scholarly journals W poszukiwaniu „autentycznego” Afrykanina

AFRYKA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (50) ◽  
pp. 11-37
Author(s):  
Ryszard Vorbrich
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Postcolonial Africa

Searching for the “Authentic” African The concept of the “true”, authentic African, as a person fundamentally different from Western people, had been long present in European academic discourse (especially in anthropology), as well as popular culture. Its antithesis emerged as a concept of the detribalised African, largely deprived of the traits of the authentic African culture and adopting European cultural patterns. The concept of an “authentic” African as a static “specimen” sourced from old Africa, resistant to cultural change, was rejected by the new, educated African elites. In postcolonial Africa, one of their responses was the idea of Afrocentrism. The article is an essay, not aimed at an exhaustive analysis of the subject. It is rather intended to indicate selected areas of discourse, as well as to show how the concept of an “authentic” African functioned within the academic discourse, as well as how, depending on the context and colonial doctrines, the phenomenon of the interpenetration of cultures and the empowerment of Africans evolved.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hadfield
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Europe

There were few subjects that animated people in early modern Europe more than lying. The subject is endlessly represented and discussed in literature; treatises on rhetoric and courtiership; theology, philosophy, and jurisprudence; travel writing; pamphlets and news books; science and empirical observation; popular culture, especially books about strange, unexplained phenomena; and, of course, legal discourse. For many, lying could be controlled and limited even if not eradicated; for others, lying was a necessary element of a casuistical tradition, liars balancing complicated issues and short-term pragmatic considerations in the expectation of solving more problems than they caused through their deceit....

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES” / SOCIALINIŲ POKYČIŲ IR APLINKOS IŠŠŪKIŲ FENOMENOLOGINĖS PERSPEKTYVOS

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
Rimantė Kvašinskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
New Tradition ◽  
Second International

On September 22–24, in 2011, the second international phenomenological conference took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. It was organized together with Antioch University of the USA and it was hosted in Vilnius Gediminas Technical University's Faculty of Architecture. Urbanists, philosophers, educators and other academic scholars had a chance to deepen their knowledge and present the results of their researches on the subject of “Phenomenological Perspectives on Cultural Change and Environmental Challenges”. More than 10 speakers from various countries had presented their speeches and afterwards actively indulged in group discussions on the most problematic issues. Due to a huge success that the event has proven to be, it is expected to be just a beginning of a new tradition to hold such conferences in the university regularly. Santrauka Antroji tarptautinė fenomenologų konferencija Lietuvoje įvyko 2011 m. rugsėjo 22–24 d. Ši konferencija, kitaip nei 2009 m. įvykusi jos pirmtakė, buvo organizuota kartu su JAV Antiocho universitetu. Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitete, Architektūros rūmuose urbanistai ir architektai turėjo galimybę sužinoti daug naujo ir patys pateikti savo tyrimų rezultatus tema ,,Socialinių pokyčių ir aplinkos iššūkių fenomenologinės perspektyvos“. Daugiau nei 10 pranešėjų iš viso pasaulio parengė kalbas ir po jų aktyviai įsitraukė į diskusijas, kuriose buvo gvildenami problematiškiausi klausimai. Tikėtina, kad tokios konferencijos ateityje taip pat bus organzijuojamos ir pamažu virs pasididžiavimo verta tradicija.

The Newest South

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-108
Author(s):  
Brenda Plummer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
New South ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Brenda Plummer examines the effect of the U.S. space program on race relations in key areas of the South, and the impact of that connection on popular culture. She also explores the intersection of the struggle for racial equality and aerospace exploration, as both constituted potent narratives of freedom in the American imaginary. Plummer disputes the assumption that NASA as an instrument of modernization and partner in the creation of the New South was implicitly allied with the civil rights movement. While the transformation of parts of the Deep South undeniably broke up earlier political, economic, and cultural patterns, aerospace research and development helped inaugurate a successor regime that neither challenged the structural foundations of racial inequality nor guarded against the production of new disparities.

Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Age of Trump: Using Popular Culture in a Polarized Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Vanessa Stout ◽  
Eric Earnhart ◽  
Mariam Nagi
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Race Discrimination ◽  
Hard Time ◽  
Discriminatory Behavior ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Difficult Subjects

Teaching race and ethnicity in various sociology courses, we found students in our classes can be very reluctant to approach the subject of race, discrimination, and racism. Moreover, during class discussion, they often have a hard time defining and analyzing these concepts. In this study, we examine how popular culture can be a useful tool to teach difficult subjects, such as race and ethnicity. Instead of a traditional lecture, we had students watch the popular Cartoon Network series Teen Titans. Using the characters’ interactions from this series as examples, students constructed definitions of racism and discrimination. The result of this study demonstrates that students may be more comfortable recognizing and discussing fictional characters’ racist or discriminatory behavior as a way of entering the conversation. After discussing fictional examples, students effectively link events from the cartoon to the subsequent lecture about race and racism.

