scholarly journals Healing Place and Self: The Renewed Ecological Perception and the Invisible Landscape in Barbara Kingsolverʼs Animal Dreams

MANUSYA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-92
Author(s):  
Wisarut Painark
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Sense Of Home ◽  
Environmental Activity ◽  
The Invisible

This paper examines how an individual’s perception of the environment not only affects her treatment of the land but also plays an important role in healing her wounded self and fostering her sense of belonging to the human community in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Dreams (1991). It will draw upon Yi-fu Tuan’s notion of place and space in Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1977) and Kent C. Ryden’s notion of “the invisible landscape” in Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place (1993). Tuan postulates that space becomes place when it is endowed with value and meaning and Ryden develops Tuan’s notion by arguing that meaningful human experience in a place constitutes what he calls “the invisible landscape” which refers to various other dimensions of the land apart from its physicality. Focusing on the development of the protagonist’s perception of her hometown from a sense of alienation to a more intimate relationship in Animal Dreams, this paper will specifically argue that, because her hometown faces a disastrous contamination of the river caused by the mining company, the environmental activism in which the protagonist engages significantly deepens her understanding of the place. Thus, her participation in the environmental campaign serves as a first step towards her discernment of the “invisible landscape” and also her process of healing. The environmental activity which protects both the environment and the community’s cultural identity and also the protagonist’s developing bonds with people in the community expose her to the historical, cultural and spiritual dimensions of the land. Furthermore, this renewed perception leads to the protagonist’s inhabitation of the place and her discovery of a sense of home which helps to restore her shattered self from the traumatic experience and the feeling of displacement caused by the loss of her mother and her baby during her younger years; it also induces her to reappraise her sense of selfhood as being inseparable from both the land and its inhabitants, either human or non-human. Ultimately, her clear appreciation of this more inclusive sense of self and the environment enables her to reintegrate herself into the community of her hometown.

scholarly journals Home and Away: The House in Exilic Narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-58
Author(s):  
Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Traumatic Rupture ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Traumatic Loss ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Sense Of Home

This article examines the ways in which two Irish writers use the setting and symbol of the house to depict traumatic rupture and the collapse of a sense of self as a result of loss. In both texts — Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce, and Timothy O’Grady and Steve Pyke’s I Could Read the Sky — dissolution of self occurs due to the movement away from the childhood domicile to England. If home can be defined as ‘a sense of belonging or attachment’, then ‘[m]ovement may necessitate or be precipitated by a disruption to a sense of home’. Emigration can result in the formation of an alternative diasporic, transnational community and support network in the absence of immediate familial ties, yet it can also foster a sense of ‘displacement and loneliness’ as well as ‘self‐perceptions of being exiled’. Emigration, whether forced or not, constitutes a form of exile, one which, as Edward Said argues, is experienced as ‘an unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home’, and which results in a ‘crippling sorrow of estrangement’. That traumatic loss is conveyed in both authors’ use of the house (as setting and symbol).

Moving Beyond the Confines of the Local

Young ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Stahl ◽  
Sadia Habib
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Place And Space

This article explores the concept of belonging in understanding how working-class young people construct themselves as ‘subjects of value’ in historically high-poverty areas now undergoing complex social class unsettlements and changes in visual repertoires. Dramatic changes to space and place raise questions for our participants regarding belonging as well as the boundaries of respectability and authenticity. Drawing upon empirical data from two case studies, we conceptualize belonging as a process of sense-making tied to place and value. We find that social class identity and locality play a vibrant role in the shaping of young people’s identities. In seeking to understand how social experiences of young people are lived within classed, ethnic and gendered life worlds, we draw on sociological scholarship of youth, place and space. We explore young people’s lived experiences in South East London and how they explain these experiences as influencing their subjectivities and sense of belonging.

scholarly journals Tożsamość żydowska na pograniczu kultur i narodów

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Irmina Jaśkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Anti Semitism

Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. The process takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexive and external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particular group. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constituted quite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves from other communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes, various influences affect their identity. As a consequence the Jews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma between own nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressing deep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of all national and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memory and fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth century crisis and in the light of the western world secularization it has become also cultural identity.Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. Theprocess takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexiveand external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particulargroup. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constitutedquite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves fromother communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes,various influences affect their identity. As a consequence theJews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma betweenown nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressingdeep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of allnational and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memoryand fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth centurycrisis and in the light of the western world secularization it hasbecome also cultural identity.

Technosocial Space

2010 ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sofie Laegran
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Identity Markers ◽  
A Site ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Internet Cafes

The chapter is based on a study of Internet cafés in Norway, and interrogates the way space and place is produced in interconnections between people and technology in the Internet café. Drawing on actornetwork theory and practice-oriented theories of place and space, the Internet café is understood as technosocial spaces producing connections between people and places at different levels. Firstly, the Internet café can be understood as a hybrid, a site where users and technologies as well as space are coconstructed in entwined processes where gender, as well as other identity markers, are central in the way the technology, as well as the cafés, develop and are understood. The next level looks at the production of Internet cafés as technosocial spaces. Despite being perceived as an “urban” and “global” phenomenon, Internet cafés are configured based on local circumstances, in urban as well as rural communities. Differing images of what the cafés want to achieve, as well as material constrains, are at play in this process. Finally, the chapter shows how Internet cafés are places of connections, producing space beyond the walls of the café, linking the local into a translocal sphere.

