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Health is a key dimension of contemporary food consumption. This preoccupation is beginning to overlap with ecological concerns, as healthy diets are said to largely correspond with sustainable diets. Nevertheless, this link remains rather vague and under-researched in practice. This article adopts an 'embodied materialist' perspective to inquire into how the health–sustainability nexus is articulated in the everyday labour of people engaging in alternative food consumption. The interviews, carried out in Milan (Italy), suggest that focusing on health might not always be straightforwardly effective for the promotion of deep and systemic changes. The analysis finds three ways in which the health–sustainability nexus is articulated in daily life. If framed within the dominant articulation of labour and value, health is an individualistic preoccupation with limited potential for socio-ecological transformation. When food labour is guided by the very different logic of care, which emphasises relationality, fragility and the search for a shared wellbeing, more ecological practices emerge, but with some ambivalent implications especially with regards to social justice. Collective engagement in alternative food networks politicises the body more deeply, making it a concrete site of struggle against unsustainable food regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the experiences of three Bangladeshi migrant workers who are the sole inhabitants and custodians of a former Maldivian island resort. We show how they currently remain in a state of indeterminate standby as the future of the resort remains uncertain, put in this state of limbo by the capacity of the resort's owners to exploit their disposability and manipulability. We investigate the rich material and sensory qualities of the island, and investigate the everyday practices that characterize how the men live and work there. First, we illustrate how the island remains haunted by the workers and tourists who formerly inhabited this space, since much of the resort infrastructure remains. Second, we explore how the buildings and things on the island are unevenly intact, in a state of partial ruination. Third, we discuss how the inexpert daily maintenance practices undertaken by the three men focus on certain areas but neglect others. Finally, we emphasize that despite their uncertain future, the men endeavour to create a stable, convivial and pleasurable island home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cases of predatory environmental exploitation and social calamity are frequent in everyday life. Scholars from different fields clarify the urgency of effective actions to minimize these situations in defense of global existence, which has become even more imperative after the emergence of the pandemic. With this in mind, the present study aims to analyze, from the perspective of social psychology and the philosophy of difference, experiences of affective sustainability in the daily lives of cities. Qualitative methodology was used with the participation of 15 people who were willing to describe their sustainability experiences. As a result, the experiences reported show that caring for oneself, for others, and for nature requires greater attention, especially given the accelerated pace of production that distances the population from caring for social relations, nature, and the common good. With this, it is clear that everyday experiences of individualism, prioritization of accumulation and consumption, as well as competitiveness are some of the factors that contribute to the spread of social and environmental devastation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Porn triumphs and proliferates everywhere, from network meshes to urban contexts, from media screens to the interstices of daily life; it invades the webs of public life, overheats electronic connections and impregnates contemporary sociality with moods. It becomes an atmosphere. What are the origins, the genealogy, and the actuality of this convulsed scene from the United States? In a transdisciplinary perspective embracing sociology of the imaginary, communication sciences, porn, and gender studies, the article analyzes and interprets the passage between pornography and pornoculture as a fundamental change for our societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

À partir de 2003, l’Irak commence à se couvrir de checkpoints. Ces checkpoints sont des instruments de territorialisation pour l’ensemble des pouvoirs en conflit. Cette multitude de frontières internes constitue autant de points de passage obligés pour les habitants qui encombrent la vie quotidienne et soumettent tout déplacement à un décodage en règle. Supposés sécuriser les espaces, les checkpoints et leurs alentours deviennent des zones de danger où s’expriment toutes les fureurs antagonistes. La population, suivant les cas, y subit toutes sortes d’assignations, comme les violences afférentes. L’article explore l’écart qui se creuse entre la fonction officiellement remplie par le checkpoint et son fonctionnement concret. Il rend sensible le jeu des stratégies indiciaires sur la base desquelles repose à la fois les contrôles et l’effort que déploient les individus pour tenter de les déjouer. Il décrit le poids de ce dispositif sur la vie et les projets de chacun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, the authors use data from qualitative research to examine the phenomenon of pandemic rage in everyday life. They define pandemic rage as an emotional reaction to feelings of anger, frustration and helplessness resulting from the conviction that fundamental rules have been violated during a pandemic, which is perceived (by the person experiencing pandemic rage) as provocation, impertinence, insolence, and crossing boundaries. The article takes a closer look at the relations between space, normative order, behaviours and pandemic rage. It first introduces the linkages between the occurrence of pandemic rage and the experience of spatial compression in the private and public spheres, situations of feeling 'condensed' and 'condemned' in the presence of others, and proxemic disturbances. Then the article discusses endogenous and exogenous catalysts of pandemic rage. The last section provides a summary with interpretations and conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Public' toilets are crucial to our social and geographical