scholarly journals Experiencing In-betweenness

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami

“Exploring in-betweenness” is the name of a collection of experiments that originate from my background in Architecture, overlapped with an interest in actual and perceived spaces of refuge. The result is a two-part experiment in which firstly, creative writing and literary analysis were used as vehicles to criticize and suggest alternative hierarchical arrangements of space, and secondly, the experiment which constitutes the topic of this article, where the actual and constructed dialogues between words and buildings are further explored. The author as both an insider and an observer aims to explore the relationship between space, lived experiences and sociological narratives. In “Literary Spatialities,” critical spatial writing is used to position the reader as the author through reflective passages and visual reconstructions to explore border encounters between refugee and host communities.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Tahmineh Hooshyar Emami

“Exploring in-betweenness” is the name of a collection of experiments that originate from my background in Architecture, overlapped with an interest in actual and perceived spaces of refuge. The result is a two-part experiment in which firstly, creative writing and literary analysis were used as vehicles to criticize and suggest alternative hierarchical arrangements of space, and secondly, the experiment which constitutes the topic of this article, where the actual and constructed dialogues between words and buildings are further explored. The author as both an insider and an observer aims to explore the relationship between space, lived experiences and sociological narratives. In “Literary Spatialities,” critical spatial writing is used to position the reader as the author through reflective passages and visual reconstructions to explore border encounters between refugee and host communities.


2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.


Author(s):  
Crispin Thurlow

This chapter focuses on sex/uality in the context of so-called new media and, specifically, digital discourse: technologically mediated linguistic or communicative practices, and mediatized representations of these practices. To help think through the relationship among sex, discourse, and (new) media, the discussion focuses on sexting and two instances of sexting “scandals” in the news. Against this backdrop, the chapter sets out four persistent binaries that typically shape public and academic writing about sex/uality and especially digital sex/uality: new-old, mediation-mediatization, private/real-public/fake, and personal-political. These either-or approaches are problematic, because they no longer account for the practical realities and lived experiences of both sex and media. Scholars interested in digital sex/uality are advised to adopt a “both-and” approach in which media (i.e., digital technologies and The Media) both create pleasurable, potentially liberating opportunities to use our bodies (sexually or otherwise) and simultaneously thwart us, shame us, or shut us down. In this sense, there is nothing that is really “new” after all.


2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412110059
Author(s):  
Barbara Barbosa Neves ◽  
Josephine Wilson ◽  
Alexandra Sanders ◽  
Renata Kokanović

This article draws on crystallization, a qualitative framework developed by Laurel Richardson and Laura Ellingson, to show the potential of using sociological narratives and creative writing to better analyze and represent the lived experiences of loneliness among older people living in Australian care homes. Crystallization uses a multi-genre approach to study and present social phenomena. At its core is a concern for the ethics of representation, which is critical when engaging with vulnerable populations. We use two case studies from research on loneliness to illustrate an application of crystallization through different narrative types. To supplement our sociological narratives, we invited author Josephine Wilson to write creative narratives based on the case studies. Josephine was awarded the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2017 for Extinctions, a novel exploring themes such as later life and loneliness. By contrasting the two approaches—sociological and creative narratives—we discuss the implications of crystallization for qualitative research.


Author(s):  
Ruth Patrick

This chapter outlines the rationale behind conducting repeat interviews with out-of-work benefit claimants in an effort to better understand lived experiences of welfare reform. It introduces readers to the political and theoretical context, and highlights the value in employing social citizenship as a theoretical lens in order to tease out citizenship from above and below. The recent context of welfare reform in the UK is also introduced, highlighting the extent to which successive rounds of welfare reform have cumulatively reworked the relationship between the citizen and the state. The research on which this book is based is detailed, and the value in working through and across time by taking a qualitative longitudinal approach highlighted.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Robert S.P. Jones

James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has fascinated readers for more than a century and there are layers of psychological meaning to be found throughout the novel. The novel is the perfect vehicle to discuss the relationship between form language and emotion as Joyce deliberately manipulated the emotional response of the reader through innovations in form and language, departing dramatically from previous literary traditions. This paper attempts to take a fresh look at the novel from a psychological perspective and seeks to examine underlying conditioning processes at work in the narrative – particularly the concept of associative learning. Understanding emotional responses to different stimuli is the bedrock of psychological investigation and 100 years after the date of its publication, Portrait of an Artist presents remarkably fresh insights into the human experience of emotion. Despite its age, Portrait of the Artist contains many contemporary psychological insights.


