Airing Egypt’s Dirty Laundry: BuSSy’s Storytelling as Feminist Social Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124322110579
Author(s):  
Nehal Elmeligy
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Youtube Videos

In this paper, I examine alternative feminist activism and social movements in Egypt by analyzing BuSSy. BuSSy is a performance art group that hosts storytelling workshops and monologues of taboo and “shameful” personal stories that challenge societal and state-sanctioned normative discourses on femininity/womanhood and masculinity/manhood. Drawing on transnational feminist scholarship and queer theory and using collective memory as a lens, I argue that BuSSy’s storytelling is an act of airing Egypt’s dirty laundry, queering normative discourses to enable feminist counter-memorializing. Based on content analysis of secondary data including BuSSy’s published interviews, YouTube videos, website and Facebook images, and testimonies from 2006 to 2020, my analysis reveals BuSSy as curating an “archive of feelings” centralizing gendered narratives of shame. I examine how BuSSy’s affectively contagious storytelling leads to feminist social change by empowering storytellers and listeners. BuSSy’s works create cathartic experiences to shed stigma and shame. Finally, I reconceptualize feminist activism and collective memories outside of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and contribute to the literature on shame by analyzing how BuSSy identifies and counters shame’s silencing power.

Resistance at the Limits: Feminist Activism and Conscientious Objection in Israel

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Natanel
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates the relationship between feminism and conscientious objection in Israel, evaluating the efficacy of feminist resistance in the organised refusal movement. While recent feminist scholarship on peace, anti-occupation and anti-militarism activism in Israel largely highlights women's collective action, it does so at the risk of eliding the relations of power within these groups. Expanding the scope of consideration, I look to the experiences of individual feminist conscientious objectors who make visible significant tensions through their accounts of military refusal and participation in the organised conscientious objection movement. Drawing on original ethnographic research, this article problematises feminist activism in the organised Israeli refusal movement through three primary issues: political voice; privilege; and the realisation of gender agendas. Using Michel Foucault's conceptualisation of power as it has been critiqued and qualified by feminist scholars, I consider the ways in which resistance may be both multiple and a diagnostic of power, allowing activists and academics not only to envision new avenues for social change, but also to recognise their constraints. Critically, feminist theories of intersectionality enrich and complicate this Foucauldian approach to power, providing further modes of critique and strategy in the context of feminist activism in Israel. Ultimately, I argue not only for engagement with the limits of power, but also attention to their function, as in theory and praxis these boundaries critically inform our theorising on gender and resistance.

CONTEXTUALIZING PALIMPSEST OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN AN URBAN HERITAGE SITE: Case Study of Chahar Bagh, Shiraz - Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani ◽  
Marzieh Setayesh ◽  
Leila Shokrollahi
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Centre

A landscape or site, which has been inhabited for long, consists of layers of history. This history is sometimes reserved in forms of small physical remnants, monuments, memorials, names or collective memories of destruction and reconstruction. In this sense, a site/landscape can be presumed as what Derrida refers to as a “palimpsest”. A palimpsest whose character is identified in a duality between the existing layers of meaning accumulated through time, and the act of erasing them to make room for the new to appear. In this study, the spatial collective memory of the Chahar Bagh site which is located in the historical centre of Shiraz will be investigated as a contextualized palimpsest, with various projects adjacent one another; each conceptualized and constructed within various historical settings; while the site as a heritage is still an active part of the city’s cultural life. Through analysing the different layers of meaning corresponding to these adjacent projects, a number of principals for reading the complexities of similar historical sites can be driven.

Memory Practices in History Education about the 1947 British India Partition

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Chhabra
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
History Education ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Collective Violence ◽  
British India ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Memory Practices

This article is an epistemological reflection on memory practices in the construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of collective memories of a historical event involving collective violence and conflict in formal and informal spaces of education. It focuses on the 1947 British India Partition of Punjab. The article engages with multiple memory practices of Partition carried out through personal narrative, interactions between Indian and Pakistani secondary school pupils, history textbook contents, and their enactment in the classroom by teachers. It sheds light on the complex dynamic between collective memory and history education about events of violent conflict, and explores opportunities for and challenges to intercepting hegemonic remembering of a violent past.

scholarly journals Re-living a Common Future in the Face of Ecological Disaster: Exploring (Elements of) Guarani and Kaiowá Collective Memories, Political Imagination, and Critiques

Human Arenas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Normann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Ecological Disaster ◽  
The Face ◽  
Group Interviews

