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Sufi (Women) in Ritual: An Embodied Experience of Selfhood
No full textIn Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual von Jamila Rodrigues wird die Sufi-Ritual-Hadra als verkörperte Erfahrung von Selbstsein und religiöser Symbolik anhand einer ethnografischen Fallstudie unter den weiblichen Mitgliedern der Naqschbandi-Gemeinschaft in Kapstadt und Lefke diskutiert. Die Autorin betrachtet mit gemischtem Erfolg die geschlechtsspezifischen Dimensionen des Rituals und argumentiert, dass Hadra den Sufi-Frauen nicht nur ermöglicht, eine fromme Identität zu verkörpern, sondern auch durch den Ausdruck von Körperbewegungen etwas über sich selbst zu erfahren.In Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’: Gender in Islamic Ritual, Jamila Rodrigues discusses the Sufi ritual hadra as an embodied experience of selfhood and religious symbolism. Taking the female members of the Naqshbandi community in Cape Town and Lefke as an ethnographic case study, the author considers – with mixed success – the gendered dimensions of the ritual. Ultimately, Rodrigues argues that hadra allows Sufi women not only to embody a pious identity, but also to learn about themselves through body movement expressions
Microbial Thinking: A Way of Collaboration
No full textGut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes bietet eine Gelegenheit und eine Fallstudie, um die Kluft zwischen Anthropologie und menschlicher mikrobieller Ökologie zu überbrücken. Durch Feldforschung in Labors, Krankenhäusern in Bangladesch und bei Familien zu Hause gibt das Buch Einblicke in die Verbindung zwischen Mikrobiomen und Race als greifbare Ausdrucksformen von Gesellschaft, Umwelt und Biologie. Amber Benezra untersucht wie biologisch-soziale Störungen Probleme verursachen und wie Reibungen in disziplinärer Zusammenarbeit dazu beiträgt, die Bedeutung von Beziehungen neu zu überdenken.Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes provides an opportunity and case study to bridge the gap between anthropology and human microbial ecology. Through fieldwork in laboratories, Bangladeshi hospitals, and the homes of families, the book gives insight into the connection between microbiomes and race as tangible expressions of society, environment, and biology. Amber Benezra examines how the biological-social disruptions cause problems, as well as the frictions of disciplinary collaboration, to rethink the meaning of relationship
On Reading Reading: Fundamental Problems of “Méta-lecture”
Full text linkIn his essay “Sur la Lecture,” Roland Barthes (1984) expresses his doubts regarding what he calls “Méta-lecture,” or the reading of reading. It is nothing but “un éclat d’idées, de craintes, de désirs, de jouissances, d’oppressions.” My essay proposes that the ideas, fears, desires, jouissances and opressions evoked when discussing reading deserve a closer examination. There should be a systematic discussion about the problems of “Méta-lecture.” The discourse about reading has its own problems, tropes, and ways of expression. Regardless of where or in what context a text about reading is written, it faces the same fundamental problems in regarding its subject: reading is a black box. Some may even doubt the existence of a common conceptual intersection in the spectrum of practices referred to as reading (Honold/Parr 2018). This highlights the essential indefinability of the concept of reading. What reading is in each case can hardly be reduced to a general concept. This indeterminacy is complicated by the difficulties of observation: reading cannot be isolated as such, but can only be observed as it is performed within specific contexts. Furthermore, this act of observation itself involves reading and is thus always self-reflective. In my essay, I demonstrate the strategies employed by texts on reading from different periods (Ickelsamer 1527, Keyn 1803, Moretti 2013, Wolf 2018) to compensate for the indeterminancy of reading
Tagungsbericht "Disrupted Identities in the Light of Post-Everything"
