scholarly journals Globalization, mondialisation and the immonde in Contemporary Francophone African Literature

Paragraph ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-272
Author(s):  
Michael Syrotinski
Keyword(s):  
African Literature ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Generic Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
Epistemological Break ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Reference

Taking as its theoretical frame of reference Jean-Luc Nancy's distinction between globalization and mondialisation, this article explores the relationship between contemporary Africa, the ‘world’ and the ‘literary’. The discussion centres on a number of present-day African novelists, and looks in particular at a controversial recent text by the Cameroonian writer and critic, Patrice Nganang, who is inspired by the work of the well-known theorist of postcolonial Africa, Achille Mbembe. For both writers ‘Africa’, as a generic point of reference, is seen in terms of a certain genealogy of Africanist thinking, from colonial times through to the contemporary postcolonial era, and the article reflects on what a radical challenge to this genealogy might entail. Using a more phenomenologically oriented reading of monde (world) and immonde (abject, literally un-world), this rupture could be conceived in terms of the kind of ‘epistemological break’ that thinkers like Althusser and Foucault introduced into common usage and theoretical currency in contemporary French thought back in the 1960s.

The Historiography of Environmental History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the emergence of environmental history, which developed in the context of the environmental concerns that began in the 1960s with worries about local industrial pollution, but which has since evolved into a full-scale global crisis of climate change. Environmental history is ‘the history of the relationship between human societies and the rest of nature’. It includes three chief areas of inquiry: the study of material environmental history, political and policy-related environmental history, and a form of environmental history which concerns what humans have thought, believed, written, and more rarely, painted, sculpted, sung, or danced that deals with the relationship between society and nature. Since 1980, environmental history has come to flourish in many corners of the world, and scholars everywhere have found models, approaches, and perspectives rather different from those developed for the US context.

scholarly journals Musical language of the programme «Xuxa and the world of imagination»

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Nunes-Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Partial Result ◽  
San Juan ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Reference

This study is developed on the theoretical and methodological basis of analysis of discourse apply to music, proposed by Amparo Porta (1997, 2001). The objective is to analyse the sound language of program «Xuxa and the world of imagination», by three levels of approach: provable point of reference (musical qualities), poetic (treatment of phrases and conclusion), and topical (ideology transmited). In this study an analysis of one aspect of program is presented. As a partial result, in may be pointed out that the aspect selected was not present innovative language to resources for producing sound. And the contrary, it is characterized by a lack of musical recourses, which produces repetitive effect and suggests stereotypes, not only in the scope of the ideological message, but also in the musical scope. This is because it expresses musical forms which are based on commercial and industrial just justification – which have as a reference a passive spectator who is subject to the relationship of dominant culture. Con el aporte teórico y metodológico de análisis de los discursos aplicado a la música propuesto por Amparo Porta, se desarrolla esta investigación. Analizamos la banda sonora del programa «Xuxa no Mundo da Imaginação» por medio de tres niveles de aproximación: verosimilitud referencial (las calidades sonoras), poética (tratamiento de frases y de finalización) y tópica (ideología difundida). Presentamos, en esta comunicación, el análisis de uno de los cuadros del programa. Se trata de un musical que hace alusión a los festejos de Santos de la Iglesia Católica (San Juan, Santo António y San Pedro) que ocurren durante el mes de Junio, con Xuxa y un actor caracterizados de caipiras (como si fueran trajes típicos de los festejos) cantando en play back. Los instrumentos musicales son acordeón, bajo, batería y teclado (sonidos electrónicos, salvo el acordeón). La estructura melódica presenta frases completas, con diseños de ruido (sonorización). No hay polifonía vocal, la textura es de melodía acompañada. El estilo es popular/ folclórico (música típica de los festejos). En cuanto a la estructura formal, la canción tiene una parte A cantada y un estribillo instrumental, los cuales se repiten a lo largo de la duración total de la música (3 minutos y 29 segundos). En el fin del cuadro hay un rápido fade out, e inmediatamente surge otro cuadro. En el nivel de verosimilitud referencial, observamos que el cuadro analizado comprende algunas clases de sonido: los sonidos electrónicos y acústicos, con predominio de los primeros. En el nivel de verosimilitud poética, el cuadro no presentó música incompleta, pero cortada por el rápido fade out y entrada abrupta de nuevo cuadro. Y, en el nivel de verosimilitud tópica, se presentó la música situada en contextos histórico y cultural si no erróneos, por lo menos equivocados en cuanto al estereotipo reforzado del personaje caipira. El cuadro no presenta lenguaje innovador en lo que concierne a recursos de sonorización, al contrario, la escasez de recursos musicales produce efectos repetitivos y sugiere estereotipos no sólo en el ámbito del mensaje ideológico, sino también en el ámbito musical. El tramo analizado ya demuestra algunas características generales del lenguaje sonoro del programa «Xuxa no Mundo da Imaginação» : música predominantemente tonal, con poca variación armónica (no hay modulación), ritmo danzante, presentación de estereótipos sociales para transmisión de mensajes (el personaje como estereotipo ya consagrado en fiestas escolares) y conocimientos. En este último caso, la caracterización de la presentadora está cargada de clichés –sin dientes, con gafas y con el rostro lleno de pintas– no proporcionando ninguna reflexión sobre las culturas propias de las regiones del interior de Brasil. La música está situada en contextos histórico y cultural equivocados en cuanto al estereotipo reforzado del personaje caipira. Hasta el momento, verificamos, de acuerdo con Porta (2001), que el programa expresa formas musicales que se basan en justificaciones comerciales e industriales que toman como referencia un espectador pasivo y sujeto a relaciones de dominio cultural.

