Gesturing towards broader sexuality-based conceptualisations of HIV assemblages beyond the Minority World

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110546
Author(s):  
Andrew Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Majority World

In response to Di Feliciantonio and Brown's intervention on PrEP and TasP assemblages, this commentary considers how it may also be possible to expand the scope of the TasP and PrEP assemblages they discuss related to the Minority World to also encompass the Majority World. In particular, this commentary considers how the entities they highlight and deploy to connect health geographies and the geographies of sexualities literatures may also relate to global HIV policy and programming as well as global biomedical and pharmaceutical assemblages.

Biblical Interpretation in the Majority World

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. K. Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Bible Reading

This chapter challenges the ‘received’ view that traces the expansion of the dominant theologies of the European and North American colonial powers and their missionaries into the Majority World. When they arrived, these Westerners found ancient Christian traditions and pre-existing spiritualities, linguistic and cultural forms, which questioned their Eurocentric presumptions, and energized new approaches to interpreting the sacred texts of Christianity. The emergence of ‘creative tensions’ in global encounters are a mechanism for expressing (D)issent against attempts to close down or normalize local Bible-reading traditions. This chapter points to the elements which establish a creative tension between indigenizing Majority World approaches to the Bible and those described in the ‘orthodox’ narrative, including: self-theologizing and communal readings; concepts of the Spirit world and human flourishing; the impact of multiple contexts, vernacular languages, sociopolitical and ethno-national identities, and power/marginalization structures; and ‘framing’ public and ecological issues.

Minority-world professionals in majority-world early childhood contexts: How do international field experiences promote intercultural competence or reinforce “professional” ethnocentrism?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-205
Author(s):  
Samara Madrid Akpovo ◽  
Lydiah Nganga
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Early Childhood Professional ◽  
Childhood Professional

This colloquium problematizes the use of early childhood international field experiences as a tool for professional development with Euro-Western pre-service and in-service teachers. The authors critique experiences where minority-world educators teach or implement internships within majority-world contexts. It is critical for Euro-Western teacher education programs to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with opportunities to expand their global views of the early childhood professional through international field experiences. But how can this be done when conceptions of the “professional” are constructed in Euro-Western images, ideas, curricula, ideologies, and privilege? The authors make a call for early childhood teacher educators to reconsider, deconstruct, and re-examine themselves and their pre-service and in-service teachers’ rationale for engaging in international field experiences.

scholarly journals Cultural comparisons for healing and exorcism narratives in Matthew’s Gospel

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig S. Keener
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Cultural Comparisons ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gospel Narratives

Majority World readings of Matthew (and the Gospels generally) often help us to appreciate the very sorts of stories that seem most alien to readers in the West: stories of unusual cures and exorcisms of hostile spirits. Rather than simply allegorising these narratives, many Majority World readers treat them as models for experiencing healing and deliverance. Accounts of these experiences appear in a wide variety of cultures; in addition to a range of published sources, the article includes some material based on the author’s interviews with people claiming first-hand experiences of this nature in the Republic of Congo. Such readings invite a more sympathetic hearing of some Gospel narratives than they often receive in the West.

Access to Safe Drinking Water

2020 ◽  
pp. 1544-1558
Author(s):  
Robert Cecil Willems ◽  
Steve A. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Water Purification ◽  
Water System ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
Safe Drinking Water ◽  
Majority World ◽  
The People

The focus of this chapter is to demonstrate that providing safe drinking water to communities in Majority World countries, specifically Kenya, Africa, is easily accomplished. Any water system, in order to be successfully constructed in impoverished Majority World communities, must be simple and inexpensive and the benefiting community must have a vested interest and ownership for the system to be effective. Establishing a vested interest by water recipients requires that the people providing the water purification technology understand the culture and worldview of the water system recipients. This approach is supported by literature review but more so by empirical evidence gathered by both authors.

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