AbstractHow to re-member a fragmented world while climate change escalates, and green growth models reproduce coloniality, particularly in Indigenous territories? What can be the concrete contributions from different scholarly disciplines to a broader decolonial project? These questions are debated by decolonial scholars who call to re-think our practices within academic institutions and in the fields that we study. This article contributes with a decolonial perspective to sociocultural psychology and studies on Indigenous knowledges about climate change. Through ethnographic methods and individual and group interviews, I engage with indigenous Guarani and Kaiowá participants’ knowledges and practices of resilience opposing green growth models in the Brazilian state Mato Grosso do Sul. Their collective memory of a different past, enacted through narratives, rituals, and social practices, was fundamental to imagine different possible futures, which put in motion transformation processes. Their example opens a reflection about the possibilities in connecting sociocultural psychology’s work on collective memory and political imagination to the broader decolonial project, in supporting people’s processes of re-membering in contexts of adverse conditions caused by coloniality and ecological disaster.

KA'KAW POTS AND COMMON CONTAINERS: CREATING HISTORIES AND COLLECTIVE MEMORIES AMONG THE CLASSIC MAYA OF XUNANTUNICH, BELIZE

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. LeCount
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Natural Cycles ◽  
Lowland Maya

AbstractReconstruction of foodways at the Lowland Maya center of Xunantunich, Belize, illustrates how commensality is fundamental to the construction of multilayered identities. Collective memory and linear histories form the foundation of identities because they are the mental frameworks people use to construct shared pasts. At Xunantunich, community identity was expressed though pottery and practices associated with the preparation of foods for domestic consumption and public offerings. In a world of natural cycles centered on family reproduction, horticultural activities, and yearly ceremonies, these symbols and rituals structured the lives of all people and embodied within them a collective memory of community. Linear histories were recorded in images and texts on drinking paraphernalia that were likely used for toasting honored individuals, ancestors, or gods during commemorative rites. These inscriptions and bodily practices marked individuals and their houses as people and places of prominence with separate identities.

scholarly journals Perubahan Sosial Terhadap Perkembangan Desa Rasau Jaya 3 Setelah Pembangunan Taman Bunga Rajati Flower Garden

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Istiqomah Istiqomah ◽  
Ragil Tri Novitasari
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The People ◽  
The Village ◽  
Economic Improvement

The purpose of this study is for learning. This study entitled Social Change Towards Development of Rasau Jaya Village 3 After the Development of the Rajati Flower Garden. With the problem of how social change in the village of Rasau Jaya 3, economic improvement after the construction of a flower garden, development planning or the addition of facilities. This research method is a descriptive qualitative approach. Data sources of this research are primary data and secondary data. The results showed that: after the construction of the flower garden in Rasau Jaya 3 village the development of social change there was increasing, the people there accepted the development of the flower garden, because with the development of the community's economy there could be increased, because the people there could sell at around the flower garden so that it can increase their economy again there, and there will be plans to add facilities in the flower garden so that it can attract visitors to keep coming to the flower garden of the flower garden rajati.

scholarly journals The Oslo Museum Puzzle. Reflections on the relation between culture and economy

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joar Skrede
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Renewal Project

The decision has been made to relocate several cultural institutions in Oslo, without any existing plans for the old premises. In this article, the supportive arguments are analysed against the backdrop of the critical voices. The critics want to preserve the old buildings because they are embedded in the nation’s collective memory and have value as history. The supporters of the plans argue that the new buildings are bricks in a bigger city renewal project and shall generate synergetic effects beyond just functioning as cultural institutions. Critical discourse analysis is used eclectically as a methodological framework with a specific focus on what structural patterns of social change the arguments imply. The conclusion is that economy’s entry into the cultural sphere may be a threat to the cultural heritage.

scholarly journals DIMENSI-DIMENSI MISTIK TAFSIR AL-MIZAN (Studi atas Pemikiran Thabathaba'i dalam Tafsir Al-Mizan)

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusno Abdullah Otta
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Running Away ◽  
Life Itself

