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Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility
No full textInternational audiencePremodern critical race studies have broadened our understanding of the discourse of race and gender. This chapter argues that race and gender are social practices that evolve over time, in each other’s presence, and in inter-connected social spaces. Race and trans studies are fields of study borne out of necessity, the necessity to understand the world, and the necessity for all to live a liveable life. In 1976, singer Joni Mitchell traversed race and gender by performing blackface acts and declaring that they are a “Black man trapped in a white woman’s body.” In 1998, Mitchell told New York Times that they were “the only Black man at the [Halloween] party.” In what ways are similar claims complicated by pandemic-era hate crimes, such as the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the mistreatment of trans women in a Korean spa in Los Angeles in 2021? Racism and transmisogyny deny people’s access to public spaces, and public performance has been seen as a way to reclaim inclusive social spaces, even though it is a winding path. Does Belinda Sullivan’s ‘doubled drag’ performance of Falstaf as the Witch of Brentford in the 2013 African-American Shakespeare Company production of Merry Wives of Windsor diminish ‘the impact of what would otherwise seem to be . . . transphobic violence’? Why are such performances, similar to cisgender interpretations of Viola in Twelfth Night, typically received as pragmatic and temporary gender nonconformity to score personal gains in patriarchal worlds rather than as transgender expressions? Actors’ offstage racial identities add nuance to the picture. How does British-Indian actor Shubham Saraf ’s trans performance of Ophelia, against Michelle Terry’s cross-cast white Hamlet, traverse gender and racial lines at the Globe in 2018? Similarly, how does British-Ugandan actress Sheila Atim’s trans masculine performance of Cesario in Adam Smethurst’s film Twelfth Night complicate class aspirations and embodiment of genders? This chapter brings critical race theory and trans studies together to examine racial and gendered otherness through case studies of performances of Shakespeare’s plays. Providing critical tools to understand atypical bodies, trans studies solidifies critical race studies’ support of minority life experiences. Critical race methods, with their attention to the social production of hierarchies, can also help trans studies address its often-unacknowledged whiteness. To correct the early modern studies’ tendency to privilege narrative texts, this chapter uses global and performance studies methods—as critical tools that are designed to capture transformative cultural practices—to highlight embodied significations of transness. The chapter concludes with a reflection on pedagogical implications of multidisciplinarity. Providing critical tools to understand atypical bodies, trans studies solidifies critical race studies’ support of minority life experiences
Explorando a cultura literária como uma abordagem para fortalecer laços entre a comunidade escolar
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A Paleografia e a Diplomática na rota das Humanidades Digitais: percursos e propostas
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O Homo Profanum e a potência do uso: uma proposição conceitual a partir de Giorgio Agamben
No full textInternational audienceAbstract: This article aims to present a conceptual proposition based on the writings of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. One of the central notions in his political philosophy is that of Homo Sacer, used as a paradigmatic figure to criticise the violence of law. From this, in this article, I propose a game with this notion, through the syntagma Homo Profanum. This game refers to the role that the concept of profanation plays in Agambenian ethical thought. Through this conceptual proposition, I show how Agamben criticises tradition and the way it conceives the notion of subject. In addition, I also show how, through the concepts of potency and use, the Italian philosopher offers notes to open the ethical horizon of modernity. Thus, I characterise the figure I call Homo Profanum from the way the Italian philosopher conceives the notions of ungovernable, use and life-form, which, orbiting around the concept of potentiality, form a conceptual constellation from which Agamben makes notes to think his ethics of profanation.Resumo: Este artigo pretende apresentar uma proposição conceitual a partir dos escritos do filósofo italiano Giorgio Agamben. Uma das noções centrais na filosofia política dele é a de Homo Sacer, utilizada como figura paradigmática para tecer críticas à violência do direito. A partir disso, neste artigo, propõe-se um jogo com essa noção, por intermédio do sintagma Homo Profanum. Esse jogo está referido ao papel que o conceito de profanação tem, no pensamento ético agambeniano. Por meio dessa proposição conceitual, mostra-se como Agamben realiza uma crítica à tradição e à maneira como ela concebeu a noção de sujeito. Além disso, ressalta-se também como, através dos conceitos de potência e uso, o filósofo italiano oferece apontamentos para abrir o horizonte ético da modernidade. Assim, caracteriza-se a figura que se chama de Homo Profanum, com base no modo como o filósofo italiano concebe as noções de ingovernável, de uso e de forma-de-vida, que, orbitando em torno do conceito de potência, formam uma constelação conceitual a partir da qual Agamben faz indicações para pensar sua ética da profanação
Vozes silenciadas: impacto das ditaduras no continente asiático sobre a comunidade LGBT+
