Moving Beyond Us and Them? Marginality, Rhizomes, and Immanent Forgiveness

Hypatia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 828-846
Author(s):  
Valentine Moulard‐Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
The Other ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
The One

Here, I offer a candid response to bell hooks's call for a testimony to the “movement beyond a mere ‘us and them’ discussion” that purportedly informs contemporary radical and feminist thought on difference. In alignment with a tradition that includes bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Aurora Levins Morales, I offer a personal testimony to the ways in which I—a middle‐class, French, immigrant, continental‐philosophy‐bred incest survivor—envision both that movement and its limits. To establish these alliances means forming necessary (if only momentary and unlikely) communities. I call on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to propose an account of the production of such communities that does not depend only on shared lived experience, but also on shared marginal spatiality (rhizomes), temporality (trauma), and “medicinal history” (nomadology). I suggest that on the one hand, Deleuze's philosophy of immanence may indeed find apt expression in the politics of integrity that hooks, Lorde, and Morales call for. On the other hand, a genuine politics of integrity may benefit from drawing on the philosophy of immanence, which alone offers alternatives to the traditional, oppositional models of difference informed by transcendence. Finally, I propose the concept of “immanent forgiveness” to capture the movement at issue.

The Law’s Betrayal

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Willford ◽  
S. Nagarajan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Indian Community ◽  
Legal Decisions ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
The One ◽  
Deep Sense

This chapter focuses on the professionals of the Tamil population. A cultural displacement, as experienced by the Indian middle class, has produced its own narrative that was subsequently hijacked by Malay “extremists.” This sense of betrayal among the Indian middle class is important because their narrative of victimization takes cohesive ideological shape in a form that disseminates to the working class through the work of activists, politicians, writers, NGOs, and lawyers. Through this, one sees an important class dialectic within the Indian community that is divisive, as well as signs that recent legal decisions and events have exacerbated a sense of insecurity. Ultimately, a deep sense of political betrayal within this elite class is producing nostalgia for a nonracialized Malaysia on the one hand, and a consolidation of Indianness on the other.

Evidence and Evidentiality in Quechua Narrative Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Howard
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
The One

This chapter discusses the working of evidentiality in Quechua narrative performance from the central highlands of Peru. In the Quechua narratives analysed, the grammatical marking of source and status of knowledge, and discursive ways of expressing evidence for knowing what is known, are shown to vary strikingly according to performance related factors. On the one hand, narrators base discursively expressed evidence for knowledge, and the veracity and authenticity of the stories they tell, on lived experience. On the other hand, in Huamalíes Quechua the assertion of knowledge and affirmation of validity are grammatically marked by evidential, epistemic modality, and tense suffixes. Taken together, the performative dimensions of discursively expressed evidence, and grammatical choices around evidentiality, constitute the epistemological underpinning of stories about the past in Huamalíes Quechua; both are taken into account in the mixed methods approach to the analysis of Quechua narrative adopted here.

Ritual Elements in the New Comedy

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Murray
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The One ◽  
New Comedy

The New Comedy as an art form is descended both from the Old Comedy and from fifth-century Tragedy. It is a middle style of the sort that Diderot called le genre sérieux. On the one side it made an expurgation of the Old Comedy by dropping the gross elements of the primitive ritual ⋯ϕέσεωςκ⋯μος which still survived in Aristophanes, the phallic dress, the ϒεϕυρɩομός in language, and the reckless personal satire, while it kept and emphasized the final Gamos, or union of lovers, and developed a more elaborate plot. On the other side it reformed Tragedy by getting rid of the supernatural stories and the stiff conventions. To quote some words of my own written in 1912, it ‘introduced all the simplifications and improvements which seem to a modern’—I meant a modern philistine—‘so obviously desirable. It developed an easy colloquial language, a flexible and unexacting metre. It left the Chorus quite outside the play, a kind of entr'acte, not worth writing down. It frankly abandoned religious ritual’—please observe that statement, which I now wish to correct—‘and heroic saga. It drew its material from the adventures and emotions of contemporary middle class life, and boldly invented its own plots.’ Menander in particular was considered in antiquity to have held a mirror up to life; a verse by Aristophanes of Byzantium asks.

