Illusio, Social Gravity and Social Magic: Purpose, Motivation and Aspiration

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Steven Threadgold
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Embodied Meaning

Chapter One focusses on underutilized concepts of illusio, social gravity and social alchemy/magic to consider everyday affective notions such as aspirations and orientations as key to thinking about how everyday processes of embodied meaning making are central to the affective economies that create and replicate inequalities. The chapter argues that Bourdieu’s concepts of social magic and social gravity are relations of affective affinity, unequal moments are settings heavy with the hierarchical transmission of affects. Illusio is especially useful for considering economies of intensity, motivation and purpose.

scholarly journals Social representations theory: An approach to studying translators’ socio-cognitive processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hokkanen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Integrative View ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
The 1960S

Social Representations Theory provides a comprehensive theoretical model for researching translators’ socio-cognitive processes. Developed in social psychology in the 1960s, the theory offers an integrative view of both individual and social processes in the construction and re-construction of knowledge. It draws attention to embodied meaning-making and the effect of material surroundings in perpetuating and disseminating social representations. Importantly, Social Representations Theory does not see representations as individual, solely conscious, or static mental constructions but as dynamic social–psychological phenomena that are enacted in discourse and social interaction. This article discusses Social Representations Theory as an approach to the empirical study of translators’ cognitive processes. Introducing the main concepts of the theory and using translators’ conceptualizations of source-text authors and target-text readers as an example, the article suggests avenues for using the theory in Cognitive Translation Studies.

scholarly journals Clinical reasoning—embodied meaning-making in physiotherapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 550-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoop Chowdhury ◽  
Wenche Schrøder Bjorbækmo
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Embodied Meaning

scholarly journals The Aesthetics of Encounter: A Relational-Performative Design Approach to Human-Robot Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Gemeinboeck
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Robot Design ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Embodied Meaning

This article lays out the framework for relational-performative aesthetics in human-robot interaction, comprising a theoretical lens and design approach for critical practice-based inquiries into embodied meaning-making in human-robot interaction. I explore the centrality of aesthetics as a practice of embodied meaning-making by drawing on my arts-led, performance-based approach to human-robot encounters, as well as other artistic practices. Understanding social agency and meaning as being enacted through the situated dynamics of the interaction, I bring into focus a process ofbodying-thinging;entangling and transforming subjects and objects in the encounter and rendering elastic boundaries in-between. Rather than serving to make the strange look more familiar, aesthetics here is about rendering the differences between humans and robots more relational. My notion of a relational-performative design approach—designing with bodying-thinging—proposes that we engage with human-robot encounters from the earliest stages of the robot design. This is where we begin to manifest boundaries that shape meaning-making and the potential for emergence, transformation, and connections arising from intra-bodily resonances (bodying-thinging). I argue that this relational-performative approach opens up new possibilities for how we design robots and how they socially participate in the encounter.

Exploring a pedagogy for meaning-making in physical education

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1093-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justen O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Range Of Movement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Student Meaning ◽  
Shed Light

This paper responds to calls for an exploration into pedagogies of meaning within physical education. Developing meaningful educational experiences in physical education for lifelong movement involves supporting students to explore their personal experiences in movement and to use these to derive a greater understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. Following a brief overview of the role of meaning-making in physical education, a case study is offered as a practical example for how reflection can be utilised to explore movement as meaningful. The case study presents a series of steps that provide detail about a meaning-making process undertaken during a physical education class. Data suggest that setting aside time for reflection and the generation of rich movement narratives aligned to a ‘first rush of movement’, can shed light on what students find meaningful ‘in’ movement in ways that link physical education to experiences across varying social and environmental contexts. Through giving priority to bodily understandings of movement as felt, sensory experience, participants ( n = 44) were able to express meaning across a wide range of movement contexts. I contend that the exploration of student meaning in physical education is engaging, informative, and serves to extend possibilities for what curriculum is seen as legitimate in physical education by/for whom. The paper sheds light on the use of embodied meaning-making stories as a potential springboard for further exploration and activity in physical education.

