Issues Of Self-representation Research Articles

Beyond Colonial Dichotomies: The deficits of Spain and the peripheral powers in treaty-port China

AbstractThe semi-colonial character of China during the treaty-port era brings into question the dichotomy between the colonizer and the colonized. China's foreign trade had an overall negative balance, and Great Britain, Japan, and the United States of America benefited from it. However, dozens of minor powers suffered a negative balance with China, despite the favourable conditions set in the treaty ports. This article examines the presence of Spain in China during the first decades of the twentieth century, focusing on trade, population, and issues of self-representation. Through a comparative analysis of the Sino-Spanish trade with that of other smaller powers in China, this article shows both the diversity of colonial formations in China and the existence of colonial relations that, although peripheral and complementary, pose a doubt on the adequacy, not only of the colonizer/colonized dichotomy, but also of the representation of colonialism in China.

Knowing and Being Known. Approaching Australian Indigenous Tourism Through Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Politics of Knowing

ABSTRACTBased on ethnographic research conducted with Bardi and Jawi people, two Indigenous groups from the Northwestern Kimberley region of Western Australia, the aim of this paper is to approach the complexities related to Indigenous tourism in Australia through the politics of knowing and not-knowing as embodied by Indigenous tour guides and non-Indigenous tourists. It examines the notion of knowing (or not-knowing) and its usages by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the context of their tourist encounter. ‘Knowing’ represents an important aspect through which Aboriginal people and their non-Indigenous guests negotiate their interactions. In particular, the paper shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous expectations from tourism lead actors to adopt divergent positions and to assert renewed claims in relation to knowledge or knowing, casting new light on issues of self-representation and empowerment in the domain of Indigenous tourism.

Usage d’Internet chez les millennials : qu’en dit la littérature ?

The use of Internet and social media is the most common activity today for teenagers and young adults. Today, the question is not how much time is spent online but from how long does it become pathological or from what age can one be online without it being too young. A large part of the social and emotional development takes place on the Internet for the younger generation. Internet offers them a portal for their distraction and communication with advantages but also risks. Given the magnitude of this phenomenon, we conducted a literature review in order to take stock of the current situation of Internet use for adolescents/young adults concerning cyber addiction, particularly those related to social media and video games as well as its psychiatric comorbidities and its psychological impact. We also looked for literature on the issues of self-representation, its implications for privacy and loss of self-esteem, cyberbullying and sleep disorders. Young people are at risk of living negative experiences more than parents tend to realize. Internet and social media are a topical subject that is of great interest to be explored in connection with sociological, psychological and psychiatric issues. Clinical consequences already are felt with the presence of comorbidities and addictions in psychiatry but also the presence of physical consequences in pediatrics.

‘BLEARY EYES AND DROOPING EARS’: IMAGES OF THE BODY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN HORACE SERMONES BOOK ONE

Abstract In this article I consider the literary programme that Horace establishes in Sermones 1 and then discuss in two subsequent sections the implications of this programme for our understanding of various themes, associated with Augustan ideology, that run through this text. By re-evaluating persona theory and evidence for audience reactions to pseudo-biographical writing in the Ancient world, I assimilate the purely ‘textual’ approach with the broader ethical, political and social questions which the text raises, and consider how the symbolic and intertextual properties of images of the body in the text, and issues of self-representation, allow for diverse readings of his work, reconciling the hitherto separated literary Callimachean poet with the quasi-biographical ‘Horace’.

GENDERING THE SCOTTISH GUIDEBOOK: SARAH MURRAY'S COMPANION AND USEFUL GUIDE

In May 1796, Sarah Murray, a 52-year-old widow, left London for a tour of Scotland with the specific aim of writing a guidebook. Presenting herself as competent and capable, Murray used a variety of rhetorical strategies to establish her authority while at the same time retaining her respectability. Not afraid of physically demanding activity, she encouraged her readers to do as she did, persuading them that true “lovers of nature” should be willing to take risks and accept uncomfortable conditions. Much of her advice was aimed directly at women and it is clear that she considered adventurous travel a suitable occupation for upper-class women like herself. This essay discusses Murray's travels and writings within the wider context of eighteenth-century travel writing, focusing on issues of self-representation, women's roles and the destabilizing nature of travel in the late eighteenth century.

