Processes Of Reterritorialization Research Articles

Masks and Mantras: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Spiritual Reterritorialization Among Tibetan Buddhist Communities in Taiwan

This article examines how Tibetan Buddhist teachers’ and communities’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have facilitated the contemporary global transmission of this tradition. Based upon fifteen months of ethnographic research in Taiwan, I examine how one community, the Bhumang Nyiöling Buddhist Society, was introduced to and adopted practices to the deity Parṇaśavarī, a protectress against pandemic illnesses, in response to COVID-19. Drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari, I introduce the concepts of spiritual deterritorialization and reterritorialization to describe the processes whereby divinities in the Buddhist cosmos are unbound from specific geographies and expand their intercessory powers across new contexts. I argue that the introduction of Parṇaśavarī practices to the Bhumang Nyiöling community during the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a vibrant example of how processes of spiritual deterritorialization and reterritorialization can play a powerful role in the broader transmission of Tibetan Buddhism globally, particularly when catalyzed by critical moments of crisis.

A Little Caribbean in Madrid: analysis of the Dominican identity in the public space

According to the field of sociolinguistics of globalization, migrants resettle in new countries through deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes, which entail changes in the perception of the language and symbols of the homeland and those of the communities that migrants establish themselves in. Given that this contextual relation is expressed in the public space, the present study analyzes how Dominican resources are used in the linguistic and semiotic landscape of Tetuán, a well-known Dominican neighborhood of Madrid. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, results show both the presence of the Dominican Spanish as well as Dominican symbols in the public space. Findings suggest that the Dominican community in Madrid has adapted their new place to make it more similar to their homeland, the Dominican Republic, reterritorializing the linguistic and semiotic landscape of Tetuán while building and shaping new identities. This study contributes to the body of research on linguistic landscape and linguistic attitudes in multilingual settings.

Children's territorialities in a Brazilian right-to-housing movement

ABSTRACT This paper discusses children's experiences in the context of a social phenomenon of a Brazilian right-to-housing movement known as urban occupation. Our discussions are focused more specifically on the Rosa Leão occupation, located in the Izidora Region, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Based on a research developed between June 2019 and April 2021 with a group of about 19 children (2–14 years old), this paper sought to identify the children's territorialities in this spatial struggle, which occurs through circulation and play in a collective process of reterritorialization. Connecting critical perspectives from childhood studies, this investigation confronts the idea of hegemonic childhood, breaking with a stigmatized view of children’s experiences in poor Latin American cities. It also collaborates with contemporary discussions that assume an analysis of the relations of domination and focus on a historicized, critical, and plural perspective of children’s rights and the right to the city, based on the concreteness of the subjects’ experiences in disputed territories in the midst of urban crisis.

Affixing the Nomads: Revisiting Marx’s Theory of “So-Called Primitive Accumulation” with a Deleuzo-Guattarian-Inspired Theory of the Colonial State

This essay tests Karl Marx’s theory of primitive accumulation on nomadic and seminomadic populations. Drawing on a comparative historical-sociological analysis of nomadic communities in North Africa and North America, it argues that in primitive accumulation, the control of mobility is as central as that of land enclosure. It theorizes the role of the colonial state as an apparatus of capture that operates not only through enclosure but through processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. For the colonized, this historical and continuous process of primitive accumulation operates through a double enclosure: land and mobility. For the empire, this process consolidates imperialism and statehood. Primitive accumulation deployed by a colonial state is empire making. This essay thus agrees with indigenous and critical scholars about the race-making function of primitive accumulation and provides a theoretical foundation regarding the primitive accumulation of mobility relevant to—but occulted by—the field of the sociology of migration.

O que Podemos Aprender com Mulheres Quilombolas? Um Estudo sobre Práticas Cotidianas e o Processo de Territorialização, Desterritorialização e Reterritorialização de uma Comunidade Remanescente Quilombola

The objective of this research is to access quilombola women’s memories to capture how everyday practices composed the process of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization (T­D­R) of the Adelaide Maria Trindade Batista Remaining Quilombola Community, located in the municipality of Palmas, in the state of Paraná. Theoretical elements of the concept of everyday life based on Certeau’s theory, and elements of the territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization process that understand the territory as a space in constant transformation were discussed. To achieve our objective, the oral life history method is used. The results show matriarchy as an everyday strategy exercised within the community.

