Australian Masculinity on the Road

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-236
Author(s):  
Philip Butterss
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
True Love ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Ways Of Being

In an Australia where the old images of masculinity are no longer serviceable, the road provides an ideal site for films wishing to explore ways of being a man at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, True Love and Chaos, Doing Time for Patsy Cline and Kiss or Kill critique or destabilise traditional models of masculinity, and use the road as a space where masculinity is free to change. However, as Pamela Robertson (1997: 271) has pointed out, the road movie is ‘a genre obsessed with home’. The closure of all four films involves establishing a new form of home, and in doing so demonstrates how difficult it is to reintegrate credibly the changes experienced on the road into a domestic unit that is fulfilling for all its members.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Jessica Bissett Perea
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Music History ◽  
American Music ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Ways Of Being

This book argues that Native ways of doing music history requires relational and radical ways of listening to and for the density of Indigeneity. To advance a more Indigenized sound studies and a more sounded Indigenous studies asks researchers to prioritize analytics of density and audibility, and to hear performances of Indigeneity intimately intertwined articulations of Peoples (ways of being), places/spaces (ways of knowing), and projects (ways of doing). When Indigeneity is understood as more than simply the “condition of being Indigenous,” it becomes possible to emphasize structures of Indigeneity and to operationalize Indigenous logics, or what one might call Indigelogics. Indigelogical ways of doing music history are some of many ongoing projects seeking to unsettle and decolonize dominant narratives, and reframe larger debates of race, Indigeneity, power, and representation in twenty-first-century American music historiography. Sound Relations offers Indigenous-led and Indigeneity-centered terms of engagement as pathways to resurgent world-making and more equitable futures for all human and more-than-human kin.

The Gnostic in Us All: Thinking from the Macrobiotics of Michio Kushi

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Albanese
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Gospel Of Thomas ◽  
World Government ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
The Road ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Yin And Yang ◽  
American Teacher ◽  
On The Road

Abstract Around 1970 in graduate school, I wrote a paper on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the documents discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. The debate over its gnosticizing elements was alive and well, and I weighed in with an argument that its thorough oblivion to history rendered it Gnostic—in the capital-“G” sense. I published a revised version of the paper in an academic journal in 1976. Then in 1986, I began to practice macrobiotics. As I studied the teachings of Michio Kushi, its foremost American teacher, I began to suspect religion. With longtime political interests in world government, Kushi elaborated on a cosmological spiral, with humans descending from a “unique principle” as it divided into yin and yang. Finding balance with yin and yang energies through diet and lifestyle would lead to alignment and peace, even as the earth itself wobbled on its axis through cycles that lasted thousands of years—the earth’s particular location influencing humans for good or ill. Even so, if macrobiotic principles were followed, what lay ahead was “one peaceful world.” Somewhere on the road to one peaceful world, Kushi discovered the Gospel of Thomas. He began to use it regularly in his popular “spiritual” seminars. This article leverages an account of the gnostic (here small-“g”) content of macrobiotics on Michio Kushi’s commentary on the Gospel of Thomas—The Gospel of Peace (1992)—and also on related works. The paper explores the gnosticism of macrobiotic foodways and a peaceful world in terms of American culture, looking for lines of connection and viewing them as encrypted signs—in the twenty-first century still—of the gnostic in us all.

Self-Publishing

2020 ◽  
pp. 327-341
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Road ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Traditional Print ◽  
Print Format

In the twenty-first century, the barriers to authorship are lower than ever. Whether on blogs or on communal discussion forums, Facebook ‘walls’, or Twitter threads, anyone with access to the internet can fancy him or herself an author. The road to genuine cultural capital, however, still passes through the book, whether in its traditional print format or in the guise of ebooks consumed on Kindles, Nooks, and other electronic devices. Here too, though, a publishing revolution is underway. Thanks to services such as CreateSpace or iUniverse, it is cheaper than ever to self-publish a book, and, thanks to Amazon, it is easier to disseminate one. In this chapter, Jeffrey Di Leo shows how the results of this development are dramatic, both in a numeric sense and in a qualitative one.

scholarly journals New Chinglish and the Post-Multilingualism challenge: Translanguaging ELF in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Wei
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Generation

AbstractBuilding on the extensive ELF research that aims to reconceptualise English as a resource that can be appropriated and exploited without allegiance to its historically native speakers, this article explores the issue of English in China by examining New Chinglish that has been created and shared by a new generation of Chinese speakers of English in China and spread through the new media. This new form of English has distinctive Chinese characteristics and serves a variety of communicative, social and political purposes in response to the Post-Multilingualism challenges in China and beyond. I approach New Chinglish from a Translanguaging perspective, a theoretical perspective that is intended to raise fundamental questions about the validity of conventional views of language and communication and to contribute to the understanding of the Post-Multilingualism challenges that we face in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals La ética y el desafío de vivir una ciudadanía democrática “La ética en la educación desde una perspectiva en común”

2016 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Antonio Calderón
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

