Dynamics of Self-determination: the Creation of Palestine

1994 ◽  
pp. 144-200
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
The Creation

The OAU and the Mozambique Revolution

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
D. Elwood Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Regional Organization ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Organization Of African Unity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Total Agreement

One of the strongest impulses that led to the creation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 was the desire of free Africa to hasten independence in colonized Africa. When the leaders of independent Africa convened to inaugurate the first international regional organization of its kind in Africa, there seemed total agreement on the principle of self-determination. What Kwame Nkrumah had proclaimed six years earlier upon Ghana's accession to independence was echoed in the keynote address of the Ethiopian Emperor: “Our liberty is meaningless unless all Africans are free. Our brothers in the Rhodesias … Mozambique … cry out in anguish for our support and assistance.”

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
World History ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World Region ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern Atlantic ◽  
The Creation ◽  
History Of Europe

This book examines the temporality of modernity by focusing on the relations between Africa, America and Europe. More specifically, it considers the extent to which the supposed arrival of modernity in Europe affects the ways in which human beings situate themselves in time and history worldwide. It also explores how institutionally entrenched interpretations of modernity based on inequality and oppression are transformed into novel forms that are shaped by the drive to inclusive–egalitarian collective self-determination. In linking the history of Europe to world history, the book shows that what is often referred to as ‘the rise of Europe’ was the creation of an Atlantic world region with increasingly dense but highly asymmetric commercial and communicative ties. This introduction discusses the debate over the relation between the history and the theory of modernity, the connection between the Northern Atlantic West and the origins of modernity, and novel interpretations of modernity in Africa and Latin America.

The Art of Sankofa and Re-Establishing Kujichagulia

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-71
Author(s):  
Kalvin DaRonne Harvell
Keyword(s):  
Black Males ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Real ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

As many social critics are just now discovering the racial treatise W.E.B. DuBois advanced more than 100 years ago, the academy continues to devalue, marginalize, and ignore specific voices while choosing to champion, protect, and canonize others. This exclusion allows, or directs, each generation of new scholars to carefully dance around the real problems in education by judiciously repackaging the discourse of their predecessors. This is not to suggest that the intellectual past of a discipline should not be revisited. This does suggest that some aspects of that past, a past often marred by cultural incompetence and the intellectual marginalization of specific groups a discipline pretends to be educating, needs to be considered and critiqued by those groups the discipline has objectified and transformed into others. Intentionally connecting educators to the history of Black self-determination in education may potentially serve to assist in the creation of pedagogy and programs to address the challenges of Black males in education.

scholarly journals Urban Indigenous Courts: Possibilities for Increasing Community Control Over Justice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabe Boothroyd
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Justice Systems

The settler colonial justice system of the Canadian state continues to inflict immense harm on Indigenous people. One response to these harms could be the creation of urban Indigenous courts in line with the Truth and Reconciliation’s call for Indigenous justice systems that are expressions of self-determination. While any initiative that operates within the confines of the mainstream justice system has significant limitations, the practices of existing courts that avoid convictions, apply Indigenous legal principles, and cede genuine control to Indigenous people and communities demonstrate the potential for a meaningful break from the status quo. The creation of an urban court could facilitate a resurgence of Indigenous justice while mitigating the harm caused by the settler colonial justice system.

National Education Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Elizabeth VanderVen
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education Systems ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Creation

This chapter focuses on the rise of national education systems in Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It draws on five countries by way of example: Japan, China, Iran, India, and Malaysia. The chapter examines, in turn, the particular circumstances in each country that propelled it toward the establishment of national education, as well as the myriad actors, on both the national and the local level, who had a hand in implementing educational reform. It emphasizes the universal concerns and challenges faced by each country, in particular how to incorporate foreign models of education with indigenous, including local religious, values and methods in its quest for modernization, self-determination, and the creation of a citizenry with a common ethos. Finally, the chapter points out that countries that were colonized had a somewhat different trajectory of educational reform than countries that were not.

Influences Preceding “Nunatsiavut” Self-Determination: Historical, Political and Educational Influences on the People of Northern Labrador (Canada)

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk David Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Labrador Inuit ◽  
Cultural Strength

AbstractWhat were the influences on the Inuit of Northern Labrador preceding the creation of the self-governing territory of Nunatsiavut? What are the preterritorial influences of the Inuit on the territory’s five schools? To answer these questions and to share the success of one Indigenous people, the Nunatsiavut Inuit (the Inuit of Northern Labrador, Canada), this paper traces their survival, recovery, and development as they reclaim their right to self-determination (Smith, 1999). As part of this process, the paper reports such influences as: the bicultural and assimilationist forces (Moravian missionaries and the governments of Newfoundland), the rise and successful influence of the Labrador Inuit Association as a precursor to the Nunatsiavut Assembly, and the Inuit influence on schools in the region. This paper concludes with a discussion of the nature of northern isolation as a source of economic and cultural strength, which may have enabled the Nunatsiavut Inuit to resist complete assimilation, a factor in Nunatsiavut Inuit survival and increased potential for successful self-determination.

