Hybridity

Simbología de lo femenino en las representaciones de híbridos en mosaicos romanos de España y Portugal

by Cátia Mourão

Published in Luz NEIRA (coord. e ed.). Representaciones de mujeres en los mosaicos romanos y su impacto en el imaginario de estereotipos femeninos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Creaciones Vincent Gabrielle, Madrid, 2011, pp. 207-224.

Is there a cannibal in organization studies? (Recipe included)

by Janet L. Borgerson

Co-authored with Alf Rehn. Published in Culture and Organization. Recipe compliments of Daniel Miller

A love letter to the Other: Xenophily and radical politics

by Marco Cuevas-Hewitt

Forthcoming. Draft available for viewing.

Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured,... more Opening paragraphs:

"What better way to get myself in the mood to write an essay on love, I figured, than to listen to some of my favourite love songs? The smooth and sensual vocals of Cody Chestnutt’s ‘No One Will’ seem to be doing the trick right now. However, my wish here is not to write of romantic love (at least not exclusively), but of love in a political and ethical, though I would hope no less erotic, sense.

I begin by posing the question of love in relation to the under-examined concept of community. Beyond the ‘community of two’ that is the romantic couple or pair of friends are communities of interest, political persuasion, class, gender, culture, nation, and so on. Implicit in each kind of self-identified community are particular values concerning who it is admissible to associate with, to become friends with, to love.

‘Some of them might be nice people’, conceded the xenophobe to her more immigrant-friendly colleague one evening on my television screen, ‘but it’s not as if I’m going to become friends with them. That’s not how the world works’.

It is scarcely questioned that we should so often be drawn to people in whom we find something of ourselves. Communities have become a veritable extension of the self. Love, meanwhile, becomes reduced to the love of Same."

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.

A STEREOSCOPIC UNIVERSE OR TOUCH OF THE MIND

by Sabrina Dalla Valle

Book Review of Schizophrene by Bhanu Kapil
currently published in the New York Quarterly (april 2012)

Mixed Marriages and Transnational Families in the Intercultural Context

by Dan Rodríguez-García

Rodríguez García, D. (2006) “Mixed Marriages and Transnational Families in the Intercultural Context: A Case Study of African-Spanish Couples in Catalonia, Spain”. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(3): 403-433. (Award of Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences, UAB 2009: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/sociologyandsocialpolicy_ethidemig~db=all)

One of the consequences of international migration and the permanent settlement of immigrants in southern EU countries... more One of the consequences of international migration and the permanent settlement of immigrants in southern EU countries is the growing number of inter-country marriages and the formation of transnational families. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, this article examines patterns of endogamy and exogamy (i.e., marriage within/outside a particular group or category) among African immigrants in Catalonia, focusing on bi-national Senegalese– and Gambian–Spanish couples. Socio-demographic profiles, transnationality, the dynamics of cultural change or retention, and the formation of transcultural identities are explored. The evidence presented suggests that social-class factors are more important than cultural origins in patterns of endogamy and exogamy, in the dynamics of living together and in the bringing-up of children of mixed unions. Such a conclusion negates culturalists’ explanations of endogamy and exogamy while, at the same time, emphasising the role of social actors as active subjects in these processes. I further argue that mixed couples and their offspring deal—to a greater or lesser extent—with multiple localisations and cultural backgrounds (i.e. here and there), rather than experiencing a ‘clash between two cultures’. Therefore, it would be a mistake to pretend that multicultural links do not exist and that they cannot be revitalised and functional. The paper starts and ends by addressing the complexities of processes of interculturalism, resisting an interpretation of hybridity and segregation as contradictory or exclusive realities.

The Journal Intime: From Document to Literary Œuvre in André Gide’s Hybrid Works

by Sam Ferguson

Paper given at European Science Foundation conference on 'First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading', Birkbeck, University of London, 1-3 December 2011.

The journal intime developed as a written form in France alongside the tradition of autobiography which emerged from... more The journal intime developed as a written form in France alongside the tradition of autobiography which emerged from Rousseau’s Confessions; but the journal intime as a form that is published and read has a history of its own. It changed from being read in the 1880s principally as a source of documentary evidence to being acknowledged as a literary genre in 1939 upon the publication of André Gide’s Journal 1889-1939, the first work by a living author to be included in Gallimard’s prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. I propose that, just as for autobiography, the history of the journal intime’s accession to the status of literature involves fictional and hybrid forms as well as its ‘real’ form. Three works by Gide, each combining elements of fiction and non-fiction in innovative forms, contributed to this process: Les Cahiers d’André Walter [The Notebooks of André Walter, 1891], Paludes [Swamps, 1895] and Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs [Journal of the Counterfeiters, [1926]. The works foreground different possibilities of the journal intime and bring together different ways of reading, sometimes in conflict, often creating unexpected harmonies. These examples invite discussion of the tension between documentary and literary uses of other types of first-person writing, and of the exchange between their real and fictional forms.

