Space, identity, and the politics of difference, the scholars reconsider the binary understandings of space and place and argue for. Engaging with wider academic debates that have viewed diaspora as existing outside the usual cultural framework of immigration and recontextualised it within globalisation, my paper will question the link between diaspora and migrant transnationalism, and between identity and nationhood. An anthropological reader second edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. Space, identity, and the politics of difference the power. Week 10 116 empire and the politics of sound central reading. Some notes on the geographical margins of the new cultural politics, in michael keith and steve pile eds place and the politics of identity,pp.
The essays in culture, power, place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. International migration and the reconstruction of community identities in india new. Introduction evelyn peters and chris andersen part 1. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in renaissance social and cultural. The article contrasts hollywoods relationship with space as one about mastery, mirroring americas fromabove approach to middle eastern politics, with the egyptian films more intimate portrayal of space, where conflicts are more localized and closer to home. There is a noticeable tendency to equate cultural studies with the theory and politics of identity and difference, especially as a result of the influence of. Space, identity, and the politics of difference, the scholars reconsider the binary understandings of space and place and argue for an interpretation of their immediate relationships. Space, identity and the politics of difference, in cultural anthropology7, no.
Explorations in critical anthropology, akhil gupta, james ferguson. Akhil gupta born 1959 is an indianamerican anthropologist whose research has focused on. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the. Space, identity, and the politics of difference, culture, power, place. In 1992, while still at stanford, gupta along with fellow stanford anthropologist james ferguson wrote the wellknown and oftcited essay, beyond culture. Beyond the political opportunity structure approach. Space, identity, and the politics of difference 374 akhil gupta and james ferguson 25 afghanistan, ethnography, and the new world order 387.
Space, identity, and the politics of difference, cultural anthropology 7 1992. They have also provided a framework into which he has woven innovative new threads that have emerged in renaissance social and cultural history. Space, identity and the politics of difference, en akhil gup ta y james ferguson eds. Gupta and fergusons essay introduces five thematic ethnographic articles in cultural anthropology, vol. Soja, edward and hooper, barbara 1993 the spaces that difference makes. Space, identity, and the politics of difference more. Space, identity and the politics of difference, en akhil gupta y james ferguson eds. Aboriginal urbanization in canada 1 the urbanization of aboriginal populations in canada. Ghosh, amitav, the march of the novel through history. Identity, and the politics of difference akhil gupta. Also see akhil gupta, james ferguson, beyond culture. Main quad, building 50 stanford university stanford, ca 94305.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity one that goes far beyond previous attempts by. Some reflections on the diaryphotograph, diaryinterview method alan latham section 2. Transnational sufi order and pakistani diaspora in britain. The cultural geography reader 1st edition timothy oakes. Categories of identity gender, race, class and sexuality are reexamined to allow a move away from a fixed moralistic approach to identity politics, towards a recognition of difference, autonomy and interdependence. For a subject whose central rite of passage is fieldwork, whose romance has rested on its exploration of the remote the most other of others hannerz 1986. Akhil gupta and james presumption that spaces are autonomous has enabled the power of topography to conceal successfully the. Space, identity, and the politics of difference akhil gupta, james ferguson published 1992 sociology cultural anthropology. Space, identity, and the politics of difference related.
The contradictory nature of puerto rican womens role in the social construction of a transnational community marixsa alicea. Space, identity and the politics of difference in culture, power, place. Kalra, virinder s, kaur, raminder and hutnyk, john, 2005. Space, identity and the politics of difference cultural anthropology 7. The essays in culture, power, place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a. James clifford argues that this awareness of here and there can be a liberating space for diasporic individuals as. Identity is a contemporary buzzword, a keyword as williams 1976, p termed it, and as such has. Space is explored as both a physical and a mentalimaginedlived entity. The country and the city on the copperbelt, cultural anthropology 71. You can filter on reading intentions from the list, as well as view them within your profile read the guide. Space, identity, and the politics of difference, cultural anthropology 7 1, feb. Topographies of jewish identity in berlin in the 20th and 21st. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographers experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe.
A key issue that unites and divides organizations and organizational members is national identity. Space, identity, and the politics of difference akhil gupta. Secularism and public life in turkey, princeton university press, pp. Space, identity, and the politics of difference cultural anthropology, pp. This collection of essays points to ways in which notions of identity can inform changing conceptions of democratic politics. The country and the city on the copperbelt, cultural. This subject looks at the evolution of the concepts of ethnic and national identity over time, in both social science and everyday life. Aspects of gender identity and craft production in the european migration. There is a noticeable tendency to equate cultural studies with the theory and politics of identity and difference, especially as a result of the influence of socalled postcolonial theory and critical race theory. Space, identity, and the politics of difference the power of the topography conceals the topography of power.
Space, identity, and the politics of difference akhil gupta department of anthropology stanford university james ferguson department of anthropology university of california, irvine for a subject whose central rite of passage is fieldwork, whose romance has rested. Graduate school of architecture, planning and preservation. Special issue on space and place in anthropology, coedited with akhil gupta, cultural anthropology 71, 1992. Politics, culture, power and social organisation are very important if we are to define development problems, identify just and viable solutions, and propose ways and means to carry out those. Culture, power, place begond culture space identity and the. While there is a proliferation of research on cultural differences hofstede, 1994. Cultural studies, identity, and politics between the modern and.
Space, identity, and the politics of difference, culture, power. Space, identity, and the politics of difference, cultural anthropology, vol. Bernadette hospedales studies visual arts, creative writing, and contemporary poetry. Space, identity and the politics of difference by gupta and ferguson. Students are introduced to the substantial cross cultural variation in how personhood and social. Place, space and identity culture understood as naturally discontinuous spaces isomorphism of space, place, and culture cultural differences within a locality gupta and ferguson, beyond culture. Jul 01, 1992 click on the article title to read more. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural. Space, identity, and the politics of difference akhil gupta and james ferguson 33 national geographic. Main quad, building 50 stanford university stanford, ca. Contests and contexts in the formation of a german ethnic identity. Cultural studies, identity, and politics between the modern and the postmodern. Space, identity and the politics of difference, in cultural anthropology 7, no. Culture, power, place begond culture space identity and.
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