Post-war Lived Experience: ‘Sinhalisation’

2017 ◽  
pp. 153-191
Author(s):  
Rachel Seoighe
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals Displaced persons in Queensland: Stuart migrant camp

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Jayne Persian
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Training

AbstractThis article examines the lived experience and recent commemorative efforts relating to the experience of displaced prsons who were sent to Queensland in the post-war period. 170,000 displaced persons — predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans — arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952. They were sent to reception and training centres upon their arrival before commencing a two-year indentured labour contract. Memorialisation of these camps tends to present them as the founding places of the migrant experience in Australia; however, there has been very little historical work on displaced persons in Queensland, or on the Queensland migrant camps — Wacol, Enoggera, Stuart and Cairns. This article focuses on recent commemorative attempts surrounding the Stuart migrant camp in order to argue that, in relation to displaced persons, family and community memories drive commemorative activities.

scholarly journals The Mobilization for Spatial Justice in Divided Societies: Urban Commons, Trust Reconstruction, and Socialist Memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110051
Author(s):  
Chiara Milan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Divided Societies ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Post War ◽  
Urban Commons

The article contributes to the urban studies literature and the study of social movements in divided societies by disclosing the distinctive features and mobilizing potential that the notion of urban commons retains in a war-torn society with a socialist legacy. Specifically, it investigates how urban space and urban commons are reclaimed in a post-conflict and post-socialist country such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. By using Sarajevo as a case study, the article explores several grassroots initiatives undertaken by local urban activists to reappropriate cultural buildings and public space in the city. The study discloses that in a post-conflict and post-socialist society urban commons can bear a unifying potential as acts of commoning favor trust reconstruction processes and strengthen community ties. While the erosion of social ties and the legacy of the war might not encourage mobilization for the commons, the reference to socialist-era practices and language can represent a vantage point to advocate in favor of collective governance. Throughout their actions, urban activists instrumentally referred to the historical experience of socialism to develop a discourse that resonates with the domestic cultural environment. The article points also to a generational difference amongst activists in their references to Yugoslav state socialism. While long-time activists strove to critically reappraise it, the younger ones born in the immediate post-war period appear to hold a more superficial and ambivalent historical knowledge of the socialist heritage, to which they had only partial access and no lived experience.

scholarly journals Unspoken Barriers: An Autoethnographic Study of Frustration, Resistance and Resilience

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Wake
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Life Trajectory ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Post War ◽  
Role Confusion

Immigration, cultural capital, cultural hybridity are the contributing players within my autoethnographic research as a second-generation daughter of southern Italian migrants from the post war era. This autobiography of my lived experience identifies contributing influences of arrested development within my educational and life trajectory and explores theoretical frameworks as key comparative indicators for my thwarted stages of psychosocial development. My identity and role as a female is further explored within the construct of a determined and culturally hybrid adolescence in an effort to answer research questions of identity and role confusion. My narratives situate my life as a daughter, student, and future wife living an existence of cultural hegemony acknowledging the non-existence of a bicultural relationship between my family and the Australian way.

scholarly journals Mastery and Masquerade in the Transatlantic Blues Revival

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-210
Author(s):  
Ross Cole
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Intercultural Contact ◽  
Blackface Minstrelsy ◽  
Blues Music ◽  
American Artists ◽  
Post War ◽  
African American Artists

ABSTRACTFocusing on two influential broadcasts staged for British television in 1963–4, this article traces transatlantic attitudes towards blues music in order to explore the constitutive relationship between race, spectatorship and performativity. During these programmes, I claim, a form of mythic history is translated into racial nature. Ultimately, I argue that blues revivalism coerced African American musicians into assuming the mask of blackface minstrelsy – an active personification of difference driven by a lucrative fantasy on the terms of white demand. I ask why this imagery found such zealous adherents among post-war youth, situating their gaze within a longer tradition of colonialist display. Subaltern musicians caught within this regime were nonetheless able to ‘speak’ via sung performances that signified on the coordinates of their own marginalization. The challenge for musicology is thus to heed the relational syncretism arising from intercultural contact while acknowledging the lived experience of African American artists unable fully to evade the preordained mask of alterity.

Uncovering the Lives of Women in Post-War Oxfordshire: An Oral History Approach

Rural History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANGELA DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Rural Living ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
Group Characteristics

AbstractWriting in 1960 Margaret Stacey asserted that, ‘Women, compared with men, tend to show group characteristics regardless of other social factors like class. Their training from childhood sets them apart from boys and together as potential wives and mothers.’ This article will question whether Oxfordshire women did indeed believe that there was a commonality in their experiences at this time, irrespective of the locality in which they lived or the class to which they belonged, or whether these differences were more significant than their shared gender. The first objective of this article is therefore to analyse the role class played in determining women's experiences of life in Oxfordshire at this time. Leading on from this, the second objective is to investigate the importance of locality upon lived experience, and to engage, in Charles Phythian-Adams' words, in the process of ‘unravelling localized identities’ (1987). Using Oxfordshire as a case study it is possible to examine a range of communities: rural, urban and suburban. This article will demonstrate how the nature of these different communities affected women's experiences of living within them. The third objective is to discuss the ways in which the women I interviewed expressed their experiences of rural living through the oral history interview, and how their accounts relate to contemporary debates and existing historical interpretations.

Crossing Invisible Boundaries and Re-Gaining Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Stevens Aguto Odongoh ◽  
Amal Adel Abdrabo
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social World ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Invisible

The current chapter deals with two different cases of post-war displacement, divided by thousands of miles and located in two different social, cultural, and political contexts. The two authors of this chapter believe that sometimes what the construction of knowledge within any discipline needs is to use more comparative empirical research for seeking more insights and understanding of the social world. Thus, collectively, the authors through this chapter compare two far away cases of displacement but too similar within their lived experience in reality in order to contest some of the mainstream notions within the anthropological library. The main focus is to study the concepts of home and belonging between two post-war displaced cases in Africa, the post-war Acholi of Northern Uganda and the Palestinian refugees of Jaziret Fadel village at Al-Sharqyiah Governorate in Egypt. They have found that when people come across the borders, the act of physical crossing is not as difficult as penetrating the invisible ones. People can acquire visas, escape the authorities at checkpoints, or easily camouflage to be able to go through border points. However, when it comes to crossing the intangible borders, to be able to penetrate the social fabric of the newly settled in community across the border is a laborious exercise.

scholarly journals Tradition and Modernity in Discourses of Māori Urbanisation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Post War

This article addresses a gap in the historical literature concerning Māori urbanisation and economic development by exploring intellectual exchanges surrounding these developments. It argues that a series of key figures transmitted a network of ideas relating to Māori acculturation and urbanisation from the inter-war through the post-war period and considers the evolution, interpenetration and divergence of their perspectives. Although primarily an examination of discourse rather than policy or resulting lived experience, the paper also traces some of the ways in which this discourse informed the actions of government officials as they attempted to manage the exodus of Māori from the countryside.

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