scholarly journals ECO CRITICAL CONCERNS IN THE POETRY OF O.N.V. KURUP

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
Brincy Mathew
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Nature Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Aspects

Today the world is changing vigorously and the developments dismiss the ecological concerns for nature. Literature often addresses the environmental issues and does its duty in healing the nature. Ecocriticism is a branch of Literary Criticism that deals with the relationship between literature and the physical environment. Eenvironmental poetry explores the complicated connections between people and nature. O.N.V. Kurup was a renowned poet and lyricist in Malayalam. His works focus on Eco critical aspects such as landscape, sense of consciousness, eco-anxiety about the environmental changes etc. The present study is an attempt to focus on O.N.V.Kurup’s poetry in the theoretical frame work of ecocriticism

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

Klein with Lacan: A Study on the Reception of Lacanian Ideas in Uruguay and Its Effects on Clinical Practices (1955–82)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Grau-Pérez ◽  
J. Guillermo Milán
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Material ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Clinical Cases

In Uruguay, Lacanian ideas arrived in the 1960s, into a context of Kleinian hegemony. Adopting a discursive approach, this study researched the initial reception of these ideas and its effects on clinical practices. We gathered a corpus of discursive data from clinical cases and theoretical-doctrinal articles (from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s). In order to examine the effects of Lacanian ideas, we analysed the difference in the way of interpreting the clinical material before and after Lacan's reception. The results of this research illuminate some epistemological problems of psychoanalysis, especially the relationship between theory and clinical practice.

Arguing for Design Thinking Interventions as a Form of Artistic Interventions

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Ulla Johansson Sköldberg ◽  
Jill Woodilla
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Artistic Interventions ◽  
Innovation And Change ◽  
Empirical Material

Drawing on data from two projects where artists used their artistic competence as organizational change facilitators, we argue for a theoretical coupling of the discourse(s) of design thinking to research streams within art-and-management. The artistic dimension of design, the practice perspective and the artistic process should be considered if we are to understand the full potential of design thinking for companies. This paper describes two artistic intervention projects that highlight valuable ways artists can contribute to organizational innovation and change.  We begin with the theoretical frame of reference and a short methodological statement, followed by the empirical material.  In the analysis section we point to ways in which such interventions are similar to ones led by designers when we consider the designer’s process as individualized and contextualized.  Finally, we draw conclusions.

The Fragmentation of the Palestinian Political Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-216
Author(s):  
Jamil Hilal
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
National Representation ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
The Relationship

The mid-1960s saw the beginnings of the construction of a Palestinian political field after it collapsed in 1948, when, with the British government’s support of the Zionist movement, which succeeded in establishing the state of Israel, the Palestinian national movement was crushed. This article focuses mainly on the Palestinian political field as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, the beginnings of its fragmentation in the 1990s, and its almost complete collapse in the first decade of this century. It was developed on a structure characterized by the dominance of a center where the political leadership functioned. The center, however, was established outside historic Palestine. This paper examines the components and dynamics of the relationship between the center and the peripheries, and the causes of the decline of this center and its eventual disappearance, leaving the constituents of the Palestinian people under local political leadership following the collapse of the national representation institutions, that is, the political, organizational, military, cultural institutions and sectorial organizations (women, workers, students, etc.) that made up the PLO and its frameworks. The paper suggests that the decline of the political field as a national field does not mean the disintegration of the cultural field. There are, in fact, indications that the cultural field has a new vitality that deserves much more attention than it is currently assigned.

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