Authenticity

A FEMINIST TAOIST VOICE PART 1: MY DIALOGUE WITH ELISA FON, ACUPUNCTURIST, TAOIST, FEMINIST AND FRIEND by Sara Frykenberg

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

“So it all kind of depends… even in men compared to men, and women compared to women, you would have to have a... more “So it all kind of depends… even in men compared to men, and women compared to women, you would have to have a counterpart to judge something as yin or yang—you are never statically just yin or just yang…”

Elisa Fon is a student of acupuncture, graduating this semester from Yo San University in Santa Monica, CA.  She also studies reiki, energy healing, meditation and yoga.  Elisa and I have known each other for most of our lives as friends, as one another’s support and as chosen family.  Over the last few years, however, we have more consciously fostered an intentional aspect of our intimacy: a challenge to each other to live more authentically, to walk counter-abusively and to live towards physical, spiritual and emotional empowerment.  One privilege of this relationship has been the opportunity to create a language together in order to speak across our differences and share our respective passions: feminist theo/alogies (mine) and Chinese medicine/ healing arts (Elisa’s).

Hoi An Protocols for Best Conservation Practice in Asia

by Ayesha Pamela Rogers

Dead Poets’ Society: Teaching, Publish-or-Perish,

by Phillip Vannini

Published in Symbolic interaction, 2006

Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally
suffered from lack of... more Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally
suffered from lack of definitional clarity. In this article, after conceptualizing
authenticity as the phenomenological emotional experience
of feeling true to one’s self, the author empirically examines the diversity
of emotions associated with various degrees of authenticity and inauthenticity.
Data for this study are from semi-structured in-depth interviews
with forty-six faculty members employed at a public research
university in the United States. Professors’ experiences of and dispositions
toward teaching, and their experiences of authenticity and inauthenticity,
are examined against the background of structural and cultural
forces and changes in American higher education. Data interpretation
shows that teaching is mostly a source of authenticity for professors in the
humanities, and less for those professors who identify themselves primarily
as researchers.

Visual identity and Indigenous tourism: power, authenticity, hybridity and the Osoyoos Indian Band's Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

by Katie Bresner

Masters Thesis

The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction... more The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction in order to effectively market its product. In the case of Indigenous tourism, a paradox often exists between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirror the expectations of the public imagination, and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic. Investigation into the visual representation and communication of identity through tourism is a means to illustrate three overlapping issues that are prevalent throughout the literature on Indigenous tourism. These are: control, authenticity, and hybridity. This research project addresses these issues through an extensive review of anthropological and tourism-related literature and its application to the specific case study of one Indigenous tourism business, the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre (NDCC), owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) in Osoyoos, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Semiotic and visual analyses are used to elucidate the messages about OIB identity communicated through the Centre’s visuals, in order to bring the example of the OIB and NDCC into conversation with the larger issues found within Indigenous tourism.

The Authenticity of Self: Conceptualization, Personal Experience, and Practice

by Alexis Franzese

Whose Day Is It Anyway? St. Patrick's Day as a Contested Performance of National and Diasporic Irishness

by Marc Scully

One of the more intriguing aspects of St. Patrick's Day celebrations as a nationalised ritual of a performed... more One of the more intriguing aspects of St. Patrick's Day celebrations as a nationalised ritual of a performed Irishness, both within and outside Ireland, is the extent to which it represents a dialogue between territorialised and diasporic expressions of Irish identity, and claims of belonging to Irishness. St. Patrick's Day celebrations in English cities are a particularly intriguing example of this contestation, due to the proximity of the two countries and the historical structural and cultural constraints on the public performance of Irish identity in England, as well as their more recent reinvention within celebratory multiculturalism. This article examines how debates around the authenticity of St. Patrick's Day parades in English cities are employed in the identity work of individual Irish people. In doing so, it provides insight on the tensions between Irishness as transnational, diasporic, and ethnic, as experienced in England.

“A Rage for Authenticity: Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing, Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, and the Quest for Pure Hybridity.”

by Ruth Mayer

Published in: The Pathos of Authenticity. American Passions of the Real. Ed. Andrew Gross, Ulla Haselstein, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010, 163-178

This paper explores the dialectics of authenticity and hybridity – two concepts that tend to be theoretically... more This paper explores the dialectics of authenticity and hybridity – two concepts that tend to be theoretically conceived in terms of mutual exclusion, while fictional texts have for quite some time started to enact them as analogous and compatible ideas. With respect to two recent novels, Richard Powers' The Time of Our Singing and Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude, I would like to show that hybridity these days can very well be employed to elicit an aura of authenticity, rather than conveying ironical distance, subversion or disruptive metafictional self-reflection.
Both novels stem from the realm of what has been called neo-realist fiction and both of them run counter to Jonathan Franzen's diagnosis of a contemporary literary market in which a naïve understanding of cultural identity rules supreme. After all, Powers and Lethem are white authors which capitalize on the subject of race. While both novels trace issues of identity and identification which have their origin in the structures of racial ascriptions and self-fashionings, they give a markedly new and critical slant to the mechanisms of testimonial identity politics which Franzen demarcated, without falling back on long-standing postmodern techniques of ironic distancing and de-authentication.

