Entering into an Indigenous Cypher

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Simple Form ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Leisure Studies ◽  
Kanaka Maoli ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
The World

Although music-dance making would seem, intuitively, to be part of leisure studies, music and dance very seldom appear beyond the simple form of “activity” and rarely as music-dance making. Many Indigenous peoples conceptualize music-dance making as essential to life, knowledge, and taking care of the earth and cosmos. Seeking insight and wisdom from Indigenous practices and words, this chapter enacts maieutic listening to engage with Indigenous music-dance making that has sustained and nourished Indigenous Kanaka Maoli, Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, and Diné peoples for generations. The aim of the discussion is to gesture to social and political insights that can emerge through dialogue between Indigenous music-dance making and knowledge systems and Western leisure: a dialogue that unprivileges Western leisure. As Indigenous initiatives related to sovereignty, self-determination, and concern for the earth crisscross the world, the presence, power, and survivance of Indigenous music-dance making, as an integral component challenges, enriches, or changes how leisure is imagined and practiced.

scholarly journals ARKTISKE FOLK SOM STATISTER OG AKTØRER PÅ DEN GLOBALE SCENE

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Sejersen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Extreme Pressure ◽  
Political Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Arctic Communities ◽  
The Right

Frank Sejersen: Arctic people as by-standers and actors at the global stage For centuries, the indigenous peoples of the Arctic have been perceived as isolated from the rest of the world. The article argues that secluded Arctic communities do not exist and that Arctic peoples are integrated into numerous political, cultural and economic relations of a global extent. The pre-colonial inter-continental trade between Siberia and Alaska and the increased militarization the whole circumpolar region are but two examples. Throughout history, indigenous peoples of the Arctic have been players on the global stage. Today, this position has been strengthened because political work on this stage is imperative in order to secure the welfare and possibilities of local Arctic communities. To mention an example, Arctic peoples’ hunting activities have been under extreme pressure from the anti-harvesting movement. The anti-harvesting organizations run campaigns to ban hunting and stop the trade with products from whales, seals and furbearing animals. Thus, political and cultural processes far from the homeland of Arctic peoples, have consequences for the daily life of many Arctic families. The global stage has become an important comerstone in indigenous peoples’ strive to gain more control over their own future. The right to trade, development and self-determination are some of the rights they claim.

scholarly journals Colisão de Mundos: A Proteção Ambiental Internacional e a Cosmovisão Ameríndia l Clash of Worlds: The International Protection of the Environment and Amerindian Cosmovisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e58755
Author(s):  
Renan Moutropoulos Fortunato ◽  
Monique Maciel Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Earth Summit ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The One ◽  
Earth Charter

O texto tem como finalidade analisar o sistema de proteção ambiental internacional. A abordagem compara três visões sobre o tema: a) a criada por Estados no âmbito da ONU, calcada no conceito de desenvolvimento sustentável; b) uma visão crítica pós-estruturalista que desconstrói tal conceito; e c) a cosmovisão indígena brasileira sobre o meio ambiente. A intenção deste estudo é contrapor diferentes modos de concepção da natureza e suas implicações para a proteção ambiental. Portanto, pretende-se analisar a presença da visão indígena na Rio-92, a maior conferência sobre o tema. Para isso, lança-se mão de pesquisa bibliográfica e analisa-se a Carta da Terra - declaração de princípios éticos publicada na ocasião da Conferência Mundial dos Povos Indígenas sobre Território, Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento da Rio-92.Palavras-chave: Proteção ambiental; Cosmovisões ameríndias; DIP.ABSTRACTThis text aims to analyze the topic of environmental protection by comparing three visions about the theme. a) the one crafted by States within the UN system, based on the concept of “sustainable development”; b) a post-structuralist critical vision, which deconstructs that concept; and c) the Brazilian Amerindian cosmovisions over nature. This movement intends to contrast the different manners of conceiving nature and its consequences for environmental protection. So, the text seeks to assess the presence of the indigenous cosmovisions during the Earth Summit (1992), the most important summit on the topic. The research uses bibliographical research and a documental analysis of the Earth Charter of the Indigenous Peoples (a declaration of ethical principles published during the World Conference of Indigenous Peoples on Territory, Environment and Development, during the Earth Summit).Keywords: Environmental protection; Amerindian cosmovision; International law. Recebido em: 29/03/2021 | Aceito em: 05/08/2021. 

De Ptolémée à la Guillotière (XVe–XVIe siècle): Des cartes pour la France pourquoi, comment? By Monique Pelletier. City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form. By Keith D. Lilley. The Maps of Matthew Paris: Medieval Journeys through Space, Time and Liturgy. By Daniel K. Connolly. Cartografía Medieval: El Enigma del Mapamundi de 1375. By Álvaro Fernández García. La carta de Gabriel de Vallseca de 1439: Estudi i edicio. By Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller. King Henry's Map of the British Isles: BL Cotton MS Augustus I i 9. Commentary by Peter Barber. Covens & Mortier: A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685–1866. By Marco van Egmond. El geógrafo Juan López (1765–1825) y el comercio de mapas en España. By Agustín Hernando. The Atlas of Scotland Containing Maps of Each County. By John Thomson. Geographia antiqua: rivista di geografia storica del mondo antico e di storia della geografia. The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name. By Toby Lester. Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America. By Miles Harvey. Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World. By John Rennie Short. Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape. By Maxine N. Lurie and Peter O. Wacker. Eastern Astrolabes. By David Pingree. Census of Portolan Charts and Atlases, as Reported and Listed by the Noted Scholars of the Genre in Their Works Ranging from 1897 to 2008. By Richard Pflederer. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. By Katharine Harmon, with essays by Gayle Clemans. Formatting Europe: Mapping a Continent. Guest editors W. Bracke, J. L. Renteux, and W. Bodenstein