Constructing Territories of Deterritorialization–Reterritorialization in Clarice Lispector Novels

The importance of geography and literature, as producers of knowledge for society, is undeniable. Both areas are structural pillars for the explanation of contemporary territorial phenomena. In this article, we intend to reflect on the importance of literature for understanding migration, focusing on the deterritorialization–reterritorialization process. Through geographic lenses, we will perform a content analysis of several fictional works by Clarice Lispector, who was hereself a migrant, in several moments of her life. We can consider that this writer’s contribution made a deep contribution to (re)think conceptual and theoretical frames in the geography of migration.

The reterritorialization and the struggle for water of those affected by the transfer of the São Francisco River in the Brazilian Northeast

The implementation of the largest Brazilian hydrological project, theProjeto de Integração do rio São Francisco –PISF (water resources project implemented by the federal government in the Brazilian Northeast), responsible for transfering the river's waters into the semi-arid Northeast region of Brazil, had different effects in the region and caused the deterritorialization of several families. A portion of these families were reterritorialized into the 18 rural villages scattered throughout the project, where approximately 845 families were resettled. In this context, the research conducted in the rural village of Lafayette, in Monteiro/PB, aims to analyze the process of reterritorialization of the affected actors and their strategies to fight for access to water. For this purpose, we adopted a qualitative approach and ethnographic research, using procedures such as oral history interviews with actors resettled in the village, semi-structured interviews with institutional actors, in addition to collecting documents, photographs and observations recorded in the field diary. The results demonstrate the difficulties faced by families in the process of reterritorialization in the village, the emergence of conflicts over water, in addition to apprehending the different strategies of struggle of the affected actors to obtain access to water for human consumption. In this way, the study contributes to the problematization regarding those affected by the project and the access to water within such a large project whose motto is the distribution of water, though the lives of the affected families remain barren.

LSTM-RNN-FNN Model for Load Forecasting Based on Deleuze’s Assemblage Perspective

Reliable load forecasting is essential for electricity generation and even for people’s lives. However, the existing load forecasting theories cannot match the requirements of complex systems (e.g., smart grids). Deleuze’s metaphysical complexity theory is seen as the theoretical foundation for comprehending complex systems, and thus, a new perspective based on Deleuze’s assemblage concept is given. According to the assemblage perspective, the electrical load is a quantitative representation of the mutual becoming of people and electricity, and load forecasting is an attempt to control this continuous process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. We built an LSTM-RNN-FNN model for load forecasting based on the assemblage perspective, and the assessment results demonstrated that the model has high prediction performance. Furthermore, the performance of adding the temperature parameter into the network is also tested, while the correlation between the temperature and load is not strong enough and may not be suitable for load prediction. The assemblage perspective has significant implications for future load forecasting and potentially smart grid research.

Indigenous students’ agency vis-à-vis the practices of recognition and invisibilization in a multilingual university

ABSTRACT This study addresses the role of Indigenous students in higher education regarding the practices of recognition and invisibilization of linguistic, ontological, and epistemic identities. We focus on a Colombian university and examine how Indigenous students contest and reshape the legacies of coloniality that permeate cultural, academic, and organizational practices. We draw on principles of a critical intercultural view in combination with elements from a decolonial perspective to explain the ways students’ intersectional subjectivities, languages, and communities are represented and positioned and how students engage in agentive action to reshape and contest colonial practices. Data collection included a sociolinguistic survey, field notes, interviews, a Círculo de Palabra, and documents. Findings show that Indigenous students engage in counterhegemonic agentic enactments through processes of material and symbolic reterritorialization. Indigenous students' agency on campus, more than an individual trait, appears a collective enactment of their social, cultural, and political aspirations and historical struggles.

