Rescaling the global borderlands

Transperipheral projections from 'the heart of the Amazon

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ID2870418
AuthorsJoel Austin Windle (0000-0002-8544-9215, Universidade Federal Fluminense, corresponding author), Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes (0000-0002-3829-9824, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Year2023
Volume52
Issue1
Pages129-149
Publication date2023-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404521000750
OpenAlexW3196948873
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

This article examines semiotic resignifications undertaken in 'peripheral' cultural production through an ethnographic analysis of the trajectory of the Amazonian artist, Jaloo. Jaloo occupies multiple positions of marginality in Brazilian society and artistic scenes, which he connects to other global peripheries in his performances, aesthetics, and self-narratives. Building on anthropological and sociolinguistic scholarship, we show how 'peripheral' status is managed by Jaloo in the context of a growing and politicised audience for outsider and alternative cultural production. We theorise Jaloo's negotiation of his relationship with audiences and the media as rescaling. Further, we argue that this rescaling entails the ordering of semiotic resources into a social imaginary that reconfigures peripheral territories and identities, which we consider in terms of a transperipheral chronotope. (Inequality, chronotopes, indexicality, race, coloniality, scales, periphery

Aesthetics · Amazon rainforest · Art · Chronotope · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indexicality · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Semiotics · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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