"Intent to Mislead: W.G. Sebald's Notion of Authenticity." Authentisches Erzählen. Produktion, Narration und Rezeption eines Zuschreibungsphänomens. Ed. Antonius Weixler. DeGruyter, forthcoming. 93-108.

by Michael Hutchins

Though Sebald's academic and essayistic writings reveal his intense interest in authenticity, his own literary... more Though Sebald's academic and essayistic writings reveal his intense interest in authenticity, his own literary practice undermines reliability at every stage, placing in question the authenticity of his imaginative works. This essay explores the notion that Sebald's understanding of authenticity is at odds with many contemporary narratological explanations of the term and invites theoretical expansion to account for the phenonmenon of authentication by means of an obvious lie.

Steampunk's Legacy: Collecting and exhibiting the future of yesterday

by Jeanette Atkinson

Forthcoming (2012) in Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology, Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia Miller and Ken Dvorak (eds).  Lanham: Scarecrow Press

In creating a striking visual and material culture, set within an alternative historical timeline, steampunks are... more In creating a striking visual and material culture, set within an alternative historical timeline, steampunks are challenging traditional representations of history and what constitutes “authentic” heritage. This, potentially, contests the curatorial voice within Western museums. This chapter engages with these challenges through examining recent exhibitions of steampunk art and material culture and encounters between curators and steampunks, with the aim of furthering the understanding of the power relations between museums and counter-communities such as steampunks.

Authentication: Hot and cool

by Scott Cohen

Cohen, E. and Cohen, S.A. (2012) Authentication: Hot and cool. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(3), 1295-1314. DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2012.03.004

Seeking to shift the discussion of the concept of authenticity in tourism scholarship from the dominant concern with... more Seeking to shift the discussion of the concept of authenticity in tourism scholarship from the dominant concern with tourist experiences to the more sociological problem of the processes of authentication of tourist attractions, we conceptualize two analytically distinct, but practically often intersecting, modes of authentication of attractions, “cool” and “hot”. Through a range of examples, we demonstrate the implications of the two modes for the dynamics of the constitution of tourist attractions, examine their interaction, and illustrate how "cool" and "hot" authentication can be conducive to different types of personal experiences of authenticity. We furthermore explore the crucial question of who is authorized to authenticate tourist attractions, and thereby uncover issues of power and contestation in the politics of authentication.

Keywords: authentication; authenticity; performativity; power; tourist attractions

Virtually Real: Fake Religions and Problems of Authenticity in Religion

by Thomas Colquhoun-Alberts

Culture and Religion 9(2): 125-39

Authenticity: Further theoretical and practical development

by Hugh Gundlach

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The purpose of this study is to extend the understanding of the marketing concept of authenticity. This paper answers... more The purpose of this study is to extend the understanding of the marketing concept of authenticity. This paper answers the call for more empirical consumer based research on authenticity, tests the transferability and comprehensiveness of existing factors of authenticity and proposes an alternative framework. Consumers’ perceptions of the authenticity of beer were collected in open-ended, qualitative interviews. Previous models of the attributes of authenticity discovered in research on the relatively less generalisable product markets of the ultra-premium wine industry and in tourist crafts, did not adequately explain the authenticity of beer. Our findings therefore lead to a more generalizable framework of authenticity factors than these previous models. Alternative driving factors and their attributes are proposed including the previously unidentified attribute of exclusivity. An initial conceptual model of how these factors may interrelate to affect authenticity perceptions is then presented.

Is that girl a monster? Some notes on authenticity and artistic value in Lady Gaga

by Simone Varriale

2012. Celebrity Studies, April-May (forthcoming)

Attachment, authenticity, and honesty: Dispositional and experimentally induced security can reduce self- and other-deception.

by Omri Gillath

DEATH OF A SELF: TRUE DIALOGUE AND AUTHENTIC EXISTENCE

by Seamus Mulryan

Paper presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. New College, Oxford University.

Vos, P. (2011). What is ‘Authentic’ in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematical Modelling?

by Pauline Vos

In G. Kaiser, W. Blum, R. Borromeo Ferri, & G. Stillman (Eds.), Trends in teaching and learning of mathematical modelling (pp. xxx-xxx). New York: Springer.

Authenticity in Early Music.

by Lou Aimes-Hill

Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from China

by Piia Varis

Varis, P. & Wang, X. 2011. Superdiversity on the Internet: A case from China. Diversities Special Issue on Language and Superdiversities 13 (2), 71-83. Eds. Jan Blommaert, Ben Rampton & Massimiliano Spotti.

Going tourist. Tourism and translation of local cultures

by Rita Salvatore

proceeding of International Conference of Territorial Intelligence: Territorial intelligence and culture of development, Salerno 2009

Allison, P. (2000). Authenticity and outdoor education. In P. Barnes (Ed.), Values and outdoor learning (pp. 43–49). Penrith: AfOL.

by Pete Allison