“So that Every Subject Knows How to Behave”: Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheilagh Ogilvie
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Political Economic

“Social disciplining” is the name that has been given to attempts by the authorities throughout early modern Europe to regulate people's private lives.1 In explicit contrast to “social control,” the informal mechanisms by which people have always sought to put pressure on one another in traditional societies, “social disciplining” was a set of formal, legislative strategies through which the emerging early modern state sought to “civilize” and “rationalize” its subjects' behavior in order to facilitate well-ordered government and a capitalist modernization of the economy.2 Whether viewed favorably as an essential stage in a beneficent “civilizing process” or more critically as an arbitrary coercion of popular culture in the interests of elites, social disciplining is increasingly regarded as central to most aspects of political, economic, religious, social, and cultural change in Europe between the medieval and the modern periods.3

Theology, Perhaps

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-445
Author(s):  
Rein Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The Subject

A public (practical) theology is about recognizing religious phenomena in (popular) culture and society, and reflecting on these phenomena from a theological perspective. There is a lot of G/god in the public domain, so one could assume that ‘the fields are white for harvest already’ (John 4:35), theologically speaking. References to biblical stories and figures abound in art and culture and religious themes and questions are the subject of movie pictures and media attention. Theologians are well suited to interpret these public phenomena because they have access to a huge database of concepts, narratives and practices to make meaning from this fragmented G/god in public domain. But what sort of G/god are we talking about? This paper explores John Caputo’s theopoetics as a model for a public theology. Caputo’s theology is presented as a way of tracing God, perhaps, in a product of popular culture.

Ciało martwe i umierające w ukraińskiej sztuce współczesnej

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Marta Zambrzycka
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
The Subject

The subject of the article are images of death and human corps in the Ukrainian contemporary art as exemplifi ed by two Ukrainian representatives of contemporary art: Vasily Cagolov and Arsen Savadov. Savadov uses a dead body as a metaphor of a political and social situation. Vasyl Cagolow analyzes the subject of death and violence in popular culture, presenting it as a show that is kitsch and detached from reality.

The Evolution of Concept of Popular Culture and Its Significance

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Wensheng Deng ◽  
Pengzhuo Deng
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The People ◽  
British School ◽  
French School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conceptual Evolution

The paper has checked the evolution of concept of popular culture, which presents the essential meanings and its hidden reasons to general readers. Built upon the conceptual evolution, i.e. roughly from British School, Frankfurt School until French School, the thesis explores the possible characteristics of today’s popular culture of China in the ever-changing era. First, subjectivity of the people, i.e. the subject of China’s popular culture is composed of average people; Second, aesthetic experience, i.e. China’s popular culture is committed to perfecting her subjects’ mind and moral sense by providing beautiful contents, but not ugly immoral ones as currently appeared on new media; Third, “cultural consciousness,” i.e. the subjects should have confidence, reflection upon China’s popular culture, and not reject “others” blindly.

Implied Nowhere

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Ingram ◽  
Willow G. Mullins ◽  
Todd Richardson ◽  
Anand Prahlad
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Bob Dylan ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
The Subject

Implied Nowhere: Absence in Folklore Studies talks about things folklorists don’t usually talk about. It ponders the tacit aspects of folklore and folklore studies, looking into the unarticulated expectations placed upon people whenever they talk about folklore and how those expectations necessarily affect the folklore they are talking about. The book’s chapters are wide-ranging in subject and style, yet they all orbit the idea that much of folklore, both as a phenomenon and as a field, hinges upon tacit or absent assumptions about who we are and what it is that we do. The authors articulate theories and methodologies for making sense of these absences, and, in the process, they offer critical new insights into discussions of race, authenticity, community, folklore and literature, popular culture, and scholarly authority. Taken as a whole, the book represents a new and challenging way of looking into the ways that groups come together to make meaning. In addition to the main chapters, the book also includes eight “interstitials,” shorter chapters that consider understudied and under-appreciated aspects of folklore. These discussions, which range from a consideration of knitting in public to the ways that invisibility shapes an internet meme to Bob Dylan, are presented as questions more than answers, encouraging readers to think about what folklore and folklore studies might look like if practitioners only chose to look at the subject from a slightly different angle.

Colonialism from the Middle: African Clerks as Historical Actors and Discursive Subjects

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph A. Austen
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Social ◽  
Amadou Hampate Ba ◽  
External Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Late Stages ◽  
Indirect Rule

In a review of my first published book one of the founding figures of african historical studies suggested that instead of giving so much attention to European colonial administrators and African traditional chiefs I should have focused upon “the clerks, the schoolmasters and the evangelists, who were to take the lead when indirect rule had failed.” The terms in which this admonition was expressed implies a confidence in the nationalist project of “educated elites” that is less tenable today than it was during the 1960s. Nonetheless, in the late stages of my own career I have come to the conclusion that of the various occupational categories cited by Roland Oliver, African clerks do deserve greater examination than they have received so far in the historiography of colonial Africa. However, if they do prefigure the political leadership of postcolonial Africa, it is less in the heroic and innovative mode of “nation-building” than in the more problematic and continuous role as “gate-keepers,” or “brokers” (honest or not) between subject populations and external sources of power/patronage.I am not alone in this concern and an entire recent volume of essays has been dedicated to the study of such colonial “African intermediaries.” I contributed a chapter to this book and have continued to pursue a study of colonialism from “the middle” (as opposed to the “above” of my previous work as well as the social history “from below” that emerged in more recent decades). The focus of my research on this topic is upon two figures who are of both historical and literary significance: Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1900-1991), the very renowned Malian writer and scholar who produced a memoir about his early career as a colonial clerk; and “Wangrin,” a clerk and interpreter of an earlier generation, who is the subject of Hampâté Bâ's most widely read book.

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