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Understanding how ontological conflicts materialize through dialogue between political ontology and Henri Lefebvre’s spatial theories
Get PDFThis article explores how Henri Lefebvre’s spatial theories can inform post-development research, particularly into socio-environmental conflicts. Post-development’s politico-ontological branch understands these conflicts as ontological clashes, stemming from the imposition of particular understandings of concepts like \u27development\u27 and \u27nature\u27. The article argues that Lefebvre’s spatial theories constitute a language for grasping the spatial dynamics of these ontological conflicts. The article offers guidance on applying this language by navigating through four key areas: (1) the ontological domain, by first overcoming some problems in Lefebvre’s work through a politico-ontological reading, (2) the methodological domain, by demonstrating how his work provides an analytical framework to dissect the spatial manifestations of conflicts between diverse worlds, (3) the epistemological domain, by highlighting how Lefebvre’s theories give insights into strategies of dominant ontologies to remain in power, (4) the domain of theories of change, by emphasizing Lefebvre’s advocacy for the empowerment of marginalized communities to reclaim agency in shaping their spatial environment. This theoretical effort is then briefly illustrated with tensions that can arise from fortress conservation policies. Given their clear material concerns regarding land use and distribution, it is demonstrated how a PD’s politico-ontological examination of such socio-environmental conflicts can benefit from Lefebvre’s spatial theories
After the Collapse: Heddy Honigmann\u27s \u27Metal and Melancholy\u27 30 Years On
No full textThis essay is a review of and retrospective on \u27Metal and Melancholy\u27, a 1994 documentary on taxi drivers in Lima, Peru, which effectively captures the aftermath of social, political and economic collapse. I argue the film is a window into and a warning against a possible planetary future where human beings endure through ingenuity and entrepeneurship but without the transformative tools of collective action. It also speaks to the current political crisis in Peru, which can be directly traced to the 1990s
Black LGBTQIA+ Political Subjectivities in the Roma Negra: On Black LGBTQIA+ Political Resistance in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Get PDFThis article examines the politics of Black LGBTQIA+ political resistance against multiform violence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Nicknamed the Roma Negra (Black Rome) due to having the second largest Black population in the world, Salvador, the capital city of the northeastern state of Bahia, has disproportionate rates of LGBTQIA+ violence. This article offers various case studies on how Black LGBTQIA+ activists and civil society and non-governmental organizations in Salvador politically organize, negotiate, and transform space, and combat non-citizenship and subordination since Brazil’s redemocratization
¿Why Leeds?
Get PDFThe following piece was written by Elisa Martinez Relano in 2023. Inspired by a student-led project exploring past and present solidarities with Latin America, Elisa, now completing an MA in the History of Art and Social History at the University of Leeds, wrote the following text. Her reflection on archival research around Chilean exile in the 1970s takes place in 2023, fifty years after the infamous coup, and is guided by a simple question: how and why would Leeds engage in solidarity activism with a place as seemingly distant as Chile
Tackling the Tumbleweed: Reflections on increasing seminar engagement from an introverted GTA
Get PDFPedagogical literature identifies established links between student engagement with learning and subsequent academic attainment. During my first year as a GTA, the main challenge I experienced was getting students to verbally engage in seminars, both with myself and their peers. I was surprised by how challenging I found teaching a seminar with limited verbal engagement, and how difficult it was encouraging this during seminar discussions. In this piece, I critically reflect on my experiences as an introverted GTA trying to ‘tackle the tumbleweed’. To commence, I consider the preconceptions I had about what constituted an ‘engaged’ seminar group, and examine varied definitions of (verbal and non-verbal) ‘student engagement’ within the seminar context. Then, I reflect on the techniques I used to encourage both verbal and non-verbal engagement in practice, plus further approaches I will trial in future teaching. In the concluding section, I provide advice for other GTAs and raise wider, external factors likely impacting engagement that lie beyond GTA control
Il violino di Gianmorte: Sui sonetti di Marco Ceriani (e in particolare su uno)
No full textIl presente articolo intende apportare un contributo, nel panorama della poesia cosiddetta ‘neometrica’, alla conoscenza di un caso piuttosto singolare: la sonettistica di Marco Ceriani. In particolare si prenderà in considerazione la raccolta Gianmorte violinista (2014) e la sezione di sonetti in essa contenuta, alla ricerca della formula dell’«eteroritmica» di Ceriani (espressione dell’autore). A questo scopo l’analisi si focalizzerà, in particolare, sul sonetto d’esordio della sezione, che verrà sottoposto a una close lecture integrale: partendo ovviamente da un’ipotesi sulle strutture metriche ivi impiegate. Si passerà poi a un’analisi semantica e, infine, ad alcune proposte ermeneutiche. Ma prima, si tenterà di delineare per sommi capi una ‘poetica’ dell’Autore considerato, prendendo le mosse soprattutto dalle poesie in esergo di Osip Mandel´štam (poeta d’elezione di Ceriani) e da una disamina critica sul concetto di ‘nonsense’.
English title: Gianmorte’s Violin: On the Sonnets of Marco Ceriani (and One in Particular)
English abstract: This article aims to contribute to the study of so-called neometric poetry by examining a particularly singular case: the sonnet writing of Marco Ceriani. Specifically, it will focus on the collection Gianmorte violinista (2014) and the section of sonnets it contains, in search of Ceriani’s formula of "eteroritmica" (a term coined by the author). To this end, the analysis will concentrate on the opening sonnet of the section, which will undergo a close reading, beginning with a hypothesis on the metrical structures employed. The study will then proceed to a semantic analysis and, finally, to some interpretative proposals. Before this, however, an attempt will be made to outline, in broad strokes, the poet’s poetics, drawing primarily from the epigraph poems by Osip Mandel´štam (Ceriani’s chosen poet) and a critical examination of the concept of nonsense
The cultural-political category of Amefricanity
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In this original contribution published in 1988, Brazilian Black intellectual Lélia Gonzalez develops the concept of Amefricanity (amefricanidade) as a politically and culturally relevant category to address the material, historical, and symbolic realities of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples in the Americas
Book Review: Levy, Helton. Globalized Queerness: Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Get PDFGlobalized Queerness takes a critical look at the global media landscape to examine whether queer and trans representations become homogenized or flattened as they seek to reach a wide, transnational audience. Levy defines “globalized queerness” as a series of media strategies emerging mostly from Western and Anglophone metropoles, which “have capitalized on queer life to sell products and homogenize ideas of queerness” (197). This mass commodification of queer representation emerges at the expense of racially minoritized, impoverished queer communities, particularly those from the Global South, as their localized experiences of doing LGBTQIA+ art and politics are erased from the media landscape. The book is careful, however, not to portray globalized queerness as an all-encompassing media landscape, as it tracks the frequent ruptures of local politics into global narratives, particularly in the hands of more critical queer and trans media producers
Afterword: EDI and the PGR teacher experience: issues, opportunities and aspiring to an inclusive future in Higher Education
Get PDFPGR teacher ‘liminality’ is well documented, but when seen through the lens of equality, diversity and inclusion, the story becomes more nuanced. This Afterword looks through this lens, considering affordances, opportunities and issues arising for PGR teachers, thinking about their place in a sector which increasingly seeks inclusion. The author makes observations relating to recent institutional evidence and published literature, as well as considering how EDI can be most meaningfully understood in professional learning. She concludes with a celebration of PGR contributions to EDI and a stance that PGRs need to be central to the ambitions of inclusive University futures.
It is a privilege to be invited to write the Afterword for the JPPP, the third issue of this journal and, therefore, the third year of the Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community (WPTC). Building on the eloquent contributions of our PGR authors in this issue, I would like to conclude with some thoughts about the wider context, the issues related to PGRs and equality, diversity and inclusion and how this fits with my own work, in professional learning