Marginalized to double marginalized: My mutational intersectionality between the East and the West

Intersectionality allows better understanding of the differences between individuals' experiences. In this article, I use intersectionality to explore how my lived experience of marginalization is different from one context to another. I reflect on how the nature of intersectionality and the intensity of oppression are altered by context. Grounded in a brief reflection of my fragmented experience in two different contexts, I explore how my identities and their intersection “mutate” from the Egyptian context to the UK context. Then, I reflect on how the intensity of oppression changed with this alteration in my intersectionality. In contextualizing my intersectional experience, first I problematize viewing intersectionality as a fixed acontextual ontology. Second, as a student immigrant and racialized minority in the United Kingdom, I seek to extend intersectionality and move beyond the traditional categories of race, class, gender, religion, and sexuality to include precarity as a pivotal social category that amplifies the intensity of oppression and marginalization, especially when intersected with race and gender. Finally, in sharing my reflection as a Middle Eastern woman, I contribute my unique experiences into the conversation, and a voice that has been muted, invisibled, marginalized, and excluded from the literature.     

论“专业化”时代知识分子的身份想象

本文将从身份想象的视角出发,探讨在知识分子日趋“专业化”的今天,关于知识分子的身份想象是如何进行的。     

信息时代的“粉丝”文化

在当今这样一个信息和传媒高度发达的时代里,＂粉丝＂已经发展成为一股不容忽视的社会力量,同时＂粉丝＂现象也上升为一种独特的社会文化现象。以＂粉丝＂群体作为研究对象,探讨了在当今的时代背景下,促使＂粉丝＂行为形成的心理需求层次,以及在全球化环境中,＂粉丝＂相互联系构建的阐释性社区及其特点,最后还分析了＂粉丝＂在后现代文化中的文化身份问题。     

Using intersection matrices to identify graphical structure

Intersection matrices help identify the common graphical structure of two or more objects. They arise naturally in a variety of settings. Several examples of their use in a computer algebra environment are given. These include: simplifying an expression involving array products, automating cumulant calculations, determining the behaviour of an expected value operator and identifying model hierarchy in a factorial experiment. The emphasis is placed on the graphical structure, and the symmetry of arrays help reduce the complexity of the graphical problem.     

多重身份的复合--论唐顺之对曾巩散文的评价

唐顺之作为一名笃诚的心学家、理学家,势必会从思想价值的角度对文学作品进行评价。同时他又是一个优秀的八股文名家、古文评点家,有时又会摆脱心学和理学的思维模式,从文学自身的角度考量创作。受此多重身份的复合影响,唐顺之对道学气息浓厚而艺术性较差的曾巩散文进行评价时,就显得颇为矛盾：既认为“三代以下之文未有如南丰”,又以为曾巩散文法度平实,缺少变化,只能居于唐宋八家之末。     

铸牢中华民族共同体意识视角下归侨群体的“五个认同”研究——以广西侨港镇为例

作为中国最大的印支难民安置点,广西侨港镇成立至今已有四十余年的历史。在侨港镇经济快速发展,社会各项事业全面进步的同时,当地归侨群体对伟大祖国、中华民族、中华文化、中国共产党、中国特色社会主义的认同不断深化提升,其中华民族共同体意识日益形成并得以巩固铸牢。侨港镇的事实经验不仅为铸牢中华民族共同体意识的学术研究提供了个案参考,也为其他归侨安置地区相关工作的实际开展提供了借鉴启发。     

Political constructions of a cross-community identity in a divided society: how politicians articulate Northern Irishness

ABSTRACT

A shared identity has been shown to reduce prejudice between conflicting social groups. One such common national category is the ‘Northern Irish’ identity which can be inclusive of both Catholics and Protestants. This study analyses the plenary sessions of the Northern Ireland Assembly to show how the national category ‘Northern Irish’ is framed by politicians. Content analysis shows that it is used more often by centrist parties who tend to frame it positively and as part of their political viewpoint. There is also evidence of the instrumental use of this identity by unionists in line with the ingroup projection model.     

Patterns of im/mobility,conflict and the re/making of identity narratives*

ABSTRACT

This paper analyses the interrelationship between patterns of im/mobility on the one hand and the reconstitution of social collective identities and the related emergence or settlement of conflicts on the other. The main arguments are (1) that the im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa, and (2) that these dynamics are closely interlinked with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups and power structures that involve a broad variety of actors. Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as ‘traditional’ or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, the contribution provides the conceptual background for a special issue that aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration. Established or emerging dynamics of (non-)integration and belonging, caused by im/mobility, are analysed on a cultural and political level, which involves questions of representation, indigeneity/autochthony, political rights and access to land and other resources. Conflict situations in contexts of mobility involve changes in the social understanding and renegotiation, reconstruction or reproduction of group identities and narratives with reference to certain socio-political and historical patterns. The legitimation of rights and access to various forms of citizenship and mobility need to be understood against the backdrop of emerging or established mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups, which trigger or settle conflicts and make social identities to be constantly renegotiated.     

语用原则新探——谈切合说话者多重身份的语用原则

文章通过对语言交际活动中人们多重身份的定义,描述,以及一些相关理论的研究,探索说话者多重身份下的语用原则。文章用发展的联系的观点去看待多重身份下的语用原则,有助于我们进一步对会话含义做出新的解释和研究。     

Becoming a (Pan)ethnic Attorney: How Asian American and Latino Law Students Manage Dual Identities

Managing professional and personal identities often belabor upwardly mobile racialized individuals. I examine in this article how Asian American and Latino law students negotiate (pan)ethnic identities while learning to become lawyers. I contend that managing dual identities creates (pan)ethnic duty among Asian American and Latino law students. I focus on those planning to work in law firms, at least initially. While there are many career options for law students, most, irrespective of race, pursue initial careers at law firms. What leads them there? How do racialization and expectations play a role in this career aspiration? And how do students negotiate the pressure to give back, or manage the internally/externally imposed duty they feel to serve respective communities? I find that Asian American and Latino law students draw on a repertoire of strategies (marginal panethnicity, tempered altruism, and instrumental ethnicity) that encompass different accounts, identities, and roles enabling creativity and elasticity for professional and personal identities. The findings suggest that panethnicity remains salient for upwardly mobile individuals of color, even those who do not ostensibly appear to be concerned with panethnic communities and causes.