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Welcome! | Cultures of Migration
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Welcome to Cultures of Migration ( CULT 454/554. As participants in a research seminar, what you learn from this course will depend greatly on the quality of discussion we have in and out of class. Ideally, class discussion and blogs will reinforce each other, where comments made in one context will be taken up and discussed further in the other. To that end, each of us (myself included! Do you provide enough information to make your opinion clear? Do you provide examples? That we watched in class last w...
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Metaphors of belonging, belonging as metaphor | Cultures of Migration
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Metaphors of belonging, belonging as metaphor. Last week in class, we started talking some about authenticity. Many in the music business contrast authenticity and commercial success as though they were mutually exclusive. Part of the concern with authencity is a question of positionality. Where are you speaking from and who are you speaking to? And of course, the even trickier, who do you (claim) to speak for? Behind all of these questions lies a broader question of belonging. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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February | 2015 | Cultures of Migration
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Archive for the month “February, 2015”. Metaphors of belonging, belonging as metaphor. Last week in class, we started talking some about authenticity. Many in the music business contrast authenticity and commercial success as though they were mutually exclusive. Part of the concern with authencity is a question of positionality. Where are you speaking from and who are you speaking to? And of course, the even trickier, who do you (claim) to speak for? 8212; metaphors is that of family. Both have the same ...
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This is the blog for CULT 454/554 Cultures of Migration, a seminar at Sabanci University, Spring 2015. I will publish my own reactions to the readings and class discussion on this blog, and it will also serve as central place to access all student blogs from the class. Looking forward to a great semester of exploration and learning! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment:. Email (Address never made public). Follow Blog via Email.
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“It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.” | Cultures of Migration
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8220;It ain’t where you’re from, it’s where you’re at.”. Where you’re from is connected to your idea of family. And this part of the criticism in Gilroy’s piece. What do we mean by family? Is there anything natural about family? What are the advantages or disadvantages of using the metaphor of family to organize a social movement? Are families really the right model for radical contestation of the existing order? Who has a right to enter? Who gets to decide? What’s expected of those who enter? What conne...
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