Identity (Culture)

A Identidade Líquida

by Rafael Gioielli

Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Univerdidade de São Paulo em 2005.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a dinâmica específica da identidade cultural na atualidade,... more O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a dinâmica específica da identidade cultural na atualidade, considerando-se a multiplicação das relações culturais que se estabelecem com a globalização, com o advento do ciberespaço e diante das indicações de superação da experiência metafísica da verdade universal que marcou a modernidade. A partir das relações que se estabelecem entre identidade e o contexto ampliado de sua significação procurou-se reconhecer os elementos peculiares de sua experiência em um passado ainda recente, a modernidade, e na atualidade, a contemporaneidade
dinâmica. A partir da problematização derivada da ação política dos novos movimentos sociais e dos estudos acerca do multiculturalismo, foi possível chegar à indicação de que a experiência da identidade no mundo contemporâneo é marcada por uma dinâmica líquida.

Una visión historiográfica alternativa: la deconstrucción del estereotipo del bárbaro prerromano / An Alternative Historiographical Vision: the Deconstruction of the Stereotype of Pre-Roman Barbarian

by Tomás Aguilera Durán

Antesteria. Debates de Historia Antigua nº 1, 2012, ISSN 2254-1683, pp. 543-555.

RESUMEN: Se propone una aproximación al estudio de los estereotipos culturales que rigen la imagen de los pueblos... more RESUMEN: Se propone una aproximación al estudio de los estereotipos culturales que rigen la imagen de los pueblos prerromanos de la Hispania céltica (belicosidad, bandidaje, primitivismo cultural...) desde un triple enfoque documental y metodológico: el análisis crítico de los textos clásicos demuestra que el origen de su imagen estereotipada se basa en
ciertos prejuicios filosóficos y etnográficos grecolatinos y el discurso legitimador de la conquista; el estudio de la historiografía moderna revela la pervivencia de algunos de estos tópicos antiguos, lo que condiciona de forma determinante la investigación sobre estas sociedades; la historia cultural, por último, ayuda a comprender la forma en que esos tópicos han trascendido el discurso académico, integrándose en el imaginario colectivo, desde el Renacimiento hasta la actualidad, a través del arte, la literatura o el discurso político, participando de la configuración ideológica de las identidades modernas. Recurriendo a ciertas realidades análogas del resto de Europa y con el caso hispano como principal referente, se defiende un proyecto de estudio conjunto y deconstructivo de esas tres dimensiones del estereotipo para comprender plenamente la forma en que se originan, se consolidan y proyectan tanto en los paradigmas historiográficos como en el imaginario popular.

ABSTRACT: We propose an approach to the research of the cultural stereotypes which determine the image of the pre-Roman peoples of Celtic Hispania (bellicosity, banditry,
cultural primitivism...) from a triple documental and methodological focus: the critic analysis of the classical texts shows that the origin of their stereotyped image is based on some philosophic and ethnographic prejudices and the legitimist discourse of conquest; modern historiography research reveals the survival of some of these topics, a fact that clearly determines the investigation of these societies; finally, the cultural history helps to understand the ways in which these topics have transcended the academic discourse to be integrated in the collective imagination, from Renaissance to the present, through art, literature or politic discourse, participating in the ideological configuration of modern identities. Using some analog realities of the rest of Europe and having the Hispanic case as the principal referent, we argue a project of global and deconstructive research of these three faces of the stereotype for a complete understanding of the way they were originated,
consolidated and projected both within historiographical paradigms and popular imagination.

Waking up Muslim on 9/11 by Jameelah Medina

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

I have often stated that I went to sleep as an African American woman on September 10, 2011 and woke up Muslim on... more I have often stated that I went to sleep as an African American woman on September 10, 2011 and woke up Muslim on 9/11. It may seem odd to say this since I am a third-generation Muslim; however, my reason for doing so is that my life as an American Muslim now has two main eras: 1) pre-9/11 and 2) post-9/11.