Education and Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-222
Author(s):  
Stalo Georgiou ◽  
Christos Papademetriou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Complex Process

Music education as a systematic and complex process of transmitting knowledge and skills, as well as cultivating mental, intellectual, and artistic abilities, referred to a specific cultural result of an apprenticeship system. Music is also inextricably linked with the cultural and national identity of individuals as it offers a sense of self within a social context. It symbolizes and offers an experience of collective, social, and cultural identity. This study, through the analysis of the pertinent literature in a descriptive way, will try to prove that the position of music must be fundamental in education and therefore in the formation of human personality. The main conclusion of the chapter is the significant importance of the expression of children through music, the ability to express their musicality with the help of his body and voice, the perception of the concepts of music, as well as the development of a positive image and attitude towards music.

Summer Mentoring Experiences for Students in Online Doctoral Programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Julie Smit ◽  
Elizabeth Jones ◽  
Michael Ladick ◽  
Mellinee Lesley
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Online Doctoral Programs

University faculty created the Llano Estacado Writers' Alliance (LEWA) in response to improving the quality and rigor of online doctoral programs. The goal for LEWA was to promote meaningful academic writing and transform doctoral students' identities as agentic academic writers. After LEWA's inception, the authors incorporated the perspectives of their alumni and advanced doctoral students to help address students' needs. This chapter documents the four-year journey of forming LEWA and developing new approaches to mentoring online doctoral students. Specifically, the authors recount the evolution from the faculty-led, week-long summer intensives that addressed students' anxieties and uncertainties about the doctoral program to the writing intensives that were more student centered, responsive, and primarily focused on the mores of academic writing. Results demonstrated the benefits of professor-led and peer-led networks in developing students' sense of belonging, sense of accountability to their peers, and a sense of self-worth as capable academic writers.

scholarly journals Sharing #home on Instagram

2019 ◽  
Vol 172 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Barbour ◽  
Lydia Heise
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Geographic Locations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sense Of Home

The term ‘home’ can mean many things. Indeed, the contested nature of the term has caused some scholars simply to dismiss it as useless. However, homes have an undeniable importance to our sense of self. They link us to current or past geographic locations that indicate national or cultural identities, allow us to display our taste and interests through consumer activity, and are places where we engage in leisure activities. Increasingly, we share the images we take in and of our homes widely with others, transcending the boundaries of the family photograph album. Through this study of images shared publicly on Instagram, we investigate the ways that people ‘visibilise’ their sense of home in order to share it with others. We can see through this data the interplays between public and private, domestic and commercial, that digital photography and applications like Instagram have brought to light.

scholarly journals How Moving Together Binds Us Together: The Social Consequences of Interpersonal Entrainment and Group Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Cross ◽  
Martine Turgeon ◽  
Gray Atherton
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Group ◽  
The Individual

AbstractInterpersonal entrainment has been shown to have a wide variety of social consequences which span far beyond those that could be considered purely pro-social. This work reviews all of the social effects of entrainment and the various explanations for them. The group formation framework emerges as a parsimonious account claiming that as we entrain our sense of self is temporarily diluted as an interdependent identity becomes more salient, thus leading to a range of social and psychological consequences which are pro-group. The sense of belonging arising from moving together is conducive towards pro-social behaviours; yet, it also makes the individual more susceptible to adopting the ideology of the group without critical thinking. We argue that the wide landscape of interpersonal entrainment’s effects reflects its primary effect, de-individuation, and the formation of a common group identity amongst co-actors.

scholarly journals Towards a Psychology of Cultural Globalisation: A Sense of Self in a Changing World

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Ozer
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
General Reaction ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Dialogical Self ◽  
Identity Confusion ◽  
Psychological Theories ◽  
Reaction Patterns

Cultural interconnectivity motivated by globalisation has transformed societies and interpersonal interactions around the world. Furthermore, on a psychological level, individuals are intensely influenced by the new contextual complexity challenging the processes of developing a sense of belonging and a sense of self. This article discusses and integrates relevant psychological theories for approaching the psychological study of cultural globalisation. This integration is done by pragmatically drawing from various psychological theories concerning cultural interaction and psychological development, specifically globalisation-based acculturation, biculturalism, dialogical self and identity theories. Two general reactions towards cultural globalisation are identified as exclusionary and integrative ways of either accepting or rejecting new cultural influences. In addition to the adaptation to cultural globalisation, an individual’s sense of self and belonging is developed through levels of cultural, social and personal identities. Furthermore, locally embedded identity challenges related to these general reaction patterns towards cultural globalisation could emerge as identity confusion and extremism. The article argues that the psychological study of cultural globalisation is an integral emerging field of research, which is appropriately developed through an integration of acculturation and identity research.

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