scholarly journals The Last Flemish Primitive: Jan Vercruysse’s Self-Fashioning of Artisthood and National Identity

Arts ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Anton Pereira Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Artistic Identity ◽  
Deliberate Strategy

In 1989, the artist Jan Vercruysse (1948–2018) stated that he was “the last Flemish Primitive”. This comment, despite being only a fragment of a lengthy interview with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, became a trope in subsequent writings on Vercruysse. I argue that the statement was part of a deliberate strategy by Vercruysse in shaping his identity as a (Belgian) artist. First, I focus on Vercruysse’s Portraits of the Artist (1979–1984), a series of photographic works in which he uses the genre of the self-portrait—thereby implicitly referring to the Flemish Primitives—as a means to express the constructedness of artistic identity. Second, I explore Vercruysse’s construction of his identity and his relationship vis-à-vis the notion of Belgian art. Finally, the statement uttered in 1989 will be contextualized within the changing political and cultural context of Belgium and Flanders in the 1980s. I demonstrate how the statement can be read as invoking a radically different conception of Belgian art during this period.

scholarly journals LEVANTA VÔO SIRIPIPI

Organon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mestre
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marginal Condition

Comingo from Certeza and belonging to Diáspora, ORlanda Amarílis does notmake concessions when dealing with national identity and self cultural orientation what is stressed in the images of the foreign space as well as the images of the foreigner in the Archipelago. This article proposes a reflection on those images where text and cultural context amalgamate in the construction of an identity process, within a discursive practice which ruptures the pact of Realism celebrated above all with alterity in order to unveil the self through mythic tradition where he individual assumes the colective character. This is now the author's work published during the post-independence period is inscribed in the culture, in the History and in the social evolution of an Archipelago which makes slaves and of a foreigner who interferes and puts people in a marginal condition, thus reinforcing nationalism.

Nuanced and Dissenting Voices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy J. Miller ◽  
Grace E. Cho
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Social Positioning ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Bakhtinian Theory

Chapter 4, “Nuanced and Dissenting Voices,” examines the nuances diverse parents brought to their understandings of childrearing and self-esteem. Framed within Bakhtinian theory, this chapter gives voice to African American parents, working-class parents, conservative Christian parents, and mothers, particularly women who had experienced low self-esteem. These parents endorsed self-esteem, but refracted the language of the self-esteem imaginary in ways that made sense, given their diverse values and ideological commitments, social positioning, and idiosyncratic experiences. This chapter also describes the perspectives of two groups from the larger study who challenged key elements of the dominant discourse: grandmothers of Centerville children who raised their children in an earlier era, and Taiwanese parents who grew up in a different cultural context but were temporarily residing and raising their children in Centerville. These two groups of dissenters underscore again the book’s theme that self-esteem is rooted in time and place.

Toward a Relational Cosmopolitanism

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-185
Author(s):  
Margaret A. McLaren
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Rich

This chapter argues that cosmopolitanism as a framework for global gender justice fails to capture the rich diversity and the power differences among women. It evaluates two prominent cosmopolitan positions, individualist cosmopolitanism and institutional cosmopolitanism. Individualist cosmopolitanism relies on an abstract and atomistic notion of the self. Abstracting from social and cultural context diminishes the significance of identity, and holding a strongly individualist notion of the self obscures the power relationships that undergird structural inequality. Institutional cosmopolitanism accounts for our interconnections through unequal global economic and political relationships, but it leaves aside issues of gender and culture. The chapter draws on the work of Rabindranath Tagore to construct a new type of cosmopolitanism, relational cosmopolitanism, that recognizes our interdependence, appreciates diversity, and criticizes power relationships. Supplemented by feminist ideas of world traveling and difference as a creative resource, relational cosmopolitanism is a promising framework for feminists interested in global gender justice.

The Style of the Neo-Greek (Neo-Grec) in the Historical and Cultural Context of the Southern Region of Russia by the Example of the Cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia M. Kishkinova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The South ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insufficient Knowledge ◽  
European Architecture

In European architecture the Neo-Grec style, based on a revival of Greek principles and motifs, is an independent stage in rediscovering of classical antique heritage. It is one of the “new styles” of a historicist phase in architecture that claimed to find national identity in the architecture of independent Greece. In Russian architecture of the mid-19th – early 20th centuries this style is represented in a wide range of monuments that are mostly located in the South of Russia. However insufficient knowledge and research on the monuments of this style create difficulties for their maintenance and restoration. The purpose of the paper is to identify distinctive features of neo-grec in the region. The main task is to determine the reasons for a turn to neo-grec in the South of Russia, to identify and analyze neo-grec buildings in the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Yessentuki, to examine their composition and décor, to identify their ancient prototypes, to differentiate constant and variable elements in the architecture of the Neo-Grec.

scholarly journals Estrangement and Selfhood in the Classical Concept of Waṭan

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaseen Noorani
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Classical Concept ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Classical Arabic ◽  
Primary Love

