45 research outputs found
"I cried power": The (im)possibility of female freedom in Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter (Darina Al Joundi)
No full textPublishedArticleThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edinburgh University Press via the DOI in this record.Le Jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter narrates Darina Al-Joundi's experiences of the Lebanese civil war, and a restriction that is personal, social, gendered and religious. It represents a resistance through performance, via appropriation of a combative persona and of secular lyrics by Nina Simone which Al-Joundi uses to ‘cry power’ by collapsing boundaries between self and other, East and West, thought and experience. This article analyses the tension between imposed restrictions and a desired ‘freedom’, setting established theories of exile (Said) in dialogue with more specific discussions of Lebanon and its social restriction of women. This interrogates the ways in which a putative ‘freedom’ is constructed or diagnosed as ‘madness’, concluding that the only possibility for negotiating any measure of real ‘freedom’ is in crossing borders and developing a new model of female ‘freedom’ contingent on the fragile and ever-shifting boundaries between representations of East and West
Re-visioning one's selves: mirror reflections in the autobiographical works of Marguerite Duras
No full textThis thesis explores the construction of the central figure of a cycle of four works relating to Marguerite Duras' adolescence in Indochina: Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, L'Eden Cinéma, L'Amant, and L'Amant de la Chine du Nord. In these texts, biographical fact - the conventional foundation of autobiographical writing – is shown to be mutable, as Duras (re)creates and re-visions the past and self in question. The plurality of Duras' textual history suggests that the central figure's construction does not lie, as we might have anticipated, in a performative reading of her past. A new and alternative explanation for the central figure's construction is proposed: namely, that she is described by a series of mirror reflections within, between, and beyond the texts. The thesis is divided into four sections. Chapter I draws upon psychoanalytical and feminist theories to introduce the notion of mirror reflections in intra- and extra-textual contexts, with particular reference to interpersonal relationships, textual devices and reader involvement. Chapter II examines the deliberate alteration of the central figure's image and reflection, discussing questions of power, performance, and (self-) objectification. Chapter III focuses on the interaction between writing and written selves, on the re-visioning of self and history, and questions the 'autobiographical' status of these texts. Chapter IV suggests that the four accounts act as intertextual mirrors, forming contradictory reflections that profoundly shape the reading experience by destabilising any previously confirmed sense of the textualised selfhood. The iterative (dis)establishment of the written self is also explored in relation to Duras' perception of writing as a process that is concurrently creative, destructive and chaotic. It is concluded that the mirror trope is indeed useful in describing the construction of the central figure of these texts, yet it brings the reader no closer to locating the central self and her past in a form that is neither plural nor provisional
Research in medical education - chances and challenges : international conference, 20th - 22nd May 2009, Heidelberg ; congress abstracts
No full text"Selma" : "Selma"
No full textAbstract The author Selma Lagerlöf was born in 1858 at Mårbacka, in Värmland and died in 1940. Fifty years after Selma´s death were her correspondence released and ten thousand of letters were found in the collection. But it was just the correspondence between Selma and Sofie Elkan who interested people because they wanted to know if Selma and Sofie have had a sexual relationship. Later, in time for Christmas 2008 the Swedish Television shows a film about Selma. "Selma Lagerlöf Society" was critical to the movie and thougt that the movie focused too much on Selma`s sexual orientation. This situation aroused a curiosity and a desire to find out why the film was perceived in this way. The purpose of this work is to show how the producer uses gender constructions to show that Selma was a lesbian and for that reason a thematic analysis was made from a social constructionist perspective. Different themes about gender constructions emerge in the analysis, and those themes are presented together with feminist theorist as Judith Butler, Yvonne Hirdman and Simone De Beauvoir. The discussion is about the presentation and how this can be perceived, but also about the reasons they might have had in mind when they made the presentation that way.Författarinnan Selma Lagerlöf föddes 20 november 1858, på Mårbacka i Värmland, och dog 16 mars 1940. Femtio år senare släpptes Selmas korrespondens fri. Tiotusentals brev fanns i denna brevsamling men det var endast brevväxlingen mellan Selma och Sofie Elkan som ansågs intressant. Detta på grund av att man ville veta om Selma och Sofie hade en sexuell relation eller inte. Senare lagom till julhelgen 2008 visar Sveriges Television en film i två delar, som handlar om Selma. Bland annat Selma Lagerlöf sällskapet ställde sig kritisk till filmen och menade att man fokuserat för mycket på Selmas sexualitet i filmen. Detta väckte en nyfikenhet och en önskan hos mig, att ta reda på varför filmen uppfattades på detta sätt. Syftet med detta arbete är att visa på hur man i framställningen har använt sig av könskonstruktioner för att visa att Selma var lesbisk Av denna anledning har det gjorts en tematisk analys ur ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv med utgångspunkt i filmens innehåll . Under analys har olika teman framträtt som på något sätt handlar om könskonstruktioner. Dessa teman presenteras i analysdelen tillsammans med feministisk teorier av bland annat Judith Butler, Yvonne Hirdman och Simone De Beauvoir. I diskussionen behandlas det hur framställningen kan uppfattas och även vilka motiv man kan tänkas ha haft i åtanke när man gjort framställningen på detta sätt
“BIM for the existing world”, modeling AEC reality through high definition surveys
No full textBuilding Information Modeling is considered by the scientific literature as an emerging trend in the architectural documentation scenario, as it is basically a digital representation of physical and functional features of facilities, serving as a shared knowledge resource during their whole life cycle. BIM is actually a process, in which different players act sharing data through digital models in a coordinated, consistent and always up to date workflow. This way, BIM tools were originally meant to ease the design of new architectures, generated by parametric geometries connected through hierarchical relationships of “smart objects” (components self-aware of their identity and conscious of their interactions with each other). However, this approach can also be successfully applied to what already exists: TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning) or digital photogrammetry are supposed to be a strategy in which BIM, relying on its own semantic structure, is explicitly used in the representation of existing buildings. Some progresses in the development of this attitude, especially related to sites belonging to the Cultural Heritage, are included in this packet. This presentation, which is used by the author for his Architectural Computer Graphics and Advanced Virtual Modeling courses at the University of Bologna, School of Engineering and Architecture, is an introduction to the use of BIM combined with surveys, highlighting critical aspects and advantages deriving from the application of parametric techniques to the real world domain representation
FTM, transhomem, homem trans, trans, homem: a emergência de transmasculinidades no Brasil contemporâneo
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas, Florianópolis, 2014.Desde 2010 é possível perceber a crescente visibilidade de transhomens no Brasil, tanto na mídia quanto no movimento de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais (LGBT). O tema central desta tese é a emergência de masculinidades produzidas por transhomens, as transmasculinidades, que vêm se constituindo como "novas" identidades sociais e políticas no contexto brasileiro, identidades essas que parecem se ancorar, por uma lado, nas definições médicas e "psi" que as patologizam, e por outro, na luta pela despatologização de suas identidades de gênero. A amostra foi composta majoritariamente por transhomens pertencentes às classes média e alta, brancos, moradores de regiões urbanas do sudeste e sul do país, com idades entre 18 e 50 anos. Foram utilizados vários métodos de investigação, com os quais busquei articular diferentes aproximações, em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar. Para tanto desenvolvi uma etnografia, na qual foram utilizadas mídias digitais, tais como e-mail e redes sociais, e a criação de um site próprio. Fez parte da etnografia a observação participante em diversos espaços onde circulavam transhomens. Foi possível observar que não há um modelo universal de transmasculinidades, elas são maleáveis e estão em constante produção. As transmasculinidades brasileiras podem ser masculinidades alternativas, mesmo estando incluídas em práticas de dominação, subordinação e marginalização. As transmasculinidades, ao produzirem uma masculinidade sem pênis, podem ser tomadas como um desestabilizador de masculinidades hegêmonicas, rejeitando a arbitrariedade do sexo e do gênero e questionando a certeza de sermos homens ou mulheres.Abstract : Since 2010 is possible to realize the growing visibility of transmen in Brazil in the media and in the movement of lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Tranvestities and Transsexuals (GLBT). The main theme this thesis is the masculinity emergency producted by transmen, the transmasculinitiy, which is becoming the "new" social and political identities in brazilian context. These identities seems to anchor, according to one point of view, in medical definitions and "psi" which pathologize them, and according to another one, in the fight for depathologization of their genre identities. The sample was compound majority by transmen that belongs to high and middle classes, caucasian, from south and southeast urban regions, age between 18 and 50 years old. Many investigation methods were used, I tried to articulate diferent approximations in a interdisciplinary perspective. For this I developed a ethnography, which were used many digital medias like e-mail, social networks and a own website. A participant observation in many sites where transmen used to walk arround was part of the ethnography. I could notice that there is no transmasculinity universal model, they are malleable and they are in constant production. The Brazilian transmasculinity can be alternatives masculinity, even being included in domination, subordination and marginalization practices. The transmasculinity, when they produce a masculinity without a penis, can be seen like a masculinity destabilizing, rejecting a sex and genre arbitrariness and questioning the certain if we are men or woman
Rock Music as Cosmopolitan Touchstone in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet
No full textAsked why he had chosen rock ’n’ roll as the subject of Th e Ground Beneath Her Feet , Salman Rushdie asserted: “Rock is the mythology of our time.” 1 Th rough the writing of his polyphonic fi ction and this infusion of rock ’n’ roll, Rushdie fantasizes about a medium—a “secret language”—that will transcend diff erences, remain unaff ected by boundaries, and thus possess the capacity to speak to all. In this intertwining of form and content, then, the author reveals a narrative desire for a greater cosmopolitanism. Th is is accomplished through an updating of the Orpheus–Eurydice myth, in which he aligns his own textual exuberance with the excesses of rock ’n’ roll. Th e experiences of his two rock star protagonists—Ormus Cama (equal parts Presley, Dylan, and Lennon, with dashes of Freddie Mercury and Brian Wilson) and Vina Apsara (Tina Turner, Nina Simone, Lady Diana)—are intended to convey a postcolonial terrain replete with earthquakes, fi ssures, and instabilities. In the world of the text, this duo represents idealized artists loosed from “religion, language, prejudices, demeanours, the works.” 2 And music (read: all art), with its capacity to fl y by restrictions and borders, offers the only really solid ground beneath our feet
LawPod: Making the world strange and more with Prof Reuben Miller
No full textIn this thought-provoking podcast, Professor Shadd Maruna and Dr Teresa Degenhart welcome Professor Reuben Miller, author of the ground-breaking book “Halfway Home”, to discuss the complexities of re-entry from prison to communities in the United States. Prof Miller, an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School and a 2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, delves into the historical intersection between race and criminal justice that underpins the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated individuals.“Halfway Home” explores the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail, shedding light on the harsh reality that life after incarceration is its own form of prison.Throughout the podcast, Prof. Miller discusses the influence of prominent figures like James Baldwin and Nina Simone on his work, and integrates a diverse range of sources, including criminological writing, music, and literature, to provide a holistic understanding of the issues at hand. He emphasises the importance of incorporating lived experiences into research and addresses the ongoing debate around including personal perspectives in academic work.Join us as we delve into the poignant and eye-opening world of “Halfway Home” and explore how the American justice system perpetuates a cycle of impoverishment, instability, and disenfranchisement for millions of citizens long after they’ve paid their debt to society. This engaging conversation challenges listeners to confront the costs that the carceral system imposes on individuals, communities, and democracy itself, and encourages us to recognise the value and dignity of the lives of formerly imprisoned citizens
LawPod: Making the world strange and more with Prof Reuben Miller
No full textIn this thought-provoking podcast, Professor Shadd Maruna and Dr Teresa Degenhart welcome Professor Reuben Miller, author of the ground-breaking book “Halfway Home”, to discuss the complexities of re-entry from prison to communities in the United States. Prof Miller, an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School and a 2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, delves into the historical intersection between race and criminal justice that underpins the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated individuals.“Halfway Home” explores the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail, shedding light on the harsh reality that life after incarceration is its own form of prison.Throughout the podcast, Prof. Miller discusses the influence of prominent figures like James Baldwin and Nina Simone on his work, and integrates a diverse range of sources, including criminological writing, music, and literature, to provide a holistic understanding of the issues at hand. He emphasises the importance of incorporating lived experiences into research and addresses the ongoing debate around including personal perspectives in academic work.Join us as we delve into the poignant and eye-opening world of “Halfway Home” and explore how the American justice system perpetuates a cycle of impoverishment, instability, and disenfranchisement for millions of citizens long after they’ve paid their debt to society. This engaging conversation challenges listeners to confront the costs that the carceral system imposes on individuals, communities, and democracy itself, and encourages us to recognise the value and dignity of the lives of formerly imprisoned citizens
Rhythm and Blues protest songs: voices of resistance, 2007
No full textThis study was an investigation of seven selected rhythm and blues black protest songs, from 1964 to 1975, and their relationship to black empowerment during the era of the Black Power Movement. The songs were analyzed using content analysis and revealed three expected themes of self/black identity, racial equity and self-determination. A fourth theme, social change, evolved during the study. The study focused on the political, cultural and economic ramifications, especially of black music, as a form of protest against a system that proved to be one of inequality, and prejudicial segregation in every aspect of the black life. The rhythm and Blues black protest songs were seen as efforts to empower the black community to take responsibility for its own survival. Of the seven artists who participated in the Black Power Movement, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke were the most prolific musical contributors to the protest movement of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in its efforts to deal with segregation. The four musicians wrote and performed music that was geared specially for transformations in social justice and to engage the American society, both black and white people, in substantial and lasting social change. The music of the other artists was instrumental in bringing Rhythm and Blues into a revolution. The musical revolutionaries were James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder. The analysis, however, did not reveal whether or not the rhythm and blues black protest songs contributed to or led to black empowerment during the Civil Rights Black Power era
