@phdthesis{RevillaSanchez2024, author = {Revilla Sanchez, Laura Cristina}, title = {An intersection of heritagisation and securitisation in postcolonial Mexican communities}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-7042}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-70426}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Heritage in postcolonial settings has many dimensions that require in-depth exploration. This research aims to study critical forms of heritage and security through local perspectives in postcolonial settings in order explore to what extent can heritagisation and securitisation have a link in postcolonial communities. Mexico is filled with a mixture of socio-cultural practices, perceptions, and discourses of community-making from official and unofficial perspectives as part of a postcolonial setting. Yet, in times of insecurity due to rising crime and violence, (in)security perceptions and practices may be intertwined with heritage practices and discourses. This connection requires further analysis in order to understand the potentials layers that heritagisation may arise for community implications as can be with (in)security in Comonfort, San Miguel de Allende, and Celaya in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico. In this research, I aim to advance an understanding of heritagisation in postcolonial settings by showing that critical heritage, as a complex field, requires more research towards other regions and other disciplines by exploring an intersection with critical security studies. The study examines this junction through the methodological approach of collective and comparative case studies with ethnographic approaches, employing several methods such as participant observation, ethnographic interviews, surveys, and problem-centred interviews. Through triangulation of data collection and interpretation based on grounded theory, my inquiry captures participants' perspectives on top-down and bottom-up heritagisation with securitisation conceptions; thus, gathering crucial insights and explaining the socio-cultural linkage between the two fields. The chosen methods offer an understanding into a postcolonial methodology, critical perspective, and constructivist paradigm from the proposed intersection. This dialogue points out to the diverse layers of complexities of heritage-making in regard to community-making connected to security-making. In conclusion, this research prompts in presenting a nexus between heritagisation and securitisation in postcolonial communities relating critical heritage and critical security studies in Mexico, and calls to further explore pluriversality of heritage and security practices related to community implications under postcolonial condition.}, subject = {Postcolonial settings; Postkolonialer Kontext; Heritagisation; Securitisation; Community-making; Critical perspective; Mexico; Heritagisierung; Versicherheitlichung; Gemeinschaftsbildung; Kritische Perspektive; Mexiko; Kulturerbe; Sicherheit; Gemeinschaft; Postkolonialismus}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{RohdeAbuba2024, author = {Rohde-Abuba, Caterina}, title = {Un/doing Migration : understanding the performativity of migrant identities in care work}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-6794}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-67947}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2024}, abstract = {This Rahmenpapier discusses the performativity approaches of Bourdieu and Butler as reflexive research perspectives on the social construction of migrant and refugee identities. Focusing on the performativity of speech acts and emotionalized enactments, I employ empirical data examples about commodified and familial care work that reveals how migration and refugeeness are constituted in micro-level face-to-face interactions. Introducing the concepts of doing, undoing and not doing migration/refugeeness, I show different care performances that reproduce, transform or subvert social identities in the interplay of individual agency with the social regulation by institutional, organizational and discursive structures of the national migration, asylum and integration regimes. Throughout the paper, I argue that the social order of migration/refugeeness is biopolitical and postcolonial: drawing on historical images of orientalism, social positions of internal others are constituted and simultaneously subordinated to the majority society. Regulated by biopolitical means of administration and disciplining, social processes of doing of migration/refugeeness generate affective values in the images of internal and external others, who supposedly depend on the care and control of the hegemonic nation. When 'migrant/refugee workers' are used as an effective and economical solution to the increasing labor demand of the nation and when 'refugee families' become a commodity on the national market of public and private social services, the social order of migration/refugeeness materializes in productive values that benefit the nation state.