Body And Affect In The Intercultural Encounter
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Body And Affect In The Intercultural Encounter
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Author : Devisch, Rene
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2017-01-17
Body And Affect In The Intercultural Encounter written by Devisch, Rene and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-17 with Social Science categories.
The volume draws from René Devisch’s encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones’ activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasa’s shanty towns, from 1986 to 2003. The author first examines what sparked his choice to come to Congo, and then to pursue research among the Yakaphones in the borderland with Angola. He then invites us to follow the trajectory of his plural anthropological view on today’s multicentric world. It leads us to his praise for honorary doctor Jean-Marc Ela’s work. He then examines the proletarian outbursts of violence that rocked Congo’s major cities in 1991 and 1993. These can be read as a settling of scores with the disillusioning colonial and missionary modernisation, along with president Mobutu’s millenarian Popular Movement of the Revolution. Furthermore, after considering the morose reduction of a major Yaka dancing mask into a mere museum-bound curio in Antwerp, the book unravels the Yakaphones’ perspectives on spirits and sorcery’s threat. It also analyses their commitment to classical Bantu-African healing cults, along with their parallel consulting physicians and healers. By sharing the Yakaphones’ life-world, the analysis highlights their body-group-world weave, interlaced by the principle of co-resonance. A phenomenological and perspectivist look unfolds the local actors’ views, thereby disclosing the Bantu-African genius and setting for a major reversal of perspectives. Indeed, seeing 'here' from 'there' allows the author to uncover some alienating dynamics at work in his native Belgian Flemish-speaking culture. To better grasp the realm of life beyond the speakable and factual reasoning, the approach occasionally turns to the later Lacan’s focus on the unconscious desire, the body and its affects. The book addresses students and researchers in the humanities and, more broadly, all those immersed in the heat of the encounter with the culturally different.
Intercultural Encounters
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Author : Donald W. Klopf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Intercultural Encounters written by Donald W. Klopf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Social Science categories.
Understanding Intercultural Interaction
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Author : Frank Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Understanding Intercultural Interaction written by Frank Fitzpatrick and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a critical analysis of the key concepts in culture and interaction. Drawing from a breadth of perspectives and contemporary analysis, it equips students and professionals from varied backgrounds with the tools to understand, discuss and apply these concepts to their own experiences of intercultural interaction.
On The Edge Of Human Imagination
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Author : Michel Thys
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-04-30
On The Edge Of Human Imagination written by Michel Thys and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-30 with Psychology categories.
In this fascinating book, Michel Thys explores the limitations of human imagination and symbolization, showing the potentially destructive result of a mind that cannot confront reality. His wide-ranging research takes us into the domain of the unimaginable, unthinkable and unspeakable. Divided into four parts, On the Edge of Human Imagination sees Thys adopt a phenomenological perspective to move through experiences encountered in the analyst’s room, from depression and psychosis to PTSD. Through a dialogue with philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas, Thys investigates the relationship between fascination, identification, socio-cultural phenomena and aesthetic pleasure. Throughout, he uses the paintings of Edward Hopper, Sophocles’ Antigone, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times to support his ideas. Integrating Freudian, Kleinian and Bionian theories, he shows the psychic impact of humanity’s attempt to balance fear and passion on the edge of the imaginable and the liminality of the search for meaning. The book brings together psychoanalytic theory and practice and philosophical anthropology, confronting, in the end, Freud’s ideas of the death drive with Sartre’s understanding of the desire for being as the main driving force in human existence. This book offers an illuminating evaluation of what it means to be human, making it an important read for psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers interested in the intersection between psychoanalytic, philosophical and phenomenological thought.
The Storytelling State
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Author : Cheng Nien Yuan
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2025-07-31
The Storytelling State written by Cheng Nien Yuan and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-31 with Political Science categories.