Forest crisis narratives: Illegal logging, datafication and the conservation frontier in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains

Environmental crisis narratives escalate around the world. Their production and consequences demand scholarly attention. Drawing on the analytical tools of political ecology and highlighting long-term historical developments, this article examines the shift to a new narrative of conservation in forestry, which displaces older structures of state forest management. In particular, we explore the emergence and unfolding of a crisis narrative of illegal logging, which escalated in Romania in the last thirty years. Based on long-term research of digital sources, interviews and fieldwork, we analyze the contents of this narrative, the way it produced heroes and villains, and its entanglements with processes of datafication, criminalization, and the surge of forest violence. We argue that (1) the genealogies of the forest crisis narrative can be understood in relation to frontier-specific processes of deregulation and re-territorialization, which generate acute struggles for forest control and legitimacy; (2) the narrative of illegal logging unravells as a media spectacle surrounding the production of data by a plurality of state and non-state actors (3) in the attempts to curtail illegal logging, the emphasis on law, surveillance and criminalization posits forest conservation one step short of militarization, fuelling the trends for global environmental law enforcement and securitization of conservation.

Sisterhood to promote the rhizomatic bodies of Mexican-mestiza women mountaineers

Employing a post-structural approach, this study relies on the rhizomatic body to understand the Mexican-mestiza women mountaineer, to address negotiations and overcome gender inequalities. Drawing from a larger study and using a qualitative method, it focuses on sisterhood as a core strategy to build mestiza rhizomatic bodies to foster women mountaineering in a traditional society. The main findings suggest that sisterhood supports women’s mountaineering and promotes deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes to sustain diverse strata for their negotiations. Accordingly, Mexican-mestiza women mountaineers’ rhizomatic bodies embedded vulnerability, adventure, risk, physicality, criticism, or freedom to promote activities that are more inclusive.

“A REAL FUCKING MAN”: EXPLORANDO MASCULINIDADES MIGRANTES EN MEN WITHOUT BLISS DE RIGOBERTO GONZÁLEZ DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA ECTÓPICA

This project introduces the work of the Mexican-American author Rigoberto González into the Spanish literary panorama and focuses on his short story collection Men without Bliss. For an exhaustive analysis of his work, the starting point will be the analytical tool established by Tomás Albaladejo (2011) and his definition of “ectopic literature” which provides tools to study the process of reterritorialization as a consequence of migratory processes through literary works. As presented in other studies dealing with this theoretical background, we would emphasize the relationship between gender and migration. A detailed reading of Men without Bliss aims to confirm the possibilities to analyze his short-story collection from the prism of ectopic literature. The examination of masculine characters in González’s shortstories, and particularly the way(s) men experience processes of displacement are described are the main objectives of this work. By exploring this short-story collection, we classify characters according to different models of masculinity and identify how González depicts “traditional masculinity” and patriarchy as source for unhappiness.

Assembling Success: Desire, Worker Mobility, and Value Creation in Finnish Ice Hockey

AbstractBuilding on Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage theories, this paper offers an ethnography of work focused on a professional ice hockey team in Finland, where hockey is the leading sport in terms of popularity and economic investment. It is an analysis of the everyday investments in developing individual players’ skills and in building teams capable of high levels of cooperation under conditions of unpredictability. By looking at team formation as an emergent set of practices, materialities, discourses, and affects, we are better able to account for how corporations of this kind mitigate the deterritorializing effects of player mobility through processes of reterritorialization. As such, the analysis offers insights into modalities of value creation in a corporate model that relies not only on the constant improvement of worker performance in ways that can be easily measured but also on intangible facets of worker collaboration that manifest as collective desire.

