Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231219452
Shuying Liang
Cultural translation promotes cross-cultural synthetization and hybridization. Against the backdrop of cultural assimilation and inherent conceptual contestation of different languages, the cultural meaning of the source performance text is interpreted and reconstructed by specific cultural translator who intentionally creates the aesthetic value and significance for a specific target readership/audience. Drawing on Valsiner’s cultural psychology and Marais’ notion of representamen translation, this paper focuses on an exemplary example of a cross-cultural stardom-fandom exchange regarding the Korean artist Lee Joon Gi, who produces his translational performance texts of the source Chinese performance texts for his target Chinese audience. The psychological-semiotic approach to Translation Studies also explores the issue of translated cultural identity within cultural translation. Thus, the concept of translational performance text is proposed as Lee is deemed as both cultural translator and translated cultural product simultaneously. On the one hand, by incorporating non-linguistic semiotic process-phenomena into the conventional linguistic-biased Translation Studies, Translation Studies could be nurtured promisingly with cultural psychology and semiotics for interdisciplinary progress. On the other hand, a translational perspective enhances the understanding of the profound psychological-semiotic aspect of cultural translation pertaining to the production of entertainment jouissance within cultural translation.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231219453
Julie Mayoni Nørgaard, Lene Tanggaard
The aim of this paper is to set out a new position within the socio-material field of creativity research that puts a great emphasis on an ecological and social awareness. As part of a new research project on Creativity and Performance Pressure, the authors map recent contributions to the field of creativity research with an emphasis on socio-materiality. 25 studies are displayed to explore the relation between man, materials and making as creative doings. Based on the findings, the authors argue that an individualized and isolated understanding of creativity endorses a growth paradigm that increasingly challenges both the globe and the life upon it. Future investigations on creativity should aim to learn more about human relatedness and how it contributes to prosperity among all life forms. This leaves behind the isolated individualistic approach towards creativity and replaces it with an ethnographic-informed human curiosity towards social and situational responsiveness.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231219462
Baiju Gopal, Deborah Yazhini Charles, Vaishali V. Raval, Padmakumari P, Elizabeth Thomas
The client therapy experience has been the focus of many bodies of literature in psychotherapy, even across cultures. While researchers have emphasized on the use of indigenous approaches in Indian psychotherapy, how much of this is applicable in the present scenario? The experience has become increasingly tricky to understand given the complexities arising from the influence of urbanization and westernization. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the experience of mental illness and psychotherapy in modern day India. Using the integrated, holistic idea of the person and their needs, the study conducted semi-structured interviews with ten cis-gender, urban Indian participants between 21 and 39 years of age. Data analysis using thematic analysis uncovered the global theme of “Transitional Culture Impacting the Therapeutic Experience.” The major organizing themes and basic themes have been elaborated as well. In essence, the study concludes that the increased awareness and acceptance of psychotherapy in urban India, combined with the exposure to Western methodologies, may be related to an increase in the expectations for similar therapeutic services. Implications and recommendations have been discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231219448
Carina Borgatti Moura, Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes de Oliveira
Since the end of the 20th century, the Cartesian paradigm of identity has been the object of criticism, raised by different epistemological perspectives, including post-structuralism, feminism, constructionism, and philosophy of language studies. A common aspect of these new theoretical-epistemological perspectives is the search to overcome an idealistic, immaterial, vision of the psychological subject, emphasizing the concrete character of its subjective construction, and the anchoring of the whole process in corporeality. These new trends rediscover the body as a concept within the human and social sciences, especially, inspired by Michel Foucault’s work. In Psychology, although the body has recently become an object of increasing interest for different perspectives, a theoretical gap concerning its political dimension, the power forces that cross through corporeity is still observed. This article draws, then, on Queer Theory’s epistemological contributions to critical psychology and the construction of such a notion of embodied subjectivity within Cultural Semiotic Psychology, considering the sociocultural processes that operate in the construction of subjects. Additionally, we seek to provide arguments to refuse the understanding that social markers such as sex, gender, and race are mere variables associated with the human, and reinforce that subjects are constitutively sexed, gendered, and racialized.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231219449
Ciro De Vincenzo, Adriano Zamperini
This paper explores undocumented migrants’ deaths, known as border-deaths, in the Mediterranean Sea by adopting liminality theory to memory and border concepts. Bordering, securitizing, externalizing, and militarizing policies have transformed the Mediterranean into the southern border of Europe. Consequently, the Sea has become a submerged cemetery where thousands of people have lost their lives. Particularly, the Italian Island of Lampedusa has become a geopolitical fiat boundary where conflicting securitarian/humanitarian symbolic frameworks compete. The death of migrants has been an ongoing historical issue, resulting a permanent state of liminality. Using empirical data collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations in Lampedusa, this study aims to understand the cultural psychological dimension of memory from the experiential standpoint of Lampedusans citizens and community. The findings reveal three themes: the primacy of experience, the relational diffidence, and the memorialization/mourning practices act as subjective and collective forms of resistance subverting external oppressing narratives. Moreover, they also serve to differentiate mourners from spectators and to preserve the material functioning of the Lampedusan community by replicating the symbolic order holding it together. Finally, implications for a semiotic-cultural psychological and liminality theory of memory and border studies are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231201390
