Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realized through language. It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a "hybrid".
Homi Kharshedji Bhabha (/ ˈ b ɑː b ɑː /; born 1 November 1949) is an Indian scholar and critical theorist. He is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University . He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies , and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts ...
He further argues that Bhabha overlooks the fact that there are still today several places across the world where for many biologically hybrids, hybridity or "the third space" often proves "the space of the impossible" [6] rather than a site of cultural and racial emancipation. The new theory of hybridity that Acheraiou develops in this book ...
Soja here closely resembles Homi Bhabha's Third Space Theory, in which "all forms of culture are continually in a process of hybridity," that "displaces the histories that constitute it, and sets up new structures of authority, new political initiatives… The process of cultural hybridity gives rise to something different, something new and ...
The auditorium was named the Homi Bhabha Auditorium in the late scientist's honour and inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 9 November 1968. [139] Bust of Bhabha at Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata. Bhabha encouraged research in electronics, [140] [141] space science, [142] microbiology and radio astronomy. [143]
When Karl Dunn, 53, began the divorce process, he received support at work from other divorced men. As a gay man, Dunn says he was shocked to connect deeply with so many straight male coworkers.
The formation of the Black Audio Film Collective, like that of Sankofa Film and Video Collective, was a response to the social unrest in Britain in the 1980s: "Influenced by contemporary debate on post-colonialism and social theorists such as Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall, both groups centered around investigations of black identity/culture within the British experience and reworked the ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...