#scremaing... crying... thank u for finding it interesting andaskign..

[wifeiy]

also loved ur ans for 37 in ur prev post and wld love to hear u expand on them (only if u want ofc) like new materialism, disenfranchised grief, bedroom culture sound so interesting

love sociology and regret not doing it last high school 💔

just started vibrating in my chair. ASKING ME 2 TALK ABOUT SOCIOLGOGOYOY HTaknyoujngoaABJFAhWGHHRAAAHH MYGBAWHFOSLB!!! I will go in order of easiest to to most difficult to explain/understand. also sorry for my loser nerd citations im copy pasting my quotes/notes . also sorry this is longer than intended I Love Sharing Quotes

disenfranchised grief or 'gagged grief' "denotes instances of grief in which people ‘incur a loss that is not or cannot be openly acknowledged, publicly mourned or socially supported’ (Doka, 1989: 4; cf. the notion of ‘shameful death’ in Kellehear, 2007)" (Bayatrizi 522).

We talked about this in the context of COVID and how different (marginalized) communities were dis/allowed from usual burial practices, ceremonies, etc. (specifically looking at Iran) so. in this way there are precarious and protected lives, grievable and ungrievable deaths

"Grief presumes the grievability of the dead. ... Precarious life, life that is forgotten and marginalized, is not grievable" (Bayatrizi 524).

it gets into y'know. unequal power relations, biopolitics of saving "our people" (rather than the Other) and necropolitics which was a new term for me!! that's "the 'control of exclusions and death, and fortifying borders' by the state (Díaz-Barriga and Dorsey, 2020: 12; Mbembe, 2003; cf. Foucault, 1978: 137)" (Bayatrizi 524).

I think in general the sociology of death, dying, and bereavement is super interesting and also. really important and topical. so i have tucked this term and reading into my brain !!

bedroom culture was something i was going to research more for a possible honours thesis (SOB) but it's like, studying the bedroom as a domain/space for identity formation, self expression, and (alternative) cultural engagement

it was originally posed by Angela McRobbie in regard to young girls around/after WWII because they were dissuaded from joining street-based cultures due to perceived danger and lack of free time #misogyny #domesticsphere (this is why i said alternative) SO where were they largely living out their cultural lives? the bedroom! insert "teenybopper" culture here

i was thinking about how COVID would impact this since y'know. everyone in bedrooms + speed of trends coming and going + level of consumption and exposure to others' bedrooms (this is a metaphor) + fear/shame/embarrassment + blending public and private + "introduction to structural isolation and for many, establishing political beliefs as they enter a new (unique) stage of their life marked by the pandemic"

and also like. online spaces with personal profiles, blogs, etc. but yknow. didnt get far w any of this. like i wish i could share my thesis question ideas but they're like. not coherent. anyway. yaaaayyy!!!

new materialism is an Up-and-Coming theoretical perspective that as far as i know still lacks a single definition! but:

(from mi class) new materialism — a perspective/way of understanding and seeing the world in which ideas such as agency and capacity or activity can be ascribed to nonhuman entities and people

you're reconfiguring "boundaries of embodiment" (Roberts 20)

"it complicates notions of self, other, and environment in challenging individualistic conceptions of humanness and articulating its transcorporeal character that defies bodily and subjective boundaries of the self; it also problematizes human exceptionalism by embedding humans in the intra-actively constitutive atmospheric, material, and social dynamics of living. (Górska, 2018: 250)" (Roberts 55)

we talked about this in the context of australian wild/bushfires and pregnant mothers (and covid). So like, without a new materialist approach, there's heavy expectation and pressure on the parent to Not breathe in smoke and Keep their baby safe. This can lead to a lot of anxiety, stress, guilt, etc. because ?? You can't. control that a lot of the time.

bUT "The idea that pregnant women control their exposure to smoke as an act of human exceptionalism is unsettled when smoke is conceptualized as a vibrant and intra-active element of the bushfire assemblage" (Roberts 55).

Parts of my reflection assignment:

Roberts’s breath framework *also helps alleviate some of this by imagining how “no human or nonhuman entity is ontologically prior, and instead comes into being in specific sets of intra-relations,” meaning that “[a]gency and responsibility are … distributed as a product of the intra-actions of relata” (55). By reconfiguring my understanding of myself as “‘of ’ rather than ‘in’ the world,” I am able to understand how wider systems and crises interact with and respond to me, and consequently feel less guilt over what first seem like personal failures (56).

(*i also mentioned douglas's cultural theory which "explores practices that “[attempt] to distinguish dirtiness from cleanliness, purity from danger, safety from risk” (518)" but again. "examining air during crises such as COVID-19 and wildfires, we see how the separation of dirt from cleanliness, outside from inside, becomes increasingly unrealistic and impossible.")