Self-formation in precarious conditions
Women among former refugees from Lebanon in Berlin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lena Schwiete (University of Alabama, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-73 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | HAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1086/734604 |
| OpenAlex | W4409801370 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Drawing on ethnographic research with women among former refugees from Lebanon in Berlin, this article reflects on the concept of ethical self-formation as a tool for ethnographic analysis in contexts beyond closely delineated religious or pedagogical ones, and in economically precarious conditions. I revisit James Laidlaw's approach to ethics and freedom as an example of an approach that emphasizes self-formation as the most fundamental dimension of ethics. If applied to actors in their everyday relational and larger political contexts, self-formation is always closely intertwined with other forms of ethical striving, and can only be one among a variety of dimensions of ethics instead of its most fundamental one. Focusing on ethics as self-formation is useful because it reveals how it is distinctions between situated selves and particular others, which are shaped by political contexts, actor positions, and individual trajectories, that form the basis of people's ethical reflections, evaluations, and actions
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Ordinary Ethics
The Ethnography of Moralities
The Moral Significance of Class
Politics of Piety
Segmented Assimilation
Islamic Adaptations to Western Europe and North America
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making
Moral Philosophy and the 'Ethical Turn' in Anthropology
State, Political Parties and Immigrant Elites
Ethical immanence
The Subject of Virtue
The concept of Stimmung
Freedom, reflexivity, and the sheer everydayness of ethics
The ethical turn in anthropology
Rising from the ordinary
The other side of freedom
Time and the other in crisis
Sticky ethics
Two virtue ethics and the anthropology of morality
Anthropology of Aging and Care
Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond
How is it between us? Relational ethics and transcendence
For an anthropology of the demoralized
For An Anthropology Of Ethics And Freedom
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |