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Haiti: An Ethnographic Study of the Effects of International Aid on Haitian Life
No full textHaiti has seen an increasing number of non-governmental organisations (NGO) and intergovernmental organisations (IGO), providing structural and emergency aid in times of conflict and weather-related events. This was intensified in 2010 when Haiti regained international attention from a ravaging earthquake that shook its core. This ethnographic study analyses the effects of NGOs and IGOs a decade after this natural disaster. We attempt to venture beyond the statistical evidence grounding most analyses provided by NGOs and IGOs to reveal perspectives from individual Haitians that are impacted by the policies and decisions of these organisations. In doing so, we examine the local standard of living, infrastructure, and social dynamics through four in-person interviews conducted in their respective geographic locations. These interviews set a basis for a discussion and examination of organisations’ allocation, dependency, and sustainability. The voices of local Haitians reveal the profound, yet subtle impacts that go unreported by foreign scholars that are crucial to understanding the day-to-day challenges faced despite foreign aid. We conclude that Haitians face a stasis of social mobility despite the copious work done by aid organisations that is often inconsistent and misaligned with the needs of Haitians
Commentary: sustainable development as theme and platform for interdisciplinary undergraduate research
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Intuitisme et art brut dans la poésie d\u27Hédi Bouraoui
No full textThe poetic writings of Hédi Bouraoui, a Canadian poet of Tunisian origin, where pictorial images of Raw Art are inserted, are part of intuitivism, an artistic expression that "invites dialogue, permanent conversation between different cultures, exchange, creation of a multi-artistic space in which all arts express themselves without borders" (Eric Sivry, 2003). Our article will examine the convergence between Bouraoui\u27s poetry, intuitivism and Raw Art, Bouraoui\u27s conception of intuition coinciding with the "pure and authentic creative impulse" from which art, according to Jean Dubuffet, originated.
Les écrits poétiques de Hédi Bouraoui, poète canadien d’origine tunisienne, où sont insérés des images picturales d\u27art brut, participent de l\u27intuitisme, expression artistique qui « invite au dialogue, à la conversation permanente entre les différentes cultures, à l’échange, à la création d’un espace pluriartistique dans lequel tous les arts s’expriment sans frontières »(Éric Sivry, 2003). Notre propos examinera la convergence entre la poésie de Bouraoui, l\u27intuitisme et l\u27art brut, la conception de l\u27intuition de Bouraoui coïncidant avec la « pure et authentique impulsion créative » d\u27où s\u27origine l\u27art selon Jean Dubuffet.
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Intuitivism and Raw Art in Hédi Bouraoui’s Poetr
Experiencing Masculinity in the Classroom: A Reflection
Get PDFIn this piece, I reflect upon my experiences of masculinities in different teaching and learning spaces. I draw upon existing literature concerned with laddism and compare how masculinity is performed differently in different spaces
Climate Fiction and the Crisis of Imagination: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book
No full textThis article analyses the representation of environmental crisis and climate crisis in Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013) by Indigenous Australian writer Alexis Wright. Building upon the groundbreaking work of environmental humanities scholars such as Heise (2008), Clark (2015), Trexler (2015) and Ghosh (2016), who have emphasised the main challenges faced by authors of climate fiction, it considers the novels as an entry point to address the climate-related crisis of culture – while acknowledging the problematic aspects of reading Indigenous texts as antidotes to the \u27great derangement’ – and the danger of a singular Anthropocene narrative that silences the ‘unevenly universal’ (Nixon, 2011) responsibilities and vulnerabilities to environmental harm. Exploring themes such as environmental racism, ecological imperialism, and the slow violence of climate change, it suggests that Alexis Wright’s novels are of utmost importance for global conversations about the Anthropocene and its literary representations, as they bring the unevenness of environmental and climate crisis to visibility
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Borders in the Anthropocene
No full textThis article performs a close reading of the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While developing the argument for an ‘ironic’ usage of the concept of the Anthropocene. This ironised conception is one that intends to countenance both the Anthropocene’s strength as a designation of human impact on the non-human and the important, valid critiques responding to the Anthropocene. Philip K Dick’s work, in particular Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a superb illustration of such an ironic dynamic because of the dual narrative structure present. For example, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? raises questions about human identity that, while metaphysical, have great significance materially for the characters in the novel, and can be understood as a form of structural discrimination. To demonstrate this ironic duality that should be brought to the Anthropocene, the article draws on Nick Land’s essay Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest: A Polemical Introduction to the Configuration of Philosophy and Modernity.
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A Conversation with...Rob Horsfield [16:41
Afterimages: Reflections on an artistic response to site and community at The University of Warwick
No full textAfterimages is a series of artwork I developed after becoming involved in the Then & Now: Arts at Warwick project from initial exploration of the Modern Record Centre’s archive. The construction of the new Faculty of the Arts building is the central focus for my work, which is interested in the impact that communities have on their spaces and vice versa. This article aims to discuss and analyse the concepts presented in Afterimages and the process of creating the work. This includes the methodological influences of psychogeography, the architectural theories of Léon Krier, and the contextualisation of the work amid the global pandemic. Following the events of the past six months, much of the student experience of Warwick has moved online. In light of this, this article also seeks to reflect upon how this shift in community has impacted elements of the artwork and its investigation into the built environment.
The Question of Time for Norbert Elias: Challenges of an interdisciplinary concept and approach towards time
No full textNorbert Elias is one of the great scholars who calls attention to the need for interdisciplinary studies related to actual societies’ challenges. He was one of the precursors of ‘Figurational Sociology,’ through which human relations are studied in a processual way (micro and macro-social aspects). Elias\u27s focus was to understand these concepts, not as a state of fixed and immutable things, but to understand them in terms of their process. In this report, it is pointed out that the ‘civilizing process’ ended up imposing on individuals a greater number of activities as well as greater dependence and complexity in the social relations network. Such factors required a common denominator to regulate such relationships. In this case, the denominator was called ‘time’. By studying time, we may contribute to correct this erroneous image of a world with watertight compartments such as nature, society, and individuals. These are mixed and interdependent and require an interdisciplinary approach. Interdisciplinary studies of time and what to expect of the future are still waiting to being done.
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Hindutva Past and Present: From Secular Democracy to Hindu Rashtra
Get PDFThis essay outlines the beginnings of Hindutva, a political movement aimed at establishing rule by the Hindu majority. It describes the origin myths of Aryan supremacy that Hindutva has developed, alongside the campaign to build a temple on the supposed birthplace of Ram, as well as the re-writing of history. These characteristics suggest that it is a far-right fundamentalist movement, in accordance with the definition of fundamentalism proposed by Feminist Dissent. Finally, it outlines Hindutva’s ‘re-imagining’ of secularism and its violent campaigns against those it labels as ‘outsiders’ to its constructed imaginary of India.
Keywords: Hindutva, fundamentalism, secularis