Resistance in everyday life

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2010

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Ay, Ayşecan

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The aim of this study is to draw attention to the fact that daily practices which tend to be overlooked due to their taken for grantedness actually signify power coming into existence here and now as well as that everyday problems bring along accordingly ordinary coping ways. In this respect, resistance in everyday life means a refusal that does not identify itself as political and organized, and who intends to make do with the rule by finding immediate and effective solutions to negative effects power generates rather than overtly challenging it. In order to render visible this type of resistance, to understand how it is experienced and perceived, the implementation of smoking ban in enclosed areas was covered in entertainment venues. Participant observations and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted in Nevizade Street that is located in Beyoğlu district of İstanbul and consists of meyhanes as well as beerhouses. Although customers resist based on pleasure principle, managers in order not to go bankrupt and employees not to fall out of work, it is concluded that what is thwarted here is not public health that the related law aims to protect but rather the troubles that the implementation of the law brings about.

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Smoking

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612788/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/20339

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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A. Ay, “Resistance in everyday life,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.