It seems that a new paradigm is being formed within the social sciences, the ‘new mobilities’ paradigm. Some recent contributions to forming and stabilising this new paradigm include work from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, migration studies, science and technology studies, tourism and transport studies, and sociology. In this paper we draw out some characteristics, properties, and implications of this emergent paradigm, especially documenting some novel mobile theories and methods. We reflect on how far this paradigm has developed and thereby to extend and develop the ‘mobility turn’ within the social sciences.

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The new mobilities paradigm.

The Wretched of the Earth

In the present paper a research has been done on the essay ‘Can the Subaltern Speak’ by’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’. It has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references. Also the criticism has been done by various critiques from various sources which is helpful from examination point of view. The paper has been divided into various contexts with an introduction and the conclusions. Also the references has been written that depicts the sources of criticism.

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Can the Subaltern Speak

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17450100500489189

Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings

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Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies

Memory has been figured as an important process of placing and locating people and communities, both geographically and socially. Memory has also been significant in research on people who are not part of a formal record of history. This memory work includes a focus on black identity, especially in the work of Toni Morrison and Paul Gilroy. This paper seeks to examine the relevance of memory and re‐memory for the social geographies of the South Asian population in Britain. In the first section I examine visual and material cultures as mechanisms for memory, especially their role in figuring diasporic positioning, and identity politics. These memories are in the form of testimonies and biographical narratives. In the paper I have argued for the relevance and value of re‐memory in understanding the narratives of British Asian heritage in the everyday domestic environment. Re‐memory is an alternative social narrative to memory as it is a form of memory that is not an individual linear, biographical narrative. Re‐memory is a conceptualization of encounters with memories, stimulated through scents, sounds and textures in the everyday. ‘Home possessions’ constitute precipitates of re‐memories and narrated histories. These are souvenirs from the traversed landscapes of the journey, signifiers of ‘other’ narrations of the past not directly experienced but which incorporate narrations of other's oral histories or social histories that are part of the diasporic community's re‐memories. Collectively, visual and material cultures are identified as precipitates of these re‐memories in the form of historical artefacts of heritage and tradition.

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Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re‐memory through artefacts in the British Asian home

Materializing post-colonial geographies : examining the textural landscapes of migration in the South Asian home.

This paper picks up from extensive literatures that have addressed the relationship of heritage to national identity. Much work focuses upon the symbolic construction of the past through heritage institutions, but in so doing it tends to underplay the affective experience of heritage sites. In this paper we argue that it is the felt experience and the organisation of sensibilities towards heritage which are often as important, and that these have racialised modalities. We thus look at attempts to foster civic inclusion and argue that they need to work through not just civic openness but felt exclusions and fears. We take two canonical heritage sites to exemplify these issues. First, the British Museum was chosen as an urban national institution that is conventionally seen speaking in an unemotive, pedagogical register. The history of the museum as collecting artefacts from around the world and bringing them to London is related to diasporic communities' feelings about the collections, focusing on the Oceanic gallery. The second exemplar is the English Lake District, chosen as a rural national park that is seen to mobilise more visceral affective responses, which is deeply bound up with national sensibilities but has attracted attention for racial exclusivity.

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Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites

http://www1.geo.ntnu.edu.tw/~moise/Data/Books/Social/05%20social%20geography%20theory/matter%20in%20social%20and%20cultural%20geography.pdf

Divya P Tolia-Kelly

Papers

Affect – an ethnocentric encounter? Exploring the ‘universalist’ imperative of emotional/affectual geographies

Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re‐memory through artefacts in the British Asian home

Materializing post-colonial geographies : examining the textural landscapes of migration in the South Asian home.

Nation, Race, and Affect: Senses and Sensibilities at National Heritage Sites

Matter(s) in social and cultural geography