Transcultures: Asia-Pacific media representations of globalisation
In: Media, culture and social change in Asia v.?
In: Media, culture and social change in Asia v.?
Comunicación presentada en 5th International Conference of the Association of Architectural Educators, University of Westminster, 24-26 April 2019. ; Literary studies' main object of study is the dynamics and devices involved in textual stories. Traditionally, architecture studies design spaces for experiences. It corresponds to sociology studies to reveal the interrelations between humans and their environment. Finally, geopolitical studies classically focus on political powers linked to the geographical space. In this context, this paper presents a multidisciplinary set of exercises that took place during the first semester of the academic year 2018/19, in which these four disciplines shared objectives and methods in relation with a common topic: migrations in the mid-20th Century. These exercises are based on literary narratives and non-literary texts about migration, border-crossing and transcultural identities compiled in the volume Journeys. How travelling fruit, ideas and buildings rearrange our environment (published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2010), acknowledging the value of non-human migrants through topics and stories by establishing complex connections between them. The work presented in this paper describes how students are capable of implementing procedures learnt from other fields of knowledge (e.g. such as storyboards, sociograms or image tagging) for developing a traditional architectural design project. The educational challenge is presented by the definition of methodologies and the identification of statements. The research developed in this contribution focuses on different degrees of integration and rootedness of modern migrations caused by climatic, cultural, labour or economic reasons. Is it a suitable topic for the four disciplines involved? It certainly provides an opportunity to speculate with non-humans, goods and knowledge beyond anthropocentric discourse. In particular, the subject allows us to compare migrants and remittances i.e. non-monetary transfers such as consumer goods, customs and technologies.
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In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 224b-224b
ISSN: 1471-6380
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In: Globolitical 6
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 224a-224a
ISSN: 1471-6380
This essay offers a reinterpretation of the origins of Islamic printing as part of the new global technological and cultural exchanges of the early 19th century. With a special focus on Iranian printers, it reconstructs the interactions of the individual agents of this technological transfer with their European partners. In particular, it traces the emergence of cultural and technological "middlemen" in government employment who traveled to European cities to acquire printing. The "transculturalism" that these middlemen developed was a necessary qualification for success, and here their interaction with missionary organizations and their Arabic typographers proved crucial. They accessed the mass-produced, portable iron handpress, the global proliferation of which in the early 1800s linked pioneer Iranian as well as Indian and Egyptian printers to contemporary developments in England, New Zealand, and America. Islamic printing emerged as less a "late development" than part of the wider globalization of printing that accompanied the Industrial Revolution.
In: Transcultures [4]
In: Interventions
Transcultural Realities is an important collection of essays written by an outstanding cast of critical scholars who discuss the importance of transculture in interdisciplinary contexts. The primary goal of the contributors is to help the reader to understand that a state of "community" or "harmony" cannot be achieved in the world until we are all ready to accept different cultural forms, norms, and orientations. In this book, transculture is defined as a form of culture created not from within separate spheres, but in the holistic forms of diverse cultures. It is based on the principle that a
Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the »functioning« of humour and laughter.
In: History in Popular Cultures
Introduction /Cheauré, Elisabeth ; Nohejl, Regine --Napoleon and the 1812 Patriotic War in Russian Humour /Cheauré, Elisabeth --Alfred and Friedrich Alfred Krupp as the Butt of Jokes? /Heimsoth, Axel --Letting Loose the Doggerel of War /Milne, Lesley --Poignant Past. How Interwar Satirical Magazines in Germany, France and Spain Used History to Criticise Their Times /Reichstetter, Louisa --More than Resistance: Political Humour Under Stalin in the 1930s /Waterlow, Jonathan --Then We Will Fight in the Shade /Feickert, Sabrina.
