Deepening Intentionality and Linguisticality With Nothingness: An Eastern Perspective on the Fusion of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 479-485
Author(s):  
Zitong Wei
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Predicate Logic ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Analytical Perspective

This article provides an Eastern perspective on the fusion of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Moving from the perspective of being to nothingness, I look at predicate logic and the basho of nothingness. Based on examinations of being within the pre-dichotomized gestalt of lived experience, I argue that phenomenology and hermeneutics are inseparable. The holistic perspective suggests that researchers adopt basho as a unit of analysis and take relational persona as an analytical perspective. The article concludes with a discussion on embodied being and an alternative view of transferability. It is expected that qualitative researchers engage in philosophical hermeneutics and cross-cultural dialogues to extend understandings of relational being and create new possibilities for qualitative inquiry.

CAREERS, COMMUNITIES, AND INDUSTRY EVOLUTION: LINKS TO COMPLEXITY THEORY

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 239-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL B. ARTHUR ◽  
ROBERT J. DEFILLIPPI ◽  
VALERIE J. LINDSAY
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Industry Evolution ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Boat Building ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Principal Unit

Traditional views of industry evolution focus on the company as their principal unit of analysis. We offer an alternative view that links between workers' careers and successive community, company and industry effects. We apply this view to evidence from independent film-making, and suggest a conception of the career, involving three "ways of knowing", to underlie these links. We next explore two more industry examples, the New Zealand boat building industry and the Linux operating system in the software industry, which provide further support for the alternative view proposed, as well as extending it to consider the influence of the World Wide Web. We see all three industry examples as illustrating a range of ideas in complexity theory. We propose that a career-centric view provides a useful basis for the further exploration and application of complexity theory to industrial life.

Third culture kids’ sense of international mindedness: Case studies of students in two International Baccalaureate schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-227
Author(s):  
Mico Poonoosamy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
International Baccalaureate ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Third Culture Kids ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Indian Ocean Island

This paper uses part of the data from a larger qualitative inquiry in two International Baccalaureate schools, one in Australia and one in an Indian Ocean Island Nation (a pseudonym), to identify the factors and forces that contribute to the sense of self and understanding of and engagement with the notion of international mindedness in two ‘third culture kids’. Socio-cultural theory is used as a conceptual framework to explore cross-cultural differences and similarities between the students and the schooling contexts. Analysing the students’ perspectives about their understandings of international mindedness through grounded theory methods, the paper also develops hypotheses on the notions of being, belonging and becoming.

Hybridity and Identity Performance in Diasporic Context: An Autoethnographic Journey of the Self Across Cultures

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Nziba Pindi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
Ways Of Being

In this autoethnographic article, I am interested in theorizing about how hybridity illuminates my lived experience of identity performed across cultures, and more specifically in diasporic context, at the intersections of various facets of my selfhood: Black, female, postcolonial, African, bi-tribal, diasporic, immigrant, nonnative English Speaker, “French native speaker,” and so on. I use personal narrative as a locus of subjectivity to recount critical moments of my lived experience as a hybrid subject navigating at the borderlands of two cultural worldviews: Congolese and American. My cross-cultural journey reveals a series of challenging and triumphant episodes from my childhood back home to my life in the United States, a journey during which I have experienced both privilege and oppression. My process of identity construction results in the creation of a third space that celebrates difference through new ways of being, encompassing cultural values from both the United States and the Congo. This process is articulated through different ways of being/not being “American” and/or “African” and just being “different.”

Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlín Eilís Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Material Turn

This review article addresses current controversies and opportunities in research on the roles, uses, and meanings of “Egypt” in ancient Roman visual and material culture. Accordingly, the article investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of current scholarly approaches; and analyzes the field’s intersections with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to, (1) 21st-century archaeology’s “material turn”; (2) the construction of new interpretive frameworks for cross-cultural interactions and “hybridization”; and (3) increased attention to the relationships among artifacts, contexts, and assemblages. Roman visual representations of Egypt provide a rich testing ground for research on intercultural exchange, the lived experience of empire, and the complex entanglement of people, things, and images.

scholarly journals National Identity (NATID) Framework in Multi-Ethnic Affiliations Consumer Market: The Case of Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Rizal ◽  
Alesia Sigang Gugkang ◽  
Geoffrey Harvey Tanakinjal ◽  
Sudin Lada
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
International Research ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Consumer Market ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Validation

This paper examines the transferability of the national identity (NATID) framework in a multi-ethnic consumer market. Data were collected using heterogeneous purposive sampling from 403 respondents in Malaysia. This study exert also responds to the cross-cultural validation of measures used in international research whereby the authors assessed measurement invariance of the NATID dimensions construct using Malaysian and non-Malaysian samples. The analysis provided strong support for the factor structure, internal consistency, and discriminant validity on the transferability of the NATID framework on the Malaysian data sample. The result also suggested ethnic affiliations are a relevant unit of analysis and indicates that the relationship between the dimensions of NATID and overall national identity, varied across the three major ethnic groups. With reference to originality, this research is pioneering the adaptive etic approach to elicit inputs and to improve the transferability of the NATID framework.  

scholarly journals Music as Medicine: An Evocative Bi-Autoethnography of Surviving Divorce

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabella Fung
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Experiential Process ◽  
Similar Experience ◽  
Multiple Intersections

As a musician-researcher of Chinese musicians’ journeys, I was confronted with stories that led me to interrogate my own worldviews. As my identity shifted in this experiential process, I became an autoethnographer by serendipity. Autoethnography is storytelling that blurs the boundaries between humanities and sciences, expressing lived experience in novel and literary forms, depicting stories and including authors’ critical reflection on their lives and writing process, with the purpose of transforming self and society. This evocative autoethnography explores the phenomenon of divorce, in reference to my personal experience and another musician’s lived experience interpreted through my understanding as a participant-researcher. This project integrates autoethnographical and phenomenological approaches in the analysis of two intertwining narratives. Two overarching themes will be explored: music as medicine, and divine hope in healing. Musicking and our Christian faith had transformed us from heart-brokenness to survival. I draw on multiple intersections to theorize about these two tales from two generations. This is the essence of autoethnographic research where theorizing takes different forms and can be engaged through multiple points of contact and streams of processing. The retelling of our stories captures something alive, and challenges biases associated with divorce and predicted by cultural norms. Our bi- autoethnography is staged-storied-scholarship that is therapeutic and embodied. It incorporates evocative texts, dramatic narratives and musical presentations that combine to communicate our inner-worlds to others who might share a similar experience. This study explores new directions in finding authentic selves through qualitative inquiry with the creative use of multimedia in autoethnographic performances.

scholarly journals Lived experience as a unit of analysis for the study of learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 100345
Author(s):  
G. Dieumegard ◽  
S. Nogry ◽  
M. Ollagnier-Beldame ◽  
N. Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Unit Of Analysis

Women’s Lived Experiences of Chronic Pain: Faces of Gendered Suffering

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 772-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Arman ◽  
Anja Gebhardt ◽  
Johanna Hök Nordberg ◽  
Susanne Andermo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Caring Science ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Contemporary Health Care

Women are overrepresented in pain rehabilitation. They seem to be more exposed to comorbidity between mental illness and diseases of the musculoskeletal system than men, implying that besides biopsychosocial factors, gender relations and cultural context should be considered. The aim of the study is to understand the lived experience of women with chronic pain from a caring science and gender perspective. Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics has been used to analyze interviews from 21 women living with chronic pain in Sweden. The hermeneutical process revealed intertwined experiences of overperformance, loneliness, pain, and exhaustion. Women’s experience of an overwhelming life situation and the significance of mutual dependency seem to be central to health and suffering in women with chronic pain. We suggest, contemporary health care to acknowledge women’s health and suffering in relation to their life situation and prevailing gender roles.

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