Ethiopia: the Victory of the Sidama in the Longer Than a Century’s Struggle for the Self-determination

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Roza Ismagilova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Stratification ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

For the first time in the history of domestic Ethiopian studies, the article analyzes in detail the successful struggle of one of the Ethiopian peoples’, the Sidama, for self-determination. On the 20th of November, 2019 a truly historic event took place in Ethiopia: one of the country’s many ethnic communities, the Sidama, achieved self-government. At a referendum about 98% voted in favor of the creation of the Sidama state. This provoked a chain reaction in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region: already 13 ethnic communities – Wolaita, Gamo, Gurage, Kaffa and others – are demanding the creation of their own states. Centrifugal processes in the country have become noticeably more active. The present paper is divided in four sections. The first section, “Who are the Sidama?”, offers a detailed description of the Sidama and emphasizes the vitality of traditional social and cultural institutions, including ethnic stratification and the continued presence of castes of artisans. At the same time, it is noted that globalization and urbanization are introducing significant changes in the life of the Sidama. The second section, “The Sidama under ethnic federalism”, analyzes the positive and negative aspects of ethnic federalism and the reasons for the discontent of the Sidama, as well as the causes of Sidama’s grievances and conflicts over power and resources with other ethnic communities, which ultimately led to their struggle for self-government. The third section, “The Sidama’s struggle for self-government”, provides a detailed account of the Sidama’s struggle against the policy of Amharization during the imperial period, the discrimination in Derg rule (1974–1991) and, since 1991, during the period of ethnic federalism. The fourth section, “Referendum”, is devoted to a detailed description of this important event in the life of the Sidama and their victory: the difficulties and obstacles to organizing the referendum, the attitude of the federal government, the referendum itself and victory. Finally, in the fifth section, “The impact of the creation of the Sidama state on the situation in the region”, the author analyzes the Constitution of the new state. The creation of the new 10th state on the ethnic basis means the strengthening of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia. It is important to stress that the author has conducted several e-mail interviews with Sidama scholars and journalists – active participants in the Sidama movement for self-determination – on the topic of post-referendum events.

scholarly journals THEORY OF «MINOR» LITERATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF EPISTOLARY TEXT: CASE OF P. KULISH

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Olena Yufereva
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
De Re ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

The article is devoted to the consideration of P. Kulish's epistolary in the context of «minority» literature. The authors of this theory are J. Deleuze and F. Guattari. Rethinking the key categories of «minor» writing in modern interdisciplinary studies produces a differentiation and refinement of the definitions of «minor»/«small»/«minority» via interpreting various in-between phenomena of literature. Given that in the Ukrainian humanities this theory has not been carefully considered and as a methodological tool has not been updated, the analysis of these works revealed the feasibility of distinguishing concepts derived from the concept of «minor». The main purpose of the study is to reveal the features of Kulish's correspondence through the criteria of minor literature, in particular de(re)territorialization, formation, political semantics. The choice of material is determined by the ambiguity, «encryption» (V. Petrov) of the creative manner, the bilingual nature of the writer's epistolary. The process of self-determination within the Russian epistolary canon affects the nature of language codes. Linguistic transformations in this correspondence, in particular, the mixing of different linguistic elements, have a comedic, parodic character. There is a peripheralization of the dominant n language in terms of social and territorial affiliation. The transmission of Ukrainian pronunciation can be seen not only through the transformation of the Russian epistolary canon, but also as its subversive approach to the creation of a new quality of language in the future.

scholarly journals The Inuit and Sovereignty: The Case of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and Greenland

Politik ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Gerhardt
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Bounded State ◽  
Inuit People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Self Rule

This paper addresses the positioning of the Inuit with regard to the institution of sovereignty within the broader context of an Arctic region that is becoming increasingly territorialized. First, the paper considers the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) and its emphasis on the need to think past a strict Westphalian conception of bounded state sovereignty in favor of a circumpolar cooperation that recognizes the Inuit people as key actors within any regime of Arctic governance. Juxtaposed to the ICC, however, the paper goes on to analyze the Greenland self rule government, which, in positioning itself for the creation of a future independent “Inuit state”, takes a much more traditional approach to international relations, thus embracing a more territorial conception of sovereignty. A rift is hence uncovered in the way that Inuit identity and sovereignty are conceived by the ICC and the Greenlandic self rule government. The paper continues to consider the possible impact of an independent Greenland on the future of Inuit self-determination more generally. 

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