scholarly journals Reconstructing a Nomadic Network: Itineraries of Jewish Actors during the First Lithuanian Independence

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Ina Pukelytė
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Road ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
On The Road ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
The One

This article discusses the phenomenon of openness and its nomadic nature in the activities of Jewish actors performing in Kaunas during the first Lithuanian independence. Jewish theatre between the two world wars had an active and intense life in Kaunas. Two to four independent theatres existed at one time and international stars were often touring in Lithuania. Nevertheless, Lithuanian Jewish theatre life was never regarded by Lithuanian or European theatre society as significant since Jewish theatre never had sufficient ambition and resources to become such. On the one hand, Jewish theatre organized itself in a nomadic way, that is, Jewish actors and directors were constantly on the road, touring from one country to another. On the other hand, there was a tense competition between the local Jewish theatres both for subsidies and for audiences. This competition did not allow the Jewish community to create a theatre that could represent Jewish culture convincingly. Being a theatre of an ethnic minority, Jewish theatre did not enjoy the same attention from the state that was given to the Lithuanian National Theatre. The nomadic nature of the Jewish theatre is shown through the perspective of the concept of nomadic as developed by Deleuze and Guattari.

scholarly journals Kebangkitan Tarekat Kota

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Ahmad Amir Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Internal Dynamic ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
External Influences ◽  
The One

This article tries to analyze the revival of mystical order (<em>tarekat</em>) in urban areas. Experiences reveal that the development of mystical orders in the Muslim world is not free from criticism, either from the insiders or the outsiders. However, mystical orders still exist, and this fact is characterized by the development of different mystical groups in various cities. Political, social and economic factors influence the fluctuation of mystical orders. This article argues that in a number of countries and in Indonesia, the mystical orders have contributed significantly to the socio-religious life of Muslims. The mystical orders become stronger as they are supported by the involvement of middle class group, media publication, and internal strength embedded in the very tradition of mystical orders. The influx of middle class Muslims to the networks of tarekat brings the fresh wind of change since their engagement provides the internal dynamic of <em>tarekat</em> which encounters external influences on the one hand, and the continuing drive to develop on the other.

scholarly journals A metodologia das oficinas pedagógicas

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1132-1143
Author(s):  
Natália Kleinsorgen Bernardo Borges ◽  
Thais Domingos dos Santos Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Angela Davis

Este trabalho tem por objetivo relatar as observações, atividades, incômodos, inquietações e sugestões que surgiram ao longo das oficinas sobre gênero e a realidade da mulher na sociedade brasileira, realizadas em colégios públicos de Niterói, Magé e Rio Bonito, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, durante o mês de março de 2018. Além da introdução, no qual é reportado o caminho percorrido até as oficinas, durante a construção da Greve Internacional de Mulheres no 8 de Março de 2018, dividimos o artigo em dois momentos: o primeiro no qual apresentamos as oficinas criadas por nós, pontuando o objetivo de cada uma, o material necessário e a metodologia que utilizamos nas escolas. Todas as oficinas pedagógicas são de caráter experimental e continuam em análise e aperfeiçoamento. O segundo em que relatamos nossas experiências nas diversas salas de aulas que tivemos, contando algumas situações que vivemos junto aos mais de 400 jovens que entramos em contato ao longo mês. Por fim, conclui-se que, apesar das dificuldades criadas com fim de proibir o debate sobre gênero nas escolas, é possível, através da ação de alguns professores, subverter as políticas institucionais e construir uma educação engajada. Por Marielle Franco, por Dandara, por Angela Davis, por Audre Lorde, por bell hooks, e por Andrea Dworjin e por Gloria Anzaldúa: não vão nos calar!

