The Indigenous Australian Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Minter ◽  
Belinda Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Narrative Forms

The history of the Indigenous Australian novel begins in the second half of the twentieth century and can be traced to the traditions of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia. The Indigenous novel combines elements of the oral and performance traditions of classical Indigenous cultures with one of Western modernity's central narrative forms. The traditions of storytelling and poetic narration that underpin the Indigenous novel have always occupied a central place in the cultural expression of Indigenous peoples. The chapter considers Indigenous Australian novels published in four different periods: before and during the mid-1970s, 1978–1987, 1988–2000, and 2000 to the present. These include David Unaipon's (Ngarrindjeri) My Life Story (1954), Shirley Perry Smith's (Wiradjuri) Mum Shirl: An Autobiography (1981), Ruby Langford Ginibi's Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988), Kim Scott's Benang (2000), and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006).

Cultural and Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela

2015 ◽  
pp. 110-134
Author(s):  
Soledad Torrecuadrada García-Lozano ◽  
Vladimir Aguilar Castro ◽  
Carlos Grimaldo Lorente
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indigenous Perspective

In this chapter, the authors attempt to demonstrate that respect for cultural identity of all human groups should be seen as a fundamental right. Ignoring Collective rights of indigenous peoples, those related to their cultural traditions, generally causes the lack of respect. Thus, knowledge of the cultural manifestations and their origin and meaning (as part of the history of the territories they inhabit) can conquer this respect on a par with its defense. This obviously with comprehensive training aimed to sensitize the general population in the positive assessment it deserves it different. The actions of nation-states governments with strong indigenous population has been characterized, until recently, by a remarkable disregard for indigenous cultures, having as a result the result of which such attitude, today from the non - indigenous perspective indigenous cultural manifestations are reduced to colorful folklore shows, when not seen as backward and primitive traditions. This chapter delves deeply into the legal framework for the protection of collective and cultural rights of indigenous peoples. The authors also attempt to show the weaknesses of the law and how states should act to strengthen them. Proposed article does emphasis on indigenous traditional knowledge and not in a wider debate on the topic of knowledge in general.

Indigenous Australian Studies, Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogy, and Student Resistance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Student Resistance ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Learners

“Redressing Aboriginal disadvantage” through Indigenous education policy and studies has been on the policy agenda in Australian institutions for several decades. With notable exceptions, Indigenous studies programs have tended to position Indigenous peoples as objects of study. These objectifications still largely pivot around constructions of Indigenous cultures and peoples through deficit or essentializing discourses. The apprehension of these limiting discourses in Indigenous Australian studies for non-Indigenous learners contribute to the reproduction and reinforcement of contemporary justifications for Indigenous peoples’ colonial disenfranchisement. Often, limited attention is given to examining the relationality of knowledge, people, and ideas in (neo)colonial domains and, subsequently, to the deconstruction of the epistemological conditions under which Indigenous peoples were and are “known.” The Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogical (ISP) framework was designed to develop critical tools for all students to understand the epistemic forces that empower their worldviews and behaviors. The key question for an ISP framed learning space shifts is not, “What do students need to know about Indigenous peoples and experiences?” but rather, “Where does my knowledge come from and what is its purpose and impact on the way I relate to, and form, understandings about Australian history and Indigenous Australian peoples and experiences?” In the latter approach, students are exposed to opportunities to theorize and examine structural privilege. They engage in critical self-enquiry to interrogate the conditions that impact on their interpretations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian experiences throughout history and into the 21st century. In this sense, ISP is an inherently reformative, relational, and critically reflexive framework that supports and facilitates the reintegration of Indigenous knowledge perspectives in ways that interrupt the enduring impact of the colonial narrative.

