Physical Journey Research Articles

Isherwood in Transit

Isherwood in Transit

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The manuscript of Dante’s Hell with a commentary wrote by the Pavian humanist Guiniforte Barzizza, created in the 40s of the 15th century for the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, is decorated with miniatures attributed to the artist whom P. Toecsa names to as Maestro delle vitae imperatorum. Presumably, the manuscript initially contained about 115 miniatures, only 72 of which have been preserved till present days, but the codex, divided between two libraries (It. 2017, National Library of France, and MS 76, Communal Library of Imola) and several private collections, remains one of the most richly illustrated copies of The Divine Comedy of the late Middle Ages. Illustrations are characterized by archaism and oriented towards older models, such as miniatures of Strozziano 152 (Medici Laurenziana Library, Florence) or MS. Holkham misc. 48 (Bodleian Library, Oxford), while the tense realism of the miniature makes it an example of a new approach in the visual interpretation of The Divine Comedy.Maestro delle vitae imperatorum renders the details of narration accurately in terms of topography, anatomy and psychologism, intending to allow the reader become an accomplice of various emotions experienced by the protagonist of The Divine Comedy. Thus, the physical journey comes to the foreground, stretches in time and space, allowing readers to trace its course and the very topography of hell in the smallest detail. Researchers note that the incredible expressiveness of Dante's portraits on the pages of the Visconti manuscript - the poet's poses, gestures, facial expressions, as well as the "clinical" accuracy with which, for instance, the sufferings of sinners are transmitted, evoke terror rather than compassion.The article examines some miniatures of the Paris codex, analyzes the features of the image of hell as interpreted by Maestro delle vitae imperatorum and their connection with the tradition of illustrating the The Divine Comedy and with the visual culture of Visconti in general.

Key characteristics of the refugee journey for Iraqi and Syrian family members who support their children or siblings with disability

Refugees with disability and their families are increasingly resettled in Australia but remain an under-researched group. As such, this study aimed to understand experiences of disability for humanitarian migrants who support a family member with a disability. Interviews took place with 10 family members from Iraqi and Syrian refugee backgrounds living in Australia, whose children or siblings had disability. BenEzer and Zetter’s conceptualisation of the refugee journey was used to analyse four themes of these families’ experience: (1) Temporal Characteristics: (2) Drivers and Destinations; (3) Process/Content of the Journey; and (4) Characteristics of People. Supporting a person or persons with disability was a defining feature of the participants’ journeys across all themes, with stigma and difficulties in accessing disability support being consistent throughout. The journeys were multifaceted and ongoing, particularly in response to gaps in Australian disability support, and demonstrated the agency and advocacy that families utilised to support the best lives of those they love. Points of interest Few researchers have tried to understand what the refugee journey is like for families where one or more member has a disability. We interviewed Iraqi and Syrian people who came to Australia as refugees. Each of them supported at least one family member with disability. Disability was very important at every part of their refugee journey. As well as the physical journey of coming to Australia as refugees, participants spoke about how they gained new knowledge and skills in Australia to become better advocates for their family members. The participants highlighted gaps in Australian disability support services, which future research should study.

Experience of the Absence of the Journey to Sessions in Clients' Narratives About Online Psychotherapy.

BackgroundRemotely provided psychotherapy due to the COVID-19 pandemic became common. One of the most significant changes related to providing online psychotherapy services is that clients no longer travel to their sessions.AimsIn the article we are interested in the narrated experience of the absence of journey to psychotherapy sessions. We study clients' stories of past journeys and how their absence, resulting from the change of the mode of therapy provision, is coped with and replaced by other activities in their narratives.MethodsThe study takes a constructionist approach to discourse and focuses on the lexico-grammatical form of the notes. The data come from 12 semi-structured interviews with people who declared attending remote psychotherapy sessions after the national lockdown had been introduced.ResultsIn the collected data, the physical journey is constructed not only as travel time, solitude which can be used for reflection, but, importantly, as an active process which ends with a resolution. In contrast, in narratives of the time before an online session, constructions of unfettered agents are replaced with those of people whose actions are hedged and qualified.ConclusionWe argue that in the informants' narratives the journey to psychotherapy is meaningful and is part of the therapeutic process. We propose that it is a time of passing between two states—one before therapy and one in session. The journey therefore is experienced as a process of change, and not only a process of traveling.

