scholarly journals Orality and the Archive: Teaching the Partition of India through Oral Histories

2016 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Gaana Jayagopalan
Keyword(s):  
Complex Nature ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Graduate Seminar ◽  
Trauma Memory ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Witness Narratives ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Partition Of India

This article is a reflection on how select oral histories and witness accounts about the partition of India and Pakistan, especially those by Urvashi Butalia and Veena Das were used in a graduate seminar in Bengaluru. The article explores the strength of oral archives as repositories of radical enquiry that may be used in classrooms to understand the complex nature of history, historiography, and interrogate the State’s archival processes. The article explores how students began to see the potency in oral archives as a space that embodies the victimhood of partition victims as opposed to an effacement of the sufferers in most state archives of the event. It observes how the memorialisation of Partition is different in the State’s construction of partition: to the victims who recount their stories, it is the ‘everyday’ that becomes predominant as opposed to State archives that seek to represent the differences between the two nations as paramount in its processes of memorialisation. The note concludes by emphasising the need to put such oral histories to use in classroom, especially to understand the nature of suffering. Through a reading of such stories, it is proposed, an affective literacy is enabled in students’ modes of enquiry about trauma, memory and suffering. Keywords: Partition of India, affective literacy, archives, oral histories, witness narratives.

scholarly journals The Myths Refugees Live By: Memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
UDITI SEN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
Refugee Experience

AbstractWithin the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy, and nostalgia. The refugees or, more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central agents of such narratives. This paper explores how the scholarship on East Bengali refugees portrays them either as hapless and passive victims of the regime of rehabilitation, which was designed to integrate refugees into the socio-economic fabric of India, or eulogizes them as heroic protagonists who successfully battled overwhelming adversity to wrest resettlement from a reluctant state. This split image of the Bengali refugee as both victim and victor obscures the complex nature of refugee agency. Through a case-study of the foundation and development of Bijoygarh colony, an illegal settlement of refugee-squatters on the outskirts of Calcutta, this paper will argue that refugee agency in post-partition West Bengal was inevitably moulded by social status and cultural capital. However, the collective memory of the establishment of squatters’ colonies systematically ignores the role of caste and class affiliations in fracturing the refugee experience. Instead, it retells the refugees’ quest for rehabilitation along the mythic trope of heroic and masculine struggle. This paper interrogates refugee reminiscences to illuminate their erasures and silences, delineating the mythic structure common to both popular and academic refugee histories and exploring its significance in constructing a specific cultural identity for Bengali refugees.

Ceasefire City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The City

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running armed conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of everyday life, lived realities of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

Federada Testimonios on the Ground

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-201
Author(s):  
Alyssa Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Fidel Castro ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract In 1961, several mass organizations in Cuba collaborated as Fidel Castro launched a national campaign against prostitution. By 1965, only four years later, the Revolution proclaimed “the elimination of prostitution” in Cuba. This article examines the Cuban Revolution’s national campaign to end prostitution as a case study to investigate how gender and patriarchy affect the ways social change is operationalized. Interested in the relationship between social and cultural change, following the tradition of feminist historians, this article utilizes the oral histories of two Cuban federada women involved in the State’s campaign to consider how the Revolution’s macro program was implemented and carried out at micro level. The narratives of these local agents in the everyday spaces of the campaign provide a bottom-up lens which can be juxtaposed with the Revolution’s proclaimed “success.” These testimonios detail how gender and patriarchy played out on the ground, limiting the campaign’s efforts toward social change, therefore demonstrating the tensions and contradictions of how social change is exercised within human agency and constraint.

THE HISTORY OF THE EXISTENCE OF ONE SOURCE. “THE DIARY OF PRINCE DMITRY MIKHAILOVICH VOLKONSKY” IN THE ARCHIVE FUND OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Batshevd ◽  
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Svetlana A. Trifonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subjective Reaction ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Voice

The article is devoted to the history of the existence of a unique historical source of personal origin – the “Diary of Prince D.M. Volkonsky”, created for more than thirty years by a representative of the Tula branch of the Volkonsky princes. The daily records allow us to trace the everyday life of a Russian aristocrat, the author’s subjective reaction to contemporary events, and are also a valuable source for studying the first third of the 19th century. Originally consisting of 42 notebooks, the “Diary” has not been fully preserved. Today, divided into parts, it is stored in three archives – the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian State Archives of Literature and Art, and the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian National Library. The article deals with the part of the source that was deposited in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Fund 646 of the “Editorial Board of the journal ‘The Voice of the Past’” and covers the period from 1812 to 1834, with time gaps. Despite the fact that the text of the document was referred to by S.P. Melgunov and A.G. Tartakovsky, only the war period of 1812–1814 was introduced into scientific circulation, the most famous part of which was the publication: “The Russians at Danzig”. Its use in subsequent research makes it possible to supplement the existing sources of official origin and the sources of a memoir nature.

