scholarly journals When food mobilizes emotions: Reaching foreign and domestic audiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 146-160
Author(s):  
Loukia Kostopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Human Life ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Research Material

This paper aims to explore food films and their symbolism. Food is a way of creating national identities, and enhancing the sense of belonging. It also evokes the concept of ‘nostalgia’ and has the capacity to mobilize strong emotions (Mintz 1996). The semiotic analysis of food underlines how the biosphere and the semiosphere intersect in various instances of human life (Danesi 2004). In cultural settings, food symbolizes substance and conveys different meanings. This research material will focus on the analysis of images (food, culinary preparations and different eating events) as portrayed in Tassos Boulmetis’s 2003 film Πολίτικη Κουζίνα/ A Touch of Spice, and the domestic and international trailers of the film. The analysis will be based on Lotman’s notion of the semiosphere.

scholarly journals Visual Social Publications in the Newspapers of Greek Primary Schools: A Semiotic Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Lina P. Valsamidou
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
School Life ◽  
Social Content ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Messages

In the present study we investigate, record and discuss icons with asocial content, their type, their signifieds and ideological significations,wishing to extract useful conclusions regarding the use of icons in schoolnewspapers as vehicles of social messages. The research material comprises intotal 252 images with a social content found in the columns of schoolnewspapers, whereas the collection of the sample was based on the study of 64school newspaper issues coming from 32 titles of primary school newspapers fromall over Greece that were published in 2004-2006. All in all, it appears that social iconic publications create theeditors’ vivid interest, as they find their way mostly in the inside pages ofnewspapers. The analysis of the icons as to their signifieds places emphasis onthe dominant ideological forms: the signifieds of historic anniversaries,school life and environmental education come before the others, which in turnsuggests the dominant ideological trends, history-school-environment/ecology:a triptych that emerges through the social-iconic choices of those involved inpublishing school newspapers.Keywords: visual social publications, schoolnewspapers, semiotic analysis, students-journalists

scholarly journals Perpetual Foreigner in One’s Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Que-Lam Huynh ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Laura Smalarz
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
The Us ◽  
Dominant Society

The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the “other” in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the US (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Americans and 211 Latino/as (Study 1), 89 African Americans (Study 2), and 56 Asian Americans and 165 Latino/as (Study 3). All participants completed measures of perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype, conflict between ethnic and national identities, sense of belonging to American culture, and demographics. In Study 3, participants also completed measures of psychological adjustment: depression, hope, and life satisfaction. All participants were students at a large, public university on the West Coast of the US. Across studies, we found that even after controlling for perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype was a significant predictor of identity conflict and lower sense of belonging to American culture. From Study 3, we also found that, above and beyond perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype significantly predicted lower hope and life satisfaction for Asian Americans, and that it was a marginal predictor of greater depression for Latino/as. These results suggest that the perpetual foreigner stereotype may play a role in ethnic minority identity and adjustment.

Entering the public sphere: the citizenship practices of US immigrants

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Caroline B. Brettell
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Fort Worth ◽  
The Public ◽  
Material Community ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Individual

This paper originally delivered as a keynote speech at the Turkish Migration Conference 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic on June 25, 2015. It focuses on civic engagementi political participation and citizenship practices of Asian Indians in Dallas Fort Worth Metropolitan area drawing on qualitative field research material. Community participation is a process. Embedded in this observation is an understanding that as the individual branches out, he or she is becoming involved with associations with great civic and/or political presence, moving from one community of practice to another, and from a peripheral position to one of greater participation to invoke the ideas of Lave and Wenger. But equally, these activities illustrate how new immigrants construct their own sense of belonging as they engage with and interpret what it means to be an American and what kind of an American they want to be.

scholarly journals THE WORLD OF "THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD"

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Mehmet Aziz GÖKSEL ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Turkish People ◽  
Science Fantasy ◽  
Film Language ◽  
Made In

In this study, a semiotic reading of the famous Turkish science fantasy film “The Man Who Saves the World” has been made from different aspects. This film which constitutes the research material for this article was made in 1982 and became a cult classic by the end of the nineties because of it’s comprehensive deficencies. The Man Who Saves the World must be considered as a project that can assert social and psychological appearenace of Turkish people not entirely but partially in early eighties who lived in a peripheric country such as today. With this respect the idea of reading Turkish societie’s -especially- geopolitical location, percieving and defining levels of high technology in comparison with western societies in a bi-polar world of cold war period via this production is remarkably interesting and therewithal ironic. As this study is a semiotic analysis of the connections of “signifier-signified” relations of film language, the determined significations are arranged in a matched order within a table. By this analysis the attributes of the feature and the film language are discussed in a structural unity and concluded.

