scholarly journals Resistance and the Sacred: An Approach to the Various Meanings of the “Right to the Sacred” in Mexico Today

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-235
Author(s):  
Silvana Rabinovici
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
The Right

Abstract This article analyses a certain philosophical (ethical and political) interpretation of “the sacred” as brought up by native world views of indigenous peoples in the American continent from a decolonial approach. Translation is used as resistance that resounds in the social-environmental struggles in our continent nowadays, particularly in Mexico. The appropriation of the term “sacred” by native peoples reveals the colonial political theory of the State. By challenging consumerism and ecological destruction, the translation of the indigenous concept of ‟sacred” into an ecological conception of intrinsic link between people and “nature” enables a dialogue between those cultures and the warning of modern science about global warming and the over-exploitation of the earth’s resources.

The World Is Not Enough: A Political Dark Ecology

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The Social ◽  
Space Action ◽  
The Right ◽  
Dark Ecology

Timothy Morton’s dark ecology is positioned as an aesthetic and ethical study which is far removed from political theory. Although Morton touches upon actual political crises connected with global warming and on climate change skepticism and also deploys such fundamental concepts of political philosophy as territory, space, action and solidarity, he describes his approach as ontological rather than political. The author finds that dark ecology’s own foundations have been inherited from political theory. However, that does not make it inconsistent; on the contrary, under the right conditions it enables a different apprehension of both ecology and political philosophy. The author asks how politics would proceed in a world of uncertainty and proposes viewing Morton’s theory as a treatise on a political theory that addresses the problem of collective action. This is the main concept of any political philosophy out of which its description of the social order is constructed. Dark ecology denies any possibility of action by emphasizing uncertainty and the impossibility of predicting an action’s consequences, and this opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing action. It is precisely uncertainty that permits segregating action from the guilt that motivated Morton to divorce dark ecology from political philosophy. This is a narrative about the transformation of Morton the emancipator into a law-giver, about how political theory has evolved in parallel with the onset of the Anthropocene, about what will happen to the Leviathan in the age of global warming, and how to change the perception of the political from ontological categories to ethical ones.

scholarly journals Indigenous Education and Human Rights

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Schimmel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Majority Culture ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
The Right

AbstractThe right to an education that is consonant with and draws upon the culture and language of indigenous peoples is a human right which is too often overlooked by governments when they develop and implement programmes whose purported goals are to improve the social, economic and political status of these peoples. Educational programmes for indigenous peoples must fully respect and integrate human rights protections, particularly rights to cultural continuity and integrity. Racist attitudes dominate many government development programmes aimed at indigenous peoples. Educational programmes for indigenous peoples are often designed to forcibly assimilate them and destroy the uniqueness of their language, values, culture and relationship with their native lands. Until indigenous peoples are empowered to develop educational programmes for their own communities that reflect and promote their values and culture, their human rights are likely to remain threatened by governments that use education as a political mechanism for coercing indigenous peoples to adapt to a majority culture that does not recognize their rights, and that seeks to destroy their ability to sustain and pass on to future generations their language and culture.

scholarly journals Índice de Vulnerabilidade Socioambiental na Área da Gleba “C” da Universidade Federal do Pará, no Município de Belém

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 2322-2337
Author(s):  
Maria Carolina Chaves de Sousa ◽  
Peter Mann de Toledo ◽  
Filipe Gomes Dias
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Vulnerability ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Right

At the beginning of the 20th century, urbanization and occupation of privileged spaces at the expense of “lowland” spaces and close to a floodplain. The “lowlands” were occupied by a population, mostly with socioeconomic needs, forming housing groups susceptible to flooding and flooding. To bring the recognition of rights to these occupants, a land regularization work was carried out by the Federal University of Pará - UFPA, together with public entities from the State and the Union. The article aims to present and compare the degree of socio-environmental vulnerability in the area of land C of UFPA in the municipality of Belém, object of land regularization activity, applying indicators and indices related to social, economic, legal and environmental issues. The results show that the degree of vulnerability is high in the years surveyed, concluding that the legal regularization work carried out in the area was only patrimonial, in order to transfer responsibilities for land use to the beneficiary residents and the recognition of the right of that title by law. . Effective land regularization work should involve a set of bodies responsible for the social, environmental, urban and land areas so that, in a concatenated and long-term manner, the work carried out is carried out so that the results are captured by the indicators and that the data decrease the degree of socio-environmental vulnerability in the studied area.

