9. Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamations, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas

2021 ◽  
pp. 283-314
Author(s):  
Carolyn Dean ◽  
Dana Leibsohn
Keyword(s):  
Contested Spaces

Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine's Contested Spaces

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahrir Hamdi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Olive Trees ◽  
Call To Prayer

Postcolonialism, profoundly influenced by the Palestinian scholar Edward Said, has until recently been oddly silent on Palestine, a topic that not only preoccupied Said's thinking and writing, but also inspired his theoretical ideas on imperialism, anti-colonial struggle and the worldliness and affiliations of the text and the critic. This theoretical silence on Palestine was, in fact, preceded by a historical, political, geographical, social and cultural contestation of all forms of Palestinian spaces that include not only dispossessing Palestinians of their land, but also building apartheid walls, destroying hundreds of thousands of olive trees, appropriating/stealing traditional Palestinian dishes and clothes, silencing Palestinian narratives and the Muslim call to prayer. This paper will argue that these contested spaces necessarily become sites of Palestinian cultural production, struggle and sumud.

How “Identity Play” Protects White Privilege

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison LaGarry ◽  
Timothy Conder
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Identity Studies ◽  
White Teacher ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter, “How ‘Identity Play’ Protects White Privilege: A Meta-Ethnographic Methodological Test,” presents the findings of a 2013 meta-ethnographic analysis on White identity in preservice teachers (PSTs), as well as a methodological test of those findings in light of recent publications on Second-Wave White Teacher Identity Studies (SWWTIS). In the 2013 meta-ethnography, the authors first found a reciprocal argument in which the authors described similar tools or strategies by which White PSTs defended their own privilege. Through further reflexive interpretation, the authors then found a line of argument that situated the multiple theories used in the studies as contested spaces in a larger figured world of whiteness. In testing findings from 2013 against recently published studies on SWWTIS, the authors found that the earlier study anticipated a shift in thinking and theorizing within the field.

Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings in the Acts of Thomas

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
William “Chip” Gruen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Apocryphal Acts ◽  
Contested Meanings

Abstract The agonistic character of the Apocryphal Acts literature has been well documented. The vast majority of these traditions revolve around the apostolic figure battling both demonic and human adversaries. The Acts of Thomas is no exception, showing the protagonist as Christian hero par-excellence, navigating both cosmological and theological adversaries, always emerging triumphant. Beyond the narration of these competitions themselves, however, the reader also witnesses Thomas navigating different places and spaces in his journeys. The dichotomies of deserted/inhabited, public/private, sacred/profane, domestic/communal are all encountered and their meanings adjudicated through the apostolic competitions. This paper will use spatiality theory to interrogate the use of these narrative topoi. In so doing, the role of space will not only be explored in these imagined places of the Acts of Thomas, but implications for the lived experience of the community will be investigated.

Contested Spaces, Common Ground

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Winkler ◽  
Lidia Rodríguez Fernández ◽  
Oddbjørn Leirvik
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Contested Spaces
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