In the pre-9/11 era of my life, I felt more black than Muslim because my color was a point of conflict and controversy throughout my life. I grew up in two areas as a child—an urban area with majority Latinos/as and then in a very rural area with majority whites. In both areas, being black was not so popular. I was called “mayate,”which is a bug but also the Mexican term for “nigger.” I was also called, “tar baby,” “nigger,” “African booty scratcher,” and a host of other hurtful names as a young black child.

Gender and uneven working-class formation in the Irish linen industry

by Jane Gray

Gray, Jane. 1996. “Gender and Uneven Working Class Formation in the Irish Linen Industry.” Pp. 37-56 in L.L. Frader and S.O. Rose, eds. Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

This analysis of the cultural changes associated with class formation centers on the gendered meanings attached to the... more This analysis of the cultural changes associated with class formation centers on the gendered meanings attached to the consumption of beer and tea in the poems of "rhyming weavers" from the northeast of Ireland. These works, published by subscription during the first half of the nineteenth century, give unique clues to how ordinary people understood and represented the changes surrounding the transition to centralized production.

Gender and plebian culture in Ulster

by Jane Gray

Gray, Jane. 1993. “Gender and Plebian Culture in Ulster.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (Autumn): 251-270.

Colonial products, such as tea and tobacco, were still considered luxury items in Ireland at the end of the eighteenth... more Colonial products, such as tea and tobacco, were still considered luxury items in Ireland at the end of the eighteenth century, but their consumption by spinners and weavers of linen yarn and cloth increased from about 1780 onward. The changing cultural meanings that Irish linen producers attached to tea-drinking are explored in this article through an analysis of poems and songs written by weavers (and one spinner) around the turn of the nineteenth century. Conspicuous luxury commodity consumption formed part of a new, collective identity among rural industrial producers in Ireland and throughout Europe

Folk Poetry and Working Class Identity in Ulster: An Analysis of James Orr's 'The Penitent'.

by Jane Gray

Published in Journal of Historical Sociology, 6 (3). pp. 249-275.

This paper explores changing patterns of collective identity amongst rural industrial producers in the North of... more This paper explores changing patterns of collective identity amongst rural industrial producers in the North of Ireland through an extended analysis of a single poem, 'The Penitent,' written by the weaver-poet James Orr in 1800.

Sámi media: identity projects in a changing society

by Eli Skogerbø

A Besieged Tribe"?: Nostalgia, White Cultural Identity and the Role of Rugby in a changing South Africa

by John Nauright

Published in International Review for the Sociology of Sport (1996).

South African society has been in a state of tremendous changes in recent years. These changes have been seen by many... more South African society has been in a state of tremendous changes in recent years. These changes have been seen by many whites as a threat to their society and "way of life". South African rugby success through its national team, the Springboks, has been one of the most potent sites for the demonstration of white power and cultural identity. This paper explores actions of white rugby fans on South Africa's return to international rugby against their arch-rivals the New Zealand All Blacks in 1992 in the context of white cultural retreat into nostalgic representations of the past in resisting cultural assimilation within a black dominated new South Africa.

The technologies of normalization and self

by Marco Gemignani

Narratives of identity, home, and return of Kosovarian refugees: Steps toward a postmodern sense of agency

by Marco Gemignani

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Only connect: troubling oppositions in gender and mathematics

by Heather Mendick

Originally published in 2005 in the International Journal of Inclusive Education, 9(2), 161-180. (Reprinted in the online Philosophy of Mathematics Education journal)
In 2012 I read this in Jeanette Winterson's book 'Why be happy when you can be normal?' which expresses, more eloquently and succinctly, what I was trying to say in this paper:
"There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet of mystic, that is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't.
"When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say 'I think' we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell something not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead."