The Millennial Antinostalgic: Yoav in Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes

In contemporary, transnational exilic cinema exile an artist is made in an exilic journey. The 21st century journey departs from entirely opposite premises than those of the ancient journey, namely with the desire to escape one’s birthplace. The aim of the exile has also transformed: from a necessary step to secure one’s livelihood or even life, it has become one of exploration. Rather than the desire to settle elsewhere or to eventually return home, the exile sets on an open-ended, exploratory journey the premise of which is finding oneself. In this, the physical journey has come to resemble the metaphysical one of the artist. The exile departs from a physical place and journeys into a metaphysical space, geography becoming secondary while still being necessary. This journey is best recounted in the film Synonymes (2019) by Israeli director Nadav Lapid, an autobiographical tale that chronicles the director’s own exile from Israel to Paris and captures his journey toward becoming an artist. The paper references two prominently antinostalgic authors: 20th century Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz and Polsih-Jewish writer Henryk Grynberg.

A virtual island journey: place and place writing in lockdown

The Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 led many people to reassess their relationship to places. This article attempts, during this time of restricted movement, to imaginatively deep-map an island in the mouth of the Shannon in west Clare where my grandmother was born and raised. My deep-mapping of the island is by necessity virtual, assembled piecemeal from memories, daydreams, family recollections, historical fragments and that powerful, semi-enchanted sense of co-presence that can be found online. Unable to make a physical journey, I rely on the accretive and associative techniques of contemporary place writing. The article uses montage, juxtaposition, thick description, dense detail, imaginative reconstruction and the essayistic blending of undisciplined bits of knowledge, all of which do some of the work of conventional linear argument. As in place writing, the micro-study of a small, special place becomes a way of thinking more widely about our relationship to the earth in a time of environmental and public health emergency. The article is both my own experiment in place writing and an argument for the fresh perspectives that place writing can bring to cultural geography.

Home and Away: The Opposition to Travel in Sefer Ḥasidim

This paper examines R. Judah he-Ḥasid’s approach towards journeys to distant places, including pilgrimage to the land of Israel. Unlike other twelfth-century rabbinic authorities who did not object to travel for various purposes and, in certain cases, even encouraged it, R. Judah he-Ḥasid held a uniform, consistent approach that opposed almost any journey beyond the local area. Some scholars have suggested that R. Judah he-Ḥasid’s opposition to undertaking a pilgrimage to the land of Israel reflects his opposition to messianic activism. However, this study suggests that R. Judah he-Ḥasid’s negative approach towards traveling to Palestine ought to be examined in light of his overall rejection of travel. In his writings, R. Judah he-Ḥasid laid out a new path to achieve redemption and atonement for one’s sins. This path does not depend on physical journeys to holy places or on the national redemption of the Jewish people, but rather aimed at achieving personal redemption, through the adoption of the pietistic way of life as detailed by R. Judah he-Ḥasid in Sefer Ḥasidim: repentance by confessing one’s sins before a sage and performing the prescribed mortification rites. This approach remained unique in Jewish thought, yet one can find parallels in Christian theology of the tension between stability and inner self-improvement, on the one hand, and the advantages of a physical journey to holy sites to achieve atonement for sins.

