This research examines consumer authentication in the context of African Americans' consumption practices and discourses of African dress. Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, our work reveals ...historical and ideological aspects of authentication. We identify three authentication practices, namely, representing resistance, educating one's own, and journeying to the motherland. Our data reveal the importance of double consciousness and historicizing in the authentication of consumption objects among diaspora consumers. Collectively, our findings extend previous research by demonstrating that investigating and historicizing heritage are critical motives undergirding consumers' quest for authenticity.
The intersections between symbolic productions, migration and nationality will be analysed from the desire of recognition promoted by mass media imaginaries, in this case though the audio-visual show ...of the Eurovision Song Contest. Its archivist potential, explored from the image –like visual studies, arts or scenography, as well as sociology, anthropology or ethnomusicology– is pierced by the centrality of the 'nation' politic fiction, studied by Anderson, Huntington, Brah or Sennett. Even though the contest emphasizes his musical and cultural aspect, the continuous repetition of the name of the nation and the presence of the flag makes this show a field inclined to the creation of affinities and adversities called upon the Song. We will follow two synchronic rounds, first through the tensions of the contestant countries in the gathered voting analysis in all Eurovision history, and second, through those entries that has been represented by singers from 'others' origins. This two ways will be articulated by the different groups of nation blocks, verifying how all this issues affects to the pacifist collaborative creation that characterizes the Eurovision Song Contest.
ABSTRACT: This article analyzes two recent poetry collections by queer Caribbean writers and probes them for what they can reveal about silence as a combined affective, aesthetic and political ...strategy. Both Kohnjehr Woman by Ana-Maurine Lara and While They Sleep by Raquel Salas Rivera encourage embodied reading practices that resist traditional literary analysis, understood as focused on achieving “mastery” and intellectual domination of a text, by engaging the reading body queerly and tangentially, and they ask what opportunities are presented by illegibility and untranslatability. I argue that these poems employ silence as a strategy either by creating visual/aural space on the page, refusing translation, or by requiring words to be vocalized in order to be cognitively understood. Following Doris Sommer and Édouard Glissant, this strategic refusal can be understood as a response to the lived experience of disaster within the postcolonial Caribbean and its diaspora that maintains opacity by refusing straightforward legibility, and at the same time allows for a fuller form of solidarity that centers embodied knowledge. Keywords: coloniality, opacity, poetry/poetics, queer, Latine/x, diaspora, translation, embodiment RESUMEN: Este artículo analiza dos colecciones de poesía recientes escritas por autores “queer,” e investiga lo que pueden revelar sobre el silencio como una estrategia afectiva, estética, y política. Tanto “Kohnjehr Woman” de Ana-Maurine Lara como “While They Sleep” de Raquel Salas Rivera animan prácticas encarnadas de lectura que resisten el análisis literario tradicional, entendido como algo enfocado en lograr dominio y control intelectual sobre el texto. Por el contrario, estas obras involucran al cuerpo del lector de manera “queer” y tangencial, y se cuestionan las oportunidades que nos presentan la ilegibilidad y la intraducibilidad. Argumento que estos poemas emplean el silencio como una estrategia o bien creando espacio visual/aural en la página, o bien negando traducción, o requiriendo que las palabras se vocalicen para ser entendidas cognitivamente. Siguiendo a Doris Sommer y Édouard Glissant, esta negación estratégica se puede entender como una respuesta a la experiencia vivida del desastre dentro del caribe poscolonial y su diáspora que mantiene su opacidad a través del rechazo de la legibilidad directa, lo que al mismo tiempo permite una forma más amplia de solidaridad que centraliza el conocimiento encarnado. Palabras claves: colonialidad, opacidad, poesía/poética, queer/cuir, Latine/x, diáspora, traducción, encarnación
This essay explores the relationship between imaging, archival cataloging, and African diasporic belonging through the developed and undeveloped photography of Haitian anthropologist Suzanne ...Comhaire-Sylvain. Using her family correspondences and research on folklore to contextualize her image-based archive on Haiti, the Belgian Congo, and Nigeria, the author proposes that Comhaire-Sylvain’s visual catalog is rendered legible through her undeveloped images taken in Africa. Tracing Comhaire-Sylvain’s contortions in front of and behind the camera, the author shows that her undeveloped and unpublished imaging practices of play and experimentation exemplify a medium of scholarly and personal reflexivity that troubled the authority of her professional research practice and enlivened the range of her diasporic expression. With particular attention given to photos taken during her time in the Belgian Congo between 1943 and 1945 and her long-stay return to Haiti in 1957, the author argues that Comhaire-Sylvain’s imaging catalog is most provocatively read as an assemblage bound by her use of folklore as a unique technology for crafting meaning between overlapping sites of diasporic belonging and intellectual inquiry.
