Dominant and Demotic Discourses of Culture: Their Relevance to Multi-Ethnic Alliances

Baumann, Gerd

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“…While theories of hybridity tend to focus on the global-local dichotomy (Bhabha, 1994), we show that tensions not only exist across but also within cultures. All cultures are born out of struggles and the negotiation of differences; in many instances, these struggles are not just matters of history but are active and ongoing (Baumann, 2017;Spivak, 2003). Encounters between the global and the local even have the potential to widen these intracultural chasms.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Important as this debate is, it can also tend to unwittingly essentialize cultures. Even when rejoicing in cultural “contamination,” hybridity paradoxically assumes an initial state of “purity” that a culture never possesses—for all cultures are born out of the negotiation of differences, negotiations that are never quite complete (Baumann, 2017; Spivak, 2003). Terms, such as global and local, West and East, even “American,” “Brazilian,” “Indian,” “Japanese,” and so on, eradicate fluctuations and distinctions—immanent intra-cultural tensions that are not just matters of history but remain active and, in many cases, have become still more pronounced on account of changes wrought by globalization.…”

Section: Cultural Hybridity In Transnational Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan

Shahin

Nakahara

Sánchez

2021

New Media & Society

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This study examines the global diffusion of Black Lives Matter (BLM) as digitally networked connective action. Combining social network analysis with qualitative textual analysis, we show that BLM was hybridized in different ways to give voice to local struggles for social justice in Brazil, India, and Japan. However, BLM’s hybridization stirred right-wing backlash within these countries that not only targeted local movements but BLM too. Theoretically, we argue that both transnational contiguities and intra-cultural tensions shape the construction of meanings—or “action frames”—as connective action crosses cultural borders. Resonant frames, which are in harmony with the values of the movement, amplify the features of the global movement that resonate with local concerns or hybridize it with a local struggle. Reactionary frames, which are hostile to movement values, may also target the global movement or its hybridization. We theorize the different roles of global and local crowd-enabled elites in transnational connective action.

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Section: Cultural Hybridity In Transnational Movementsmentioning

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Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan

Shahin

Nakahara

Sánchez

2021

New Media & Society

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“…Freud (1960), with his famous distinction between the ego (self-inthe-world) and id (self), along with Snyder (1974) and Goffman (1956), are but a few of the advocates of a fragmented self, of the division of the individual and of the struggle between self-identification and the identification made by others. And it is this very struggle that leads contemporary man to move beyond boundaries that remain fluid, difficult to define and constantly reconstructed within specific social, economic or geo-political contexts (Baumann, 1996(Baumann, , 1997.…”

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“I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes”: Identity, Alterity and the Transitional Self

MOCAN¹

2021

ASAS

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What is identity and what makes us be who we are? The concept of identity has changed considerably over the past century, the subject finding itself at the intersection of nation, gender, the rise of multiculturalism and colonial history. While we are born with no self- awareness and our first point of reference is the world outside us, navigating existence involves a constant self-analysis and the realisation that any attempt at defining ourselves will result in newer interrogations. Aiming to provide some guidance to this relentless quest by introducing few of the key concepts used in identity research, the present paper addresses the fluidity of the self by focusing on the identity-alterity nexus and by prioritising the ‘becoming’ over the ‘being’. Identity is, thus, always shifting and never a given; it is a transitional process oscillating between self-identification and identification made by the others, a puzzle whose interlocked pieces can be moved around and change in meaning.

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“…Thus inter-ethnic, former Eastern Bloc-related networks are easily created. They confront the structural or channelled multiculturalism, which is well defined by Gerd Baumann's research in London as 'demotic discourse' (Baumann, 1997), and ethnic communalism through the crosscutting ties of the inter-ethnic networks. This is clearly seen through discursive practices, i.e.…”

Section: (C) Alliances Of 'One's Own' Peoplementioning

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“…This is clearly seen through discursive practices, i.e. the 'demotic discourses' (Baumann, 1997) of Eastern European immigrants from the former Communist region in multicultural Chicago. It is how the labour migrants and 'brain drain' immigrants with a Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish background are recreating the region by using Russian as a lingua franca and by sharing work places and the media.…”

Section: (C) Alliances Of 'One's Own' Peoplementioning

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Transnational Chicago: The Local and Translocal Networks and Loyalties of Post-Socialist Lithuanian Immigrants

Čiubrinskas

2016

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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The processes of post-socialist transformation, especially large-scale migration from Eastern Europe to the Western hemisphere, are creating an ‘expansion of space’ from the local to the supra-local. This process involves the expansion of personal-, familial- and friendship-based networking practices which acquire significance as transnational mobile livelihoods and as significant dimensions of urban dynamics in global cities like Chicago. What are the networks, attachments and social bonds of Eastern European migrants in Chicago? Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Chicago in 2013 among recent Lithuanian immigrants brought out the importance of a cultural identity of East European-ness involving contested loyalties and limited integration. While living locally, Lithuanian immigrants are expected both to be bound to the ethnic community and to be immersed in the multicultural life-style of the mega city. However the research has shown that livelihoods and social relations among ‘one’s own people’ are involved in trans-ethnic networks and that the bonds of intimacy and the alliances among ‘one’s own people’ run through homeland roots and patrimonial linkages rather than through the citizenship loyalties of the state (the United States and/or Lithuania). The circle of ‘one’s own people’ implies extensive reciprocity and social networking among ‘friends’ and co-workers based on ‘one’s own resourcefulness’ a kind of social capital. Thus, ‘sharing important acquaintances’ ought to involve ‘doing favours’ and livelihood experiences transplanted from oversees are practised in Chicago as ‘local’ life-styles and are used for transnational networking, securing in the process the social status of those involved.

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Dominant and Demotic Discourses of Culture: Their Relevance to Multi-Ethnic Alliances

Cited by 10 publications

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Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan

Black Lives Matter goes global: Connective action meets cultural hybridity in Brazil, India, and Japan

“I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes”: Identity, Alterity and the Transitional Self

Transnational Chicago: The Local and Translocal Networks and Loyalties of Post-Socialist Lithuanian Immigrants

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