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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: yummy food
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. This commentary discusses the Sutton readings Whole Foods: Revitilization Through Everyday Synthetic Experience and Mannur’s article Culinary Nostalgia. Q Can you think of some other functions food has for diasporic communities? March 29, 2011 at 8:26 PM. March 30, 2011 at 1:07 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Office Hrs: Fri 2-4. Put a ring on it. Diasp...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: maharaja response
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Relating to the Maharaja exhibit, why is an exhibit about the South Asian community still curated by someone not of South Asian descent? Sorry this commentary it’s not focusing on the objects, per se, but rather the power dynamics behind the presentation of objects. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Office Hrs: Fri 2-4. Keffiyehs as Cross-Cultural Mediation.
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Reflection on Visiting AGO- Maharaja Exhibition
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Reflection on Visiting AGO- Maharaja Exhibition. I know my post is very different from the other ones but here is a small reflection of my visit to AGO. Academic perspectives of things are great but so as the more personal ones. Besides art objects, concepts like “colonialism” can be something in common that connect people together. “Victoria Albert Museum” is the world’s g...March 22, 2011 at 8:58 AM.
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Steelpan, Diasporas, Types of 'Play'
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Steelpan, Diasporas, Types of 'Play'. This weeks article focuses on the steel pan and the Caribbean and West Indian diasporas throughout the world. One of the authors, Dudley, tells us about the Carnival festival that is very prominent in these cultures, specifically in Trinidad and Tobago, and how its appeal has grown throughout the world. Later, we discuss the ideological differences between the different...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Objects occupy micro and macro level 'frames'
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Monday, March 21, 2011. Objects occupy micro and macro level 'frames'. I’d like to use this week’s response to formulate some thoughts from the exhibit. What has remained with me since visiting the exhibit was the presentation. Again, along the lines of framing discourse, what a previous scholar has argued in our readings, that which is interesting is what is outside. We (who is we? Laurel's blog on Diasporic Objects. Not an easy q...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Panman Pat McNeilly in class next week
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Thursday, March 17, 2011. Panman Pat McNeilly in class next week. Next class we're going to have Panman Pat join us for the second hour. He's an icon of pan in Toronto and was the only steel pan player in Toronto's first Caribana in 1967. Give the video a look and check the PanMan website www.panman.ca. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Office Hrs: Fri 2-4. Put a ring on it. Reflecti...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Hilden Debate
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Saturday, March 19, 2011. This commentary focuses on the Hilden piece titled Race for Sale: Narratives of Posession in Two “Ethnic” Museums as well as Carol Thompson’s titled Slaves to Sculpture: A Response to Patricia Penn Hilden, both articles published in the Drama Review. 1 What are the commonalities in issues and dilemmas faced by the Maharaja exhibition and the various exhibitions at the Museum for African Art? Food, migrants...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Food for thought
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Much of these same core ideas are brought into discussion in the Mannur piece, where she is discussing nostalgia as a means of reconstituting home, through food. Simply, this imagined home (I refer to second generation immigrants, which some of us are) that is conjured by cooking affects the parents and grandparents who prepare them, but what of ‘us’? What emotions do we garner from it? Subscribe to: Post C...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: food, migrants, emotional affect
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Food, migrants, emotional affect. This weeks readings by Mannur and Sutton focus on food and explicitly link the emotional with the physical: the smell and taste with affect. Mannur and Sutton posit that the enjoyment of food acts for migrants as Turan's facilitating environments act for the Palestinian diaspora. In a way, consuming food, consuming the taste and smells are a replication of home. The Diasp...
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects: Steelpan
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The Diasporic Lives of Objects. University of Toronto Winter 2011 DTS403. Tuesday, March 22, 2011. The gap that exists between popular culture and the elite seems to me to embody a space of hybridity, and I think that this is an idea that is touched on within the article, and I especially liked the quote "…concepts of local and foreign, elite and popular, high and low obscures an important reality; that musical experiences of real people do not respect those boundaries". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