Alternative Narratives and Getting to Deep Equality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori G. Beaman
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World

This chapter explores three related themes: similarity, cooperation, and contaminated diversity. Each highlights the messy and complex nature of social life and each adds an analytical touchstone for understanding the elements of deep equality. The ability to recognize similarity and the experience of contaminated diversity are two important conditions under which deep equality emerges. By examining the ways that the everyday world does not correspond to categorical positioning around diversity and identity, contaminated diversity can be seen to act as an antidote to purity, while similarity undercuts identity rigidity, and both together render the boundaries of Us and Them fuzzy, sometimes indiscernible, and sometimes laughably irrelevant. This chapter discusses why there is a disproportionate emphasis on conflict and difference in public discourse and scholarship. It draws on a body of research from biology, mathematics, and psychology to examine the notion of competition, and the important counter-narrative of cooperation.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY LIFE OF SCHOOLSTUDENTS P. P. MAKSIMOVICH

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Ольга Константиновна Ермишкина
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
State University ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Tver Region ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The City

В статье рассматриваются вопросы организации быта (жилье, питание, одежда) и досуга учениц школы П.П. Максимовича и их влияние на формирование мировоззрения будущих учительниц. Рассматривается процесс адаптации учениц к новым бытовым условиям, особенности социализации в новом коллективе. Отмечается, что трансформация бытовой культуры воспитанниц происходила под влиянием социально-культурной обстановки в городе и норм, принятых в школе: правильные и здоровые правила гигиены, неформальные, творческие традиции в постановке внеклассной работы, уникальная атмосфера взаимовыручки, поддержки, доверия между учителями и ученицами, разнообразные формы досуга. Формирование у воспитанниц новых правил и привычек в повседневной жизни сопровождало процесс трансформации их социальной роли и приобщения к традициям русского учительства Статья написана на основе материалов фонда редких книг Научной библиотеки ТвГУ, фонда школы П.П. Максимовича в Государственном архиве Тверской области, воспоминаний преподавателей и учениц школы. The article discusses the issues of organizing everyday life (housing, food, clothing) and leisure of the schoolchildren of P.P. Maksimovich and their influence on the formation of the outlook of future teachers. The process of adaptation of schoolgirls to new living conditions, features of socialization in a new team are considered. It is noted that the transformation of the everyday culture of the pupils took place under the influence of the socio-cultural situation in the city and the norms adopted at school: correct and healthy rules of hygiene, informal, creative traditions in the organization of extracurricular work, a unique atmosphere of mutual assistance, support, trust between teachers and students, various forms of leisure. The formation of new rules and habits among the pupils in everyday life accompanied the process of transformation of their social role and introduction to the traditions of Russian teaching. The article was written on the basis of materials from the fund of rare books of the Scientific Library of Tver State University, the fund of the P.P. Maksimovich in the State Archives of the Tver Region, memoirs of teachers and schoolgirls.

Three-Dimensional reconstruction of isolated centrosomes by automated electron tomography

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 310-311
Author(s):  
M.B. Braunfeld ◽  
M. Moritz ◽  
B.M. Alberts ◽  
J.W. Sedat ◽  
D.A. Agard
Keyword(s):  
Electron Tomography ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Animal Cells ◽  
Microtubule Organizing Center ◽  
Nucleation Sites ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction ◽  
Organizing Center ◽  
Resolution Model

In animal cells, the centrosome functions as the primary microtubule organizing center (MTOC). As such the centrosome plays a vital role in determining a cell's shape, migration, and perhaps most importantly, its division. Despite the obvious importance of this organelle little is known about centrosomal regulation, duplication, or how it nucleates microtubules. Furthermore, no high resolution model for centrosomal structure exists.We have used automated electron tomography, and reconstruction techniques in an attempt to better understand the complex nature of the centrosome. Additionally we hope to identify nucleation sites for microtubule growth.Centrosomes were isolated from early Drosophila embryos. Briefly, after large organelles and debris from homogenized embryos were pelleted, the resulting supernatant was separated on a sucrose velocity gradient. Fractions were collected and assayed for centrosome-mediated microtubule -nucleating activity by incubating with fluorescently-labeled tubulin subunits. The resulting microtubule asters were then spun onto coverslips and viewed by fluorescence microscopy.

Video Games and Emotion Regulation

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Ossenfort ◽  
Derek M. Isaacowitz
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Media Preferences

Abstract. Research on age differences in media usage has shown that older adults are more likely than younger adults to select positive emotional content. Research on emotional aging has examined whether older adults also seek out positivity in the everyday situations they choose, resulting so far in mixed results. We investigated the emotional choices of different age groups using video games as a more interactive type of affect-laden stimuli. Participants made multiple selections from a group of positive and negative games. Results showed that older adults selected the more positive games, but also reported feeling worse after playing them. Results supplement the literature on positivity in situation selection as well as on older adults’ interactive media preferences.

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