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{"title":"From the street to the village: The transfer of NZ youth gang culture to Sāmoa","authors":"M. Faleolo","doi":"10.26686/wgtn.14159105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.14159105","url":null,"abstract":"No description supplied","PeriodicalId":35255,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Sociology","volume":"31 1","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69071377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zarine L. Rocha (2016) "Mixed Race " Identities in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences from Singapore and New Zealand. RoutledgeMixed race identities have become a subject of growing interest in many multicultural societies due to the growing number in this cohort. Cutting across the existing racial boundaries and established social structures, mixed race as a socially constructed category has distinguished itself from traditional discussions around race and ethnicities, imposing real and lasting effects and meanings for individuals' daily experience and the trajectories of societies. Set against such a background Mixed Race Identities in Asia and the Pacific unravels how individuals of mixed heritage negotiate and narrate their racial identities within a racially structured social framework while taking into consideration the effect of institutionalization and classification of race at the macro level. Analysis and discussions are generated from forty interviews: twenty in New Zealand and twenty in Singapore.Using the cases from Singapore and New Zealand is appropriate and relevant for this comparative study. The two countries share a similar British colonial past, but have gone through completely different trajectories: Singapore has developed a rigid fixed four-race framework, while New Zealand emphasizes a more fluid and voluntary ethnic identity. For people of mixed Chinese and European descent, living in New Zealand or Singapore can mean considerably different paths and experiences in terms of identity formation, reflecting power dynamics and sociohistorical implications within each society. Such comparable but different social and cultural settings offer interesting social laboratories to explore the formation of mixed race identities.One major theoretical contribution of the book is that Rocha attempts to combine an ecological perspective with narrative analysis. The ecological approach draws on an ecology of social factors of racial formation, looking at the tension between singular racial categories at the macro level, and complex and shifting identities at the micro (Omi, and Winant, 1986; Rochquemore et al., 2009). Rocha argues that narratives actively construct social reality and give meaning to the social world, rather than simply reflecting individual day-to-day experience, collective actions and state racial framework (page 9). Hence, "narratives of racial formation" is highlighted in this research to serve as the methodological approach to processing data and presenting findings, as well as a theoretical framework.The combination of micro and macro perspectives is not uncommon in race and identity studies. It provides further insights into the complexity of identity within a certain social structure, while highlighting the under-theorized connection between structure and agency. However, linking the micro level of identity and macro level of social structure can be analytically difficult. In both New Zealand and Singapore, gaps exi
扎琳·l·罗查(2016)亚太地区的“混合种族”身份认同:来自新加坡和新西兰的经验。由于这一群体的人数不断增加,混合种族身份已成为许多多元文化社会日益关注的主题。混合种族作为一个社会建构的范畴,跨越了现有的种族界限和既定的社会结构,使自己有别于围绕种族和民族的传统讨论,对个人的日常经历和社会轨迹产生了真实而持久的影响和意义。在这样的背景下,《亚洲及太平洋地区的混合种族身份》揭示了混合遗产的个体如何在种族结构的社会框架内协商和叙述他们的种族身份,同时在宏观层面上考虑到种族制度化和分类的影响。分析和讨论来自40个访谈:20个在新西兰,20个在新加坡。使用新加坡和新西兰的案例进行比较研究是合适的和相关的。这两个国家有着相似的英国殖民历史,但经历了完全不同的轨迹:新加坡发展了一个僵化的固定的四种族框架,而新西兰强调一个更灵活和自愿的种族身份。对于中国和欧洲混血的人来说,生活在新西兰或新加坡可能意味着在身份形成方面有相当不同的道路和经历,反映了每个社会的权力动态和社会历史影响。这种相似但不同的社会和文化背景为探索混合种族身份的形成提供了有趣的社会实验室。这本书的一个主要理论贡献是,罗查试图将生态视角与叙事分析结合起来。生态学方法利用种族形成的社会因素生态学,在宏观层面上观察单一种族类别之间的紧张关系,在微观层面上观察复杂和不断变化的身份(Omi, and Winant, 1986;Rochquemore et al., 2009)。罗查认为,叙事积极地构建社会现实,赋予社会世界意义,而不是简单地反映个人的日常经验、集体行动和国家种族框架(第9页)。因此,“种族形成的叙事”在本研究中被强调为处理数据和呈现发现的方法方法,以及理论框架。微观和宏观视角的结合在种族和身份研究中并不罕见。它提供了对特定社会结构中身份复杂性的进一步见解,同时强调了结构与代理之间未被理论化的联系。然而,将身份的微观层面和社会结构的宏观层面联系起来,在分析上是困难的。在新西兰和新加坡,个人认同和国家/社会对种族的叙述之间都存在差距。例如,在这两个社会中,国家人口普查在很大程度上受到殖民者的种族和民族观念的影响,强化了种族分类,而“混合种族”的个人故事并不总是与国家叙述一致或反映。为了提供更好的洞察这种脱节,这本书解决了引入中观观点的重要性。罗查认为,"当社会互动发生在社区内部和社区之间时,混血儿的中间位置突出了影响的复杂性"(第11页)。…
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Pub Date : 2016-01-01DOI: 10.26686/wgtn.17019926.v1
J. Oosterman
The climate crisis requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; however, ‘business as usual’ continues to fuel further increases. Instead of the social change needed to safeguard the wellbeing of people and the planet, there has been an unpromising mix of active resistance, lukewarm concern, lack of engagement, and lack of hope. In the face of this, climate communicators seek to make climate action relevant and meaningful to people, thereby mobilising them to create a social consensus on climate action and the political will for change. A core dynamic in climate communication is the balance between, on the one hand, speaking to the facts of the climate crisis and to what makes climate action meaningful to climate communicators themselves, and on the other, speaking in a way that is meaningful to those being communicated with. If the balance is right, climate communication will empower people, thereby helping translate belief in, and concern about, the climate crisis into behavioural change and political engagement, cumulatively creating social change. If the balance is wrong, however, communication efforts risk not connecting with people, emotionally overwhelming them with the weight of the climate crisis, or overly diluting the message, leading to no effect, or to a negative effect. An important way in which this dynamic manifests is in the balance between moral and economic framing. Morality and economics are two fundamental elements of what gives a sense of meaningfulness to climate action, and therefore underlie decision-making around both climate action and climate communication. Combinations of moral and economic framing are of particular interest in the way they call for radical action while speaking to people’s desires for security and prosperity. The climate movement is at the heart of efforts towards social change and the creation of a social consensus on climate action. It is therefore to the experiences of climate movement participants that I turn to explore these issues. I take a movement-centred activist scholarship approach to research on climate communication decision-making via interviews with fourteen members of the New Zealand climate movement. Highlighting the importance of knowledge development within social movements, I seek to contribute to activist and academic understanding of effective climate communication.
