scholarly journals “In the First Place, We Don’t Like to Be Called ‘Refugees’”: Dilemmas of Representation and Transversal Politics in the Participatory Art Project 100% FOREIGN?

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Anne Ring Petersen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
European Context ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Privileged Site ◽  
Analytical Reference

100% FOREIGN? (100% FREMMED?) is an art project consisting of 250 life stories of individuals who were granted asylum in Denmark between 1956 and 2019. Thus, it can be said to form a collective portrait that inserts citizens of refugee backgrounds into the narrative of the nation, thereby expanding the idea of national identity and culture. 100% FOREIGN? allows us to think of participatory art as a privileged site for the exploration of intersubjective relations and the question of how to “represent” citizens with refugee experience as well as the history and practice of asylum. The conflicting aims and perceptions involved in such representations are many, as suggested by the opening sentence of Hannah Arendt’s 1943 essay “We, Refugees”: “In the first place, we don’t like to be called ‘refugees’”. Using 100% FOREIGN? as an analytical reference point, this article discusses some of the ethical and political implications of representing former refugees. It briefly considers recent Danish immigration and asylum policies to situate the project in its regional European context and argues that, similarly to its neighbouring countries, Denmark can be described as a “postmigrant society” (Foroutan). To frame 100% FOREIGN? theoretically, this article draws on Arendt’s essay, Trinh T. Minh-ha’s concept of speaking nearby, as well as the feminist concept of transversal politics (Meskimmon, Yuval-Davis). It is hoped that this approach will lead to a deeper understanding of what participatory art can bring to the ethical politics of representing refugee experience.

Ein Pilger auf Wanderschaft: Europäische Wirkungen von Adam Mickiewiczs romantischem Messianismus

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
ALFRED GALL
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
European Context ◽  
Nationale Identität

Abstract Der Aufsatz geht der europäischen Wirkung von Adam Mickiewiczs Traktat Die Bücher des polnischen Volkes und der polnischen Pilgerschaft (1832) nach. Im Fokus stehen ein slowakischer – L’udovít Štúr – und ein mit der Ukraine verbundener Autor – Nikolaj (Mykola) Kostomarov –, die beide Mickiewiczs sakralisierende Geschichtsbetrachtung neu kontextualisieren. Untersucht wird die Konstruktion eines nationale Identität stiftenden Geschichtsnarrativs und die dabei angewandte Begrifflichkeit der Pilgerschaft.The paper examines the influence of Adam Mickiewicz’s treatise The Books and the Pilgrimage of the Polish Nation (1832) in a European context. The focus rests on a Slowak writer - L’udovít Štúr – and an author with an Ukrainian background – Nikolaj (Mykola) Kostomarov –, both of which are contextualizing Mickiewicz’s sacralisation of historiography in a new way. The article highlights the construction of national identity within a historical narrative and the applied vocabulary of pilgrimage.

Palestinian Refugees between the City and the Camp

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-621
Author(s):  
Faedah M. Totah
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
Urban Refugees ◽  
Old City ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

AbstractThe camp and the city are both important for understanding the relationship between space and identity in the refugee experience of exile. In the Palestinian example, the camp has emerged as a potent symbol in the narrative of exile although only a third of refugees registered with UNRWA live in camps. Moreover, the city and urban refugees remain missing in most of the scholarship on the Palestinian experience with space, exile, and identity. Furthermore, there is little attention to how refugees understand the concept of the city and camp in their daily life. This article examines how Palestinian urban refugees in the Old City of Damascus conceptualized the relationship between the camp and the city. It illustrates how the concept of the camp remained necessary for the construction of their collective national identity while in Syria. However, the city was essential in the articulation of individual desires and establishing social distinction from other refugees. Thus, during a protracted exile it is in the interstice between the city and the camp, where most urban refugees in the Old City situated themselves, that informed their national belonging and personal aspirations.

Finding a Home on Stage: A Place for Romania in Europe?

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
IOANA SZEMAN
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
Youth Theatre

Home, a pioneering theatrical production in post-communist Romania, cast homeless/orphaned youth in the Youth Theatre in Bucharest. The ‘orphan problem’ has been one of the most covered topics on Romania in western media, and one of the signs of Romania's ‘backwardness’, while neglect and indifference have characterized local press coverage. The significance of the production in changing the Romanian public's perception of these young people, many of whom are from the Roma ethnic group, is analysed, as are much wider political implications. Emma Nicholson, the European Parliament rapporteur for Romania, saw Home and afterwards expressed her support for Romania's acceptance into the European Union. The production and its reception permit a tracing of the historical relationship between the performance of Romanian marginality and national identity in relation to Europe.

scholarly journals The Many Worlds of Jean-Luc Nancy

Paragraph ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Martin Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
Ontological Pluralism ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
Jakob Von Uexküll ◽  
Von Uexküll ◽  
The Many ◽  
Privileged Site