}, subject = {Refugeenes; Migration; Reflexivity; Performativity; Identities; Flucht; Performativit{\"a}t; Identit{\"a}t; Biopolitik; Biopolitik; Fl{\"u}chtlingslager; Identit{\"a}t; Performativit{\"a}t }, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Sabauri2021, author = {Sabauri, Marine}, title = {Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t in den diskursiven R{\"a}umen der Migrationsfilme}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-5473}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-54739}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Analysegegenstand der Arbeit sind die Diskurse von Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t in den diskursiven R{\"a}umen von Migrationsfilmen. Dabei wurden die theoretischen Beitr{\"a}ge aus der migrationssensiblen Genderforschung miteinbezogen. Der Mehrwert dieser Arbeit liegt weniger im Abgleich der theoretischen Beitr{\"a}ge aus migrationssensiblen Genderforschung mit den filmischen Diskursen, sondern vielmehr am Offenlegen der diskursiven Verflechtungen von Sexualit{\"a}t und Geschlecht und der Forschungsgebiete der Migrations-, Gender- und Filmforschung, wobei sich diese gegenseitig in ihren Wissensdiskursen erg{\"a}nzen. Somit haben die Forschungsergebnisse die drei Diskursebenen dargestellt, die miteinander diskursive verflochten sind: 1. Diskurse von Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t; 2. Diskursr{\"a}ume der gegenw{\"a}rtigen Migrationsfilme; 3. Diskursanalyse. In den theoretischen Kapiteln wurden deshalb zun{\"a}chst die verschiedenen Ebenen der Diskursivit{\"a}t von Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t in den filmischen Texten und in der migrationssensiblen Genderforschung beschrieben. Im empirischen Teil wurden gezielt Migrationsfilme aus unterschiedlichen L{\"a}ndern analysiert, um Zugang zu den Diskursen von Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t in dispersen transnationalen diskursiven R{\"a}umen zu gewinnen.}, subject = {Migrationsforschung; Migrationsfilm; Diskursivit{\"a}t; Diskursanalyse; Genderstudien; Migration Research; Migration Film; Discursivity; Discourse Analysis; Gender Studies; Migration; Film; Diskursanalyze; Geschlechterforschung}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{OumaRadoli2019, author = {Ouma Radoli, Lydia}, title = {Narratives of migration and development as discourses in transnational digital migrant media : the case of Kenyan migration to Europe}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-47805}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This dissertation examines how migration and development narratives are (re)produced in transnational digital migrant media using an example of Kenyan migration to Europe. It also raises questions about existing gaps in the literature on the role of the media specifically, transnational digital migrant media in constructing influential discourses. It achieves this quest by submitting to an objective to examine the contribution of migrant media discourses to development in migration-sending countries (De Haas, 2007). Using postcolonial-discourse theoretic approach, the thesis analyses the criteria for selection of texts on migration and development, and how the texts inform the discourse. The theoretical concepts of development in this thesis follow Arturo Escobar's (1995) deconstruction of conventional development theory. It includes an appreciation of multi-faceted theoretic dynamics, especially historical effects on development and creation of hegemonic disparities causing migration of Kenyans to Europe. The dissertation explores the relation of liberal development narratives to Postcolonial perspectives of Edward Said (1977), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1986) and Homi Bhabha (1983), whose writings expose stereotypes like those found in development constructs. The study highlights similar aspects of representations of migration and development in the media. It does not only expose migrant's contribution to development but accentuates the discourse forming function of migrant media in the production of heterogeneous narratives on migration and development. This reflection is an attempt to look at possibilities of alternative development trajectories in migrant media and Postcolonial texts, that resist neo-colonial economic narratives forced on people of African descent. The findings for this thesis show that migrant media provides hegemonic ideas on development, as well as alternative counter-hegemonic views. Even though poverty and political instability of Africa characterize narratives in the mainstream media, migrant media utilizes new media platforms for "subalterns" to be heard. Migrants' inputs on development (re)produced in migrant media, inform a discourse that champions initiatives aimed at improving livelihoods in migration-sending countries. To answer the main sociological question on (re)production of narratives this dissertation learns from Norman Fairclough's (1995, 2012) guidelines to discourse analysis, as informed from Michel Foucault's (1980) theoretic approach. As a qualitative research strategy, the dissertation explores Texts from transnational digital migrant media for Kenyans in Europe (Germany and UK) and expert interviews with Kenyan media producers in Germany and in Britain. On this basis, the thesis argues that not only are media expert's contributors to development but also important creators of a discourse that qualifies migration as a reality in Kenya's development.