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... The absence of prescribed function in Terrain Vague spaces creates unique conditions for bodily exploration and activation, and vice versa, the material and temporal qualities of Terrain Vague spaces shape bodily experience (Merleau-Ponty 1945;De Certeau 1984;de Solà-Morales1995). ...
... The undefined nature of Terrain Vague allows for more creative spatial scripts as bodies 'write' new meanings through their spatial and temporal movements and activities. For de Certeau (1984), walking creates a unique spatial story; his concept of tactical spatial practices contrasts the top-down view of planners and institutions with the everyday lived experience of people. Planners might see 'vacant' land from above, but bodies on the ground experience these spaces differently through direct engagement -often as places of memories, nature, informal play and activities. ...
... However, in universities, improvised dormitories quickly became overcrowded and unsanitary, while food rationing soon emerged as a critical issue in the factories. As de Certeau (2011[1980) observes, the management of everyday material needs often remains a blind spot in utopias, despite its centrality to daily life. Motivated by ideals of freedom, self-sufficiency, and a desire to break the established order, the insurgents failed to anticipate the practical challenges of prolonged mobilization. ...
... However, in universities, improvised dormitories quickly became overcrowded and unsanitary, while food rationing soon emerged as a critical issue in the factories. As de Certeau (2011[1980) observes, the management of everyday material needs often remains a blind spot in utopias, despite its centrality to daily life. Motivated by ideals of freedom, self-sufficiency, and a desire to break the established order, the insurgents failed to anticipate the practical challenges of prolonged mobilization. ...
The success and longevity of large-scale social movements depend not only on the strength of their ideologies or the intensity of their demands, but also on their ability to organize, sustain, and adapt logistical support for participants. Using the May ‘68 movement in France as an analytical lens, this article examines the material foundations of protest—such as food, shelter, and medical care—as critical factors that can either reinforce collective resilience or accelerate a movement’s decline. It argues that managing flows is not a peripheral concern but a structuring element that remains too often overlooked in scholarly analysis. By bridging the sociology of social movements with the field of logistics management, the article reveals a persistent blind spot in conventional approaches: the strategic importance of resources and their circulation in sustaining activist engagement. This materialist reinterpretation of protest invites a rethinking of mobilization not only as an ideological endeavor, but also as an operational one—rooted in the anticipation, coordination, and distribution of essential flows capable of accommodating organizational complexity, actors’ diversity, and shifting conditions on the ground.
... Users are not passive dupes of technology; they are active agents possessing agency, creativity, and the capacity for reflection. They constantly negotiate, adapt strategically, learn new skills, find workarounds, appropriate technologies for unintended purposes (de Certeau, 1984), and engage in various forms of resistance within specific socio-technical contexts (Orlikowski, 2000). However, this paper focuses specifically on how powerful structural factors -including platform design choices driven by commercial interests (e.g., promoting easily quantifiable engagement over depth (Kwok, 2025H)), workplace efficiency pressures reinforced by algorithmic management and performance metrics, pervasive algorithmic opacity, and broader economic or political incentives -can create conditions where the path of least resistance subtly steers users towards non-autonomous cognitive and behavioral narrowing. ...
... • Supporting User Tactics & Appropriability: Design systems with affordances that allow users more flexibility to strategically manage, appropriate, customize, or even circumvent algorithmic influence when necessary, respecting user ingenuity and agency (de Certeau, 1984). Avoid overly rigid or locked-down systems where possible. ...
... This dispossessive process manifests concretely in the atomization of Como's cultural networks, as actors find themselves operating in spatial isolation despite cognitive awareness of parallel practices. Yet this fragmentation, while constraining collective capacity, simultaneously generates conditions for the emergence of alternative socialities characterized by improvisational spatial practices, ephemeral solidarities, and tactical reappropriations of interstitial urban spaces (De Certeau, 1984). These emergent forms of collective practice represent generative reconfigurations of the relationship between cultural production, urban space, and collective organization, articulating through practice alternative visions of urban cultural possibility that exist in tension with tourism-driven spatial logics. ...
Introduction: This study examines how cultural producers perceive and interpret the UNESCO Creative City designation, focusing on Como, Italy, following its 2021 inclusion in the network. Anchored in critical urban theory and cultural sociology, the research investigates how institutional narratives of creativity intersect with the interpretive frameworks through which cultural actors understand their work. Methods: The research employed ethnographic methods, including semi-structured interviews with diverse cultural producers (theatrical practitioners, visual artists, craftspeople, musicians, filmmakers, venue operators), participant observation at cultural events, and document analysis. Data were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory principles. Results: Findings reveal three interrelated disjunctures: (1) institutional disconnection, expressed through parallel cultural worlds governed by conflicting evaluative logics; (2) spatial constraints, exacerbated by tourism intensification, that undermine conditions for creative practice; and (3) network fragmentation, which cultural producers seek to overcome through emergent forms of solidarity. The study demonstrate these tensions exist alongside the potential for virtuous relationships between Creative City designations and cultural tourism development, while also reflecting how local cultural forms are transformed into symbolic capital within broader urban development projects. Discussion: The study highlights significant tensions between top-down policy frameworks and bottom-up cultural labor, showing how local creative communities actively reinterpret, resist, and reshape institutional discourses. By centering cultural producers' meaning-making practices, the research contributes to debates on culture's instrumentalization in urban governance and offers insights for more inclusive, sustainable, and dialogic cultural policy approaches.
... However, the Italian state often categorizes them through a reductive lens, framing Muslims as security threats and Copts as 'non-European Christians. In their daily lives, Egyptian migrants in Milan, especially those without legal status, employ creative tactics and survival strategies to meet their basic needs (De Certeau 1984) and overcome daily challenges. The shared observance of religious holidays and communal gatherings plays a critical role in maintaining ethnic cohesion within the Egyptian diaspora. ...
This article examines the everyday experiences of the Egyptian minority in Milan, Italy, focusing on challenges arising from the lack of formal recognition for their religious affiliations—Islam and Coptic Orthodoxy—which are central to their ethnic identity. Drawing on Talal Asad’s notion of recognition, Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres’ coloniality framework, it critiques how European policies conflate secularization with security, marginalizing non-European communities. Italy’s legal system highlights this tension: while de jure constitutional protections guarantee religious freedom, de facto bureaucratic and political barriers exclude minority faiths from equal standing. Egyptian migrants must navigate this imbalance, where theoretical rights rarely translate into practical access, forcing them to continually adapt their religious and ethnic identities in a marginalizing society. The article shows how religious invisibility sustains marginalization, contrasting Europe’s multicultural ideals with exclusionary practices. It reveals how colonial legacies shape migrant experiences and restrict rights.
