scholarly journals Arriving late to the party? Histories of cultural studies as resources of hope

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 763-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jilly Boyce Kay
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Current State ◽  
Personal Politics ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This review article critically considers two recently published books, both of which contend with the complex relationship between cultural studies’ history, present and future, albeit in extraordinarily different ways. Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics, edited by Kieran Connell and Matthew Hilton, is a collection of essays that emerged from a 2014 conference that explored the legacy and influence of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. Why Cultural Studies? is a searing, single-authored polemic by Gilbert B Rodman on the current state of cultural studies and a rallying call to reinvigorate the project by resuscitating its leftist impulses. In this article, I consider what these two books might offer in the way of intellectual, political and emotional resources for hope in the contemporary conjuncture; the ways that the books negotiate the inevitable partiality and the hidden personal politics of their own narratives; as well as the ways they implicitly invite personal, subjective reflection about one’s relationship to the histories and traditions of cultural studies. I end with a reflection about the challenges, but also the generative value, of revisiting painful and difficult debates within the field.

scholarly journals Von Staatsgrenze zu Dialektgrenze.

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 307-328
Author(s):  
Pascale Erhart
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Current State ◽  
Political Border ◽  
National Border ◽  
Project Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Upper Rhine ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

The ANR/DFG cooperation project called “FLARS – Effects of the national border on the linguistic situation in the Upper Rhine area”, between the University of Freiburg and the University of Strasbourg, examined the emergence and the nature of a linguistic border between France and Germany in the Alemannic-speaking regions Alsace and Baden, and its interdependence with the political border. The project data were collected through interviews conducted in 40 localities alongside the political border. The questions focused on what informants think and say about languages and about their use of them; about the current state of the dialects, the way they are spoken, their usefulness, their importance; and also on what they think and say about the way the inhabitants of the other side of the Rhine speak, what may make it different, and their position regarding that. A first analysis shows that most of the French and German informants think that both sides of the Rhine do not differ much linguistically, but that this proximity is not a sufficient condition for evoking a “transnational language”, as other aspects of their lives, lifestyles and identities are considered as different. This article will focus on the discourse produced by dialect speakers about the Rhine as a border and about common or different linguistic and cultural features with their neighbours.

Resiliencia, estilos de vida y manejo del tempo en jóvenes universitarios de Colombia, ante la pandemia COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-212
Author(s):  
Sandra Posada-Bernal ◽  
Ana Elvira Castaneda-Cantillo ◽  
Marlucio De Souza Martins
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Life Project ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

ResumenEste artículo de revisión tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre la forma en que los estilos de vida y el manejo del tiempo se fortalecen a partir de la resiliencia en los jóvenes universitarios de Colombia, ante la pandemia COVID-19. Los constantes cambios que los jóvenes universitarios se enfrentan determinan la forma en la cual establecen sus prioridades ya sean personales, académicas o sociales. Dentro de estas se encuentra el tener una vida saludable desde una planificación de actividades que permitan manejar el tiempo y consolidar hábitos. Es allí donde la resiliencia le permite al joven, a pesar de las dificultades que el entorno le plantea, sortear los retos propios de la etapa del ciclo vital en la que se encuentra. Se espera con este trabajo que, dentro del contexto universitario, los docentes acompañen al joven en su proceso de crecimiento personal con una perspectiva resiliente, para consolidar un proyecto de vida sobre la base de hábitos de vida saludable.Palabras clave: Resiliencia. Estilos de Vida. Manejo del Tiempo. Resilience, lifestyles, and time management in Colombian university students facing the COVID-19 pandemicAbstractThis review article aims to reflect on the way in which lifestyles and time management are strengthened by the resilience of young university students in Colombia in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The constant changes that young university students face determine the way in which they establish their priorities, whether personal, academic or social. Among these priorities is having a healthy life from a planning of activities that allow them to manage time and consolidate habits. It is there where resilience allows the young person, despite the difficulties that the environment poses, to overcome the challenges of the stage of the life cycle in which he/she finds him/herself. It is hoped that, within the university context, teachers will accompany young people in their personal growth process with a resilient perspective, in order to consolidate a life project based on healthy living habits.Keywords: Resilience. Lifestyles. Time Management. Resiliência, estilos de vida e gestão do tempo em jovens universitários na Colômbia, diante da pandemia COVID-19ResumoEste artigo de revisão visa refletir sobre como os estilos de vida e a gestão do tempo são fortalecidos pela resiliência dos jovens universitários na Colômbia diante da pandemia COVID-19. As constantes mudanças que os jovens universitários enfrentam determinam a forma como eles estabelecem suas prioridades, sejam elas pessoais, acadêmicas ou sociais. Entre eles está o de ter uma vida saudável a partir de um planejamento de atividades que lhes permita administrar seu tempo e consolidar hábitos. É lá que a resiliência permite ao jovem, apesar das dificuldades que o ambiente coloca, superar os desafios da etapa do ciclo de vida em que ele se encontra. Espera-se que, dentro do contexto universitário, os professores acompanhem os jovens em seu processo de crescimento pessoal com uma perspectiva resiliente, a fim de consolidar um projeto de vida baseado em hábitos de vida saudáveis.Palavras-chave: Resiliência. Estilos de Vida. Gestão do Tempo.

