Editorial
Quelle: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/18364
Archiv für September 2013
Editorial
Quelle: https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JRFF/article/view/18364
Die Verflüssigung von Grenzen. Recht, Uhrzeit und Geld wider Raum und Materie
The history of human communities in terms of their “border regime” can be considered tripartite. At first, societies saw themselves as unique, and their edges were the end of their world, surrounded by “barbarians”. Under the influence of ever-increasing trade and equalisation of human beings and populations on either side of the edges, the latter have been transformed into national boundaries. This second era is currently in transition to a third epoch, as the continuous globalisation of societies is going along with their atomisation and liquefaction.
As entrepreneurs of ourselves, we are more and more supposed to manage our solitary existence ourselves. Law, clock and money are a tempting basis for this, because they do not prescribe nor prohibit any activity, but simply – and all the more relentlessly – establish a framework for individual action. Their limits progressively supplement collective delineations of human life (birth and residence, gender, religion, profession, etc.).
A Lodge of Sorrow for King Leopold I of Belgium (1866): Masonic Patriotism and Spirituality on Trial
Belgian King Leopold’s connection to freemasonry was tenuous at best. He had been accepted ‘by proxy’ under the auspices of a Swiss lodge but most likely he never set a foot inside a lodge room. He was hailed nevertheless as a brother by Belgian freemasons. Leopold accepted the role of protector of the order when the young country had its own Grand Orient organized in 1832–33. But Leopold quickly developed hostility towards the Belgian lodges’ liberal positions and kept that negative opinion until his death in December 1865. In February 1866 the Grand Orient organized a widely attended lodge of sorrow for the departed monarch. The ritual explicitly echoed the then still largely proclaimed masonic spirituality and its conception of the immortality of the soul. The dead mason-king was symbolically integrated into the pantheon of national heroes, was reinvented with mythical qualities and was ‘instrumentalized’ as an icon to prove that freemasons were good patriots. The explicit expression of a deist worldview was meant to show that masons were no vile atheists either. Catholic opinion reacted vehemently against this recuperation of the monarch, but the 1866 ritual also led to a first but ever so meaningful protest by more radical freemasons who opposed this imposed deist doctrine. These polemics anticipated the progressive secularization of Belgian masonic rituals in the 1870s.
A Lodge of Sorrow for King Leopold I of Belgium (1866): Masonic Patriotism and Spirituality on Trial
Belgian King Leopold’s connection to freemasonry was tenuous at best. He had been accepted ‘by proxy’ under the auspices of a Swiss lodge but most likely he never set a foot inside a lodge room. He was hailed nevertheless as a brother by Belgian freemasons. Leopold accepted the role of protector of the order when the young country had its own Grand Orient organized in 1832–33. But Leopold quickly developed hostility towards the Belgian lodges’ liberal positions and kept that negative opinion until his death in December 1865. In February 1866 the Grand Orient organized a widely attended lodge of sorrow for the departed monarch. The ritual explicitly echoed the then still largely proclaimed masonic spirituality and its conception of the immortality of the soul. The dead mason-king was symbolically integrated into the pantheon of national heroes, was reinvented with mythical qualities and was ‘instrumentalized’ as an icon to prove that freemasons were good patriots. The explicit expression of a deist worldview was meant to show that masons were no vile atheists either. Catholic opinion reacted vehemently against this recuperation of the monarch, but the 1866 ritual also led to a first but ever so meaningful protest by more radical freemasons who opposed this imposed deist doctrine. These polemics anticipated the progressive secularization of Belgian masonic rituals in the 1870s.
Giving Adolescents a Voice? Using Videos to Represent Reproductive Health Realities of Adolescents in Tanzania
Visual research forms part of a growing field in participatory research. Lately new discussions among scientists evolved about conceptual considerations and methodological approaches related to the use of visual participatory methods. The following article presents a reflection on a participatory video project with adolescents aged 15 to 19 in Tanzania from the perspective of the adult researcher. On the one hand the project aimed at gaining visual insights into adolescents‘ realities related to teenage pregnancy. On the other hand, the young filmmakers were empowered to share their experiences and to use the film clips in order to reach policy makers and practitioners. While the use of an adolescent participatory video approach has great potential to represent different realities and to reach policy makers and practitioners in an appealing way, its drawbacks must also be considered. The methodological implications of this highlight the need to reflect about multiple subjectivities and related courses of action of all actors involved on various levels within society. It is argued that symbolic representations have the potential to create knowledge not only for policy and practice but also for science—as long as the research process, personal background, relationships and actions among involved actors, the socio-cultural context and related power dynamics are presented and unfolded in the final outcome of the visual participatory research.
Review: Jo Reichertz (2013). Die Abduktion in der qualitativen Sozialforschung. Über die Entdeckung des Neuen [Abduction in Qualitative Social Research. On the Discovery of the New]
In this textbook, Jo REICHERTZ provides a competent insight into the concept of abduction. Proceeding from PEIRCE, especially his late works, the author analyzes all the key facets and relationships of this concept, paying particular attention to the d…
Review: Siegfried Jäger (2012). Kritische Diskursanalyse. Eine Einführung [Critical Discourse Analysis: An Introduction]
This 6th and fully revised edition of „Critical Discourse Analysis“ is now available, representing a considerable advance over its previous editions. The incorporation of FOUCAULT’s concept of „dispositif“ has facilitated theoretical streamlining as we…
Supervisor and Student Co-Writing: An Apprenticeship Perspective
This is a story about the creation of a co-authored research article. The purpose is to emphasize co-writing as a significant pedagogic practice within doctoral supervision. Regarding apprenticeship as a pedagogical methodology as well as a theoretical…
Interviews as Text vs. Interviews as Social Interaction
Interviews are among the most popular methods of data-gathering used in qualitative research. Preference for interviews rests on methodological advantages they seem to provide: The possibility to compare participants systematically, economic data-gathering, and access to historical processes and fields of practice which are difficult to observe directly. Still, critics are skeptical about the interview method, referring to the restricted scope of participants’ abilities to render experience faithfully, the role of researchers in prefiguring answers in the interview, and the ontological difference between action and experience and reports on action and experience.
Addressing these criticisms, the article distinguishes between approaches treating the interview as text and approaches dealing with it as social interaction. The textual approach analyzes interviews in terms of their contents and treats it as a window into an independent, prior social or psychological reality. The interactional approach treats interviews as situated practice, in which interviewers and interviewees accomplish social reality collaboratively. The article discusses three kinds of interactional phenomena which are constitutive of interview interaction: 1. negotiation of questions, 2. negotiation of answers, and 3. practices of positioning by both interviewers and interviewees. It shows how these phenomena contribute to the accomplishment of the interview and how they can be taken into account in the analysis and which kinds of insights this might yield. I argue for more research into the mechanisms of the interactional production of interviews in order to be able to base both conduct and analysis of interviews more solidly on empirical findings about interview interaction in the future.