Kamusal alana giriş: ABD’de göçmenlerin vatandaşlığa geçiş deneyimleri

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Caroline B. Brettell
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Asian Indians ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Fort Worth ◽  
Material Community ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Peripheral Position ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
The Individual

Daha önce 2015 Türk Göç Konferansı’nda Prag’da açılış konuşması olarak sunulmuş olan bu makalede, Brettell ABD’de Hintlilerin sivil topluma ve siyaste katılım süreçlerini ve vatandaşlık edinme süreçlerini tartışmaktadır. Dallas Fort Worths Metropol bölgesinde yaşayan Hindistan ve Vietnam doğumlu göçmenlerin ABD vatandaşlığına geçiş süreçlerini kültürel vatandaşlık kavramı çerçevesinde bölgede gerçekleştirdiği nitel saha çalışmasına dayanarak inceliyor. Toplumsal katılım bir süreçtir. Bu gözlemde birey bir yere yerleştikçe büyük sivil ve siyasi varlığı olan toplum derneklerinin etkinliklerine katılıyor olması; bir pratik toplumundan diğerine doğru, yani Lave ve Wenger’in ileri sürdüğü gibi periferde bir konumdan merkeze doğru kayıyor olması kastediliyor. Ancak aynı zamanda bu etkinlikler, yeni göçmenlerin aidiyetlerini, Amerikan olmanın anlamı ve ne tür bir Amerikalı olmak istedikleri tartışması içinde nasıl kurguladıklarını da göstermektedir. ENGLISH ABSTRACTThis paper originally delivered as a keynote speech at the Turkish Migration Conference 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic on June 25, 2015. It focuses on civic engagementi political participation and citizenship practices of Asian Indians in Dallas Fort Worth Metropolitan area drawing on qualitative field research material. Community participation is a process. Embedded in this observation is an understanding that as the individual branches out, he or she is becoming involved with associations with great civic and/or political presence, moving from one community of practice to another, and from a peripheral position to one of greater participation to invoke the ideas of Lave and Wenger. But equally, these activities illustrate how new immigrants construct their own sense of belonging as they engage with and interpret what it means to be an American and what kind of an American they want to be. 

scholarly journals How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 205316801880146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Mader ◽  
Thomas J. Scotto ◽  
Jason Reifler ◽  
Peter H. Gries ◽  
Pierangelo Isernia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Cultural Validity ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
The United Kingdom

Research demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of American identity arguing that the normative content of American identity relates to political ideologies in the United States, but the sense of belonging to the nation does not. This paper replicates that analysis and extends it to the German and British cases. Exploratory structural equation modeling attests to cross-cultural validity of measures of the sense of belonging and norms of uncritical loyalty and engagement for positive change. In the 2010s, we find partisanship and ideology in all three nations explains levels of belonging and the two content dimensions. Interestingly, those identifying with major parties of the left and right in all three countries have a higher sense of belonging and uncritical loyalty than their moderate counterparts. The relationship between partisanship, ideology, and national identity seems to wax and wane over time, presumably because elite political discourse linking party or ideology to identity varies from one political moment to the next.

scholarly journals Comunidade (Gemeinde) entre Lógica e Política nas Lições sobre a Filosofia da Religião de Hegel

Problemata ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-233
Author(s):  
Rodrygo Rocha Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Will ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Philosophy Of Right

This article aims to explain how the political project of State that Hegel outlines in the Philosophy of Right (1821) is recovered by the concept of “community” (Gemeinde) in the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1821-1832) with the use of syllogisms of creation and redemption of world as they are presented in the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences (1830). Once the rational State is grounded on different dimensions of human life, it recognizes them as its own, materializing a viable collective project only when individual freedoms are warranted. According to Philosophy of Right, the effectiveness of the State occurs through the collecting of previous stages concerning the actualization of freedom. It is applied to the will, which paves the way for morality and ethical life. On the other hand, Hegel, in the classes that constitute the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, will focus on the concept of “community”. In the same way as the State, the community is also a social arrangement, with its own rites and rules, whose participants acquire a sense of belonging and unity. By evidencing similar purposes to the State, the community's goal is to maintain the group based on a constituted and collectively assimilated order. Whether the community has a political role, therefore, this aspect is best seen when Hegel's political theory is connected with the philosophy of religion in accordance with the elements "freedom", "finite", "infinite", "concept" and “truth" identified in Hegel’s logic.

scholarly journals Kurdish-Canadian Identity and the Intricacies of Acculturation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Abdurrahman Wahab
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Canadian Identity ◽  
Dual Identity

