The Origins of the European Atlantic

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Brown University ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
The Many ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

After a lecture I once gave in Boston on Spaniards' treatment of the indigenous peoples of their empire, the mayor rose from the audience to ask me whether I thought English behaviour towards the Irish was not worse. The strength of the Irish legacy in Boston is one of the many signs that make you feel, wherever you go in New England, that you are on the shore of a pond and that the same cultures that you left behind on one side of it have spread to the other with remarkably little change, and remarkably little loss of identity, along the way. In Providence, Rhode Island, the only resident foreign consul is Portuguese; you can buy sweet bread for breakfast or pasteis de Tentúgaltor tea. A parking lot a few blocks from Brown University is marked with the sign, ‘Do Not Park Here Unless You Are Portuguese’. Ancestral homes, ancestral grievances are easily recalled. There are similar patches of Irishness and Portuguese identity dotted here and there all along this coast, mirroring home and looking back across the ocean. They are surrounded with other peoples’ transatlantic reminiscences and continuities. New England is a seaboard civilization, a narrow, sea-soaked coast with a culture shaped by maritime outreach; but, more than that, it is part of a civilization of two seaboards which face each other.

Of Coercion and Accommodation: Looking at Japanese American Imprisonment through a Law Office Window

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-319
Author(s):  
Eric L. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Justice System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Regulatory Relationship ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Detention Camps ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Crucial to the implementation of the War Relocation Authority's (WRA) regulations of its detention camps for the uprooted Japanese American community of the West Coast were the WRA “project attorneys,” white lawyers stationed in the camps who gave legal advice to administrators and internees alike. These lawyers left behind a voluminous correspondence that opens a new window on the WRA's relationship with its prisoners, a relationship heretofore understood as encompassing coercion on one side and either compliance or resistance on the other. This article uses the voluminous correspondence of the project attorney at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming as a new lens for viewing the regulatory relationship between the WRA and the imprisoned community. It focuses on three of the many matters about which the project attorney gave advice: the design of the camp's community government, its criminal justice system, and its business enterprises. Evidence from this one law office suggests that on many key issues, the relationship between the WRA and the internees was marked not so much by coercion as by reciprocal accommodation, with each taking account of some of the preferences of the other. While the data are from just one of the ten WRA camps, they suggest a need to reconsider our understanding of how this American system of racial imprisonment operated.

In

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
You Nakai
Keyword(s):  
Research Center ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

David Tudor has long been known as an influential yet enigmatic character who lived in many anecdotes and spoke only in riddles on the few occasions he did so. The beginning of this research was an accidental encounter with Tudor’s materials at the Getty Research Center, which revealed the possibility of actually examining what he left behind. I gradually began to realize that the endeavor might be best seen as a complex puzzle that Tudor had composed for posterity to solve. In order to cope with the many obstacles on the way, both technical as well as conceptual, I developed a circular method of approaching Tudor’s materials from the way Tudor approached his materials, a sort of reverse musicology which accumulates its tools and theories from the very object of research. Along the way there were some influences from critical organology or microhistory, but the most important discipline in solving Tudor’s puzzle was keeping the focus on the level of specificity without quickly resorting to generalizations.

Colloquium 3 Likely and Necessary: The Poetics of Aristotle and the Problem of Literary Leeway

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
Jean-Marc Narbonne
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Abstract Taking as a starting point a crucial passage of Aristotle’s Poetics where poetical technique is declared to be different from all other disciplines in human knowledge (25, 1460b8–15), I try to determine in what sense and up to what point poetry can be seen as an autonomous or sui generis creative activity. On this path, I come across the so-called “likely and necessary” rule mentioned many times in Aristotle’s essay, which might be seen as a limitation of the poet’s literary freedom. I then endeavour to show that this rule of consistency does not preclude the many means by which the poet can astonish his or her audience, bring them into error, introduce exaggerations and embellishments on the one hand (and viciousness and repulsiveness on the other), have the characters change their conduct along the way, etc. For Aristotle, the poetic art—and artistic activities in general—is concerned not with what in fact is or what should be (especially ethically), but simply with what might be. Accordingly, one can see him as historically the very first theorist fiction, not only because he states that poetry relates freely to the possible, but also because he explains why poetry is justified in doing so.

scholarly journals Indigenous Women as the Other: An Analysis of the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Jodi Beniuk
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Downtown Eastside ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Legal Processes

In this paper, I discuss the ways in which Indigenous women are Othered by the proceedings of the Missing Women‘s Commission of Inquiry (MWCI). First, I give a basic overview of Beauvoir‘s theory of women as Others, followed by Memmi‘s analysis of the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer. I use these two theories to describe the way Indigenous women are Othered both as Indigenous peoples and as women, focusing on the context of the twenty-six who were murdered in Vancouver‘s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The original murders were the result of the cultural reduction of Indigenous Women to their bodies. The negligent police investigations, as well as the misogynistic attitudes of the police, also demonstrate how Othering can operate within these institutions. I claim that the violence against women in the DTES was due to their status as Other. Notably, the MWCI, which is supposed to be a process that addresses the Othering-based negligence of the police, also includes instances of Othering in its structure and practice. From this, I conclude that we cannot rely on Othering institutions or legal processes to correct Othering as a practice. In the context of the MWCI, I suggest building alliances that support those who face this Othering as violence in their everyday lives.

