Ani Kalayjian and Dominique Eugene (eds.),Mass Trauma and Emotional Healing Around the World: Ritual and Practices for Resilience and Meaning-Making

This article argues for a non-reductive approach to translation as a basic social process that shapes both the world that sociologists study and the sociological endeavour itself. It starts by referring to accounts from the sociology of translation and translation studies, which have problematized simplistic views of processes of cultural globalization. From this point of view, translation can offer an approach to contemporary interconnectedness that escapes from both methodological nationalism and what can be designated as the monolingual vision, providing substantive perspectives on the proliferation of contact zones or borderlands in a diversity of domains. The article centrally argues for a sociological perspective that examines not just the circulation of meaning but translation as a process of linguistic transformation that is necessarily embodied in words. Only if this more material aspect of translation is attended to can the nature of translation as an ordinary social process be fully grasped and its intervention in meaning-making activities explored. This has far-ranging implications for any reflexive account of the production of sociological works and interpretations.

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Media Literacy in the Lifeworlds of Malaysian Children

Global Studies of Childhood ◽

10.2304/gsch.2013.3.1.72 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 72-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shanthi Balraj Baboo

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Media Literacy ◽

Meaning Making ◽

User Experiences ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Media Technologies ◽

School Settings ◽

The World ◽

The Media ◽

Home And School

Many children grow up in contemporary Malaysia with an array of new media. These include television, video games, mobile phones, computers, Internet, tablets, iPads and iPods. In using these new media technologies, children are able to produce texts and images that shape their childhood experiences and their views of the world. This article presents some selected findings and snapshots of the media lifeworlds of children aged 10 in Malaysia. This article is concerned with media literacy and puts a focus on the use, forms of engagement and ways that children are able to make sense of media technologies in their lives. The study reveals that children participate in many different media activities in their homes. However, the multimodal competencies, user experiences and meaning-making actions that the children construct are not engaged with in productive ways in their schooling literacies. It is argued that media literacy should be more widely acknowledged within home and school settings.

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Using Technology in Pedagogically Responsive Ways to Support Literacy Learners

Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch013 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 203-215 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lisa Kervin ◽

Jessica Mantei ◽

Jan Herrington

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Meaning Making ◽

New Technology ◽

Authentic Learning ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Literate Practices ◽

New Knowledge ◽

The World ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Literacy Learners

In this chapter the authors discuss two central themes: the changing nature of literate activity brought about by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and suggestions for how educators could respond to this guided by principles of authentic learning. The access many young people have to ICT has resulted in new forms of literacy as they manipulate technology, using this new knowledge to assist the process of meaning making. Each new technology brings with it navigational concepts, space to negotiate, new genres and a range of modalities, all of which need to be interpreted. ICTs have the potential to reshape literate practices in classrooms as students create, collect, store and use knowledge as they connect and collaborate with people and resources across the world. What is crucial though, is that the nexus between technology and literacy within classrooms is conceptualised through meaningful, relevant and authentic connections with curricula.

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Comments on the World in Which They Live: A Narrative-Theory Approach to Meaning-Making among Young Girls on Timpaus Island, Indonesia

Asian Anthropology ◽

10.1080/1683478x.2011.10552602 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 19-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Harald Beyer BROCH

Keyword(s):

Narrative Theory ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Young Girls ◽

The World

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Economics & Practical Applications for Applied Trauma Theory

International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics ◽

10.4018/ijabe.2013040103 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 41-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

David S. Bathory

Keyword(s):

World Wide ◽

Rural Tourism ◽

Clinical Population ◽

Intergenerational Effects ◽

Mass Trauma ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Functional Changes ◽

The World ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

The Brain

The effects of global warming are becoming apparent throughout the world. Europe has begun to experience more severe winters and increased rain (Steffen, 2011). Massive flooding in South Eastern Europe has devastated communities and repeatedly strains the economy of these regions resulting in mass trauma to the residents of multiple countries. Intergenerational effects of trauma (Kaitz, Levy, Ebstein, Faraone, & Mankuta, 2009) have been noted to be an increasing world-wide concern. These traumatic effects are not only psychologically based but result in structural and functional changes within the brain and body (van der Kolk, Roth, Pelcovitz, Sunday, & Spinazzola, 2005; Bathory, 2011; Bathory, 2012a; Bathory, 2012b). This paper explores the application of sustainable energy and rural tourism to assist mass victims of natural disaster flooding. The author provides the cultural precedents for marketing, as well as the psychoneurobiological rationale and application for an intervention to a large non-clinical population.

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“Suddenly Everyone Started to Love Our Anthem, Our Flag”: Identity Construction, Crisis, and Change in (Almost) Sovereign Kosovo

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1017/nps.2018.78 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 721-736

Author(s):

Alissa Boguslaw

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Social Construction ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Alternative Theory ◽

Semiotic Analysis ◽

Political Independence ◽

National Symbols ◽

The World

AbstractHow, amidst a crisis of sovereignty and identity, did once-rejected national symbols become meaningful to Kosovo’s Albanians? Having declared independence in 2008, a 2014 study found that less than one-third of Kosovo’s citizens identified with their newly adopted state symbols. As meanings are always shifting, depending on the contexts in which their forms appear and the actors involved, theories of social construction have focused on the representational aspects of meaning-making: the ways in which the forms stabilize (or destabilize) the constructs they depict. Instead of focusing on the representational—the determinable, measurable, and rational aspects, this article investigates the discursive mechanisms that mobilize meanings and configure contexts, extending Robin Wagner-Pacifici’s alternative theory of events. Through discourse and semiotic analysis, it tracks Kosovo’s new flag and anthem through the construction, crisis, and transformation of three social realities: political independence, national identity, and the world of international competitive judo, illuminating how changing meanings change, shifting contexts shift, and how to interpret actors’ fleeting emotions. In the Kosovo case, the construction is the crisis, as well as the change.

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