This paper studies the process of acculturation of the Iraqi Kurdish community in Ontario, Canada. It explores factors such as ethno-cultural identities and the socio-cultural circumstances that impact the adaptation of a dual identity. The study explores components of the Kurdish participants’ ethnic and national identities, such as their self-identification and their sense of belonging and participation in aspects of life. It also elaborates on the ways in which members of the Iraqi Kurdish community in Canada understand and construe their life experiences, and what it means to live as Kurdish immigrants in a multicultural society.

scholarly journals Meta-Modern City: the Problem of Authenticity

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Stable Sets ◽  
Entire Object ◽  
The City

The aim of the article is to analyze the urban research paradigm that has developed at the turn of the XX and XXI centuries in the works of Western experts and the possibility to use it for domestic research. Methodologically, the author relies on the heritage of the Manchester sociological school, which effectively applied the concepts of actor-network theory to analyze the sociology of a city. The city is considered as a single object complex. Its main characteristics are contingent and contextual. The author analyzes the city as a derivative of stable sets of objects and networks of relations. A change in the components that make up a city leads to a change in the entire object. The article notes that in modern urbanism there is another way of classifying cities not according to the principle of geographical location, economic structure, or national identity, but according to the system of forming networks of relations. The author analyzes the linguistic metaphors system, which is used to describe urban space. The problems of metaphor, code and reading, perception of urban space in the form of text are analyzed. The concept of "language" and "text" allows you to create a system of describing a city as a complex phenomenon. In this case, the constructs "modern", "postmodern", "meta-modern" are presented as a system of grammar and punctuation for interpreting the phenomenon of the city. The article notes the difficulties of using the characteristics of a postmodernist and metamodernist city for domestic research. The author suggests that the development of the domestic city in the twentieth century took place according to the scenario of a more radical modernism. As a result, we got a post-Soviet city with a different rationality, which is combined with the modernist principles of architecture and urban planning. The article provides examples of the semiotic analysis of architectural objects. The author concludes that the mental image of the city restructures the physical space, turning it into a personalized network of human life relations.

scholarly journals Diskoneksi Nomad: Paradoks Kemenjadian dalam Sosial Media bertema Travelling

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Dian Arymami
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Joint Movement ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Fixed Position ◽  
The People ◽  
Leisure And Recreation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Research Show

In the midst of global economic development, traveling activities have experienced a rapid increase as a culture of leisure and recreation among the people of Indonesia. The journey narrated by bloggers and influencers (influencers) has created its own lifestyle trends and further values that are intertwined with the daily culture of society. This study examines the narrative of the journey of bloggers on Instagram as textual artifacts to gain insight into how the values and culture of human life are woven into the phenomenon of travel. This study uses semiotic analysis which is read further by using the Deleuze and Guattari concepts regarding the ‘becoming self’. This research departs from narrative assumptions and representations which are seen as representative of molecular political forms that subvert the molar identity and fixed position. The results of this research show representations of travel extending the value of independence, solitude, individualism, creativity, freedom and modernity. Where the journey itself is seen as a primary need that is pleasant, cheerful and calming. Furthermore, in the eyes of schizophrenic unconsciousness, the phenomenon of traveling mediated by the text of bloggers confirms the presence of schizo subjects. A paradoxical subject, where the collective movement through travel is a joint movement to be alone. Di tengah perkembangan ekonomi global, aktifitas travelling mengalami peningkatan pesat sebagai budaya kesenangan di waktu luang (leisure) dan rekreasi di kalangan masyarakat Indonesia. Perjalanan yang dinarasikan para bloggers maupun influencers (pemberi pengaruh) telah menciptakan tren gaya hidup tersendiri dan lebih jauh nilai-nilai yang berjalinan dengan budaya keseharian masyarakat. Penelitian ini menelaah narasi perjalanan bloggers di Instagram sebagai artefak tekstual untuk mendapatkan wawasan tentang bagaimana nilai dan budaya kehidupan manusia terajut dalam fenomena perjalanan. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis semiotika yang dibaca lebih lanjut dengan menggunakan konsep Deleuze dan Guattari mengenai ‘diri yang menjadi’. Penelitian ini berangkat dari asumsi narasi dan representasi yang dilihat sebagai perwakilan bentuk-bentuk politik molekuler yang menumbangkan identitas molar dan posisi tetap. Hasil dari peneltian ini menunjukan representasi perjalanan memperluas nilai kemandirian, kesendirian, individualisme, kreatifitas, bebas dan modern. Di mana perjalanan itu sendiri dilihat sebagai kebutuhan primer yang menyenangkan, ceria dan menenangkan. Lebih lanjut dalam kacamata ketidaksadaran masyarakat skizofrenik, fenomena traveling yang termediasi oleh teks para bloggers menegaskan kehadiran subyek skizo. Subyek yang penuh paradoks, dimana gerakan kolektif melalui perjalanan merupakan gerakan bersama untuk menjadi sendiri.

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