1. DD101 TMA06 (2013) TMA Question: Dr Craig A. Hammond (DD101 Preston Cluster)

2. Global Connections: Diaspora, Translocalism, Culture & Change With a little Chaos & Complexity theory 3. BBC News O School history lessons should be overhauled and a British history qualification brought in for 16-year- olds, urges a group of MPs and peers. 4. 1066 and all that it is a good thing to teach the narrative of British history in schools (Times, 02/13) Historians attack Michael Gove over narrow curriculum (Obs, 02/13) This is a ladybird curriculum. Is anyone ready to teach it? (Obs, 02/13) Gove is facing his Waterloo (Sunday Times, 03/13) Michael Goves history curriculum is a pub quiz not an education. The rote sets in. (New Statesman, 03/13) History curriculum: Goves next u-turn in the making? (Online blog) Hitler as one of the Mr Men (Daily Mail, 05/13) Goves claims of teenagers ignorance harpooned by retired teacher (Guard 05/13) The state of history in schools press headlines since 7 Feb 2013 5. The Times 30/12/12 O Revised history curriculum to focus on events in Britain The Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole and Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave, are set to be axed as the education secretary introduces a stronger emphasis on kings and conflict 6. Telegraph 9/12/13 O Will Gove's 'posh white blokes' history curriculum ignore women? O Michael Gove, the Education Minister, has caused controversy with his plans for a new history curriculum, which could mean the only women children learn anything about will be queens, writes Cathy Newman. 7. Assimilation or Integration Asimilaton: adaption of language, cultural traditions, norms, behavior patterns of the host society in contradiction to cultural and ethnic pluralis Integration: processes by which migrants or minorities will be accepted members of the host society mutual process which have to be fulfilled by minorities and majority requires efforts and good will 8. Acculturation exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct (cf. Kottak 2007) anthropologists Redfield, Linton and Herskovits (1936, p. 149) developed the oft quoted definition: "Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact, with subsequent changes in the original culture patterns of either or both groups". 9. Strangers: Diaspora, Travel and Everyday Culture 10. Diaspora DIASPORA. Greek for dispersion or scattering. Originally used to refer to those Jews who live outside of their ancestral homeland of Palestine. Subsequently used to refer to any people scattered across national boundaries who do not physically inhabit the territory or nation-state of their or their ancestors origin. 11. An African Diaspora 12. The African Diaspora Unlike most diasporas, the African diaspora does not originate from a particular nation. The Middle Passage was intended to strip people of their former identities. They lost their goods, their families, their names, and even their languages. But, people managed to pass along stories and music. The result was a creative, hybrid, (initially underground) culture. Jazz, for example, appeared in New Orleans in the early 20th century long after it had been invented and perfected by slaves who spent their free time drumming with each other in public squares. 13. Defining Diaspora Diasporas are difficult to define. Who should be included? Everyone who self-identifies as being displaced? What about the slipperiness of identity categories? And if one can isolate a diaspora what is it, exactly, that one is studying? A culture? A nation? A race? A collection of . . . stories? What do you think? Are diasporic people easily defined? 14. Butterfly Effect 15. Butterfly effect Does the flap of a butterflys wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? The smallest change in conditions will lead to a greater effect in the overall system 16. Definition The butterfly effect is a metaphor for how a little change in initial conditions will result in very different end results. Edward Lorenz coined the term butterfly effect 17. From certainty to chaos The emergence of chaos & unpredictability 18. Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari The Rhizome (in their book A Thousand Plateaus) Royal Science / Imperial Science Arborescent 19. D&G The Rhizome Nomad Science / Rhizome 20. Final thoughts on TMA06 Option 1 To what extent does migration (diaspora) create global connections? Could it be that the result is quite the opposite: it creates unpredictable global and cultural change A stable notion of translocalism is brought into question by the notion of acculturation (cultural mixes constantly shift and alter)