Border-crossing and the narrative of the minor: Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay

Asian Cinema ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chialan Sharon Wang
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Interstitial Space ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This article studies Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay (2016) as a cinematic representation of Deleuze’s ‘minor literature’. I argue that the film gives rise to collective utterances against social and economic hegemony, particularly in its portrayal of Burmese immigrant characters who, as Agamben’s ‘bare life’, are subject to the violence underlying the biopower of neo-liberalism. A diasporic Burmese Chinese, Midi Z adopts the convention of cinema verité and fictionalizes the social reality of the migrant Burmese community. The Road to Mandalay articulates the pathos of those who are deprived of civil rights and who, in their negotiation with the exploitation of global capitalism, manage to survive in an interstitial space. The article unpacks the way the film allegorizes such a struggle in moments of surrealist and transcendental visions.

scholarly journals The Grotesque World in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Huimin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Part ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Grotesque

This article is going to explore the reasons leading the figures grotesque and the way out of such world, with the help of Bakhtin’s theory of grotesque realism, via linking the duality of physical part with the grotesque to analyze the three main characters’ physical characteristics, social relationships and mental world. Singer, Mick and Biff are the distinct characters in Carson McCullers’s novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Their lives are shot through with frustration and discouragement and the intense privacy of their inner lives gives the reader the impression that they are isolated, lonely beings. They try to build connections with others but eventually they fail. The following are the reasons: Firstly, they cannot identify themselves with the majority due to their physical problems, which further lead to their mental crisis. Secondly, they are alienated from the majority in society while they communicate with the ones who cannot end their isolation, which enforces their alienation. Finally, loneliness grips them so powerfully that they cannot come out of their grotesque dreaming world centering on the truth or idea or purpose they have created for themselves. Therefore the way out is to experience the social reality, to express ideas, share care and love with others. Through the interpretation of this novel, the point of this article is to explain the reasons and the ways out of alienation, the keyword in the grotesque world.

The Traditional House in the Oasis of Ghadames

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 31-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Martin Evans
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Housing Corporation ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

The large scale housing programme of the Libyan Government is changing the appearance of many of the towns of Libya. As part of this programme, the National Housing Corporation have recently adopted new standards for housing design, in order to ensure that the houses are better suited to the needs of the population in different parts of the country. During the investigations to develop new standards, the traditional housing in a number of regions of the country was studied, with a special emphasis on the way it relates to the climate and the way of life of the inhabitants. One of the most interesting traditional house forms was found in the oasis of Ghadames. My interest in the houses of Ghadames is not only in their history, their location in Libya or the climatic extremes to which they are subjected, but in the unusual form developed to provide protection from the climate, and the way that this form relates to the social patterns.Ghadames lies on the western border of Libya, close to the junction with the borders of Algeria and Tunisia. It is located about 400 km from the coast, and about 450 km from Tripoli. The journey from Tripoli can be made in a few hours by the regular internal flight or in a day by car or bus. After leaving the green coastal strip the road crosses the Jafara plain and climbs the escarpment at Nalut. From Nalut the road runs south across the steppe and desert, past the oases of Sinawn and Derj to Ghadames.

Knowing the Place for the First Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers a third approach to the sociological perspective, which has to do with viewing a wholly familiar social reality in the way a newcomer, a stranger, might. It may be assumed that sociologists know more about the lay of their land than most others do. After all, they spend a significant amount of time investigating various corners of the social world, and to that extent they can be thought of as seasoned, knowing, and experienced about human life. At the same time, however, sociologists can be viewed as strangers to the lands they study, for it is one of their tasks to look at the social world almost as if they were seeing it for the first time. The chapter explains how sociologists may be newcomers to the locations they study and discusses the ways that they deal with deviant behavior.

