Final New Worlds/New Identities

Workforce Hybridity
Throughout society hybridity changes not only by migration from place to place but develops through business expansion and the workforce, the people create hybridity. Transportation, expansions, and production leave wide-open opportunities for jobs along with traveling from one location to another, whether this is within the businesses location or from one manufacturing building from to another, the employees choose to take the opportunity to develop cultural hybridity. Through privately created business or through the distribution of production the employees naturally create a form of hybidity.
New hybrid identities are seen throughout various work places due to production development, trade, expansion, and production distribution in the process. The changes enacted in the “Les Olympiades” building clearly displays a great amount of hybridity due to the multiple new comers that create their own personal business or production. By choosing a space within the building and creating a new restaurants invites different people to work along with the consumers. Moving from one home to another may allow room for change in identity, the individual no longer identifies themselves as their original ethnicity but adopt the new environment surrounding them. As for the shoe factory in Elche, Spain the female workers take these opportunities to care for the family but also earn a wage. In this sense, the females relate to each other but not only this, the manufacturing occurs throughout the entire city due to the production line. As indicated the form of work can be described as “ nomadic” in the sense of movement; this idea applies to both ways of production.
The building “Les Olympiades” and Elche change dramatically because of the residents and the choice of production. The residents of “Les Olympiades” create a city within the building by turning a space into a store or other type of market place in comparison the female’s homes are also turned into a place of work. The families and the residents have turned places of living quarters into places of business and manufacturing. Thus, the phrases or titles “city in a building” and “network of production points that embraces the entire city” both situations call for the community to connect through production.
The development of new cultural hybridity distinctly appears through manufacturing and business expansion or creations. “Les Olympiades” and Elche display change of new hybridity though the connection of business in private and public manners. One way through private home and another through the lines or production; the residents of these homes connect the entire workforces. New identities are created through the production and consumption of the manufactured products.

NEW WORLDS/ NEW IDENTITIES

NEW WORLDS/NEW IDENTITIES

RYAN Bingham

My case study was the 1997 Steven Spielberg movie: Amistad. A period drama centered on the true story of a mutiny aboard a slave ship and the trial that followed. This film touches on the power of cultural interaction through globalization and its indelible effect on humanity. It demonstrates the negative aspects of globalization: empiricism and prejudice—bred by fear of difference, as well as the positive aspects: individual growth created by open-minded exposure to external ideas, beliefs, and culture. At the heart of this film is cultural hybridity, the slaves and the lawyers defending them each grow and learn from each other.

JON Philips

" 'In the Loop', by Scottish director Armando Iannucci, demonstrates the fluidity of cultural identity, and the inherent absurdity involved while the roles and identities are being defined by others with their own, distinct cultural identities. "

ADAM Wynne

We can grasp this theory of globalization through many contexts: multimedia, multicontextuality, communications being just a few examples in which we can find it. In the film,The New World, (Terrence Malick, 20 January 2006, United States of America/United Kingdom) the main character, Pocahontas, goes through a dramatic life-changing experience as an aftermath of her father extraditing her from her tribe. From the beginnning to the end, we see Pocahontas go from a Native American women who only knew her tribe all her life, to an almost full-on english women who speaks perfect english and dresses and acts as if she has lived and known the life of the english her whole life; she gains a new identity, and she then lives in a brand-new world. Her experience is a flawless example of our world starting to globalize, and specifically practicing cultural hybridity.

Jessica Knap

My Case study focused on the African American modern installation artist Fred Wilson. Wilson creates and explores with humorous and ironic metaphors of excavation of forgotten ideas in museum archives. Taking artifacts, archeological findings, and other items given to him he uses the history behind these items to create a new form of special art. A common theme consists of his expressing feelings of being left out due to his skin color and his acknowledgement of black artists exhibitions not being prevalent in galleries and museums. Wilson describes his inspiration and art, “I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing objects that are in the world and manipulating them, working with special arrangements, and then having things produced the way I want to see them.”