Stateness, National Self-determination and War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century

This chapter reviews the movement from pacifism to Just War and Crusade. It also tries to demonstrate the ways prominent Catholic and Protestant leaders have harshly used violent measures within their communities, and determines contemporary manifestations of these three approaches among twenty-first-century Christians. The Crusades constitute the third type of response to war and peace among Christians, joining the ongoing Just War and pacifist traditions. The Inquisition within the Catholic Church and the city-state of Geneva under John Calvin's leadership within the emerging Protestant movement are elaborated. These examples show how pervasive the use of violence in the name of religion had become. The Just Peacemaking Paradigm is the alternative to pacifism and Just War theory, an effort that tries to change the focus to initiatives which can help prevent war and foster peace.

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Introduction

10.3828/liverpool/9781800348271.003.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 9-31

Author(s):

Rachel Gregory Fox ◽

Ahmad Qabaha

Keyword(s):

Peace Process ◽

First Century ◽

Self Determination ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Integral Component ◽

Political Events ◽

Chronic Trauma ◽

Twenty First Century

The introduction to the collection begins by explaining the rationale behind the project; that the collection is a response to how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and narration in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century, ongoing national loss, prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession, and the continued deterioration of the peace process. It outlines key historical and political events and theorises the critical paradigms central to the book. It addresses how, insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present.

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“We're Gonna Capture Johnny Depp”: Making Kin with Cinematic Comanches

American Indian Culture and Research Journal ◽

10.17953/aicrj.41.2.tahmahkera ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 23-42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dustin Tahmahkera

Keyword(s):

Cultural Capital ◽

Cultural Politics ◽

Cultural Knowledge ◽

First Century ◽

Self Determination ◽

Social Actors ◽

Twenty First Century

This article analyzes Comanche elder LaDonna Harris's adoption of actor Johnny Depp as a response to the cultural politics of Disney's casting him as a Comanche Tonto in The Lone Ranger 2013. In addition to onscreen performers and characters like Depp's Tonto, in my reading “cinematic Comanches” also include offscreen cultural critics and social actors who, like Harris, maneuver through thorny layers of representing the indigenous. Focusing my inquiry on how Harris and other cinematic Comanches created opportunities to make kin with Depp, engage Disney, and expand the convoluted discourse on producing Comanche representation and cultural knowledge, I discuss Lone Ranger's hype and protest, Harris's reframing of the adoption as captivity, and post-captivity collaborations between Comanches, Depp, and Disney. I suggest that by recreating a traditional Comanche mode of kinship in the twenty-first century, Harris took Depp in as a son to honor his onscreen efforts, to express Comanche self-determination in kinship, and to increase the cultural capital of the Comanche Nation.

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