Acculturation in Modern and Contemporary Arabic Critical Discourse

DOI:https://doi.org/10.65613/690467 Bouattit Amel[1] Faculty of Letters and Languages Abstract: Acculturation is fundamentally a cross-disciplinary term rooted in the human sciences, yet it was subsequently drawn into the discourse of cultural hegemony and the motives of historical, political, and technological domination on a global scale. This incorporation occurred through its placement within an open trajectory spanning … Read more

Taking up space: Community, belongingand gender among itinerant boatdwellers on London’s waterways

Itinerant boat-dwellers on the waterways in London have been portrayed as a communityof like-minded people living alternative lives, sharing skills, resources, and space. Thispaper complicates the neat presentation of a boating community or imagined communitythrough auto-ethnographic research as an itinerant boat dweller on the waterways in London and through seventeen in-depth interviews conducted within this … Read more

Dwelling on and with water –materialities, (im)mobilities and meanings:Introduction to the special issue

This special issue explores the materialities, (im)mobilities and meanings of dwelling onand with water by asking how is water experienced, narrated, and understood. Water’sphysical qualities both afford mobility and create frictions, thus complicating the boundaries between moving and staying, while waterscapes are also full of political, socio-cultural, and metaphorical meanings. Dwelling on water presents a … Read more

Beyond occidentalism: Critique of life inEurope by Tuaregs in Niger

ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS 25 (3): 5–22.ISSN 1408-032X© Slovene Anthropological Society 2019Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen: Beyond occidentalism: Critique of life in Europe by Tuaregs in NigerBeyond occidentalism: Critique of life inEurope by Tuaregs in NigerAna Sarah Luna~ek BrumenUniversity of Ljubljana, sarah.lunacek@ff.uni-lj.siAbstractThis article focuses on the narratives of Tuaregs in northern Niger, which discuss life inEurope. The repetitive … Read more