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Mythili Rajiva
Bio: Mythili Rajiva is an academic researcher from University of Ottawa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bosnian & Sexual violence. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications receiving 62 citations.
Topics: Bosnian, Sexual violence, Masculinity, Temporality, German
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TL;DR: This article propose a new move in the methodological practice of collective biography, by provoking a shift beyond any remnant attachment to the speaking/writing subject towards her dispersal and displacement via textual interventions that stress multivocality.
Abstract: This paper proposes a new move in the methodological practice of collective biography, by provoking a shift beyond any remnant attachment to the speaking/ writing subject towards her dispersal and displacement via textual interventions that stress multivocality. These include the use of photographs, drama, and various genres of writing. Using a story selected from a collective biography workshop on sexuality and schooling, we document how we work across and among texts, thereby widening and shifting interpretive and subjective spaces of inquiry. We also consider how Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of territorialization/deterritorialization and the nomadic subject might be useful in theorizing such methodological moves in collective biography and our own investments in them.
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TL;DR: This paper explored how migration as "ordinary trauma" affects generations in diasporic families and how a diaspora context creates shifting gender norms, whereby South Asian fathers sometimes come to view daughters not only as future wives and/or mothers of the collective, but also as potential workers who might either maintain or even raise family class status.
Abstract: Synopsis Within the Canadian South Asian diaspora, family/work dynamics highlight the transgenerational nature of class status, social mobility and occupational identity. I draw upon feminist research on migration to analyze qualitative interviews that I conducted with South Asian Canadian girls and women between the ages of 16 and 34. Using narrative as a method, I mine subjects' stories for traces of identity work around familial occupational status, exploring how migration as “ordinary trauma” affects generations in diasporic families. I also look at how a diasporic context creates shifting gender norms, whereby South Asian fathers sometimes come to view daughters not only as future wives and/or mothers of the collective, but also as potential workers who might either maintain or even raise family class status.
19 citations
TL;DR: The taking up of feminist discourses and practices by a violent misogynist on Netflix's You is an important departure from mainstream televisual engagements with gendered violence as discussed by the authors, drawing on Jacks...
Abstract: The taking up of feminist discourses and practices by a violent misogynist on Netflix’s You is an important departure from mainstream televisual engagements with gendered violence. Drawing on Jacks...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on feminist trauma studies with the aim of deconstructing the theoretical and methodological binary between individual and collective trauma, based on first-hand interviews.
Abstract: In this article, we draw on feminist trauma studies with the aim of deconstructing the theoretical and methodological binary between individual and collective trauma. Based on first-hand interviews...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the aesthetics of trauma in the German film A Woman in Berlin and the Bosnian film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, both of which address wartime rapes, is presented.
Abstract: This paper offers a comparative analysis of the aesthetics of trauma in the German film A Woman in Berlin and the Bosnian film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, both of which address wartime rapes t...
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TL;DR: Shattered Assumptions: Toward a New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman as mentioned in this paper, 256 pp. ISBN 0-02-916015-4.Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Abstract: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 276 pp. $27.00. ISBN 0-465-08765–5.Shattered Assumptions: Toward A New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman. New York: The Free Press, 1992, 256 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-02-916015–4.
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TL;DR: This article explored the very particular forms and productive possibilities of collaborative writing that are generated in collective biography workshops, focusing in particular on the collaborative generation of memory stories, and analyzed a story told in a collective biography workshop on writing, and work with it in relation to the concepts of being emergent within the encounter, intra-action or the entanglement of agencies, the significance of matter, the movement from perception and affection to percept and affect, and diffraction as concept and practice.
Abstract: In this paper we explore the very particular forms and productive possibilities of collaborative writing that are generated in collective biography workshops, focusing in particular on the collaborative generation of memory stories. Drawing on conceptual resources from Deleuze and Barad we work our way through the paradox of working with intensely felt evocative memories within the poststructural conceptual space of the deconstructed -of-thought. We analyze a story told in a collective biography workshop on writing, and work with it in relation to the concepts of being as emergent within the encounter, intra-action or the entanglement of agencies, the significance of matter, the movement from perception and affection to percept and affect, and diffraction as concept and practice.
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TL;DR: This paper explored how acts of recognition and non-recognition work on and through the bodies of individual subjects, using stories generated in a collective biography workshop and drawing on concepts from Foucault and Butler, and also in contrast, Barad and Deleuze.
Abstract: This paper opens the space of post-qualitative research through an exploration of how acts of recognition and non-recognition work on and through the bodies of individual subjects. Using stories generated in a collective biography workshop and drawing on concepts from Foucault and Butler, and also, in contrast, Barad and Deleuze, the paper explores the way these different epistemologies intra-act with ways of seeing/reading/being recognizable subjects.
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