scholarly journals Cities of Rivers, Mountains, and Serpents: Non-Human Territorialities in Jaime Saenz and José María Arguedas

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 127-157
Author(s):  
Christian Elguera
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Jose Maria Arguedas ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Narrative Time

In this article, I draw on Tupac Amaru Kamaq Taytanchisman (1962) by José María Arguedas and Imágenes paceñas (1979) by Jaime Saenz to illuminate the ways that serpents, rivers, and mountains bear upon the spatial organization of Lima and La Paz. I contend that for Saenz and Arguedas, entities such as the Amaru or the Illimani influence the production of non-human territorialities, reorganizing the structures of urban spaces and the lives of the citizens within them. Both texts make visible non-human territorialities through a process I call “territorial writing.” This kind of writing employs a variety of literary strategies (narrative time, characters, and figures) to visualize human and other-than-human vinculums as part of Andean cities. From this vantage point, “territorial writers” perceive urban geographies as territories in which different ethnic groups interact with powerful non-human entities or deities.   

Effect of a Multi-ethnic, Multicultural Program on Student Participants

NASPA Journal ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Vendley
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Developmental Change ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
Multicultural Program ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this case study was to describe the impact of a multi-ethnic, multicultural program on participating students. The program was designed to immerse students in Mexican culture as a means of combating ignorance of and violence against members of ethnic groups at Fairfield University. Interviews, pretests and post-tests, and participation observation were used to determine whether the training program was responsible for changes in student perceptions and judgements. Four instruments were used, each of which provided a distinct vantage point for viewing developmental change. The study demonstrated that through personal contact changes in attitude can be effected.

Situating Cultural Politics: Fringe Festivals and the Production of Spaces of Intersubjectivity

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Willems-Braun
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Canadian Theatre ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Intersubjective Field

Canada's fringe festivals are important interventions in the discourses and institutions framing Canadian theatre, leading some to recognize them as sites of a radical cultural politics. Most commentators have placed their attention on performance at these events, but in this paper, the focus is on the manner in which these events reorganize urban spaces into festival spaces, constructing informal discursive arenas within which the interaction of patrons, artists, and organizers is encouraged, and which situates performance, display, and the negotiation of social identities within an intersubjective field less influenced by certain constraints in traditional theatre. What is often overlooked, however, is that these discursive arenas are constructed within, at the same time as they engage, the social and spatial organization of the city, and are therefore marked by certain exclusions and inclusions. By refusing to abstract these festivals, as ‘artistic events’, attention can be paid to their ‘topography’, to explore the relations between cultural practice, social identity, and the organization of the city.

scholarly journals Violencias epistémicas y acciones pedagógicas de resistencia en el Estado multicultural

2017 ◽  
pp. 41-90
Author(s):  
Leidy Laura Perneth Pareja
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Epistemic Position ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Official Curriculum ◽  
Politica Educativa ◽  
Los Grupos

Las reflexiones que se presentan en este artículo surgen en el contexto del proyecto “Educación intercultural por la defensa de los derechos de los grupos étnicos”, desarrollado por el Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular/Programa por la Paz (Cinep/PPP) en Cartagena, sur de La Guajira y Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. A partir del trabajo con maestros y maestras wayúu, wiwas, afrodescendientes y mestizos, se argumenta que, en el marco de la relación en­tre los grupos étnicos y el Estado Multicultural, la etnoeducación y la educación propia –como política educativa– no logra transformar la posición epistémica desigual que ocupan los grupos étnicos en el sistema educativo colombiano. Aunque, en apariencia, para la política educativa son legítimos otros proyectos curriculares que operan a partir de las aspiraciones y planes de vida de los grupos étnicos, encontramos que los proyectos etnoeducativos no logran afectar la idea de un currículo nacional homogéneo, que se convierte en el único referente del sistema de evaluación, específicamente, de las pruebas que realizan los y las estudiantes a nivel nacional (Pruebas Saber). Este artículo muestra también que maestros y maestras –aunque no prescinden de ese currículo oficial– desarrollan prácticas curriculares en los bordes, donde se articulan acciones pedagógicas de resistencia en medio de tensiones con las políticas educativas nacionales.Palabras clave: etnoeducación, educación propia, currículo oficial, violencia epistémica, evalu­ación, bordes, resistencia. ABSTRACTEpistemic violence and pedagogical actions of resistance in the multicultural StateThe reflections presented in this article were produced as part of the project “Educación intercultural por la defensa de los derechos de los grupos étnicos” developed by Centro de Investig­ación y Educacion Popular/Programa por la paz (Cinepp/PPP) in Cartagena, south of Guajira and Sierra Nevada in Santa Marta. Drawing from work with Wayuu, Wiwas, Afrodescendant, and Mestizo teachers, it is argued that, in the framework of the relations between ethnic groups and the multicultural State, ethno-education and own-education -as educational policies- fail to transform the unequal epistemic position occupied by ethnic groups in the Colombian educational system. In the surface, these educational policies seem to legitimate other curricular projects that operate within ethnic groups’ own life aspirations and plans. However, it was found that ethno-educational projects actually fail to challenge the concept of a homogeneous national curriculum, one that be­comes the only reference of the educational assessment system through the national tests taken by students across the country (Pruebas Saber). This article further shows that teachers –despite not putting aside the official curriculum- develop curricular practices ‘at the borders’, where pedagogi­cal actions of resistance are articulated in tension with national educational policies.Keywords: ethno-education, own-education, official curriculum, epistemic violence, assessment, borders, resistance.

