scholarly journals #StopAsianHate: Understanding the Global Rise of Anti-Asian Racism from a Transcultural Communication Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibo Chen ◽  
Cary Wu
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Transcultural Communication ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

Abstract The rise of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a global phenomenon. This article aims to develop a transcultural communication perspective to examine the global rise in anti-Asian violence. It discusses the intersection of global and local factors underlying the rise of anti-Asian racism in Canada, namely (1) the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism (2) the flaws of Canadian multiculturalism, and (3) the insider/outsider dichotomy adopted by mass media’s framing of the pandemic. By explicating these structural factors from a transcultural communication perspective, this article argues that politicized transcultural discussions on white supremacy are urgently needed for initiating constructive conversations over anti-Asian racism worldwide.

Global and local factors behind the authigenesis of Fe-silicates (Glauconite/Chamosite) in Miocene strata of Northern Tunisia

2021 ◽  
pp. 104342
Author(s):  
Abdelbasset Tounekti ◽  
Kamel Boukhalfa ◽  
Tathagata Roy Choudhury ◽  
Mohamed Soussi ◽  
Santanu Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Northern Tunisia ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Global And Local

Stepping to the fore: The promotion of Irish dance in Australia

Scene ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Jeanette Mollenhauer
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Local Factors ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish People ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Concert Dance ◽  
Global And Local

This article contributes to scant literature on Irish dance praxis in Australia by demonstrating how the confluence of global and local factors have permitted Irish dance in Australia to step to the fore. Irish step dance is a globally recognizable genre that has dispersed through, first, the migration of Irish people throughout the world and, more recently, through itinerant theatrical troupes. In Australia, a significant node of the Irish diaspora, Irish step dance has managed to achieve unusual prominence in a dance landscape that has traditionally been dominated by genres from within the Western concert dance canon. Drawing on both extant literature and ethnographic data, this article examines three threads from the narrative of Irish dance in Australia. First, the general choreographic landscape of the nation is described, showing that the preferences of Australian dance audiences have been shaped to privilege styles that are popular onstage and on-screen, with the resulting marginalization of culturally-specific genera. Second, localized effects of the global contagion instigated by the development of the stage show Riverdance are explored. Here, the domains of aesthetics and decisive marketing strategies are discussed, showing how engagement with Australian audiences was achieved. Finally, the article introduces an idiosyncratic localized influence, the children’s musical group The Wiggles, which was conceived independently but which also promoted interest and enthusiasm for Irish dance in Australia by engaging with young children and presenting propriety of Irish dance as available to all, regardless of cultural ancestry.

scholarly journals How Public is Public Art? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Racial Subtext of Public Monuments at Canada’s Pier 21

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-136
Author(s):  
Patience Adamu ◽  
Deon Castello ◽  
Wendy Cukier
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Canadian Multiculturalism

AbstractMuch of the literature on public space focuses on physical inclusion and exclusion rather than social inclusion or exclusion. In this paper, the implications of this are considered in the context of two monuments, The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles, and The Emigrant, located outside the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These monuments, while perhaps designed to celebrate Canadian multiculturalism, can be read instead as signaling Canada’s enduring commitment to white supremacy, Eurocentricity and colonization, when viewed through the eyes of racialized immigrants. Thus the “public space” becomes exclusionary. In the context in which the monuments are situated, the racial subtext cannot be ignored. This article purports that images, text and placement, regardless of intention, have significant implications on public space and public demeanor.

scholarly journals In Conversation with Fikile Nxumalo: Refiguring Onto-Epistemic Attunements for Im/possible Science Pedagogies

2021 ◽  
pp. 321-330
Author(s):  
Fikile Nxumalo ◽  
Maria F. G. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Indigenous Knowledges ◽  
Educational Spaces

AbstractThis chapter elucidates critical concepts of place in relation to Black-feminist and more-than-human geographies in the context of early childhood education. This conversation helps get at pressing political contexts for science education that are often excluded in white educational spaces. Our conversation with Dr. Nxumalo offers practical starting points for researchers interested in playing with the messy intersections of materiality, settler-colonialism, white supremacy, Indigenous knowledges, and more-than-human kin.

scholarly journals Keywords: Militarism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Emalani Case
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

Using the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime exercises as an example, this keywords entry explores the concept of militarism and seeks to understand ideologies of justified violence in relation to the structure of settler colonialism and the logics of white supremacy. Using three brief reflections from RIMPAC 2020, I examine how militarism sustains, and is sustained by, racial hierarchies and colonial power. I also draw links to the Covid-19 global crisis and the Black Lives Matter movement, demonstrating how the impacts of militarism, like a disease, extend far beyond what are usually identified as militaries, infecting all aspects of society.

scholarly journals Paved Trails and Shampoo Shopping

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Aimee Louw
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Critical Disability Studies ◽  
Mobility Studies

Poetry is a gentle but relentless coach, a lover, personal benchmark, and record for growth. She shifts beliefs, practices, and emotions, tracking pitfalls, steps back, steps around, stillness, like a smooth laketop or slow-streaming river. In this Research-Creation piece, I develop my version of ‘Crip Poetics’ through autoethnographic methods including video poems and hybrid prose-poetry writing. Drawing on Critical Disability Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Mobility Studies, I bring questions of white supremacy and settler colonialism into conversation with accessibility in Canada. I interview Indigenous people with varying relationships to disability and disabled people of multiple settler cultures, using qualitative methods including Hangout as Method (Warren Cariou) and Wheeling Interviews (Laurence Parent). Engaging with interview transcripts as text, to continue conversation and exchange with interviewees, this study offers reflections on interviewing as a method. Reflecting on the limits of participant-action research and representation, I interrogate the role of researchers in marginalized knowledge production, engaging with the limits and possibilities of ‘unsettling research’. I aim to redirect eugenic trends in disability discourse and history towards prioritizing the telling of our own stories. It's my hope that these conversations and the intersections of these struggles are brought to the fore—this selection being one avenue among many to further this work. Dance with me between words and beyond political affiliation.

Negotiating the New Urban Sporting Territory: Policing, Settler Colonialism, and Edmonton’s Ice District

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jay Scherer ◽  
Judy Davidson ◽  
Rylan Kafara ◽  
Jordan Koch
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
City Center ◽  
Spatial Changes ◽  
Crisis Workers

The new urban sporting territory in Edmonton’s city center was constructed within the framework of continued settler colonialism. The main catalyst for this development was sport-related gentrification: a new, publicly financed ice hockey arena for the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers, and a surrounding sport and entertainment district. This two-year ethnography explores this territory, in particular the changing interactions between preexisting, less affluent city-center residents and police, private security, crisis workers, and hockey fans. It reveals how residents navigate the physical and spatial changes to a downtown that are not only structured by revanchism, but by what Rai Reece calls “carceral redlining,” or the continuation of White supremacy through regulation, surveillance, displacement, and dispossession.

Black Internationalism, Anticommunism, and the Prison

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Grant
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
White Settler Colonialism ◽  
Global Language

Chapters 5 and 6 both document how African Americans and black South Africans established the prison as a key site of black international protest in the 1950s. Specifically, chapter 5 examines how anticommunism operated as a global language that was employed to bolster white supremacy and limit black protest. However, this section of the book also demonstrates how black activists responded to their arrest and imprisonment by strategically connected white settler colonialism in southern Africa to racism in America. This resulted in political prisoners on both sides of the Atlantic being configured as icons of resistance, heroic figures through which black international solidarities were launched and maintained.

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