Restorying With the Ancestors: Historically Rooted Speculative Composing Practices and Alternative Rhetorics of Queer Futurity

2021 ◽  
pp. 074108832110282
Author(s):  
James Joshua Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Rhetoric And Composition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Inquiry Group ◽  
The Dead

Within literacy, rhetoric, and composition (LRC) studies, composing practices have been studied as an embedded feature of life, one that manifests histories, imagination, and identities through acts of writing. Likewise, in queer LRC studies, the capacity to write with queer rhetorical agency or to recognize the impossibility of composing queer subjectivity has been tied to the living. Scholars have yet to consider with adequacy, however, the ways in which writing is equally bound up with the dead, with ghosts, histories, and ancestors that animate the imagination and attendant composing practices. Tracing the historically rooted speculative composing practices (HRSCPs) of an inquiry group of nine queer composers, this article spotlights queer ancestors as speculative resources for imagining and then composing alternative rhetorics of queer futurity. Specifically, this article details how three queer composers, Coyote (they/them), Helen (she/her), and Margarita (they/them), restory the imagination, happiness, and reality with the ancestors, doing so to challenge the trope of queer unhappy endings attached to realist genres. This article concludes by inviting LRC studies to explore how HRSCPs might be integrated into future research and pedagogy and thereby pursue healing for communities long marginalized within the field.

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Southern Levant: synthesis, challenges, recent developments and perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 368 (1931) ◽  
pp. 5225-5248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire M. C. Rambeau
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction ◽  
First Results ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Dead

Palaeoenvironmental research in the Southern Levant presents a series of challenges, partly due to the unequal distribution of palaeoenvironmental records and potential archives throughout the region. Our knowledge of climatic evolution, during the last approximately 25 000 years, is of crucial importance to understand cultural developments. More local, well-dated, multi-proxy studies are much needed to obtain an accurate picture of environmental change in respect of the Late Pleistocene and the Holocene. This contribution reviews the current state of knowledge regarding Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental changes in the Southern Levant, including some examples of more recent developments in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Israel and the Dead Sea area, and introduces the major challenges researchers face in the region. It also presents the first results of a new case study in Jordan, based on an analysis of peaty deposits located in the mountain slopes east of the Dead Sea. Such new studies help refine our knowledge of local environmental changes in the Southern Levant and especially the more arid areas, for which little information is presently available. More material suitable for palaeoenvironmental research, for example extensive tufa and travertine series, still awaits consideration in Jordan, opening up exciting perspectives for future research in the area.

The Bioarchaeology of Postmortem Agency: Integrating Archaeological Theory with Human Skeletal Remains

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Crandall ◽  
Debra L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Social Archaeology ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Archaeological Analysis

Taking the social agency of dead bodies as its main theme, this introduction discusses the articles in this special section on the bioarchaeology of post-mortem agency and discusses theoretical concerns relevant to the (bio)archaeological analysis of agency. In particular, the argument that only biological living persons have social agency or impact the direction of social processes, or the decisions of others is challenged. The challenges of defining and archaeologically detecting such agency of past humans as well as socially alive entities such as ghosts, corpses, relics and totem heads are discussed. A review of the ways investigations of the agency of the dead might unify bioarchaeologists and further integrate social archaeology into future research is also presented. It is argued that a holistic anthropological approach to humans and their ability to impact their surroundings is not complete if the symbolic and material effects of the dead are not considered.

scholarly journals Examining the Reception and Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Some Possibilities for Future Investigation

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe last sixty years afford us a remarkable, though largely unexplored, opportunity to examine the Dead Sea Scrolls from the perspective of “reception history.” This article first provides an overview of what has already been done with regard to this goal and highlights the importance and timeliness of such an approach, suggesting that it is furthermore a necessary endeavor if Qumran Studies is to keep pace with developments in the wider world of Biblical Studies. It continues by outlining some possible directions for future investigation, identifying academic reception, popular reception, and processes of knowledge transfer as three main areas or categories into which such examinations could helpfully be divided. The internal processes of scrolls scholarship, the relationship between Qumran Studies and Biblical Studies, gender issues, the scrolls in literature, film, music, and art, and the role of exhibitions, documentaries, and newspapers, are all highlighted as potential areas for future research.

scholarly journals Necrocommunitas. Badanie obozów koncentracyjnych w fazie przejściowej

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Marta Zawodna-Stephan
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Transition Phase ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead

This text considers the question of how concentration camps in the transition phase can be studied. A transition phase appeared in certain camps a few months, weeks, or even days before the camp was liberated, and ended a few weeks later. As a result of the prisoners’ worsening living conditions, their high rate of mortality, and the weakening control of the camp staff , the social system that had been created in the camps fell apart and the new structures that would be established after liberation had not yet appeared. The author describes how certain concentration camps found themselves in a transition phase in the years 1944–1945, and then she provides two contrary ontological concepts (the theory of anomie and the theory of communitas) on which future research could be based. She pays particular attention to the meaning of dead bodies and the living’s relations with the dead. Consequently, she introduces the idea of necrocommunitas.

Green death: sustainability and the administration of the dead

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiloh R Krupar
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
The Dead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Utilitarian Ethic

This article explores changing American death care – the handling of the dead body and its materiality beyond death – in the context of US-based power relations over administration of human remains. The article briefly surveys efforts to make the afterlife of the dead more ‘sustainable’. I argue that this expanding governance entails intensified bioremediation: the reuse and reprocessing of dead bodies/parts, intensified forms of material-biological extraction, and the conversion of afterlife to forms of biovalue beyond death. First, some disposal efforts encourage an economy of body/parts and a utilitarian ethic of ‘no remains’. Accordingly, the afterlife is not ‘the end’ but a renewable material resource and opportunity to economize the body in death and put the dead body to work. Second, a range of practices now reimagine death as an opportunity for personal legacy and redeem the dead body’s decomposition as natural/as part of the natural world. Bioremediation in this case conceptually recuperates death into life so that death is not wasted; instead, the corpse serves as a material input for nature and a vehicle for personal ‘biopresence’. The article then considers some of the paradoxes and costs of greening the dead and outlines future research directions that might advance our understanding of the ways new sustainable disposal and commemorative technologies of the dead entrench racism and impact civil, consumer, and environmental rights. How bodies affect our environments today will impact people and landscapes in years to come. Because US governance of the dead has historically entailed the differential treatment of bodies after life, the article critically reflects on ‘death equity’ issues that operate across the living and the dead. The article concludes by querying how conduct for the dead might advance social justice through a material politics of human remains.

Perceived brand salience and destination brand loyalty from international tourists’ perspectives: the case of Dead Sea destination, Jordan

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luai E. Jraisat ◽  
Mamoun N. Akroush ◽  
Ruba Jaser Alfaouri ◽  
Laila T. Qatu ◽  
Dina J. Kurdieh
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Destination Loyalty ◽  
Brand Quality ◽  
The Dead

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine an integrated model of perceived brand salience, perceived brand quality, perceived brand image and perceived brand loyalty in the Dead Sea tourism destination of Jordan from international tourists’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – A structured and self-administered survey was employed targeting international tourists who were visiting the Dead Sea tourism destination. The authors delivered 300 questionnaires to international tourists, from which 237 were retained and valid for the analysis. A series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses was used to assess the research constructs dimensions, unidimensionality, validity and composite reliability. Structural path analysis was also used to test the hypothesized relationships of the research model. Findings – The structural findings show that perceived brand salience has positively and significantly affected each of perceived brand quality and perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality has positively and significantly affected each of perceived brand image-physical environment, perceived brand image-people characteristics and perceived destination loyalty. Each of perceived brand image-physical environment and perceived brand image-people characteristics has positively and significantly affected perceived destination loyalty. The structural findings indicate that perceived brand quality has exerted the strongest effect on each of perceived brand image-physical environment and perceived brand image-people characteristics. Further, the structural results show that R2 result of 0.48 indicates that 48 per cent of variation in perceived destination loyalty was caused by perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions (physical environment and people characteristics) and perceived brand salience path. Research limitations/implications – This paper has examined only three drivers of destination loyalty; meanwhile, other factors such as tourists’ satisfaction and retention are potential areas of future research. Also, this study investigated international tourists’ perspectives in the Dead Sea tourism destination only, which means that its generalization potential to other destinations is limited. Therefore, comparative studies inside and outside Jordan’s tourism destinations are potential areas of future research. Other limitations and future research areas are also outlined. Practical implications – The paper highlights the strategic importance of perceived brand quality and perceived brand image dimensions (physical environment and people characteristics) on perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality acts as strong antecedent to perceived brand image dimensions, and perceived brand salience is an essential element of perceived destination loyalty. Perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions and perceived brand salience are major drivers of perceived brand destination in an integrated manner. Also, perceived brand image dimensions of the physical environment and people friendless and kindness are also vital for creating perceived destination loyalty. Further, an integrated model of perceived brand salience, perceived brand quality, perceived brand image dimensions and destination loyalty is required by tourism organizations operating in the Dead Sea destination to win international tourists now and in the future. Originality/value – This paper represents an early attempt to reveal and examine potential drivers of perceived destination loyalty in the Dead Sea, Jordan. Accordingly, it should shed more light into the strategic role of perceived brand quality, perceived brand salience and perceived brand image dimensions and how they affect perceived destination loyalty. Further, the paper is the first of its kind that investigated an integrated model of perceived brand salience and perceived destination loyalty via perceived brand quality and image dimensions from international tourist perspectives in Jordan. The main issue here is that tourism organizations operating in the Dead Sea tourism destination have now valuable empirical evidence concerning the drivers of perceived destination loyalty from international tourists’ perspectives.