No full textThe question of what identities are, how we conceive of them, and how to use them analytically has long perplexed academic thought. In the quest to engage with identity studies, the Research Area 6: Cultural Identities of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) decided to examine not only shifting or changing identities—which may often presuppose some form of continuity—but also identities that are disrupted, severed, or newly (re)shaped. In this vein, the international conference “Disrupted Identities in the Light of ‘Post-Everything’” took place in Giessen from May 14 to 16, 2024. It was organized by Morteza Azimi, Erzhena Dugarova, Farouk El Maarouf, Sandra Engels, and Anastasiia Marsheva. The conference aimed to create a platform for discussing the evolving landscape of identity studies with a particular focus on articulations of disrupted identities within the context of the increasing influence of post-concepts. It also aimed at addressing how drastic events such as wars, regime changes, and forced migration have a disruptive impact on identity constructions.Die Frage, was Identitäten sind, wie wir sie begreifen und wie wir sie analytisch nutzen können, hat das akademische Denken lange Zeit verunsichert. In dem Bestreben, sich mit Identitätsstudien zu befassen, beschloss die Research Area 6: Cultural Identities des International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), nicht nur sich verändernde oder sich wandelnde Identitäten zu untersuchen—die oft eine gewisse Form von Kontinuität voraussetzen—, sondern auch Identitäten, die gestört, abgetrennt oder neu (um-)gestaltet werden. In diesem Sinne fand die internationale Konferenz „Disrupted Identities in the Light of ‚Post-Everything‘“ vom 14. bis 16. Mai 2024 in Gießen statt. Sie wurde von Morteza Azimi, Erzhena Dugarova, Farouk El Maarouf, Sandra Engels und Anastasiia Marsheva organisiert. Ziel der Konferenz war es, eine Plattform für die Diskussion der sich entwickelnden Landschaft der Identitätsstudien zu schaffen, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Artikulation gestörter Identitäten im Kontext des zunehmenden Einflusses von Post-Konzepten lag. Außerdem sollte erörtert werden, wie sich einschneidende Ereignisse wie Kriege, Regimewechsel und erzwungene Migration störend auf Identitätskonstruktionen auswirken
Unraveling Masculinities: A Cultural Shift
No full textK. Allison Hammer untersucht kritisch die Rolle normativer (toxischer) Maskulinität als Ursache gesellschaftlicher Probleme in den USA. Dabei bietet Hammer eine erfrischende Perspektive auf alternative Formen von queeren und trans Maskulinitäten. Hammer ordnet normative Maskulinität in den Kontext von Rassenkapitalismus, Siedlerkolonialismus und Rechtsextremismus ein und betont dabei das politische Potenzial von Solidarität in ungeordneten Allianzen alternativer Verkörperungen und Maskulinitäten. Gleichzeitig plädiert Hammer für eine Neukonzeptualisierung von Maskulinität, bereichert durch Fürsorge und gemeinschaftliche Bindungen.In Masculinity in Transition, K. Allison Hammer critically examines the role of normative (toxic) masculinity in fostering numerous societal ills in the United States. Hammer offers a refreshing perspective by weaving alternate forms of queer and trans masculinities into complex ideologies. Tracing normative masculinity in the contexts of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and white supremacist fraternal bonds, Hammer emphasizes the potential politics of solidarity in unruly alliances of alternative embodiments and masculinities, while arguing for a reconceptualization of masculinity enriched by care and collaborative bonds
Do We All Arrive in the Same State of Mind? Understanding Migration to the U.S. from a Psychological Perspective
No full textPsychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants bietet einen leicht zugänglichen Überblick über die verschiedenen Arten der Migration im Zusammenhang mit psychischer Gesundheit und Anpassung. Der Band nutzt einen psychologischen Ansatz, um ein neues Licht auf die jüngsten Migrationsdynamiken zu werfen, und dient als wertvolle Ressource für Fachleute, die in migrationsbezogenen Bereichen arbeiten. Es besteht aus Fallstudien, geografischen Analysen und persönlichen Erzählungen und ist ein vielseitiges Werk, das sich auf verschiedene Berufsfelder anwenden lässt.Psychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants provides an accessible overview of the different types of migration in relation to mental health and adjustment. Using a psychological approach to shed new light on recent migration dynamics, the volume serves as a valuable resource for professionals working in migration-related fields. Consisting of case studies, geographic analysis, and personal narratives, it is a multifaceted work with applicability to various professional fields
Read Carefully! Conceptualizing Reading as Care in The Book of Form & Emptiness and My Salinger Year
