Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2023.2167817
Yeliz Yücel, S. Güney
ABSTRACT Neo-liberal economy politics and the uprising of new high-spender conservative elites escalate radical urban transformations in Istanbul. Urban spaces that rapidly segregate from each other witness the symbolic conflicts of social groups that own cultural, economic and spatial capital. This study focuses on how a specific café chain in Istanbul is consumed as a privileged public space by its secular elite regulars and how they manifest their distinction, prestige, identity and belonging in the café. Accordingly, the eating and drinking experience in the café has been observed through a field study at this café’s seven branches in Istanbul. This study argues that the current symbolic conflict triggered by uncomfortable spatial proximity and balancing out discrepancies between Istanbul's conservative and secular elites could be interpreted within this particular social space of belonging and exclusion. We put forward that secular elites’ consumption practices with the exertion of a spatial capital formed a privileged social space representing territorial exclusionary claims on certain micro-places in İstanbul.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2023.2166031
S. Ben-Asher, Esther E. Gottlieb, Kassim Alsraiha
ABSTRACT The desire of a minority group to integrate into society on equal terms with the majority is often expressed through the first-generation university degree holders of children sent by their parents to the schools of the majority group. The present study describes the multi-identities of Bedouin men and women who studied in the majority education system, a Jewish public school with Hebrew as its language of instruction with a different ethnic, religion, political, and cultural milieu. From the perspective of the theory of social representations, the findings point to a variety of strategies that Bedouin students have utilized in refusing to perform stereotypically minority identities. They force us to reframe their identities showing that they are capable of adopting emancipated representations to create a space in accord with the changing nature of Bedouin society. From their retrospective view, we learned that men built a space that combines representations of what we call “both worlds” while women found themselves managing multiple identities, conflict between roles, social relationship and life stages. The contribution of the research lies in the in-depth understanding of the interpersonal processes associated with social experiences of minority students in their own land (not immigrants), showing how they develop, adopt, and retain multiple identities, straddling social borders.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2148645
C. Khan
ABSTRACT This study uses critical ethnography to examine how young community leaders negotiate ethno-racial boundaries through leading initiatives that advocate for an Indo-Caribbean identity in South Richmond Hill, Queens, one of the largest Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian communities in the US. The second-generation constructs their own ethnic project by advocating for an Indo-Caribbean identity through leading organizations and initiatives directed specifically towards this group. This complicates their processes of racialization in relation to Afro-Caribbeans and South Asians. Second-generation Indo-Caribbeans who are marginalized by dominant racial categories actively craft their own ethno-racial identity based on shared diasporic experiences and perceived racial advantages and disadvantages in relation to other groups. Community initiatives facilitate these processes while fostering spaces of belonging for the second-generation. At the same time, dominant narratives related to racial hierarchization and differences in the Caribbean and in the US influence how Indo-Caribbeans negotiate their identity separate from a larger Black Caribbean identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2142206
Vinit Kumar Jha Utpal
tribution to the emerging field of digital humanities that facilitates human interaction with the digital world. It empowers digital filmmakers, scholars, and students to create and market new artefacts through an audio-visual medium. Reviewer Information: Dr. Muhammad Imran is a postdoctoral researcher at the Education Research Lab in Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia, and a lecturer in the Department of English, The University of Sahiwal, Pakistan. His research interests include English Literature, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Digital Humanities, Asian Anglophone Writings, and Postcolonial Studies. He has published articles in reputed WoS and Scopus indexed journals such as Postcolonial Studies, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Sage Open, and World Literature Today.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2156495
Kanchan Biswas
This mini-hardbound book by Madhavi Menon brings to its readers debates and discourse on identity formation in India, based on conceptualisation of desire. She fiercely counters the courtroom sagas of notable legal suits ranging from art, performance, prostitutes, menstruation, moral policing of women’s clothing, adultery, registers of ‘love jihad’, homosexuality, etc. Menon brings this book with the very rationale of challenging the idea that ‘law is premised upon truth even though it reflects socially constructed biases, prejudices and anxieties’. Menon draws upon registers of religion, art, patriarchy, and heterosexuality as the foundation upon which laws are formulated. Further projecting, how law has nothing to do with gender and orientation of any individual (e.g. why does one need to provide gender details on ration card to secure government subsidised food?). This book being launched soon after her previous work (2018), ‘Infinite Variety: A History of Desire in India’, makes the present book, a work-in-progress series on the discourse of sexuality in India. This book is rostered into six chapters. The first chapter titled Preamble sets the tone of the book by juxtaposing law and desire. She argued that transgression Patriarchal control, contesting the moral regime of society and representing many facets of sexuality; endangers the stability of society that law wishes to confer. She writes,
