Responding to the demand for recognition of Mad identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-222
Author(s):  
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
Political Responses

This chapter, “Responding to the demand for recognition of Mad identity,” addresses the following question: Does the demand for recognition of Mad identity possess normative force and, if it does, how should society respond to it? It begins by outlining the normative force of demands for recognition in general, and proceeds by applying this to the specific case of Mad identity. It explores three features of identities that can deflate a demand for recognition of its normative force: the identity for which recognition is demanded is trivial, morally objectionable, or irrational. The chapter then outlines a framework for responding to the demand for recognition of Mad identity, a framework informed by a range of political responses and attempts at reconciliation. Finally, the chapter develops the idea that Mad narratives are a broadening of our cultural repertoire as it pertains to madness, and that they can constitute a cultural form of societal adjustment—a cultural adjustment.

Multiple Crossover Effects and Nonlinear Effects on Socio-Cultural Adjustment

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riki Takeuchi ◽  
David P. Lepak ◽  
Sophia Marinova ◽  
Seokhwa Yun
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Effects ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Crossover Effects

The Effects of Perceived Social Support on Cultural Adjustment

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po Sen Chu ◽  
Scott Hemenover ◽  
Sara Smith ◽  
Tiffany Denton ◽  
Donald A. Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Cultural Adjustment

University Geographies and Folk Music Landscapes

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Distant Object ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
The University

By examining folk music activities connecting students and local musicians during the early 1960s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this article demonstrates how university geographies and musical landscapes influence musical activities in college towns. The geography of the University of Illinois, a rural Midwestern location with a mostly urban, middle-class student population, created an unusual combination of privileged students in a primarily working-class area. This combination of geography and landscape framed interactions between students and local musicians in Urbana-Champaign, stimulating and complicating the traversal of sociocultural differences through traditional music. Members of the University of Illinois Campus Folksong Club considered traditional music as a high cultural form distinct from mass-culture artists, aligning their interests with then-dominant scholarly approaches in folklore and film studies departments. Yet students also interrogated the impropriety of folksong presentation on campus, and community folksingers projected their own discomfort with students’ liberal politics. In hosting concerts by rural musicians such as Frank Proffitt and producing a record of local Urbana-Champaign folksingers called Green Fields of Illinois (1963), the folksong club attempted to suture these differences by highlighting the aesthetic, domestic, historical, and educational aspects of local folk music, while avoiding contemporary socioeconomic, commercial, and political concerns. This depoliticized conception of folk music bridged students and local folksingers, but also represented local music via a nineteenth-century rural landscape that converted contemporaneous lived practice into a temporally distant object of aesthetic study. Students’ study of folk music thus reinforced the power structures of university culture—but engaging local folksinging as an educational subject remained for them the most ethical solution for questioning, and potentially traversing, larger problems of inequality and difference.

Confession as Cultural Form: The Plymouth Inquiry

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Form

Discovering the Other: Study Abroad as Fieldwork

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Stimpfl
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Immersion ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
Different Cultures

The literature annotated here is from a subset of literature in cultural anthropology that deals with ethnographic fieldwork: the basic research exercise of cultural immersion. This bibliography is meant to offer a representative sample of literature in anthropology that deals with the fieldwork experiences of researchers. Cultural anthropology is devoted to the concept of “discovering the other.” Its method of inquiry is often referred to as participant/observation: the researcher lives the culture while observing it. Since so much of the fieldwork experience deals with personal adjustments to living in different cultures, the literature is charged with the problems of adjustment and understanding so common to study abroad experiences. This literature is particularly relevant to those interested in cross-cultural learning and issues in cultural adjustment. 

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