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With the Desert in the Body: Performative Maps of Chilean Youth

Januar 19, 2014, 9:35 a.m., Jimena Silva, Allgemein.

To understand ideologies based on gender, this qualitative investigation used a methodological model, based on corporal mapping, interviews, and intertextualized analysis of 47 female students from Antofagasta in the mining zones of northern Chile. In the interpretive analysis of symbolic elements of body maps in the context of gender socialization it was found that miners (all male) metaphorically view the female body as body/mine, as penetrable/hole (female as a sexual object) and where treasure/wealth may be extracted. Female corporal expressions, such as agent/transformer, establish a dialogue fraught with tension where the power of the female is disturbing in a culture where the male is dominant.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140175

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1998

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Conference Report: Nachwuchsnetzwerk [Young Academics Network] NWNW8 – Diversity and Plurality. Theory and Practice in Spatial Science

Januar 19, 2014, 9:19 a.m., Laura Kemmer, Philip Adebar, Malte Bergmann, Kornelia Ehrlich, Mira Freiermuth, Hendrik Jansen, René Kreichauf, Sandy Kühnel, Frank Müller, Tobias Nitsche, Knut Petzold, Johanna Vogel, Marian Günzel, Allgemein.

During the 8th conference of the "Stadt, Raum, Architektur" [City, Space, Architecture] network, young researchers discussed the topics of diversity and plurality from disciplinary perspectives, ranging from social and spatial sciences to humanities. The meeting took place at the Institutes of Human Geography, Cultural Anthropology, and European Ethnology of the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main on the 9^th and 10^th of November, 2012. In this article we reflect on the major topics of the conference, and addressing current debates on sociocultural diversity, its theoretical conceptualization, as well as its practical implications. The research perspectives presented in the following cover the scientific fields of city planning, architecture, social sciences, cultural sciences, and spatial sciences. Contents and outcomes of the conference are discussed on the basis of theoretical approaches such as "super-diversity," "cosmopolitanism," and "transnationalism," following the global discursive turn from "multiculturalism" to "diversity." The empirical focus includes practices of city marketing, integration policies, and the spatialization of diversity, as well as specific practices of segregation, marginalization, and negotiation of difference. Eventually, conflicts and opportunities arising from a supposedly "new diversity" in city planning, de-colonial research and post-structuralism are highlighted.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140113

Quelle: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2056

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