scholarly journals The chronotopes of authenticity

AILA Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 72-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Wang ◽  
Sjaak Kroon
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
New Economy ◽  
New Order ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Complex Project

This paper examines the ways in which the ethnic minority group the Tujia in Enshi, China, engages with heritage tourism, as a complex project of designing authenticity. Authenticity is taken as part of the chronotopic phenomena of identity making: the complex interplay of multiple, nonrandom timespace frames of discourses and semiotic performances which condition and offer new potentials to the meanings of authenticity. We show ethnographically the chronotopic nature of the local production of “authentic” heritage for tourism in Enshi. This leads to a historical grounding of the Tujia in China’s nation-building and state politics of multiculturalism, which uncovers the anxiety of inauthenticity experienced by the Tujia in Enshi with their own minority status and cultural heritage, as well as their strategic chronotopic incorporation of both “authentic” and “inauthentic” aspects of local identity practices into a new order of authenticity afforded by heritage tourism as a form of new economy. Through such practices, we argue, the Tujia in Enshi chronotopically shift away from the periphery towards a new and reconfigured center of meaning-making, although this reappropriation of authenticity still must be understood within the “cunning of recognition” scheme, i.e. within the constraints of late modernity.

Ethnic trust, minority status, and public goods in post-conflict societies

2021 ◽  
pp. 002234332098421
Author(s):  
Sam Whitt
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
History Of

This study considers how ethnic trust and minority status can impact the ability of ethnic groups to pursue cooperative public goods, focusing on groups with a history of conflict and lingering hostility. A public good experiment between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in postwar Kosovo reveals that subjects contribute far more to a mutually beneficial public good when they are part of an experimentally induced coethnic majority. However, when in the minority, subjects not only underinvest, but many actively divest entirely, privatizing the public good. Majority/minority status also has wide-ranging implications for how individuals relate to real-world public goods and the institutions of government that provide them. Compared to majority Albanians, survey data indicate how minority Serbs in Kosovo express greater safety and security concerns, feel more politically, socially, and economically excluded, are more dissatisfied with civil liberties and human rights protections, and are less likely to participate politically or pay taxes to support public goods. Conflict-related victimization and distrust of out-groups are strong predictors of these minority group attitudes and behaviors. This suggests a mechanism for how conflict amplifies out-group distrust, increasing parochial bias in public good commitments, especially among minorities who are wary of exploitation at the hands of an out-group majority. To restore trust, this study finds that institutional trust and intergroup contact are important to bridging ethnic divides that inhibit public good cooperation.

Gender and Ethnic Discrimination

2016 ◽  
pp. 148-163
Author(s):  
Ferdous Jahan ◽  
Sharif Abdul Wahab ◽  
Fairooz Binte Hafiz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Present State ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Minority Status ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Status Of Women

Socioeconomic inequality among men and women is a major hindrance in ensuring equal advancement for all human being to live a dignified life. Minority status of women further exacerbates inequalities faced by women belonging to small ethnic groups. The chapter explores gender inequality across three small ethnic minorities' groups in Bangladesh. Applying Nussbaum's capability approach to analyze the situation of women with different social and ethnic identities, this chapter unpacks the three-fold barriers experienced by women belonging to minorities groups – first, as minority group, second as women and third as minority women. Lack of awareness, perceiving their “present state” as destiny, social and local norms and patriarchal way of thinking force these women to live with identity of secondary citizens.

Regional identity and national theatre in South Sulawesi

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bodden
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
New Order ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
National Community ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
National Trends ◽  
The Relationship

This article details the development of Indonesian national art theatre in Makassar, South Sulawesi from the 1950s to the present. It argues that through a commitment to modernity and modern aesthetics strong bonds to the idea of the nation were formed by Makassar theatre workers. Furthermore, in charting the relationship between local Makassar theatre and national trends often pioneered in Jakarta, I argue that beginning in the New Order and continuing to the present, through several formal and stylistic changes, the deployment of local cultural elements in modern Indonesian national theatre has deepened. Yet this development represents both a renewed pride in local identity and a continuing commitment to the national community.