In The Storytelling State, Cheng Nien Yuan, a Singaporean performance scholar and dramaturg, charts Singapore’s development into a storytelling state since the 2010s. In such a state, public (auto)biographical stories of everyday people, elicited through visualized narrative interviews, proliferate the nation’s mediascape. Governmental agencies and government-linked institutions actively facilitate this phenomenon through campaigns and funding incentives. Examining several key campaigns from the period of 2011–2021, Cheng shows how state and society collaborate to cultivate an intimate, confessional public. Taken together, these stories generate a new paradigm of communicating social policy and the “Singapore Story” by mapping the national archive onto everyday bodies. Bite-sized pieces of consumable lives are marketed as authentic windows to the private self, producing ways of being, doing, and feeling in the nation, in accordance with contemporary societal concerns. This book enters a larger debate about storytelling’s impact around the world in the digital age. Singapore’s storytelling state functions within a global network of performing memory with new media. Its origins can be traced to popular American models of oral history-telling as seen in StoryCorps and Humans of New York, with their techniques appropriated for a Singaporean audience. Yet, even when well-intentioned, the claims of such projects of giving voice to the non-elite and the marginalized can be undermined by injurious effects that are not unique to the Singaporean context. At the same time, the embodied and emotional nature of these performances make the absolute control of meaning difficult. Often, they reveal more than they should, transgressing the normative demands of the storytelling state. At stake here are performances of identity, mobility, and belonging. When the national stage is set for life itself, what does it mean to have a life?
Affect And Emotion In Tourism
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Author : Dorina-Maria Buda
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Affect And Emotion In Tourism written by Dorina-Maria Buda and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism. Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminology to describe something that is, by its very nature, beyond words. For this reason, as evident in the four interconnected sections of this volume, studying affect poses a significant and fruitful challenge to the status-quo of social scientific method and analysis. From African-American emotional labour while travelling, to visiting Banksy's Dismaland park, to affective heritagescapes, self-love, and travelling mittens, and across socio-spatial theories of emotions, decolonial feminist theory, and atmospheric politics, this book demonstrates the epistemic and empirical richness of affective tourism. Along with the contributors to this volume, the editors make a case for thinking about emotions and affects through collective and individual practices as interrelated shaping tourism encounters in and with places. That is, to break it down as doing, and as shared between bodies and places through the doing. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.
Intercultural Encounters
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Author : Donald William Klopf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Intercultural Encounters written by Donald William Klopf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Routledge Companion To Biofiction
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Author : Lucia Boldrini
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-31
The Routledge Companion To Biofiction written by Lucia Boldrini and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofiction's core foundations through contemporary debates. The volume is organized into seven sections: Histories of biofiction; Theoretical reflections on biofiction; Biofiction, national models and (trans)national constructions; Biofiction as political intervention; Biofictional case studies; Activating lives: early modern women; and Authorial reflections. This groundbreaking collection features works that refine our understanding of the genesis and evolution of biofiction; theorize its unique and distinctive modes of signifying; reflect on its value for the future and social justice; chart new approaches for doing biofictional analysis; and offer insights from authors of biofiction into the creative process. This is the first collection to bring together the two main schools of interpreting biofiction – the Francophone and Anglophone – while also shedding light on biofictions in many languages, from or about many continents, and offering a platform to established and new voices alike. It will be essential reading for students as well as advanced scholars interested in biographical fiction.
Eating And Being Eaten
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Author : B. Nyamnjoh
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2018-06-07
Eating And Being Eaten written by B. Nyamnjoh and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Social Science categories.
This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively cannibalising and being cannibalised. The underlying message of: Own up to your own cannibalism! is convincingly argued and richly substantiated. The book brilliantly and controversially puts cannibalism at the heart of the self-assured biomedicine, globalising consumerism and voyeuristic social media. It unveils a vast number of prejudices, blind spots and shameful othering. It calls on the reader to consider a morality and an ethics that are carefully negotiated with required sensibility and sensitivity to the fact that no one and no people have the monopoly of cannibalisation and of creative improvisation in the game of cannibalism. The productive, transformative and (re)inventive understanding of cannibalism argued in the book should bring to the fore one of the most vital aspects of what it means to be human in a dynamic world of myriad interconnections and enchantments. To nourish and cherish such a productive form of cannibalism requires not only a compassionate generosity to let in and accommodate the stranger knocking at the door, but also, and more importantly, a deliberate effort to reach in, identify, contemplate, understand, embrace and become intimate with the stranger within us, individuals and societies alike.
Drinking From The Cosmic Gourd
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Author : B. Nyamnjoh
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2017-03-15
Drinking From The Cosmic Gourd written by B. Nyamnjoh and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-15 with Social Science categories.
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africas possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded frontier African at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuolas stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.