Dramaturgies of the Left-Behind: Mobility and Stickiness inThe Disappearances Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
SUZANNE LITTLE
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
Unresolved Loss ◽  
Indeterminate World ◽  
Australian Company

In the verbatim theatre performanceThe Disappearances Project(2011–13), Australian company Version 1.0 explored the state of unresolved loss felt by those left behind by missing persons. Rather than relying on verbatim testimony to simply ‘tell’ the stories of the left-behind, directors Yana Taylor and David Williams sought to immerse the audience in an indeterminate world, characterized by pathologies of endless searching and waiting, and a sense of paralysing loss. In this article, I argue that the performance hinged on dramaturgical practices of stillness, slowed movement and friction to produce the disturbing sense of ‘sticky’ indeterminacy characteristic of the experience of the left-behind. To develop this interpretation, I turn to the post-disciplinary field of mobility studies, which highlights the movement (or otherwise) of people, objects, information and capital, as well as embodied experience and sensory and kinesthetic environments. This provides ways to identify and analyse mobility-as-dramaturgy as well as the co-production of affective atmospheres within Disappearances and the wider field of performance.

Everything Seems So Illogical: Constructing Missingness Between Life and Death in Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110543
Author(s):  
Ori Katz
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Social Category ◽  
Ontological Category ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Narrative Ethnography ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
The People ◽  
High Uncertainty

This paper discusses the case of missing persons in Israel, to show how the category of “missingness” is constructed by the people who have been left behind, and how this may threaten the life-death dichotomy assumption. The field of missing persons in Israel is characterized not only by high uncertainty, but also by the absence of relevant cultural scripts. Based on a narrative ethnography of missingness in Israel, I claim that a new and subversive social category of “missingness” can be constructed following the absence of cultural scripts. The left-behinds fluctuate not only between different assumptions about the missing person’s fate; they also fluctuate between acceptance of the life-death dichotomy, thus yearning for a solution to a temporary in-between state, and blurring this dichotomy, and thus constructing “missingness” as a new stable and subversive ontological category. Under this category, new rites of passage are also negotiated and constructed.

scholarly journals N.S. Derzhavin: a Bulgarist who found success in Bolshevik and Soviet academic studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Nikita S. Gusev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
State Of Affairs

This article is devoted to the biography of the famous Soviet academic N. S. Derzhavin (1877–1953) and his academic activities, primarily relating to Bulgaria and the Bulgarians. This scholar had a dizzying career, became an academic without a doctorate and created his own specialist institute, by virtue of his sensitive understanding of the state of affairs in the country. He left behind a rich heritage though some of his books did not stand the test of time. All his life N.S. Derzhavin sincerely sympathized with the objects of his study.

scholarly journals التأويل الصحيح للأحاديث النبوية الواردة في التكفير: نماذج تطبيقية

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-26
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abdul al-Razzaq Aswad
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Range ◽  
The State ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Right

Takfir (Judging others as disbeliever) is a deviation from the right path and a serious social scourge that could destroy a structure of a society, ignite the flame of hatred and crumb a foundation of a state. The state thus will become disorder, unrest, left behind and underdeveloped. It resembles the biggest deviation in religiosity. Thus, this study tries to look upon the case as well as the correct interpretation of the Prophet's Hadiths about it. It will examine some of the Prophet's Hadiths relating to creed, ethics, worship, society, family, economy, crimes, politics and military. The conclusion of this study is the main reason for the presence of takfir in Islam is the false interpretation of Islamic resources. The takfir is an Islamic ruling and is Allah and His Messenger’s privilege. Wrong deeds or person with clear evidence from the revelation of its or his blasphemy is considered disbeliever otherwise he is not unless clear evidence or true conditions show it. Regarding the Prophet's hadith, somehow it has two conditions; either it is explicitly or implicitly stated and has supported from other evidence or it does not explicitly or implicitly state which is unreasonable. Therefore, it considered as false interpretation. The Prophet did mention about two types of blasphemy; first: major blasphemy, it is within a narrow range and can not be known except the person explicitly admit it. Thus, he shall forever in the hell. While the second is minor blasphemy which can be found in practics and deeds, which is the most. The doer will be considered as guilty and committed a major sin and shall be punished in the hell for a certain period.

scholarly journals Ending Statelessness Through Belonging: A Transformative Agenda?

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy A. Belton
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Community ◽  
National Borders

Belonging. The subject conjures up a realm of emotions. In today's world, where increasing numbers of people are on the move, whether voluntarily or forced, it captures the nostalgia one feels for a home left behind or the yearning one has for acceptance in a new community. It can produce feelings of joy or loss even from a distance, as when one follows political, sporting, or family events from afar. It encompasses sentiments of anguish, fear, and resentment when those who wish to belong are rejected or when those within a group feel threatened by those from without. For all the talk today of an interconnected, globalizing world where borders are “not just permeable, but . . . shot through with large holes,” most of us still expect our national borders—the borders of the state where we belong—to be impenetrable, except through the preapproved legal channels.