The multidimensional crisis has not yet shown that it will end even causing casualties, not only material victims, but also casualties and the threat of disintegration. So that the assumption and image of most people that Sufism as a teaching that focuses on individual piety and ritual is rejected. Because, Sufism should be an alternative answer to the problematic pluralist society and universal social change. Therefore the research will try to focus on the work of one of the influential figures of Thabathaba Sufism by examining the monumental work of al-Mizan. This research comes from primary and secondary data, the main source of course is al-Mizan's interpretation while indirect work is the work of others about Thabathaba`i thinking. The results of this study are Thabathaba'i who carry out the moderate life of Irfan Tasawuf. For him, spiritual life is not running away from life itself. This expression is addressed to those who practice Irfan radically and conservatively. This phenomenon is emphasized by Thabathaba'i to be reformed. Through some of his works, the interpretation of Al-Mizan, he opened his readers' insight while at the same time straightening out a sad understanding of various things, especially Irfan's life. Keywords:Sufism, al-Mizan, Thabathaba`i, `Irfan, Moderate. Krisis multidimensional belum juga menunjukkan akan berakhir bahkan telah menimbulkan korban, tidak saja korban material, tetapi juga korban jiwa serta ancaman disintegrasi. Sehingga anggapan dan image sebagian besar orang bahwa tasawuf sebagai sebuah ajaran yang menitikberatkan pada kesalehan individual dan ritual tertolak.Sebab, tasawuf seharusnya bisa menjadi jawaban alternatif atas problematika masyarakat yang pluralis dan perubahan sosial secara universal. Oleh karena itu penelitian akan coba fokus membahas karya salah seorang tokoh tasawuf berpengaruh Thabathaba`i dengan mengkaji karya monumentalnya al-Mizan. Penelitian ini bersumber dari data primer dan sekunder, sumber utama tentu tafsir al-Mizan sedangkan karya yang tidak langsung adalah karya orang lain tentang pemikiran Thabathaba`i. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah Thabathaba`i seorang yang menjalankan kehidupan Irfan Tasawuf yang moderat. Baginya, kehidupan spiritual bukannya melarikan diri dari kehidupan itu sendiri.Ungkapan ini ditujukan kepada mereka yang mempraktekkan Irfan secara radikal dan konservatif.Gejala ini yang ditekankan Thabathaba`i untuk direformasi. Melalui beberapa karyanya, tafsir Al-Mizan, dia membuka wawasan pembacanya sekaligus meluruskan pemahaman yang miris tentang berbagai hal, terutama kehidupan irfan. Kata Kunci:Tasawuf, al-Mizan, Thabathaba`i, `Irfan, Moderat.

scholarly journals UGA SEBAGAI MEMORY KOLEKTIF MASYARAKAT SUNDA (Uga Sunda Community as a Collective Memory)

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Nandang Rusnandar
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Uga merupakan salah satu tradisi lisan masyarakat Sunda, di dalamnya terkumpul segenap memori kolektif. Analisis terhadap uga meliputi nilai-nilai dalam bentuk simbol yang tersirat di dalamnya. Uga mampu meramalkan perubahan sosial sesuai dengan zamannya. Apabila dilihat dari orientasi waktu, uga dapat  menunjukkan: (1) tercipta dan dituturkan pada masa lampau; (2) dituturkan pada masa lampau dan terjadi pada waktu lalu; (3) dituturkan pada masa lampau dan sekarang (sedang terjadi); (4) dituturkan pada masa lampau, ramalan untuk masa yang akan datang. Fungsi uga di samping memprediksi ia juga harus dijadikan sebagai alat antisipasi tentang sesuatu yang bakal terjadi di waktu yang akan datang.Abstract:Uga is one of Sundanese oral tradition containing most collective memory. Analysis of the Uga includes the values in the form of symbols that implied in it. It  is able to predict social change in accordance with its time when viewed from the orientation of time. It  can  show that (1) it could be created and spoken in the past; (2) it was spoken and taken place in the past;(3) it was spoken in the past and is still being used now; (4)  it was spoken in the past and predictions for the future. Besides its functions to predict the social change, it  can serve as a tool in anticipation of something that might happen in the future.

scholarly journals “Just Existing Is Activism”: Transgender Experiences in Martial Arts

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Anna Kavoura ◽  
Alex Channon ◽  
Marja Kokkonen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Diversity Education ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Context Specific

This study focuses on transgender experiences in martial arts. Interviews with three Finnish and two British transgender martial artists were thematically analyzed, and findings were interpreted through the lens of queer theory. Two themes were identified related to the ways that transgender martial artists experience their sporting contexts, namely martial arts as an empowering and inclusive context and the challenges related to being transgender in martial arts. Two themes were also identified when it comes to participants’ strategies for coping with cis-/heteronormativity in martial arts. Whenever possible, participants employed social change strategies, whereas other times, they drew on self-care strategies. Following this, we suggest a need for context-specific, protective policies; nonbinary means of organizing sport; and gender diversity education for instructors to better cater for the specific needs of transgender people in sport.

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