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Pub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2138310
Christer Mattsson, T. Johansson
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of conspiracy theories in the neo-Nazi movement. The focal points of the study are the core conspiracy theories within the movement and the interface with other conspiracy theories of less ideological importance such as ‘Big Pharma.’ The study is based on interviews with six active neo-Nazis in the context of the Swedish-dominated Nordic resistance movement. The informants were all senior in the movement with long experience as neo-Nazi officials. In addition, the empirical material also depicts a unique internal strategy document from the movement that instructs all activists on how to talk and how to avoid talking about various forms of conspiracy theories. The study shows that conspiracy theories, such as the claim of a ‘great replacement’ and ‘the deep state,’ serve as a doxa for the movement. This doxa is not the consequence of the movement but rather a precondition for it.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-03DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2130886
Muhammad Imran
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists is a comprehensive guide in understanding the current and forthcoming processes, intellectual and practical, of creating documentary and digital media projects. This book comprises twenty-four chapters, and these chapters are dedi-cated to the three main phases, pre-production, during production, and post-production. This combination would take the humanist thinkers to create and develop their own documentaries to transfer knowledge more logically and easily. Therefore, this Documentary Making proves helpful in empowering the humanities and social sciences thinkers, scholars, journalists, academicians
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2121276
Stella Jang
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the role of Multicultural Family Support Centers (MFSCs) to explain the gender, race and cultural hierarchies inherent in South Korea’s system of multiculturalism. Since the 1990s the South Korean state has played an active role in facilitating marriage migration and influencing the reproductive and caregiving decisions of female marriage immigrants. This is reflected in immigration and welfare policies that incentivize migrant wives to have children and provide disproportionate power to Korean husbands. Over the past decade the Korean government has invested heavily in MFSCs. These centers cater exclusively to migrant wives with courses focused on the acquisition of the Korean language and culture. The teachers are generally older Korean women while students are migrant wives from developing countries. The version of Korean culture taught to migrant wives emphasizes traditional Confucian family roles and that a wives’ role is to focus on managing the home and supporting her husband and children. I present two case studies of cultural and cooking classes provided by a MFSC where I volunteered. The classes illustrate that multiculturalism in South Korea is focused on assimilation with limited expectation that Korean husbands and in-law families should adapt to migrant wives. Instead, migrant wives are expected to acquire a strong understanding of how to behave and understand their place in a traditional Korean family structure. I provide migrant wives’ perspectives on these classes and explain why they have limited opportunity to influence or respond to the expectations of the Korean state and in-law families.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2023.2188184
Joyce C. H. Liu, John Hutnyk, Sudarat Musikawong, Ko-Lun Chen
The papers of this special issue come from a series of workshops on ‘ Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in Contemporary Global Context ’ , convened as part of a CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute (GHI) in Taiwan, Malaysia
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2022.2112662
C. Cmielewski
ABSTRACT Art can assist in exposure to difference, which may in turn open up spaces for dialogue between differences. This capacity to encourage and intervene necessarily operates at various levels and spheres and, in the arts, requires creative leadership. Creative leaders are those artists, recognised by their peers and public as artists who generate new developments in creative content to explore diversity. It is predominantly artists of non-English speaking background (‘NESB’) who bear the burden to generate the opportunities as the main producers of content that interacts with multicultural Australia. I am cautious to place sole responsibility onto the minorised and underpaid multicultural artist to transform Australian society. However, their creative leadership roles show that their work and processes can produce new narratives towards intercultural dialogues. Many ‘NESB’ artists adopt this mantle by undertaking new creative production with the potential to transform the symbols within society. This paper explores the ways in which social and creative symbols are re-negotiated through the work of two Australian performance artists. Writer and director Shakthi Shakthidharan; and dancer and choreographer, Annalouise Paul exemplify how artists from diverse backgrounds increase the level of culturally diverse creative production. They make meaning through the contestations and negotiations of multicultural Australia.
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