ResumenNuestro Siglo XXI vive cambios muy profundos, los cuales están basados en las nuevas tecnologías, nuevos medios de comunicación, nuevas formas de relaciones humanas y nueva forma de hacer cultura, es decir, es un modo nuevo de ver el mundo con otros ojos, pero, es en este ver y rever, donde se va descubriendo una trama de problemas con connotaciones muy profundas que afectan al ser humano y a toda la arquitectura de los entramados sociales vigentes, en estado de democracia. Ahora bien, estos nuevos comportamientos o hábitos, deben ser objetos de estudio. La Ética y la pedagogía deben ser las primeras interesadas en ella, pues es la segunda puerta por donde las nuevas generaciones deben construir sus hábitos para una vivencia y convivencia más humana y humanizada. Nuestra propuesta es una vivencia desde la ética pedagógica en un contexto marcado por la pluralidad.Palabras clave: Ética pedagógica - pluralidad - comunicación - diálogo - educación en valores - hábitos AbstractThis Twenty-First Century experiences very deep changes based on newtechnologies, new media, new forms of human relations and new form ofculture, that is, a new way of seeing the world with new eyes. And it is inthis viewing and reviewing where we discover a variety of problems withdeep connotations affecting humans and the entire architecture of theexisting social frameworks, in a state of democracy. These new behaviorsand/or habits must be subjected to study. Ethics and pedagogy shouldbe the first interested, because they represent the second opportunityfor the younger generations build their habits for living and sharing ina more humanized way. Our proposal is an experience from teachingethics in a context marked by plurality.Keywords: Pedagogical ethics, pluralism, communication, dialogue,education in values, habits ResumoO nosso século XXI, vive mudanças muito profundas, que são baseadasnas novas tecnologias, novos médios de comunicação, novas formas derelações humanas e nova forma de fazer cultura, ou seja, é uma novamaneira de ver o mundo com outros olhos, mas neste ver e rever, ondevai-se descobrindo uma trama de problemas com conotações profundasque afetam ao ser humano e toda a arquitetura das estruturas sociais existentes,em estado de democracia. Agora, esses novos comportamentos e /ou hábitos devem ser objetos de estudo. A ética e a pedagogia devem seras primeiras interessadas nela, pois é a segunda porta por onde as novasgerações devem construir seus hábitos para uma vivencia e convivênciamais humana e humanizada. Nossa proposta é uma vivencia desde a éticapedagógica num contexto marcado pela pluralidade.Palavras-chave: Ética pedagógica, pluralidade, comunicação, diálogo,educação em valores, hábitos.

Tahrir Memoirs: Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahia Abdel Nasser
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
University Campus ◽  
New Form ◽  
Tahrir Square ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The University

This chapter examines new Arab memoirs and the effects of the Arab revolutions in the twenty-first century on the genre. The genre of the Tahrir memoir, a form that focuses on subjectivity in the broader movement rather than solitude, reworks Arab memoirs in the twenty-first century. Radwa Ashour and Mona Prince wrote new memoirs that chronicle the writers’ involvement in Egypt’s 2011 revolution. The chapter focuses on Ashour’s Heavier than Radwa: Fragments of an Autobiography (2013) and the posthumously published The Scream (2014), including The Journey (1983) and Specters (1999), with Mona Prince’s Revolution Is My Name (2012). Both Ashour and Prince offer a new form in which writing, activism, the university campus, and Tahrir Square are deeply intertwined, with parts that focus on the writers’ medical or professional crises within Egypt’s revolution.

Empirical analysis of attitudes to new forms of employment in the pandemic era

2021 ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Elmira Naberushkina
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
The Road ◽  
State Employment ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
New Form ◽  
On The Road

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major changes in the functioning of social systems, including employment. This raises the need for a comprehensive study of the ongoing processes and forecasting their consequences. The subject of this article is the analysis of the remote form of employment scaled due to the 2020-2021 pandemic. The object of the study was the attitude of working Muscovites to the new form of employment. The use of qualitative and quantitative research methodology made it possible to clarify the ambiguity of remote work, to identify changes in the family and professional field that have occurred as a result of the transfer of labor functions to a remote format. The built-in indicators made it possible to assess the attitude towards distance employment, identify changes that have occurred between relatives and colleagues, assess the prospects for the further use of distance technologies, and speak out about the acceptability of remote work. The results showed that, in general, remote work as a new form of employment is accepted, and is considered by many as very convenient for the metropolitan metropolis in connection with significant savings in time and money spent on the road. Most have no plans to move from the metropolis while maintaining distance employment, since Moscow is labeled not only as a place of work and income, but also as a city of opportunities for leisure, development and life. The possibility of moving is considered only in connection with an increase in wages, career growth; in connection with personal and family reasons or with moving from Russia in general, as well as if the situation in small towns is favorable. The results presented in this article may be of interest to researchers dealing with the transformation of the labor market and employment, as well as to specialists from government bodies who are involved in the implementation of state employment policy and in the development system of urban agglomerations.

scholarly journals Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

2022 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Hanna Meretoja
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
New Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which the chapter proposes to call metanarrative autofiction. Such writing displays awareness of how our ways of narrating our lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The chapter conceptualizes metanarrativity in this context as a form of self-reflexive storytelling that makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on the process of its own narration but also on the roles of cultural narrative models in making sense of our lives. The chapter discusses affordances of metanarrative autofiction in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années (The Years) (2008), Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Min kamp (My Struggle) (2009–2011), and the Finnish singer-songwriter Astrid Swan’s Viimeinen kirjani (2019, My Last Book).

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