Beth E Notar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth E Notar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Notar |
| SIGNATURE | NOTAR B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
A Burmese taxi in the Black Forest? Stuck mobility and the possibility of dwelling
We reformulate Heidegger’s question in “Building Dwelling Thinking” to ask – What is the state of dwelling in our precarious and mobile age? – and consider the “politics of dwelling” in relation to the “politics of mobility”. Drawing on interviews with taxi cab drivers in Yangon (Rangoon) while stuck in traffic, we argue, drawing on Dwyer’s (2009) formulation for waiting, that while the taxi drivers engage in situational dwelling they do not and …
“My dad is Li Gang!” or seeing the state
This article examines transgressive mobility in contemporary urban China to argue that traffic does not just provide an analogy for inequality and abuse of power, but that it is through street spectacle that people see power enacted. While state power (à la Virilio) seeks to control the circulation of people, things, and ideas, state officials and their kin exhibit their power through transgressing this control. Examination of the “My dad is Li G…
Displacing Desire
Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China? "Lonely planeteers"— American, European, and Israeli backpackers named for the guidebook they carry—trek halfway across the globe to "get off the beaten track," yet converge here to drink coffee, eat banana pancakes, and share music from home. Coastal Chinese who are prospering in the phenomenal economic growth of …
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States by Emily Martin Chicago
Coming Out' to 'Hit the Road
This article examines how people narrate the relationship between physical and socioeconomic mobility in contemporary urbanChina. To do so, it looks at the mobility of two different groups of drivers in the southwesternChinese city ofKunming: taxi drivers and "day trippers." While a taxi driver and a day tripper engage in the same activity of driving their own vehicles, their experiences of mobility, their status identity and their views of the c…
Che's Chevrolet and Fidel's Oldsmobile
Privatizing China
Producing Cosmopolitanism at the Borderlands
While recent ethnographic research has complicated our understanding of the "cosmopolitan," assumptions persist that those who are cosmopolitan must be metropolitan, mobile, consumers. Ethnic minority café owners in the borderland town of Dali, Yunnan, located in the himalayan foothills of southwest China, challenge these assumptions. Their cosmopolitanism has arisen not out of travel, consumption or metropolitan residence, but out of producing c…
Scenic spots
Authenticity Anxiety and Counterfeit Confidence
This article focuses on a group of Bai minority market women in Dali, Yunnan: while expressing anxiety over “fakes” in China’s reform era, they have, when selling souvenirs to transnational travelers, simultaneously created them, engaging in authenticating and outsourcing techniques that imitate larger global economic processes. The author argues that concern over authenticity does not arise only in a European-style modernity in which individuali…
Du Wenxiu and the Politics of the Muslim Past
Of Labor and Liberation
Producing Cosmopolitanism at the Borderlands
While recent ethnographic research has complicated our understanding of the "cosmopolitan," assumptions persist that those who are cosmopolitan must be metropolitan, mobile, consumers. Ethnic minority café owners in the borderland town of Dali, Yunnan, located in the himalayan foothills of southwest China, challenge these assumptions. Their cosmopolitanism has arisen not out of travel, consumption or metropolitan residence, but out of producing c…
Authenticity Anxiety and Counterfeit Confidence
This article focuses on a group of Bai minority market women in Dali, Yunnan: while expressing anxiety over “fakes” in China’s reform era, they have, when selling souvenirs to transnational travelers, simultaneously created them, engaging in authenticating and outsourcing techniques that imitate larger global economic processes. The author argues that concern over authenticity does not arise only in a European-style modernity in which individuali…
Coming Out' to 'Hit the Road
This article examines how people narrate the relationship between physical and socioeconomic mobility in contemporary urbanChina. To do so, it looks at the mobility of two different groups of drivers in the southwesternChinese city ofKunming: taxi drivers and "day trippers." While a taxi driver and a day tripper engage in the same activity of driving their own vehicles, their experiences of mobility, their status identity and their views of the c…
Displacing Desire
Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China? "Lonely planeteers"— American, European, and Israeli backpackers named for the guidebook they carry—trek halfway across the globe to "get off the beaten track," yet converge here to drink coffee, eat banana pancakes, and share music from home. Coastal Chinese who are prospering in the phenomenal economic growth of …
Of Labor and Liberation
A Burmese taxi in the Black Forest? Stuck mobility and the possibility of dwelling
We reformulate Heidegger’s question in “Building Dwelling Thinking” to ask – What is the state of dwelling in our precarious and mobile age? – and consider the “politics of dwelling” in relation to the “politics of mobility”. Drawing on interviews with taxi cab drivers in Yangon (Rangoon) while stuck in traffic, we argue, drawing on Dwyer’s (2009) formulation for waiting, that while the taxi drivers engage in situational dwelling they do not and …
Of Labor and Liberation
Du Wenxiu and the Politics of the Muslim Past
Authenticity Anxiety and Counterfeit Confidence
This article focuses on a group of Bai minority market women in Dali, Yunnan: while expressing anxiety over “fakes” in China’s reform era, they have, when selling souvenirs to transnational travelers, simultaneously created them, engaging in authenticating and outsourcing techniques that imitate larger global economic processes. The author argues that concern over authenticity does not arise only in a European-style modernity in which individuali…
Producing Cosmopolitanism at the Borderlands
While recent ethnographic research has complicated our understanding of the "cosmopolitan," assumptions persist that those who are cosmopolitan must be metropolitan, mobile, consumers. Ethnic minority café owners in the borderland town of Dali, Yunnan, located in the himalayan foothills of southwest China, challenge these assumptions. Their cosmopolitanism has arisen not out of travel, consumption or metropolitan residence, but out of producing c…
Scenic spots
Che's Chevrolet and Fidel's Oldsmobile
Privatizing China
Coming Out' to 'Hit the Road
This article examines how people narrate the relationship between physical and socioeconomic mobility in contemporary urbanChina. To do so, it looks at the mobility of two different groups of drivers in the southwesternChinese city ofKunming: taxi drivers and "day trippers." While a taxi driver and a day tripper engage in the same activity of driving their own vehicles, their experiences of mobility, their status identity and their views of the c…
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States by Emily Martin Chicago
“My dad is Li Gang!” or seeing the state
This article examines transgressive mobility in contemporary urban China to argue that traffic does not just provide an analogy for inequality and abuse of power, but that it is through street spectacle that people see power enacted. While state power (à la Virilio) seeks to control the circulation of people, things, and ideas, state officials and their kin exhibit their power through transgressing this control. Examination of the “My dad is Li G…
Displacing Desire
Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of southwest China? "Lonely planeteers"— American, European, and Israeli backpackers named for the guidebook they carry—trek halfway across the globe to "get off the beaten track," yet converge here to drink coffee, eat banana pancakes, and share music from home. Coastal Chinese who are prospering in the phenomenal economic growth of …
A Burmese taxi in the Black Forest? Stuck mobility and the possibility of dwelling
We reformulate Heidegger’s question in “Building Dwelling Thinking” to ask – What is the state of dwelling in our precarious and mobile age? – and consider the “politics of dwelling” in relation to the “politics of mobility”. Drawing on interviews with taxi cab drivers in Yangon (Rangoon) while stuck in traffic, we argue, drawing on Dwyer’s (2009) formulation for waiting, that while the taxi drivers engage in situational dwelling they do not and …
Vehicles
Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles present…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Citation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · China (3 works)