Entangled Belongings

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 193-213
Author(s):  
Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Structural Inequalities

Abstract Based on auto/biographical and ethnographic narratives and conceptual theories, this essay explores the Global African Diaspora as a racialised space of belonging for African diasporas in the US, the UK, and – more recently – the clandestine migration zones from Africa to southern Europe. Both approaches are used to illustrate the author’s roots, routes, and detours; an interpretive paradigm highlighting the interconnectedness across time and space of differential African diasporas. The critical analysis interrogates transnational modalities of black and Global African Diasporic kinship, consciousness, and solidarity engendered by shared lived experiences of institutionalised racism, structural inequalities, and violence.

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: MIGRANT YUNNANESE CHINESE IN NORTHERN THAILAND

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Chin Chang
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

In the face of a complex external situation, the migrant Yunnanese in northern Thailand have undergone repeated moves since the 1950s, and the narratives of their lived experiences disclose an ongoing negotiation of their inner self with the external social world across time and space. The feeling of “dwelling in displacement” is the fundamental basis of their narrated stories and this constructs particular discourses on “home away from home”. The primary aim of this paper is to analyze their conceptualizations of home and the intertwining of their various migration patterns. It seeks to see how they are shaped by external structural forces on the one hand, and their reaction to them with their interstitial agency on the other. Moreover, by probing their diasporic consciousness linked to the longue durée of Yunnanese mobility, the paper attempts to accentuate the different layers of their perceptions of time and place, and to illuminate their interplay.

scholarly journals Lived Afropolitanism: Beyond the Single Story

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 332-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Akom Ankobrey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Intense Debate

Abstract It has been several years since the term “Afropolitanism” was coined and instigated an intense debate in both the offline and online world. Although Afropolitanism is celebrated for highlighting positive depictions of Africa, it has also been criticised for its supposedly exclusive and elitist focus. Several scholars have distinguished Afropolitanism from Pan-Africanism by framing it as the latter’s apolitical younger version. Following the discussion around these perceived differences, this paper investigates how Afropolitanism negotiates the African diaspora discourse in relation to Pan-Africanism. Thus far, the study of Afropolitanism has remained mostly limited to the field of literary and cultural studies. In order to move the discussion on this term further, this paper explores the lived experiences of twelve black Londoners with Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism. By using the notion of “performance,” I show that Afropolitanism and Pan-Africanism are constructed and deconstructed in both diverse and overlapping ways. The narratives emerging out of this dialogue question the centrality of the Middle Passage epistemology and the tendency to essentialize experiences in the African diaspora discourse.

Conceptualizing Critical Friendship as a Protective Measure in Academia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Natalie Currie-Patterson ◽  
Kaitlyn Watson
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Protective Measure ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Functional Support

Critical friendship is often used in the field of education to refer to relationships based on support and critical critique of professional practice. However, we posit that critical friendship has the potential as both a protective measure and mode of functional support for individuals negotiating the lived experiences and consequences of being working-class in the academy. Based on the auto-ethnographic narratives of two self-defined working-class doctoral students living and working in Ontario, Canada, we find that (mis)perceptions of incompetence; negotiating the academy as women; income, debt, and the tensions this creates result in the need for this redefined understanding of critical friendship.

New Media and Cultural Identity in the Global Society

2010 ◽  
pp. 795-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Ming Chen ◽  
Kai Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Media Globalization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rapid Transformation

New media has been the main force accelerating the development of globalizing society in the last two decades. With its digital, convergent, interactive, hypertextual, and virtual nature, new media has brought human interaction and society to a highly interconnected and complex level. The rapid transformation of human society due to the impact of the convergence of new media and globalization directly influences the construction and development of cultural identity. The emergence of new media and globalization not only breaks through the limit of the traditional time and space, but also may challenge the meaning of cultural identity. The purpose of this chapter is to unravel the intricate relationships between new media, globalization, and cultural identity through the process of definition, interpretation, and critical analysis.

