scholarly journals Sacred (re)Collections

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Torsten Janson ◽  
Neşe Kınıkoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Disciplinary Boundary

Abstract This article discusses how state-organized, memory-cultural production drawing on religious signifiers contributes to a sacralization of Turkish public memory institutions and public space. This reinforces an Islamic-nationalist imagination of contemporary Turkey. The article explores state-led, disciplinary interventions in museal space (the Sacred Trusts exhibition of relics at Topkapı Palace Museum) and commemorative ritual in public space, display and education (the rise, fall and recalibration of Holy Birth Week (Kutlu Doğum Haftası). Drawing on theories of symbolic politics, nationalism, memory and space, the article elucidates the sacralization of Turkish memory production as a contesting yet malleable negotiation of nationalism. Innovative Islamic memory practice and ritualization requires careful discursive and disciplinary boundary drawing, catering to theological sensitivities and Sunni-orthodox mores. Then again, the spatial boundaries between various memory-cultural domains are becoming less distinct. Today, Islamic-nationalist imaginaries surface in the interstices of public memory institutions, public education and everyday public space.

Creating a Feminist Cultural Front

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Mass Line ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Women Groups ◽  
Party State

Challenging the assumption of “Party propaganda,” this chapter finds a feminist cultural front in the ACWF’s flagship magazine Women of China and illuminates state feminist discursive maneuvers that targeted masculinist practices in and outside the CCP.State feminist visionswere embodied in the magazine’svisual representation of laboring women who broke gender segregation in public arena, signifying feminist pursuits of women’s double liberation of gender and class, continuing a New Culture anti-feudalistagenda, and shaping new socialist subjectivity. Editors’ practices of the “mass line” in cultural production created a public space for women’s voices that expressed their own concerns, contrary to the assumption of the seamless domination of a party/state. The strategies of its feminist founding editors Shen Zijiu and Dong Bian to juggle multiple and often contradictory demands of the Party and diverse women groups areexamined against the fluid political contexts.

scholarly journals Young Jazz Musicians and Negotiation of Public Space in Yogyakarta Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Oki Rahadianto Sutopo
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Local Narratives

Using Bourdieusian approach, this article explores the reflexive strategies of young jazz musicians in order to develop their musical practices in a contemporary urban context of Yogyakarta, a city of culture and activism in Indonesia. In detail, the reflexive strategy (Sweetman 2003; Threadgold & Nilan 2009) will be explained as the manifestation of struggle in the field of cultural production (Bourdieu 1993). As an implication, young jazz musicians have to negotiate their musical practices with the reproduction of doxa and the representation of dominant agents in the jazz music field including the availability of public spaces in contemporary Yogyakarta. The resistance towards doxa will be explained based on the local narratives of the Yogyakarta jazz community as a mixture of the local and the trans-local scene (Bennett & Peterson 2004). Furthermore, the reflexive strategy will be analysed through the lens of the youth culture perspective specifically as a manifestation of a mixture between post-subculture (Bennett 1999) and subculture (Blackman 2005). In their everyday musical practices, young jazz musicians produce their musical practices fluidly and flexibly as a lifestyle distinction as well as a form of everyday life resistance. In summary, this article shows the complexity of the musical processes of young jazz musicians in contemporary urban space of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Religiöse Bildung im Raum der Öffentlichkeit – eine bildungstheoretische Skizze in theologischer Perspektive

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-328
Author(s):  
Thomas Schlag
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
School Context ◽  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theological Perspective

Abstract Religious education can only contribute to current public discourses and indicate its specific relevance for public education if it reflects about its theological perspective and contents. Due to a theological interpretation of the public space as being affected by the idea of God’s Holy Spirit, such theological perspective can be seen as a substantial contribution of Religious Education within the public realm and the concrete school context.

scholarly journals The revolutionary public sphere: The case of the Arab uprisings

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwan M Kraidy ◽  
Marina R Krikorian
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
World Region ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Mobile Telephones ◽  
Socially Relevant

