“Navigating the Beautiful Tension”

2021 ◽  
pp. 226-244
Author(s):  
Melanie C. Ross
Keyword(s):  
John Webster ◽  
Static Structure ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Essentially Contested Concept

The book’s conclusion draws together the seven ethnographic studies by arguing that evangelical worship is better understood as a theological culture than as a static structure. In contrast to the scholarship Kathryn Tanner and Molly Worthen, which understands the culture of Christianity and/or evangelicalism as an essentially contested concept, this chapter ultimately affirms the perspective of theologians John Webster and Kevin Vanhoozer, who understand evangelicalism eschatologically, as a unified diversity. When congregations gather in the presence of the living God, they are dislocated and re-established, changed into something they were not before the event began. Consequentially, corporate worship is not a peripheral “extra” tacked on to a fully formed spiritual/political/cultural movement, but rather the crucible in which congregations forge, debate over, and enact their unique contributions to the American mosaic known as evangelicalism.

Heterotopic Tourism and Cultural Revivalism of Dusun Community in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia

Metahumaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Nur Widiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local People ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Kinabalu Park ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Economic Income

AbstractThe paper discusses cultural movement of the Dusun community in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia and its connection to eco-tourism development in Kinabalu Park. The objective is to examine whether the involvement of the local people with the ecotourism through dominating the numbers of mountain guides and initiating the kakakapan id gayongaran (a traditional ceremony)are strategies to deal with the forces that culturally excludesthem from the ancestral land or merely spontaneously actions. Employing ethnographic studies through participant observation, it reveals that the Dusun people in Bundu Tuhan had successfully exercised the heteropic tourism through combining the involvement on mountain guiding and cultural events to obtain a bigger recognition toward the access Mount Kinabaluas their ancestral land. The outcomes are the two-day free access to the mountain every year and steady economic income earned through working at the Kinabalu Park.Keywords: dusun, heteropic, tourism, Kinabalu Park, ancestral landAbstrakPaper ini membahas gerakan cultural komunitas Dusun di Kampung Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia dan kaitannya dengan eko-wisata di Taman Kinabalu. Tujuan riset ini adalah melihat apakah keterlibatan penduduk local dalam wisata alam melalui upaya mendominasi jumlah pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi ritual “kakakapan id gayongaran” merupakan strategi untuk bernegosiasi dengan kekuatan luar yang meminggirkan mereka secara budaya, atau sekedar tindakan yang bersifat spontan. Menggunakan metode etnografi melalui observasi lapangan, hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa orang Dusun di Bundu Tuhan berhasil menggunakan “heteropic tourism” dengan mengkombinasikan keterlibatan mereka dalam bisnis pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi event budaya untuk mendapatkan pengakuan atas akses yang lebih besar terhadap Gunung Kinabalu sebagai tanah adat mereka. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah akses selama 2 hari dalam satu tahun untuk melakukan ziarah gunung dan pada sisi lain tetap mendapatkan keuntungan ekonomi yang stabil dengan bekerja di Taman Kinabalu.Kata kunci: dusun, heteropic, wisata, Taman Kinabalu, tanah leluhur

Heterotopic Tourism and Cultural Revivalism of Dusun Community in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia

Metahumaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Nur Widiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local People ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Kinabalu Park ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Economic Income

AbstractThe paper discusses cultural movement of the Dusun community in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia and its connection to eco-tourism development in Kinabalu Park. The objective is to examine whether the involvement of the local people with the ecotourism through dominating the numbers of mountain guides and initiating the kakakapan id gayongaran (a traditional ceremony)are strategies to deal with the forces that culturally excludesthem from the ancestral land or merely spontaneously actions. Employing ethnographic studies through participant observation, it reveals that the Dusun people in Bundu Tuhan had successfully exercised the heteropic tourism through combining the involvement on mountain guiding and cultural events to obtain a bigger recognition toward the access Mount Kinabaluas their ancestral land. The outcomes are the two-day free access to the mountain every year and steady economic income earned through working at the Kinabalu Park.Keywords: dusun, heteropic, tourism, Kinabalu Park, ancestral landAbstrakPaper ini membahas gerakan cultural komunitas Dusun di Kampung Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia dan kaitannya dengan eko-wisata di Taman Kinabalu. Tujuan riset ini adalah melihat apakah keterlibatan penduduk local dalam wisata alam melalui upaya mendominasi jumlah pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi ritual “kakakapan id gayongaran” merupakan strategi untuk bernegosiasi dengan kekuatan luar yang meminggirkan mereka secara budaya, atau sekedar tindakan yang bersifat spontan. Menggunakan metode etnografi melalui observasi lapangan, hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa orang Dusun di Bundu Tuhan berhasil menggunakan “heteropic tourism” dengan mengkombinasikan keterlibatan mereka dalam bisnis pemandu gunung dan menginisiasi event budaya untuk mendapatkan pengakuan atas akses yang lebih besar terhadap Gunung Kinabalu sebagai tanah adat mereka. Hasil yang diperoleh adalah akses selama 2 hari dalam satu tahun untuk melakukan ziarah gunung dan pada sisi lain tetap mendapatkan keuntungan ekonomi yang stabil dengan bekerja di Taman Kinabalu.Kata kunci: dusun, heteropic, wisata, Taman Kinabalu, tanah leluhur

Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances: Contents and effects on families left behind

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Alice Vianello
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Social Remittances ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Intergenerational Conflicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

This article examines different forms of Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances, articulating some results of two ethnographic studies: one focused on the migration of Ukrainian women to Italy, and the other on the social impact of emigration in Ukraine. First, the paper illustrates the patterns of monetary remittance management, which will be defined as a specific form of social remittance, since they are practices shaped by systems of norms challenged by migration. In the second part, the article moves on to discuss other types of social remittances transferred by migrant women to their families left behind: the right of self-care and self-realisation; the recognition of alternative and more women-friendly life-course patterns; consumption styles and ideas on economic education. Therefore, I will explore the contents of social remittances, but also the gender and intergenerational conflicts that characterise these flows of cultural resources. 

Faeries, Aliens, and Leviathans: Science and Fantasy in Ian McDonald's King of Morning, Queen of Day

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-303
Author(s):  
Richard Howard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Movement

Irish science fiction is a relatively unexplored area for Irish Studies, a situation partially rectified by the publication of Jack Fennell's Irish Science Fiction in 2014. This article aims to continue the conversation begun by Fennell's intervention by analysing the work of Belfast science fiction author Ian McDonald, in particular King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991), the first novel in what McDonald calls his Irish trilogy. The article explores how McDonald's text interrogates the intersection between science, politics, and religion, as well as the cultural movement that was informing a growing sense of a continuous Irish national identity. It draws from the discipline of Science Studies, in particular the work of Nicholas Whyte, who writes of the ways in which science and colonialism interacted in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland.

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