Imago Mundi ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-263
Author(s):  
Tom Conley ◽  
Emanuele Lugli ◽  
P. D. A. Harvey ◽  
Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez ◽  
Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
New World ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Space Time ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

Indigenous Language Rights—Miner’s Canary or Mariner’s Tern?

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Teresa L. McCarty
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Language Planning And Policy ◽  
Endangered Language

Drawing on the international literature in language planning and policy, this chapter examines Indigenous language rights. Like the diagnostic “miner’s canary,” the rights accorded or denied to Indigenous peoples reflect larger issues of equity and justice for minoritized- and endangered-language communities. The chapter begins with background on Indigenous peoples, their distinctive status as originary peoples and inherent sovereigns, the present state of Indigenous language vitality and endangerment, and the stakes involved in Indigenous language loss and reclamation. Following is an examination of research and practice in Indigenous language rights. A third section examines those rights in a key public domain: education. The chapter concludes with the implications of this work for the revitalization and sustainability of Indigenous languages and their associated cultural and knowledge systems. An aspirational alternative to the “miner’s canary” metaphor is offered, in which language rights are rooted in the principle and practice of Indigenous self-determination.

Gandhi's Satyagraha and the Earth Constitution

2018 ◽  
pp. 361-371
Author(s):  
Glen Theron Martin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World View ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
General Philosophy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
Philosophy Of Liberation

Mahatma Gandhi developed an integrated world view within the very specific contexts of his struggles for justice and freedom in South Africa and India. Much of his thought regarding such basic concepts as Satyagraha (clinging to truth), ahimsa (nonviolence), swaraj (self-determination, independence), and sarvodaya (the welfare of all) was articulated in the light of the concrete struggles he encountered. Some scholars have undertaken the task of extrapolating Gandhi's world view in terms of a general philosophy of liberation (see Iyer, 1973; Jesudasan, 1984; Prabhu & Rao, 1967; Richards 1991). However, these studies have not generally extrapolated the theme of world federalism that Gandhi occasionally mentions in his writings. This paper argues that Gandhi's relevance for the 21st century requires delineating the larger scope of his vision in relation to our contemporary situation and seeing the possibility of concretely actualizing that vision within the world federalism advocated by the Constitution for the Federation of Earth (see Martin 2010a).

Ontologies of Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Anthropology

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Simon
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

Indigenous studies and Taiwan studies have a rather tenuous intellectual relationship. From a Taiwanese perspective, the study of indigenous peoples has been a part of the inward-turning indigenisation (本土化, bentuhua) of Taiwan scholarship; affirmation of a locally-rooted, non-Chinese national identity. The idea that Taiwan is the starting point of the Austronesian diaspora makes Taiwan important to the world in new ways. For indigenous scholars, indigenous studies can also contribute to a pride of their places and cultures, meaningful on their own terms. Applied and action research can also be helpful to indigenous goals of local self-determination. Reflection on the ontological implications of indigeneity suggests that indigenous studies cannot be relegated to a subfield of Taiwan studies. There is thus a need for reflection on the ontology of our studies.

scholarly journals ANTROPOLOGERS OG INDFØDTE FOLKS FÆLLES VIRKELIGHED: Tre beretninger

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Hasager
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Global Factor ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Ulla Hasager: The common reality of anthropologists and Indigenous peoples: three narratives The „traditional object" of anthropology - the indigenous peoples of the world - are becoming an increasingly visible global factor with the fourth world movements for self-determination and with the United Nations’ efforts to create standards for indigenous human rights. However, at the same time as the indigenous peoples are celebrated as guardians of environmental sustainability and biological and cultural diversity - and thereby for securing the memory as well as the future of mankind - their lands and resources are coveted by multinational corporations, govemments and other agencies, their genes are patented and preserved and their cultures are recorded - most often by anthropologists. In spite of these opposing trends and threats, indigenous peoples now have a more powerful position vis-å-vis anthropologists, who on their part are beginning to acknowledge the responsibilities that come with being part of the same living world as the indigenous peoples and therefore have begun the task of revising their theoretical foundations. Not only because they want to, but because the relatively more powerful and outspoken indigenous peoples demand it. This article looks at the changing situation for indigenous peoples in the Pacific, primarily Hawai’i, and outline the consequences for the conditions of research, methods of research and publication for anthropologists.

Exiting Socialism Challenges

2006 ◽  
pp. 114-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Municipal Economy

Exiting socialism by almost a third of the earth population appears to be the most prominent event of the late XX century. The author makes an attempt to formulate some challenges of this process and thus a theory of exiting socialism. First, he inquires into the concept of exiting socialism as it exists in the world. Then he analyzes real experiences in this field. The research enables the author to outline the main economic, governmental and social challenges of such exit - from municipal economy to science and culture.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

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