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- Convenor:
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Pedro Silva Rocha Lima
(University of Manchester)
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- Format:
- Panel
- Sessions:
- Friday 9 April, -
Time zone: America/Chicago
Short Abstract:
In what ways do unequal experiences serve to maintain and contest unequal relationships? How can embodied knowledge challenge, and even potentially invert, hierarchies?
Long Abstract:
In what ways do unequal experiences serve to maintain and contest unequal relationships? How do embodied experiences relate to the inequality of existing hierarchies? By the same token, in what ways can embodied knowledge challenge, and even potentially invert, hierarchies? The papers in this panel address these and related questions from a variety of perspectives, looking at what contrasting experiences can say about unequal relations.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 9 April, 2021, -Richard Jonathan Taduran (University of the Philippines)
Paper short abstract:
This study aimed to provide an explanation on the perceptions of height by selected Filipino youth and discuss the factors that shape these perceptions. By exploring these factors, this study gives an overview on the extent height affects an individual’s experience and aspirations.
Paper long abstract:
Height plays a more important role in our everyday lives than people often acknowledge. This study aimed to provide an explanation on the perceptions of height by selected Filipino youth and discuss the factors that shape these perceptions. By exploring these factors, this study gives an overview on the extent height affects an individual’s experience and aspirations. Both quantitative and qualitative surveys were conducted on 300 youth participants (150 males and 150 females), where they rated 30 statements and answered open-ended questions. Quantitative data were analyzed statistically, and qualitative data were arranged into a comprehensive matrix and thematic coding of responses. Height mainly symbolizes three components: advantage, capability and desirability. Participants believe that being tall is an advantage in playing sports, will open up opportunities for work, and can help in doing everyday tasks. Height can also be a key to attracting the opposite sex. The ‘bigger is better’ prejudice appears to extend to a person’s experiences as well—short people’s experiences differ from those of taller people. Benefits brought by tallness is so sought that many Filipinos exert extra efforts to grow taller. Tall bodies demonstrate a non-economic advantage that gives higher status and sociopolitical distinction in the Filipino society.
Courtney Cecale (University of North Texas)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines the contributions of overlooked and erased Peruvian high alpine service workers to climate change adaptation processes: phenomenologically exploring embodied environmental knowledge, and analyzing hazardous working conditions in broader global vectors of power.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the contributions of overlooked and erased Peruvian high alpine service workers to climate change adaptation processes: phenomenologically exploring embodied environmental knowledge, and analyzing hazardous working conditions in broader global vectors of power.
Pedro Silva Rocha Lima (University of Manchester)
Paper short abstract:
Within the context of a public clinic near favelas in Greater Rio, this paper looks at the potential of humorous mockery to highlight social inequality and invert hierarchies of knowledge.
Paper long abstract:
This paper addresses the potential of humorous mockery to highlight social inequality and invert hierarchies of knowledge in the setting of a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro. Staff who reside in and around local favelas mock outsider better-off colleagues (and myself) for how they (over)react to the sound of shooting near the clinic. Such reactions were in line with protocols for personal safety, set up by a humanitarian program by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), but laughed at by local clinic staff who knew a given situation did not pose danger. Such humor temporarily inverts the medical hierarchy of knowledge within the clinic, as nurses and dentists are mocked by locally resident healthcare assistants who, through prolonged lived experience with armed violence, are better able to assess whether given instances of shooting pose a real threat to staff. These instances of laughter acquire special meaning in light of a past event when assistants' opinions about the safety of their own working place were ignored. More than a coping mechanism or a "weapon of the weak" (Scott 1985), humorous mockery both highlights local staff's expertise with armed violence, and the unequal distribution of risk that comes with social inequality and place of residence within the Rio metropolis.