Dignity as (Self-)Determination: Hopi Sovereignty in the Face of US Dispossessions

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 917-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin B. Richland
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Reclaimed Wastewater ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Ski Resort ◽  
San Francisco Peaks ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Us Forest Service ◽  
To Come

In 2013, the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort began spraying artificial snow made from reclaimed wastewater on Arizona's highest peak, a place the Hopi people call Nuvatukya'ovi, “Snow-on-top-of-it.” As one of the Hopis' most sacred places, the home of the katsinam and the southwestern boundary marker of their aboriginal territory, the Hopi have fought for decades to stop development of the ski resort, which today sits on US Forest Service land. Viewing the history of this dispute through the lens of Atuahene's notion of a “dignity taking,” this article argues that despite never having been relocated, the indignities that the Hopi have suffered by US dispossessions of much of their aboriginal territory are the product of a series of bureaucratic sleights of hand that only bear the mark of legality if one ignores history and denies the enduring right to self-determination and sovereignty that Hopi have continuously claimed with regard to the totality of their aboriginal land. Yuuyahiwa, Ayamo Nuvatukya'ove'e. Oo'oomawutu, angqw puma naayuwasinaya, pewi'i. They are preparing themselves [for a journey], Over there at the snow-capped mountains [San Francisco Peaks]. The clouds, From there, they are putting on their endowments [of rain power], To come here. A Hopi katsinam song recalled by Emory Sekaquaptewa (from Sekaquaptewa and Washburn, 2004, 468)

Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth van Houts
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Married Life ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.

scholarly journals Variation in Plant–Pollinator Network Structure along the Elevational Gradient of the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1060
Author(s):  
Paige R. Chesshire ◽  
Lindsie M. McCabe ◽  
Neil S. Cobb
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Species Distribution ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Generalist Species ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
San Francisco Peaks ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plant Pollinator

The structural patterns comprising bimodal pollination networks can help characterize plant–pollinator systems and the interactions that influence species distribution and diversity over time and space. We compare network organization of three plant–pollinator communities along the altitudinal gradient of the San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. We found that pollination networks become more nested, as well as exhibit lower overall network specialization, with increasing elevation. Greater weight of generalist pollinators at higher elevations of the San Francisco Peaks may result in plant–pollinator communities less vulnerable to future species loss due to changing climate or shifts in species distribution. We uncover the critical, more generalized pollinator species likely responsible for higher nestedness and stability at the higher elevation environment. The generalist species most important for network stability may be of the greatest interest for conservation efforts; preservation of the most important links in plant–pollinator networks may help secure the more specialized pollinators and maintain species redundancy in the face of ecological change, such as changing climate.

Yosemite Regional Transportation Strategy: Creating a Public-Private Partnership

2000 ◽  
Vol 1735 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Weinstein Nelson ◽  
Jeffrey Tumlin
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Alternative Mode ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Yosemite Valley ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Park Service ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

In 1992 the Yosemite Area Regional Transportation Strategy (YARTS) group began meeting to discuss access and transportation needs of visitors to the Yosemite region. The group included representatives of the five rural counties surrounding Yosemite National Park, the National Park Service, the state department of transportation, and eventually the U.S. Forest Service and other state and federal agencies. Urgency increased after the park instituted a program of gate closures to address congestion and parking problems within Yosemite Valley. Although the closures lasted only a matter of hours, the impact was felt for months to come as visitors changed their plans in the face of potential closures. Two years later, a flood permanently removed infrastructure within the park, including parking spaces and camping sites, making access from the surrounding communities even more critical. After 8 years of planning, YARTS has implemented the first regional transit service ever focused on the 4 million annual visitors to Yosemite. The 2-year demonstration service plan is not intended to replace automobile access to the park but rather to provide an alternative mode of access. The plan is creating a unique partnership between YARTS and private vendors who will provide the service and assume much of the start-up risk. The plan provides a working outline of the service, including anticipated service levels and fares. All of these plan highlights are discussed, along with a history of the YARTS organization, which describes the technical and political challenges to implementation.

scholarly journals The Ideology of Capitalism

AmeriQuests ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Grey
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Soviet Marxism ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
New System

This manuscript addresses from a range of perspectives the crisis of capitalism, claiming that it's failures are not an accident or a result of the actions of a few unprincipled men. Rather, it is a harbinger of things to come – loss of employment due to technology and globalization, a world without the myth of constant growth, tension between ethnic and national groups which seek to tilt the scale in favour of their group, a constant need for more radical technology and a fear of its unavoidable frightening side. Its one possible positive effect will occur if there emerges a new willingness to question the assumptions of capitalism and the political correctness of identity politics, shifts in both attitude and behavior that the author deems unlikely at the current juncture or in the foreseeable future. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. THE CURRENT CRISIS III. THE “SMALL GOVERNMENT” DEFENSE OF CAPITALISM IV. DOES THE HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY VINDICATE CAPITALISM V. CAPITALISM AND SOVIET MARXISM VI. THE NEW MAN VII. INTERNATIONALISM AND GLOBALIZATION VIII. THE ALIENATED MAN IX. ALIENATION AND FAMILY STRUCTURE X. CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY XI. THE DOUBLETHINK OF CAPITALISM XII. CULTURE AND CAPITALISM XIII. THE “CONTRACT” DEFENCE OF CAPITALISM XIV. THE POSITIVE SIDE OF LIBERAL CAPITALISM XV. INSTITUTIONAL TAKE-OVER XVI. CAPITALISM AND THE TOWER OF BABEL XVII. THE NEW SYSTEM XVIII. POLITICAL STRUCTURE IN THE NEW SYSTEM XIX. THE NEW SYSTEM AND INDIVIDUAL HAPPINESS XX. COURTS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE NEW SYSTEM XXI. PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND MORALITY IN THE NEW SYSTEM XXII. WHY NOT “REAL” SOCIALISM XXIII. HOW IS A NEW SYSTEM TO BE CREATED XXIV. EDUCATION XXV. DISOBEDIENCE AND WITHDRAWAL XXVI. REFORM OF THE LEFT XXVII. LABOUR UNIONS AS A SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY XXVIII. MULTICULTURALISM AND CULTURE XXIX. CULTURE AND DEMOGRAPHY XXX. A BOOT IN THE FACE OF MANKIND FOREVER XXXI. CONCLUSION