Narrating Arab-American Transnational Identity in Leila Buck’s Hkeelee [Talk to Me]

Modern Drama ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Yasser Fouad Selim
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Transnational Identity ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

Hkeelee [ Talk to Me] is a one-woman show written and performed by Arab-American playwright Leila Buck, which explores the history of Buck’s family as she reminisces about the life story of her Teta (grandmother) and intertwines it with her own experiences to better understand what it means to be American with an Arab ethnic origin. This article argues that Buck’s stories act as counter-narratives: they resist the marginalization of Arab Americans and place the Arab-American identity within a transnational framework that emphasizes simultaneous attachment to the Arab world and to the United States, thereby unsettling prevailing US political discourses on citizenship and national identity. The article further proposes that Buck constructs an Arab-American transnational identity in the play by deploying the techniques and practices of the ancient Arab hakawati [storyteller] tradition, another example of cross-cultural connection and an instance of how US theatre could be enriched by an ethnic literary and performance legacy.

Performance, Text, and the History of Criticism

2009 ◽  
pp. 627-636
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Literate Society ◽  
Performance Text

This article asks how the Greeks negotiated issues of textuality and performance when developing their own critical approaches to their literature. In tackling this question, it engages with some of the issues set out in the previous articles in this part of the book. Beyond the different subjects, perspectives, and agendas, there is a determination, on the part of all contributors, to confront theory with practice, and to compare text with context. Greek literature may seem very close, but it sets us in dialogue with a remote, sophisticated, and only partly literate society. The discussion argues that the study of ancient criticism is unduly narrow unless it combines an awareness of the materiality of culture with an appreciation of how strongly performance traditions could shape the reception and valuation of such texts. It also explores a small piece of Aristotelian literary theory.

Feeding Indigenous people in Canada

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282091621
Author(s):  
Tabitha Robin (Martens) ◽  
Mary Kate Dennis ◽  
Michael Anthony Hart
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
History Of

Historically, hunger was used as a tool of coercion and manipulation, and as a weapon to eradicate Indigenous populations. Through policy decisions, the support for and removal of Indigenous children, and other assimilative practices, social work has contributed to the perpetuation of ‘helping practices’ which damaged Indigenous cultures and well-being. Today, experiences of hunger are still tied to colonialism. There is a need to examine the complex history of feeding Indigenous peoples in Canada and to work to reclaim and heal Indigenous food systems. For social work, this requires an emphasis on Indigenous ways of helping led by Indigenous peoples.

The Illingworth Moor Singers' Book: A Snapshot of Methodist Music in the Early Nineteenth Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103
Author(s):  
Martin V. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Place ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Congregational Song ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mount Zion ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into

Congregational song occupies a central place in the history of Methodism and offers an insight into the theological, doctrinal, cultural and educational principles and practices of the movement. The repertoire, performance styles and musical preferences in evidence across Methodism at different points in its history reflect the historical influences that shaped it, the frequent tensions that emerged between local practices and the movement's hierarchy and the disputes that led to a proliferation of breakaway groups during the nineteenth century. The focus of this article will be the implicit tension between the evidence of local practice contained within the Illingworth Moor Singers' Book, which forms part of the archives at Mount Zion Methodist Church and Heritage Centre, near Halifax, UK, and the repertoire and performance practice advocated by John Wesley in the latter part of the eighteenth century. While the study of a single, locally produced collection cannot be regarded as representative of wider practices, it is nonetheless useful in highlighting the need for a more nuanced approach to the history of Methodist music, which takes account of local circumstances and practices.

scholarly journals Presidential Address. Confronting Our Colonial Past: Reassessing Political Alliances over Canada’s Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Sangster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
History Of

This article examines examples of settler-initiated political alliances with Indigenous peoples in Canada over the twentieth century, placing them in their social and historical context, and assessing their insights as well as ideological and material limitations. I explore four very different examples, ranging from protests over the dispossession of land to attempts to preserve Indigenous cultures to the post-World War II organization of the Indian Eskimo Association and youth Indigenous projects associated with the Company of Young Canadians. Past settler efforts to create alliances or speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples incorporated multiple intentions and political ideas; they included both efforts at advocacy and partnership and paternal replications of colonial thinking. Assessing their complex histories is an important part of our efforts to grapple critically with Canada’s history of colonialism.

