Tamar Katriel, Performing the past: A study of Israeli settlement museums. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997. Pp. x, 172. Hb $45.00, pb $24.50.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-500
Author(s):  
Don Handelman

In this excellent study of guided tours through two Israeli kibbutz museums, Tamar Katriel comments that for her, “tracing the construction of Israeli culture is as much an act of recognition as it is one of deconstruction” (p. 116). Katriel, a native Israeli Jew, is telling us that for her, moving through these museums, looking at the exhibits, and listening to the guides is an emotional experience. The recognition of which Katriel writes is, one may say, that moment of connectivity in which one orients oneself to person, space, and time in ways that evoke (perhaps suddenly) an awareness that is related to one's very sense of self. The intersection of person, space, and time creates place and the emotions associated with it. When these moments of intersection occur in museums, the practice of taking objects out of their native contexts and infusing them with the purpose of presence within exhibits is successful. The purpose of guides in these museums is to create this sense of place within the people who visit these sites, to engender recognition within these visitors, even if they know little or nothing of the representations that constitute exhibits. Creating the feeling-tones of place is at the heart of guiding in these museums; and the narration of representations is the primary medium through which recognition is evoked.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Uzoma Esonwanne

Is Shakespeare universal? Is Hamlet a “strong” text that generates the same interpretation across cultural space and time, or is it a malleable text whose meaning is contingent upon variables in the encounter between text and reader and the contexts of reading? These were the kinds of questions that my students and I addressed in several courses I taught on Shakespeare over the past four years. As one might expect, our answers differed. Here, I develop and refine the argument I made and, sometimes, made incoherently: universality, whether in a writer, a text, or in criticism “is neither natural nor self-evident.” Because part of my reason for turning to Shakespeare was my dissatisfaction with contrapuntal reading as a pedagogical strategy for cultivating a “critical understanding of imperialism” in students, I conclude that we can only achieve that goal if we deploy contrapuntal reading across the literary curriculum.


Author(s):  
Hélène Landemore

This concluding chapter returns to the metaphor of the maze and the masses introduced in the first chapter and addresses a few concerns about the possibility of democratic “unreason.” Introducing the dimension of time and reflection over time, the chapter suggests, first, that democracies can learn from their mistakes and, second, that certain democratic institutions and norms serve as cognitive artifacts that help the people control for or correct their potential cognitive failures. Those cognitive artifacts at the level of society include institutions and norms that embody the collective intelligence of the people distributed across both space and time. Democratic reason thus includes the wisdom of the past “many” crystallized into social cognitive artifacts that help reduce democratic unreason. Because of the synchronic and diachronic collective intelligence tapped by democratic institutions, democracy, this chapter concludes, is a gamble worth taking.


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Ramos ◽  
P. Renshaw

In this paper we use the visual method Vygotsky explored in the Psychology of Art (1925) to consider how perezhivanie might be represented and mapped as a unity of emotional experience in place. We illustrate the method with regard to children’s experiences recorded during an environmental education excursion that deployed a pedagogy based on narrative drama. The visualization method foregrounds the dynamic relationship between children’s emotional experiences and the specific places where such experiences were embodied. The method also foregrounds time by mapping experience-in-place as remembered (analepsis) and foreshadowed (prolepsis) within an unfolding narrative. Using two case studies, we identify the most important places in the excursion that were emotionally engaging for the students. By tracking their reflections on the experience across time we identify how their experiences in place continued to reverberate on their sense of self in the past, present and the future. The visualization method is an attempt to bring together three related aspects of perezhivanie, namely emotional experience, place, and time, into a unified analytical approach.


Author(s):  
Malynovsky A.T.