Sovereignty and Community after Haiti: Rethinking the Collective Use of Force

1995 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Glennon
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
State Power ◽  
New Order ◽  
Fault Line ◽  
Community Values ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
History Of Diplomacy

The history of diplomacy has been a history of two competing structural conceptions: sovereignty, the barrier that limits state power, and community values, the collective power that overcomes that barrier. In ages past, when the fault line shifted between sovereignty and community, and cracks began to appear in the old legal edifice governing use of force by sovereign against sovereign or community against sovereign, the leading nations of the world gathered at Westphalia, or Vienna, or Versailles, or San Francisco to clarify the contours of the new order and to formulate, however loosely, a set of rules that would govern the use of force for generations to come—rules that recognized states as equals, rules that prohibited aggression, rules that permitted only defensive force. But not this time.

We Have Tasted the Powers of the Age to Come: Thinking the Force of the Event—from Dynamis to Puissance

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Clément Mercier
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Interpretative Model

Responding to the provocative phrase ‘The Age of Grammatology’, I propose to question the notion of ‘age’, and to interrogate the powers or forces, the dynameis or dynasties attached to the interpretative model of historical periodisation. How may we think the undeniable actuality of the event beyond the sempiternal history of ages, and beyond the traditional, onto-teleological chain of power, possibility, force or dynamis that undergirds such history?

Craft Beer's Unlikely Alchemist

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-90
Author(s):  
Theresa McCulla
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
The United States ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Intellectual Curiosity ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
Washing Machine ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
History Of

In 1965, Frederick (Fritz) Maytag III began a decades-long revitalization of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. This was an unexpected venture from an unlikely brewer; for generations, Maytag's family had run the Maytag Washing Machine Company in Iowa and he had no training in brewing. Yet Maytag's career at Anchor initiated a phenomenal wave of growth in the American brewing industry that came to be known as the microbrewing—now “craft beer”—revolution. To understand Maytag's path, this article draws on original oral histories and artifacts that Maytag donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History via the American Brewing History Initiative, a project to document the history of brewing in the United States. The objects and reflections that Maytag shared with the museum revealed a surprising link between the birth of microbrewing and the strategies and culture of mass manufacturing. Even if the hallmarks of microbrewing—a small-scale, artisan approach to making beer—began as a backlash against the mass-produced system of large breweries, they relied on Maytag's early, intimate connections to the assembly-line world of the Maytag Company and the alchemy of intellectual curiosity, socioeconomic privilege, and risk tolerance with which his history equipped him.

“You Have Living Legends among You”

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Awartani
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Puerto Ricans ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
Young Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln Park

In late September 2018, multiple generations of Chicago’s storied social movements marched through Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood as part of the sold-out, three-day Young Lords Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium hosted by DePaul University—an institution that, alongside Mayor Richard J. Daley’s administration, had played a sizeable role in transforming Lincoln Park into a neighborhood “primed for development.” Students, activists, and community members—from throughout Chicago, the Midwest, the East Coast, and even as far as Texas—converged to celebrate the history of Puerto Ricans in Chicago, the legacies of the Young Lords, and the promises and possibilities of resistance. As Elaine Brown, former chairwoman and minister of information for the Black Panther Party, told participants in the second day’s opening plenary, the struggle against racism, poverty, and gentrification and for self-determination and the general empowerment of marginalized people is a protracted one. “You have living legends among you,” Brown insisted, inviting us to associate as equals with the Young Lords members in our midst. Her plea encapsulated the ethos of that weekend’s celebrations: “If we want to be free, let us live the light of the Lords.”

Luxury Communist Jesus

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Sandford
Keyword(s):  
Work Ethic ◽  
Protestant Work Ethic ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Protestant Work Ethic

This article begins by outlining contemporary anti-work politics, which form the basis of Sandford’s reading. After providing a brief history of anti-work politics, Sandford examines recent scholarly treatments of Jesus’ relationship to work. An examination of a number of texts across the gospel traditions leads Sandford to argue that Jesus can be read as a ‘luxury communist’ whose behaviour flies in the face of the Protestant work ethic. Ultimately, Sandford foregrounds those texts in which Jesus discourages his followers from working, and undermines work as an ‘end in itself’, contextualising these statements in relation to other gospel texts about asceticism and the redistribution of wealth.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Winter
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Oppression ◽  
The Rich ◽  
To Come

This concluding chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. The book has shown that the multiplicity of lived ʻAlawi experiences cannot be reduced to the sole question of religion or framed within a monolithic narrative of persecution; that the very attempt to outline a single coherent history of “the ʻAlawis” may indeed be misguided. The sources on which this study has drawn are considerably more accessible, and the social and administrative realities they reflect consistently more mundane and disjointed, than the discourse of the ʻAlawis' supposed exceptionalism would lead one to believe. Therefore, the challenge for historians of ʻAlawi society in Syria and elsewhere is not to use the specific events and structures these sources detail to merely add to the already existing metanarratives of religious oppression, Ottoman misrule, and national resistance but rather to come to a newer and more intricate understanding of that community, and its place in wider Middle Eastern society, by investigating the lives of individual ʻAlawi (and other) actors within the rich diversity of local contexts these sources reveal.

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