... On the one hand, after the term gained theoretical traction locally, "postmodernism" began to appear in a more popular register, not as a scientific or cultural term but in reference to what Michel de Certeau calls "everyday life" (De Certeau 2002). On the other hand, postmodernism never fully manifested on a popular or political level in Romania; it remained an aspirational, often pro-capitalist category (Lefebvre 2014). ...
Drawing on Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism, the paper suggests that Romania’s postmodern condition necessitates a distinctive theoretical framework, one that accounts for its special position within what the Marxist critic calls the Second World. This framework underscores the unique socio-cultural dynamics of the slow encroachment in Romania of “aspirational postmodernism,” situated within a broader, global capitalist system. The study identifies three genealogies—societal, cultural, and popular—that shaped Romanian postmodernism’s development, as it can be seen in the material provided by the Arcanum archive between 1970 and 2000. Initially, the societal meaning of postmodernism, seen as a shift away from Western capitalism, gave way to a more aestheticized understanding. The cultural genealogy, driven by intellectuals and writers, was constrained by the dominance of older generations and the pervasive influence of nationalism in political discourse. By the 1990s, postmodernism emerged as an ideological tool in the public sphere, particularly in the context of liberalization and decommunization. However, in comparison with other semi-peripheral postmodernist phenomena, the postmodernist influence remained weak and underdeveloped. The paper calls for a reevaluation of both Marxist-Jamesonian and Romanian models of postmodernism to better understand the socialist bloc’s distinct experience of postmodernity.
... The spectacle of the ethnic wedding rests on a powerful fantasy: that what is seen is real. However, as Rendall (1984) famously argued, the spectacle is not the real-it is that which conceals the processes of its own fabrication. What is seen in heritage festivals, televised rituals, and cultural diplomacy events is not the wedding but its image, formatted and polished for consumption as culture and endorsement as legitimacy. ...
This article offers a critical analysis of Mongolian and Kazakh wedding dances in contemporary China, treating these ritual performances not as vestiges of folk culture but as choreographed sites of semiotic labor, identity negotiation, and cultural regulation. Drawing on ethnographic case studies, movement analysis, and critical cultural theory, the study traces how kinship-centered ceremonies have been transformed into performative spectacles under the pressures of state-led heritage discourse, tourism economies, and visual nationalism.Through a comparative reading of Ordos and Kazakh choreographies, the paper reveals how ritual sequences encode distinct logics of gender, kinship, and authority, while being repackaged for external legibility. Rather than expressing cultural continuity, these dances increasingly serve as instruments of aesthetic governance—legible, marketable, and politically managed. Concepts such as the aesthetic contract of recognition, ritual opacity, and choreographic authorship are mobilized to interrogate the shifting boundaries between embodied belief and curated display.Engaging frameworks by Hall, Habermas, and de Certeau, the study shows that the modernization of wedding dance renders it both more visible and more vulnerable—visible to the nation, but estranged from community meaning. The article contributes to ongoing debates in performance studies, heritage politics, and affect theory by advocating for a more reflexive, community-centered approach to intangible cultural heritage—one that honors not only what can be shown, but what must be lived, misremembered, and remade.
... While broader urban theorists such as Lynch (1960), Jacobs (1961), andde Certeau (1984) are are also relevant, their frameworks are applied here only with caution. Lynch (1960) offered the notion of "mental map": the idea that cities are cognitively organized through elements like paths, nodes, edges, and landmarks. ...
The Church of Saint Sophia in Ohrid, North Macedonia is a major religious and architectural landmark whose presence has contributed to the character of the surrounding urban landscape. Constructed in the Byzantine period, the church has historically served as both a spiritual center and a prominent topographical reference point within the city. This study examines how the church has remained a cultural and visual anchor amid broader urban change. It documents and interprets the spatial transformations that have occurred in the vicinity of Saint Sophia, focusing on how its monumental form has contributed to the evolving morphology of the city. However, this research does not claim a direct, prescriptive influence of the church on vernacular architecture but instead explores patterns of proximity, alignment, material continuity, and symbolic centrality. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology comprising archival research, field observation, spatial mapping, photographic comparison, and interviews with local stakeholders. Direct observation of urban transformations was conducted from January to December 2023, with field visits in each season to capture variations in use, atmosphere, and visual conditions. These visits concentrated on the Varosh neighborhood, Ohrid’s oldest residential quarter surrounding Saint Sophia Findings reveal that although commercial encroachment and urban densification have diminished, Saint Sophia’s visibility and spatial prominence, its role as a point of orientation and cultural memory endures. These results contribute to a nuanced understanding of how monumental religious architecture participates in shaping both the physical structure and the symbolic identity of historic cities over time.
... It is therefore essential to anthropologise these everyday experiences to avoid reducing queers solely to victims. Following Certeau (1984), everyday life refers to how people typically act, think, and feel -what is imposed, what causes stress, and what oppresses. Yet, everyday life is not monolithic; it holds potential for anthropological insight (Hall 1992;Ehn et al. 2015). ...
This study investigates the state-perpetuated violence and oppression experienced by LGBTQI+ subjects within the Azerbaijani military. Utilizing a transnational queer-feminist framework, the study draws on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Baku between May 2021 and July 2022. It examines the narratives of LGBTQI+ research participants, who have served, attempted to serve, or worked in the military, highlighting how mandatory conscription serves as a tool of state oppression in an authoritarian regime. The research reveals that queers are often labelled as ‘mentally ill’ and discharged or excluded from military service upon the discovery of their queerness. The study also underscores the intersections of oppression, noting that factors such as class and military rank exacerbate the marginalization of lower-ranking and working-class queer soldiers. Despite the hostile environment, the article explores acts of everyday resistance among queer soldiers, who form covert networks and relationships to survive and navigate the military system. The hierarchical nature of the military allows higher-ranking officers to exploit their positions, often escaping repercussions for similar behaviours that result in the punishment of lower-ranking queers. Concluding that state violence significantly influences the lives and choices of queers regarding military service, the article calls for the abolition of discriminatory practices and the implementation of inclusive, non-discriminatory policies within the military. This study contributes to broader debates in queer theory and aims to reshape discussions on gender and sexuality in post-Soviet authoritarian contexts.