Money, Maturity, and Migrant Aspirations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryll Alipio
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
At Home

Since the state institutionalization of migrant labour began in the Philippines, countless children have been ‘left behind’ bereft of one, or even both, parents. Consequently, the moral evaluation of familial and financial responsibility has intensified. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in the various institutions involved in the quotidian lives of young people, this chapter uses Cheryl Mattingly’s (2013) notion of the ‘moral laboratory’ at home and in school to explore lived engagements with money, morality, and mobility. In the reimagining and pursuit of future possibilities beyond a life of poverty and unemployment, this chapter contends that young people’s experimentation with money as a form of mobile or migrant aspiration reflects their strategic moral values and maturation.

Varieties of Colonialism

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-206
Author(s):  
Atul Kohli
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The State ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
British Rule

British colonialism in India was prolonged and deep. By contrast, British rule in Africa, including in Nigeria, was relatively short and superficial. This chapter analyzes the motives, mechanisms, and impact of British colonialism by comparing these two experiences. The economic importance of India to Britain was far greater than that of Nigeria. Crown rule over India was established with brutal force and sustained via despotic institutions of rule. The Scramble for Africa was sparked by growing competition among European powers, but the economic context was also important. The British left behind moderately well-functioning state institutions in India but an impoverished economy, in which the life expectancy of an average Indian was thirty-two years. In Nigeria both the state and the economy that the British left behind were seriously underdeveloped.

Administrative Perspectives on the No Child Left behind Act (NCLBA) for Students with Disabilities in Rural Settings

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luann L. Purcell ◽  
Bill East ◽  
Harvey A. Rude
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The State ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Impact

The impact of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) has provided a significant challenge and opportunity for administrators of special education services at the state and local levels. Leaders representing prominent professional organizations at both the state (National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.) and local (Council of Administrators of Special Education, Inc.) education levels have identified advantages and barriers to successful implementation of the legal mandates. The most significant challenges for special education leaders and managers include: the requirements for adequate yearly progress for all learners, the provision of highly qualified special education service providers, and an adequate amount of attention devoted to all subgroups of learners. The unique difficulties for rural schools providing an appropriate education to all learners, including those with disabilities, are compounded by the effects of supplemental services, choice options, and the identification of adequate resources. The implications for the preparation of effective special education leaders and managers are identified within these parameters.

Colonial Collecting Expeditions and the Pursuit of Opportunities in the Amazonian Sertão, c. 1750–1800

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Flynn Roller
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Village

Every year during the second half of the eighteenth century, as river levels dropped, an average of 1,500 Indian crewmen departed nearly 50 villages for the remote interior forests and waterways of the Amazonian sertão. During the next six to eight months, as they searched for cacao, sarsaparilla, nuts, or turde eggs, the crewmen might experience all manner of hardships—epidemics, tribal attacks, famine, mutinies, or the loss of the village canoe and its cargo, to name just a few. Then, upon arriving home, they might find their families reduced to utter poverty or sickness, their wives taken in by other men, or their crops abandoned and devoured by pests. Yet despite the arduousness of the state-sponsored collecting expeditions and the hardships imposed upon those left behind, the trips offered a range of opportunities that other kinds of compulsory labor did not. Some of those who were not required to participate, such as the native officials, even did so voluntarily.

Public borders, private crossings: Anthropological approaches to neoliberalism in US educational policy and spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Convertino ◽  
Amy Brown ◽  
Marguerite Anne Fillion Wilson
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Nation At Risk ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Private Values ◽  
Public Versus Private

Educational policies across the globe reflect the ascendancy of neoliberalism. According to neoliberalism, the market represents a superior mechanism to govern ( Peters, 2012 ), and thus, the role of the state is to enable the agency of the market ( Rose, 1999 ). In the United States, the federal report A Nation at Risk (1983) formalized the direct influence of a neoliberal rationality on the formation of educational policies. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (2001) and The Race to the Top (2010) represent successive assertions of market values on educational reform. At the same time, there is a fundamental contradiction within neoliberal logic: while the state is to refrain from interfering in the market, it must simultaneously intervene to govern schools ( Hursh, 2005 ). Based on these trends, the articles in this special issue highlight critical tensions between public versus private values, practices, and discourses that emerge from the proliferation of a neoliberal logic into the educational sphere. In different ways, each of these articles map out a unique facet of neoliberalism in education to complicate the often totalizing critiques of market-based logics in order to demonstrate the complex ways that people rearticulate and resist education policy in an era of neoliberal ascendancy.

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