Biographizing migrant experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (257) ◽  
pp. 49-75
Author(s):  
Clara Keating
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Abstract Drawing on data generated in collaborative biographical story-telling groups with migrant women in rounds of stories, this article deals with the dynamics of power and knowledge displayed by migrant speakers in a situation of diaspora. I focus on a sexual harassment episode shared by one female Brazilian migrant speaker, Flavia, in relating a crucial moment of change in her life history. The study was structured to gain a perspective on this biographical rupture from three angles, namely successive rounds of stories, the story-telling interaction, as well as the circulation of knowledge displayed by speakers and textual objects they produced across situated interactions. The various perspectives bring to light a language biographical juncture, or muda, i.e. a meaningful, internalized, enduring and embodied re-socialisation into a new linguistic environment. An analysis of the moment by moment subjectivation process revealed this participant subalternally positioned as a woman, a Brazilian migrant and a speaker, hence, as a new citizen in Portugal framed by a set of different varieties of Portuguese permeated by (gendered) coloniality. I illustrate how a combined focus on the socio-material dispositions, on the production of discursive selves and on intersubjectivity in the rounds of stories helped to disclose the material and discursive workings of power and knowledge. Participants biographized themselves as migrants and speakers, with embodied, emotional and enduring biopolitical implications. Finally, the article discusses the extent to which the dispositions and affordances of biographical research, as acts of biographization, contribute to capturing the biopolitical nature of a language muda.

The Cumulation Hypothesis and the Model of Continuous Cumulation

2011 ◽  
pp. 166-183
Author(s):  
Eliezer Geisler
Keyword(s):  
Written Language ◽  
Biological Traits ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Complex Phenomena

We generate, store, organize, and utilize knowledge in order to represent complex phenomena in ourselves and in our environment. We accumulate knowledge consistently and furiously from the moment of our birth to the last breath of air we take. Further, we catalog and preserve knowledge in various forms: in our memories, in oral story telling, and in physical modes such as written language, architecture, art, and with our genetic materials. Thus, we impart knowledge through our own biological traits and by all the means we use to impact our environment.

Atypical and Unusual Brain-Forms, especially in Relation to Mental Status: a Study on Brain-Surface Morphology

1896 ◽  
Vol 42 (178) ◽  
pp. 541-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Julius Mickle
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Normal Brain ◽  
Brain Surface ◽  
Races Of Mankind ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Normal Standard ◽  
Abnormal Brain

Chapter I.General Considerations—Normal Standards of External Brain Architecture—New Details of Unusual Forms of Convolutions and Furrows—Many Deviations from Type accepted from Several Observers—Chief Deviations from Usual Form in Brains examined by the Writer, and the lines on which they occur; their significance and appraisement from a general point of view.In an Address' in the Section of Psychology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, London, 1895, I touched upon some of the results of an analysis of many necropsies I had made, with regard to abnormal forms and arrangements of brain convolutions, and mentioned the dissatisfaction one had felt with some of the accepted standards of convolutional form. With regard to unsatisfactory standards of normal brain-form, it was stated in the Address that “we may take it for granted, and need not tarry to prove, that a different normal standard of brain-form obtains in different stages of individual life, in different races of mankind, and, as a logical inference, must obtain also in different ages of the world and epochs of time; for what practically concerns us at the moment is the normal set of standards for modern British brains. The standards of the normal, hitherto chiefly in use, and with which I began, were unsatisfactory, defective, incomplete, insufficient in range, and even misleading. For their unsatisfactoriness there are several reasons. One is that some of them have been diagrammatic or schematic, thus unduly accentuating some features and minimising or omitting others. Another is that the brains from which certain figures and descriptions are drawn have been taken from dissecting-room subjects, or from patients—most of them ‘incapables’ of various kinds, dying in rate-supported or State-supported institutions—of whose life-history little or nothing is known in many instances; who often are failures in life—waifs and strays—broken fragments of the wreckage of civilisation, the indication of degeneracy and breakdown. and such failures, waifs and wreckage are they very often—most often, indeed—because of their mental defect or perverted aberrant type of mind, which not infrequently has as its accompaniment, sometimes pathological brain change; but sometimes also, or solely, has an abnormal brain development and aberrant gyral conformation. Indeed, knew we their ancestral and life-history fully, we would search such subjects for some of the most interesting forms of convolutional deviation from type. and still more would this be the case, if, especially in the past and in some countries, dissecting-room subjects have been largely recruited from the criminals dying in prisons, and the mentally decayed and defective dying in asylums. Therefore it is not surprising to find that sometimes the brains taken from the sources previously referred to, and published as typical, are what I do not hesitate to declare and describe as being brains of deranged or of defective development, and utterly misleading if taken as normal.”

scholarly journals Analysis: Life history and interactive narratives in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Gabriel Orlando Quiñones Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Life Narratives ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Written Corpus

This article is based on the area of Interactional Sociolinguistics and proposes the analysis of excerpts concerning a life story and interactive narratives in contexts of the Coronavirus pandemic. A first written corpus and a second oral corpus based on life narratives were collected as reference. In this analysis of life stories and interactive narratives in the context of Coronavirus disease we have a discursive sequence that allowed us to evaluate and interpret a tale and several experiences lived in this pandemic time that our planet has faced up to the moment of data collection.

