Resumo Neste artigo, que tem como foco uma análise da representação do consumo na periferia no livro de contos No país da infância (2019), da escritora brasileira Cris Lira, argumento que, por meio ...de uma perspectiva cotidiana, no sentido lefebvriano, que vê o cotidiano como algo “humilde e sólido”, as histórias de Lira refletem e ao mesmo tempo constroem experiências e narrativas afetivas e críticas do que significa/significou crescer na periferia brasileira nos anos 1980 e 90 diante das pressões da sociedade de consumo. Demonstro que Lira (2019), ao imaginar os usos de várias mercadorias, identifica o que Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) chama de “crises”, ou seja, pequenas interrupções do cotidiano que a experiência estética com bens de consumo pode produzir. Nessa perspectiva, No país da infância tece uma crítica esperançosa do cotidiano da sociedade de consumo, alinhando-se a autores como Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) em sua representação da periferia, conforme demonstro em outro trabalho (Bezerra, 2022).
Abstract In this article, which focuses on the representation of consumption in the periphery in the short story collection No país da infância (2019), by Brazilian writer Cris Lira, I argue that, through an approach to everyday life, in Henri Lefébrvre's sense, which frames the everyday as that which is “humble and solid,” Lira's stories reflect and at the same time create affective and critical experiences of what it means to grow up in the Brazilian periphery in the 1980s and 1990s in the face of the pressures of consumer culture. I argue that Lira, by imagining the uses of several commodities, identifies what Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) calls “crises,” that is, small interruptions of everyday life (302) that the aesthetic experience with commodities is capable of producing. From this perspective, No país da infância makes a hopeful critique of consumer society, aligning itself with writers such as Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) in their representation of the periphery, as I argue elsewhere (Bezerra, 2022).
Resumen En este artículo, el cual hace un análisis de la representación del consumo en la periferia en el libro de cuentos No país da infância (2019), de la escritora brasileña Cris Lira, argumento que, por medio de una perspectiva cotidiana, en el sentido lefebvriano, que define lo cotidiano como algo “humilde y sólido”, las historias de Lira reflejan e al mismo tiempo construyen experiencias y narrativas afectivas y críticas de lo que significa/significó crecer en la periferia brasileña en los años 1980 y 1990 frente a las presiones de la sociedad de consumo. Argumento que Lira, al imaginar los usos de varias marcancías, identifica lo que Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2006) llama de “crisis”, o sea, pequeñas interrupciones de lo cotidiano (302) que la experiencia estética con productos puede producir. A partir de esa perspectiva, No país da infância teje una crítica de esperanza de lo cotidiano en la sociedad de consumo, semejante a autores como Marcus Vinícius Faustini (2009) en su representación de la periferia, conforme argumento en otro trabajo (Bezerra, 2022).
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread across the United States, resulting in significant changes in almost all aspects daily life. These changes place parents at increased risk for parental ...burnout. Parental burnout is a chronic condition resulting from high levels of parenting-related stress due to a mismatch between the demands of parenting and the resources available for parents to meet those demands. Research on parental burnout has suggested that parents who experience burnout are more likely to engage in child abuse and neglect, placing children at risk for detrimental short- and long-term outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to review the concept of parental burnout, discuss parental burnout in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and focus specifically on the effects of child maltreatment. Implications for practitioners will be discussed.
This paper advances ideas about relational geographies to explore ‘everyday austerity’. Whilst geographers have analysed the causes and aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the focus largely ...remains on problems within economic systems and urban governance, rather than austerity as lived experience. I outline how focusing on everyday relationships and relational spaces – family, friendship and intimate relations – provides exciting opportunities for thinking geographically about everyday life in austerity. Using examples of care and support and mundane mobilities, I demonstrate how a relational approach extends current understandings of how austerity cuts through, across and between spaces.
It is commonly assumed that a person’s emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption ...influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion categories used by consumers of emotion research: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The available scientific evidence suggests that people do sometimes smile when happy, frown when sad, scowl when angry, and so on, as proposed by the common view, more than what would be expected by chance. Yet how people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation. Furthermore, similar configurations of facial movements variably express instances of more than one emotion category. In fact, a given configuration of facial movements, such as a scowl, often communicates something other than an emotional state. Scientists agree that facial movements convey a range of information and are important for social communication, emotional or otherwise. But our review suggests an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another. We make specific research recommendations that will yield a more valid picture of how people move their faces to express emotions and how they infer emotional meaning from facial movements in situations of everyday life. This research is crucial to provide consumers of emotion research with the translational information they require.