“Syncretism Made Concrete: The Case for a Hybrid Moreote Architecture in Post-Fourth Crusade Greece,” in Archaeology in Architecture: Papers in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, edited by Deborah Deliyannis and Judson Emerick. Mainz: Ph. von Zabern, 2005, 65-73.

by Heather Grossman

What hybridity stammers to say: Becoming other than oneself in Hanif Kureshi's 'My Son the Fanatic'

by Aparna Mishra Tarc

The intensification of cultural global flows and contacts has precipitated the acknowledgment, and to some degree the... more The intensification of cultural global flows and contacts has precipitated the acknowledgment, and to some degree the acceptance, of hybridity as a social fact. Acknowledging hybridity’s possibilities for new social and cultural formations we insert our analysis in the potentially destructive psychosocial process of becoming hybrid constitutive of cultural productions and human relations. Turning to Hanif Kureishi’s “My Son the Fanatic”, we read the inner conflicts confronting diasporic communities struggling to negotiate hybrid identities. The insights arising from our micro literary analysis are set upon the present global social scene where we suggest that literature and practices of close reading can possibly support various collectives coming to terms with the unspoken and potentia

Literacy and Choice: Urban Elementary Students’ Perceptions of Links Between Home, School, and Community Literacy Practices

by Jodene Morrell

Chapter in the book, " Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language, Literacy, Social Practice, and Power" (Ed. Victoria Purcell Gates)

This chapter discusses the types of literacy events that occur in home, community and school as well as the... more This chapter discusses the types of literacy events that occur in home, community and school as well as the connections and disconnects between these three locations for nine fifth grade students in a low achieving, urban elementary school. Under the guidance of the researcher, who volunteered in an after school program, the students became ethnographic researchers of their own literacy practices and used this new knowledge to create social action projects. Data was collected during weekly meetings, informal discussion during recess and after school, and formal interviews during scheduled times. The participants, who called themselves “university researchers”, contributed data to the study with photographs of text found in their homes, communities and schools, research notes, and artifacts. Through extensive conversation with the students and analysis of data, it was evident that the participants engaged in abundant reading and writing in their personal lives in a variety of domains, including church, “playing school”, shopping for food and clothing, and consuming and producing their own text.  The paper begins with Dewey’s (1902) discussion of the disconnect between the child and curriculum, progresses through an in depth discussion of the various literacy practices of the participants in their homes, school and communities, and concludes with a discussion of current research arguing that students engage in rich literacy lives outside of school (Barton and Hamilton, 1998; Taylor and Dorsey-Gaines, 1988; Purcell-Gates, 1996) to which this research may be added.

“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.

Colonization in western Sicily: the indigenous response though skyphoi analysis.

by Michael Kolb

2011. Colonization in western Sicily: the indigenous response though skyphoi analysis. (L. Bratton, M. J. Kolb). In: SOMA 2009: Proceedings of the XIII Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Konya, Turkey, 23-24 April 2009.British Archaeological Reports, Archaeopress.

Loomweights as Material Culture Indicators: A Western Sicilian Case Study.

by Michael Kolb

2009. Loomweights as Material Culture Indicators: A Western Sicilian Case Study. (W. M. Balco and M . J. Kolb). In: SOMA 2008: Proceedings of the XII Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Famagusta, North Cyprus, 5-8 March 2008. British Archaeological Reports 1909, Archaeopress, pp. 177-182.

Neolithic Cultural Hybridity: Social Entanglements and the Development of Hybrid Culture in the Western Mediterranean

by Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology

William M. Balco, published in Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 1(1) 2009 pp. 1-16.

With the advent and spread of food production technology, Mediterranean populations altered their lifeways,... more With the advent and spread of food production technology, Mediterranean populations altered their lifeways, individually adapting to local environments in order to best accommodate the cultigens they would come to rely upon. The subsequent changes in subsistence patterns, domestic architecture, and economic systems characterize the archaeologically recognized transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic culture among indigenous populations. Various explanations accounting for the dispersal and adoption of food production technologies have been posited, including demic diffusion. The purpose of this paper is not to support or negate the demic diffusion model accounting for the spread of agriculture technology, but rather to examine Sicilian and Southern Italian Mesolithic and Neolithic culture via postcolonial theoretical models. Variation in domestic architecture, the adoption of domesticates and the shift to pastoralism all provide evidence supporting the development of Neolithic hybrid cultural entanglements based on elements of Mesolithic lifeways.