Not Just Dyspnoea: Swallowing as a Concern for Adults with Laryngotracheal Stenosis Undergoing Airway Reconstruction

Acquired laryngotracheal stenosis (LTS) is a rare condition causing dyspnea and stridor. Patients often require multiple surgical procedures with no guarantee of a definitive outcome. Difficulty swallowing is a recognised problem associated with LTS and the reconstructive surgeries required to manage the condition. The breathlessness patient’s experience impacts on swallowing, and the vulnerable structures of the larynx are implicated during complex surgeries. This leads to dysphagia post-surgery, with some patients experiencing more chronic symptoms depending on the biomechanical impact of the surgery, or a pre-existing dysphagia. Despite this there is limited observational research about the dysphagia associated with LTS, with no exploration of the patient experience. Our aim was to investigate patient experience of living with LTS focussing on dysphagia in order to guide clinical practice. A qualitative study was completed using focus groups and semi-structured interviews with 24 patients who have had reconstructive surgery for LTS. Thematic analysis was used to identify three over-arching themes: The Physical Journey, The Emotional Journey and The Medical Journey. Key sub-themes included the importance of self-management and control, presence of symptoms, benefits of therapy, living with a life-long condition, fear and anxiety, autonomy, medicalisation of normal processes and the dichotomy between staff expertise and complacency. Swallowing was connected to all themes. The results are reviewed with consideration of the wider literature of lived experience particularly in relation to other chronic conditions and those that carry a high symptom burden such as head and neck cancer. Future clinical and research recommendations have been made. Akin to other clinical groups, adults with LTS are keen that management of their swallowing is person-centred and holistic.

Editor's Column: “I set this matter down … to inform myself”: Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America as Private Discourse

Editor's Column: “I set this matter down … to inform myself”: Steinbeck's <i>Travels with Charley in Search of America</i> as Private Discourse

Beyond epistemological confinement: The sentimental ethos of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters

In the eighteenth century sentimentalism emerged as an ideological and artistic movement highlighting the value of an alternative episteme that posed a challenge to the cult of reason. The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, are permeated by a sentimental rhetoric aimed at materialising an ethos based on openness, cultural symbiosis and epistemological expansion that contributed to destabilising patriarchal Anglocentric narratives. Following Yuri M. Lotman, in her fruitful mediating position between two different cultural «semiospheres» (Eastern and Western), Montagu could be described as a frontier writer who used her physical journey as a vehicle for literaturising a vitalist cosmovision enabling her to transcend epistemological and emotional constraints. The ideology of her epistolary narrative was effectively encoded by using sentimental motifs, tropes and ideas that generated a unique textuality, the anatomy of which is analysed in this article.

Quest for Identity in Parvin Shere’s Pearls from the Ocean

This article analyzes the means of self-representation, the conflicts between self/other, and the conscious and unconscious quest for identity by the writer. It attempts to understand travel narratives as being about the journey undertaken in a quest for identity by the traveler/writer, wherein apart from the physical journey of the author the emphasis is laid on the emotional and psychological journey within the author.

MENELAAH SAFAR DALAM PSIKOLOGI ISLAM

This article discusses the concept of safar in the perspective of Islamic psychology which has not been widely studied scientifically. Safar is usually more interpreted as a mere physical journey, without any attempt to cultivate psychological values cum spiritual. For this reason, the author explores safar based on the sufi point of view of Imam Al-Ghazali. The method in this research uses two approaches: literature study written by Imam al-Ghazali and empirical data mining by interviewing doctoral students of Islamic psychology study program at Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. Some of the findings in this research include: safar is very beneficial for the psyche of a person who is a traveler, even when the traveler is experiencing obstacles in his safar.

Journeying “Home”: Negotiating Belonging as Vietnamese American Việt Kiều

For Southeast Asian young people who left as adolescents from their home countries, their connections to those places are often fraught with ambiguity. As for almost all first-generation immigrant youth, issues of belonging in America have touched multiple aspects of their lives, including issues of identity. Not belonging is the diasporic experience of the immigrant (Christou, 2011; Skrbis, 2008). This qualitative study examined the lived experience of three Vietnamese American young people returning home as Việt Kiều, or diasporic Vietnamese. For these emerging adults, it was an important developmental task to figure out one’s place in the world: one’s belief systems, group allegiances, and future life directions (Arnett, 2015). Returning to Vietnam on their own, reconnecting to relatives, and revisiting neighborhoods, homes, and villages where they grew up was indeed an important part of this task. Where was home and where did they, in fact, belong? Significantly, their recounting of their homecomings engendered epiphanies about their own emotional landscapes and social locations, both in the United States and in Vietnam. Exploring the interrelated emotional and physical journeys of young people has the potential of shedding light on issues of self-care and socio-emotional well-being in immigrant families and communities.