Teacher Action Research with Overseas Korean Children in U.S

이민, 언어, 대중문화와 같은 이슈들은 재외동포 1세대와 2세대 자녀들의 일상생활 속 정체성 발달과 밀접한관련이 있는 주제들이지만, 아동들이 이해하기에는 다소 어렵고 추상적이며 민감한 주제일 수 있다. 본 실행연구는미국 동남부에 위치한 한국학교에서 2013년 1월부터 5월까지의 한 학기 동안 8세에서 10세 사이의 재미동포 어린이들과 함께 이러한 주제들에 대해 생각과 의견을 나누며 가르치고 연구해 온 교사-연구자의 지난 여정을 교사에세이 형식으로 기술하면서 연구에 함께 참여한 어린이들의 문화적, 민족적 정체성에 대한 인식이 성장하는 과정을 묘사하고 있다. 본 실행연구에서 교실 공간은 권위적 언어로 정의된 이야기만을 전달하는 곳이 아니라 아이들이 자신의 목소리로 말할 수 있는 공간으로 재구성됨으로써, 주류 교실환경에서는 들리지 않았던 소수민족 아동들의 이야기를 들려주게 된다. 즉, 개개인의 이야기를 환영하고 다성성(Bakhtin, 1965/1984a; 1981; 1984b; 1986)을 존중하는 교실의 재영토화 과정을 묘사하고 있다. 본 논문은, 아동연구에서 어린이들의 실천적 참여를 높이기 위한 다양한 연구방법의 개발 및 적용의 중요성을 강조하고 있다. 나아가 한 사회의 능동적 시민이자 주체로서 아동의 목소리를 드러낼 수 있는 기회가 제공되었을 때, 어린이들 스스로가 만들어낸 놀라운 사회 문화적 변화에 대해 증언하고 있다.Issues such as immigration, language, and popular culture are topics closely related to thedevelopment of identity in the daily lives of first and second generations of immigration children,but may be somewhat difficult, abstract, and sensitive topics for children to understand. Thisaction research describes the past journey of a teacher-researcher who has taught and studiedthese topics with overseas Korean children in U.S. between the ages of 8 and 10 for a semesterfrom January to May 2013 as well as the process of children s growing awareness of culturaland ethnic identity in the form of teacher’s essay. In this action study, the classroom space is not a place to deliver only the stories defined inauthoritative language, but a space where children can speak with their own voices, telling thestories of minority children that have not been heard in the mainstream classroom environment. In other words, it describes a process of reterritorialization of the classroom that welcomesindividual stories and respects polyphony (Bakhtin, 1965/1984a; 1981; 1984b; 1986). This paperemphasizes the importance of developing and applying various research methods to increasechildren s practical participation in children’s research. Furthermore, it testifies to the remarkablesocio-cultural changes that children themselves have made when they are given the opportunityto express their voices as active citizens and agents of a society.

A Socially-Based Redesign of Sustainable Food Practices: Community Supported Agriculture in Italy

Several grassroots initiatives in the last two decades have shown the need for different food practices that should be locally based and founded on ethical goals of social and environmental justice. Among the many “alternative food networks”, the Community Supported Agriculture model is particularly significant and interesting. By redefining meanings and social norms around food practices, this model actualizes significant processes of food re-socialization and re-territorialization. Focusing on Italy, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of the potential of this model. It does so through two investigations carried out in 2019 and 2020, aimed at analyzing, respectively, structural and organizational aspects of CSAs and the features of resilience shown by these initiatives during the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. On the whole, the two surveys give us the image of a radically innovative experience, potentially capable of deeply redefining production and consumption practices, being rooted in socially-shared knowledge, motivations, willingness, commitment and sense of community. In addition to being characterized by a determination to pursue sustainability and equity goals, the model shows a remarkable character of resilience thanks to the original arrangements that the common value basis and the strong sense of interdependence and solidarity of its members can provide.

Atikamekw and Euro-Canadian Territorialities around the Saint-Maurice River (1850–1930)

This essay focuses on the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization and reterritorialization through which Euro-Canadian society extended its control along the valley of the St. Maurice River between 1850 and 1930. That territory had been settled by the Atikamekw people where they had established their hunting and fishing grounds for centuries. However, the Atikamekw people were confronted by environmental and technological transformations around the St. Maurice River with the implementation of sociotechnical systems during that time period, as two successive phases of industrialization based on specific water use brought along a proliferation of urban centers and the arrival of the large-scale industry. This was particularly the case when the proliferation of hydroelectric dams along the St. Maurice River and its tributaries followed the construction of fluvial infrastructure to facilitate the floating of wood pulp harvested in the upper basin of the river. Not only did the technical activities surrounding the construction of hydroelectric facilities materially transform the St. Maurice River watershed, they also allowed a symbolic appropriation of the land by the production of maps and surveys that ‘erased’ the presence of the Atikamekw. Physical and symbolic boundaries resulting from these new forms of organization and configuration of the territory restricted the spatial practices and representations of the Atikamekw. Logging confined these people within isolated enclaves (the so-called “Indian reserves”), while dams bypassed their networks of exchange and communication. The aim of this essay is to understand the conflicts between the territorialities of the Atikamekw and that of the Euro-Canadians by focusing on the place of water uses within the geographical imaginations and the land use patterns of these populations.