This article argues that studying everyday life is valuable because it makes sociologists attend to the routine and temporal aspects of social life. The 'everyday' brings the seasons of society into ...view. It also brings to the fore how liveable lives are made in the midst of the social damage produced by widening class divisions. Drawing lessons from Erving Goffman's sociology, the article argues that attending to everyday life necessitates developing an eye for detail and attentiveness to the seemingly unimportant. It is also argued that central to the study of everyday life is the relationship between history, culture, class and biography. These arguments are illustrated through a discussion of a working-class estate in Croydon, south London where residents light up their home at Christmas in 'chromatic surplus'.
Although the capacity to mourn is ubiquitously acknowledged as critical for individual psychic functioning, the impact of this capacity on a collective social level has been examined to a very ...limited extent in the psychoanalytic literature to date. The two papers that take up this this topic thus bring various critical and complex issues to our attention. After reviewing and commenting on these papers, I discuss how these issues are particularly relevant today to society in general and psychoanalysis in particular. I believe that the ability to mourn is under siege in the Western world at present, with respect to both “macro” mourning that is, mourning for significant losses such as a beloved person, ideal, or country, and “micro” mourning or mourning for losses inherently and unavoidably implicated in choices we make in everyday life. These mourning processes are undermined by the impact of complex socioeconomic parameters on psychic functioning, as evidenced by various internal problems and symptomatology characteristic of our times. In turn, difficulties in mourning contribute to social problems including social injustice, wars and the climate crisis. As psychoanalysts we are called upon to address these issues in our clinical work as well as in our global community.
Economic inequality is one of the main issues of modern societies, and one of the ways to reduce it is through decreasing inequality tolerance and increasing support for economic redistribution. ...However, there are no consistent results in previous research about the relationship between perceived economic inequality, tolerance to inequality, and support for redistributive policies. In this paper, we argue that rather than measuring the effects of abstract perceived inequality (e.g., measured at the country level), it is important to consider Perceived Economic Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) and close relationships. In one correlational study (N = 207) we found that a PEIEL scale predicts intolerance toward inequality controlling for the common measures of perceived inequality. Moreover, we developed a novel manipulation which was validated in a pilot study (N = 293), and in four experimental studies (N = 261; N = 373; N = 289, N = 289), we found that PEIEL decreases tolerance to inequality. Furthermore, we found a preliminary indirect effect of PEIEL on attitudes toward redistribution through intolerance to inequality. A mini meta-analysis using political ideology, social class, sex, and age as covariates, corroborated these results. All studies were preregistered. In short, these results highlight the importance of perceived inequality in everyday life as an additional tool when considering the psychosocial effects of economic inequality.
•A manipulation of perceived economic inequality in everyday life is presented.•Perceived Inequality in Everyday Life (PEIEL) increases intolerance to inequality.•PEIEL predicts intolerance controlling for other measures of perceived inequality.•A mini meta-analysis corroborated these results.•PEIEL may be a useful tool to understand the consequences of economic inequality.
Becoming malleable Friedner, Michele; Wolf‐Meyer, Matthew
American ethnologist,
02/2024, Letnik:
51, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Abstract
Drawing on anthropological scholarship on the senses, embodiment, and communication, we argue for a capacity‐based anthropology that takes account of human variation in all domains of ...everyday life, including “the field” and “the anthropology seminar.” Such an approach allows us to consider the ways that humans are differently malleable, and we stress that enacting malleability, when possible, is a kind of ethical engagement. Attending to malleability—and its limits—allows us to imagine and produce a more sensitive anthropology. A more sensitive anthropology would expand the discipline's understanding of who counts as an anthropologist and what counts as anthropological praxis.
The emphasis on social phenomena that defines the Everyday Information Practice (EIP) domain sets it apart from information behavior fields. This study highlights the importance of researching ...everyday information practices in contemporary social-cultural contexts by using Savolainen's EIP-related models as examples. A synopsis of the characteristics of earlier studies in terms of research contexts, participants, research questions, and research methods was created by evaluating the pertinent studies using EIP-related models. A trend of social responsibility-focused EIP research was presented, along with recommendations for future research in the field of EIP from the perspectives of participants and research methods.
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