Full text linkReading and care are two concepts which inspire extensive discussions in current research, especially because both of them are perceived to be in crisis and, as a result, reconsidered and re-conceptualized. Despite this fact and despite conceptual overlaps in areas such as attention, affect and attachment, reading and care have not been contextualized or studied in relationship to each other comprehensively. Delving deeper into intersections of reading and care, this article inquires which concepts of reading emerge when it is viewed through the lens of care. Studying the two contemporary American works My Salinger Year and The Book of Form & Emptiness, the _Article analyzes how reading can constitute acts of caring about, caring for, and self-care. This introduces new perspectives on reading as a practice embedded in broader socio-cultural issues it mirrors and participates in, highlighting functions ascribed to reading
Dirty Signs in Clean Cities: On Trash as Socio-aesthetic Category in India
Full text linkThis _Article explores the intersection of urban beautification and caste in contemporary Indian cities, with specific focus on commissioned works of street art which are part of urban cleanliness campaigns. Over the past three decades, state-sponsored urban improvement schemes have aimed at eradicating perceived ‘dirt’ from cities, often employing street artists to promote urban beautification and cleanliness. Within the apparently inherent connection between beauty, sanitation and citizenship in Indian cities, an attempt at establishing an urban aesthetics of clean(s)ing is discernible, specifically in New Delhi. This _Article argues that the utilization of urban aesthetic practices like street art, particularly as a means to combat ‘dirt,’ emerges from caste-based and revanchist visions of the Indian public sphere. Through case studies, it shows how murals are employed to promote ideals of cleanliness that reflect upper-caste values that serve to transform urban spaces while policing oppressed-caste and working-class residents. Building on analyses of spatial transgression, such as Mary Douglas’ idea of dirt as “matter out of place,” Tim Cresswell’s notion of graffiti as “words out of place,” and D. Asher Ghertner’s concept of “aesthetic governmentality,” it explores the discursive procedures through which certain types of bodies and symbols are declared as illegal/illegible or dirty/disgusting in the Indian city. The _Article will show how street and other forms of art may embody and/or critique these prevalent notions of socio-spatial order
The Visible Invisibles: Visual Representation of Servants and Slaves from Feudalism to Capitalism
No full textDiane Wolfthal widmet sich der Visualisierung von Sklav_innen und Hausbediensteten in Bildmedien. Die aufgrund ihrer niedrigeren sozialen Stellung nicht als bildwürdig angesehenen Personen fanden dennoch Eingang in Auftragsarbeiten oder gingen in den Diskurs der herrschenden Eliten ein. Wolfthal überblickt den Zeitraum von 1300 bis 1700, um den gesellschaftlichen Wandel vom Feudalismus zum Kapitalismus aufzuzeigen, der sich in einer globalisierten Dienerschaft mit verändertem Rollenverständnis von Dienst auf Lebenszeit zu Beruf niederschlägt.Diane Wolfthal analyzes the visualization of slaves and domestic servants in visual media. Domestic servants found their way into commissioned works or entered as subject into the discourse of the ruling elite. Wolfthal surveys the period from 1300 to 1700 to show the social change from feudalism to capitalism, which is reflected in a globalized servanthood marked by a changing understanding of roles from lifelong service to profession
Age in Children\u27s Literature: Navigating Methodologies
No full textAge in David Almond’s Oeuvre analysiert die Werke von David Almond, der für seine Vielseitigkeit beim Schreiben für Kinder und Erwachsene bekannt ist. Jedes Kapitel beschäftigt sich mit sich überschneidenden Forschungsfragen zur Konstruktion des Alters und bietet unterschiedliche Einblicke in Almonds literarisches Repertoire. Von der autobiografischen Erforschung bis hin zu den Methoden der digitalen Geisteswissenschaften unterstreicht die Rezension die verschiedenen analytischen Ansätze, die in der zeitgenössischen Kinderliteraturkritik verwendet werden.Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre analyzes the works of David Almond, known for his versatility in writing for both children and adults. Each chapter investigates intersecting research questions concerning the construction of age, presenting distinct insights into Almond’s literary repertoire. Ranging from autobiographical exploration to digital humanities methodologies, the review underscores the diverse analytical approaches utilized within contemporary children’s literary criticism