Shylocks’s ghosts

2021 ◽  
pp. 018476782110629
Author(s):  
Elena Pellone
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

Compagnia de’ Colombari, directed by Karin Coonrod, fashioned The Merchant in Venice from the stones of the Venetian Ghetto: Shylock's haunting ghost corporealised under moonlight. This 2016 production followed Max Reinhardt's Venetian Merchant in 1934: another lingering ghost of Shylock. These productions intersected in a vision to create bonds between strangers. Looking back on them in the Covid-19 pandemic context of isolation and intolerance, they remind us of the restorative hope in a globalised theatre. This essay engages with the way the Ghetto, Venice and Shylock speak back, inverting the perspective of the ‘other’, framed by personal reflections of the author-actor playing Nerissa.

The First Calvinistic Baptist Association in New England, 1754?–1767

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Great Awakening ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
False Start ◽  
Laying On Of Hands ◽  
Break Up ◽  
The Way

Baptist historians have frequently asserted that the first Calvinistic Baptist Association in New England was the Warren Baptist Association founded under the aegis of James Manning in 1767. Most historians are aware that an earlier association, founded in the 1690's, existed among the Six Principle General or Arminian Baptists in New England, but with the great Calvinistic reorientation in the Baptist movement following the Great Awakening this association ceased to be of any significance outside Rhode Island. Little notice has been taken, however, of the Six Pinciple Calvinistic Baptist Association which developed on the borders of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island in the 1750's to unite and serve a group of Separate-Baptist churches formed in the aftermath of the Awakening. And yet this association, short-lived though it was, merits attention. It represented the first spontaneous effort of the Separate- Baptists to seek unity and order in the confusion which followed the break-up of the Separate movement after 1754. Although it proved to be a false start, it nevertheless prepared the way for the Warren Association whose importance is acknowledged by all Baptist historians. And it is particularly interesting that the basis of the organization was agreement on the belief that the ritual of laying on of hands was essential to church membership.

Evidence for a New Major Fault in North-East England

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 245-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Major Fault ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

The Magnesian Limestone of England forms a comparatively narrow outcrop stretching southwards for about 150 miles from South Shields to Nottingham. At either end the formation is fairly well known from the many quarries and sections opened up in the industrial areas of East Durham on the one hand and South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire on the other. Away from these regions, however, our knowledge is scanty, and particularly so in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in the tract of country between the rivers Tees and Swale. Information is lacking mainly because the district is so thickly covered with Glacial and Recent deposits that, except at the extreme ends of this Tees-Swale stretch, rock is nowhere exposed. All the way from the Darlington country down to Catterick and beyond, for sheer lack of evidence the Trias—Magnesian Limestone boundary was assumed to be of normal, unfaulted character, but all was so uncertain that any borings in the area were likely to prove invaluable. How invaluable will be gathered from the following account of two recent bores, which throws an entirely new light, not only on the geological structure but also on the stratigraphy of this obscure region.

scholarly journals Os povos tribais da convenção 169 da OIT

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-179
Author(s):  
Carlos Frederico Marés de Souza Filho
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Brazilian Case ◽  
The Way

A Convenção 169 da OIT tem como destinatário os povos indígenas, quilombolas e demais povos tradicionais existentes nos Estados independentes. Historicamente a OIT tratou estes povos como trabalhadores que deveriam ser integrados ao mercado de trabalho e, portanto, objeto de políticas públicas de pleno emprego. A partir de 1989 houve uma mudança de postura da OIT para definir direitos de existência coletiva e garantia de territorialidade capaz de manter o modo de vida destes povos, sejam conceituados como indígenas ou tribais. No Brasil o reconhecimento destes direitos aos povos indígenas e quilombolas é claro na legislação, mas assim não é para outros tradicionais, que igualmente têm estes direitos e necessitam de reconhecimento, nos exatos termos da Convenção. Abstract The Convention 169/ILO is in order to the indigenous peoples, quilombolas and other traditional peoples existing in the independent states. Historically, the ILO has treated these peoples as workers who should be integrated into the labor market and therefore the subject of full employment public policies. Since 1989 there has been a shift in the ILO's position to define rights of collective existence and guarantee of territoriality capable of maintaining the way of life of these peoples, whether considered as indigenous or not. In the Brazilian case the recognition of these rights to the indigenous and quilombolas is clear, but not always, mistakenly, is recognized to the other traditional peoples.

scholarly journals Megapezia longipes Willard and Cleaves 1930 from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts: ichnotaxonomic status

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Getty
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Type Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Island Formation

The type and only specimen of the ichnospecies Megapezia longipes, from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Forma-tion of Plainville, Massachusetts, consists of two poorly defined tracks, one made by a manus and the other by a pes, rather than a single pedal imprint. Whereas the type species of Megapezia, Megapezia pineoi, has tetradactyl pedal imprints, the pes imprint of Megapezia longipes is pentadactyl, a feature that precludes assignment to this ichnogenus. Rather, the tracks share two characteristics with the ichnogenus Matthewichnus, namely elongate digits II and III on the manus, and a pes imprint oriented anterolaterally to the manus imprint, and are thus tentatively reassigned to that ichnogenus. Cf. Matthewichnus longipes is retained as a separate ichnospecies pending the collection of additional ma-terial that can be compared with other species within the ichnogenus. With the tentative reassignment of the Plainville tracks to Matthewichnus, Megapezia becomes monospecific and is no longer recorded in New England. The tracks are the first known occurrence of Matthewichnus from this region.

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