Tropicalismo cañí: expresiones de una nueva españolidad postmoderna en la música urbana actual

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-236
Author(s):  
CELIA MARTÍNEZ-SÁEZ
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt

Este artículo analiza nuevas expresiones de ‘españolidad’ originadas en productos audiovisuales de la escena de la música urbana actual. Analizando ejemplos de artistas como C. Tangana, Rosalía y Califato ¾ exploro cómo estos artistas emplean el imaginario de lo castizo para descentralizar Castilla como mito dominador geopolítico del Estadonación español. La orientalización de lo ‘español’, junto a símbolos como el flamenco, el toreo, las mantillas negras, la imaginaría católica y el discurso del subdesarrollo español aparecen resignificados con símbolos asociados con la cultura latinoamericana, guiños feministas y/o mezcla de géneros musicales como el trap, la bachata, o el rock argentino. A través del análisis de algunos productos audiovisuales, este artículo analiza la resignificación de símbolos asociados a la ‘españolidad’ a través del concepto de ‘zonas de contacto’ de Mary Louise Pratt (‘Arts of the Contact Zone’, 1991) en el que la cultura castiza se convierte en una suerte de espacio rizomático para la negociación de símbolos anacrónicos franquistas asociados con lo ‘castizo’ con un presente globalizado, imperativamente latinoamericano por las exigencias del mercado de la música urbana actual.

scholarly journals "If We Dare To": Border Crossings in Erin Mouré’s O Cidadán

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Johanna Skibsrud
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
French And English ◽  
Recent Collection ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt

This essay explores the space of contact between languages–particularly that of French and English–within Erin Mouré’s recent collection of poetry, O Cidadán. The following discussion demonstrates the manner in which a tangible place for each language, without appropriating one into another, is created on the page. Drawing on the writings of Mary Louise Pratt and Jacques Derrida, I argue that instead of defining the language interaction, or translating one language into another, Mouré constructs a "contact zone" where deferring/differing spaces of language intersect and are made "visible" and are "touched."

Kontaktzonen und der Körper des Anthropologen. Zu den Tagebuchaufzeichnungen und Briefen von Franz Boas und Bronislaw Malinowski

Paragrana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-119
Author(s):  
Mario Bührmann
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Physical Resistance ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

AbstractThis paper explores how the concept of the 'contact zone′ (conceived by Mary Louise Pratt) can be extended by means of an issue which she does not mention: the physical shape and specific corporeal reactions of those acting in cultural encounters. By means of two case studies it will be questioned if and how ethnographers regard their body as an important constituent of 'contact zones′ generated by anthropological fieldwork ‒ and how concepts of performativity may serve to shed light on these particular interactions between the ethnographer′s body and its social environment. Therefore I will pay attention to the records in the diaries and letters of Franz Boas (1858–1942) und Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942), since both scholars are wedded with the methodological scheme of 'participant observation′, which specifically claims the physical presence of the ethnographer by means of long standing fieldwork. With a 'performative′ view to their 'fieldwork performances′ it becomes clear that they, certainly without using the term, even regard and utilize their skin as a 'contact zone′: through the corporeal surface and its physical resistance they detect the haptic, olfactory and gustatory qualities of social life. Moreover, a performative′ view to the concept of the 'contact zone′, particularly against the background of this ethnological context, exposes the problem of the seminal methodological scheme of 'participant observation′.

scholarly journals Northeast China as a Contact Zone in Polish and Serbian Travelogues, 1900-1939

2017 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Tomasz Ewertowski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
The 19Th Century

