Author: Michael Coyle
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Carlos Salazar-Zeledón
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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.
Author: Sally Engle Merry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-07-27
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0226520757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 878
ISBN-13: 9789622093973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Nikita Dhawan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 3319309846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Kalyan Sanyal
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-30
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1317809513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. Analyzing critical questions from a third world perspective such as: Will the integration into the global capitalist network bring to the third world new economic opportunities? Will this capitalist network make the third world countries an easy prey for predatory multinational corporations? The end result is a discourse, drawing on Marx and Foucault, which envisages the post-colonial capitalist formation, albeit in an entirely different light, in the era of globalization.
Author: Nanette de Jong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-04
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108386415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1788731204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.