Theatre and Ethnic Socialization in the 1980s. Staging the play "Archaic Consolation" by Áron Tamási in the Theatre of Oradea The aim of this paper is to analyze how cultural politics worked in the ...Hungarian department of the theatre in Oradea during the 1980s. By doing so, we would like to track Áron Tamási’s play (Archaic Consolation) from “page to stage” in 1982 across the labyrinth of the communist censorship. At the end of the track memoires of the ethnic Hungarian public are presented. These narratives reveal, that the play became an important tool, which made possible to talk about ethnic Hungarian minority identity, a subject marginalized in Ceaușescu’s Romania.
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new
possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music-the
"classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early
twentieth ...centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and
its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from
real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than
transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can
take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist
standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of
contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and
subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than
to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical
expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural
Practice , he regards music not only as an object that invites
aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the
personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In
language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to
specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the
postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and
explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from
Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.
A national system of education in modern nation-states is usually geared towards nation-building and schools play a significant role in grooming children as future citizens. While the dominant and ...powerful usually emerge as the ‘ideal citizen’ in the national imagination, the marginalized are constructed as the ‘other’, vilified, and stigmatised. The school, with its overt and hidden curriculum, operates as a major site for the reproduction of dominant ideology while at the same time creating opportunities for exercising human agency. This article, an ethnographic study, conducted in a government co-educational school in Delhi examines how it sought to mould the students into ‘ideal’ citizens and how this was received by them. Belonging to a relatively lower socio-economic background compared to the teaching community did they give their acquiescence? Or were they able to exercise their agency to challenge the entrenched power structures in society? Were their responses shaped by their specific social locations and the unfolding of ‘cultural politics’? Moreover, when the nature of ‘official knowledge’ itself has undergone radical shifts and the idea of citizenship has been redefined with the introduction of the National Curriculum Framework 2005, were the students able to leverage the epistemological shifts embodied in the textbooks to reimagine and construct ideas of citizenship regarding marginalised communities? These are some questions that the present article seeks to address.
The culturally and ecologically diverse Pacific lowlands of Colombia are both the locus and product of key political economic and cultural political conjunctures. Twenty‐five years after they emerged ...in their current form, Afro‐Colombian ethnic and territorial struggles have become important icons of resistance to development and struggles for social change. But in Colombia as in other parts of the world, the rapid and violent expansion of capitalist accumulation and state power have had devastating consequences for the region's forests and communities—literally and epistemically fragmenting both. Based on long‐term fieldwork, this paper examines the ongoing and contentious co‐production of the Colombian Pacific region amidst the increasingly violent forces of neoliberal governmentality in the 21st century. It shows that the Pacific lowlands are an example of “political forests” in the sense that they are a contested site and product of Afro‐Colombian cultural politics and state territorialisation.
Trends in the Turn to Affect Wetherell, Margaret
Body & society,
06/2015, Letnik:
21, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article explores the psychological logics underpinning key perspectives in the ‘turn to affect’. Research on affect raises questions about the categorization of affective states, affective ...meaning-making, and the processes involved in the transmission of affect. I argue that current approaches risk depopulating affecting scenes, mystifying affective contagion, and authorizing questionable psychobiological arguments. I engage with the work of Sedgwick and Frank, Thrift, and Ahmed to explore these points and suggest that the concept of affective practice offers a more promising social psychological grounding. Notions of affective practice are more commensurate with trends in contemporary psychobiology, explain the limits on affective contagion, and emphasize relationality and negotiation, attentive to the flow of affecting episodes. A practice approach positions affect as a dynamic process, emergent from a polyphony of intersections and feedbacks, working across body states, registrations and categorizations, entangled with cultural meaning-making, and integrated with material and natural processes, social situations and social relationships.