Exploring Rhetorical Agency in University Dance Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Rachel Mehaffey
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Shed Light

This paper details the theoretical frameworks, methods, and preliminary results from a year-long study of rhetorical agency in undergraduate dance majors. Over the course of two semesters at a BFA Dance Performance and Choreography program, I facilitated a series of extracurricular dance labs for a group of five first- and second-year students. Throughout the academic year, I interviewed the dancers, recorded the lab sessions, and collected free-writes from the participants. This wealth of data can shed light on the relationship between conceiving dancers-as-authors and the emergence of agentic personal narratives in university students. This study offers implications for future research on rhetorical agency as a pedagogical or compositional tool, as a lens for hearing and sharing dancers’ narratives, or as a means to explore authorship in other disciplines.

Computational Stylometric Approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-82
Author(s):  
Pierre Van Hecke
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Results ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Dead

Abstract The question of how to classify the different texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls is a central issue in scholarship. There is little agreement or even little reflection, however, on the methodology with which these classifications should be made. This article argues that recent developments in computational stylometry address these methodological issues and that the approach therefore constitutes a necessary addition to existing scholarship. The first section briefly introduces the recent developments in computational stylometry, while the second tests the feasibility of a stylometric approach for research on the Scrolls. Taking into account the particular challenges of the corpus, an exploratory methodology is described, and its first results are presented. In the third and final section, directions for future research in the field are articulated.

scholarly journals The Living and the Dead Entwined in Virtual Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Huffer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Outreach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Audiences ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Dead

Teaching and public engagement with the results and implications of bioarchaeological research have increasingly attracted more varied and social media-savvy audiences. Since 2010, the social media platform Instagram has also flourished, with millions of users forming untold numbers of communities of practice. Here, I seek to address the intersection of bioarchaeology and the virtual “stage” that social media represents. How is the discipline of bioarchaeology and the act of being a bioarchaeologist represented on Instagram? How do practicing bioarchaeologists (and enthusiastic supporters of the field) communicate about their own and others’ research, fieldwork, laboratory work, et cetera? With ever-greater amounts of scientific communication and public outreach conducted over social media (e.g., Gura 2013; Kling and McKim 2000; Wheat et al. 2013), it is worth investigating how the living who study the dead interact with each other, form community, and engage online audiences that increasingly contain descendants of the dead being studied. The review below is short; hence, the nature and depth of inquiry is restricted. Nevertheless, enough data are available to allow broader speculation and to suggest that there is space for more concerted future research.

Polluting till death and beyond

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwole Daramola
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Peripheral Zone ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
African City ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine residents’ perception on the polluting effects of the disposal of the dead in Ile-Ife, a traditional African city. This came about based on the recognition of the disposal of corpses and carcasses as sources of environmental pollution in the built environment. The perception study becomes imperative since introduction of perception is adjudged a tool for proffering solution to different problems in the different human endeavours and a method of getting policy information from the people that will be eventual subjects of the policy. Design/methodology/approach The study used household survey through questionnaire administration. The city of Ile-Ife was stratified into residential zones comprising the traditional zone, the transition zone and the peripheral zone. Across the zones, a total of 306 residents were systematically sampled on which the designed questionnaires were administered. Findings Dumping was the commonest method of the disposal of carcasses and burial was the commonest for corpses. The practices of the disposal of dead in the city were without consideration for its polluting effect and public health concern. Research limitations/implications The study is capable of generating hypotheses for future research in the area of environmental studies, especially in the global south. Practical implications The findings and recommendations of this study can provide information on future policy making, review and implementation on the disposal of the dead and other related issues in environmental studies both in the city and others with similar setting. Originality/value This paper is based on primary data from a survey of residents of Ile-Ife, Nigeria in March 2015. Its value lies in its capacity to suggest policy response for enhanced liveable environment through a study on residents’ perception, a bottom-up approach to policy making.

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