landscape, and access to them has become prominent in recent public and academic debates. Drawing on a qualitative study based on 25 daily diaries and follow-up interviews with people living with the common health condition irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this paper explores toilet access through the lens of mundane mobilities. Planning journeys, mapping toilets, a reliance on commercial toilets and intersections with travel were key themes emerging from the study. Through the lens of IBS, we see how navigations of seemingly everyday mobilities are problematised through the bodily precarity of unpredictable symptoms intertwined with the availability, comfort and knowledge of 'public' toilets. This paper works at demonstrating the interdependency between everyday mobilities and toilet access. IBS offers a particularly useful insight in which the common but often hidden nature of the condition demonstrates the multiplicities of 'public' toilet access and how the unpredictability of access meets with, and is embodied, by those with the condition. This paper contributes to interdisciplinary toilet scholarship by engaging in mundane and embodied geographies and centralises toilets as a site of connection for those studying everyday mobilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the impact of teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic on families residing in the North Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal. The study identified that the option for teleworking is not unanimous among the interviewees and highlighted challenges related to time management, work-life balance, perception of productivity, and improvement of mental and environmental health. The increase in teleworking during the pandemic raises concerns about labor rights and conditions, but also offers the possibility of organizing daily life in a more sustainable and closer-to-home manner. The study analyzes the impact of teleworking on daily commutes of families in Portugal and highlights concerns about workers' mental health and the challenges of balancing professional and personal life. Further studies are needed to assess the preference for the hybrid work model and analyze the impacts on families and work and family planning policies. [Extracted from the article]

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Humour has a well-established role in the public life of politics; however, its use within families affected by macro-level political events remains understudied. This article explores how families employed humour to navigate family troubles introduced by Brexit, the United Kingdom’s tumultuous exit from the European Union. Through an ethnographic study, we demonstrate how extraordinary political times test the positive relational potentials of humour. Families reframed situations through ‘playfulness’, exercised gentle and well-timed teasing, and digitally shared Brexit-related comedy objects to alleviate stresses and anxieties. However, the intensity of the Brexit drama rendered some family humour practices futile, and in particular circumstances, humour became an additional burden. By examining the interrelations of political events, everyday family practices and humour, this article demonstrates the integral role of humour in the reconstitution of familial relationships, the importance of craft, and the significance of relational and situational contexts to the successful deployment of humour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article argues for the inclusion of aircraft noise in considerations of everyday rhythms. Informed by Lefebvre's rhythmanalytical thinking, in conjunction with sound studies and affect theory, the article expands the literature concerned with the conflicts and confluences of rhythms in everyday life. Building on in-depth interviews, it presents first-hand accounts of the experience of aircraft noise from the perspective of anti-aircraft noise activists in New York City, to demonstrate how rhythms of aircraft noise may come to set the pace of everyday life and how interviewees negotiate their imposition. It particularly attends to the embodied experience of aircraft noise and its effects on sleep. Through combining conceptual thinking and empirical findings, the article discovers aircraft noise as an instance of power, which may order and disorder rhythms and everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article vise à montrer l’importante de la sociologie de la vie quotidienne dans la société, à partir du contexte, principalement caractérisé par des mécanismes culturels et symboliques. La vie quotidienne est un laboratoire d’interactions sociales ; c’est un espace chargé de valeurs et de changements sociétaux qui sont liés au système des transformations historiques et culturelles. En tant que structure de production de la société, nous pouvons dire que ces dernières nous permettent d’étudier l’intertextualité sociale, qui donne un sens à la vie. Cette contribution révèle certains aspects de la vie quotidienne d’un point de vue sociologique et souligne le rôle des approches socio- .anthropologiques dans les études de la symbolique [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dona YáYá, ou Sebastiana de Mello Freire (1887 - 1961) conheceu a riqueza material ao nascer na alta burguesia do Estado de São Paulo e posteriormente a pobreza moral quando confinada em casa por 36 anos (1925-1961), diagnosticada como 'psicose esquizofrênica', como relatava a linguagem médica da época. A casa onde ficou confinada na cidade de São Paulo, então longe do centro, em uma chácara de 2600 m², foi se transformando com as mudanças de saúde. Este artigo apresenta um panorama do personagem no contexto da época que viveu para, em seguida, fazer uma análise do peso que um cotidiano trágico traz para todos, mas com mais intensidade e força para uma mulher confinada e não mais dona de seu tempo presente e futuro. Seus problemas e dificuldades mentais são interpretados moralmente, assim como suas escolhas, por exemplo, o fato de não aceitar os pretendentes ao casamento foi considerado pelos médicos como um transtorno mental. O diagnóstico masculino contrastou com o cuidado diário das amigas, que dedicaram a vida a garantir um pouco do bem-estar. Aplicando um estilo de ensaio, pretendemos levar o leitor ao tempo da personagem e dar a conhecer os valores de uma sociedade industrial que se formava em São Paulo e o papel feminino burguês em construção.

