Week Four: Manalansan IV

1.     Quotidian Struggles p. 147-8, and 156-157

2.     “connections between the lived locality and the larger seemingly more expansive sites of the city, the nation, and the global.”  P. 147

3.     “The focus on the quotidian life unveils the veneer of the ordinary and the commonplace to lay bare the intricate and difficult hybrid negotiations and struggles between hegemonic social forces and voices from below.”  P. 147-8

4.     Diasporic Intimacy p. 148

5.     How are time, space, and self enganged and confronted? Language on p. 150

6.     Immigrants and “the stage” p. 154 (How is this related to Luibhéid’s discussion of immigrant sexuality always being open to inspection?)

7.     Self-hood and belonging p. 155

8.     What is the “ambivalent yet transformative potential of quotidian engagement?”  p. 157

9.     How to you “look beyond the paralyzing effects of the banal and thr routine and appreciate it’s changeability and dynamism.”  p. 157.