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Reivindicaciones culturales y feminismos disidentes, una mirada nada normalizadora
2020
espanolLas reivindicaciones de las culturas se desajustan del modelo ilustrado, en ese aspecto, el proposito de este ensayo es dilucidar de manera sucinta, las diferentes deconstrucciones y exclusiones culturales que nos encontramos en distintos paradigmas teoricos. La diferencia monopoliza el debate en un escenario multietnico y globalizador. Los feminismos, diferentes entre si, abogan por seguir reconceptualizando terminos, y desmontando argumentos universalizadores, en base a la hibridacion humana, en cambio, no diferencia las imbricaciones a lo largo de la humanidad. No obstante, las culturas son constantes creaciones, recreaciones y negociaciones de fronteras entre nosotros/as y el/la/…
Reducing the gap between leaders and voters? Elite polarization, outbidding competition, and the rise of secessionism in Catalonia
2016
ABSTRACTThe ethnic outbidding thesis explains party polarization as a consequence of political changes amongst voters. We argued instead that party elites’ extreme position on the national identity cleavage can help polarizing strategies to prevail over moderate strategies in a context of increasing political uncertainty, without previous voters’ polarization. We test successfully this hypothesis in Catalonia by analysing the polarization of political parties and people’s demands for self-government in Catalonia since the early 2000s. We also find that the result of this outbidding pattern of competition was a reduction in the gap between elites’ and voters’ views on national identity. The …
Comparing colonial differences: Baltic literary cultures as agencies of Europe’s internal others
2016
ABSTRACTThe article discusses the Baltic colonial experience in historical and comparative perspective. It sketches the ways in which Baltic societies are best linked to theoretical discussions on postcolonial issues, and whether they might be looked upon in a more global context. The main question posed by the article is in what ways Baltic identity has been determined by processes of foreign settlement, occupation and colonization of the territory of each respective country and whether we can see Baltic societies as potential agencies of Europe’s internal others.
‘Neither male or female, just Falete’: Resistance and queerness on Spanish TV screens
2019
Spanish copla singer Falete is best known for his frequent presence on TV shows, which receive record ratings, and also for the jokes made regarding his appearance. Confronted with normative questions regarding gender and sexuality, Falete’s successful TV career challenges not only binary conceptions of gender but also how we think about TV spectatorship. We argue that liminal spaces, such as the one that Falete inhabits on TV, are useful for unveiling how audiences develop plural and complex forms of identifying with TV stars. Watching Falete on TV, therefore, challenges theories of gender that reify processes of identity formation and identification. In this article, we highlight Falete’s…
Becoming Europeans: cultural identity and cultural policies
2011
by Monica Sassatelli, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 248 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780230537422 In her introduction, Monica Sassatelli remarks that her book concentrates on the explicit i...
Dark tourism and place identity: managing and interpreting dark places (contemporary geographies of leisures, tourism and mobility)
2014
Leanne White and Elspeth Frew present a compilation that explores the roots of dark tourism and the problems of place identity. Overall, the work is formed by 19 chapters, which although interestin...
Primary identities in the lower Omo valley: migration, cataclysm, conflict and amalgamation, 1750–1910
2011
This article applies the notion of primary identity to explore the emergence of ethnic identities in the southern-most tract of the lower Omo valley. Current identities here are the result of two correlated patterns of movement that have occurred over the past 150 years: migration to the valley by organised pastoralists and scattered groups, and a general movement down the river and into the Omo delta, where the ecological niche generated by the regular flooding of the Omo River provided a rich variety of livelihood alternatives. The major migrations reported here were connected to great population movements that occurred in East Africa from the nineteenth century, often provoked by catacly…
Cultural fusion theory : An alternative to acculturation
2016
ABSTRACTThis article lays out a theoretical framework for cultural fusion theory. This theory borrows from various theoretical frameworks to provide a more realistic description of the immigrant experience. Specifically, cultural fusion theory describes how newcomers acculturate into the dominant culture and maintain aspects of their minority culture, while at the same time the dominant or host culture also fuses aspects off the newcomer’s culture into the dominant culture to create a fused intercultural identity. Boundary conditions, assumptions, axioms, and theorems are presented to define cultural fusion theory.
The lay historian explains intergroup behavior: Examining the role of identification and cognitive structuring in ethnocentric historical attributions
2017
Both historians and lay people attempt to explain national histories. However, psychological research, to date, focused predominantly on the patterns of those explanations with regard to negative historical behaviors. In this article, we assess ethnocentrism of people’s explanations of both negative and positive historical behavior of ingroup members (own nation) and outgroup members (other nation). Two studies analyze how Poles explain crimes and heroic acts committed in the General Government, as well as diverse behaviors during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The studies confirm an ethnocentric pattern of explanation: positive historical actions of ingroup members we…
Elderly woman in films. An evaluation to the filmic projects
2016
La presencia de las mujeres en el cine tanto delante como detrás de la cámara es escasa; y esto ocurre más todavía en el caso de las mujeres mayores. Con una mirada de género desde la Gerontología hemos realizado una selección y posterior evaluación de las películas estrenadas entre 1960 y 2015 en las que el protagonismo o co-protagonismo fuese de una mujer mayor de 55 años, obteniendo un total de 63 películas. Con la información obtenida al utilizar una hoja de registro y análisis, se realizó un análisis de contenido que dio lugar a diferentes categorías temáticas y subcategorías. Los resultados muestran que son muy escasas las películas cuya trama argumental gira en torno a mujeres mayore…