Between ‘network’ and ‘territory’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Gibert-Flutre
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Breaking Point ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City

By their spatial organization and social appropriations, the alleyways of Ho Chi Minh City provide a model of highly multifunctional urban spaces. This chapter analyses the mechanisms of production of such a model, and how it is facing a breaking point in times of globalization. Theoretically, I draw on the conception of the alleyway at the interface of ‘network’ and ‘territory’ functions. As a network, Ho Chi Minh City’s alleyways connect different neighbourhoods together and support growing flows of motorized circulations. As a local territory, however, each alleyway also fosters a vibrant urban life. This precarious balance guarantees the sustainability of an inclusive and vibrant urban environment, on a daily basis, even though this integrative model is currently being challenged.

scholarly journals Tafilelt, the Neo Traditional Model of Ksour in Algeria: Assessment of the Multifunctionality of Urban Spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
SOUIDI MANEL ◽  
◽  
BESTANDJI SIHAM ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Urban Model ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
New City ◽  
Space Production

The new ksar of Tafilelt situated in Ghardaia in southern Algeria has attracted a lot of interest in scientific work, being a « neo traditional » urban model that reproduces the principles of composition and spatial organization of the ksour in the pentapolis of Ghardaia. This ksar embodies the adaptation between tradition and modernity: it refers to the local setting of the ksourien space production, contribute to the valorization of these ancient centers that date back to the XIth century. In parallel to the work of thesis undertaken on « the neo traditional models of reference in Algeria for the new cities », we ask the following questions according to the case of Tafilelt: Is this ksar really a model? Does it take the traditional model fully? Is this indeed a new city? In addition, speaking about the concept of multifunctionality. How to detect this integral reproduction in the urban spaces between the old and the new ksar? This work will be an analytical reading of the spaces of this ksar according to the four concepts above, namely: the urban model of reference, the criteria of the new city, the criteria of the former ksour and the multi-use character of their spaces. We will try to apply the concept of multifunctionality on urban spaces in different scales to assess the multifunctionality of the ksar’s spaces in a comparative approach between the old and the new ksour.

scholarly journals “In the Dark Places, Getting Burned”: Portrayals of Street Culture in Taiwan Cinema Today

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wicks
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
Urban Films

Abstract Street culture is represented in two mid-2010 Taiwan films, The Kids (Xiaohai, 2015) and Thanatos, Drunk (Zui sheng meng shi 2015), in such stunning and beautiful ways that this essay sets out to etch each of them not only into the annals of Taiwan’s most memorable urban films ever made, but also position them as essential texts within the emergent field of street culture more broadly. Both movies depict physical and ideological boundaries that separate urban spaces from Taiwanese culture at large, and reveal the extent to which their young protagonists are perceived as “abnormal” even as they use street literacy in sophisticated ways to interact with formal actors (such as school teachers and the police) and informal actors (such as hooligans and petty criminals). These two films arguably present the best vantage point to understand the peripheral status of Taiwan’s urban young people who do not conform to hegemonic norms.

Computational Micrograph Registration with Sieve Processes

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 440-441
Author(s):  
P.J. Phillips ◽  
J. Huang ◽  
S. M. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Efficient Algorithm ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Stereo Image ◽  
Image Model ◽  
Geometric Invariants ◽  
Point Set

In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for automatically finding the correspondence between pairs of stereo micrographs, the key step in forming a stereo image. The computation burden in this problem is solving for the optimal mapping and transformation between the two micrographs. In this paper, we present a sieve algorithm for efficiently estimating the transformation and correspondence.In a sieve algorithm, a sequence of stages gradually reduce the number of transformations and correspondences that need to be examined, i.e., the analogy of sieving through the set of mappings with gradually finer meshes until the answer is found. The set of sieves is derived from an image model, here a planar graph that encodes the spatial organization of the features. In the sieve algorithm, the graph represents the spatial arrangement of objects in the image. The algorithm for finding the correspondence restricts its attention to the graph, with the correspondence being found by a combination of graph matchings, point set matching and geometric invariants.

Caveolin-1, galectin-3 and lipid raft domains in cancer cell signalling

2015 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Shankar ◽  
Cecile Boscher ◽  
Ivan R. Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Lipid Rafts ◽  
Cancer Cell ◽  
Cellular Response ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Cell Signalling ◽  
Coated Pits ◽  
Signalling Molecules ◽  
Raft Domains

Spatial organization of the plasma membrane is an essential feature of the cellular response to external stimuli. Receptor organization at the cell surface mediates transmission of extracellular stimuli to intracellular signalling molecules and effectors that impact various cellular processes including cell differentiation, metabolism, growth, migration and apoptosis. Membrane domains include morphologically distinct plasma membrane invaginations such as clathrin-coated pits and caveolae, but also less well-defined domains such as lipid rafts and the galectin lattice. In the present chapter, we will discuss interaction between caveolae, lipid rafts and the galectin lattice in the control of cancer cell signalling.

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