}, subject = {Media narratives; Migration and development; Postcolonialism; Migrations crisis; Kenyans in Europe; Medienberichte; Migration und Entwicklung; Postkolonialismus; Migrationskrise; Kenianer in Europa; Europa; Kenianer; Migration; Neue Medien; Postkolonialismus; Darstellung}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{SienraIracheta2023, author = {Sienra Iracheta, Estibaliz}, title = {The 'cultural appropriation' of traditional textiles from Mexico : an analysis of 3 case studies}, doi = {10.26127/BTUOpen-6612}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-66120}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This doctoral thesis intended to examine the phenomenon of 'cultural appropriation' of traditional textiles from Mexico through an analysis of 3 case studies. This research had the objective of understanding the phenomenon through the relationships, perspectives, and discourses of the social actors involved, by following the development of controversies involving different objects of material culture from different communities: the xaam n{\"i}xuy Ayuujk (Mixe) blouse from Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca; the H{\~n}uh{\´u} and H{\~n}ah{\~n} (Otomi) "Tenango" embroideries from the communities of Tenago de Doria and San Nicolas in Hidalgo; and the mestizo gabanes from Santa Clara del Cobre and Nahuatzen in the State of Michoac{\´a}n. This doctoral examination was sustained through theoretical approximations that located the occurrences within transnational/ transcultural processes, engaging with qualitative methodologies and multi-sited ethnographies in order to obtain data that elucidated on the diversity of objects, actors, relationships, understandings, perceptions, values, and discourses involved in the 'cultural appropriation' of traditional textiles controversies in the country. The content analysis of this doctoral research dissected a number of different processes, effects, and consequences of the phenomenon as it developed in dissimilar locations and periods of time. The examination revealed a complex intersection of meanings, productions, circulations, and consumptions of culture, that simultaneously affected cultural meanings, relationships, and processes, raising concerns over the management of traditional textiles as objects of cultural heritage, and the unviability of protecting communal creative domains through national legal mechanisms.}, subject = {Cultural heritage studies; Cultural appropriation; Traditional textiles; Transculturation; Cultural rights; Kulturelle Aneignung; Traditionelle Textilien; Kunsthandwerk; Transkulturation; Kulturelle Rechte; Mexiko; Kunsthandwerk; Textilien; Kultur{\"u}bertragung; Kulturelle Rechte}, language = {en} } @misc{HajKhanMirzaiSarraf2020, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Haj Khan Mirzai Sarraf, Ali}, title = {Heritage and continuity in the bazaar}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-51717}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Tehran Bazaar has been the most influential marketplace in Iran, over the last two hundred years, since Tehran became the capital of the country. The Bazaar has been a significant socio-political agent in Iranian society. Nevertheless, less attention has been given to its internal atmosphere, where the bazaaris, have tried to conserve their traditions and preserve their heritage. One of these heritages are "hey'ats", religious formations for holding mourning sessions in Muharram month, as a ritual in Shi'a Islam. "Hey'ats" give the guilds a sense of collective identity, they represent them, and also build a shared heritage for them. The Drapers' Guild was the first guild in Tehran Bazaar, founding a hey'at. They founded this hey'at in 1883 and named it "the Drapers' Hey'at". After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Drapers faced difficulties preserving their heritage. They were forced to displace the Mirza Mousa Mosque in the Bazaar. The Mosque was their center for holding religious sessions and was publicly known as "the Drapers' Mosque". Since they were attached to the Mosque, their displacement was perceived a loss of heritage. Later, they decided to build a new home, "the Drapers' Hosseinieh". They decided to implement the interior design of their lost Mosque in the new place. This strategy enabled them overcome "the traumatic experience of displacement and heritage loss." Also, to safeguard their new place, they legally registered their hey'at as an institution, and they wrote a constitution for it. The attempts for modernization, led them to develop beneficiary activities, as well. In this research, a qualitative approach is applied, benefiting from multiple methodologies, including; ethnography, secondary sources, and visual methods. The researcher has attempted to outline the story of the Drapers in preserving their heritage. This study hopefully would be useful for similar traditional organizations, showing how continuity and heritage preservation are possible to achieve for communities having experienced a troubled past.}, subject = {Tehran; Guilds of Bazaar; Muharram; Iran; Heritage Preservation; Teheran; Gilden des Basars; Erhaltung des kulturellen Erbes; Teheran; Basar; Gilde; Tuchmacher; Kulturerbe}, language = {en} }