The popular rebellions that swept Arab countries starting with Tunisia in December 2010 spawned an active sphere of dissenting cultural production. Although media harnessed by revolutionaries include public space, graffiti, street art, puppet shows, poetry, songs, cartoons, digital art, and music videos, many analyses have focused on social media as digital platforms. Social media and mobile telephones introduced a new element to political activism, but the focus on technology provides a partial understanding of activist communication. A more comprehensive picture of dissent in the Arab uprisings requires us to understand how revolutionaries have represented themselves and how various media, digital and otherwise, were incorporated in these communicative processes. In other words, we need to focus on the myths, ideologies, and histories that inspired slogans, murals, and poems and made them socially relevant and politically potent—of the creative permutations of symbols, words, images, colors, shapes, and sounds that revolutionaries deployed to contest despots, to outwit each other, to attract attention, and to conjure up new social and political imaginaries. Together, the articles in this Special Issue accomplish just this task. Originally presented at the inaugural biennial symposium of what was then the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication in 2013, the articles you are about to read exemplify one of the fundamental principles undergirding the institutional mission of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication: a robust dialogue between theoretical advances on one hand, and deep linguistic, cultural, historical knowledge of the world region under study, on the other.

scholarly journals 六/6: Finding Meaning. The Expanded Exhibition and the Post-Pandemic World

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-312
Author(s):  
Andrea Lorenzo Baldini
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Center Periphery

How will artistic exhibitions function in the post-pandemic world? Visiting museums and galleries is a health hazard. 六/6: Finding Meaning is an attempt to offer an alternative. It embodies a novel exhibiting format called the expanded exhibition, which inhabits an expanded public space, between the physical and the digital. 六/6shows us that, once liberated spatially, exhibitions can be effective tools of meaning-making and social change even in a post-pandemic world. By exploiting the interplay between the digital and the physical domains, expanded exhibitions such as 六/6 can build alternatives of cultural production that can cope with social distancing, while being participatory, democratic with respect to access, and politically transformative by displacing the colonialist hierarchy center/periphery.

scholarly journals Image, Precariousness and the Logic of Cultural Production in Hong Kong

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Cartier
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

Interpretations of culture in Hong Kong have tended to portray the city in terms of the vanishing present, in some combination of the instant, fleeting and disappearing. This article redresses such language of lack to consider instead how the idea of precariousness in the realm of the cultural has been less a condition of cultural production than a cultural strategy. Street art, including alternative performance art and political graffiti, has made the city itself the site of roving cultural production: walls, street surfaces and passageways accommodate forms of expression that the city’s cultural institutions have only more recently and uneasily embraced. In these different modes of time-space, contemporary alternative art occupies transitory territory and locates its ‘precariousness’ in lack of definitive status and uncertain future – mimetic conditions of defining culture in Hong Kong society itself. Its measures, by contrast, emerge in Jacques Rancière’s distribution of the sensible: the ways in which they render what is visible, knowable and ultimately sayable. As objects generating negotiation, such contemporary cultural projects anticipate instabilities of the present, identify hegemonic political economic logics and seek modes of resistance. Within these perspectives, this discussion juxtaposes two simultaneous events: the exhibit ‘Memories of King Kowloon’ on the historic graffiti of Tsang Tsou-choi, and the stenciled graffiti of Ai Weiwei in public space during April and May 2011.

The ludic lives of memoryscapes: Skateboarding post-Soviet peripheries

2021 ◽  
pp. 175069802199598
Author(s):  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Smooth Surfaces ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Performance Capture ◽  
Memory Practices

