43 research outputs found
Recommended from our members
'I once wore an angry bird t-shirt and went to read Qurâan': asymmetrical institutional complexity and emerging consumption practices in Pakistan
This article brings together theories of institutional logics and the exploration of the lives of tweens in Pakistan to understand how emerging consumption practices fit within Pakistani childrenâs daily lives, and how institutional complexity that includes the dominance of religion under Pakistani Islamization is negotiated to separate and maintain the differences between them. We identify resolutions to asymmetrical institutional complexity in the consumption of character T-shirts: spatialâtemporal practices, visual practices, symbolic substitution practices and single logic practices. We contribute to an understanding of how consumption happens in an Eastern Muslim culture, and how multiple institutional logics shape the consumption practices of children, by articulating how halal consumption practices, far from being essentialist, or presented as market segmentation, form from negotiations and reflections at the boundaries where Islam and Market logics meet
Transitions to Adulthood of âAt Riskâ Young Men: New Analysis from Two Norwegian Qualitative Longitudinal Studies
This paper focuses on two cohorts of Norwegian young men whose behaviour in childhood and adolescence caused serious concern to their parents, teachers, social workers and, in some cases, the police, Despite having been identiïŹed as âat riskâ, they made transitions to positive adult masculine identities in two different historical contexts; the 1980s and 2000s. The paper analyses the difference that historical context makes to these young menâs lives, their gendered identity work and their perspectives on their past, present and future. In particular, it identiïŹes the ways in which supportive intergenerational relationships and signiïŹcant others serve to produce positive turning points and, over time, help the young men to develop resilience and potentially happy and successful futures