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S8_3 Configuring Age – Sociomaterial Practices in the Design of a Digital Memory Training
No full textWährend die Lebensphase Alter bis in die 1980er Jahre in Deutschland vor allem eine Phase des Rückzugs darstellte, in der sich nach Beendigung des Erwerbsarbeitsverhältnisses dem wohlverdienten Ruhestand gewidmet wurde, steht diese Lebensphase gegenwärtig im Mittelpunkt politischer, wirtschaftlicher, zivilgesellschaftlicher und kultureller Diskurse. Ein Praxisfeld, das dabei vor allem in Politik und Gesellschaft besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfährt, ist das Forschungs- und Entwicklungsfeld ›digitale Pflege- und Assistenztechnologien‹. Hier werden ›smarte Helfer‹ und ›schlaue Roboter‹ entwickelt, die es älteren Menschen ermöglichen sollen, trotz altersspezifischer Einschränkungen ein selbständiges Leben im eigenen Zuhause zu führen. Der Beitrag zeichnet nach, wie sich kulturelle Vorstellungen und politische Erwartungen an ein technisch assistiertes Alter in die Materialität der Artefakte einschreiben.While in Germany up to the 1980s old age was viewed primarily a phase of disengagement, in which older people devoted themselves to well-earned retirement, age(ing) is currently at the centre of political, economic, civil society and cultural discourse. One field of practice that receives special attention in political and societal discourse is the research and development field of digital care and assistive technologies. Here, ›smart helpers‹ and ›smart robots‹ are being developed to enable elderly people to lead an independent life in their own homes despite age-specific restrictions. The article traces how cultural ideas and political expectations of technically assisted old age are inscribed into the materiality of the artefacts
PB_0 gender knowledge in antifeminist discourses - An introduction
No full textDie Beiträge dieses Panels beleuchten die Rolle von Geschlechterwissen in antifeministischen Diskursen, in femo-nationalistischen Instrumentalisierungen von Frauen- und Homosexuellen-Rechten und in neoliberalen Vereinnahmungen von ›Gender‹.The contributions of this panel shed light on the role of gender knowledge in antifeminist discourses, in femo-nationalist instrumentalizations of women\u27s and homosexuals’ rights and in neoliberal appropriations of ›gender‹
The monastic genealogy of Hoḫʷärwa monastery – a unique witness of Betä Ǝsraʾel historiography
Get PDFDuring the course of a study of the manuscript tradition of the Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jews), the manuscript Jerusalem, National Library, Ms. Or. 87 came to light. This codex is a unique manuscript with several important elements that contribute to our knowledge of the history of the Betä Ǝsraʾel. Its by far most important feature are two short additional notes that I have come to call the Hoḫwärwa genealogy. This genealogy is the second piece of original pre-twentieth century Betä Ǝsraʾel historiography ever discovered, next to the text published by Leslau in 1946-47 as ‘A Falasha Religious Dispute.’ Taking the manuscript as a starting point, this article aims to cover topics such as the Betä Ǝsraʾel scribal tradition and aspects of their literature, their monasticism, the history of Hoḫwärwa monastery, and the history of the manuscript itself
Issayas Tesfamariam, ትግርኛ ንዛረብ: Let’s Speak Tigrinya, Elementary Level, A First-Year Textbook, A Multidimensional Approach to the Teaching and Learning of Tigrinya As a Foreign Language
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New Evidence of King MḤDYS?
Get PDFThe role assigned by the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis (mid-fifth century CE) to Modaios, king of the ‘Indians’, in a few passages of his huge poem Dionysiaca, suggests that the choice of the character may be attributable to a connection between the Greek name of the king (Μωδαῖος) and the somewhat enigmatic MḤDYS, a mid-fifth-century king of Aksum, known only from numismatic evidence. The hypothesis opens the way to further reflection on the role allusions to contemporary events play in Nonnus’s poem as an evidence of a precise awareness about Aksum in Late Antique Egypt
PG Introduction: Materialized Imaginations. On the Linking of Cultural Knowledge Stocks in Technosocial Lifeworlds
No full textEinführung in das Panel G Materialisierte Imaginationen. Zur Verknüpfung kultureller Wissensbestände in techno-sozialen Lebenswelte
PH Introduction: Translocal Circulations. Introductory Reflections on the Mobilization and Formatting of Policies.