... Questa prospettiva è intrinsecamente intersezionale (Valentine, 2008) perché, quando si guarda agli spazi di compresenza di persone molto diverse tra loro negli stessi spazi (interni o esterni) della città, è inevitabile tenere conto delle interazioni multiple tra le molteplici dimensioni della diversità di cui ognuno dei partecipanti è portatore in modo più o meno esplicito. Questo modo di osservare le città e i suoi spazi dell'incontro e dello scontro di persone che esprimono bisogni anche spaziali molto differenziati, ma non per questo incompatibili, porta al valore che entrambi diamo all'esistente e alla dimensione della vita quotidiana (De Certeau, 1984). L'esperta di politiche urbane rivolge dunque l'attenzione agli spazi del multiculturalismo quotidiano (Colombo e Semi, 2007; Wise e Velayutham, 2009) dove si negozia ogni giorno la propria differenza in un'esperienza che è al tempo stesso corporea e situata (Amin, 2012). ...
The article reflects on a series of teaching and research experiences where an expert in planning and urban policy focusing on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural contexts and an expert in interiors and domestic culture focused on dwelling have established cooperation based on a common interest for ethnographical positioning. An ‘interdisciplinary contamination’ based on a dialogue between two disciplines focused on the cities and dwelling spaces at different scales. ‘People, places, practices’ have been the three main keywords that have helped the joint work. In this article, the use of these words is unpacked through an explicit dialogue a key text by Pierluigi Crosta (2010) focused on practices of everyday life and the challenges of co-presence in the space of diverse populations in contemporary cities.
... A single definition for the temporary use of space has not yet been adopted. The scientific literature lists different definitions and different terms for temporary use of space, such as "temporary use" or "temporary urbanism" [3,4,6,15,17,[39][40][41][42][43], "interim use" [44,45], "tactical urbanism" [14,[46][47][48][49], "do-it-yourself/DIY urbanism" [50][51][52][53][54][55], "guerrilla urbanism" [56,57], "hand-made urbanism" [58], "transitional spaces" [59,60], "borrowed spaces" [61], "second hand spaces" [62] and "indeterminate spaces" [63,64]. Concepts such as temporary use, meanwhile use and intermediate use are most often cited and mostly refer to temporary solutions (formal or informal) linked to the place-making strategies that promote urban regeneration, while the concepts of tactical urbanism, do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism and indeterminate spaces refer mainly to informal temporary activities, which are characterised by alternative uses of space, a "bottom-up" approach and insurgent place making. ...
Temporary use of space in degraded areas is gaining significance in spatial planning due to limitations and conflicts stemming from traditional models that overlook social (soft) environmental components. This article addresses the lack of socio-ecological indicators in contextual analyses that precede planning processes in degraded areas. Using a plural case study approach across sites in Portugal and Slovenia, it combines primary data from semi-structured questionnaires and terrain analysis with secondary sources. The findings reveal that only specific types of temporary uses foster dynamic and adaptive social networks among stakeholders. These networks enhance the social and environmental sustainability of urban areas, particularly when socio-ecological indicators are refined to account for informal practices, community engagement and cultural value. Furthermore, the study highlights how these practices contribute to social sustainability by supporting inclusive governance models and stimulating local economies. A key finding of the study is the identification of a strong link between social networks and environmental sustainability, highlighting the need to incorporate updated socio-ecological indicators into spatial planning for degraded areas. Temporary uses are not merely stop-gap solutions but also strategic tools for cultivating sustainable urban areas.
... Most significantly this is through both routinized practices where sustainability works through materialities produced through the outcomes of state-led policies for production and distribution and retail formats and product offerings and through various relational geographies described earlier and "ordinary ethics" of consumption. This is therefore less about consumers consciously and strategically engaging in more environmentally and socially sustainable consumption using those terms and more about "tactics" embedded in everyday life (De Certeau, 1984). We thus challenge the assumption that a lack of publicly circulated discourses of sustainable consumption and responsibilized consumers in Guangzhou equates to an absence of sustainable food consumption in practice. ...
... Our analytical findings show substantial policy resistance networks forming within player communities. The practice of account sharing used by 72% of surveyed minors in addition to sandbox game parody anti-addiction mods show how [39] tactical resistance operates through daily activities that challenge systems of control. The research contradicts basic explanations of remote control by showing how regulatory measures lead to unintended spaces where players can resist authority. ...
This study examines how ideological content in electronic games influences player cognition and behavior, combining quantitative surveys (N=484) and qualitative interviews (n=8) within China’s gaming ecosystem. The research aims to (1) assess players’ recognition of ideological content, (2) analyze behavioral and attitudinal changes, and (3) evaluate how media dissemination channels moderate these effects. Methodologically, the study employs an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design, integrating validated psychometric scales (Content Sensitivity, Subjective Sensitivity, Behavioral Sensitivity, Environmental Sensitivity) with thematic analysis of industry expert interviews. Quantitative results reveal significant positive correlations between content exposure and cognitive/behavioral outcomes, with environmental factors (social media) amplifying ideological reception. Qualitative findings demonstrate that players actively reinterpret cultural narratives through participatory practices, though platform algorithms and policy constraints shape these processes. The study contributes novel theoretical frameworks: ludic social capital (stratified in-game status systems) and regulatory prototyping (policy-driven innovation constraints). Key conclusions highlight the dialectical nature of game-based ideological influence where designer intent, player agency, and platform architectures interact dynamically.
... Tracing the Museum's earlier (1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994) stories of its building and tours exposes how contested narratives accrete and get reused, making them harder to later dislodge. The record shows an active reshaping of geographies of Lower East Side memory through narrative and material practices whose use and reception cannot be fully controlled (Certeau, 1980;Patraka, 1996;Benjamin, 2002). Most tellingly it shows that a multiplicity of ethnic representational possibilities had once been in play, before the interpretive scheme was irrevocably tied to the stories of building residents. ...
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum displays the interplay of ethnicity—and its representation—with the reinvention of New York’s post 9/11 Downtown as a gentrified visitor destination. The Museum participates in a commodification of past and contemporary immigrant/migrant life, motivated by its desire to thrive and expand as an institution by increasing visitor numbers, funding and real estate.