Post-Soviet cities vary dramatically yet share common elements desired by skateboarders and filmers as ‘spots’; assemblages of objects, obstacles and surfaces offering the chance to perform difficult skateboard tricks in public space. Memoryscapes are desired as spots for their scale, smooth surfaces, in-built obstacles and aesthetic appeal on video. As more skateboarders travel to post-Soviet cities in Central Asia and the Caucuses, their reinterpretation of memoryscapes reveal the ludic lives of memoryscapes, the interplay between memory and place, and the tension between hegemonic memory practices of state and state-like agents and the seemingly apolitical reinterpretation by skaters. This article explores two contrasting post-Soviet memoryscapes as seen on skate video, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and Sukhumi (Abkhazia) to make three arguments. First, while battles are fought over public memory online and offline, skaters approach the landscape as ludic space; as playgrounds for unsanctioned performance, capture and circulation. Second, these memoryscapes are enrolled in global circulations of skate culture, giving memoryscapes an adjacent existence online detached from their intended meanings and counter-meanings. Third, in some cases the friction between ludic approaches and the power of memory unravels the singular focus on spots, even for skaters with limited knowledge of the context.

scholarly journals Aproxime-se da esfera pública contemporânea: ratings de produção cultural/Aproximación a la esfera pública contemporánea: habilitaciones desde la producción cultural

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías David López
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Materials Used

Resumen:El presente trabajo es una aproximación a una “nueva configuración” de la esfera pública. Para esto se tendrán presentes las actuales articulaciones de las formas de producción cultural y ciertos modos renovados de intervención en el espacio público, en relación los usos y las habilitaciones de Internet y las tecnologías de la comunicación. De este modo el espacio público “se amplia”, por lo que las metáforas y términos territoriales para entenderlo deben ser repensadas ante la incorporación y expansión de “lo virtual-tecnológico” en la vida cotidiana. El artículo se inscribe en un estilo ensayístico y analítico con una metodología interpretativa: utiliza como materiales las reflexiones contemporáneas y algunas prácticas y productos culturales actuales. En sus conclusiones, apunta una serie de coordenadas para interpretar los procesos contemporáneos en relación a la ampliación de espacio público por lo virtual, las nuevas formas de acción colectiva por la apropiación de dispositivos y herramientas virtuales y nuevas características del campo intelectual dada por la habilitación de nuevos espacios de “enunciación pública”.Palabras clave: esfera pública, tecnologías, Internet, espacio públicoApproach to the Contemporary Public Sphere: fittings out from the cultural productionAbstract:This paper is an approach to a "new configuration" of the public sphere. With this purpose, we consider the present articulations between forms of cultural production and some renewed intervention in the public space, in relation the uses and the Internet possibilities, and the communication technologies. In this way, we understand that the public space is enlarged, so must be rethought the metaphors and territorial terms to understand it, with the incorporation and expansion of "virtual-technological" in the everyday life. The article is part of a essay and analytical style with an interpretative methodology: materials used as contemporary reflections and some current practices and cultural products. In its conclusions, pointing a set of coordinates to interpret contemporary processes in relation to the expansion of the virtual public space, new forms of collective action for the appropriation of devices and virtual tools and new features of the intellectual field given by enabling new areas of "public statement".Keywords: public sphere, technologies, Internet, public space Aproxime-se da esfera pública contemporânea: ratings de produção culturalAbstrato(-a):Este artigo é uma abordagem para uma "nova configuração" da esfera pública. Para esta corrente formas conjuntas de produção cultural e alguma intervenção renovada no espaço público, em relação usos e avaliações de modos de tecnologias da Internet e da comunicação deve ser observado. Assim, o "alarga" espaço público para que as metáforas e termos territoriais para entender que deve ser repensado antes da incorporação e expansão das "tecnológico virtual" na vida cotidiana. O artigo é parte de uma redação e estilo analítico com uma metodologia interpretativa: os materiais utilizados como reflexões contemporâneas e algumas práticas atuais e produtos culturais. Nas suas conclusões, apontando um conjunto de coordenadas para interpretar processos contemporâneos em relação à expansão do espaço público virtual, novas formas de ação coletiva para a apropriação de dispositivos e ferramentas virtuais e novas características do campo intelectual concedido mediante a autorização novas áreas de "declaração pública".Palavras-chave: esfera pública, tecnologias, Internet, espaço público

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