by a frank orientation towards the public performance of private roles: any (in)action must be recorded in the media. The result of deprivation processes is the transformation of the social order of society into an intimate space of collective life (privatization). rresponding
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Parviz, Ramzi, Ruslan Solomianyi, and Yurii Zasieda. "COMPLEX TREATMENT OF NON-OBSTRUCTIVE FORMS OF MALE INFERTILITY WITH PLATELET-RICH PLASMA, LOWINTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND AND HUMAN PLACENTA HYDROLYSATE." Men’s Health, Gender and Psychosomatic Medicine, no. 1-2 (December 30, 2020): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37321/ujmh.2020.1-2-09.
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Relevance. Male infertility is basic problem for several medical specialties from genetics and endocrinology to urology and andrology. It’s impact on personal quality of life, social functioning and existential aspects of well being and in larger scale on social health is dramatic.Aim – to develop and test complex treatment model of non-obstructive forms of male infertility with combination of platelet-rich plasma, low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and human placenta hydrolysate.Methods. The study was based on prospective parallel group design. The study contingent consisted of 46 patients of the “Men’s Health Clinic” Kiev, Ukraine, undergoing outpatient treatment for non-obstructive fertility disorders.Following methods were used: clinical (a standard set of clinical examinations to establish a preliminary diagnosis), laboratory (bacterial seeding of ejaculate for the presence of pathogenic microflora, extended spermogram); serological (evaluations of serum testosterone and luteinizing hormone levels instrumental (sonographic examination of the prostate gland in order exclude prostatic inflammation); statistical.Results. After the initial complex of examinations study contingent underwent developed treatment protocol: 6 sessions (1 session per week) of local injections of 1ml HPH «Laennec»; 6 sessions of local injections of 1ml PRP (1 session per week); 6 sessions of LIPUS (1 session per week, following HPH and PRP injections); metabolic therapy: «SaluFertil Forte» and «SALUTRIB» 6 weeks daily.Conclusion. Complex treatment model of non-obstructive forms of male infertility with combination of platelet-rich plasma, low-intensity pulsed ultrasound and human placenta hydrolysate and metabolic therapy with «SaluFertil Forte» and «SALUTRIB», showed significant efficacy in 6-week therapeutic period. Therapeutic effect was found in sperm count in 1 ml (<0,01), sperm aggregation (<0,01) and sperm mobility (group A + B) (<0,01).