The growth of tourism and gentrification in Lower Manhattan’s that undergirds its urban “revitalization,” demonstrates how being in place becomes harder as place hollows out. Downtown’s hip “iconic neighborhood” attracts visitors and buyers with galleries, eateries, renovated tenements and new multi-million dollar condos. Lower Manhattan museums are seen as “economic engines” deserving of massive state and private investment as visitor sites merging American-themed commemoration and memorialization—whether of immigrants or of 9/11 itself—into a larger destination mix of historic, cultural and other entertainment.
... Negotiation, in contrast, involves strategic engagement with power, where individuals navigate constraints while finding ways to survive, adapt, and reshape their conditions. This nuanced form of agency reflects what Michel de Certeau describes as "tactics," or everyday practices through which individuals operate within dominant structures to carve out spaces of autonomy (de Certeau, 1984). ...
The present study is aimed to examine the female agency of the Third world woman between the Western interventionism and local patriarchal norms of the third world woman in Waldman' s novel A Door in the Earth. The character of Parveen is dual agent between the patriarchal dominance against woman in Afghanistan and the Western interventional structures and norms of the America against Third World and its women. Parveen was born in Afghanistan and brought up in America but later on she moves to study the plight of women in Afghanistan. The theoretical insights for the present study had been taken from Mohanty's (1988) "Under Western Eyes", which argues "Third World woman" as a universally oppressed. The findings of the study reveal that the Third World woman is not only oppressed by the patriarchal norms of the third world but by the interventionist norms of the West as well. In this way, third world woman is doubly oppressed. By interrogating the savior narrative and the internal gendered hierarchies, the study argues that A Door in the Earth, challenges the dominant discourses of liberation and oppression and how agency can be negotiated within and beyond these structures.
... e et al. 2007), sociability (Lo 2009), and restoration and even reported happiness (Forsyth 2015). Walkability entails that urban space is traversable, compact, enticing, lively, and that it is conceived holistically (Forsyth and Southworth 2008). It is said to not only require walks to be useful, safe, comfortable, and even interesting (Speck 2013). De Certeau (1984 states that walking weaves places together and forms one of the "real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city" (Ibid, p.97). The city is experienced, shaped, and reshaped by walking. ...
This article explores the phenomena of urban fragmentation vis-à-vis urban integration. It analyzes how infrastructure lines such as railways and highways fragment the urban experience and hinder accessibility and walkability in the city. A historical and conceptual analysis of the literature and selected case studies reveals missing – and potential – links in planning theory and practice. The paper identifies four causes of fragmentation – systemic, material, scalar and jurisdictional – and analyzes influential examples of urban (re)integration (e.g. The Boston Greenway, The Cheonggyecheong River and The Highline). Drawing from cases in the Global North in the last 20 years, we categorize archetypical cases of urban fragmentation (i.e. sunken, elevated and fenced-off highways and railways) and strategic and tactical interventions for urban reintegration. Upon examining these projects, we interrogate the paradox of connection and propose a holistic theory of urban integration based on fluid urbanisms, regenerative design, incremental reintegration and intersectorial planning.
In contemporary China, many ethnic minority groups such as Tibetans, Mongolians, Miao, and Tai have their own oral cultures, functioning as oral media. Tai Changkhup, for example, verbally disseminate history and culture and transmit information and knowledge among the Tai ethnic minority in the Tai language. In a straightforward sense, these aspects of oral media are people in and of themselves, and can be called singers, poets, or chanters. Tai oral media, therefore, is the Changkhup themselves. Situated in a specific strategy of subaltern resistance, this research aims to explore a softer ‘everyday form of resistance’—oral media resistance through Tai Changkhup, thereby reflecting the asymmetric power relations between the Han Chinese majority and Tai ethnic minority. Taking an ethnographic approach, participant observation and interviewing combined with individual interviews and a focus group are used for data collection. Thematic analysis is primarily used for analyzing data. The findings reveal that Tai oral media functions as a form of cultural resistance against Han cultural hegemony in a subtle and sometimes unconscious way to preserve Tai traditions and identity, wherein the rituality of Changkhup plays a unique role in sustaining the resistance. Essentially, Changkhup resistance is intertwined with complicity, continuously negotiating with hegemonic power and reinforcing Han cultural hegemony as a result.
A key maxim guiding the introduction of new technologies, including those utilizing artificial intelligence, is that such technologies should carry rewards of “convenience”: indeed, the more “convenient” a new technology is considered to be, the more likely it is to be welcomed and adopted. Rudimentary examples from last century include the microwave, washing machine, and dishwasher; more recent innovations from the present century include portable navigation systems, online shopping applications, internet search engines, smart phones, telehealth, automated workplace systems and processes, email and messaging technologies, and—most recently—large language models that are able to undertake multiple complex tasks. Each of these technologies offers a variety of benefits. However, a unifying feature is that all have been considered to enhance convenience, understood as saving time and/or effort. In this paper we explore the provenance and meaning of the—usually unexamined—concept of convenience, identifying an unexpected link with erosion of values and depletion of the diversity and richness of personal experiences. We conclude that the prioritization of convenience as a driver of innovation carries with it risks, which may go unnoticed or be difficult to discern.
This paper is an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on ‘The Phenomenology of Travel and Tourism’. It is made up of four sections, the first two of which provide the main focus of discussion. We start by considering the idea of travel ‘in comfort’, which, as we show, has been historically bound up with cultures of the mobile virtual gaze. Comfort, by this reckoning, reflects a phenomenological disposition whereby the act of gazing at an object of spectacle is understood not in purely visual terms but as a spatial and somatic prefiguring of that object as an object of spectacle. A phenomenology of comfort, we argue, steers consideration towards the way forms of travel or tourism practice reflect embodied or disembodied modes of engagement with the world. This line of enquiry brings with it the need for more fine-grained analyses of questions of experience, which is picked up and developed in the second section. Here, we examine some of the important and foundational work that has helped push forward scholarship oriented towards the development of a phenomenological anthropology of travel and tourism experiences. Accordingly, a key aim of this paper, and of the Special Issue it provides the introduction to, is to push further and more resolutely towards these ends. The third section is an overview of the nine Special Issue contributions. The paper ends with Kay Ryan’s short poem, ‘The Niagara River’, a quietly foreboding meditation on the hazards of travelling in too much comfort and of reducing the world to little more than ‘changing scenes along the shore’, all the while remaining blind to what awaits downstream.
