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Paradoxes of Belonging: Migration, exclusion and transnational rights in the Mediterranean
No full textRodanthi Tzanelli and Majid Yar examine Mediterranean and wider European policies on migration in light of their exclusionary and discriminatory tendencies. The current rhetoric and exclusionary practices are cementing of profoundly differentiated rights to live, work and belong. They argue that the outsider status of migrants from the global East and South is reproduced in Europe through a range of patriarchal, racialized and nationalist cultural discourses that strip away rights and consign migrants to political, social and economic marginality.
Slum Tourism: A Review of State-of-the-Art Scholarship
No full textIn this review article, Rodanthi Tzanelli notes that (today) “slum,” “favela,” or “township” tourism (i.e., visitations to urban sites of squalor and poverty for leisure, education, or philanthropy) has evolved into a mobility trend worthy of dedicated study by tourism scholars. She signposts relevant contemporary studies and arguments on the subject by focusing upon the ways in which slum tourist “motivations” are structured socially and culturally at transcultural, international levels and not just as localized or individualized preferences. As a result, this review article taps into issues of capitalist demand and supply of exotic poverty and otherness. Tzanelli’s aim is to highlight the social scientific traditions on which present dominant arguments on tourism supply and motivation are constructed, so as to shed light on the underlying norms and values by which the overall study area is informed. To this end, she discusses how different analytical modes connect to specific “gazes” or styles of study of slum tourism, which are by turn informed by particular epistemological frameworks. In her view, such epistemologies produce different versions of reality about slums that circulate in intellectual and policy networks
ERT’s shutdown, social amnesia, and communicative entitlements
Full text linkThe Greek government’s decision to close ERT has been criticised in various activist channels as anti-democratic or even irrational. Yet these activists and opponents of the ERT decision are held together only by thin strands and, in truth, represent heterogenous and conflicting interests and agendas
Avatar's 'Development' Predicament
Full text linkThe globally-acclaimed film looks back to the past from a futuristic standpoint to simulate an archetypal moral tale of developmental inequality. Is that a good thing
Ceremonier och symboler: OS i London 2012 [Elektronisk resurs] : recension av boken Olympic Ceremonialism and the Performance of National Character av Rodanthi Tzanelli
No full textCeremonierna, har det sagts, håller på att ta över de olympiska spelen! Nåja, det är kanske något överdrivet, men det är förvisso sant att framför allt öppningsceremonierna men också avslutningsceremonierna sedan Moskvaspelen 1980 blivit alltmer av ett underhållningsspektakel. Redan i de antika spelen var emellertid ceremonierna viktiga så det är knappast ett modernt påfund, och dagens olika ceremoniella beståndsdelar fastslogs redan i samband med sommarspelen i Antwerpen 1920. Spår av de antika spelens ceremoniel syns för övrigt i de moderna spelens ceremonier, mest notabelt är olika kopplingar till spelens grekiska ursprung. Det är med andra ord läge för en uttömmande studie av de olympiska öppnings- och avslutningsceremoniernas kulturella och identitetsmässiga signifikans, inom och utanför idrotten. Och kanske tänkte Björn Sandahl att det var det som bjöds när han öppnade kuvertet från idrottsforum.org och drog fram boken med titeln Olympic Ceremonialism and the Performance of National Character: From London 2012 to Rio 2016 (Palgrave Macmillan). Men författaren, kultursociologiprofessorn Rodanthi Tzanelli vid University of Leeds, är av allt att döma ganska långt ifrån att uppfylla den förhoppningen. Det är inte så att hennes bok är dålig, menar vår recensent, tvärtom; analyserna är klarsynta, logiska och relevanta och boken kan varmt rekommenderas. Men perspektivet är alldeles för för snävt. Och, allvarligast av allt, det femte och avslutande kapitlet saknas i boken.</p
Ceremonier och symboler: OS i London 2012 : recension av boken Olympic Ceremonialism and the Performance of National Character av Rodanthi Tzanelli