The article deals with a romantic interpretation of national history in E. Hrebinka’s novel “Colonel Zolotarenko of Nizhyn”. The methodology of the historical school “Annals” is applied, the coverage of the past from the standpoint of its experience by the subject of the story. The purpose of the study is to analyze the text in the plane of postcolonial theory, to find out the role of the genre-creating factor and the Walter-Scottish tradition in the emergence of original historical writing on national soil. Investigate the constructive role of ethnostereotypes in the internalization of history, the intellectual transfer of its images in the plane of internal behavior, emotional experience. Methods is related to the substantiation of alternative reading of historical events in the context of cultural anthropology, ethnoimagology, transfer of other people’s models into one’s environment.The results of the study illustrate the connection between the author’s concept of history and national memory, selection, archiving of past events in the emotional experience of the people, subjective interpretation and even mythologizing of facts, sources, figures. It is a new type of historicism that contributes to the modernity of historical writing and acquires an international character. The connection with ballad as a special genre, stylistic factor, which appears in the mediating function, emphasizes the European tradition of literary historiography. The mechanisms of transformation of the epic principle are analyzed, which obeys the image of private, everyday life, reproduces more or less chamber situations.Special attention is paid to ethnostereotypes, conditions and factors of their formation under the influence of the historical situation, political situation, psychologization of ideas about the Other. Emphasis is placed on the close connection between stereotypes and the so-called post-historical situation, national memory.Conclusions. The poetics of history appears as a set of paths capable of reproducing the past in its subjective emotional refraction, in individual interpretation and the controversial concept of the historical process.Key words: ballad, gothic tradition, interiorization, historiography, xenophobia, stereotype, topos, transfer. У статті йдеться проромантичну інтерпретацію національної історії у повісті Є. Гребінки «Нежинский полковник Золотаренко». Застосовано методологію історичної школи «Анналів», висвітлення минулого з позицій його переживання суб’єктом оповіді. Мета дослідження – проаналізувати текст у контексті постколоніальної теорії, з’ясувати роль жанротворчого чинника і вальтер-скоттівської традиції в постанні самобутнього історичного письма на національному ґрунті; дослідити конструктивну роль етностереотипів в інтеріоризації історії, інтелектуальному перенесенні її образів у сферу внутрішньої поведінки, емоційного переживання. Методологія дослідження пов’язана з обґрунтуванням альтернативного прочитання історичних подій у контексті культурної антропології, етноімагології, трансферу чужих моделей у своє середовище. Продуктивним є застосування нового історизму як наукової моделі прочитання історичної нарації Гребінки крізь призму чутливості, етностереотипів, приватного життя. З цього погляду методологія французької історичної школи «Анналів» дозволяє побачити в тексті альтернативну, контроверсійну концепцію історії. Її інтерпретація увиразнюється методами літературної імагології, жанрової типології, культурного трансферу. Результати дослідження ілюструють зв’язок між авторською концепцією історії і національною пам’яттю, селекцією, архівуванням подій минулого в емоційному досвіді народу, суб’єктивною інтерпретацією і навіть міфологізацією фактів, джерел, постатей. Йдеться про новий тип історизму, що сприяє модерності історичного письма й набуває інтернаціонального характеру. Простежено зв’язок з баладністю як особливим жанровим, стилетворчим чинником, що постає у посередницькій функції, увиразнює європейську традицію літературного історіописання. Проаналізовано механізми трансформації епічного начала, яке підкоряється зображенню приватного, побутового життя, відтворює камерні ситуації. Окрему увагу приділено етностереотипам, умовам і факторам їхнього утворення під впливом історичної ситуації, політич-ної кон’юнктури, психологізації уявлень про Іншого. Наголошено на щільному зв’язку стереотипів і так званої постісторичної ситуації, національної пам’яті. Простежено способи трансформації історичної правди, шляхи її трансферу у сферу приватного, камерного простору. Висновки. Поетикаісторії постає сукупністю тропів, здатних відтворити минуле в його суб’єктивно емоційному заломленні, в індивідуальній інтерпретації і контроверсійній концепції історичного процесу. Ключові слова: баладність, готична традиція, історіописання, ксенофобія, стереотип, трансфер.


Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourens Schlebusch ◽  
Naseema B.M. Vawda ◽  
Brenda A. Bosch

Summary: In the past suicidal behavior among Black South Africans has been largely underresearched. Earlier studies among the other main ethnic groups in the country showed suicidal behavior in those groups to be a serious problem. This article briefly reviews some of the more recent research on suicidal behavior in Black South Africans. The results indicate an apparent increase in suicidal behavior in this group. Several explanations are offered for the change in suicidal behavior in the reported clinical populations. This includes past difficulties for all South Africans to access health care facilities in the Apartheid (legal racial separation) era, and present difficulties of post-Apartheid transformation the South African society is undergoing, as the people struggle to come to terms with the deleterious effects of the former South African racial policies, related socio-cultural, socio-economic, and other pressures.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Elyna Amir Sharji ◽  
Lim Yan Peng ◽  
Peter Charles Woods ◽  
Vimala Perumal ◽  
Rose Linda Zainal Abidin

The challenge of transforming an empty space into a gallery setting takes on the concept of place making. A place can be seen as space that has meaning when the setting considers space, surroundings, contents, the people and its activities. This research concentrates on investigating how visitors perceive the space by gauging their sense of place (sense of belonging towards a place). Galleries are currently facing changes in this technological era whereby multiple content and context, space and form, display modes, tools and devices are introduced in one single space. An observational study was done during the Foundation Studies Annual Exhibition held at Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University. The exhibition was curated and managed by staff and students of Foundation Year showcasing an array of design works. Analogue and digital presentations of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography and video works were displayed.. The outcome of this research will contribute towards a better design criteria of place making which affects individual behaviour, social values and attitudes. Characterizing types of visitor experience will improve the understanding of a better design criteria of place making, acceptance, understanding and satisfaction.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Muhammad Eko Atmojo ◽  
Helen Dian Fridayani