Sound – Time – Space – Movement: the Space-soundInstallations of the artist-couple 〈sabine schäfer // joachim krebs〉

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
SABINE SCHÄFER ◽  
JOACHIM KREBS
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Principal Work

This article describes the theories and practices of the German installation artists and composers Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs. Much of their work concerns site-specific sound installations involving the articulation of time and space. Their principal work methods and materials are described. In addition, they have formulated a typology of five installation types which they describe using their own installations as examples. Each installation type responds to a particular set of aesthetic and practical challenges both for the artists and the visitors. These are discussed and illustrated in the article. The typology extends beyond the specific work of these artists and can be applied to installations in general, thus providing a framework for critical analysis. Furthermore, the translators have discussed the issues regarding the specialised vocabulary of the artists and the rendering of such language into English.

Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 5-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry B. Lovejoy ◽  
Paul E. Lovejoy ◽  
Walter Hawthorne ◽  
Edward A. Alpers ◽  
Mariana Candido ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
Open Source Data ◽  
Source Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Out Of Africa

Abstract:In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement to linking data of open-source digital projects, it has become necessary to delimit the entire continent of precolonial Africa during the era of the slave trade into broad regions and sub-regions that can allow the grouping of data effectively and meaningfully.

HRD challenges when faced by disengaged UK workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Diane Keeble-Ramsay ◽  
Andrew Armitage
Keyword(s):  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Credit Crisis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Template Analysis ◽  
Interpretive Perspective

Purpose – This paper seeks to consider employees' perceptions of engagement from their lived experiences of UK employees following the global credit crisis, post 2008. It draws from the prior studies of Hassard et al. (2009), which researched work practices in the period preceding the study. Design/methodology/approach – The research utilised focus group discussion, which was analysed by template analysis from an interpretive perspective and adopts narratives to facilitate a critical interpretive paradigm. Findings – There is clear evidence of theories surrounding the positive value of employee engagement, however the findings do not demonstrate that it is necessarily valued by UK management by their responses towards the work environment given post 2008 trading conditions. Research limitations/implications – The limitation of the study lies with the size of the sample participating. While this reflects the need for further future research to be undertaken, the study also recognises that the findings are determined by the perceptions of employees which may not reflect the intentions of the management within the organisations which they work. Originality/value – There is a dearth of empirical study into the post 2008 period. This research attempts to ground theories of engagement within the post global credit crunch timeframe.

scholarly journals Creative Community Activism in Global Contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Clisby
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Cultural Artefact ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Methodological Principles

ABSTRACT In this introduction to this special issue about creative community activism in global contexts, we draw together key conceptual and methodological principles of this collection. We begin from the standpoint that equality is a cultural artefact, a socio-cultural and political product specifically located in time and space and as such subject to creation and re-creation. Creative activism offers us a medium to both engage with and take action on issues of culture and gender in/equality. Through the creative activisms explored here, communities, researchers, and artists combine social action with creativity and arts to challenge inequalities, promote positive futures, and enable socio-cultural wellbeing in innovative ways that can be simultaneously engaging and participatory, and decolonising and democratising. They underscore how through creative activism hierarchies of power and knowledge production and lived experiences of in/equalities can be explored, understood, and contested.

The Unreality of Time: A Critical Analysis

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Sadiya Afrin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
External World ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Zeno's Paradox

The problem of the metaphysics of time is whether the time is real or unreal. This paper will introduce some of the major positions and arguments concerning the unreality of time. We all know the external world is constantly changing. ‘Change is the only constant in life’. We get trapped in the illusion of time and space. But in reality, the past isn’t here anymore, the future yet to be seen, only the present moment seems to be real. But present time also flies or passes away very rapidly. Whenever we try to grasp it, it slips away. Before discussing the unreality of time, it is necessary to mention that we will deal with the ‘experience of time’ in this chapter. The mathematical or physicist concept of absolute time would not be discussed here. Firstly, ‘Motion is impossible’ would be discussed from Zeno’s paradox, followed by an effort to connect it with McTaggert’s argument on ‘Unreality of Time’. Then presentism and eternalism would be discussed in reference to the unreality of time.

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