What does everyday life look like for young men who flee to Europe, survive, and are then assigned temporary housing? Hypersurveillance or parallel normality, irrelevance, or even nothingness? Based on four years of ethnographic research, Undoing Nothing recounts the untold story of Italian asylum seekers’ struggles to produce relevance—that is, to carve out meaning, control, and direction from their legal and existential liminality. Their ways of inhabiting space and time rest on a deeply ambivalent position: together and alone, inside and outside, absent and present. Their racialized bodies dwell in their assigned residence while their selves inhabit a suspended translocal space of moral economies, nightmares, and furtive dreams. This book illuminates a distinctly modern form of purgatory, offering both a perceptive critique of state responses to the so-called refugee crisis and nuanced psychological portraits of a demographic rarely afforded narrative depth and grace.
Türk kavramsal sanatının önemli figürlerinden Cengiz Çekil, çağdaş sanat alanlarında verdiği eserlerle tanınmaktadır. Çekil, özellikle performans, fotoğraf, buluntu nesne ve yerleştirme gibi farklı üretim teknikleri kullanmıştır. Sanatında gündelik yaşamın nesnelerini, yerel kültürü ve toplumsal yapıyı sorgulayan bir yaklaşım benimseyen sanatçı; felsefi, psikolojik ve sosyal temaları işlerken, sanatını bireysel ve toplumsal hafıza üzerinde bir tanık olarak konumlandırmaktadır. Bu makale, Cengiz Çekil’in 1979 yılında gerçekleştirdiği Görsel Parkurlar adlı yerleştirme çalışması üzerinden sanat tarihsel bir okuma yapmayı amaçlamaktadır. Çekil’in eseri, sanatçının yürüme eylemi aracılığıyla kendi varlığını ve ötekiliğini anlamaya yönelik bir süreçtir; bu bağlamda flanör kavramı, sanatçının sanat pratiği için bir metafor olarak ele alınmaktadır. Sanatçının bedenini, kenti ve ötekini içeren ilişkiler, bu çalışma özelinde sanatsal pratiğinin merkezinde yer almaktadır. Çekil’in yürüme eylemi, bir günlük rutin olmanın ötesinde, yaşam ve üretim pratiği olarak kent üzerinde bir envanterleme girişimi olarak incelenmektedir. Görsel Parkurlar, İzmir’deki modern yaşamın hızına, anonimliğine ve tekdüzeliğine eleştirel bir yaklaşım sunarken; sanatçının sokak yaşamına aktif katılımını ve kişisel/toplumsal hafızasını belgeleyen sıra dışı bir iş olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Çalışma, flanör fenomenini felsefi ve antropolojik bir bakış açısıyla incelerken, Çekil’in modern ve çağdaş kentle kurduğu ilişkiyi ve toplumsal yapıyı anlamaya odaklanmaktadır.
This article puts Shani Mootoo’s novel, Polar Vortex (2020), in conversation with the vitalist philosophy of Rosi Braidotti, as illustrated in the study Posthuman Feminism (2022) and Libe García Zarranz “Sustainable Affects” (2017a, 2020b). I look at the centrality of affective relations in the transformation of queer subjectivity under processes of the growing (un)happiness in the diasporic homeSpace. Shani Mootoo’s (non)diasporic cross-border narrative proposes contrastive figurations of the subject through temporal and spatial frameworks. Mootoo’s “transposable moves” resist a naïve return to sentimentality or nostalgic love to advocate instead a turn to sustainable affects.
Drawing on Foucault’s examination of the gaze as a disciplinary mechanism, and de Certeau’s discussion of how people use tactics to resist oppressive power systems, this article advocates reading the gaze in young adult dystopian fiction. To illustrate the complex readings that doing so makes possible, the author examines three young adult dystopias—M. T. Anderson’s Feed, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy, and Corey Doctorow’s Little Brother—to demonstrate how they depict adolescents as having varying degrees of agency to resist the gaze. To conclude, the author discusses the implications for teachers and students of reading the gaze in young adult literature.
The acquisition and maintenance of valid passports present complex challenges for many migrants. The complexity arises from many factors including political, economic, and administrative. Employing a multi-sited ethnographic approach, this study scrutinizes the hurdles encountered by Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa when obtaining and renewing passports, visas, and permits. Moreover, the study investigates the far-reaching repercussions of passport-related complexities on the daily existence and welfare of these migrants. The socio-political dynamics shaping the passport experiences of Zimbabwean migrants offer valuable insights into fostering more inclusive migration policies and procedures. Consequently, these challenges significantly impact migrants' daily lives and overall well-being, impeding their pursuit of a better life in South Africa. In response, migrants resort to "nimble-footed strategies, " such as using ephemeral stamps, to navigate their circumstances. However, these strategies also leave migrants vulnerable to exploitation and a lack of state protection. In essence, this study contributes to understanding the contemporary challenges faced by migrants amid evolving global crises, particularly in the post-COVID-19 era marked by increased regulation and restriction of migrants. This study traverses diverse geographical and political contexts, by shedding light on the ongoing militarization and contraction of borders and the rights of migrants.
In the digital era, the meaning of different kinds of veil, including the hijab, undertakes significant transformations due to the interaction between laws, norms, everyday practice, and digital technologies. At the same time, the digital sphere intensifies the manifestation of diverse cultural expressions, including veiling practices, leading to new trends, meanings, and layers of complexity. Through the lens of the semiotic of culture, this contribution aims to explore how these practices, traditionally associated with certain notions of modesty and religious identity, are now subject to new translations and dynamic reinterpretations within digital spaces. The digital sphere appears as a semiotic continuum where the veiling practices are negotiated, affecting their perception, and creating hybrid cultural identities. Furthermore, these digital interactions influence the relationship between laws and social norms surrounding veiling practices. The various veiled forms of female dress-code move across semiospheres, where they are revalorized and often recontextualized, challenging established norms and suggesting a new paradigm for the study of these conventions. In this sense, such digital interactions prompt a reassessment of regulatory frameworks and cultural expressions. Drawing on Lotman’s theory of cultures, these dynamics tend to be seen as cultural translation processes across semiotic boundaries. By exploring these dynamics through the semiotic analysis of a corpus of digital representations of the veiling practices within the MENA region, the research will contribute to a deeper understanding of the cultural adaptations that are leading to negotiated identities, offering a perspective on how the evolving nature of cultural symbols translates into legal frameworks and societal values.