No full textCeremonierna, har det sagts, håller på att ta över de olympiska spelen! Nåja, det är kanske något överdrivet, men det är förvisso sant att framför allt öppningsceremonierna men också avslutningsceremonierna sedan Moskvaspelen 1980 blivit alltmer av ett underhållningsspektakel. Redan i de antika spelen var emellertid ceremonierna viktiga så det är knappast ett modernt påfund, och dagens olika ceremoniella beståndsdelar fastslogs redan i samband med sommarspelen i Antwerpen 1920. Spår av de antika spelens ceremoniel syns för övrigt i de moderna spelens ceremonier, mest notabelt är olika kopplingar till spelens grekiska ursprung. Det är med andra ord läge för en uttömmande studie av de olympiska öppnings- och avslutningsceremoniernas kulturella och identitetsmässiga signifikans, inom och utanför idrotten. Och kanske tänkte Björn Sandahl att det var det som bjöds när han öppnade kuvertet från idrottsforum.org och drog fram boken med titeln Olympic Ceremonialism and the Performance of National Character: From London 2012 to Rio 2016 (Palgrave Macmillan). Men författaren, kultursociologiprofessorn Rodanthi Tzanelli vid University of Leeds, är av allt att döma ganska långt ifrån att uppfylla den förhoppningen. Det är inte så att hennes bok är dålig, menar vår recensent, tvärtom; analyserna är klarsynta, logiska och relevanta och boken kan varmt rekommenderas. Men perspektivet är alldeles för för snävt. Och, allvarligast av allt, det femte och avslutande kapitlet saknas i boken
Paradoxes of Belonging: Migration, Exclusion and Trans-national Rights in the Mediterranean
No full textRodanthi Tzanelli and Majid Yar examine Mediterranean and wider European policies on migration in light of their exclusionary and discriminatory tendencies. The current rhetoric and exclusionary practices are cementing of profoundly differentiated rights to live, work and belong. They argue that the outsider status of migrants from the global East and South is reproduced in Europe through a range of patriarchal, racialized and nationalist cultural discourses that strip away rights and consign migrants to political, social and economic marginality
Magical Realist Sociologies of Belonging and Becoming: The Explorer
No full textAt the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature. On land, rational human interests dissolve this magic into prescriptive formulas of belonging to a profession, a nation and an acceptable modernity. The magical exploration is morphed by such multiple interventions successively from a pilgrimage, to a cinematic and digital articulation of an anarchic project, to an exercise in national citizenship and finally, a projection of post-imperial cosmopolitan belonging.
At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature. On land, rational human interests dissolve this magic into prescriptive formulas of belonging to a profession, a nation and an acceptable modernity. The magical exploration is morphed by such multiple interventions successively from a pilgrimage, to a cinematic and digital articulation of an anarchic project, to an exercise in national citizenship and finally, a projection of post-imperial cosmopolitan belonging.
This is the story of an embodied, relational and affective journey: the making of the explorer of worlds. At its heart stands a clash between individual and collective desires to belong, aspirations to create and the pragmatics of becoming recognised by others. The primary empirical context in which this is played is the contemporary margins of European modernity: the post-troika Greece. With the project of a freediving artist, who stages an Underwater Gallery outside the iconic island of Amorgos, as a sociological spyglass, it examines the networks of mobility that both individuals and nations have to enter to achieve international recognition, often at the expense of personal freedom and alternative pathways to modernity.
Inspired by fusions of cultural pragmatics, phenomenology, phanerology, the morphogenetic approach, feminist posthumanism and especially postcolonial theories of magical realism, this study examines interconnected variations of identity and subjectivity in contexts of contemporary mobility (digital and embodied travel/tourism). As a study of cultural emergism, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in critical theory, cultural, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and tourism/pilgrimage theory.Inspired by fusions of cultural pragmatics, phenomenology, phanerology, the morphogenetic approach, feminist posthumanism and especially postcolonial theories of magical realism, this study examines interconnected variations of identity and subjectivity in contexts of contemporary mobility (digital and embodied travel/tourism). As a study of cultural emergism, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in critical theory, cultural, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and tourism/pilgrimage theory
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