scholarly journals Konflik Sunni-Syi’ah di Indonesia Kontemporer: Polarisasi, Diskriminasi dan Kekerasan Agama

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-237
Author(s):  
M. Khusna Amal ◽  
Ahmad Fajar Shodiq
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
New Order ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
The Village ◽  
Religious Polarization

Abstract: This study examines the conflict between Sunni groups and Syi'ah groups in post-New Order Indonesia. Many studies have revealed the problem of religious sectarianism conflict between the two. Some argue that conflict is triggered by differences in religious identity and theology. Others see economic and political aspects as the main factors triggering religious conflict and violence. Starting from the case of the Sunni-Syi'ah conflict in Jambesari Village (Bondowoso), this study finds an interesting finding that the conflict occurred due to sharpening religious polarization and contestation. At the same time, the infiltration of intolerant religious elites from outside the village also contributed to sharpening polarization, escalating tensions, and even triggering mass acts of violence that were suspected to have originated from Sunni groups over the Syi'ah minority group. Alienation, discrimination, dissolution of recitation, vandalism, and burning of houses belonging to Syi’ah elites are forms of violence both physically and psychologically due to the occurrence of this religious conflict.

scholarly journals I-Docs and New Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Begoña González-Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Strong Interaction ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The World ◽  
National Film Board ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
The Relationship

Digital media make it possible to move from a conventional storytelling medium to other avenues that allow open stories to be told, maintaining the traditional basis of narratives while also adding other elements that enrich and deepen storytelling innovation. Therefore, it is important to analyze how the characteristics of digital storytelling work together in order to create meaning through new narratives. Recent documentary projects show how new ways of telling stories involve new ways of relating meaning and form, multiple platforms, and strong interaction and engagement from the side of the viewer. Interactivity and participation change the way in which a story is told and received, thus changing its nature as a narrative. To delve deeper into this field, I will analyze Highrise. The Towers in the World. World in the Towers, (http://highrise.nfb.ca) by Katerina Cizek. This is a complex project produced by the National Film Board of Canada, a multiyear, many-media collaborative documentary experiment that has generated many projects, including mixed media, interactive documentaries, mobile productions, live presentations, installations and films. I will develop a textual analysis on part of the project, the interactive documentary Out My Window, by focusing on its ways of meaning-making and the specific narrative implications of the relationship between meaning and form. The project is ambitious: Cizek's vision is "to see how the documentary process can drive and participate in social innovation rather than just to document it, and to help reinvent what it means to be an urban species in the 21st".

scholarly journals Indonesian Theatre Ten Years after Reformasi

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Hatley
Keyword(s):  
New Order ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Regional Autonomy ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction

Theatre contributed actively to the Reformasi movement of 1998 in Indonesia, as shows were staged that united students, NGO workers, artists and others in shared criticism of the Suharto regime and aspirations for change. Modern Indonesianlanguage theatre has a long history of political involvement. Developed among students in the Dutch colonial school system, its aim was helping create the Indonesian nation. This led to friction with other political groups and with state authorities. During the New Order regime, performances conveyed criticism that could not be expressed through other channels. In the post-Suharto era, however, when political criticism can be freely expressed and there is no united opposition movement to work with, theatre necessarily connects in a different way to its social context. In Central Java, where the writers research has been based, contemporary theatrical performances are characterised by a shared focus on local identity and community. Local culture is sometimes interpreted as the indigenous cultural forms of an area, but more often as the mixed local-global culture that residents practise today. The term community is used to refer to immediate neighbours and to people with shared interests and experiences, who both watch and actively perform in plays. Such developments in theatre are clearly shaped by the heightened awareness of local identity fostered by regional autonomy and by the ideology of participatory democracy. But how do theatrical activities connect to other social forces and with the structures of the regional autonomy system? Is there any sense of future direction in the current vibrant celebration of local identity? In what ways does theatre in other regions reflect local social conditions? These important questions remain to be explored.

scholarly journals Am I fine?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Marie Hebsgaard Offersen ◽  
Mette Bech Risør ◽  
Peter Vedsted ◽  
Rikke Sand Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Symptom Awareness ◽  
Bodily Sensations