Peering Beyond the Imperial Gaze: Using Digital Tools to Construct a Spatial History of Conquest

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy M. Mikecz
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatial Narrative

Ethnohistorians and other scholars have long noted how European colonial texts often concealed the presence and participation of indigenous peoples in New World conquests. This scholarship has examined how European sources (both texts and maps) have denied indigenous history, omitted indigenous presence, elided indigenous agency, and ignored indigenous spaces all while exaggerating their own power and importance. These works provide examples of colonial authors performing these erasures, often as a means to dispossess. What they lack, however, is a systematic means of identifying, locating, and measuring these silences in space and time. This article proposes a spatial history methodology which can make visible, as well as measurable and quantifiable the ways in which indigenous people and spaces have been erased by colonial narratives. It presents two methods for doing this. First, narrative analysis and geovisualization are used to deconstruct the imperial histories found in colonial European sources. Second it combines text with maps to tell a new (spatial) narrative of conquest. This new narrative reconstructs indigenous activity through a variety of digital maps, including ‘mood maps’, indigenous activity maps, and maps of indigenous aid. The resulting spatial narrative shows the Spanish conquest of Peru was never inevitable and was dependent on the constant aid of immense numbers of indigenous people.

Sea Urchins and Circuses: The Modernist Natural Histories of Jean Painlevé and Alexander Calder

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
Patricia E. Chu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
Natural Historian

The Paris avant-garde milieu from which both Cirque Calder/Calder's Circus and Painlevé’s early films emerged was a cultural intersection of art and the twentieth-century life sciences. In turning to the style of current scientific journals, the Paris surrealists can be understood as engaging the (life) sciences not simply as a provider of normative categories of materiality to be dismissed, but as a companion in apprehending the “reality” of a world beneath the surface just as real as the one visible to the naked eye. I will focus in this essay on two modernist practices in new media in the context of the history of the life sciences: Jean Painlevé’s (1902–1989) science films and Alexander Calder's (1898–1976) work in three-dimensional moving art and performance—the Circus. In analyzing Painlevé’s work, I discuss it as exemplary of a moment when life sciences and avant-garde technical methods and philosophies created each other rather than being classified as separate categories of epistemological work. In moving from Painlevé’s films to Alexander Calder's Circus, Painlevé’s cinematography remains at the forefront; I use his film of one of Calder's performances of the Circus, a collaboration the men had taken two decades to complete. Painlevé’s depiction allows us to see the elements of Calder's work that mark it as akin to Painlevé’s own interest in a modern experimental organicism as central to the so-called machine-age. Calder's work can be understood as similarly developing an avant-garde practice along the line between the bestiary of the natural historian and the bestiary of the modern life scientist.

Applying analytical procedures for performance audit of customs authorities

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1035-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Pankova ◽  
V.V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Distance Method ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Scientific Hypothesis ◽  
Financial Audit ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
Performance Audit ◽  
Analytical Procedures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Customs Administration

Subject. The article considers the development of a set of methods and indicators of economic analysis, which can be used for performance audit of customs authorities, using the Volga Customs Administration case. Objectives. The aim is to justify the use of analytical procedures to rank the effectiveness of customs payments for the purpose of performance audit of customs authorities. Methods. We employ general scientific methods of research, i.e. dialectical and monographic methods, logical analysis, comparison, as well as the Euclidean distance method. Results. We reviewed works by Russian and foreign scholars on the history of customs audit development and internal financial control of customs authorities, gave scientific credence to attributing the system of customs payment and performance to the indicators of economic activity of customs authorities. Due to the lack of methods for assessing the performance of customs authorities, the use of analytical procedures during the performance audit seems to be a promising area. Conclusions. When verifying the scientific hypothesis put forward in the study, we established that the introduction and development of the ranking system for the performance of customs authorities related to the collection of customs duties can contribute to effective financial audit of customs authorities in general.

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