Author: Selina Ching ChanPublisher:
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Category : Ethnicity
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Negotiating Coloniality and Tradition
Author: Selina Ching ChanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnicity
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Negotiating Indigenous Peoples' Exit from Colonialism
Author: Michael CoylePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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New institutions of indigenous governance will be the product of negotiations, negotiations that will take place against a background of colonial structures and relationships. Having previously examined the challenges of structuring a negotiation process that takes due account of pre-existing cultural and power differences between the parties, the author analyzes the significance of their choice of negotiation strategy on the negotiation process and outcome. In particular, this paper reflects on the promise and limitations of the parties' adopting interest-based, or “integrative”, negotiation strategies and the potential for fruitful entanglements between those strategies and indigenous diplomatic traditions.
African Agency and European Colonialism
Author: Femi James KolapoPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761838463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This work provides insights into important moments in the European colonization project in Africa, and into structural intersections between the active agents of colonialism and the different layers of Africa's socio-political structures. It reveals the indispensability of the African peoples, their pre-colonial establishments, and knowledge of the colonial encounter. The book also clarifies the significant impact that African people's choices, chances, mistakes, and internal politics had in structuring their colonial experience and European dominance. Colonized Africans and colonizing Europeans had to negotiate the nature of their relationship: the grid, nexus, and hierarchy of colonial power and authority were constantly under construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. African Agency and European Colonialism expounds upon these beclouded features of Africa's engagement of colonialism. It is appropriate for students, scholars, political analysts, sociologists, and other professionals interested in the social and political history of Africa. Book jacket.
Negotiating Territoriality
Author: Allan Charles DawsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317800532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. Societies must, first and foremost, do more than wrangle over ownership and land rights — they must dwell in space. Yet, historically the interactions between the state’s territorial imperative with previous forms of landscape management have unfolded in a variety of ways, including top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation between local and external actors. These interactions have resulted in hybrid forms of territoriality, and are often fraught with fundamentally different perceptions of landscape. This book foregrounds these experiences and draws attention to situations in which different social constructions of space and territory coincide, collide, or overlap. Each ethnographic case in this volume presents forms of territoriality that are contingent upon contested histories, politics, landscape, the presence or absence of local heterogeneity and the involvement of multiple external actors with differing motivations — ultimately all resulting in the potential for conflict or collaboration and divergent implications for conceptions of community, autochthony and identity.
Redeeming
Author: Carlos Salazar-ZeledónPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 257
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“Redeeming : cultural negotiations and their remains in [De]colonial Costa Rica” is a dissertation project that studies and analyzes religious performance traditions in Central America, specifically the performances concerning the worship of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles in Cartago, Costa Rica. This is a project that reviews the manifestations of race, religion, political and economic relations, with the purpose of a clear understanding of the formation of national identity. This work is theoretically grounded in the concept of decoloniality and the decolonial perspectives on the analysis of cultural phenomena proposed by Mignolo and Walsh. Additionally, a practical approach combining fieldwork and an ethnographic perspective drawing on methodologies like Madison’s Critical ethnography, and analytical approaches and concepts such as Diana Taylor’s Archive and repertoire, and Roach’s Effigy and genealogies of performance, serves as the cornerstone upon which the thesis of this work is built. The study brings to the academic conversation the concept of redeeming. The combination of a cultural landscape (a place, tradition, or event where a meaningful cultural representation takes place) and a cultural negotiation (the complex cultural process where relations of identity, power, and dominance intersect and re-shape themselves) can create a redeeming, which is a moment when, through a participatory performance (usually a public one), societies negotiate and redefine their history, power relations, and identity. This dissertation finds that different performance traditions related to the worship of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, like La Romería, the Mass of August 2nd, and La Pasada, are clear examples of Redeeming. Each one of these performances are linked to previous cultural negotiations, which used the Catholic Church’s traditions to develop relations of race, class, economic and political power, a sense of belonging, and finally a national identity, or as this study calls it Costarricanness. The present work illuminates a way in which religious performances in the Americas can be understand and studied as repositories of previous cultural negotiations, which performatively activate new negotiations and relations of belonging and identity.
