Archiv für Mai 2015

Life Narratives, Common Language and Diverse Ways of Belonging

The article discusses my experiences of gradual immersion into the community of Polish migrants to Australia, which I joined while researching life writing of Polish post-war women migrants to Australia. I focus on how my assumptions concerning commona…

Fieldwork and Fashion: Gendered and Classed Performances in Research Sites

Researchers‘ performances in the field are gendered, classed, and ethnicized. We are watched and judged by our respondents based on how we look, what we say, and how we say it. Our appearance in the field may increase or decrease our chances of creatin…

Beyond Insiders and Outsiders in Migration Research: Rejecting A Priori Commonalities. Introduction to the FQS Thematic Section on „Researcher, Migrant, Woman: Methodological Implications of Multiple Positionalities in Migration Studies“

This editorial discusses the main strings of debates linking the discussions of insider research, gendered identities and concerns of methodological nationalism and groupism in migration studies. The insider/outsider dichotomy has been discussed in the…

„Eating the Sweat from my Forehead“: Farm Worker Narratives from South Africa’s Apartheid

In this article we draw on the life histories of farm workers living in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Subjectively interpreting their realities, the farm labourers narrated their experiences of living in the era before, during and after apar…

Immersion, Embodiment, and Imagination: Moving Beyond an Aesthetic of Objectivity in Research-Informed Performance in Health

Growing numbers of qualitative health researchers of diverse disciplinary backgrounds are experimenting with various forms of performance (e.g., film, live theater, dance) as innovative approaches to engage broader communities in complex and critical w…

Il Mulino | 2/2015

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/ilmulino/issue/2015-05-27.html

Instantiating Vision at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

This article examines the how the educational ideals of Mary Lyon, founder of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, were instantiated in the built environment of the seminary she founded in the early nineteenth century. It is an exploration of how Lyon’s…

Fearing the “Turk” and Feeling the Spirit: Emotion and Conversion in the Early Modern Mediterranean

The early modern period was an age of expansive religious refashioning and upheaval. In the Mediterranean this was the golden age of the renegade, as converts, particularly from Christianity to Islam, were termed. While fear was almost universally evo…

Multitudes | 58 (2015)

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/multitudes/issue/2015-05-26.html

Esprit | 5/2015

Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/esprit/issue/2015-05-26.html