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Narrating the Deaths of Drona and Bhurisravas at the Baphuon
No full textLy Boreth J. Narrating the Deaths of Drona and Bhurisravas at the Baphuon. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 58, 2003. pp. 134-137
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Regimes of Femininity: Representations of Javanese Women in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
Get PDFA plethora of writings have already established the role masculinity plays in Javanese culture and the effects of colonialism in defining maleness. However, less thoroughly considered is the topic of the feminine in the Javanese context. Local understanding of women's visual representations remains under-theorized, especially vis-a-vis changes in the light of Islamization. My dissertation, “Regimes of Femininity,” Investigates how gender and religious ideologies are represented or made manifest through historical portraits, contemporary arts, and visual culture. Moreover, my project especially probes how visual representations of Javanese Muslim women have changed through an analysis of portraits and elite culture during the late colonial period (1880-1945) and art and performance in the present day. As a point of departure, my study begins with an in-depth look at a portrait of a royal woman from the Islamic Central Javanese courts during the late colonial period. I then compare these representations with contemporary art created by Ipeh Nur and Dian Suci Rahmawati, two Javanese Muslim artists. I argue that a comprehensive comparative analysis of portraits and contemporary art will explain how Javanese images of the feminine reflect notions of gender, power, and religion.
Additionally, I make connections between the court portraits, contemporary art, and hair. The concept of hair as a cultural signifier is an additional and significant site of analysis in my project. In portraits from the colonial era, women wear their hair in a sanggul (traditional Javanese bun hairstyle). I analyze the sanggul, its relationship to femininity and traditions, and how the contemporary prevalence of veiling (wearing hijabs, called jilbab in Indonesia) opposed to this formerly popular hairstyle is a rejection of Javanese traditions in favor of a more modern, and therefore more Middle Eastern, Muslim identity.
Because my project focuses on representations of feminine identity in relation to visual culture and changing religious ideals, it contributes not only to scholarly discourse on Islamic art, Southeast Asian art, and gender studies in Indonesia but also to expanding insights into the vast diversity of Muslim identities
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Of Being In-Between: Reconfiguring the Asian American Body as Site/Sight of (In)Difference
Get PDFRacial discourse in the United States has arguably been defined by the prevailing racial binary of Black and white. As Claire Jean Kim insightfully argues in her 1999 article, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” Asians in the United States occupy the in-between, cast as perpetual foreigners and excluded from the belonging offered by citizenship. Since its inception in 1968, one of the major political and pedagogical interventions in Asian American and Ethnic Studies is fighting for inclusion, citizenship, and belonging. In the subsequent decades after the passage of the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, Asian immigrants poured into the country. Importantly, the international 1967 Protocol protected the waves of Southeast Asian refugees entering the United States. The changing demographic complicated the racial identity of Asian Americans, a point made in Sau-Ling Wong’s 1995 article, “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads.” Still, the difference that defines Asian American ethnic identity and cultural experiences in the post-1965 era has rarely been critically considered as holding potential for a radical ethnic coalition. My dissertation, Of Being In-Between: Reconfiguring the Asian American Body as Site/Sight of (In)Difference, considers the contradictions of Asian American racial identity by looking closely at art projects created by contemporary Asian American artists whose connection to a singular ethnic identity is nebulous at best. By investigating the works of established multi-disciplinary artists Allan deSouza, Binh Danh, Laurel Nakadate, Ali Wong, Hasan Minhaj, and Christine Sun Kim, this dissertation considers how they challenge stereotypes of their respective racially-marked bodies as sights/sites of resistance, subversion, and contestation. Yet, their works do not exhibit a crisis of belonging and citizenship. Instead, their bodies reconfigure identity politics by navigating the racial ideology that structures their lived experiences. Through the interdisciplinary lens of what cultural studies scholar Ien Ang calls “togetherness-in-difference,” I argue that the works of these artists offer a window into how the Asian American body, in its varying phenotypes, negotiate the politics of race and representation within the ideological spaces that their bodies occupy. The disidentification of Asian American bodies from a uniform Asian American identity reveal the mutability of their attendant stereotypes. The artists considered in this dissertation work toward the de-normalization of Asian Americanness, a disruption that paradoxically insists on an Asian American identity, but in difference
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Counter-Productivity as Resistance: Contemporary Art of the Filipino Labor Diaspora
Get PDFSince 1974, the Philippine government has sought to uplift the nation’s economy by institutionalizing an economic and immigration policy that capitalizes on the remittances of 10.2 million overseas Filipino workers of which 59.6% are women. To continue profiting from Filipino laborers, the Philippine government produces gendered representations of Filipinos as ideal laboring bodies that are circulated internationally to potential employers. My project illuminates the ways female contemporary artists respond to the production and circulation of these state representations. I argue that contemporary Filipina artists living in the diaspora – including Martha Atienza, Xyza Bacani, Lizza May David, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, and Jenifer Wofford – employ what I call “counter-production,” an artistic practice that represents the fragmented and gendered experiences of labor displacement, critiques official nationalisms, and reconstructs worker subjectivities. By portraying laborers in non-capitalizable, non-laboring moments – such as instances of respite, boredom, and leisure – contemporary female artists counter representations of workers that secure the primacy of the Philippine nation-state to control Filipino laborers.
Studies on the globalization of Filipino labor have relied on ethnographic or sociological methods of analysis. “Counter-Productivity as Resistance” expands the fields of Filipino art history, diaspora studies, and Filipino labor studies by being the first to use visual culture methods and diaspora studies approaches to explore contemporary art by women made after Martial Law, a period in which labor migration flourished in the Philippines. I seek to offer a new angle of vision by showing how artists depict the day-to-day minutiae of living in the diaspora through creative and representational modes of expression such as illustration, film, installation, painting, and photography. Artistic representations of the mundane are often overlooked by scholars of Filipino labor migration, yet such representations counter national narratives on overseas Filipino workers and forge new possibilities of living within global capitalism
Mnemotechnical Politics: Rithy Panh’s Cinematic Archive and the Return of Cambodia’s Past
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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