A semiotics of the otherwise
Space, temporality and politics in Rana Bishara's Roadmap for Elimination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4178722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tommaso M Milani (0000-0002-7237-5501, Applied Linguistics , 8082 The Pennsylvania State University , Sparks Building , University Park , PA , 16802-1503 , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 2024 |
| Issue | 287 |
| Pages | 23-43 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2023-0056 |
| OpenAlex | W4399178921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article presents an analysis of Rana Bishara's installation Roadmap for Elimination, which is semiotically and materially interesting due to the skillful combination of language, maps of Palestine, and other key symbolic elements of Palestinian resistance such as cactus leaves. The article illustrates how, in the artwork, space and time fold into each other for political purposes in such a way that the European colonial past is visually overlaid with the present Israeli occupation, and the vision of a different future. Ultimately, the argument mounted in the article is that the installation is a defiant act of linguistic citizenship through which Bishara engendered a momentary space of otherwise. The spatio-temporal elements in the artwork, in turn, activate a plethora of emotions that affectively interpellate a European viewer into complex discursive positions of implicated subject vis-à-vis the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. On a theoretical level, the article seeks to demonstrate how Povinelli's notion of spaces of otherwise, coupled with Stroud's linguistic citizenship, can be relevant to sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, giving us a conceptual apparatus for better understanding the nexus of agency, space and time. On a more empirical level, the article also seeks to bring more precision to the spatio-temporal dimensions of both Stroud's and Povinelli's work
Aesthetics · Citizenship · Epistemology · Linguistics · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Semiotics · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Temporality · The Symbolic · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art
The Implicated Subject
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
The SabraThe Creation of the New Jew
Crossing a Line
Economies of Abandonment
Geontologies
Multilingualism as utopia
Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine
Decolonizing [in the] future
African Mother-tongue Programmes and the Politics of Language
The End of the Cognitive Empire
Skinscapes
Affective Urbanism and the Event of Hope
Sexual cityzenship
Of Other Spaces
The Will to Be Otherwise/The Effort of Endurance
Pragmáticas íntimas
Semiotic timescapes
Sumud pedagogy as linguistic citizenship
Translingual entanglements of English
Rethinking theNakba
Experience as horizon
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |