1. Transcultural capital: challenging the deficit model

2. Get into groups of five
Proponent: list the points you agreed with and state why
Critic: list the points you disagreed with or found unhelpful and state why
Example-giver: Give examples of key concepts presented
Summariser: prepare a summary of the most important points
Questioner: prepare a list of questions about the lecture
Assign your roles!

3. In the Reader...
Meinhof, UH (2009) ‘Transnational flows, networks and ‘transcultural capital’: Reflections on researching migrant networks through linguistic ethnography’ In Collins et al (eds) Globalisation and language in contact: scale, migration and communications practices London: Continuum

4. If you are studying anything about...
Migration or immigration
Speaking a range of languages
Challenging the deficit model
...this article may be useful

5. Clarifying terms Diaspora Diasporic communities To Transnationalism
Transnational networks

6. Clarifying terms Neoliberalism: Meritocracy Transnational networks
Intersectionality
Postmodernism

7. Interviews and ethnographic field work
...with Madagascan musicians in Paris
Discourse analysis: look at the details/mise-en-scene/gaze

8. Researching city spaces
A space of negotiation and encounter
A space of risk and alienation
‘We hoped to rethink contemporary migration away from bounded communities and essentialising ethnicities towards a more open agenda which allow us to capture the dynamics and challenges of multiple identities and multi- directional flows’ p.149
Intersectionality; Erikson’s ‘boundaries between people’

9. The research avoided:
Essentialising identity and imposing nostalgia as audiences to their performances might
A facile explanation of ‘celebratory cosmopolitanism’ missing musician’s genuine nostalgia and sense of belonging
Tokenism: samosas, saris and steel drums

10. Transcultural capital
(from Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992)
Social capital- ‘it’s who you know’
Ethnically and non-ethnically-defined personal and professional links in Madagascar, Europe, and Paris- including diaspora and civil society organisations
Cultural capital- ‘it’s what you know’ (including linguistic capital)
Musical diversity; multilingualism- Afrikan Boy
Economic capital- ‘it’s what you have’
Community and network-based music industry; promoters and community media- websites, lists, radio shows, shops, word-of-mouth- Mumzy Stranger: successful career

11. From the countryside to the city
‘I am foremost a musician of sacred music, because that’s how the whole family learned to play, and apart from that we did little concerts in the village, for weddings, school parties, and that kind of thing...but in Tana, in the city I’m not at all known, not at all, except that I was a valiha merchant, like all my brothers. But it was at Tana that I met a good concert tour manager, who tried to set up a folklore group for a concert tour in France. So we took part in a competition, a selection, and I got chosen out of all the other valiha players, we were four altogether and...well, that’s where the adventure starts’.
Justin Vali:
Meritocracy and neoliberalism; transnational networks

12. Active transnational hubs, networks and transcultural capital
...international musicians (Kate Bush)
Collaborating with other well known musicians from other parts of Africa
Making music with other Malagasy musicians in Europe

13. Questions: What is transcultural capital?
Give some examples from another context

14. In your groups
Proponent: list the points you agreed with and state why
Critic: list the points you disagreed with or found unhelpful and state why
Example-giver: Give examples of key concepts presented
Summariser: prepare a summary of the most important points
Questioner: prepare a list of questions about the lecture
Write up your ideas on paper