Revista Foco ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Ana Cristina De Albuquerque Lima Rodrigues ◽  
Beatriz Quiroz Villardi

Os professores gestores dos Programas de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro são oriundos de áreas diversas à Administração. A ausência de formação específica orientada para o desempenho das funções da gestão levou ao objetivo desta pesquisa: descrever como o professor gestor de Programa de Pós-Graduação em Instituição Federal de Ensino Superior – IFES aprende e desenvolve suas competências gerenciais, mesmo sem capacitação específica para a gestão. Para alcançá-lo na pesquisa, adotou-se metodologia qualitativa indutiva de análise de dados, nos termos de Thomas, pela qual os resultados emergem dos dados pesquisados. Da análise resultaram formas, fontes e conteúdo da aprendizagem gerencial destes docentes, e o que desejam aprender, que permitiram identificar assuntos para capacitação na gestão. Neste artigo especificamente, que tem por objetivo evidenciar a ausência de formação do docente para a função de gestor, considerou-se a capacitação para o desenvolvimento de competências e consequente desempenho das funções no serviço público federal, assim como a transição do docente para função de gestor.  As recomendações finais envolvem processos de aprendizagem na prática da gestão, necessidade de reflexão para desenvolver competências considerando a relação entre contexto social, indivíduo e suas experiências vividas. The management professors of the Post-Graduation Programs of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro come from different areas to the Administration. The lack of specific training oriented to the performance of the management functions led to the objective of this research: To describe how the professor of postgraduate program in Federal Institution of Higher Education – IFES Learns and develops their managerial skills, even without specific training for management. To reach it in the research, it was adopted a qualitative inductive methodology of data analysis, according to Thomas, by which the results emerge from the data surveyed. From the analysis resulted the forms, sources and content of managerial learning of these teachers, and what they want to learn, which made it possible to identify subjects for training in management. In this article specifically, which aims to evidence the absence of teacher training for the role of manager, it was considered the qualification for the development of competences and consequent performance of the functions in the federal public service, as well as the transition from teacher to manager. The final recommendations involve learning processes in the management practice, need for reflection to develop competencies considering the relationship between social context, individual and their lived experiences.


Author(s):  
Pip Adam

Novelist Pip Adam reflects on the processes involved in three of her recent projects: a novel, The New Animals (2017); a community newspaper and art project; and her educational work in creative writing classes in prisons. Drawing on Raymond Williams and Kenneth Goldsmith, Adam considers the relationship between the work of art and the work involved in producing art, and consider some of the ways in which the language of creativity and inspiration may undermine democratic energies.


1970 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Roseanne Saad Khalaf

This essay focuses exclusively on the views of women students at the American University of Beirut (AUB). The initial study examined the personal texts and discourse of forty-three students, men and women, enrolled in three creative writing sections over the course of one academic semester.Participants crafted personal texts in order to explore their views, feelings, and lived experiences regarding sex.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anubha Yadav

This short speculative text explores the relationship between the corporeality of a screenwriter and the materiality of a physical space, including its imaginary losses and effects on women’s creative collaborations. In this text, I draw from the information that Begum Para and Protima Dasgupta were spending a lot of time together in Bombay, living under the same roof, when their creative partnership blossomed and gave the industry a production house, a director-producer, a screen star and more than a few films. Although this text takes the form of creative writing, it is based on historical and archival research.


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