Generating Selves: Issues of Self-Representation

(2004). Generating Selves: Issues of Self-Representation. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 19, Life Writing and the Generations, pp. 59-70.

Palimpsest: (Re)Reading Women's Lives

Drawing on the postmodern and feminist critique of positivist notions of subjectivity, knowledge, and representation, this essay explores issues of self-representation in the life-history narratives of three female educators born early in the 20th century. This article focuses on how "double voicedness " functions as a narrative strategy that enables women to express conflicting conceptions of self. By rereading the women's life histories against traditional narratives of teaching, the authors acknowledge the layered mean ings-the palimpsest's surface and deep inscriptions-that form the fabric of women's lives and suggest how their emerging understandings of double voicedness might more deeply attune us to the multiple ways women actively construct, resist, and negotiate a gendered self.

“We Are Now an Actual Nation”: The Impact of National Independence on the Croatian Diaspora in Canada

The political scientist Walker Connor identifies two factors that help him distinguish between “immigrant communities” and “diasporas”: 1) the degree of loyalty felt toward the adopted host nation as opposed to the ancestral homeland and 2) the extent of assimilation (“Ethnonationalism” 80). The comparative framework Connor developed to clarify the terminological confusion resulting from scholarly attempts to theorize the relationship between ethnicity, nation, and state has had only limited success, because the assumptions that inform his definitions of immigrant communities and diasporas reproduce a functionalist teleology of “movement from one form of integrity to another” (Rouse 10), mediated by notions of adaptation and accommodation. Although his seminal earlier work challenged the “tendency to equate nationalism with a feeling of loyalty to the state rather than with loyalty to the nation” (“A Nation” 378) and drew our attention to the centrality of (ethnic) self consciousness in nationalism, Connor has not fully investigated the important question of how self-consciousness is obtained and transformed and how it manifests itself in situations of change. The integral relationship between self-consciousness and loyalty necessitates an investigation of those societal contexts and processes that influence group loyalties. These considerations are particularly significant for the analysis of diasporan identities for which issues of self-representation, the practices and processes associated with transnationalism, and, in the case of Croatians in Canada presented here, the impact of national independence on identity claims, are central. Rather than instilling a sense of unity, Croatian independence has either created or reinforced the contestations over notions of Croatian peoplehood.

Muslim Commitment in North America

The purpose of this paper is to examine the curtent debates within theAmerican Muslim community regatding the expression of Muslim religiouscommitment in American life. The size of the community is nowestimated to exceed four million (Stone 1991), and the numlxx of Muslimimmigrants entering the United Stab has more than doubled since 1960.During the same period, the number of American converts to Islam hasalso risen. Both the growth of the Muslim community in mxent yeas, inthe United Stab and worldwide, and the increasing number of Muslimsin "diaspora" as Muslim labor migration continues, which has resulted ina heightened sense of "minority" status among Muslims (Haddad 1991),have raised many crucial questions concerning religious expression:Should Muslims remain marginal to secular power relations in accordancewith the teachings of classical Islam or adopt a strategy of assimilationwhich, in the American context, includes the p d t of claims to equalprotection under civil law? What happens to a religious community, suchas the Muslim community, as it develops the institutional organization itneeds to preserve its identity in a non-Islamic society? Can it still remainopen to the sowe of inspiration and spiritual guidance located in the foldof the Islamic world? Or does the locus of authority shift? Changingcircumstances require adaptation, and yet that adaptation involves the riskof losing the connection to the heatt of the original insight and cultm.Conflicting tesponses to these and related questions raise issues ofself-representation and lifwle. The resulting theological and ideologicaldebates within the Muslim community itself provide and refine variousmodels for Muslim minority life in a non-Islamic envimnment. They alsoillustrate the tension between alienation and integration ...