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Andrei Șerban and a Romanian Post-Exilic Experience: Contributions to the Renewal of the National Theatre (1990–1993)
No full textThe article explores the post-exilic experience of Andrei Șerban following the fall of Ceaușescu’s communist dictatorship in late 1989, when he returned from the USA and was appointed general director of the ‘I.L. Caragiale’ National Theatre of Bucharest. His tenure between 1990 and 1993 was the most productive in the history of the National Theatre up to that point, and was seen as a revolutionary period, when Șerban recreated the legendary performance An Antique Trilogy, initially played at La MaMa Theatre in New York in the 70s under the title Fragments of a Greek Trilogy. By examining issues of nationalism, exile, and patriotic sentiments connecting the theatrical stage with the social stage of that moment, this article examines the contributions of the artist to the renewal of the national stage and of the national cultural identity in post-communist Romania between 1990 and 1993. The theoretical framework draws from studies on exile and research in nationalism
Exploring self-victimhood’s place in moral personality and unethical organizational behavior
No full textRecent research has shown that a tendency for interpersonal victimhood (TIV) predicts maladaptive thinking and antagonistic behavior. However, understanding TIV’s place in the nomological network of personality variables used to predict moral behavior in organizations. This paper attempted to bridge this gap by examining TIV’s associations with morally relevant personality traits and TIV’s prediction of unethical organizational behavior in two studies. For the studies, we relied on two samples of U.S. adults recruited via an online crowdsourcing platform (NTotal = 1,080) using survey methods. Study 1 (N = 485) showed that TIV had a sizeable loading onto an overarching Dark Factor of Personality (D), which contained TIV, the Dark Tetrad, and moral disengagement. Study 2 (N = 405-595) showed that TIV predicted counterproductive work behavior (CWB) and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), even after controlling for morally relevant HEXACO traits and demographic variables. Supplemental analyses indicated that TIV’s rumination facet primarily drives its relationship with CWB, while its lack of empathy facet primarily drives its relationship with UPB. TIV tended to have small to moderate positive correlations with dark traits (e.g., the Dark Triad, moral disengagement) (r = 0.30-0.50) and small negative correlations with light traits (e.g., the Light Triad, Honesty-humility, moral identity-internalization). This research provides evidence supporting TIV’s place in the nomological network of moral personality and its influence on destructive organizational behavior
Han Nijdam, Jan Hallebeek and Hylkje de Jong (eds.), Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
No full textGenderview: Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach: Denk niet dat je onrecht kunt bestrijden door zelf onrechtvaardig te zijn tegenover anderen
No full textMonika Kirloskar-Steinbach bekleedt de leerstoel Diversifying Philosophy aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Haar onderzoek richt zich op de beperkingen van eurocentrische filosofieën en benadrukt het belang van epistemische rechtvaardigheid. In dit interview reflecteert zij op haar benadering van world philosophy in onderzoek en onderwijs
In_Visibilizing Stress: Refugee Tales as a Counter-Apparatus
No full textThis article claims that the UK immigration complex is best understood as an apparatus (in the sense of Foucault and Agamben) that uses stress as a tool. It further argues that the Refugee Tales project acts as a counter-apparatus, and that the project’s life writing branch makes visible the many roles which stress plays in the context of immigration legislation. Stress researchers in the humanities maintain that poverty is one of the greatest stressors (Baker), that cutting people off from their material and mental resources is the most effective way to produce stress (Hobfoll), and that disturbing established rhythms of stress and relaxation can lead to ‘zombification’ (Korovkin/Stephenson). Selected pieces of life writing by women and men in the four volumes of Refugee Tales published to date, shed light on how stress manifests for people caught up in the immigration apparatus. They do so by demonstrating how narrative can i) be a source of stress, ii) trigger stress originally caused by something else, iii) represent stress, iv) perform, v) communicate, but also vi) alleviate it. By visibilizing what the immigration apparatus keeps from view, the analysed pieces of life writing contribute to Refugee Tales’ overall goal of putting an end to indefinite detention in the UK.
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What’s Cooking? Mobilizing Women’s Life Narratives in Diasporic Cookbooks
No full textOver recent years there has been a proliferation of cookbooks by diasporic women authors containing a wealth of traditional family recipes. Today’s cookbooks focus on experiencing transnational traditions and transculturalism through women’s voices and intergenerational stories. This paper elucidates how cookbooks, as a form of life writing, materialise ‘mobile lives’ (Elliot and Urry, 2009) through a focus on women’s histories, narratives and activism. In shaping intergenerational women’s life storying, these cookbooks represent identity markers of the geopolitics of migration. I will examine two cookbooks that explore diasporic ancestries: Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka (2022) and Reem Assil’s Arrabiya: Recipes from the Life of an Arab in Diaspora (2022). The authors pay homage to their homeland through culinary expression. The cookbooks include heartfelt essays that convey the importance of documenting oral food histories in order to preserve their distinct gustatory cultures in an environment where the physical land is threatened or erased from national consciousness. The cookbook is an ideal site for mobilizing the oral to the textual while also stressing the intimacy and distinctness of these diasporic family accounts. Therefore, these cookbooks mediate the interconnected acts of diasporic writing, reading and cooking
Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
No full textFinding aids – tools to help researchers locate and understand archival materials – are rich with biographical information: in archival descriptions, we find personal milestones stated alongside traceable genealogies of ideas and associations between people and institutions. A pilot project at the University of Birmingham tested digital methods for distilling this information as a means to life writing; this paper reports on its findings.
The pilot project involved extracting networked data from finding aids associated with Stuart Hall (1932-2014) – a founding figure of cultural studies – and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS; 1964-2002). A tool was developed to capture data around the movement, meetings, connections, and output of individuals and groups. The project aimed to visualise Hall’s life (people and entities he worked with, events he attended, etcetera) and the institutional ‘life’ of the CCCS (flow of finance, members, and influences).
This paper outlines challenges faced by the project team and steps taken to circumvent them, and considers matching the form of digital representation to the distinctive pedagogical approach advocated by Hall and the CCCS. With the particularity of this dataset in mind, this paper discusses how digital methods can be applied to extract and organise finding aid data as a means of framing Hall’s biography
Peter E. Gordon: Prekäres Glück. Adorno und die Quellen der Normativität.: Frankfurter Adorno Vorlesungen 2019
No full textRezension zu Peter E. Gordon, Prekäres Glück. Adorno und die Quellen der Normativität. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2023
The Andean Gothic as Local form and Global Story: How Contemporary Latin American Women Writers are (Re)writing Indigeneity
No full textThis paper examines narratives by Mónica Ojeda and Liliana Colanzi, two diasporic Latin American contemporary women writers who are often identified as exponents of the ‘Andean Gothic’. Indigenous myths and languages, interwoven into their narratives, paint a disturbing canvas of incest, gendered violence, political turmoil, and the blurred line between human and animal. Drawing on the work of scholars of indigenismo and reading those alongside Latina/o and Critical Indigeneity studies, the paper decentres the analytical frameworks concerned with the Global Gothic that usually engage these authors. It argues that this alternative framing can shed new light on the ways in which the Andean Gothic attempts to enact decolonial imaginaries