Luis explores his complex family history, tracing his father's journey from China to Cuba and eventually to the US. He reflects on his memories of his childhood and the loss of his father at a young ...age. Through research and conversations with family members, he uncovered more about his father's past and their Chinese and Afro-Cuban heritage. He embarked on a journey to his father's village in China, where he discovered more about his extended family and the history of his ancestors. He grapples with conflicting stories and unanswered questions, but ultimately find comfort in his diasporic identity and the connection to his father.
Apples for Audubon and Eggplant for Oya Murray, Saille Caia
Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture,
02/2022, Letnik:
15, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Harlem’s historic Sugar Hill neighborhood possesses several public parks and cemeteries used by African and Afro-Caribbean Diaspora communities for religious activities. In my research, I have ...identified and mapped sites of religious activities and conducted interviews with community members, revealing how practitioners of Santería, Vodou, and Yoruba traditions have adapted to their urban home via the use of public space. The religious traditions explored here require interaction with nature and the physical land. Therefore, I argue that public space serves as critical infrastructure for facilitating the practice of these religious traditions. I build on the views of Erika Svendsen, Lindsay Campbell, and Heather McMillen that practitioners who engage in this use of public space derive a psycho-social-spiritual benefit from those spaces, while simultaneously contributing to the diversity and democracy of these public spaces as Frederick Law Olmsted and others have theorized.
Resumo: Este artigo trata da diáspora africana como fonte epistemológica e, principalmente, de pensar suas implicações para a produção de filosofia africana, no Brasil. Para isso, o corpo será ...enfatizado como meio de comunicação com o mundo visível ou invisível, através do terreiro, estabelecendo uma relação entre a vivência e o pensamento filosófico. Em seguida, para fundamentar a diáspora, será interpretada a narrativa da orixá Oyá/Iansã, tendo como eixo o “corpo sem fronteiras” que medeia natureza e cultura. Por fim, propõe-se uma filosofia que articule o encontro entre o terreno e o espiritual, a tradição e o moderno, baseando-se em uma conexão conceitual entre África e Brasil.
Abstract: This article deals with the african diaspora as an epistemological source and, mainly, think the implications for the production of african philosophy in Brazil. To this issue, the body will be emphasized as a means of communication with the visible or invisible world through the terreiro, establishing a relationship between experience and philosophical thought. Then, to base the diaspora, the narrative of orixá Oyá/Iansã will be interpreted as its axis the “body without borders” that mediates nature and culture. Finally, we propose a philosophy that articulates the encounter between the earth and the spiritual, the tradition and the modern based on a conceptual connection between Africa and Brazil.
En este trabajo ofrecemos una perspectiva humana de la migración, particularmente con lo que tiene que ver con el pueblo judío. Analizamos la historia y los movimientos surgidos a lo largo de los ...siglos. El caso de la República Dominicana es único. Es un país en el que no se registran hechos de antisemitismo recurrente y sí se aprecia una gran tolerancia a la libertad religiosa. Una causa probable tiene que ver con la génesis de la República luego de la ocupación haitiana, que asumiendo los valores franceses del momento, otorgó total libertad de cultos. Por otro lado el fenómeno de la “fusión” interreligiosa en la República Dominicana es también muy particular. Desde la misma fundación de la República en 1844 personas de diversa religión se unen y van cambiando a medida que se integran a la vida nacional. Desde luego, en un país predominantemente católico, la tendencia ha sido las familias dentro de esa religión. Sin embargo, en el caso de los judíos, siempre se ha conservado un orgullo por sus raíces y una admiración por el pueblo de Israel.
This paper reports the findings of a research project into Ministerial Theology Programmes (MTPs) at three Higher Education institutions in England. These degree-level courses provide ...practice-oriented theological education for students in positions of leadership in churches outside the mainstream historic denominations. Anecdotal evidence from MTP tutors is that the churches represented are overwhelmingly Charismatic-Pentecostal, and the students differ significantly from those in virtually all other degree courses, being mostly middle-aged and of African or Afro-Caribbean background. The research reported here is the first extensive and systematic investigation into MTP student bodies, their expectations and approaches to learning, and the implications for designing and teaching MTPs.
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