The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter in a Transcultural PerspectiveThe article marks an attempt to read the book Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer from the transcultural perspective. Gordimer is one of the most famous South African novelists and an active anti-apartheid activist, hence her novels already have a plethora of analysis. However, the use of transcultural perspective would introduce into the existing critical outlook the more general issue of the struggle for freedom from any cultural and societal ties imposed on the individual. Although the local political situation is an important background for Gordimer's book, the article situates its key issue in a possibility of creating a space of individual freedom, i.e. space situated beyond the cultural and societal entanglements that seem to resemble the transcultural endeavor.Conceptualization and expression of a space of ultimate liberation is a difficult venture, as the main tool of a literary text – language – is culturally bounded. However, transcultural literature, phenomenon just entering into the sight of literary research, displays the creative strategies of undermining the language in literary creation, i.a. the pluralization of narrative voices, the introduction of the unreliable narrator, extensive use of irony, multinational settings of the storyline. This article is an attempt to detect some other literary strategies of creating space beyond words and beyond culture. The analysis underlines how the use of visual strategies help to decenter the narrative voice and to actuate the text into the transcultural movement. It also exposes the importance of first-person narration in the performative process of distancing to oneself – appearing to herself as "a place where things happen". Finally, the article detects the crucial gestures – moments of increased tension, both visual and deeply personal, that lead beyond the text to the experiences of "life itself", i.e. blood, agony, and death. Pragnienie nigdzie – Córka Burgera Nadine Gordimer w perspektywie transkulturowejArtykuł zestawia książkę Nadine Gordimer Córka Burgera z "pragnieniem nigdzie" ("the desire of nowhere"), odczytanym przez autorkę w perspektywie transkulturowej. Gordimer to jedna z najbardziej rozpoznawanych południowoafrykańskich pisarek i aktywistek anty-apartheidu. Sytuacja polityczna Południowej Afryki jest tym samym ważnym tłem jej książek. Mimo to, kluczowym problemem twórczości autorki wydaje się być bardziej uniwersalne poszukiwanie przestrzeni indywidualnej wolności jednostki. Podjęta przez Gordimer refleksja nad "pragnieniem nigdzie" w swojej istocie przypomina transkulturowe poszukiwania przestrzeni znajdującej się poza kulturą, choć odmiennie rozkłada akcenty. Wyrażenie przestrzeni wolności od kultury w literaturze nie jest łatwe, jako że jej podstawowe narzędzie – język – jest mocno zapośredniczone kulturowo. Dlatego też, literatura transkulturowa posługuje się zestawem kreatywnych strategii podważania języka, e.g. poprzez pluralizację głosów, wprowadzenie narratora niewiarygodnego, intensywne użycie ironii lub międzynarodową lokalizację narracji. Artykuł jest próbą znalezienia innych metod wyrażenie tego, czego nie może oddać język. Prezentowana analiza powieści Gordimer skupia się na użyciu wizualnych strategii, które pomagają zdecentralizować narrację i nadać tekstowi transkulturową dynamikę. Refleksji poddany zostaje także performatywny proces dystansowania się narratora do własnego "ja" – pojawiania się sobie jako "miejsce, gdzie coś się dzieje". W konsekwencji, artykuł dochodzi do analizy kluczowych "gestów" – momentów intensywnego napięcia narracyjnego, które poprzez wykorzystanie motywów krwi, agonii oraz śmierci, prowadzą czytelnika poza tekst, aż do doświadczenia "samego życia".
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Humour can be used as a "weapon" or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the "functioning" of humour and laughter.