Negotiating Empire
Author: Solsiree del MoralPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299289348
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
After the United States invaded Puerto Rico in 1898, the new unincorporated territory sought to define its future. Seeking to shape the next generation and generate popular support for colonial rule, U.S. officials looked to education as a key venue for promoting the benefits of Americanization. At the same time, public schools became a site where Puerto Rican teachers, parents, and students could formulate and advance their own projects for building citizenship. In Negotiating Empire, Solsiree del Moral demonstrates how these colonial intermediaries aimed for regeneration and progress through education. Rather than seeing U.S. empire in Puerto Rico during this period as a contest between two sharply polarized groups, del Moral views their interaction as a process of negotiation. Although educators and families rejected some tenets of Americanization, such as English-language instruction, they also redefined and appropriated others to their benefit to increase literacy and skills required for better occupations and social mobility. Pushing their citizenship-building vision through the schools, Puerto Ricans negotiated a different school project—one that was reformist yet radical, modern yet traditional, colonial yet nationalist.
Human Rights & Gender Violence
Author: Sally Engle MerryPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226520757
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Human rights law and the legal protection of women from violence are still fairly new concepts. As a result, substantial discrepancies exist between what is decided in the halls of the United Nations and what women experience on a daily basis in their communities. Human Rights and Gender Violence is an ambitious study that investigates the tensions between global law and local justice. As an observer of UN diplomatic negotiations as well as the workings of grassroots feminist organizations in several countries, Sally Engle Merry offers an insider's perspective on how human rights law holds authorities accountable for the protection of citizens even while reinforcing and expanding state power. Providing legal and anthropological perspectives, Merry contends that human rights law must be framed in local terms to be accepted and effective in altering existing social hierarchies. Gender violence in particular, she argues, is rooted in deep cultural and religious beliefs, so change is often vehemently resisted by the communities perpetrating the acts of aggression. A much-needed exploration of how local cultures appropriate and enact international human rights law, this book will be of enormous value to students of gender studies and anthropology alike.
Negotiating Normativity
Author: Nikita DhawanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319309846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and exploitation. It examines how postcolonial interventions alter the study of politics and society both in the postcolony and in Euro-America, as well as of the power relations between them. Challenging conventional understandings of international politics, this volume pushes the boundaries of the social sciences by engaging with alternative critical approaches and innovatively and provocatively addressing previously disregarded aspects of international politics. The fourteen contributions in this volume focus on the silencing and exclusion of vulnerable groups from claims of freedom, equality and rights, while highlighting postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for transnational justice, radical democracy and decolonization, drawing on in-depth empirically-informed analyses of processes and struggles in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. They address political and social topics including global governance and development politics; neo-colonialism, international aid and empire; resistance, decolonization and the Arab Spring; civil society and social movement struggles; international law, democratization and subalternity; body politics and green imperialism. By drawing on other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, this book both enriches and expands the discipline of political science and international relations. Primary readership for this volume will be academics and students concerned with globalization studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies, and international relations, as well as political activists and policy-makers concerned with social and transnational justice, human rights, democracy, gender justice and women’s rights.
香港研究博士论文注释书目
Author: Frank Joseph ShulmanPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622093973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
A descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed guide to 2,395 dissertations that are concerned either in whole or in part with Hong Kong and with Hong Kong Chinese students and emigres throughout the world.
The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music
Author: Nanette de JongPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386415
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The diverse musics of the Caribbean form a vital part of the identity of individual island nations and their diasporic communities. At the same time, they witness to collective continuities and the interrelatedness that underlies the region's multi-layered complexity. This Companion introduces familiar and less familiar music practices from different nations, from reggae, calypso and salsa to tambú, méringue and soca. Its multidisciplinary, thematic approach reveals how the music was shaped by strategies of resistance and accommodation during the colonial past and how it has developed in the postcolonial present. The book encourages a comparative and syncretic approach to studying the Caribbean, one that acknowledges its patchwork of fragmented, dynamic, plural and fluid differences. It is an innovative resource for scholars and students of Caribbean musical culture, particularly those seeking a decolonising perspective on the subject.