Adalet Ağaoğlu’nun “Fikrimin İnce Gülü” Romanında İnsanı Yapılandıran Sistemin Eleştirisi

“Fikrimin İnce Gülü” by Adalet Ağaoğlu published in 1976 narrates both the inner and physical journey of a man called Bayram who was a worker in Germany and who goes back to his hometown for vacation. The novel described changes in Turkish society in the 1950’s through Bayram's childhood and the social, political&nbsp;and economic conditions in the 1970’s. The most important reason Bayram becomes such a person is the postfordist period he lived in. Money, commodity, and information spread unlimitedly, product and production changed constantly, the quality of labor and the labor force remained unstable and everyone was expected to be enterprising during this period. Bayram, on the other hand, had missed the fact that consumption was changing rapidly, that objects of desire were constantly renewed, and hooked all of his existence onto a 1974 Mercedes. Bayram as a member of a consumer society that attributed his existence to a car, and believed that with this car he would be able to gain a prestigious personality and for the sake of this he became alienated to his body and environment. He became insensitive, damaged in terms of his psychology and he lost his humanity. In order to be rid of his past victimization and get the privilege that he supposed he will have he accepted exploitation willingly, internalized the principles of his oppressor and committed humanity crime in terms of ethics. However, the purpose of the author was not to declare Bayram guilty; she made readers think about the material conditions which constructed humans. When these conditions are carefully considered, it was understood that Bayram was just one of the thousands of people created by capitalist relations and although he seemed guilty, the reader realized that he was a victim. To have one consider the conditions which made Bayram both guilty and a victim indicated that Ağaoğlu’s aim was to interrogate this life, determine what makes such a life in Turkey and discuss the responsibility of people in this interrogationthrough literature.

Diving in Sin and Resurfacing with the Discovery of the Self in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

This paper attempts to study the novel of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of Eurocentric discourse of travel. The paper sheds light on Western hegemony of travel from the metropolis to the peripheries for the sake of discovering and colonizing the &amp;ldquo;Other&amp;rdquo; parts of the world in one hand; on the other hand, these journeys enable the protagonist to grow physically, psychologically, spiritually and mentally. The paper also traces the physical journey that coincides with the inner journey which results in the self-discovery of the protagonist of himself as sequences of gradual growth from childhood to maturity; this trait makes the novel as bildungsroman. The protagonist commits a sin of disobedience at the beginning of his life and he has to endure all difficulties of life because of that deadly sin and with the passage of time he discovers his mistakes and repents from his wickedness and comes back to God who redeems him from his original sin. Therefore, he discovers himself after reaching the stage of wisdom, maturity and repentance. He has also been redeemed and awarded the fruitfulness of his endurance by reaching his father&amp;rsquo;s house again and reunited with his family.

Encouraging young adults with a disability to be independent in their journey to work: A segmentation and application of Theory of Planned Behaviour approach

This study investigates how young adults with disabilities can be encouraged to be independent in their travel to work and thus, transition more smoothly into the workforce. Using cluster analysis, we identify three segment groups of young adults with physical disabilities. The Theory of Planned Behaviour is then applied to examine differences and identify strategies that could provide assistance and support to these groups of workers in their travel to work. This study is the first to segment this group of workers and identify strategies to mitigate the often-unique challenges they face in their physical journey to work.