Leone de' Sommi and Jewish Theatre in Renaissance Mantua

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Donald Beecher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Social Negotiations ◽  
Renaissance Artist ◽  
The Way

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his community. The article deals with the complex relationship between the court and the Jewish "università" concerning the drama and the way in which dramatic performances also became part of the political, judicial and social negotiations between the two parties, as well as a study of Leone's role as playwright and negotiator during a period that was arguably one of the best of times for the Jews of Mantua.

Artistic Challenges within Control Societies: Big Data and Democratic Resistance

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Jagodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Data Archive ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

This paper will first briefly map out the shift from disciplinary to control societies (what I call designer capitalism, the idea of control comes from Gilles Deleuze) in relation to surveillance and mediation of life through screen cultures. The paper then shifts to the issues of digitalization in relation to big data that have the danger of continuing to close off life as zoë, that is life that is creative rather than captured via attention technologies through marketing techniques and surveillance. The last part of this paper then develops the way artists are able to resist the big data archive by turning the data in on itself to offer viewers and participants a glimpse of the current state of manipulating desire and maintaining copy right in order to keep the future closed rather than being potentially open.

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

The Bastion of Christendom

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Orsolya Száraz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Basic Hypothesis ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Meaning And Function

The Institute of Hungarian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Debrecen formed a research group in 2010 in order to launch the research of Hungarian realms of memory. This paper was written within the frameworks of the research group. Its basic hypothesis is that the identification of Hungary as the Bastion of Christendom is an established part of Hungarian collective memory. This paper attempts to demonstrate the changes of this realm of memory, regarding its meaning and function, from its formation up to the present day.

Challenges to Foster Resilience

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Tania Maritza Díaz Macías ◽  
Leila María Álava Barreiro ◽  
Diana Stefani Velásquez García
Keyword(s):  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Current State ◽  
The University ◽  
Conceptual Evolution ◽  
Scientific Pedagogical

The work aims to provoke critical educational reflections on the current state of the scientific-pedagogical conception of inclusive education in the university context. In this sense, we are aware of the existence of an extremely positive conceptual evolution in recent times. It is necessary to articulate new discourses and teaching practices that project and illuminate the idea that inclusive education as a permanent process of change in education and for which the development of psychological activities outlined in resilience can play an important role. The Ecuadorian higher education system has experienced, for a few years, changes of great pedagogical interest. In this framework, a whole process of generating educational policies and inclusive education is shown, taking as a framework the professors and managers of the Technical University of Manabí (UTM) (Ecuador), to contribute to the greater inclusive development of the said university. The main challenges for university institutions regarding fostering the resilience of the academic process are presented.

Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Language ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
John Taylor ◽  
The Way

At this point, Mill meets the great, passionate partner of his life, Harriet Taylor. This chapter endeavours to explain the complex relationship and way of life that they created for themselves during the lifetime of her first husband, John Taylor. The choice of celibacy is investigated. Even for freethinkers, chaste affairs were often pursued in this time period and milieu, including by people close to Mill such as W. J. Fox (with Eliza Flower) and Auguste Comte (with Clotilde de Vaux). This chapter also reveals the way that Harriet became a kind of substitute deity and religion for Mill. He frequently applied religious language to her, including deeming her judgement to be ‘perfect’ and ‘infallible’. With Harriet, Mill’s devotional sense finally found an outlet.

The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.R. Madhava Menon
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
University System ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The purpose of looking at Indian universities in a comparative perspective is obviously to locate it among higher education institutions across the world and to identify its strengths and weaknesses in the advancement of learning and research. In doing so, one can discern the directions for reform in order to put the university system in a competitive advantage for an emerging knowledge society. This chapter looks at the current state of universities in India and highlights the initiatives under way for change and proposes required policy changes.

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