Northeast China as a Contact Zone in Polish and Serbian Travelogues, 1900-1939Historically, Northeast China (Manchuria) was a border zone between China and nomadic peoples, as well as between Russian and Qing empires since the 17th century. In the second half of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century, a number of factors (penetration by foreign powers, collapse of the Qing Empire, revolution in Russia, Japanese expansion and demographic changes) transformed this area into “a contact zone” in the sense given by Mary Louise Pratt. The main focus of the article is the way in which this contact zone was described by Polish and Serbian travellers. Their can provide a special outlook, because Poland and Serbia did not participate extensively in the colonial penetration into China, however, Serbs and Poles travelled there, often representing Russian institutions. Therefore they were observing China as agents of imperial force, but they did not identify themselves fully with it. Our analysis of the image of Northeast China as a contact zone will be divided into three broad sections: 1) political and military expansion, 2) economic and demographic relations, 3) transcultural phenomena of everyday life. Chiny Północno-Wschodnie jako strefa kontaktu w polskich i serbskich relacjach podróżniczych w latach 1900-1939Północno-wschodnie Chiny (Mandżuria) są historyczną granicą między Chinami a ludami wędrownymi, od siedemnastego wieku również między Rosją a imperium dynastii Qing. W drugiej połowie dziewiętnastego wieku, a zwłaszcza w pierwszej połowie dwudziestego szereg czynników (penetracja przez obce mocarstwa, upadek dynastii Qing, rewolucja w Rosji, ekspansja japońska i zmiany demograficzne) uczyniły z tego obszaru „strefę kontaktu” w rozumieniu Mary Louise Pratt. Głównym tematem artykułu jest sposób opisu strefy kontaktu przez polskich i serbskich podróżników. Ich dzieła dają bowiem szczególną perspektywę, gdyż Polska i Serbia nie uczestniczyły w kolonialnej penetracji Chin, jednakże Serbowie i Polacy podróżowali do Państwa Środka, często reprezentując rosyjskie instytucje. Z tego względu obserwowali Chiny jako reprezentanci imperium, jednak nie identyfikowali się z nim w pełni. Analiza obrazu północno-wschodnich Chin jako strefy kontaktu dzieli się na trzy sekcje: 1) ekspansja polityczna i militarna, 2) relacje ekonomiczne i demograficzne, 3) zjawiska transkulturowe w życiu codziennym.

Transculturation and Gender in US Latina Performance

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-292
Author(s):  
Alicia Arrizón
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Fernando Ortiz ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender

Transculturation refers to an intercultural body associated with hybrid encounters and with a system that resists and contests the powers of domination. The term transculturation was coined by the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940. He formulated this neologism as a way to counteract and subvert the homogenizing grammars implicit in the term ‘acculturation’, which Anglo anthropologists had coined in the late 1930s. Mary Louise Pratt suggested that as a function of the ‘contact zone’, transculturation dramatizes dialectical bodies ready to be reconstrued, re-embodied, and re-visioned. Specifically, Pratt refers to the ‘contact zone’ as the space of colonial encounters. While the contact zone can be materialized at any point in time and space, interculturalism in the study of Latina performance not only shapes the heterogeneous character of the term Latin American and its hybrid variants, but also influences diverse modes of representation. Within the specificity of US Latina performance, I propose to expand the idea of transculturation as it opens possibilities for understanding the intercultural body—the hybrid that can redefine notions of mestizaje itself. In this study, the concepts of transculturation and performance suggest a framework in which cultural norms and practices must be rooted in the materiality of human agency. Therefore, before discussing transculturation and performance, it is necessary to clarify the term Latina as an identity marker, which displaces hegemonic representation across linguistic and cultural borders.

INTERROGATING EGYPTIAN NATIONALISM: TRANSCULTURAL ARCHITECTURE AT THE RAGGED EDGE OF EMPIRE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Marwa El-Ashmouni
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
Architectural Transformation ◽  
A Site

This paper examines the discursivity of nationalism in Egypt during the late nineteenth century; a period of vibrant political and architectural transformation that manifests the ragged edge of British empire. To explore this discursive terrain, this paper examines the transnationalism of multiethnic intellectuals and architectural themes. Progressive intellectuals, including the Armenian and Jewish Italian Adib Ishaq, and Yaqub Sanu—all disciples of the originally Persian scholar Jamal al-Din al-Afghani—coincided with the design of ambivalent architectural themes. The architecture and urban context of this period, whether patronized by the colonized or the colonizer, reflected the notion of transculturation through mutual fluctuation and ambivalence between traditional and imperial expressions. Projects such as the Egyptian Museum, Muntazah Palace, Awqaf building, the Lord residency, and the New Hotel, coincided with a context that interprets the ‘contact zone’—a concept posited by the theorist Mary Louise Pratt in Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (2007). For Pratt, the contact zone is a site of creative possibility, where innovative exemplars of transculturation, resulting in the mutual transformation of subjects and histories after their trajectories intersect in a space of copresence. The aim is to fray polarized representations of nationalism and to better appreciate the progressive creative and intellectual transformation that shaped Egypt ahead of the militaristic or religious expressions of nationalism that dominated the twentieth century.

