Preface: Writing at Borders
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Borders from the Cultural Point of View: An Introduction to Writing at Borders
This introductory article to the special issue Writing at Borders suggests that cultural studies and the humanist point of view have significant explanatory potential concerning various borders and border crossings in multidisciplinary border studies. …
Culture Bound and Unbound: Concurrent Voices and Claims in Postcolonial Places
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Encounters along Micro-Level Borders: Silence and Metacommunicative Talk in Service Encounter Conversations between Finnish Employment Officials and Immigrants
This article examines the interaction between Finnish employment officials and their immigrant clients in service encounter conversations. It employs the concepts of metacommunicative talk, silence, agency and asymmetric interaction situation. Such ser…
Creating the Authentic? Art Teaching in South Africa as Transcultural Phenomenon
The question about what art and craft from Black individuals in South Africa should look like as well as how and for what purposes it could be created was of prominent importance within the contact zone of educational institutions from the 1930s onward…
The Fictitious World Traveller: The Swede on Timor and the Noble Savage Imagery
Travel writing soared in the Western world in the early-modern era with the widening geographical knowledge. This was accompanied by a genre of travel fiction. The present study analyses a short Swedish novella from 1815, Swensken på Timor (The Swede o…
Friction or Closure: Heritage as Loss
Heritage is a discourse that aims at closure. It fixates the narrative of the past through the celebration of specific material (or sometimes immaterial non-) objects. It organizes temporality and construct events and freezes time. How does this unfold…
Concurrences in Contemporary Travel Writing: Postcolonial Critique and Colonial Sentiments in Sven Lindqvist’s Exterminate all the Brutes and Terra Nullius
Recent research highlights contemporary travel writing’s complicity in global politics, and the genre is claimed to reproduce the discourses that constitute our understanding of the world. It has also been argued that the genre holds a possibility to h…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.30 No.2
Published: August 2014.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.30 No.2
Published: August 2014.
Jesus the Victimizer?
Jesus’ antagonistic encounters with the Pharisees serve traditionally as a basis for the poor relationship between Christianity and Judaism. The conflict stories epitomized by Jesus’ parables have been assessed as descriptions of how he eit…
Jesus’ Entry into Jerusalem
This article intends to contribute to the understanding of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. The author studies the entry, which is found in all the Gospels, in its Jewish context. The author argues that Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on an ass is …
Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections
This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely termed as Islamic F…
Secular and Religious Environmentalism in Contemporary Turkey
Turkish environmentalism is gaining ground but has not yet become a serious source of influence in society. The environmental movements have long been held as left wing politics and less religious, but today environmental awreness is also r…
Ethnicity and ‘the Myth of the Reborn Nation’: investigations in collective identity, monotheism and the use of figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period
The myth of the reborn nation’ was one of the results of my recent research on figurines, the history of the religion of Yehud, and the rise of monotheism. The purpose of this paper is presenting a discussion about ‘the myth of the reborn n…
Remaking the City: Archaeological Projects of Political Import in Jerusalem’s Old City and in the Village of Silwan
Since the mid-90s, archaeology has been a powerful tool for changing landscape and narrative in the Old City of Jerusalem and the village of Silwan – the “Historic Basin of Jerusalem”. As archaeological excavations relate directly to the ap…
In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’
This article has two aims. The first is to show that the search for ethnicity in archaeology is dependent on the way ethnicity is defined and on written sources. The second is to review studies of Iron Age I ‘ethnic Israel’. There is an ong…
Concord, Conflict and Co-Existence: religion and society in the Middle East and North Africa
This is the editorial for the special issue ‘Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa’.
Political Parties and the Production of Islam-Secularism Cleavage in Turkey
This study demonstrates how profoundly Turkey’s main social clevage –Islam versus Secularism – is produced and reproduced by political parties in their attempts to form coherent sociopolitical bloc as a basis of mass support. The main purpo…
The Role of the Temple Mount / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Deterioration of Muslim–Jewish Relations
For both Jews and Muslims the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem constitute highly important religious, cultural, political and national centres. For centuries Jews in the diaspora prayed in the direction of Jerusalem, vowed never t…
A Sacred Landscape: an enquiry into the ‘cubas’ of southern Portugal
The purpose of this article is to study cubas – small architectural structures known for their whitewash-painted domes – and specifically, those located in the kûra of Beja in Portugal. Although we can pinpoint the existence of many of thes…
Hezbollah’s Military Intervention in Syria: political choice or religious obligation?
Hezbollah has been an important political and military actor in Lebanon and the Middle East since the mid-1980s. Its popularity grew especially after successfully deterring the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. With the emergence of the …
Arab revolts and ‘Civil State’: a new term for old conflicts between Islamism and secularism
The Arab revolts that erupted in late 2010, forcing from power the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and dragging Syria through a ferocious civil war, reactivated the public debate on government in Islamic countries. In all those c…
Strategic Engagement and Religious Peace-building: a case study of religious peace work in Jerusalem
This article argues for the importance of a dialogue for strategic engagement and presents an analytical approach to it with reference to three different peacebuilding strategies in terms of conflict resolution theories. As a case study exa…
Exploring the Digital Information Experiences of Ethnographers
Dr Faye Miller Queensland University of Technology, Australia Over the past year I have had the privilege of being involved in the development of the open access journal Global Ethnographic. So far the work-in-progress has been a virtual collaboration …