The Pain of Unbelonging

Collingwood–Whittick, Sheila; Greer, Germaine

doi:10.1163/9789401204279

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“…This subversive and peripheral rescaling is undertaken against the socio-historical forces of coloniality, which deny agency to colonized peoples and restrict them to past traditions and uncivilized customs in the wilds of nature (Collingwood-Whittick 2007). Mention of the Amazon, for example, is sufficient to invoke a dense, colonial chronotope in Brazil and globally, also activating ecological and developmentalist chronotopes.…”

Section: Rescaling the Peripherymentioning

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“…Black, Indigenous, feminine, and queer bodies that are out of place, out of time, or speak back are threats to the order of coloniality. Post-colonial aesthetics, for example, introduce melancholia and ‘unbelonging’ as disruptive tropes (Almond 2004; Collingwood-Whittick 2007). These tropes disrupt the triumphalist and white-supremacist fantasy of a unified national body into which all are fully integrated and of which all are accepting.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rescaling the global borderlands: Transperipheral projections from ‘the heart of the Amazon’

Windle

Lopes

2021

Lang. Soc.

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This article examines semiotic resignifications undertaken in ‘peripheral’ cultural production through an ethnographic analysis of the trajectory of the Amazonian artist, Jaloo. Jaloo occupies multiple positions of marginality in Brazilian society and artistic scenes, which he connects to other global peripheries in his performances, aesthetics, and self-narratives. Building on anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship, we show how ‘peripheral’ status is managed by Jaloo in the context of a growing and politicised audience for outsider and alternative cultural production. We theorise Jaloo's negotiation of his relationship with audiences and the media as rescaling. Further, we argue that this rescaling entails the ordering of semiotic resources into a social imaginary that reconfigures peripheral territories and identities, which we consider in terms of a transperipheral chronotope. (Inequality, chronotopes, indexicality, race, coloniality, scales, periphery)

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Section: Rescaling the Peripherymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rescaling the Peripherymentioning

confidence: 99%