Cultural knowledge, category label, and social connections: Components of cultural identity in the global, multicultural context

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching Wan ◽  
Pony Yuen-Ga Chew
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Category Label ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Multicultural Context

Education as Healing: How Urban Aboriginal Men Described Post-Secondary Schooling as Decolonising

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 123-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Restoule
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Cultural Identity Development

AbstractThis paper relates findings from learning circles held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with urban Aboriginal men. The purpose of the circles was to determine how an Aboriginal cultural identity is formed in urban spaces. Education settings were mentioned by the research participants as a significant contribution to their cultural identity development. Participants described elementary and secondary school experiences as lacking in Aboriginal inclusion at best or as racist. In contrast to these earlier experiences, participants described their post-secondary education as enabling them to work on healing or decolonising themselves. Specific strategies for universities to contribute to individual decolonising journeys are mentioned. A university that contributes to decolonising and healing must provide space for Aboriginal students where they feel culturally safe. The students must have access to cultural knowledge and its keepers, such as elders. Their teachers must offer Indigenous course content and demonstrate respect and love for their students. Courses must be seen to be relevant to Indigenous people in their decolonising process and use teaching styles that include humour and engender a spirit of community in the classroom. In particular, Indigenous language courses are important to Aboriginal students.

scholarly journals Conveying Sacred Knowledge through Contemporary Architectural Design: The Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grant
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
North East ◽  
Arnhem Land ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The Indigenous peoples of north east Arnhem Land in Australia (Yolngu) overlay their culture with the customs and social behaviour of other societies to achieve positive outcomes and autonomy. Passing down cultural knowledge is intrinsic to the cultural identity of Yolngu. The paper discusses the recently completed Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre and examines the cultural knowledge conveyed through the medium of contemporary architecture design. The paper finds that the Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre combined aspects of non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal cultures to form a coherent whole with multi-facetted meanings. © 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: People and environments; cultural knowledge; architecture; indigenous architecture

scholarly journals Exploring Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context—the Special Case of Luxembourg

Human Arenas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-330
Author(s):  
Samantha Bichler ◽  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Stephanie Barros ◽  
Elke Murdock
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Special Case

The socio-cultural space of Berlin in V. Nabokov’s novel “The Gift”

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-181
Author(s):  
T. G. Mastepak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The City ◽  
Language Literature

The paper analyzes techniques of contrasting the loci of “German” and “emigrant” Berlin (opposition “center–periphery”), ways of representing the images of native Germans and Russians, variants how immigrants “domesticate” socio-cultural space being alien to them (nominating loci “in Russian way”; consciousness transformation of foreign space into own one due to its cultural and linguistic content, etc.). Fedor sees the images of Germans as depersonalized but emigrants as individualized. Native Berliners are perceived as a less cultured nation, yet seamlessly integrated into the sociocultural landscape of their native city. Exiles from Russia occupy a “marginal” place in the geography of the city and the social hierarchy of the European capital while standing out in contrast in the space of Berlin (appearance, speech). Overcoming social minority is refusing integration and trying to preserve cultural identity (language, literature, art, social connections, and authority among Russian writers and scientists) in a foreign country. The “alien” socio-cultural space of Berlin has twofold semantics: first – mortality and non-genuineness and second – a creative cradle. It encourages Fedor to rethink his memories of childhood, family, and father and sets the vector for personal and creative development. Berlin embodies a “foreign,” “hostile,” “uncomfortable” space but helps to strengthen the values laid down in childhood and survive in exile, which is existentially meaningful. External restrictions contribute to the birth of internal freedom, allowing the hero to rise above social smallness, preserve his own dignity, determine the choice of authorities, and Express his own views in love and creativity.

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIALIZING ABILITY OF THE HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS OF AURANGABAD CITY

2016 ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
Suhail Ahmed Khan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Junior College ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
Junior College Students ◽  
The Relationship

In a globalized society the existence of multiple cultures has become an inevitable social phenomenon. The traditional society is threatened and this offers many challenges for cultural identity in education. In other words we should change mono-cultural education into multi-cultural education and should adhere to the principle of 'harmonious but different' in practice. We can improve socializing ability in students by educating them through cultural knowledge. This study is an attempt to explore the relationship between cultural knowledge and socializing ability of junior college students of Aurangabad city. The study was conducted on 200 junior college students of Aurangabad city. The results reveal that there is a moderate but substantial relationship between cultural knowledge and socializing ability. However, no significant differences on different factors of cultural knowledge and socializing ability between male and female junior college students of Aurangabad city were observed.

Troubadour, Griot and Evangelist: The Compelling Narrative Rhetoric of ‘Erujeje’

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Daniel O. Awodiya ◽  
Yvon Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Community Narratives ◽  
Narrative Rhetoric

AbstractThe power of narratives as didactic tools, the repository of history, cultural knowledge and cultural identity is well known. Walter Fisher depicts stories as the sum of rhetorical expressions and applications of the pre-existing values of a community. Narratives and its corollaries—narrator, receptor (audience)—form a tightly woven knit. To be effective, the receptor must be complicit in the narrator’s jeu (game) which is to persuade the receptor of the fidelity and plausibility of the story. Numerous agents exploit the digital age as a new medium which has appropriated them a special niche in the arena of communication. In evangelism, Michael Fasina, also known as Erujeje, is at the heart of such a movement. This article is a treatment of Fisherian narrative and Aristotelian syllogism in an attempt to suggest that Erujeje, the Nigerian dramatist extraordinaire, combines those elements coupled with topoi familiar to his audience in order to proselytize.1

scholarly journals Young South Africans and cultural (mal)practice: Breaking the silence in recent writing

Literator ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan U. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Forced Marriage ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Modern Identity

This article considered the literary representation of young South Africans coming of age within a post-apartheid, multicultural context and forging for themselves a modern identity across a divide between, and also within, cultures. They identify themselves with the global West, but also subscribe to indigenous African values, whilst recognising how they themselves have been damaged by corrupted cultural practices. Postcolonial theories of identity-formation – Said’s argument that post-imperial cultures are all hybrid and heterogeneous, Bhabha’s interstitial ‘third space’ where postcolonial identities are produced through processes of negotiation and translation, Hall’s theory that cultural identity is based on differences and discontinuities rather than on fixed essences, De Kock’s notion of a ‘cultural seam’ or site where cultures both differ and converge and difference and sameness are sutured together, Nuttall’s notion of entanglement, and Clingman’s theory of the transitive self – are used for understanding how young South Africans are shown in recent writing as having been shaped by traditional cultural practices and also damaged by cultural malpractices. Texts chosen for discussion are Adam Ashforth’s Madumo, about witchcraft, Russell Kaschula’s short story,‘Six teaspoons of sweetness’ and Gcina Mhlope’s short story, ‘Nokulunga’s wedding’, both of which deal with ukuthwala [forced marriage abduction] and, finally, Thando Mgqolozana’s novel, A man who is not a man, which deals with the consequences of a botched traditional circumcision. The article argued that self-reflexive critical and imaginative engagement by young people with the cultures that have formed – and deformed – them is a mark of the true coming-of-age of postcolonial and post-apartheid writing.

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