scholarly journals Habitat preferences of coral-associated wentletrap snails (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriaan Gittenberger ◽  
Bert W. Hoeksema
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Life History Strategies ◽  
Species Assemblages ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Indirect Proof ◽  
Living Species ◽  
Mushroom Coral ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Veliger Larvae

Examination of about 60,000 scleractinian corals of the families Dendrophylliidae, Euphylliidae and Fungiidae for the presence of associated wentletrap snails (Gastropoda: Epitoniidae) revealed various ectoparasitic life history strategies. Twenty Indo-Pacific wentletrap species were found, which were either host-specific or generalist. Most species were associated with mushroom corals, especially free-living species belonging to the Fungiidae. Snails showed different preferences with regard to their position relative to mushroom corals, the host’s size and its substrate. No preferences for depth were found. Infestation rates of mushroom corals in multi-species assemblages were negatively correlated with coral densities, which indicates that epitoniid veliger larvae may actively look for preferential hosts. Indirect proof was found that burrowing shrimps remove any epitoniid that is on or underneath the mushroom coral under which they have their burrow. Fishes like wrasses and damselfishes were seen to eat the snails the moment their host corals were overturned, which suggests that the host corals may provide the snails with protection against predators.

scholarly journals Preventing Marginalization and Radicalization through Theatre and the Expressive Arts: Empowering Intercultural Dialogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Francesco Pipparelli
Keyword(s):  
Expressive Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Path Of Integration ◽  
Over Time

Marginalization, radicalization, and encountering the Other are undoubtedly some of the topics on top of the agenda for social growth in our society. The roles that women, in general, and mothers, in particular, can play in prevention and inclusion strategies are certainly of great importance for an approach that goes beyond a simple intervention on effects, working on causes and facilitating intercultural dialogue. theatre and art have always been used as forms of storytelling, to generate emotions and make the audience identify with the stories they hear or watch. For this reason, in the field of methodologies and tools for the inclusion of people and the prevention of marginalization, over time excellent examples of the application of artistic approaches to facilitate the processes of growth and empowerment have emerged. Theatre and story-telling workshops, especially those for migrant women, represent good cases of facilitating the process of discovering and defining one’s own identity in a healthy way. This represents the basis for a path of integration through art,giving awareness and inclusion to participants and at the same time making them “ambassadors” of the intercultural dialogue.

scholarly journals Improving the Transparency of the Life History Method Data Analysis Process in Qualitative Biographical Research

Pedagogika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Mare Sadam ◽  
Larissa Jõgi ◽  
Ivor Frederick Goodson
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Scientific Papers

The transparency of the data analysis process is one of the main criteria for the empirical reliability of qualitative biographical research based on the life history method (LHM). The aim of the paper is to examine the transparency of the data analysis process used in published scientific papers based on LHM. The results show that the data analysis process is not fully transparent. Two kinds of analysis process were mainly used in research with LHM: categorical content analysis and portrayal.

Matching the Self: The Paradoxical Case and Life History of a Late Career Teacher/Coach

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Templin ◽  
Bevan Grant ◽  
Andrew Sparkes ◽  
Paul Schempp
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Level ◽  
Sport Pedagogy ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Male Teacher ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Educator ◽  
Personal Circumstance ◽  
History Approach

This case study focuses on a late career, male teacher/coach and reveals the multidimensionality of his life and career. It demonstrates the influence of significant career and life events, as well as the social context in which the teacher/coach works. Overall, a life history approach describes the paradox of the employment/accommodation of a veteran elementary teacher as a physical educator at the secondary school in which he coaches. This study reveals the marginality of physical education and its teachers at the secondary school level in contrast to the importance of interscholastic athletics and those who serve in varsity coaching roles. The study shows how the teacher studied is both a good-fit and a weak-fit stayer (Yee, 1990). Equally, it demonstrates how one’s conception of self (Nias, 1985) relates to professional and personal circumstance. Finally, the research demonstrates the value of and need for biographical research in sport pedagogy.

Robert Boyle: a Freudian perspective on an eminent scientist

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
BRETT KAHR
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Eminent Scientist ◽  
Robert Boyle ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Biographical Research

On 31 May 1936 Professor Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, wrote a letter to the Austrian littérateur Arnold Zweig, warning him about the dangers of undertaking biographical research. Freud intoned that ‘anyone turning biographer commits himself to lies, to concealment, to hypocrisy, to flattery, and even to hiding his own lack of understanding, for biographical truth is not to be had, and even if it were it couldn't be used’.As a psychoanalyst, Freud knew only too well how readily each individual person employs the ubiquitous mechanisms of defence such as repression, projection, splitting and idealization, all of which operate to conceal our deepest, innermost affective states; and he questioned therefore how accurately someone could write a life history. Freud harboured other anxieties about the craft of biography. In his classic monograph on Leonardo da Vinci, published in 1910, the great Viennese analyst not only lamented ‘the uncertainty and fragmentary nature of the material relating to him which tradition makes available’, but also questioned the very enterprise of psychologically informed biographical work itself.

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