No ordinary ethics

Lempert, Michael

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“…Thus in this case, the ordinary aspects of ethics point to an ideal way to relate to God and God's immanence, which in practice is often a 'precarious achievement' (Lempert 2013: 371). I draw on Michael Lempert's (2013) recognition that there is a great deal of discursive and embodied labour involved in ethical practice. As such, I trace how in claiming pule and harnessing mana these practices are a way to negotiate tensions surrounding individual agency.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures

Tomlinson¹,

Tengan²

2016

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New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures

Tomlinson¹,

Tengan²

2016

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“…(‘what is this there on your head?’). We suggest that yintoni can be seen as an example of discursive ritualization (in the sense discussed by Lempert ): even though it can be mocking or teasing, by asking for clarification one also opens the space for relation, engagement and dialogue.…”

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A luta continua– black queer visibilities and philosophies of hospitality in a South African rural town

Deumert

Mabandla

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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In 1996, the inclusion of sexual orientation in the anti‐discrimination clause of South Africa's post‐apartheid constitution aligned LGBT+ rights with the larger struggle against oppression and inequality. In this paper we focus on a small, rural town in the Eastern Cape, a town we call Forestville. How are LGBT+ identities made visible in this town? How do residents respond to the diverse sexualities they encounter? How do they talk about diversity (sexual and otherwise)? The data was collected in the context of a long‐term ethnographic project, which looks at responses to diversity in non‐metropolitan settings. Reconstructing local philosophies of hospitality and looking at affective‐discursive practice, we argue that social life in Forestville shows traces of what Derrida () calls ‘absolute hospitality’. There is a sense of welcome and inclusivity, but, unlike in Derrida's conception, this hospitality is deeply embedded in the speech act of asking, indeed in curiosity. At the same time, hospitality remains fragile; it is always on the border of exclusion and judgment. The article explores Mignolo's () idea of ‘critical border thinking’ as a core episteme for Southern theory and puts academic philosophy and everyday knowledges into dialogue with one another.

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“…In this article, however, I highlight a different source of reflexivity: the implicit forms of positioning and critique entailed in language practices. Such semiotic reflexivity refers broadly to the ways people use language and other signs to typify and appraise the social world, and it encompasses conscious and also less overt forms of evaluation (Keane , ; Lazar ; Lempert , 376). The denotationally explicit narration of the ethico‐morally questionable is an example of this kind of reflexivity—as when one asserts that US women are “sinvergüenzas.” But semiotic reflexivity is not encompassed by explicitness; it is also evinced in more implicit forms of “standing apart” (Keane , 69).…”

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Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza(A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community

Dick

2017

American Anthropologist

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This article explores a process that typifies social worlds during late-capitalist globalization: people's lives regularly involve the negotiation of conflicting visions of ethico-moral life. Such negotiations require people to reckon with complex social differentiation, wherein the boundaries between "good" and "bad" are overlapping, contradictory, and ever shifting. In the face of such complexity, we need ways to understand the assemblages that emerge as actors construct ethico-moral people and collectivities inside acts of reckoning. A crucial activity highlighted in assembly is reflexivity: the ability to step outside of and critically evaluate unfolding events and one's place(s) in them. Existing scholarship spotlights the importance of conscious moments of reflection. In this article, I highlight a different source of reflexivity: the implicit forms of positioning and critique entailed in language practices. My central claim is that the production of ethico-moral assemblages relies fundamentally on a form of linguistic reflexivity called interdiscursivity, through which actors lay claim to and can be read as possessing multiple, overlapping, and potentially contradictory forms of ethico-moral personhood. I show that the construction of "proper Mexicanness" unfurls in relationship with imagined foils of immoral US personhood, producing hierarchical distinctions that are raced, classed, and gendered. [migration, morality, ethics, interdiscursivity, assemblages] RESUMEN Este artículo explora un proceso que tipifica los mundos sociales durante la globalización capitalista tardía: las vidas de las personas regularmente involucran la negociación de visiones conflictivas de la vidaético-moral.Tales negociaciones le requieren a las personas tener en cuenta la compleja diferenciación social, en donde los límites entre "bueno" y "malo" coinciden, se contradicen, y son cambiantes. Ante tal complejidad, necesitamos formas de entender los ensamblajes que emergen en la medida que los actores construyen personas y colectividadeséticomorales dentro de los actos de valoración. Una actividad crucial enfatizada en el montaje es la reflexividad: la habilidad de apartarse de y críticamente evaluar los eventos en desarrollo y el lugar(es) de uno en ellos. Investigaciones existentes destacan la importancia de los momentos conscientes de reflexión. En este artículo, destaco una fuente diferente de reflexividad: las formas implícitas de posicionamiento y crítica implicadas en prácticas lingüísticas.Mi tesis central es que la producción de ensamblajesético-morales depende fundamentalmente de la forma de reflexividad lingüística llamada interdiscursividad, a través de la cual los actores reclaman y puede ser leídos como poseyendo múltiples, superpuestas, y potencialmente contradictorias formas de la condición de personaséticomorales. Muestro que la construcción de la "propia mexicanidad" se despliega en relación con envolturas imaginadas de la condición de persona inmoral estadounidense, produciendo distinciones jerárquicas que so...

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No ordinary ethics

Cited by 64 publications

References 54 publications

New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures

New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures

A luta continua– black queer visibilities and philosophies of hospitality in a South African rural town

Una Gabacha Sinvergüenza(A Shameless White-Trash Woman): Moral Mobility and Interdiscursivity in a Mexican Migrant Community

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