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Peter Robinson (2013) Gay Men 's Relationships Across the Life Course, Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK. 202 + xvi pagesReviewed by Timothy MarjoribanksIn the twenty-first century, and continuing long standing trends, understandings of human experience, behaviour, relationships and action are increasingly framed and shaped by medical and health science discourses, whether that be from medicine itself, or from other disciplines such as psychology, genetics and neuroscience. Similarly, disciplines such as economics also lay claim to providing significant insights into human motivations. While such disciplines provide important insights into human behaviour, and dominate much public debate in these areas, they can also be limited by downplaying or ignoring the significance of social structures and societal contexts, and by also downplaying the ways in which the actions of individuals and of groups are both enabled and constrained by such structures and contexts. In this regard, with its central engagement with the social, sociology has a vital role to play in contributing to our understandings of the intersection of human action and social contexts. One way in which it can do this is through providing theoretically informed and empirically grounded insights into human action, relationships and experience. In his book, Gay Men 's Relationships Across the Life Course, Peter Robinson, Lecturer in Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, has done just that, providing a valuable sociological contribution to a crucial set of debates around the life experiences and relationships of gay men.The book is organised around nine chapters, including an introduction and conclusion. In addition to a chapter setting out the research approach, six results focused chapters are organised around different aspects of the life course, including by name, single men, long-lasting relationships, fatherhood, marriage, co-habitation, and living in the midst of HIV-AIDS.In setting the foundations for the empirical heart of the book, the author engages critically with four theoretically informed assumptions that provide an overall framework for his analysis (page 4). These are, first, that there is a connection between sexual preference and sexual identity that underpins the existence of a 'gay world'; second, generation is a contested but important sociological concept; third, the self is narratively constituted; and fourth, age and ageing are socially constructed. Bringing these four dimensions together, Robinson is making an argument for the importance of considering experiences and relationships over the life course as being actively negotiated and contested by individuals inhabiting particular worlds, and for a social constructivist approach both to understanding people's relationships and to the creation of knowledge about their lives.Having established an analytic foundation for his research,
{"title":"Gay men's relationships across the life course [Book Review]","authors":"T. Marjoribanks","doi":"10.5860/choice.51-3554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.51-3554","url":null,"abstract":"Peter Robinson (2013) Gay Men 's Relationships Across the Life Course, Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK. 202 + xvi pagesReviewed by Timothy MarjoribanksIn the twenty-first century, and continuing long standing trends, understandings of human experience, behaviour, relationships and action are increasingly framed and shaped by medical and health science discourses, whether that be from medicine itself, or from other disciplines such as psychology, genetics and neuroscience. Similarly, disciplines such as economics also lay claim to providing significant insights into human motivations. While such disciplines provide important insights into human behaviour, and dominate much public debate in these areas, they can also be limited by downplaying or ignoring the significance of social structures and societal contexts, and by also downplaying the ways in which the actions of individuals and of groups are both enabled and constrained by such structures and contexts. In this regard, with its central engagement with the social, sociology has a vital role to play in contributing to our understandings of the intersection of human action and social contexts. One way in which it can do this is through providing theoretically informed and empirically grounded insights into human action, relationships and experience. In his book, Gay Men 's Relationships Across the Life Course, Peter Robinson, Lecturer in Sociology at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, has done just that, providing a valuable sociological contribution to a crucial set of debates around the life experiences and relationships of gay men.The book is organised around nine chapters, including an introduction and conclusion. In addition to a chapter setting out the research approach, six results focused chapters are organised around different aspects of the life course, including by name, single men, long-lasting relationships, fatherhood, marriage, co-habitation, and living in the midst of HIV-AIDS.In setting the foundations for the empirical heart of the book, the author engages critically with four theoretically informed assumptions that provide an overall framework for his analysis (page 4). These are, first, that there is a connection between sexual preference and sexual identity that underpins the existence of a 'gay world'; second, generation is a contested but important sociological concept; third, the self is narratively constituted; and fourth, age and ageing are socially constructed. Bringing these four dimensions together, Robinson is making an argument for the importance of considering experiences and relationships over the life course as being actively negotiated and contested by individuals inhabiting particular worlds, and for a social constructivist approach both to understanding people's relationships and to the creation of knowledge about their lives.Having established an analytic foundation for his research,","PeriodicalId":35255,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Sociology","volume":"28 1","pages":"214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71144762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}