Our experience of the world is deeply shaped by concepts of space. From territorial borders, to distinctions between public and private space, to the way we dwell in a building or move between rooms, space is central to how we inhabit our environment and make sense of our place within it. Literature explores and gives expression to the ways in which space impacts human experience. It also powerfully shapes the construction and experience of space. Literary studies has increasingly turned to space and, fuelled by feminist and postcolonial insights, the interconnections between material spaces and power relations. This book treats foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside exciting new areas of research, providing a dual emphasis on origins and innovative approaches while maintaining constant attention to how the production and experience of space is intertwined with the production and circulation of power.
Our experience of the world is deeply shaped by concepts of space. From territorial borders, to distinctions between public and private space, to the way we dwell in a building or move between rooms, space is central to how we inhabit our environment and make sense of our place within it. Literature explores and gives expression to the ways in which space impacts human experience. It also powerfully shapes the construction and experience of space. Literary studies has increasingly turned to space and, fuelled by feminist and postcolonial insights, the interconnections between material spaces and power relations. This book treats foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside exciting new areas of research, providing a dual emphasis on origins and innovative approaches while maintaining constant attention to how the production and experience of space is intertwined with the production and circulation of power.
Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake, sustains millions of fisher communities who rely on it for their livelihoods. Every day, individuals seek information to meet various needs and demands within their communities. Information serves as a critical resource for numerous activities, including improving livelihoods and gaining essential knowledge. Fishing communities, in particular, have unique information needs related to their fishing activities and accessing different government programs and services. Information is a vital component of decision-making processes within these communities. This paper assesses and establishes the information needs of the fisher communities of Lake Victoria by identifying the different information sources consulted to satisfy these needs and are essential for fostering sustainable livelihoods. The objectives of the Study were to: identify the information needs of fisher communities of Lake Victoria; ascertain the information-seeking behavior of fisher communities of Lake Victoria; identify the major problems facing fishermen in meeting their information needs and to offer useful suggestions in enhancing the information strategies of fisher folks toward their improved and sustained impact on the state economy. Mixed-methods approach, including surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions, was used for data collection. This study aimed to identify the primary information gaps and the most trusted information sources within the fisher communities of Lake Victoria. Key findings revealed the information needs of the fishers as weather patterns, fish stock levels, market prices, sustainable fishing practices, financial support, the quality of fish, legal regulations, health and safety, security, and effective communication. It also highlights challenges faced by fishing communities in accessing digital information, high costs, inconsistent connectivity, language obstacles, and opposition to technological progress are some of the factors that contributed to this. The study revealed that fishing communities around Lake Victoria have diverse information needs, which they address through various digital technologies, including radios, telephones, televisions, and village radios. These technologies help them access information for their daily operations. The study also highlights the role of traditional knowledge, mobile technology, and local institutions in disseminating information. Understanding and addressing these information needs can empower fisher communities to make informed decisions, improve their economic prospects, and enhance their capacity to advocate for their rights. The paper concludes with recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders to develop tailored interventions that support sustainable livelihoods and promote the long-term health of Lake Victoria's ecosystem.
While normative theories of participatory democracy and practical experiences of participatory research share a common democratic commitment, the two fields have emerged and to date exist in isolation from each other. This article bridges this divide and asks what participatory democracy and participatory research can learn from one another. It argues that participatory democracy can learn how to realize its own democratic ideals within its research practice and participatory research can deepen its normative commitment by connecting its practices to a larger participatory vision. The article illustrates this by engaging with three examples in which participatory democracy researchers conduct participatory research projects. It finally reflects critically on how the shared participatory commitments of both fields can be realized within the neoliberal university embedded in competitive market economies.
Creative Urban Atmospheres explores the potential for urban planners, researchers, and artists to intervene in the atmosphere of spectacle dominating current neoliberal urbanism strategies through sensory and sound-based artistic interventions drawing from Tactical Urbanism and Research-Creation. This book equips readers with tools and insights needed to address the pressing challenges of urban livability and inclusiveness in the face of neoliberal urbanism.
Through engaging discussions and a case study conducted in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles, the book demonstrates how sound-based and sensory interventions can reshape urban atmospheres, fostering cohabitation and inclusiveness for diverse populations. Key features include an interdisciplinary emphasis on the intertwinements of academic research, artistic practice, and participatory community engagement, ensuring that readers gain both theoretical understanding and practical approaches. With its focus on innovative methods such as Research-Creation and socially engaged art, this book not only critiques existing urban strategies but also empowers planners, artists, and communities with tactics for collaboratively transforming underused urban spaces into vibrant, livable, and inclusive social environments.
This book is designed for a diverse audience deeply invested in the future of urban spaces. It will be of interest to urban planners seeking innovative approaches to address urban polarization and promote inclusiveness, as well as academic researchers in urban studies and geography exploring the intersections of Tactical Urbanism and sensory interventions. Artists, designers, and architects will find inspiration in its emphasis on creative, participatory approaches while policymakers and community advocates can draw practical insights for fostering livable, inclusive cities. It also speaks to anyone with a vested interest in the challenges facing contemporary cities, including gentrification, touristification, and neoliberal urban pressures on the most marginalized groups.
Non-disciplinary tools that extend the traditional boundaries of architectural practice provide a strong foundation for experimental design practices that foster creativity and innovation. With this understanding, this study focuses on found objects as a non-disciplinary tool, investigating how they function within architectural design processes to initiate experimental approaches, foster creative formations, and reconfigure disciplinary boundaries through transdisciplinary and participatory practices. This study adopts a qualitative methodology based on theoretical analysis, thematic case analysis, and critical synthesis. It examines three architectural projects from Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, selected for their contextual diversity and relevance to experimental design practices. Each case is analyzed through four thematic categories—form-making, program generation, structural innovation, and social engagement—developed to reveal how found objects enable architectural experimentation. Through this structure, the study aims to bridge conceptual thinking with practical reflections and to highlight the transformative potential of found objects as catalysts for experimentation in architectural design practices. The research provides a critical and exploratory perspective on the transformative impact of non-disciplinary tools in architectural design, developing a theoretical understanding of the experimental use of found objects while offering practical suggestions to promote their creative application in design processes.