Steps in the Tumen River

Abstract This article records my field experiences with the Tumen River, which forms the boundary between China and Korea. Based on my field notes at three different locations—the river mouth, where territories belonging to China, North Korea, and Russia adjoin; a small town midway along the river where pioneer Korean immigrants risked their lives to cross the border; and the “source” of the contemporary border in a dense mountain forest—my narrative links historical memories of the Tumen border from the seventeenth century to the present. The trips, which were taken over the course of thirteen years, urged me to inquire about and rethink the meaning of state borders from the perspective of local residents, trespassers, and the environment. The article questions the popular notion that boundaries are naturally formed, static, and always clearly defined. On the contrary, they are arbitrarily made, fluid, and often ambiguous. As my physical and intellectual journey along this river revealed the humanistic aspect of boundaries, I myself completed a transformation from journalist to historian.

Prosthetic journeys: Re-thinking travel writing through documentary adaptation

Miller (2008) writes that auto-ethnographical writing is a form of knowing and discovery, allowing the auto-ethnographer to explore themselves and their topic. The travel documentary film expands upon this notion, allowing audiences to become privy to the discovery process; viewers are active participants in the journey, often discovering new knowledge alongside the presenter. Audience and presenter inhabit a shared liminal space, embarking on an educational and physical journey, together. The presenter combines didactic and personable discourses to bridge the gap between complex knowledge and accessible language. New experiences are imprinted on both the presenter and viewer’s consciousness, evoking participatory experiences and creating ‘prosthetic memories’ – synthetic recollections appended to our actual lived experiences. The illusion of participation is further conjured through visual elements; animated cine-maps create geospatial awareness, allowing audiences to feel ‘in the know’, becoming actively involved in the journey progression. The construction of a simulacrum, through representations of the countries and experiences, creates a staged authenticity, allowing viewers to project themselves into the journey. This article deconstructs visual and verbal elements of Joanna Lumley’s In the Land of Northern Lights (2008) for the purpose of adaptation into a multimodal, static form. Narration is studied for adaptation into the written word, and visual devices for adaptation into illustration, peritext, marginalia and ephemera. The possibilities for these adaptations are explored through a practice-led approach, with these discoveries offering static-based alternatives to animation and tracking maps, then introduces ephemera and marginalia as a means of in-formalising language. Furthermore, the process of adapting form, rather than content, is unpacked – a technique currently underrepresented in scholarship. Consequently, this article provides an insight into both the process and practice of adapting form.

Mary Garth’s “Beautiful Soul”: “Inner Abilities” asBildunginMiddlemarch

AbstractFemale bildungsroman critics Susan Rosowski and Marianne Hirsch have described female Bildung as “awakenings to limitations” in a society that cannot allow women a physical journey to growth (67). While both critics agree that female Bildung is an inner journey within societal limitations, neither considers the emotional ability an inward journey allows its heroine. Bildungsroman studies have become a gendered discussion and, in the endeavor to be nonrevisionist, are considering the parameters of growth for women characters. I posit that George Eliot recognized and successfully depicted the complex female journey through her powerful, moral mirror character, Mary Garth. Her “inner ability,” which I believe is an essential role in the female bildungsroman genre, gives Mary Garth a silent power to manipulate society around her. This correlation has not been recognized by feminist and female bildungsroman scholars, neither is Mary Garth recognized as a Hegelian example of a beautiful soul.

When the larger objective matters more: support workers' epistemic and deontic authority over adult service-users.

We report on how support workers sometimes over‐ride the wishes of people living with cognitive impairments. This can happen when they are both involved in some project (such as an institutionally‐managed game, a physical journey, an educational activity and so on). The support worker might use their deontic authority (to propose, decide or announce future actions) to do things that advance the over‐arching project, in spite of proposals for what are cast as diversions from the person with impairments. They might also use their epistemic authority (their greater knowledge or cognitive capacity) to trump their clients’ choices and preferences in subordinate projects. Not orienting to suggested courses of actions is generally interactionally dispreferred and troublesome, but, although the providers do sometimes orient to their actions as balking their clients’ wishes, they usually do not, and encounter little resistance. We discuss how people with disabilities may resist or palliate such loss of control, and the dilemmas that support staff face in carrying out their duties.