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Cosas, pruebas, indicios : los restos del conflicto armado en el Salvador
2020
A partir del contexto de impunidad y olvido que se determinó en El Salvador después de la guerra civil (1980-1992), el presente trabajo investiga la presentación y la re-presentación de los restos materiales en el ámbito de la noción de huella como presentificación material de una historia transcurrida pero vigente. Se hace referencia a unos restos (huesos, prendas de vestir, juguetes) que son pruebas procesuales, pero a esta función se añade otra, que implica el nivel afectivo, el trabajo del duelo, la reparación. El trabajo empieza con una breve y necesaria reseña histórica que enlaza la represión de 1932 con la estrategia de la tierra arrasada realizada por las fuerzas armadas en los 80,…
Studying social media as semiotic technology: a social semiotic multimodal framework
2018
How do we study social media technology? While social semiotics provides an extensive toolkit for analysing multimodal texts and semiotic practices, the study of social media as semiotic technology poses a significant challenge to existing research methodologies. In this article, we present a social semiotic framework that allows us to describe in analytical details the multimodal meaning potentials offered by digital social media technology and connect these to multimodal text-making and semiotic practices while underscoring the role of technology. Our framework is organized around seven interrelated and inherently informed dimensions: (1) multimodality, (2) practice, (3) the social, (4) m…
Semiotics of pride and profit: interrogating commodification in indigenous handicraft production
2014
This study investigates the shifting terrain of pride, profit and power relations in minority language communities under contemporary globalisation. While “pride” associates linguistic-cultural heritage with identity and preservation, “profit” views these as sources of economic gain. In contemporary late capitalism, “pride” seems to be increasingly giving way to “profit”. Arguing that this transformation needs to be interrogated in terms of complexity and that a detailed, multilayered semiotic analysis can open a privileged window for such an inquiry, this study combines critical multimodal discourse analysis and an ethnographic approach to analyse processes of semiotic commodification in h…
Between memory, didacticism and the Jewish revival: the Holocaust in Italian comic books
2018
The aim of this article is to trace the development of the theme of the Holocaust in Italian comic books, attempting to frame it in the more general national memory culture. I look at both educatio...
Los objetos en los escenarios de la memoria: aproximaciones teóricas y análisis de ejemplos referidos a los hijos de desaparecidos en Argentina
2020
Proponemos, en primer lugar, reflexionar en torno a tres tipos de objetos vinculados a diversos escenarios de la memoria: el objeto testimonio que funciona como un código verificativo cuya primera intención consiste en certificar el acontecimiento; el objeto memoria que despliega un trabajo con la memoria de tipo reflexivo-interpretativo y/o elaborativo, y el objeto emblema que se presenta y actúa en las marchas, en las conmemoraciones, en los juicios, en las protestas y demandas articuladas en las luchas por la memoria, verdad y justicia. Focalizamos luego en el examen de un conjunto de producciones culturales realizadas por los hijos de víctimas del terrorismo de Estado desplegado en torn…
TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS
2010
. In this essay I explore the need for transforming the Christian theological symbols of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption, which arose in the context of neo-Platonic metaphysics, in light of late modern, especially Peircean, metaphysics and categories. I engage and attempt to complement the proposal by Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate (in this issue of Zygon) with insights from the Peircean-inspired philosophical theology of Robert Neville. I argue that their proposal can be strengthened by acknowledging the way in which theological symbols themselves have a transformative (pragmatic) effect as they are “taken” in context and “break” on the Infinite.
'Why Should I Study English If I'm Never Going To Leave This Town?' Developing Alternative Orientations To Culture in the EFL Classroom Through CAR
2015
This article describes the progress and findings of a collaborative action research project on the cultural dimension in primary levels of EFL education in Valencia (Spain). Its aim was to explore whether the EFL subject tended to ignore the students¿ native cultural background, and if so, whether this omission brought negative pedagogical consequences. It involved ten student-teachers who were carrying out their practicum placements at schools in the region, ten EFL school teachers, and a university researcher. Collective meetings were held to critically analyze the school experiences, and design experimental interventions to give a different orientation to culture in the EFL class. By the…
The foreign language teaching profession in Finnish and Japanese society: a sociocultural comparison
2016
The social basis of a teaching profession is created through behavioural and cultural patterns, specific artefacts, and their connection to certain institutional practices. The purpose of this study is to discover the conditions that structure the teaching profession in a cultural context and to find out what it is to be a foreign language (FL) teacher in Finland and Japan. Both countries have high educational equality but with contrasting patterns of management policies that are manifested in their teacher education curricula. Educational policy documents as well as teacher interviews and classroom observations were conducted in both countries and the findings compared by one Japanese and …
Vicent Blasco Ibáñez: antisemitisme entre tarongers
2018
El discurs de Blasco Ibáñez, en ocasions radical i polèmic, fortament anticlerical, va ser en determinats moments també obertament antisemita. Analitzem les claus de la judeofòbia en Blasco Ibáñez mitjançant l’estudi de l’evolució del prejudici antijueu de l’autor valencià, abans i després del cas Dreyfus, i les dificultats que va tenir per a superar-lo en la seua dimensió més clàssica i tradicional.
Scattering community
2001
In discussing the cultural history of the 19th century, Walter Benjamin diagnosed the emergence of the modern novel and its form of narration as the sign of a fracturing experience. The split in experience is related to the scattering of a homogeneous idea of space and time, constituted especially during the Enlightenment and in the German historicism. Benjamin's claim reflected the fracturing temporality of modern communities as well as the transformations in the understanding of the meaning of tradition. Here, I begin by discussing Benjamin's conceptions of experience and memory in detail. Secondly, I consider his ideas on history in the framework of challenging the new forms of narratio…