scholarly journals Emphasis, Manner, and Voice in Urban Jordanian Arabic: Linguistic and Extralinguistic Interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Jordanian Arabic ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The present paper examines the impact of extra-linguistic variables (gender and social class) on the linguistic interaction between emphasis and manner, on the one hand, and voice, on the other hand, in Urban Jordanian Arabic. To achieve this goal, 40 participants produced 12 monosyllabic CVC minimal pairs with the target consonant (plain or emphatic) occurring word-initially. Measurements taken were F1, F2, and F3 at vowel onset and midpoint positions. Acoustically, it was found that emphasis was stronger following a stop than following a fricative, and it is more pronounced following a voiced consonant than following a voiceless one. However, the extra-linguistic factors did not have a strong bearing on these linguistic interactions. In general, the interaction between emphasis and manner or voice was not influenced by gender or social class. An exception to this finding was the overlap between emphasis and manner at F1 onset, where the interplay of both gender and social class affected the linguistic interaction. In particular, upper-class males produced stronger emphasis following stops than following fricatives, whereas lower-middle class males produced stronger emphasis following a fricative than following a stop.

scholarly journals Contar histórias desde aqui

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-173
Author(s):  
Bruna Moraes Battistelli ◽  
Luciana Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Bell Hooks

Como escreve Scholastique Mukasonga em seu livro “A mulher de pés descalços”, precisamos ensinar aos nossos dedos dos pés um caminhar que não os machuque pelo percurso. Inspiradas por essa proposição, esse trabalho busca tecer diálogos com os ensinamentos de intelectuais como bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa e Lélia Gonzalez para pensarmos uma sala de aula e uma docência pautadas em uma ética feminista e antirracista. Assim, situadas desde o continente amefricano, objetivamos, a partir de nossas experiências e de uma inspiração cartográfica, discutir as relações entre o ser professora-pesquisadora-feminista na aposta de uma universidade que acolha, cuide e nos possibilite contar mais histórias. Para isso, lançamos mão de nossas próprias histórias que narram sobre como construímos uma voz para nós mesmas, como experienciamos a universidade e por quais caminhos chegamos no exercício da docência e da pesquisa em uma perspectiva feminista e antirracista. Por fim, como possibilidade de intervenção para docência que se assente sobre uma política do cuidado, narramos uma experiência em sala de aula, que acontece há pelo menos um ano, onde as/os alunas/os são convidadas/os a escrever cartas em uma disciplina. Nossa aposta é para que possamos seguir construindo o espaço da sala de aula também como espaço de cura, onde nossos corpos estejam em prol de políticas para o encantamento da vida.

A Moratória Em Processo

PMLA ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviano Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Family ◽  
Objective Interpretation ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The division of the stage into halves, one representing family conflicts in 1929 and the other representing the same family in 1932, is a device in the dramatic use of space which explains the originality of A Moratória, as shown by an Aristotelian analysis of its structure. The archetype which inspires the structure of this play is “the ant and the grasshopper,” whose division implies different dramatic climates within the play. On the one hand, we have the tragedy of negligence (level of the parents and their son), and on the other hand, the apprenticeship of consciousness (level of the daughter). The simultaneous use of the divided stage reflects the period of transition lived by the family and the Brazilian society in the early thirties: there is the shift from the country to the city; the shift from patriarchal to matriarchal tendencies; and the transfer of power from the great families to the emerging middle class. If the play fails in part, it is because the author cannot give an objective interpretation of reality. He is too compassionate.

Indigenous Students’ Geographies on the Academic Fortress Campus: Palestinian Students’ Spatial Experiences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Spatial Perspective ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Symbolic Domination ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
The One

This article addresses an under-studied phenomenon in the lived experience of Palestinian students in Israeli universities as seen from a spatial perspective. Specifically, it analyses the everyday spatial experiences of Palestinian students on the Mount Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Situated in a contested space amid Palestinian villages, the campus's architecture and prominent location are intended to project power and symbolic domination over the surrounding Arab environment. The study analyses the narratives of fifteen Palestinian students from this campus, underscoring the dialectical relations between their feelings of alienation and estrangement, on the one hand, and practices of resistance and subversion on campus, on the other. Moreover, the analysis reveals how, through their daily spatial behaviours, Palestinian students challenge the settler-colonial landscape-production that the Israeli authorities attempt to impose.

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