This paper focuses on the ways in which many researchers working in the area of gender and mathematics make sense of... more This paper focuses on the ways in which many researchers working in the area of gender and mathematics make sense of their data. In particular, it is argued that their use of the oppositional framing, separation versus connection (and others, such as cognition versus affect and objective versus subjective), operates to fix difference, and so to fix gender and mathematics within a structure of binary thinking that ultimately serves to re/produce gender inequalities. The aim is to suggest a more productive approach to understanding the continued gendering of participation in mathematics. This approach is based in deconstructing these oppositional patterns. This theoretical approach is illustrated using readings of interviews with two young mathematics students, Analia and Phil, talking about their relationships with the subject. The paper ends by looking at what this unfixing of difference means for mathematics pedagogy.

Construction Sociale et Symbolique des Identites Territoriales en Milieu Urbain / Abdelmajid Arrif

by Arrif Abdelmajid

Journal of Mediterranean Studies, "Mediterranean Voices: Turning back to the Mediterranean", Vol. 15, No. 2: 2005

Aproximación cuantitativa a la organización social de los ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Juan José Vieco)
La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179. 1999 1999

This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These... more This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in the moieties of "Earth" and "Air". The Ticuna have a hierarchical society than can be interpreted under the model of the house society. The clans have a prescriptive marriage that favors the endogamic control of territories and settlements. Although the marriage system is denominated "hypertotemic exogamous moieties" by Levi-Strauss, there is no significant exchange of females between villages.

Aproximación cuantitativa a la organización social de los ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Juan José Vieco)
La organización social de los Ticuna del trapecio amazónico colombiano: una aproximación cuantitativa. Revista Colombiana de Antropología 35:146-179. 1999 1999

This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These... more This paper argues that Ticuna identity is based on terms of belonging to a clan (which they call nacao= nation). These clans are clustered in the moieties of "Earth" and "Air". The Ticuna have a hierarchical society than can be interpreted under the model of the house society. The clans have a prescriptive marriage that favors the endogamic control of territories and settlements. Although the marriage system is denominated "hypertotemic exogamous moieties" by Levi-Strauss, there is no significant exchange of females between villages.

I am Beginning to Understand by Carol P. Christ

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

Elizabeth Kelly Inglis died in 1927 at age 62 from complications of a stroke. Secondary causes were malnutrition and... more Elizabeth Kelly Inglis died in 1927 at age 62 from complications of a stroke. Secondary causes were malnutrition and exhaustion.

When I was a child, my father, though he was very close to his own parents and sister, spoke very little about his ancestors. I knew that both of his parents lost their fathers when they were small children. I was told that the Christs were German and the Inglises were Scottish and Irish. My grandmother Mary Inglis Christ was as Irish as the day is long. She prayed to the blessed Virgin and took me to church with her in the early mornings where she lit candles and whispered the rosary while fingering faceted lavender beads. She voted for Kennedy because he was Irish and Catholic—to the horror of my father and his father who had no use for the Democrats. My grandmother sometimes cried when she showed us photographs of her family, especially when she pointed to her sister Veronica, called Very. I sensed that my grandmother felt sad to have left her family in New York when she moved with her husband and children to California during the depression, but I was too young to understand fully. As far as I know, I never met any of the relatives from her side of the family, even when I moved to “back east.”

The ‘Dudley Mosque Project’: a Case of Islamophobia and Local Politics

by Tahir Abbas

co-authored with Frank Reeves and Dulce Pedroso

The Private and the Public: Identity and Politics in Virtual Space

by Nathanael Bassett

Biliteracy and Identity: Unpacking How Latinas Negotiate with School and Society

by Raymond Falcon

This paper will look at the connection between biliteracy and academic development in conjunction with identity as it... more This paper will look at the connection between biliteracy and academic development in conjunction with identity as it pertains to Latina students.  Therefore, the main idea for this paper is to unpack how Latinas negotiate biliteracy and their identity to fit into society.  Included will be an introduction, rationale, literature review, methods, findings, and implications of several researchers.  The findings of the literature review are plentiful on biliteracy and identity but few on Latinas; however, this has implications for my dissertation. 

Expressions of Identity

by Mils Hills