Un chevalier errant à la recherche du Nord. Le boréalisme dans Don Quichotte de Cervantes

There are few studies on the concept of nordicity in Spanish-language literary texts. Hardly any of them focuses on the works of Miguel de Cervantes, apart from interpretations of his novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, whose plot is partly set in Europe’s most northern reaches. However, borealization, as a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of images of the North used by the South itself, can be an effective means of unearthing complex and contradictory significances of the relationships between characters, landscapes, and national values. The article analyses how the knight-errant Don Quixote explores the landscape of La Mancha as a borealized realm in which he attempts to find his North amidst the contradictory values of a nation.

Urban geography vs company geography. An analysis of location determinants in three European cities

ABSTRACT Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in urban areas are increasingly relevant, with a consistent impact on various territories. This research explores the re-territorialization processes, contextualized by the post-Fordism era, in urban areas. The objective of this work is to verify a hypothesis assumed at the base of the research relating to the presence of a uniformity of orientation regarding the settlement determinants of companies that are co-located in specific areas of the cities. This hypothesis is tested in relation to various industrial sectors. The availability of these survey elements constitutes a useful driver of awareness to be then translated into specific actions in urban planning in terms of policies, services and infrastructures to be dedicated to these urban spaces characterized by clusters of firms. From a methodological point of view, the followed approach is based on two aspects relating both to a cartographic comparison and both to a statistical comparison between the answers provided by the service companies of different sectors of some European cities selected for the sample survey.

Afinando silêncios: potencialidades de escolas outras na atualidade do presente

Esse texto tem como propósito problematizar as territorializações da escola neoliberal, que se entranha cada vez mais no cenário brasileiro, gerando visibilidade às relações temporais e espaciais, não dissociáveis, de suas práticas escolares, intensificadas por um contexto de pandemia. Isso implica inevitavelmente e diríamos urgentemente pensar sobre escolas outras que desterritorializem essa lógica neoliberal e potencializem modos outros de fazer pulsar a vida, de habitar tempos e espaços outros e de constituir formas de vida escolares outras. Algo contrário a qualquer processo de reterritorialização neoliberal que intensifica e acelera as desigualdades de vidas. Com isso, não se trata de propor um modelo de escola, menos ainda, considerar a escola como sendo uma tela de computador e professores os mais novos influencers digitais, mas potencializar que outros arranjos pulsem diferentemente em nosso fazer escola na escola, principalmente na atualidade do presente. Trata-se de afinar os silêncios que nos habitam, alguns deles fortemente invisibilizados pelas práticas dominantes, e educar a atenção corpórea para perceber que a quietude inquietante, causada pelo isolamento social, pode nos ensinar algo. A saber, a necessidade de desacelerar, de ir mais devagar, de perceber que a força mortífera, caótica e devastadora de uma pandemia nos colocou para pensar sobre os valores da vida, das vidas escolares, mas também produziu forças inventivas gerando possibilidades e resistências para compor outros acordes vitais, ainda não pensados e vividos em nossos assujeitamentos. Essa composição músico-textual foi dividida em dois movimentos: no primeiro, problematizamos as práticas que decorrem do neoliberalismo escolar e, no segundo, discutimos sobre as potencialidades ao desestabilizar o território chamado escola, pensadas a partir da composição de outros ritmos escolares.

Landscaping an Ecuadorian neighborhood in Queens, NY

Diaspora studies on migration communities have shown how these transnational groups appropriate the new space in the receptive country through a process of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. These processes involve a reinterpretation and reconceptualization of the linguistic relationship between the language of the diaspora group and those spoken in the new home. One of the most visible places where this contextual relation must be negotiated is in the public sphere, where language, culture and identity are inevitably interwoven (Blackwood, Lanza & Woldemariam, 2016). Using a multimodal approach and using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, this article analyzes how an Ecuadorian-American community in Queens transformed the linguistic landscape of their surroundings to make it similar to what this community had in their home country.