No full textInternational audienceA construção dos direitos da comunidade LGBT+ enfrenta obstáculos complexos que refletem um processo contínuo de invisibilidade imposta sobre seus membros. Em meio a fraturas sociais e jurídicas, os indivíduos LGBT+ se encontram em desvantagem diante do padrão heteronormativo imposto pela sociedade. Este artigo se propõe a investigar de maneira abrangente como regimes autoritários influenciaram e suprimiram as vozes da comunidade LGBT+, gerando consequências profundas e de longo alcance. Adotando uma análise detalhada de contextos históricos específicos em diversos países asiáticos, o estudo evidencia de maneira inequívoca como tais regimes silenciaram e reprimiram as vozes LGBT+, resultando em repercussões significativas e duradouras. São exploradas amplamente as políticas discriminatórias implementadas por essas ditaduras, ressaltando as múltiplas violações dos direitos humanos e as restrições severas à liberdade de expressão e identidade. O artigo destaca também a resiliência da comunidade LGBT+ e seus esforços de resistência contra os desafios enfrentados, visando o reconhecimento
Eating to survive: the overlooked reason for beef consumption in Japan, 1874-1912
No full textMessage on 22 Nov 2024: This article has undergone major revision and now is published in the journal Global Food History: https://doi.org/10.1080/20549547.2024.2408709Abstract in English:This article argues that there is ample solid evidence for the role of health concerns in the rise of beef consumption in Japan in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In particular, it discusses how the cholera outbreak of 1886 boosted beef consumption. Fear of the effects of plague led citizens in the Meiji era to seek out food that was, according to the science of the time, both nutritious and easily digested, leading to the development of a new set of values applied to food, including beef. Rather than seeing early beef consumption as only ostensibly medicinal, or as purely a matter of imitation of the West, as previous scholars have suggested, the author argues that beef consumption came to be perceived as a valuable prophylactic against cholera
Sustainability and religion-related aspects of the conflict in Ukraine
No full textReligions are relevant to the issues of sustainability. Atheistic propaganda in the former Soviet Union was efficient. The recent religious revival in Russia is partly insincere and superficial, being a matter of politics. Apparently, many today's churchgoers, priests and church officials are atheists or agnostics, habitually following official policies. Some church functionaries, endorsing the Ukraine war, engage in moralizing, among others opposing to abortions, sex education and birth control, depicting childbearing as a duty. Ramzan Kadyrov, head and mufti (Islamic jurist) of Chechen Republic, declared the war in Ukraine a jihad and urged Russian Muslims to fight the demons. Should the power in Europe shift to the East, it would come along with losses of some moral values. An autocratic management style would come instead. In the healthcare, attributes of this style include a paternalistic approach to patients, hampering objective discussion and criticism. A preferred perspective would be a leadership based on the principles of mercy, modesty and forgiveness, aimed at preservation of human life and health
« Sans argent, sans provisions » Bruxelles, ville connectée. Le cas du couvent des Dames anglaises de Bruxelles entre 1760 et 1770
No full textFounded in Brussels in 1599 the Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption is the first of the many English catholic convents in exile on the European Continent. Prosperous at first, its situation in the 18th century became dire both politically and financially. This paper explores through the case of the Brussels monastery the political situation of the English catholic convents in exile in a period of decline of the religious fervor and of marginalization of the conventual life
Effect of Online Training Price and Price Perception on Quality and Benefit Perception in France
No full textInternational audienceWith the health problem, digital training has assumed a major role in our society. Some of the numerous online trainingopportunities are free, allowing the user to learn without having to pay, but occasionally we may question about the worth ofthese training opportunities—do they provide the same quality as the paid ones? Our two studies, which gathered informationfrom 245 and 114 individuals, demonstrates that a free course can have the same value and interest as a paid course and thatthe cost of an e-learning course does not always affect the value that the user attributes to it. We found that free training is animportant deciding factor because it provides the training with an advantage over the identical paid service that goes beyondsimple cost savings. As a result, free training may appear to the user to offer more overall benefits than expensive training.We also found that a price perceived as “a fair price” appear to the user as giving more benefits that an “expensive one”
Life and Death on the East Frieze of the Parthenon
No full textInternational audienceThe gods on the Parthenon frieze are represented as looking out on the real world from the position of their material image on the Acropolis, displaying the contemporary imperial self-awareness of Athens. Poseidon's gaze guards the entrance to the straits of Artemisium. Hermes and Ares look towards Egypt with implicit adversary intent. Aphrodite pointing something out to Eros means that she is indicating a victim of love in an unspecified location. Artemis follows her indication, assuming duty as the goddess of childbirth, the locally worshipped Brauronia. On the East pediment, Aphrodite rests in the bosom of Artemis in a similar fashion as on the frieze. The association of Eros and Aphrodite with Artemis Brauronia, representing the creation of life, and the general divine concord presented on the East frieze, are expressions of the optimistic and imperial hegemonic ideology prominent in Athens in the period between the two major wars (479-431 B.C.). On the other hand, Demeter on the left looks with longing at Hermes and Dionysus, experienced visitors to the land of the dead, where her daughter resides. Including Ares, the group of four gods on the left, in polar contrast to the three gods on the rightmost side, allude to the opposite of life