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Physical activity, as a health determinant related to habits and lifestyles, is an important element in influencing the health status of populations. Thus, it is relevant to observe how it is included in family daily life and how families relate to places of practice. The literature shows the relationship between physical activity and health, socioeconomic conditions, space, and time. The objective of this study is to identify which factors condition the practice of physical activity, trying to verify if proximity to public spaces, equipment and sports and leisure services accessible by pedestrian mode can stimulate the integration of this practice within the framework of daily family activities. This analysis has as a case study the parish of Rio de Mouro (Sintra), in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal. The methods included the collection of information on public spaces and recreational and leisure activities and a household survey to verify the residents' practices linking them with socioeconomic conditions and proximity to services. The results show that the population practicing physical activity constitutes a minority, a situation that arises from several factors: socioeconomic factors, the extent of commuting and working hours and the composition of the household, with evidence for differences between households with or without minors. The most controversial result is the verification that the use of a car in daily life is fundamental for the practice of physical activity since it allows the realization of more activities by families in the same available time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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تهدف الورقة البحثية إلى تقديم مقاربة سوسيو-لسانية لدراسة خطاب الحياة اليومية الروتينية الرتيبة؛ في مواقف التفاعل الوجاهي اليومي، من خلا تبيان أهمية دراسة الخطاب اليومي، وتحديد المفاهيم المحورية في الدراسة من تحليل الخطاب إلى التحليل النقدي للخطاب، وخطاب الحياة اليومية؛ ثم تبيان بعض المدخل النظرية الملائمة لتحليل خطاب الحياة اليومية؛ وسيتم تقديم ثلاث مداخل هي النظرية الإثنوميتودولوجية لمؤسسها "هارولد كارفينكل" وأثنوغرافية التواصل "ديل هايمز" وتأويل الحياة اليومية "كالفن شراج"؛ ثم يتم التطرق للمقاربة المنهجية في تحليل خطاب الحياة اليومية من المنهج إلى كيفية جمع واختيار البيانات؛ أو نصوص التحليل، وكيفية كتابتها وتنظيمها بما يخدم الهدف من البحث.

This paper studies a group of female sex workers and their ambivalent experiences of home in Dongguan, China's so-called sin city, before the local government technically cracked down on the city's sex industry in 2014. It has two objectives. First, we explore these workers' life journey: spatially from their rural hometown to Dongguan, socially from domestic migrants to sex workers, and subjectively from poor persons to extravagant spenders. Through this journey-based perspective, we show that the departure from one home opens a door to another home, but the door to the sex industry engulfs our respondents into a perpetual condition of unhomely life. Second, we analyze sex workers' practices of (un)homely life in various spaces of working (sauna), dwelling (rented apartment), and consumption (shopping center) in Dongguan and their imagination of a new home. We argue that home is a liminal space of ambivalent experiences that revolve around dichotomous distinctions between privacy and publicity, friendship and segregation, marginalization and belonging. This paper contributes to the critical geographies of home by incorporating these ambivalent experiences of home into sex workers' life journey of leaving and making home in the context of China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the lifestyle migration of Houniao ('snowbirds'), who are mostly retirees from north China. Drawing on the case of Sanya, a tropical city, it explores the emplacement of the Houniao and the displacement of local elders, and interrogates how everyday practices and contested meanings assigned to lifestyles are embedded into the reconstruction of their linkages with place. The Houniao enjoy privileged status and their mobile life is considered progressive and modern. They experience alienation in Sanya due to cultural differences and their disinterest in integration, but facilitate their emplacement through the reproduction of familiar sociocultural networks at the beach during everyday leisure routines. In contrast, the traditional life of local residents is deemed passive and outdated by the Houniao and the local government. Local elders constitute a minority in seaside recreation and, despite their host identity, constantly feel a sense of displacement. This paper contributes to understanding lifestyle migration by unpacking lifestyle practices and their relationship to place, something which has not been fully examined in extant studies. Its focus on the Chinese Houniao also enriches the analysis of the multiplicity of lifestyle migration and internal Chinese migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article examine la durée dans la vie quotidienne telle qu'elle est dépeinte dans le deuxième long métrage de Jia Zhangke, Platform ... (Zhantai, 2000). En m'appuyant sur la notion bergsonienne du temps et en suivant la manière nouvelle dont Deleuze l'a appliquée au cinéma, je montre comment la durée - au cœur de l'expérience de l'attente décrite dans le film - est mise