Woven into the fabric of human existence is the possibility of death and suffering from disease. This essential vulnerability calls forth processes of meaning making, of grappling with uncertainty and morality. In this article we explore the uncertainty and ambiguity that exists in the space between bodily sensations and symptoms of illness. Bodily sensations have the potential to become symptoms of disease or to be absorbed into ordinariness, prompting the question: how do we ascribe meaning to sensations? In the context of middle-class everyday life in Denmark, we show how different potentialities of ambiguous sensations are weighed against each other on a culturally and morally contingent continuum between normal and not normal, uncovering the complex interplay between the body, everyday life, and pervasive biomedical discourses focusing on health promotion, symptom awareness, and care seeking.

scholarly journals Performing motherhood in the height of the New Order era: The contestation of two women in Dua Ibu

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 341
Author(s):  
Edi Dwi Riyanto ◽  
Yuanita Albhar
Keyword(s):  
New Economy ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
New Order ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Reading Technique ◽  
The One

The New Order regime in Indonesia was marked with a strong and centralized power including in defining motherhood. This article is aimed at investigating how the �Ibu� or motherhood becomes a contested arena between nameless Ibu and Tante Mirah and how this arena reflects the contestation of tradition and modernity in Java in the 1980s. Using close reading technique and contextualization, an investigation is done to see how the one role is contested by the two women. The nameless Ibu represents traditions shaped by the cultural and traditional milieu in Solo, Central Java. Meanwhile Tante Mirah migrates to Jakarta and builds her new economy and life.� It is evident that performing traditions has drained out Ibu�s financial resources. At the same time, Tante Mirah is successful in accumulating wealth. Consequently, Ibu goes bankrupt and lets Mirah take the son back. The novel documents the inevitable change of socially defined motherhood performed in the center of Javanese culture.

scholarly journals INTANGIBLE HERITAGE TOURISM: THE NEPALESE DIASPORA IN MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavitha Subaramaniam ◽  
◽  
Swagata Sinha Roy ◽  
Devendra Kumar Budakoti ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Common ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Origin Identity ◽  
Functionalist Approach ◽  
Depth Interviews

Who are you? Where are you from? How did you end up in Malaysia? These are the common questions that the Nepalese community here in Malaysia has had to respond to many a time. We cannot blame the naïve attitudes that our Malaysians possess but it is a matter of regret that most Malaysians from other ethnic groups are not aware of the Nepalese community here, simply because there has been no exposure to their presence. The intangible heritage of one’s ethnicity and culture play a crucial role in pointing out one’s origin, identity and existence. In the context of tourism, it is essential to sustain this minority group as it may arouse the interest of the Nepalese not only in their motherland but also around the globe. Tourists will be interested to learn about how the Nepali diaspora is able to preserve their unique traditions despite the influence of urbanisation and other culturalisations. The authors would apply the functionalist approach to discuss how the intangible tourism not only benefits the nation’s economy but also functions to prevent the extinction of the Malaysian Nepalese customs. The research questions that are posed for this paper are as follows i) How do the Nepalese Malaysians sustain their intangible heritage? ii) What measures are this minority group taking to safeguard their tradition? and iii) In what way will the preservation be able to benefit the country and themselves? In-depth interviews with 15 informants will be conducted along with consensual audio-recording. Transcriptions of the interviews will analyse the thematic patterns coupled with peer checking to reduce bias for the data to be credible and trustworthy. The outcome of this research will be presented.

Identity, Media and the Margins: Radio in Pekanbaru, Riau (Indonesia)

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suryadi
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
New Order ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Radio Stations

Since the fall of Suharto's New Order government the number and variety of media available have grown at a remarkable rate in Indonesia. In the process these new media, particularly radio, have created new forums for expressing local identity. This article examines how various radio stations, and specific programmes, in Pekanbaru, Riau have provided a new conduit for marginalised ethnic, linguistic and social groups – particularly Riau Malays – to address issues of their identity in an increasingly globalised, and decentralised, Indonesia.

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