The modern Arabic term for national homeland, waṭan, derives its sense from the related yet semantically different usage of this term in classical Arabic, particularly in classical Arabic poetry. In modern usage, waṭan refers to a politically defined, visually memorialized territory whose expanse is cognized abstractly rather than through personal experience. The modern waṭan is the geopolitical locus of national identity. The classical notion of waṭan, however, is rarely given much geographical content, although it usually designates a relatively localized area on the scale of a neighborhood, town, or village. More important than geographical content is the subjective meaning of the waṭan, in the sense of its essential place in the psyche of an individual. The waṭan (also mawṭin, awṭān), both in poetry and other types of classical writing, is strongly associated with the childhood/youth and primary love attachments of the speaker. This sense of waṭan is thus temporally defined as much as spatially, and as such can be seen as an archetypal instance of the Bakhtinian chronotope, one intrinsically associated with nostalgia and estrangement. The waṭan, as the site of the classical self’s former plenitude, is by definition lost or transfigured and unrecoverable, becoming an attachment that must be relinquished for the sake of virtue and glory. This paper argues that the bivalency of the classical waṭan chronotope, recoverable through analysis of poetic and literary texts, allows us to understand the space and time of the self in classical Arabic literature and how this self differs from that presupposed by modern ideals of patriotism.

scholarly journals Authenticity in Context: Being True to Working Selves

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Level I ◽  
Context Specific

The core premise of this article is that it is scientifically informative and psychologically meaningful to conceptualize and assess authenticity in context. I begin by providing some theoretical background on the nature of the self-concept, highlighting how the self-concept is composed of a collection of selves, with different selves activated and therefore at play in different contexts. This basic fact, that the self-concept is both multifaceted and malleable, implies that authenticity is a construct that requires study at a contextual level. I illustrate this by reviewing theory and findings from 3 areas of research, incorporating studies from my laboratory throughout. These areas are (a) authenticity in the context of close relationships; (b) authenticity in hierarchical contexts, wherein one occupies a lower versus higher position of social power; and (c) authenticity in relation to the larger cultural context. Finally, I address a number of issues and questions that arise when considering authenticity in context and propose a number of directions for future research on the context-specific nature of authenticity.

Toward a Social Phenomenology of Aging: Studying the Self Process in Biographical Work

1983 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerold M. Starr
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theories Of Aging ◽  
Cohort Differences ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Development And Aging ◽  
Social Phenomenology

In recent years, the study of aging has come to be increasingly multidisciplinary and to encompass the whole life course. The well established life history approach has been reformulated to include the macro-structural and cultural context of aging. Over the past decade research on adult development and aging, cohort differences in aging patterns, and historical changes in life course differentiation has challenged the validity of the established “stability” and “ordered change” theories of aging. An “aleatoric” account of aging, which calls attention to the flexibility of developmental patterns, has been proposed in their stead. Consistent with this development is the need to replace the old conception of the self as a passive object of outside social forces with a new conception of the self as an active, self-reflexive agent in society. The author demonstrates the utility of certain core concepts in social phenomenology and ethnomethodology, in particular Schutz's concept of biographical work, for developing this new conception of the self. It is proposed that more attention to the practical procedures of reality construction involved in biographical work would provide the epistemological basis and conceptual clarity needed for empirical research on the dynamics of life histories.

Drawing the discourses of ontological security: Immigration and identity in the Danish and Swedish cartoon crises

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Agius
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Cartoon Crisis

The controversy of the Danish cartoon crisis in 2006 overshadowed a similar one that took place in Sweden a year later. The crises have broadly been framed as a clash of values but both cases reveal differences worthy of investigation, namely for the complex tensions and convergences between the two states on questions of immigration, Nordic solidarity and national identity. This article aims to explore the intersubjective discourses of identity that were threaded through the debates on the cartoon crises, looking to the overlapping discourses that have constructed ideas of identity in terms of ontological security, or security of the self. It argues that both cartoon crises represent a complex discursive performance of identity that speaks to a broader set of ontological security concerns which intersect at the international, regional and national levels. Even in their differences, Swedish and Danish discourses show the tensions associated with the desire for a stable and consistent idea of self when contrasted with the Muslim ‘other’, explored in the context of discourses of modernity and tolerance, which operate as key sites that work to reiterate, reclaim and reinstate the idea of the progressive state.

scholarly journals Cross-Generational Differences in Independence and Interdependence: Discrepancies Between Their Actual and Ideal Selves in the Japanese Cultural Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirofumi Hashimoto
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Self ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Ideal State ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Age Range ◽  
The Ideal

The current study examined cross-generational differences in both independent and interdependent self-construal. Two studies using samples from across Japan that included a wide age range demonstrated that, with increasing age, Japanese respondents scored higher on independence, which was measured by a self-expression scale, and lower on interdependence, as measured by a rejection avoidance scale. Furthermore, these cross-over effects were not observed with regard to participants' preferences (i.e., the ideal state of the self), but were only observed in their actual selves (i.e., the actual state of the self). These results suggest that the Japanese, especially younger generations, cannot help but behave in an interdependent way despite being eager to be independent.

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