The chapter presents a case study of Somali migrants in South Africa through a lens of feminist digital ethnography. The politics of representation situates much of this study discussing the role of reflexivity in feminist ethnographic practice. Employing a postmodernist critique of ethnographic practice, the author interrogates vulnerabilities in the research process and structures of data collection based on the "researcher-researchee" relationship.
In an increasingly globalized and multimedia-driven world, translation pedagogy has responded by adapting and incorporating innovative approaches that cater to students’ diverse learning styles and meet the changing needs of the future industry. Vidding, a creative practice involving the remixing and recontextualization of audiovisual materials to produce transformative videos, has gained significant traction in fan communities and digital media cultures. Even though research has shown vidding to be effective in fostering students’ understanding of the intricate interplay among texts, images, sound, cultural contexts, social media platforms, content creators/fans, and audiences, its potential within translation pedagogy remains underexplored and underappreciated. This study documents the process and challenges of vidding in daily teaching through the in-depth observation and investigation of a university introductory translation course in order to explore the feasibility of incorporating vidding into translation pedagogy. It provides a comprehensive analysis of several case studies, from students’ acquisition of fundamental vidding knowledge to its advanced application in translation practices, using Bloom’s taxonomy and the action research model as the theoretical framework for monitoring students’ learning progress and assessing the degree to which teaching objectives have been achieved. Preliminary findings suggest that vidding-incorporated translation pedagogy not only equips students with a flexible skillset that extends beyond conventional translation but also reveals the interdisciplinary and multimodal nature of translation, which they can use to navigate the complexities of intercultural communication in the digital age.
The acquisition and maintenance of valid passports present complex challenges for many migrants. The complexity arises from many factors including political, economic, and administrative. Employing a multi-sited ethnographic approach, this study scrutinizes the hurdles encountered by Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa when obtaining and renewing passports, visas, and permits. Moreover, the study investigates the far-reaching repercussions of passport-related complexities on the daily existence and welfare of these migrants. The socio-political dynamics shaping the passport experiences of Zimbabwean migrants offer valuable insights into fostering more inclusive migration policies and procedures. Consequently, these challenges significantly impact migrants’ daily lives and overall well-being, impeding their pursuit of a better life in South Africa. In response, migrants resort to “nimble-footed strategies,” such as using ephemeral stamps, to navigate their circumstances. However, these strategies also leave migrants vulnerable to exploitation and a lack of state protection. In essence, this study contributes to understanding the contemporary challenges faced by migrants amidst evolving global crises, particularly in the post-COVID-19 era marked by increased regulation and restriction of migrants. This study traverses diverse geographical and political contexts, by shedding light on the ongoing militarization and contraction of borders and the rights of migrants.
I. Gjykimi estetik ndërmjet normës filozofike dhe kushteve shoqërore Si mund të pretendojmë vlefshmëri universale për një gjykim që buron nga një përjetim thellësisht subjektiv? Kur themi se një vepër arti është "e bukur" apo një tjetër është "banale", a është kjo thjesht një shije personale, apo kemi të drejtë të presim që të tjerët të pajtohen me ne? Ky është thelbi i problemit filozofik të gjykimit estetik: a mund të ketë universalitet në një përvojë që është vetjake dhe ndijore? Mendimi modern ka ofruar disa përpjekje për ta zgjidhur këtë tension. David Hume përpiqet të gjejë një standard të shijes te ndjeshmëria e kultivuar dhe përvoja e përbashkët e kritikëve idealë. Immanuel Kant e kërkon atë në strukturën a priori të fuqisë së gjykimit, në një harmoni të lirë ndërmjet imagjinatës dhe të kuptuarit, që prodhon kënaqësi pa interes dhe pa koncept, por me pretendim universal. Këto përpjekje, megjithatë, përballen me një kritikë të fuqishme nga Pierre Bourdieu, i cili argumenton se shija nuk është subjektive, por formohet nga pozita klasore dhe kapitali kulturor. Ajo që Kant e përshkruan si "gjykim i paanshëm" është, sipas tij, një mënyrë për të maskuar një përvojë klasore si normë universale. Gjykimi i shijes, për Bourdieu-n, është një mjet për të dalluar dhe përjashtuar, një mënyrë për të legjitimuar hierarkitë shoqërore në emër të së bukurës. Në këtë mënyrë, pyetja mbi legjitimitetin e gjykimit estetik nuk është thjesht teorike; ajo shndërrohet në një problem politik dhe kulturor. Të thuash se një vepër është "e mirë" nuk është një akt i pafajshëm-është një gjykim me pasoja. Prandaj, figura e kritikut nuk është as e padiskutueshme dhe as neutrale: ajo përfaqëson një tension të vazhdueshëm ndërmjet pretendimit për universalen dhe kushteve shoqërore që e mundësojnë atë pretendim. Ky artikull ndjek këtë tension filozofik dhe sociologjik, duke eksploruar kontributet e Hume-it, Kantit dhe Bourdieu-t si tri mënyra për ta menduar gjykimin estetik. Synimi nuk është të zgjidhet përfundimisht problemi, por të kuptohet më mirë natyra e tij: çfarë e bën një gjykim të vlefshëm dhe si mund të ruajmë integritetin kritik përballë kushteve shoqërore që e rrezikojnë atë.
This study scrutinizes the active role of mobile urban spaces in shaping and generating social space. It explores the depiction of car spaces in two Iranian films in their cinematic narratives, symbolic meanings, and influence on the perceptions of urban mobile space, often referred to as third spaces in the urban studies literature. This interdisciplinary paper investigates the socio-cultural manifestations of the car interiors in two hybrid docufiction films: Ten, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and Taxi, by Jafar Panahi. Built on the new mobilities paradigm’s perspective on the mobile space of cars wherein social space is inevitably produced and re-produced, this paper reveals the socio-cultural dynamics of the car space in the films’ representations. The car space produces subjectivities, exhibits socio-cultural foundations, offers a sense of belonging and place-making, and provides opportunities for informal social interactions, while embodying power dynamics. The central aim is to revise our conceptualizations of mobility spaces by examining spatial practices that revolve around the car spaces. The paper integrates cinematic representation as a resource for planners and social scientists to conceptualize mobility spaces, introducing diegetic cabinography filmmaking style.
