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Fabrics of Indianness
This book describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in contemporary Guyana and examines how Hindu traditions have been transformed in this multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. By illustrating the exchange and consumption of clothing, the book demonstrates that the practices of wearing and gifting clothes materialize and visualize relationships. The significant outward migration of Guyanese to North America has resulted in substantial international gift exchange and transnational rituals. Applying the concept of translocality, this book demonstrates that different localities continue to influence transnational networks and socio-cultural practices. It provides a study of migration that emphasizes various aspects of material and visual closeness, conceptualizing the notion of touch.
Caribbean Food Cultures
»Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of »authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism. The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.
Climate Change Literacy
This Element presents a necessary intervention within the rapidly expanding field of research in the environmental humanities on climate change and environmental literacy. In contrast to the dominant, science-centred literacy debates, which largely ignore the unique resources of the humanities, it asks: How does literary reading contribute to climate change communication? How does this contribution relate to recent demands for environmental and related literacies? Rather than reducing the function of literature to a more pleasurable form of information transfer or its affective dimension of evoking sympathy, climate change literacy thoroughly reassesses the cognitive, affective, and pedagogic potentials of literary writing. It does so by analysing a selection of popular climate novels and by demonstrating the role of fiction in fostering a more adequate understanding of, and response to, climate change. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
American Studies after Postmodernism
This book explores the major challenges that the long-standing and diversely debated demise of postmodernism signifies for American literature, art, culture, history, and politics, in the present, third decade of the twenty-first century. Its scope comprises a vigorous discussion of all these diverse fields undertaken by distinguished scholars as well as junior researchers, U.S. Americanists and European Americanists alike. Focusing on socio-political and cultural developments in the contemporary U.S., their contributions highlight the interconnectedness of the geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological crises that define the historical present on global scale. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Multiple Knowledges. Learning from/with Other Beings
This issue of Transpositiones showcases a range of interdisciplinary and critical approaches to classic and alternative conceptions of cognition and sources of knowledge. The articles reflect on the many types of sensory and extrasensory knowledge available to non-human beings and wonder whether and in what ways can we, as humans, perceive, conceptualize, and respect these knowledges. The authors highlight how the existence of multiple knowledges questions species boundaries and onto- and epistemological perspectives, in the process of learning not only about other beings but also from and along with them. This selection of texts attempts to contribute to overcoming the anthropocentric perception of subjectivity and to the abandoning of an optics based on the dualisms of nature and culture, spirit and matter, subject and object, animate and inanimate nature, physis and techne, etc., which are so firmly entrenched in the Western intellectual tradition.
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health
This book examines innovative approaches to the use of qualitative methods in mental health research. It describes the development and use of methods of data collection and analysis designed. These methods address contemporary and interdisciplinary research questions, such as how to access the voices of vulnerable populations, understand the relationship between experience and discourse, and identify processes and patterns that characterize institutional practices. The book offers insight into projects that reflect various cultural contexts and geographical locations as well as involve diverse research teams, ranging in their methodology from individual case studies to community-based interv...
On the Discursive Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Europe
Europe is the name for a scintillating variety of historically emerged concepts, constantly developed and discussed over time. Its complexity and fuzziness is reflected in a multitude of myths, topoi, symbols and boundaries, which all constitute shared knowledge of the concept of EUROPE and which continue to influence attempts to (de- and re-)construct European identity. The case studies collected in this volume investigate the competing concepts of Europe in political and public discourses from a wide range of perspectives (e.g. frame semantics, discourse linguistics, multimodal analysis), focusing on the following aspects: How is EUROPE conceptualised, (re-)negotiated and legitimised by different political actors, political bodies and institutions? How does “the European idea” change throughout history and how is the re-emerging idea of nationality evaluated?
Sprache in der Psychiatrie
Sprache – Kommunikationsmittel, Beziehungspflege Als Mensch in der Psychiatrie ist Sprache unser wichtigstes Werkzeug: Für die Interaktion, für den Austausch, für das gegenseitige Verständnis. Als Mensch ohne Stimme sind wir sprachlos, wortlos und stoßen an unsichtbare Mauern. Eine therapeutisch wirksame Psychiatrie ist ohne den bewussten Einsatz von Sprache nicht denkbar. Sprache befindet sich ebenso wie das Verhältnis des psychiatrischen Feldes in einem stetigen Wandel. Dieses Buch nähert sich der komplexen Thematik aus verschiedenen Perspektiven an. In Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie wird überwiegend mit Sprache gearbeitet. Sprechen dient nicht nur der Herstellung und Aufrechterh...
Die Macht des Definierens
Wo verläuft die Grenze zwischen psychischer Gesundheit und Krankheit, und wie wird diese im öffentlichen und fachlichen Diskurs ausgehandelt und definiert? Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht am Beispiel des Burnout-Diskurses, mit welchen Sprachgebrauchsformen und kommunikativen Praktiken in Fach-, Medien- und Vermittlungstexten ein spezifikationsbedürftiges Phänomen des Bereichs psychischer Gesundheit und Krankheit definiert wird. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht die Macht diskursiver Praktiken des Definierens und die These, dass sich diese Praktiken nicht nur punktuell in bewussten Definitionshandlungen einzelner Textautor/-innen zeigen, sondern dass Definieren in einem Diskurs auch als teilweise unbewusster, überindividueller, transtextueller Prozess begriffen und analysiert werden muss. Die Exemplifizierung dieser These mündet in ein 11-Punkte-Modell der diskursiven Praxis des Definierens. Durch den diskurslinguistisch-praxeologischen Ansatz eröffnet die Arbeit neue Perspektiven für die linguistische Terminologie- und Definitionsforschung.
