Uneasy Experiments in Radical Cultural Comparison: Gang Violence, Ethical Cultivation and Sade's Moral Universe

Mattingly, Cheryl

doi:10.1080/00141844.2016.1138985

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“…To do so, anthropologists have often conceived of structural pressures and ethical explorations as playing out at different scales, where the latter entails how people "get by and make do with the (mostly bad) lot that has been handed them" (Mattingly 2014, xvii). Ethics, in this reading, is a "tactical" practice for navigating everyday life (de Certeau 1984; see also Das 2010;Han 2012;Lambek 2010;Mattingly 2014). At this everyday level, ethical deliberation is approached as an intrinsic facet of human experience.…”

Section: Cultures Of Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This diverse body of scholarship is united by a broad understanding of ethics as grounded in a human capacity for judgment and action, both of which work to reach beyond the cultural frames and structural conditions within which life unfolds. Several influential works in this domain have strongly criticized determinist understandings of culture, structure, and power (e.g., Appadurai 2013;Laidlaw 2013;Mattingly 2014;Robbins 2013). More generally, anthropologists interested in ethics have frequently conceptualized ethical striving as something that determinist modes of social theory cannot adequately grasp.…”

Section: Cultures Of Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These tropes and stories, aesthetics and symbols, informed a second stance-one in which things were represented and read seriously and straightforwardly. Here, jarring aesthetics were genuine warnings, and stories of glamour genuine enticements-giving street life the dimension of ethical starkness evoked by Koch (2018) and Mattingly (2017).…”

Section: Locating the Roadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Things fare little better when Mattingly (2017) directly explores young people's involvement with gangs. Mattingly argues that gang life can offer a number of “pleasures”: a “sensual” pleasure in toughness and violence that enacts a “freedom from fear” (899); “the pleasure of recognition—the intense satisfaction in being seen, being someone to be reckoned with” (900); and the pleasure of belonging, experienced as a quasi‐familial “love” that “demands fierce protection” (901).…”

Section: Cultures Of Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Samanani

2022

American Ethnologist

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Street cultures remain a challenging topic for anthropological analysis, reflecting broader disciplinary tensions. Approaches that focus on structure and power tend to provide overly deterministic accounts of action, especially regarding violence, while attempts to trace ethical striving have tended to characterize street cultures as domains of ethical failure or as defined by the pursuit of short‐term pleasures. Navigating between these approaches, I draw on ethnographic accounts from “the Caldwell,” a deprived London social housing estate, to argue that ethical registers are an important locus of ethical life. Youth strive to build worthwhile lives not simply by adopting particular ethical stances, but by pushing on the limits of available stances by weaving these together into a broader ethical register. For many young people involved with the Caldwell's street culture, ethical striving is inextricable from, and may even primarily entail, efforts to cultivate collective registers, which entangle criminal and noncriminal horizons. [street culture, gangs, violence, ethics, inequality, exclusion, hip‐hop, stance, register, London]

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Section: Cultures Of Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cultures Of Excessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Locating the Roadmentioning

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2022

American Ethnologist

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The Confines of Time – On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine

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Segal

2018

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This article contributes to an understanding of the existential character of confinement by directing attention to the interlinked concepts of tiredness and foreboding. Through juxtaposition and analysis of material gathered among people whose lives are lived under compromised circumstances in Sierra Leone and Palestine we illuminate the way time-not only space-confines. Our analytical concern is with the way in which futures are anticipated by people confined in space and time, where conditions of possibility are materially and sometimes corporeally suffocating. To anticipate fragile futures, or to mourn futures terminated early is exhausting. Tiredness, from this perspective, is a ubiquitous and overwhelming sentiment suffusing what it means to live in confining sites. It is an expression of foreboding understood as a 'being towards death' (Stevenson 2014).

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Uneasy Experiments in Radical Cultural Comparison: Gang Violence, Ethical Cultivation and Sade's Moral Universe

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

The long road

The long road

The Confines of Time – On the Ebbing Away of Futures in Sierra Leone and Palestine

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