● "When Hercule Poirot Met Japanese Animation: An Exploration of the 2004 Series

by Serena Formica

Presented at the 2012 SCMS conference in Boston, MA

2004 Japanese anime: A low angle shot presents a young girl against a blue sky background; the girl begins to dance... more 2004 Japanese anime: A low angle shot presents a young girl against a blue sky background; the girl begins to dance and ‘the camera’ closes up on her smiling face. A song invites the viewer to sing along... given such opening our viewer may expect the beginning of a “sohjo” (young girl) anime. However a more attentive viewer may have already observed the apparent incongruity of the superimposed title “No Meitantei Poirot to Marple”. Indeed, the following shot introduces a car approaching from the distance. The rear window opens, and the unmistakable moustached profile of Hercule Poirot appears!

This paper investigates the representation of Agatha Christie’s character in the series, and in particular how Poirot functions as a transnational character. Does the anime succeed in transferring Poirot to a different context? What are the ways in which the character of Poirot is made accessible to a young female Japanese audience? Is he made Japanese or is the anime ‘westernised’? In order to answer these questions, the paper analyses the series in the context of the “shojo” genre, and examines its representation of Poirot with references to the long lasting British ITV Series 'Agatha Christie’s Poirot'.

Intersectionality Queer Studies and Hybridity: Methodological Frameworks for Social Research

by Aristea Fotopoulou

Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol 13, #2, March 2012

http://www.bridgew.edu/soas/jiws/Vol13_no2/

This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining... more This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality is the systematic study of the ways in which differences such as race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and other sociopolitical and cultural identities interrelate. Queer theory, when applied as a distinct methodological approach to the study of gender and sexuality, has sought to denaturalise categories of analysis and make normativity visible. By examining existing research projects framed as 'queer' alongside ones that use intersectionality, I consider the importance of positionality in research accounts. I revisit Judith Halberstam's (1998) 'Female Masculinity' and Gloria Anzaldua's (1987) 'Borderlands' and discuss the tension between the act of naming and the critical strategical adoption of categorical thinking. Finally, I suggest hybridity as one possible complementary methodological approach to those of intersectionality and queer studies. Hybridity can facilitate an understanding of shifting textual and material borders and can operate as a creative and political mode of destabilising not only complex social locations, but also research frameworks.
Keywords: intersectionality, hybridity, queer studies

“Algunos apuntes acerca de la cuestión de la ‘hibridez’ y de la ‘dignidad’ de las lenguas iberorrománicas”

by Johannes Kabatek

in: Yolanda Congosto Martín / Elena Méndez García de Paredes (eds.), Variación lingüística y contacto de lenguas en el mundo hispánico. In memoriam Manuel Alvar, Madrid: Iberoamericana 2011, 271-289.

[2003] Jah People: The Cultural Hybridity of White Rastafarians

by Michael Loadenthal

[This was completed as my first undergraduate independent research in 2003. I am uploading it not because I think it is amazing scholarship, but rather to fit within the other two Rastafarian-themed papers already added.]

Cultural hybridity, the idea that all cultures are composed of elements and influences of other cultures, can be... more Cultural hybridity, the idea that all cultures are composed of elements and influences of other cultures, can be clearly seen in white Rastas’ defiance towards traditional racial roles. While we hold Rastafarian culture in one hand, and white culture in the other, we can clearly see two distinct cultures. But what happens when a white person interacts with a culture that is not their norm? How has Rastafarian thought evolved as to allow whites a role in their movement? What does a culture of white Rastafarians look and feel like? Throughout this study these questions will be explored, and it will be argued that the creation of a white, Rastafarian, hybrid culture was made possible through globalization, the deterritorialization of Rastafari and an inherent fluidity found in Rastafari. Gradually changing views on race, aided by the turbulent political atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s allowed for whites to become active members in this historically black movement.

Hybridity, pt. 2: What is Hybrid Pedagogy?

by Jesse Stommel

published on Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal on Teaching & Technology, 2012

My hypothesis is that all learning is necessarily hybrid. In classroom-based pedagogy, it is important to engage the... more My hypothesis is that all learning is necessarily hybrid. In classroom-based pedagogy, it is important to engage the digital selves of our students. And, in online pedagogy, it is equally important to engage their physical selves. With digital pedagogy and online education, our challenge is not to merely replace (or offer substitutes for) face-to-face instruction, but to find new and innovative ways to engage students in the practice of learning. Hybrid pedagogy does not just describe an easy mixing of on-ground and online learning, but is about bringing the sorts of learning that happen in a physical place and the sorts of learning that happen in a virtual place into a more engaged and dynamic conversation.

‘Walsers hybrides Subjekt. Zur dramatischen Szene Die Chinesin/Der Chinese’

by Valerie Heffernan

in: Robert Walsers 'Ferne Nähe': Neue Beiträge zur Forschung, ed. by Wolfram Groddeck, Reto Sorg, Peter Utz and Karl Wagner, (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), pp.237–242.