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Społeczno-kulturowe imaginaria epidemii i ich reprezentacje – wybrane matryce teoretyczne eksploracji

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Bielska E.

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2020

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nr 58

7-26

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The topic of analysis are socio-cultural imaginaries of the pandemic. The assumption is that the pandemic may be characterized by reference to the imaginaries and system of knowledge related to the disease as well as is located in modern and postmodern imaginaries of risk, post-Anthropocentrism and trajectory of socio-cultural trauma creation process. The socio-cultural exemplifications of the presented thesis are transmitted by the media representations of the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper is composed of three main parts. The first one analyses the notions of an imaginary and socio-cultural trauma representation, the second part presents in the light of sociological and humanistic theories some selected exemplifications of pandemic representations and the third part is a summary.

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The Unbearable Likeness of Being a Tourist: Expats, Travel and Imaginaries in the Neo-colonial Orient

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Norum R. E.

International Review of Social Research

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2013

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tom 3

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nr 1

27-47

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This paper considers the impact of shared imaginaries of mobility among so-called elite, mobile professionals - early-career expatriates living in Nepal for a period of one to three years. Based on 18 months of fieldwork among expatriates in Kathmandu, I explore the ways in which these actors construct, navigate and narrativise the boundaries between themselves and the many tourists who visit Nepal each year. While in some transnational contexts, these guests may seek to align themselves with other guests such as tourists and foreign residents as a means of asserting and expressing shared commonalities of transnationality and mobility, expatriates in Kathmandu are keen to highlight perceived distance between themselves and other guests as much as they are the perceived proximities between themselves and native Nepalis. In focusing on this former interaction, I show that tourist imaginaries become important means for expatriates to negotiate difference as they learn their new local identities in a context of spatial and temporal transience. Though the academic literatures of migration and tourism have developed more or less in isolation from one another, these two spheres of mobility are in fact very much interrelated. I suggest that anthropological research into the self-conceptions of mobile professionals take into consideration other non-local groups with whom they share local spaces, since these actors can be used instrumentally as a means of strengthening both group and individual identities. If anthropology engages effectively with the interactions between hosts and guests in colonial spaces, I argue that just as much can be gleaned by looking at engagements between guests and other guests. Through a consideration of these border zones of encounter, anthropologists can illustrate ethnographically how individual expatriate identities are negotiated within communities of elite, mobile professionals.

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L’imaginaire du sari et de la chevelure dans quelques romans d’Ananda Devi

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Adakoui B. A.

Romanica Silesiana

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2022

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tom 21

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nr 1

1-11

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In her novels, Ananda Devi has always known how to immerse us in texts ennobled by local paintings where matrix India appears through the representation of a Cosmogonic universe dominated by magico-spiritual symbolism. Certain homogeneous interpretations, the fruit of historical constructions, obscure, even sometimes neglect, the deeply rooted heterogeneity of Indian traditions in Mauritius. This “bipolar contrast” (Sen, 2007), the sum of imaginary splices and cultural inter-fusion, nevertheless constitutes the humus of the Mauritian identity built over the course of colonial history. The author then illustrated herself through her writings as a major figure in this form of binary representation of the Mauritian universe. Our study aims at revealing the imaginary amalgams that circulate in Devis texts, starting from forms of discourse and knowledge surreptitiously disseminated in motifs such as the “sari” and “the hair”. By relying on an ethnocritical analysis grid, we will show how the Devi’s ethnotexts” (Motsch, 2000), manage by a meiotic effect, to shape a “new humanism” at the antipodes of “orientalist representations” (Said, 1978) and ethnocentric of India as seen by the West.

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Dans ses romans, Ananda Devi a toujours su nous plonger dans des textes anoblis par des peintures locales où l’Inde matricielle figure à travers la représentation d’un univers cosmogonique dominé par le symbolisme magico-spirituel indien. Certaines interprétations homogènes, fruits des constructions historiques, occultent, voire négligent parfois l’hétérogénéité très ancrée des traditions indiennes à Maurice. Ce « contraste bipolaire » (Sen, 2007), somme des épissures imaginaires et des interfusions culturelles constituent pourtant l’humus de l’identité mauricienne construite au fil de l’histoire coloniale. L’auteure s’illustre alors à travers ses écrits en tant qu’une figure majeure de cette forme de représentation binaire de l’univers mauricien. Notre étude vise à dévoiler les amalgames imaginaires qui circulent dans les textes de Devi en partant des formes de discours et de savoirs subrepticement disséminés dans les motifs tels le « sari » et « la chevelure ». En nous appuyant sur une grille d’analyse ethnocritique, nous allons montrer comment les romans de Devi, véritables « ethnotextes » (Motsch, 2000), parviennent par un effet méiotique, à façonner un « nouvel humanisme » aux antipodes des représentations « orientalistes » (Said, 1978) et ethnocentriques de l’Inde vue par l’Occident.

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Utopia as the Gift of Ethical Genius: Ernst Cassirer’s Theory of Utopia

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Kramer E.

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2018

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tom 2

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nr 1(3)

96–108

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In this essay, I explore Cassirer’s brief discussion of utopia in An Essay on Man, as likely built upon Kant’s theory of genius as from the Critique of Judgment. This exploration of Cassirer’s theory of utopia lays the groundwork to argue that a utopia is the dynamic product (work) of the “ethical genius,” a work that advances culture by luring it, via ideal imaginaries, to new realms of possibility for ethical advancement. Utopias have their dangers and limits, but nevertheless have a critical role to play in improving our ethical life.