en valeur par la structure narrative du film, ses dispositifs cinématographiques et la direction d'acteurs. L'ambition créative du film consiste à capturer la résistance du moment présent face au poids de son propre double virtuel, autrement dit de découvrir les vides et les lacunes qui sous-tendent l'apparent continuum temporel de notre vie quotidienne. Construit sur cette conception particulière du temps, le film propose une critique de la vie quotidienne comme lieu même où la platitude des normes culturelles existantes est mise à nu et où l'intolérable poids du temps nous oblige à questionner la valeur des possibilités existantes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In France, research on the State has been renewed for several years in the wake of street-level bureaucracy studies. Studies are based on a predominantly sectoral approach (the delivery of social benefits, the police/inhabitants relations, etc.) or on a targeted audiences approach (inhabitants of working class neighbourhoods, migrants, etc.). This article raises the issue of the State, politics and public institutions outside the moments that make them exist in an official and ceremonial way, and focuses on everyday life to lead a discussion on how men and women objectify their relationships with the State and political representation. This discussion mobilizes the narratives collected from the inhabitants of working class district of Palermo city (Sicily) called Danisinni Square. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans les années 1970 l’étude des fictions littéraires a reçu une nouvelle vigueur par l’interrogation de leurs rapports aux choix de comportement et aux manières d’être ou d’agir (Barthes), aux horizons d’attente (Iser, Jauss), à la multiplicité des réceptions pos-sibles (Eco), ou encore aux processus de connaissance (Todorov). Dans le domaine des études littéraires, de la sociologie, de l’anthropologie, de la philosophie, de la psychologie et de l’éducation, les questions au regard de cette pratique (« qu’est-ce que la lecture, pourquoi et comment un lecteur ou une lectrice lit-il/elle ? ») ont généré des effets d’interdisciplinarité au sein des sciences humaines et sociales. Au centre de ces trajec-toires on retrouve la figure du sujet lisant en tant qu’explorateur et amplificateur du texte de départ, comme habitant mais aussi comme créateur d’un monde entre fiction et réalité. Bien que ce soit une activité solitaire, la forme d’attention typique de la lecture demande à l’individu une capacité d’absorber et de ré-élaborer l’expérience d’autrui, en redéfinissant aussi ses propres possibilités d’habiter un monde et d’être en contact avec les choses. On approche ici des questions posées par Proust il y a un siècle. Mais il faut comparer cette leçon avec les mutations qui, dans ce temps, ont affecté les dispositifs de lecture, les temps et les lieux destinés à cette activité, les mécanismes sociaux et cognitifs, les at-tentes des sujets qui se rapportent à l’objet-livre, dans les termes généraux d’une critique sociale et culturelle du présent.

This article explores how visual approaches to globalization as expressed and enacted in everyday life may enrich and complement the more abstract and mainly quantitatively supported discourses around this convoluted phenomenon. Visual methods, with their focus on empirically observable aspects of culture, indeed have the capacity to uncover forms of global interconnectivity in urban settings, by looking carefully at the material environment and artifacts as cultural expressions and at visual practices and performances of people within those spaces. Observing globalization in urban public space involves a wide variety of resources, methods, techniques and technologies, each with their specific affordances and limitations. Therefore this contribution is less a detailed study about globalization than it is about how to study aspects of globalization through its visual dimensions and by using visual means and methods to capture data and to communicate insight in novel ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper studies a group of female sex workers and their ambivalent experiences of home in Dongguan, China's so-called sin city, before the local government technically cracked down on the city's sex industry in 2014. It has two objectives. First, we explore these workers' life journey: spatially from their rural hometown to Dongguan, socially from domestic migrants to sex workers, and subjectively from poor persons to extravagant spenders. Through this journey-based perspective, we show that the departure from one home opens a door to another home, but the door to the sex industry engulfs our respondents into a perpetual condition of unhomely life. Second, we analyze sex workers' practices of (un)homely life in various spaces of working (sauna), dwelling (rented apartment), and consumption (shopping center) in Dongguan and their imagination of a new home. We argue that home is a liminal space of ambivalent experiences that revolve around dichotomous distinctions between privacy and publicity, friendship and segregation, marginalization and belonging. This paper contributes to the critical geographies of home by incorporating these ambivalent experiences of home into sex workers' life journey of leaving and making home in the context of China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]