Jennelle Rosarry C Centillas, Reynaldo B. Inocian, Rae Mikaela B Amper, Jennilyn P Bacalso
The study unveiled the art and craft of raffia weaving and its economic significance. It seeks to answer the following objectives: visualize the production process of buri strips and the tools used; document the steps of raffia weaving; analyze the aesthetics of raffia designs; determine the weavers’ status and income; and develop a theory and an instructional model. This qualitative study utilized ethnographic and grounded theory designs. Complete documentation of the intricacies of raffia weaving was conducted. Verbatim accounts from audio-video transcripts were sorted, coded, and analyzed. Reliance on the art and craft of raffia weaving is dependent on the environment’s buri resources. Raffia’s art and craft of weaving reflect perseverance in times of adversity, adaptation to change, and dedication to one’s craft. Through enculturation and government assistance, aspiring weavers improve their craft and get sustainable income. The development of the Quadrant Theory of Cultural Dynamism (QTCD) and the Contextualized Raffia Instructional Model (CRIM) serve as outcomes that may prepare academics to use the dialectical approach to instruction. QTCD is one of the holistic approaches to cultural globalization, asserting to bring out peripheral culture in the mainstream. Using CRIM as an instructional process, teachers and learners engage in 21st-century learning competencies that promote national cultural identity and pride.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231201387
Enno Freiherr von Fircks
In the present paper I investigate the phenomenon of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective. During the past years mindfulness has been primarily treated as an independent (intervention) variable trying to evidence its effectiveness in relation to psychotherapy as well as to specific work outcomes such as a decrease in stress symptoms at work. Yet, what has been rather missing within the literature is the analysis of mindfulness from a theoretical and historical perspective. Arguing with E.E. Boesch, I show based on an autoethnography that the need for mindfulness emerges when there are conflicts with one’s fantasms (private needs, goals, wants, wishes) or with a specific myth in one’s community (you should work hard in order to become a good citizen). I conclude with the findings that mindfulness has the power to alter one’s fantasms hierachy as well as the stance towards a specific myth in one’s community. This is further evidenced by analyzing the glass bead game of H. Hesse and which role mindfulness plays in there – a transformative role for individuals and groups.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231191483
M. Daher, María José Campero, A. Rosati, Andrea Jaramillo
Entrepreneurship has become a prominent strategy for overcoming poverty, but few studies have identified the specificities of different entrepreneurial configurations in indigenous contexts. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze positive effects and their relationship with participants’ profiles of entrepreneurial programs, from the experiences and meanings of Mapuche people (mostly women) in poverty and social vulnerability situation in rural and urban contexts. A qualitative study was conducted in rural and urban areas considering a total of 19 respondents. Results focus on woman experiences showing three types of Mapuche entrepreneur women profiles (fighter, submissive and reluctant) and their trajectories in entrepreneurship programs, considering their responses to their background, their relationship with the program and profile-specific positive effects.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231191489
T. Beck
The neurodiversity movement has influenced the way people think about mental health and disability around the world. Emerging during the turn of the 21st century, it has simultaneously incorporated ideas from mainstream science and challenged the authority of scientists and clinical professionals as the sole arbiters of what those diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders are capable of. In the process, it has spawned a unique approach to identity politics, evoking questions about the body, mind, and culture too often ignored in critiques commonly directed at it. This paper combines concepts from posthumanist, feminist, and queer theorists with writings from neurodiversity scholars and activists to highlight how differences in embodied disposition are policed under neoliberal capitalism. This sets a foundation for a nuanced understanding of neurodivergent identity as an expression of neurodiversity culture. Drawing on Karen Barad’s agential realism, neurodivergence is construed as a form of agency produced through processes of disidentification with mainstream cultural norms rather than identification with a particular social category. It is suggested that any critique of the neurodiversity movement should account for how those who participate in it use its language to distance themselves from neoliberal institutional norms and engender community through a counterculture of embodied knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1177/1354067x231191480
A. Benevento
This study considers posting behavior as a cultural practice as enacted with Instagram postings marked by hashtags #fashionkids and #letthekids and examines whether and how the two hashtags reflect two distinct online cultures about childhood. The study is important for two reasons. First, it offers socio-cultural theory to the study of social media and provides researchers with a theory-based method of using Instagram as a data source to detect and study digital cultures. Second, it contributes to the research activities on the phenomena of sharenting and the changing narrative of childhood in domestic contexts. The inquiry included analyses of the scale of a sample of Instagram postings with hashtags of #fashionkids and #letthekids posted in a 12-day period in 2016, geographical locations where the postings were made, searches of words with linguistic functions in captions, and networking strategies. Analysis of the scale, the networking patterns, the verbal accounts, and the geographical locations where the postings happened help inform us about the magnitude and diverse purposes of the hashtags. Overall, the findings underscore greater diversity among #letthekids posts compared to the more focused content of #fashionkids’ postings.
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