In: Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education Special E-book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400979
Preliminary Material /Jonathan Gourlay and Gabriele Strohschen -- Recent Criticism of Literature has Emphasized the Problem of Identity and Meaning Associated with Globalisation: How So and Why? /Ulzhan Dyusembayeva -- A Coherence of Identities or an Identity of Coherence? A Review of the Recent Discussion on Well-Being, Social Identities and Integration in a Multicultural Context /Sven Hassler -- Language Choice and the Dilemma of Identity: Chinese First Language Academics in a TNE Environment /Yanfang Si and Stuart Perrin -- The Intersections of Sexuality and Religion in the Anti-Interculturalist Rhetoric in Finnish Internet Discussion on Muslim Homosexuals in Amsterdam /Tuuli Lähdesmäki and Tuija Saresma -- How Does the Type of Migration Influence the Social Functioning of Polish Migrants in the Culture of the Host Country? /Anna B. Krasnodębska , Przemysław Zdybek and Radosław B. Walczak -- Friendship: Rethinking Personhood and Community /Mihalis Mentinis -- Seeing Oneself in the Other: A Model for Intercultural Competence in Education /Carrie Boden-McGill , Nora Cavazos , Melisa Kakas and Dorinda N. Noble -- Acculturation Processes among the Hungarians and Romanians in Gyimes: The Transformation of Communal Identities and Denominational Cultures /Judit Balatonyi -- Interculturalism, National Identity, Citizenship and the Populist Right: The Example of Sweden /Fredrik Sunnemark -- How to Fail in Micronesia: Lessons from a Shetland Islands Captain /Jonathan Gourlay -- The Production of Interculturality in Two Urban Spaces: Lisbon and Granada Compared /Nuno Oliveira -- The Architecture of Transculture /Richard Rathwell.
In: Rhetoric and public affairs series
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1. Rhetorical histories, contested nationalities, and emerging transcultures -- Preface to Part One / Leonard C. Hawes -- The Little Red Book Lives On: Mao's Rhetorical Legacies in Contemporary Chinese Imaginings / Xing Lu -- Chen Guangcheng and the Rhetorical Politics of Dissent: Imagining Human Rights in U.S.-Sino Relations / Michelle Murray Yang -- Alternative Modernities, Postcolonial Colonialism, and Contested Imaginings in and of Tibet / Stephen J. Hartnett -- Imagining China in Twelve Vignettes, photographs / Stephen J. Hartnett -- pt. 2. Imagining communities in the age of risk -- Preface to Part Two / Mohan J. Dutta -- China's Fraught Food System: Imagining Ecological Civilization in the Face of Paradoxical Modernity / Donovan Conley -- Her Milk Is Inferior: Breastfeeding, Risk, and Imagining Maternal Identities in Chinese Cyberspace / Zhuo Ban -- Imagining Health Risks: Fear, Fate, Death, and Family in Chinese and American HIV/AIDS Online Discussion Forums / Jingwen Zhang -- Imagining the People's Risk: Projecting National Strength in China's English-Language News about Avian Influenza / Jared Woolly -- pt. 3. Representations, imaginations, and the politics of culture -- Preface to Part Three / Kent A. Ono -- Imagining Dissent: Contesting the Facade of Harmony through Art and the Internet in China / Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge -- Imagining China through the Culture Industries: The 798 Art Zone and New Chinas / Elizabeth Brunner -- A Beijing Wolf in Hong Kong: Lufsig and Imagining Communities of Political Resistance to Chinese Unification / David R. Gruber.
В ходе социально-философского анализа глобального процесса современности выявлена противоречивость в его интерпретации. Бинарность оценок глобализации затрудняет поиск ее сущности. Метафизический монизм, холизм формирует представление о единстве мира без различий, транскультурность, интерсубъективность, единые общечеловеческие ценности. Метафизический плюрализм предлагает развитие мира как сочетание множественности, плюрализм и поликультурность. Для выяснения истинности видения глобализма современными учеными в большей степени подходит синергетический метод исследования проблемы, который позволяет соединить несоединимое и представить мировое пространство как сложную систему, в которой равноправно существуют центробежные и центростремительные вектора развития, хаос и порядок, универсализм и монизм. На современном этапе развития глобальной мировой системы исследователями отмечается тенденция к политической и экономической полифонии. ; In the socio-philosophical analysis of the global process of modernity revealed inconsistencies in the interpretation of this process. Binary assessment of globalization makes it difficult to find its essence. Metaphysical monism, holism forms the idea of unity of the world without distinction, transcultur, intersubjectivity, common human values. Metaphysical pluralism offers the world a combination of multiplicity, pluralism and multiculturalism. To ascertain the truth of the global vision of modern scientists is more suitable synergistic research method that allows you to combine incompatibles and submit world space as a complex system in which equally there are centrifugal and centrostremitel vector of development, chaos and order, universalism and monism. At the present stage of development of the global system, the researchers noted a trend towards political and economic of polyphony.
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