Kulon Progo Regency is one of the districts that has many innovations, one of which is community empowerment in collaboration with a modern shop abbreviated as the shop name owned by the people (tomira). This research was motivated by the achievements of the Kulon Progo district government in carrying out development and innovation in the development of the Kulon Progo region by fully involving the Kulon Progo district community through community empowerment. This initiative was taken by the government of Kulon Progo Regency to improve community empowerment and protect the people of Kulon Progo Regency from various economic threats. Considering that in the past few years many modern shops have mushroomed in each district/city, so this is what makes Kulon Progo Regency move quickly to empower the community by collaborating between MSMEs or cooperative with modern shops. This study uses a qualitative method which case study approach. With the empowerment that has been done, the original products of Kulon Progo Regency or local products can be traded in modern stores so that local products in Kulon Progo Regency can compete with national products in these modern stores. The existence of such cooperation will indirectly improve the image of Kulon Progo Regency and lift the original products of Kulon Progo Regency. The lifting of the original products of Kulon Progo Regency will have a positive impact on the community, where indirectly the economy of the community will increase so that there will be prosperity for the community. Kabupaten Kulon Progo adalah salah satu kabupaten yang memiliki banyak inovasi, salah satunya adalah pemberdayaan masyarakat bekerja sama dengan toko modern disingkat nama toko yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat (tomira). Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh pencapaian pemerintah kabupaten Kulon Progo dalam melakukan pengembangan dan inovasi dalam pengembangan wilayah Kulon Progo dengan melibatkan sepenuhnya masyarakat kabupaten Kulon Progo melalui pemberdayaan masyarakat. Inisiatif ini diambil oleh pemerintah Kabupaten Kulon Progo untuk meningkatkan pemberdayaan masyarakat dan melindungi masyarakat Kabupaten Kulon Progo dari berbagai ancaman ekonomi. Menimbang bahwa dalam beberapa tahun terakhir banyak toko-toko modern telah menjamur di setiap kabupaten/kota, jadi inilah yang membuat Kabupaten Kulon Progo bergerak cepat untuk memberdayakan masyarakat dengan berkolaborasi antara UMKM atau bekerjasama dengan toko-toko modern. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus, dengan metode yang digunakan adalah dokumentasi. Dengan pemberdayaan yang telah dilakukan, produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo atau produk lokal dapat diperdagangkan di toko modern sehingga produk lokal di Kabupaten Kulon Progo dapat bersaing dengan produk nasional di toko modern ini. Adanya kerjasama tersebut secara tidak langsung akan meningkatkan citra Kabupaten Kulon Progo dan mengangkat produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo. Pencabutan produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo akan berdampak positif bagi masyarakat, di mana secara tidak langsung perekonomian masyarakat akan meningkat sehingga akan ada kesejahteraan bagi masyarakat.


Author(s):  
Sarah Lloyd

This chapter explores what we can know about the conceptualization and representation of by poorer Britons. It draws on ‘pauper letters’ to parish authorities, written tactically, and on autobiographies and letters composed by the relatively poor, noting echoes of the characterization of happiness by elite social commentators. It draws attention to a growing interest (linked to the development of the concept of nostalgia) in the emotional charge that could be derived from reflection on emotional experience as people contrasted past happiness with present misery, or vice versa. While reading such accounts may lead us to think that we are penetrating the interior lives of marginal people in the past, Lloyd suggests that our response is probably coloured by the fact that we are heirs to these ways of conceptualizing and representing experience. We need to work harder to glean insight from earlier ways of representing happiness and suffering.


Author(s):  
Robert St. Clair

weChapter 4 takes up the question of poetry and engagement at its most explicit and complex in Rimbaud, focusing on a long, historical epic entitled “Le Forgeron.” We read this poem, which recreates and re-imagines a confrontation between the People in revolt and Louis XVI in the summer of 1792, as Rimbaud’s attempt to add a revolutionary supplement to the counter-epics modeled by Victor Hugo in Châtiments. Chapter 4 shows how Rimbaud’s “Forgeron” challenges us to examine the ways in which a poem might seek “to enjamb” the caesura between poiesis and praxis by including and complicating revolutionary (counter)history into its folds in order to implicate itself in the political struggles of its time.


Author(s):  
Caroline Fleay

Throughout the past forty years various leaders from both major political parties in Australia have categorized the arrival by boat of people seeking asylum as a “crisis” and the people themselves as “illegal.” This is despite Australia being a signatory to the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and receiving relatively few people who seek asylum compared with many other countries. Punitive government policies and processes have further reinforced these representations, such that “crisis” and “illegal” can now be understood as both categories of analysis and practice. The repeated use of such categories may be helping to produce and reproduce prejudice and racism and obscure the needs and experiences of people seeking asylum.


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