scholarly journals Social drama of independence

2021 ◽  
Vol - (3) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Sergii Proleiev
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes the problem of Ukraine's development since independence. A comparison of the way of organizing social reality in modern Ukraine and in the Soviet period is carried out. The main regulatory factor in the life of Soviet society was the principle of domination. Ukraine has inherited the principle of domination and retains its leading role in the current social order. Its various manifestations that determine the structure of Ukrainian society, in particular the growth of the bureaucratic class and bureaucratic pressure on all spheres and sections of life, are analyzed. The dominance of bureaucracy contains latent violence, feeds corruption and minimizes social dynamics. It is also a phenomenon of power rent, which finds its expression in a kind of "privatization of the state." Another universal effect of the principle of domination is the doubling of social reality into apparent and hidden. The apparent reality becomes a space for the existence of ordinary citizens and the implementation of legal procedures, while the hidden one contains a system of real circulation of power, which is not regulated by any legal regulations, instead, controls all movements of the social body. The systemic role in the hidden society is played by cliques — informal groups of influential people who really control the course of events. The con- sequence of the principle of domination is the passivity and marginalization of the Ukrainian citizen, associated with the defect of political participation. Such non-participation in power is embodied in such forms of consciousness as hope, liking, and despair. Today, independence is not a given, but a chance that must be realized. The way to this is through the restoration of the role of the people as a sovereign power and the development of non-dominant regulatory factors of sociality.

Testy rzeczywistości. Narracje o zbrodniach w powieściach Jane Austen

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2 (465)) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Karlińska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Reality Testing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

The aim of the article is the consideration of the way in which Jane Austen asks in her novels about the status of reality. The subject of the interest are the narrations about “crime” understood as the events breaching the normal social experience and revealing how fragile the reality is. The significant context of the consideration is the classical detective literature. The author proves that the work of Jane Austen can be characterized by the similar reflection on societies in which the project of social reality is entangled. Referring to the conception of Luc Boltanski, she shows that, in the novels of the British writer, crime is a form of “reality testing”. Austen casts in doubt the frames of reality and reveals the conventional dimension of the social life. Her purpose, however, is not to disclose the social world – she sees the possibility of its integration.

«Fuera de lugar»: Roberto Schwarz y la centralidad de la experiencia periférica

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Jordi Maiso
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Machado De Assis ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
The Way

This article analyses Roberto Schwarz’s contributions to understanding the significance of Brazilian culture in relation to the way in which it is embedded in the dynamics of global capitalism. At first, it analyses to what extent his approach to Latin American culture can be understood as a dialectical alternative to postcolonial and subaltern studies. Then, based on his analysis of the intertwining of artistic form and social reality, it focuses on how Schwarz reveals the significance of Machado de Assis’ late narrative, which goes far beyond the strictly local. Finally, it offers some insights into his understanding of the evolution of the peripheral ‘maladjustment’ in the recent evolution of global capitalism on the basis of Paulo Lins’ novel Cidade de Deus.

scholarly journals O corpo como imaginário da cidade

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 657
Author(s):  
Euler David de Siqueira ◽  
Denise Da Costa Oliveira Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Na constituição dos imaginários urbanos, cidade e corpo se comunicam, veiculam mensagens e jogam um importante papel. Neste artigo, nos dedicamos a estudar o corpo que aparece como uma das imagens de uma cidade. Ao realizar esse exercício através da análise de uma série de cartões-postais das praias do Rio de Janeiro, buscamos romper com a naturalização desse corpo, do modo como aparece e dos locais onde é mostrado. Partindo de uma perspectiva semiológica e antropológica, lançamos mão de uma metodologia qualitativa para analisar imagens fotográficas reproduzidas nos postais e a realidade social que elas (re)constroem. Palavras-chave: Corpo; Imaginário; Cidade. Body as imaginary of the city Abstract: In the constitution of urban imaginary, city and body communicate, transmit messages and play an important role. In this article, we study the body that appears as one of the images of a city. When doing this exercise by examining a series of postcards from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, we try to break with the naturalization this body, the way it is shown and where it appears. Starting from a semiological and an anthropological perspective, we use a qualitative methodology to analyze photographic images reproduced on postcards and the social reality that they (re)construct. Keywords: Body; Imaginary; City.

scholarly journals When there’s no Yellow Brick Road

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Black Girl ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Way

I have framed this essay based on one of my all-time favorite films, The Wizard of Oz. I actually saw the film in the theater at a Saturday matinee and I was fascinated by Judy Garland’s journey from a small Kansas community to the magical land of Oz. When she ended up in Oz Dorothy was directed to “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” as a way to get to the Emerald City. For a working class, Black girl like me growing up in the pre-Civil Rights era, there was no yellow brick road to follow to the Emerald City. I was going to have to actually make the road. Fortunately, I would encounter “road pavers” along the way that made my journey possible. This essay describes a version of that journey. 