Paris, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Doha, Berlin, Honolulu, La Chaux-de-Fonds: each of these cities hosts a museum of Islamic art, and many more can be added to this list. Since the 2000s, and in ...particular after the 9/11 attacks, more and more cultural institutions have invested in this sector. In this context of international museums’ “Islamania”, for the very first time this book looks at the case of France, through the examples of the Louvre Museum and the Institut du monde arabe. By analyzing the staging of Islam, from the Colonial Exhibitions of the 19th century to the present day, this work shows how such staging is the reflection of public policies regarding the Muslim religion and how the French State uses it to manage Islamic otherness. More broadly, the museums’ treatment of Islam makes it possible to reflect on the regulation of religion and consequently on secularism. It also illustrates the political and social tensions caused by the presence of Islam in France and, by extension, the place of the Other in now multicultural and globalized Western societies. “Islam of museums” thus goes beyond mere observation of the history of an artistic genre, it provides a new perspective on our cultural, political, social, and religious history.
► Water management needs transdisciplinary and multi-domain examination. ► Hydrocosmological cycles entwine hydrology, ecology, lifetime and cosmology cycles. ► Hydrocosmological cycles enable ...analysis of water culture, cultural politics and power. ► Dominant hydrosocial discourses naturalize and legitimize unequal power structures. ► Dominant hydrosocial cycle constructs are mediated by alternative truth regimes.
This paper explores interactions among water, power and cultural politics in the Andes. It analyzes the hydrosocial cycle as the political–ecological production of a time- and place-specific socionature, enrolling and co-patterning the social, the natural and the supernatural to reflect dominant interests and power.
A case analysis locates community water control practices in Mollepata, Peru, in the broader historical setting of Andean water empires. To see how local worldviews, water flows and water control practices are interwoven, it unravels the ‘meta’ behind the ‘physical’, examining contemporary expressions of the ancient ‘hydrocosmological cycle’ that intimately interconnects the cyclical dynamics of hydrology, agro-ecology, human lifetime and cosmology. Herein, bonds among mountain deities, Mother Earth and humans are fundamental to guide water flows through this world, the world above and the world below.
Next, the paper analyzes the ‘political’ behind metaphysical patterning of water flows. Since ancient times, elites have striven to reinforce subjugation over Andean peoples by creating ‘convenient histories’ and ‘socionatural order’, connecting local water practices and worldviews to supralocal schemes of belonging, thereby deploying overlapping governmental rationalities.
Continued in contemporary, globalizing water politics and ‘governmentalities’, efforts to establish, demystify or transform frames of ‘water order’ are at the heart of water struggles. Here, dominant conceptual and cultural-political frameworks naturalize the strategic positioning of humans and nonhumans in hydrosocial patterns that support water hierarchies and legitimize particular distribution, extraction and control practices, as if these were entirely natural. Hydrosocial cycles are, however, importantly mediated by counter-forces and alternative water truths.
In this article we argue that Brazilian hip hop has opened up and become transgressive in terms of commodification practices, spaces of performative occupation and racial and gendered identification. ...Such expansion has meant not only an ideological broadening of what counts as hip hop and Black but also where such expressions are recognized as legitimate. This article focuses on the work of Emicida, Linn da Quebrada, Rico Dalasam and Jup do Bairro.
Tekst poświęcony jest postaci Antoniny Sokolicz, jednej z nielicznych reprezentantek kobiecego głosu w lewicowej krytyce literackiej, oraz szeroko rozumianej „sokoliczczyznie”, dzięki której można ...zaobserwować mechanizmy zapomnianego dziś zaangażowania socjalistek w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym. Działalność krytycznoliteracka i artystyczna autorki Pięści zostały potraktowane jako podporządkowane idei edukacji partycypacyjnej opartej na (samo)organizacji środowisk ludowych. Przybliżenie lokalnych i emigracyjnych działań Sokolicz ma na celu ukazanie relacji między praktykami: krytycznoliteracką i dydaktyczną. Choć autorkę O kulturze artystycznej proletariatu łatwo uznać za partyjną działaczkę posługującą się wulgarnym socjologizmem i negatywnie rozumianym idealizmem, a jej działalność za przeszczepienie na polski grunt założeń Proletkultu, sprawę komplikują wątki patriotyczne oraz postulaty utrzymania ciągłości kulturowej (sprzeczne z ideami radzieckiej organizacji). Podejmowane przez Sokolicz inicjatywy związane były przede wszystkim z dążeniem do stworzenia powszechnych, egalitarnych i oddolnie zorganizowanych instytucji oświatowych. Dziś jej teksty krytycznoliterackie nie mogą zostać w pełni zrozumiane bez uwzględnienia tego kontekstu.
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