Social Dramas and Stories about Them

Turner, Victor

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“…Performative sequencing is intrinsic in ritual (Turner 1980). The liminal phase in a rite of passage follows either real or symbolic separation from the normal social order, and precedes re-entry into society in a new social state.…”

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Migrants in liminal time and space: an exploration of the experiences of highly skilled Indian bachelors in Amsterdam

Kirk¹,

Bal²,

Janssen³

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper sheds light on the relationship between individual agency, transnational social relations, geographic place, and cultural constructions of life phase and gender among highly skilled Indian migrants to the Netherlands. Amsterdam is attracting an increasing number of Indian migrants who work primarily in the fields of information technology, engineering and business management. The nature of this highly skilled work requires mobile, flexible workers, and therefore mainly attracts single men between 25 and 34. Their migrant experiences and choices are marked by a 'performance of liminality': migration is part of a coming of age ritual that both structures their lives and is structured by circumstances and agency. The experience of bachelors in particular can be understood as a 'double liminality' in that it is both temporary and spatial. Many of our bachelor informants felt they were 'betwixt and between' the socio-cultural expectations they grew up with and what they perceive to be Dutch or Western culture, and between those that pertain to childhood and to adulthood. They live on a metaphorical threshold, shaped by their masculine ideals, beliefs about 'Indian culture', their expected life trajectories, and their experiences in and expectations of the Netherlands and the city of Amsterdam.

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Section: Migration and Time: Performing Liminalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants in liminal time and space: an exploration of the experiences of highly skilled Indian bachelors in Amsterdam

Kirk¹,

Bal²,

Janssen³

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Nessa linha de significação, remete-se ao entendimento da "vida social como dramatúrgica (GOFFMAN, 1983 17 ) ou como drama social (GEERTZ, 1989;TURNER, 1981TURNER, , 1992)" (HARTMANN, 2005, p. 131). Nos dois casos, pretende responder ao que entende como marcas da vida social contemporânea.…”

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Performatividade: inscrições, contextos, disseminações

Leite¹

2014

Praxis Educativa

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Resumo: A expressão performatividade e suas flexões têm nomeado noções diversas na pesquisa em Educação. Partindo das significações propostas por Stephen Ball, na discussão das políticas educacionais da contemporaneidade, mas também interessadas nas teorizações de Jacques Derrida e Judith Butler, que se valem desses mesmos termos para pensar os processos sociais de significação e identificação, seguimos traços da disseminação da palavra performatividade e suas correlatas, chegando a inscrições em textos da Antropologia, das Artes, da Ciência Política, da Linguística, Filosofia e da Física. Investigamos também o campo acadêmico-educacional, recorrendo a periódicos da área publicados nos últimos cinco anos, para discutir os sentidos atribuídos nesse contexto aos termos em foco. Neste artigo, apresentamos a síntese desse estudo, destacando afirmações, apagamentos e efeitos de verdade que se podem construir com tais enunciações nos textos da pesquisa sobre Educação, com destaque para a abordagem das políticas educacionais da atualidade. Palavras-chave: Performatividade. Políticas educacionais. Iterabilidade. Abstract:The term performativity and its inflexions have been applied to several concepts in the field of educational research. In this study, we trace the dissemination of the word performativity and its correlates, starting from the meanings attributed to the term by Stephen Ball, in his analysis of contemporary educational policies, but also using the theories of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, who used these terms to refer to social processes of signification and identification, and also references made to the term in studies of Anthropology, Arts, Political Science, Linguistics, Philosophy and Physics. On top of that, we researched studies in the field of academic education, examining articles from journals and other periodicals published over the last five years, in order to discuss the various meanings attributed to the term within the educational field. We present, in this paper, a synthesis of our investigations, highlighting the affirmations, negations and truth effects that can be construed from the use of these terms in educational research, in particular when approaching current educational policies. Keywords: Performativity. Educational policies. Iterability. Resumen: La expresión performatividad y sus flexiones han nombrado varias nociones en la investigación en Educación. Partiendo de las significaciones propuestas por Stephen Ball, en la discusión de las políticas educacionales en la contemporaneidad, sino también interesadas en las teorizaciones de Jacques Derrida y Judith Butler, que usan esos mismos términos para pensar los processos sociales de significación e identificación, seguimos las huellas de la diseminación de la palabra performatividad y sus correlatas hasta inscripciones en textos de la Antropología, de las Artes, de la Ciencia Política, la Lingüística, Filosofía y la Física. Hemos investigado además el campo académico-educacional utilizando publicaciones periódicas de la dicha ...

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“…In fact, for him all liminal situations are happening in symbolic borders, and they include a series of concrete attitudes (individual and collective) that must be dramatized in front of the group members. From Turner's (1980) point of view, a ritual is a very stereotyped behavior and powerful in terms of cultural conventions, that communicates the more valuable social values, allowing participants to perform a role. It is remarkable that the functioning of the ritual is similar to several media processes.…”

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Myth and the Construction of Meaning in Mediated Culture

Solá-Morales¹

2013

KOME

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Abstract:Traditionally mythical thought has been banished and considered less important than logical thinking. However, in the last decades several authors have claimed the need to revalorize this notion. From our perspective, myth is a key concept to explore the construction of meaning in media narratives. For instance, if we try to solve fundamental questions as what communication is or how media make meaning, we should take into consideration the epistemological scope of myth. This article's main objective is to prove that the co-implication between logos and mythos is essential to understand social communication and mediated culture. Thus, to avoid any kind of reductionism, it is necessary to establish a dialogue between the two forms of thinking and expression: the concept and the imagination.

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Social Dramas and Stories about Them

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Migrants in liminal time and space: an exploration of the experiences of highly skilled Indian bachelors in Amsterdam

Migrants in liminal time and space: an exploration of the experiences of highly skilled Indian bachelors in Amsterdam

Performatividade: inscrições, contextos, disseminações

Myth and the Construction of Meaning in Mediated Culture

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