Travail, salaire et pauvreté au moyen âge

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Feller
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Considerable Confusion ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Moyen Age ◽  
Urban Working ◽  
Material Organization ◽  
The Way

Hired working is a topic rarely dealt with by medievalists. It is nevertheless a central matter: beside the corvée and the range of constraints that goes with the seigniorial system, wages play an important part in the organization of rural or urban working. In the first place, every kind of work, even constrained work, has a cost. This ranges from the material organization of the tasks to the offering of a meal or to the payment of a monetary counterpart in exchange for the work. These features are compensations for the time passed in the fields or in the workshop and for the strength and skill used to satisfy the demands of the master. The fact that this cost is not necessarily, and never entirely, monetized is a barrier to thinking that between tenth and fifteenth centuries work could be considered a mere commodity whose wage is a price. The existence of counterparts in working means that there are reciprocal obligations: this fits well with an economic system in which acts and things can be valued according to social or political circumstances. Hired working appears to have been part of the seigniorial system from its very beginnings, as a marginal but useful way to obtain work from free workers. The way in which the different tasks are remunerated, and not only the amounts concerned, reveal the hierarchies in working: there is a gap between the gold given once a year to an architect (or to a professor at a university) and the bullion used to pay workers once a week on construction sites. The ways of remunerating work can be very complicated, mixing payments in cash and in kind. These payments show a considerable confusion in the conception of what the remuneration consists of: different words are used, even in the same contexts, to indicate the same economic reality, especially in rural contexts where the remuneration can involve clothes, cash, food, and accommodation. In the end, salary and poverty appear to be closely linked in the mentalities as well as in the social and economic reality. Hired working, salary, and misery are clearly three interrelated features of the medieval economic and social reality.

scholarly journals GURU: ANTARA PENDIDIK, PROFESI, DAN AKTOR SOSIAL

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warsono Warsono
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Expectation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
The Way

AbstrakMenjadi guru berarti menyandang dua status sekaligus pada dirinya. Yakni, profesional dan pendidik. Tetapi, kedua status ini tidak hanya didasarkan kompetensi dedaktif-metodik saja. Sebab, ada ekspektasi sosial yang menjadi cita-cita ideal masyarakat. Sehingga, guru profesional bukan semata-mata berorientasi mendapatkan pekerjaan dan pendapatan yang layak, melainkan juga memiliki panggilan jiwa dan kesadaran humanis. Meskipun banyak pelatihan peningkatan profesi guru di berbagai jurusan kependidikan, tetapi prosesnya tidak banyak bermakna. Hal ini disebabkan cara berpikir guru yang materislistik. Oleh sebab itu, makna guru sebagai pekerjaan harus digeser pada posisinya sebagai aktor sosial yang saling berdialog dengan realitas sosialnya untuk menemukan berbagai solusi akan persoalan pendidikan.Kata kunci: guru, pendidik, profesi, dan aktor sosialAbstractBeing teacher means having double status namely professionals and educators. However, both of status are not only based on didaktic-methodical competence. There are social expectation coming from the society to be ideal people. Thus, professional teachers are not solely oriented to get a job and a decent income, but also has a soul and human consciousness. Although there are lot of training to improve the teaching profession in the various departments of education, most of them are meaningless. This is due to the way of teachers’ thought which is materislistic. Therefore, the meaning of the teacher as the workers should be shifted in position as social actors who always engage in mutual dialogue with the social reality to formulate solutions toward issue of education.Keywords: teacher, educator, profession, social actor 

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