Encountering the burn: Prescribed burns as contact zones

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin R Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Prescribed Burns ◽  
Federal Lands ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
Insight Into

Encounters with fire and landscapes that burn have the potential to be both disastrous and life-giving events. In Canadian national parks, where a century of fire suppression has ruled human encounters with fire adapted landscapes, fire managers and ecologists are eagerly returning fire to diverse ecosystems in the hopes of building healthier ecosystems and reducing the risk of larger wildfire events. Ongoing changes to park policy have made new relationships with fire possible on these federal lands. Prescribed burns, whereby fire is applied to the landscape by park managers, is one such emerging encounter made possible by these policy changes. By reconceptualizing the burn as a process constituted by encounters, in what Mary Louise Pratt would call a contact zone, we gain insight into how thinking and working with fire requires an attention to how humans and more-than-humans encounter one another and the institutional settings which narrate and often constrain these encounters. In the case of Parks Canada’s fire program, this tool of active management, and an alternative to full-suppression, illustrates how thinking and working with fire consists of a set of encounters which take place at both an institutional and embodied scale.

scholarly journals Hidden Facts and The Representation of Indonesia within Mamiya Mosuke’s “Kichi no Seikatsu”

IZUMI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-291
Author(s):  
Dewi Anggraeni
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Spatial Concept ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Dutch Colonial ◽  
Dutch Colonialism

Despite witnessing modernization in Indonesia, nanpōchōyōsakka (South-dispatched writers) depicted Indonesians as people who remain undeveloped because of Western colonialism. This article argues that there must be “hidden facts” behind the representation of Indonesia within the writers’ works due to a mission of disseminating the idea of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. Using Mamiya Mosuke’s military essay “Kichi no Seikatsu” as the object of study, this article seeks to explain what kind of “Indonesia” Mamiya represents and the impact of such representation on “Indonesia” as a spatial concept by illuminating “hidden facts” behind his expressions. This article employs the concept of contact zone (Mary Louise Pratt) to view Indonesia as a social space already shaped by Dutch colonialism and uses sakuhinron method to analyze Mamiya’s expressions in representing Indonesia. Through analysis, Mamiya portrays Indonesians as reliant people and blames such conditions on the Dutch colonial policy while leaving local intellectuals and nationalist movements out of his narrative. This article concludes that Mamiya justifies the notion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere by denying Indonesian agency, gives an impression that Indonesians need Japanese guidance to stand on their own.  Keywords: Contact Zone; Kichi no Seikatsu; Mamiya Mosuke; Nanpōchōyōsakka; Representation   

Tire Treadwear — A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Factors: Generic Type, Aspect Ratio, Tread Pattern, and Tread Composition Part IV: Laboratory Measurement of Mechanical Properties and Mechanical Actions of Tires Relating to Treadwear

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-291
Author(s):  
K. L. Oblizajek ◽  
A. G. Veith
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Shear Stress ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Flexural Rigidity ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Shear Stiffness ◽  
Shear Stresses ◽  
Lateral Shear ◽  
Band Bending ◽  
Tread Rubber

Abstract Treadwear is explained by specific mechanical properties and actions of tires. Rubber shear stresses in the contact zone between the tire and the road become large at large slip angles. When normal stresses are insufficient to prevent sliding at the rear of the footprint, wear occurs at a rate that depends on test severity. Two experimental approaches are described to relate treadwear to tire characteristics. The first uses transducers imbedded in a simulated road surface to obtain direct measurements of contact stresses on the loaded, freely-rolling, steered tires. The second approach is developed with the aid of a simple carcass, tread-band, tread-rubber tire model. Various tire structural configurations; characterized by carcass spring rate, edgewise flexural band stiffness, and tread rubber shear stiffness; are simulated and lateral shear stress response in the contact zone is determined. Tires featuring high band stiffness and low carcass stiffness generate lower lateral shear stress levels. Furthermore, coupling of tread-rubber stiffness and band flexural rigidity are important in determining level of shear stresses. Laboratory measurements with the described apparatus produced values of tread-band bending and carcass lateral stiffness for several tire constructions. Good correlation is shown between treadwear and a broad range of tire stiffness and test course severities.

Stibnite vein from Dębowina near Bardo (polish Sudetes)

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Piotr Kotula
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone

Abstract In the contact zone of the Bardo Structure and Kłodzko-Złoty Stok Intrusion and Kłodzko Metamorphic, metasomatic orebearing quartz-carbonate veins rich in Sb, Zn, Cu, Ag, Au, Pb are present. In 1771 the mine ,,Reiche Silber Gluck” within stibnite vein was founded in Dębowina near Bardo. Its entrance was discovered again in 2007. The stibnite vein is mainly build of stibnite and sphalerite and of quartz and dolomite rich in Mn. Stibnite crystallizes as columnar or forming radiate centres and aciculars. Its crystals reach size to 2 mm. Sphalerite appears as individual anhedral and polymineralic grained concentrations reaching size to 2,5 mm. Earlier pyrite and arsenopyrite crystallized - they occur locally in this deposit. There were found also in the deposit tetrahedrite rich in Ag, what wasn't reported earlier in studies from the mine in Dębowina.

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