No full textWie zirkulieren Politiken zwischen geographischen und sozialen Kontexten und politischen Feldern? Der Beitrag führt in das Panel ›Translokale Zirkulationen‹ ein, in dem wir uns analytisch und empirisch der Mobilisierung und Formatierung von Politiken nähern. In der Einleitung gehen wir darauf ein, mit Hilfe welcher Wissenspraktiken Politiken so ›zugerichtet‹ werden, dass sie translokal mobilisiert und in lokale Kontexte eingepasst werden können.How do policies circulate between geographical and social contexts and political fields? This article introduces the panel ›Translocal Circulations‹, in which we take an analytical and empirical approach to the mobilization and formatting of politics. In the introduction we discuss, how knowledge practices are used to ›format‹ policies in such a way that they can be mobilized translocally and adapted to local contexts
«Yo soy Vegeta y cuando jugué con Messi me hice Súper Saiyajin»: Biografización y socialización otaku, entre la nostalgia y el sincretismo cultural
Get PDFIn this article we intend to reflect on the processes of identity construction that unfold around Argentinian fandom of Japanese mass culture, conceptualized in terms of otakism (Álvarez Gandolfi 2016). To do this, we will analyse how fans of content such as anime, (self)identified as «otaku», give meaning to the experiences linked to their consumption practices, noticing the tensions in the constitution of the national identities of these subjects crossed by transnational objects, between meanings that they assign to «the Argentine» and «the Japanese». All of this in a current context of growing access and global circulation of cross-cultural productions, hand in hand with digitization and the consolidation of participatory culture in an interconnected era (Jenkins et al. 2016), within which we will base ourselves on our own empirical research (Álvarez Gandolfi 2014; Del Vigo & Carpenzano 2014) consisting of the application of qualitative interview techniques with these fans and an ethnographic fieldwork on the main digital platforms through which they interact. On the one hand, we argue that the aforementioned tensions would be resolved through otaku prosums that imply a sex-affective socialization and a syncretic identity bricolage both dislocated and potentially resistant within the framework of waifuism (Del Vigo 2018). On the other hand, we argue that in order to understand the tensions that go through the processes of identity construction based on otakism, the dynamics of fragmentation within the fandom nor the asymmetric ways in which the fans in question signify their favourite contents in their nostalgic biographic narratives cannot be forgotten. Here we will contrast such proposals and arguments in a dialogical way, displaying a conceptual journey that is indebted to cultural studies and fans studies, and currents such as postmodernism and its problematizations, in order to consolidate possible bases to continue studying this increasingly visible and important phenomenon in our contemporary societies.En el presente artículo nos proponemos reflexionar sobre los procesos de construcción identitaria que se despliegan en torno del fanatismo en la Argentina por objetos de la cultura de masas japonesa, conceptualizado en términos de otakismo (Álvarez Gandolfi 2016). Para ello, analizaremos cómo los fans de contenidos como el animé, (auto)identificados como «otakus», dan sentido a las experiencias vinculadas con sus prácticas de consumo, advirtiendo las tensiones en la constitución de las identidades nacionales de estos sujetos atravesadas por contenidos transnacionales, entre significaciones que adjudican a «lo argentino» y a «lo japonés». Ello en un contexto actual de creciente acceso y circulación global de producciones transculturales, de la mano de la digitalización y la consolidación de la cultura participativa en una era interconectada (Jenkins et al. 2016), dentro del cual nos basaremos en investigaciones empíricas propias (Álvarez Gandolfi 2014; Del Vigo y Carpenzano 2014) consistentes en la aplicación de técnicas cualitativas de entrevista con estos fans y en un relevamiento etnográfico de las principales plataformas digitales en las que interactúan. Por un lado, se plantea que las mencionadas tensiones serían resueltas mediante los prosumos otaku que implican una socialización sexoafectiva y un bricolaje identitario sincrético tanto dislocado como potencialmente resistente en el marco del waifuismo (Del Vigo 2018). Por otro lado, se argumenta que para comprender dichas tensiones que atraviesan los procesos de construcción de identidades a partir del otakismo no pueden olvidarse las dinámicas de fragmentación en el interior del fandom ni las maneras asimétricas en que los fans en cuestión las significan en sus narrativas biográficas nostálgicas. Aquí contrastaremos tales planteos y argumentaciones de modo dialógico, desplegando un recorrido conceptual deudor de los estudios culturales y los estudios sobre fans, y de corrientes como el posmodernismo y sus problematizaciones, en pos de consolidar bases posibles para seguir estudiando este fenómeno cada vez más visible e importante en las sociedades contemporáneas