Locating a pedagogy of love: (re)framing pedagogies of loss in popular-media narratives of African immigrant communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Vaughn W. M. Watson ◽  
Lauren Elizabeth JoReine Johnson ◽  
Romina S. Peña-Pincheira ◽  
Joel E. Berends ◽  
Sisi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Media Narratives

Faith, An Alien and Narrow Path of Christian Ethics in Migration

Exchange ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Undocumented Migrant ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Immigrant Churches ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Immigrant Congregations

Abstract The rise of African immigrant communities in the diaspora, especially in Europe and North America, have contributed significantly to the renewal of Christian presence in those contexts. There are significant numbers of the membership of African immigrant congregations who are economic migrants and whose immigration statuses have not been regularized. The average undocumented migrant lives a very difficult life due to the inability to provide authentic papers for work. This affects the lives of immigrants in several ways, including access to healthcare and education for children. In those circumstances the temptation to survive by assuming false identities is very strong. The mission of immigrant churches includes the provision of ‘protection’ for their vulnerable members who need to survive a physically precarious diaspora. That African immigrants often reinterpret their problems in terms of attacks from supernatural forces and envious witches at ‘home’ in Africa informs the approach of the leadership to care and counselling. This paper proposes to identify the pastoral problems of African immigrant Christians within the context of situation ethics and how the inability to regularize their stay in Europe and North America affects Christian morality and mission in ‘alien lands’.

scholarly journals Speculation over the Love for Rock Music. Media Constructions of Groupies Between the 1960s and 1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Karolina Karbownik
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Narratives

The music media have constructed the identity of groupies as sexual and passive objects, submissive, inauthentic consumers of music. The stereotype, although still present in popular culture, is criticized by both the interested parties and rock artists. This article is an attempt to discuss the role that groupies played in the creation of the myth and character of the rock god, while taking into account the preconceived assumptions held by the popular media. Narratives of groupies’ participation in the emerging rock and metal scene have also been included as the ones which created a male rock musician identity: wild, aggressive and powerful. The basis for the discussion of groupies and their role in building identity in the context of rock music is the result of a deep, rhetorical analysis of groupies’ biographies, press materials, films, scientific literature and own research.

Competing Visions of Minority Authorship

2016 ◽  
pp. 80-120
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Kleppinger
Keyword(s):  
African Descent ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
North African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Special Expertise ◽  
Farida Belghoul ◽  
Television Journalists ◽  
Azouz Begag

This chapter examines two opposing viewpoints regarding minority authorship in France in the mid-1980s in the context of the aftermath of the Marche des Beurs period. In his interviews for his quasi-autobiographical novels Le gone du Chaâba (1986) and Béni ou le paradis privé (1988) Azouz Begag strongly promoted his special expertise as a representative of the beur population. He readily volunteered to educated his interviewers and viewers about life in France’s North African immigrant communities and rarely discussed his books in detail. Farida Belghoul, on the other hand, argued forcefully for an exclusively artistic reading of her novel Georgette! (1986). She attacked journalists who imposed an ethnic frame on her work and criticized other authors of North African descent of writing too simplistically. In the end Belghoul’s commentary did not attract television journalists and she only appeared on a few highly specialized radio shows. Begag’s arguments therefore reached a much wider audience and played a stronger role in contributing to how novels by authors from the beur population were read in the mid- to late-1980s.

scholarly journals Harambee! 2.0: The Impact of HIV-Related and Intersectional Stigmas on HIV Testing Behaviors Among African Immigrant Communities in Seattle, Washington

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahom A. Daniel ◽  
Shukri A. Hassan ◽  
Farah Mohamed ◽  
Najma Sheikh ◽  
Guiomar Basualdo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Digital fanfic in negotiation: LiveJournal, Archive of Our Own, and the affordances of read–write platforms

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-873
Author(s):  
Judith Fathallah
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Media Corporations

Fanfic is the unauthorized rewriting or adaptation of popular media narratives, utilizing corporately owned characters, settings and storylines to tell an individual writer’s own story. It is often abbreviated to fanfic or even fic and exists in a thoroughly grey legal area between copyright infringement and fair use. Although there were a few cases of cease-and-desist letters sent to fan writers in the 20th century, media corporations now understand it is useless to attempt to prosecute fanfic writers – for one thing, there are simply too many of us and for another it would be terrible publicity. Although modern fanfic can be reliably dated to the 1960s, it is now primarily an online practice and the fastest growing form of writing in the world. This article uses participant observation and online ethnography to explore how fanfic archives utilize digital affordances. Following Murray, I will argue that a robust understanding of digital read–write platforms needs to account for the social and legal context of digital fiction as well as its technological affordances. While the online platform LiveJournal in some ways channels user creativity towards a more self-evidentially ‘digital’ text than its successor in the Archive of Our Own (AO3), the Archive encourages greater reader interactivity at the level of archive and sorting. I will demonstrate that in some ways, the AO3 recoups some of the cultural capital and use value of print. I argue that a true appreciation of digital fiction is less about projecting fiction as becoming more and more ‘digital’ along a linear trajectory than application of a nuanced sociotechnological perspective that addresses the aims, ideology and provision of particular platforms in practice.

scholarly journals What is Nigeria? Unsettling the Myth of Exceptionalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aghogho Akpome
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Global Imaginary

This article explores perceptions and representations of Nigeria and Nigerians in the popular global imaginary. It analyses selected popular media narratives in order to foreground contradictions and paradoxes in the ways in which the country and people of Nigeria are discursively constructed. By doing so, it interrogates stereotypes of corruption and criminality as well as myths of exceptionalism about Nigeria and Nigerians originating from both within and outside the country. The analysis reveals that the generalised portrayal of Nigeria and Nigerians as exceptional social subjects is characterised by contradictions and inaccuracies in dominant representational practices and cannot be justified by the verifiable empirical information available on the country and its people.

scholarly journals “They Wait until the Disease Has Taking over You and the Doctors Cannot Do Anything about It”: Qualitative Insights from Harambee! 2.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12706
Author(s):  
Shukri A. Hassan ◽  
Farah Mohamed ◽  
Najma Sheikh ◽  
Guiomar Basualdo ◽  
Nahom A. Daniel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Black African ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
Immigrant Experiences ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

African immigrants make up a large subgroup of Black/African-Americans in the US. However, because African immigrant groups are typically categorized as “Black,” little is known about their preventative healthcare needs. Differences in culture, life and healthcare experiences between African immigrant populations and US-born people may influence preventive health care uptake. Thus, policymakers and healthcare providers lack information needed to make informed decisions around preventive care for African immigrants. This formative study was conducted among the largest East African immigrant communities in King County, WA. We recruited religious leaders, community leaders, health professionals, and lay community members to participate in thirty key informant interviews and five focus group discussions (n = 72 total), to better understand preventative healthcare attitudes in these communities. Through inductive coding and thematic analysis, we identified factors that impact preventative healthcare attitudes of the Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrant communities and deter them from accessing and utilizing healthcare. Cultural beliefs and attitudes around preventative healthcare, mistrust of westernized healthcare, religious beliefs/views, intersecting identities and shared immigrant experiences all influence how participants view preventative healthcare. Our results suggest that interventions that address these factors are needed to most effectively increase uptake of preventative healthcare in African immigrant communities.

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