Embodied meaning-making in the experiences and behaviours of persons with dementia

Dementia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147130122110429
Author(s):  
Tor-Arne Isene ◽  
Hilde Thygesen ◽  
Lars J Danbolt ◽  
Hans Stifoss-Hanssen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Severe Dementia ◽  
The People ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Psychiatric Department

Background The aim of the study was to explore and articulate how meaning-making appears and how meaningfulness is experienced in persons with severe dementia. Although there is little knowledge about meaning-making and experience of meaningfulness for this group, this article assumes that persons with dementia are as much in need of meaningfulness in life as any others, and hence, that they are involved in the process of meaning-making. Methods The study was conducted using a qualitative method with exploratory design. Ten patients with severe dementia at a specialized dementia ward at an old age psychiatric department in hospital were observed through participant observation performed over four months. The field-notes from the observation contained narratives carrying with them a dimension of meaning played out in an everyday setting and thus named Meaning-making dramas. The narratives were analyzed looking for expressions where experiences of meaning-making and meaningfulness could be identified. Results The narratives demonstrate that persons with severe dementia are involved in processes of meaning-making. The narratives include expressions of meaning-making, and of interactions that include apparent crises of meaning, but also transitions into what may be interpreted as meaningfulness based on experiences of significance, orientation and belonging. The role of the body and the senses has proved significant in these processes. The findings also suggest that experiences of meaning contribute to experience of personhood. Conclusions The relevance to clinical practice indicates that working from a person-centred approach in dementia care also includes paying attention to the dimension of meaning. This dimension is important both for the person living with dementia and for the people caring for them. Acknowledging meaning as a central human concern, it is crucial to seek understanding and knowledge about the significance of meaning in vulnerable groups such as persons with dementia.

Affect as a hinge

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sari Hokkanen ◽  
Kaisa Koskinen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Point Of Departure

Affect, understood here as embodied meaning-making, offers one useful point of departure in studying translation as an activity that involves both cognitive and social processes, because it functions as a hinge between subjective understandings and social environments. We approach affects related to translating with the theoretical framework of the translator’s experiencing self, defined here as the perception that translators have of themselves, based on lived and embodied experience. In other words, we suggest that the study of affect in relation to translating should pay attention to translators’ own processes of meaning-making. Since the processes of human meaning-making, including self-construction, have been argued to rest upon narrative practice, we furthermore argue for a narrative approach to studying affects. We illustrate the methodological opportunities provided by a narrative approach to affect with three cases deriving from three different research projects.

scholarly journals “When We Talk about Gender We Talk about Sex”: (A)sexuality and (A)gendered Subjectivities

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 841-864
Author(s):  
Karen Cuthbert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Cognitive Conflict ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Structural Context ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
The Relationship

Gender diversity is seemingly prevalent among asexual people. Drawing on qualitative research, and focusing on agender identities in particular, this article explores why this might be the case. I argue that previous explanations that center biologistic understandings of sexual development, the liberatory potential of asexuality, or psycho-cognitive conflict, are insufficient. Instead, I offer a sociological perspective in which participants’ agender subjectivities can be understood as arising from an embodied meaning-making process where gender was understood to be fundamentally about sexuality. I emphasize the importance of understanding asexuality and agender in the broader structural context, as particular subjectivities were shaped and sometimes necessitated in navigating hetero-patriarchy. However, these entangled understandings of (a)sexuality and (a)gender were sometimes rendered unintelligible within LGBTQ+ discursive communities, where there is often a rigid ontological distinction between gender and sexuality arising from histories of misrecognition and erasure. I complicate this, arguing that already-invisible subjectivities may be made even more invisible by this distinction. The article illustrates the need to empirically explore the meanings of the categories “gender” and “sexuality,” and the relationship between them, rather than siloing them in our methodological and conceptual frameworks.

scholarly journals Embodied Songs: Insights Into the Nature of Cross-Modal Meaning-Making Within Sign Language Informed, Embodied Interpretations of Vocal Music

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky J. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Grounded Cognition ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Embodied Meaning ◽  
Internal Relations ◽  
Affective Meanings ◽  
The Relationship

Embodied song practices involve the transformation of songs from the acoustic modality into an embodied-visual form, to increase meaningful access for d/Deaf audiences. This goes beyond the translation of lyrics, by combining poetic sign language with other bodily movements to embody the para-linguistic expressive and musical features that enhance the message of a song. To date, the limited research into this phenomenon has focussed on linguistic features and interactions with rhythm. The relationship between bodily actions and music has not been probed beyond an assumed implication of conformance. However, as the primary objective is to communicate equivalent meanings, the ways that the acoustic and embodied-visual signals relate to each other should reveal something about underlying conceptual agreement. This paper draws together a range of pertinent theories from within a grounded cognition framework including semiotics, analogy mapping and cross-modal correspondences. These theories are applied to embodiment strategies used by prominent d/Deaf and hearing Dutch practitioners, to unpack the relationship between acoustic songs, their embodied representations, and their broader conceptual and affective meanings. This leads to the proposition that meaning primarily arises through shared patterns of internal relations across a range of amodal and cross-modal features with an emphasis on dynamic qualities. These analogous patterns can inform metaphorical interpretations and trigger shared emotional responses. This exploratory survey offers insights into the nature of cross-modal and embodied meaning-making, as a jumping-off point for further research.

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