«Кейс Булгакова» чудово надається для препарування й аналізу процесу змін символічного ландшафту і публічних просторів українських міст зараз. Іншими словами, ми проаналізуємо що (не) впливає на практики і «концептуалізації» надання чи позбавлення або ж знов надання статусу історичного спадку (пор. heritagization — de-heritagization — re-heritagization у перспективі деколонізаційних процесів у теперішній Україні так, як ми розуміємо і пояснюємо собі ці процеси. У рамках цієї статті ми плануємо розглянути як імперська уявність формувала «Київський міф» і образ Києва, до створення якого долучився Булгаков і який він так заповзято ретранслював у своїх текстах. Також розглянемо, із чого постав образ Києва в його текстах і спробуємо з’ясувати, звідки взявся «міф Булгакова» та яку роль він відіграє у формуванні історичного/культурного спадку сьогодні, коли процеси деколонізації набирають обертів, і проаналізуємо можливі способи роботи з дуже відмінними групами об’єктів — пам’ятниками/монументами та будинками/пам’ятками і процесами надання/позбавлення їх статусу історичного/культурного спадку, тобто конструювання масиву історичної/культурної пам’яті в сучасній Україні.
As many cities experience housing crises, those of minority identity within these cities are more vulnerable to housing exclusion and discrimination. This article explores how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity. Drawing on serial interviews with nonbinary and genderqueer young adults in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we show that their gender identity adds an extra layer of insecurity to housing precarity, as the chance of gender-based discrimination undermines how those of gender-diverse gender identities approach potential housing opportunities. Nonbinary and genderqueer young adults deploy unique gendered tactics and strategies to aid in searching for a home, in which they either conceal or showcase their gender identity. We further show that gender identity requires constant negotiation in relation to housing precarity, as exclusion and discrimination often continue beyond the search process and contribute to gendered forms of home unmaking. Our findings underscore the importance of urban nodes in queer infrastructures of care and mutual aid in home-making and achieving ontological security.
This chapter addresses diasporic return narratives from Europe back to Africa. The chapter discusses both transnational journeys and local mobilities of diasporic returns by focusing on air travel and urban mobilities. The texts analyzed include Michèle Rakotoson’s travelogue Juillet au pays: Chroniques d’un retour à Madagascar (2007) and the following novels: Camara Laye’s Dramouss (1966), Aïssatou Cissokho’s Dakar, la touriste autochtone (1986), Daniel Biyaoula’s L’Impasse (1996), Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père (2010), and Jussy Kiyindou’s Des Ombres et leurs échos… (2019). The state of being suspended between two places characteristic of aeromobility reflects the diasporic condition, and scenes of aeromobility often feature in the opening. Aeromobility plays a key role in the production of the figure of the diasporic returnee, and the characteristic features of air travel affect the narration, producing the anxieties associated with diasporic homecomings on the formal scale. Local mobilities move the returnees across their former hometowns in a way that not only contributes to producing the meanings of the cities but also illustrates the returnees’ complex relationship with them. Formal strategies often underline the returnees’ difficulties in attempting to claim their former hometowns as their own through mobility practices.
On October 1, 1949, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, proclaimed the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing. From then until 1978, in order to develop its industrial economy, the state gave priority to the development of the heavy industry and allocated all necessary resources to it. Specifically, the Chinese government implemented a planned economic system that regulated economic operations by administrative means, mobilized and allocated resources by means of purely command-based planning, and excluded the dynamic effects of market mechanisms. At that special period, as Gerth (As China goes, so goes the world: How Chinese consumers are transforming everything. Hill and Wang, 2010, p. 6) points out, “the state’s priorities […] were productivist: to make or facilitate the making of things that make more things (producer goods such as steel and chemicals) rather than things that could be used directly (consumer goods such as bicycles and toothpaste). […] Consequently, the Chinese found little to buy.”
GRAFFITI AS A TACTIC OF PROTEST IN TEHRAN BY Fateme A. karimkhan Graffiti is a form of visual communication that is generally considered "illegal", and includes the "marking" of urban spaces, such as walls, subway halls, billboards and the like, without the permission of official or public authorities by individuals or groups. Some examples of graffiti are special signs of specific groups (usually youth groups), but there are examples of graffiti created by people without group affiliations. Considering the definitions of graffiti, from scratches on the walls and urban furniture to wall writing, slogan writing, labeling, stencil painting, signature on walls and all kinds of wall paintings that are illegal and without consent, can be counted as graffiti.
For decades, the pathway to a career in Aboriginal cultural heritage management has required a university degree in archaeology or related disciplines. Aboriginal people have been involved in archaeological field work in Victoria since the 1970s. Until recently, however, Aboriginal people have had limited input into the content and format of educational programs. Historically, Aboriginal people have had low participation rates in tertiary education, but often considerable experience in locating sites and working in the field. This paper charts the type and structure of government-funded training opportunities available to Aboriginal people to build their CHM skills and knowledge, and have their existing knowledge formally accredited, from the 1970s to the present day. We aim to situate these educational opportunities within the historical, political, and legislative context of the CHM in Victoria.
The digital sphere of our present era is characterized by transformative technological advancements that reshape our understanding of both material reality and digital hyperreality. As technology propels us towards unprecedented possibilities, questions of identity, societal norms, and ethical considerations come to the forefront. The aim of this paper is to put forward an appropriate conception of authenticity, manifested through a relational form of creativity and a radical form of diversity, within the context of and towards the potential landscape of a digital eutopia. The conjunction of relational creativity and radical diversity could be developed through groundbreaking technologies in society and its economy, avant-garde artistic expressions and novel approaches to sustainable development and equitable communication—this could be the source of social innovative and useful ideas, experiences, and practices through a deviant continuity in-between the physical reality and the digital hyperreal landscape.
In this paper I want to make a case for scholarship in politics, particularly in government policy making. My argument is for a scholarly disposition in the politics of policy production. In my view, the scholastic point of view is required by scholars in contexts of political practice. Specifically, my intention – in this paper and in my scholarly work – is to bring scholarship to bear in the politics of policy production, not just in conceiving of this politics but also in its practice, which I am happy for now to refer to as “cognitive activism”, a term borrowed from the work of George Lakoff (2004: 73). For me, this is at the heart of scholarship in policy making: to render policy making a scholarly affair, to mobilize meanings that might not otherwise be evident or possible.
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