• 제목/요약/키워드: beyond-borders identity

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초국가적 입양과 탈경계적 정체성 -제인 정 트렌카의 『피의 언어』 (Transnational Adoption and Beyond-Borders Identity: Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood)

  • 김현숙
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제57권1호
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    • pp.147-170
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    • 2011
  • This paper elucidates the characteristics of transnational adoption, estimates the possibility of beyond-borders identity of transnational adoptees, and tries to analyze Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood in its context. Though it has been regarded as one of the most humanitarian ways of helping orphans and poor children of the world, transnational adoption, a one-way flow of children from poor Asian countries to rich white countries, has been operated under the market logic between countries. Transnational adoptees, who had been abandoned and forced to be taken away from their birth mother, and later, to fulfill the desire of white parents for a perfect family, perform an ideological labor, serving to make the heterogeneous nuclear family complete. Korean transnational adoptees, forced to transcend the borders of nation, culture, and ethnicity, experience racial conflict and alienation in white adoptive family and society. Their diaspora experience of violent dislocation creates frustration and confusion in establishing their identity as a whole being. When they return to Korea to find their birth mother and their true identity, Korean adoptees, however, are faced with other obstructing issues, such as language problem, culture conflict, and maternal nationalism. Finally, Korean transnational adoptees reject Korean nationalism discourse based on blood, and try to redefine themselves as beyond-borders subjectivities with new and fluid identities. Jane Jeong Trenka's The Language of Blood, an autobiographical novel based on her experiences as a transnational adoptee, represents a Korean adopted girl's personal, cultural, and racial conflict within her white adoptive family, and questions the image of benevolent white mother and the myth of multiculturalism. The novel further represents Jane's return to Korea to find out her true identity, and shows Jane's disappointment and alienation in her birth country due to her ignorance of language and culture. Returning to USA again, and trying to be reconciled with her American mother, Jane shows the promise of accepting her new identity capable of transcending the borders, and thus, the possibility of enlarging the category of belonging.

바이오미미크리 개념을 통한 이동식 전시의 가변성에 대한 연구 (A Study on Flexibility of Movable Exhibition through Biomimicry Notion)

  • 이용진;윤상영;조경영
    • 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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    • 제20권5호
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    • pp.78-86
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    • 2011
  • The world is suffered from severe environmental problems such as climate change and global warming due to radical industrialization after the Industrial Revolution. With advancement of science and information technologies, national borders have become meaningless. In this global trend, movable exhibition shall be supposed to pursue "Local in Global." Thus, movable exhibition should get involved in an effort to find a cultural identity in the globalization and to better our position among the various cultures. As an alternative, movable exhibition can be established by combining biomimicry, which is biomimicry of life by imitating biological system, with Flexibility of movable space. By providing a hint to environmental problems and cultural uncertainty, this alternative will generate an advanced exhibition trend that is more environmental-friendly and more efficient. As a cumulative concept created by the nature for 3.8 billion years, biomimicry has evolved a lot more than the modern science. By catching this point, "A study on flexibility of movable exhibition through biomimicry notion" is providing a revolutionary paradigm stepping beyond the current exhibition trend, which pursues coexistence of human beings and the nature and, at the same time, introduces our culture.

글로컬 시대의 시민성과 지리교육의 방향 (Citizenship in the Age of Glocalization and Its Implication for Geography Education)

  • 조철기
    • 한국지역지리학회지
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    • 제21권3호
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    • pp.618-630
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    • 2015
  • 이 연구는 글로컬 시대에 요구되는 시민성을 찾고, 이것이 지리교육에 주는 함의를 도출한 것이다. 근대 이후 국민국가의 출현으로 시민성은 국가가 영역 내의 구성원에게 부여하는 권리와 의무로 정의되었다. 물론 현재도 국가가 법적인 시민성을 부여하지만, 점점 시민으로서의 정체성은 그 상하위 스케일인 글로벌과 로컬로부터 획득되는 것으로 인식된다. 그리하여, 시민성은 국가의 경계에 의해 규정되기 보다는 다른 사람 및 장소와의 연결 또는 네트워크에 의해 구성되는 것으로, 그리고 공간은 분절적 공간이 아니라 관계적 공간으로 인식된다. 따라서 시민성은 다차원적이고, 유동적이고, 초국적이며, 협상적인 경향을 띠면서, 다중스케일에 기반한 다중시민성으로 재개념화되고 있다. 이제 시민으로서의 개인은 다양한 스케일에서 정치적 공동체의 구성원인 동시에 비영역적인 사회집단의 구성원으로 간주된다. 따라서 지리를 통한 시민성교육은 국가 중심에서 그리고 분절된 공간적 스케일에서 벗어나, 로컬과 글로벌이 상호연결되고 중첩되면서 형성되는 다중시민성을 포섭하는데 더욱 초점을 맞출 필요가 있다.

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