* THINK ABOUT ‘THE OTHER’ *
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Foraging - looking for evidence around me to help me find my context and sense of place at this particular moment in time.
I found a little green book which was issued to me when I registered at the 'Alien's Department', 2/10/1996
May be a good starting place to think about self-identity and 'the other'?
Perceived as an alien in the UK, who is perceived an alien in Bulgaria? Roma Gypsies. Gay People. Immigrants. Marginalised people. Disabled people. ***
Ex pats - Бивши патки (a linguistic joke - 'Pat' in bulgarian reminds one of 'patka'= duck SO : ex-pat = former duck (hahahaha) So what could a former duck be now? Invent characters - a cockerel? A swan? A cat? * Bulgarians are good at blending in - White Europeans - but what are the giveaway signs? OBSERVE ***DISGUISE*** *Estelle Hanania refs* - linked to feeling out of place - a black sheep- an alien?? anotherfullcircle
*** *Read 'Appadurai' Histories make Geographies NOTES Summary The text is about the evolution of culture on a global and a local level, and how this constant development is influenced by a range of factors, such as various forms of circulation (novels, ballet, cinema, fashion magazines etc.), how they meet established circulation circuits, and also make new ones, depending on the context of the local culture. The idea that histories make geographies, rather than the other way around means that historical agents, institutions, and powers are responsible for creating geographies, not a spatial landscape that time writes its story against. Production of locality Forms of circulation / circulation of forms Production of locality Cultural fusion
E.g.Besarabian Bulgarians Argentinian Welsh German Turks
Repressed cultural forms - countries like Russia - creative underground , ex communist republics Opening ceremony Olympics vs LGBT propaganda laws Conspiracy theories - using same networks as general interest info (FB, groups etc)
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Reflect
This text was very interesting to me, as my work deals a lot with visual symbolism, communication and messaging through clothing, which is influenced by global but also local factors, and the translation of these meanings in different contexts. It also makes me think about the effect of different forms of circulation that could be used to reach different audiences.
Today, global cultural flows, whether religious, political or market produced, have entered into the manufacture of local subjectivities, thus changing both the machineries for the manufacture of local meaning and the materials that are processed by these machineries
The form results in acculturation, amalgamation and assimilation, creolisation - in clothing/ music/food, and results of ethnoscapes
Communication / exchange networks - legal and illegal
Information exchange
Traffic - flow - exchange of information, capital, creation of networks
Histories produce geographies - unified symbols example of symbols of protection, shevici - embroidery - balkan, Scandinavian, aztec
Positive and negative sides - two sides of the same coin
Situationist International
Psychogeography
Beuys - Ideas and Actions,1988 ref: P0500 and Alain Borer, The Essential Joseph Beuys, 1996 ref: P0125 *
Course wise, it has been a week of a lot of incoming new information, grappling with terminology and making sense of various points of view and contexts.
Some new words and terms in the context of Interculturality
- Acculturation
- Assimilation
- Amalgamation
- Transculturation
- Transculturality
- Multiculturalism =
- Psychogeography = emotional response to city scapes
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* John Jordan notes :
* Benessaieh notes : Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, Transculturalism