This article explores what the work of Jean-Luc Nancy might offer to an ecological and ontological pluralism, by considering Nancy's treatment of the relation between the worlds inhabited by beings of all sorts. Situating Nancy's work in this area in relation to its key reference point, namely Heidegger's assertion a of pre-eminently human access to ‘world’ in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and through this, to the work of Jakob von Uexküll, the article traces both Nancy's rejection of Heidegger's persistent anthropocentrism and his own attachment to human language as a privileged site for the exposure of the nontotalizable plurality of singular beings. It concludes by suggesting that the human exceptionalism evoked by this attachment might, if translated into a minimal anthropocentrism, add a useful edge to ecological notions of pluralist coexistence by recalling that the incommensurability of the many worlds of beings of all sorts may at times shade into antagonistic incompatibility.

“Turned into the Women’s Journal”: Representation of sportswomen in Hungary’s sports magazine

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Antunovic
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Context ◽  
Athletic Competence ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Patterns ◽  
Conservative Values ◽  
Visual Coverage

Over the last few decades, scholars have dedicated much attention to the coverage of sportswomen in the media. However, few of these studies are situated within the Central Eastern European context. In this study, I analyze the textual and visual coverage of sportswomen in the Hungarian monthly sports magazine Presztízs Sport and examine the ways in which Hungarian national identity is articulated through discourses of sport, athletic competence, and womanhood. This sports magazine reflects some of the global patterns in the representation of sportswomen, but also distinguishes athletes based on the sport’s historical success in Hungary. Further, it positions the családanya, the “family-mother” as a gender ideal that transcends other representation categories. The maternal athletic body affirms conservative values and contributes to the aspirations of nation-building through both reproduction and elite sporting success.

EMIGRANTEN ROND HET ACHTER-HUIS VAN ANNE FRANK

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-226
Author(s):  
Gertjan Broek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
European History ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Anne Frank

MIGRANTS AROUND ANNE FRANK’S ACHTERHUIS The story of Anne Frank, her family and her companions, hiding from persecution by the Nazi regime, is a well-known and – at a first glance – very Dutch one. The main divide between those in hiding and their helpers was that between being Jewish and being non-Jewish, which in those precarious times was of course the essential ‘divide’ imposed on the people of occupied Europe. But a closer look at the group of people around Anne seen from the perspective of migration and (national) identity produces different dividing lines and insights. Their life stories, converging in that one Amsterdam warehouse, ref lect many aspects of early twentieth-century European history.

Literarische Ubersetzungskritik und Hermeneutik

2018 ◽  
pp. 319-337
Author(s):  
Thomas J. C. Hüsgen
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Fernando Pessoa ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analytical Reference ◽  
Thematic Coherence

This paper examines various examples of texts translated from Portuguese into German by Georg Rudolf Lind. These examples, taken from his translations of works by Vergílio Ferreira, Agustina Bessa Luís, and Fernando Pessoa, show the degree to which Lind’s own profile as a translator has an impact on the translated texts. In this essay, my analytical reference point is the requirement of “coherence of the overall text composition” (Stolze 1982: 326). Thematic coherence and consistency is of paramount importance. The results of my analysis will reveal that, while the translation strategy used by the German translator contributes to the creation of good, legible target texts, it cannot always do justice to the peculiarities of the source texts

National Identity

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liah Greenfeld ◽  
Jonathan Eastwood
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Political Implications

This article looks at the study of national identity, which must start with a preliminary investigation of the question of identity. It provides definitions of national identity and nationalism before moving on to historical explanations for the rise of nationalism. It also identifies types of nationalism and their political implications.

scholarly journals The Brudevals, ‘Danishness’ and lived reality

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Inger Damsholt
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
World Citizenship ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Living Tradition

AbstractThis article represents part of the author’s ongoing empirical study of the Danish brudevals (bridal waltz) tradition recognized by the means of three characteristic conditions: a specific piece of music by Niels W. Gade, a particular group choreography in which a circle of clapping guests slowly move closer to the newlywed couple and a final section of the ritual in which guests cut the tips of the groom’s socks. The purpose of the article is to highlight how current realisations of the dance reveal the brudevals as a dynamic living tradition and to show the complexity of the political implications it can have when dancing it. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s affect theory, the article argues that different negotiations of the brudevals naturalise various understandings of ‘Danishness’. The article argues that an alternative contemporary form of the brudevals, which incorporates a montage of international popular dance and music, produces a version of national identity that underlines the notion of world citizenship as a significant part of being Danish. In realisations of the brudevals danced by same-sex couples, a kind of ‘Danishness’ is produced through affect that naturalises and celebrates Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA) marriages. Finally, a Turkish-Danish brudevals produces a multiculturalist understanding of ‘Danishness’, which does not conform to a specific national cultural heritage but can encompass several ethnic groups.

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