Eugenics and Progressive Thought: a Study in Ideological Affinity

1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeden
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Minor

The issues raised by eugenics are of more than passing interest for the student of political thought. In itself a minor offshoot of turn-of-the-century socio-biological thought which never achieved ideological ‘take-off’ in terms of influence or circulation, there was certainly more in eugenics than nowadays meets the eye. The following pages propose to depart from the over-simplistic identification of eugenics, as political theory, with racism or ultra-conservatism and to offer instead two alternative modes of interpretation. On the one hand, eugenics will be portrayed as an exploratory avenue of the social-reformist tendencies of early-twentieth-century British political thought. On the other, it will serve as a case-study illustrating the complexity and overlapping which characterize most modern ideologies. While recognizing, of course, the appeal of eugenics for the ‘right’, a central question pervading the forthcoming analysis will be the attraction it had for progressives of liberal and socialist persuasions, with the ultimate aim of discovering the fundamental affinities the ‘left’ had, and may still have, with this type of thinking.

scholarly journals Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and the Role of Social Workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Suradi Suradi ◽  
Soni Akmad Nulhaqim ◽  
Nandang Mulyana ◽  
Edi Suharto
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
The Right

Indigenous peoples were placed as second-class citizens, that have fallen behind in all aspects of life than any other citizen. In fact, indigenous people in any country has gained international legal protection through 'the United Nations Declaration the Right of Indigenous People' since 2007. In the entity, within the indigenous peoples, including women and children. The form of response to the declaration, each country develop policies in the form of regulation and followed by action programs targeting indigenous peoples. It has been over 10 years of the declaration proclaimed, but the indigenous peoples still face a lot of problems in the social, cultural, economic, political, legal, land and natural resources; not even the women and their children. This situation requires the presence of a social work profession, in which the role of professional help to acquire rights, improve the quality of life and well-being of indigenous peoples. Keywords: indigenous peoples, poverty, social worker.

Indigenous Peoples, Identity, and Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Guevara Gil
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Original Intent ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Subjects

This chapter documents the social life of the right to free, prior, and informed consultation in Latin America. Challenging the original intent of the signatories of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (1989), Indigenous peoples, subaltern communities, and their advocates—a tacit coalition of activists, scholars, judges, legislators, and diplomats—work at the intersection of law and anthropology to redefine and substantiate the right to consultation. Two movements characterize this endeavour. First, the right is being broadened, significantly expanding the legal subjects able to claim its enforcement. Second, consultation is being upgraded from a soft to a solid right, deepening it, so to speak, as a way of overcoming the procedural trap that reduces consultations to rituals of domination. Interestingly, corporations and multilateral banks are acknowledging this decolonizing reinterpretation of the right to free, prior, and informed consultation. While its full-blown implementation as an expression of the right of Indigenous self-determination is still utopian, both broadening and deepening the right to consultation empower Indigenous and subaltern communities in their daily struggles against extractivism and developmentalism.

scholarly journals O PRINCÍPIO DO PLURALISMO DE IDEIAS E DE CONCEPÇÕES PEDAGÓGICAS E O DIREITO À EDUCAÇÃO INTERCULTURAL INDÍGENA NO BRASIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (55) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Luciano Mariz MAIA ◽  
Maria Creusa de Araújo BORGES ◽  
Antonio Eudes Nunes da COSTA FILHO
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Full Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

RESUMO A Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988 (CRFB, 1988) reconhece, no art. 205, a educação como um direito de todos, um dever do Estado e a necessária colaboração da sociedade para a promoção de uma formação educacional que objetive o desenvolvimento pleno da pessoa, seu preparo para o exercício da cidadania e a qualificação profissional.  Contudo, não traz qualquer menção manifesta sobre a necessidade de uma educação baseada na especificidade da cultura dos povos tradicionais, não obstante a Constituição reconhecer a organização social, costumes, línguas e tradições dos indígenas (CRFB, 1988, art. 231). Nesse contexto, o artigo problematiza a seguinte questão: há um direito constitucional à educação intercultural indígena? Parte-se do pressuposto que, com fundamento no princípio do pluralismo de ideias e de concepções pedagógicas, inscrito no art. 206, III (CRFB, 1988), artigo referente aos princípios norteadores do ensino, o constituinte incorporou, no elenco dos direitos reconhecidos pela Constituição, o direito à educação intercultural. A pesquisa utiliza o método de abordagem dedutivo, com aporte na análise bibliográfica e na jurisprudência aplicável ao tema. Conclui-se que a problemática da educação intercultural indígena não está na aparente ausência de normatividade constitucional, mas, sim, na efetividade do direito fundamental à educação que é amparado pela Constituição brasileira de 1988. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Constituição; Educação Intercultural; Indígena; Pluralismo; Etnoeducação. ABSTRACTThe Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil of 1988 (CRFB, 1988) recognizes, in art. 205, the education as a right of all, a duty of the State and the necessary collaboration of society for the promotion of educational training orientate at the full development of the person, his preparation for the exercise of citizenship and professional qualification. However, it makes no clear mention of the need for an education based on the specificity of the culture of traditional peoples, although the Constitution recognizes the social organization, customs, languages and traditions of indigenous peoples (CRFB, 1988, art 231). In this context, the article reflects on the question: Is there a constitutional right to indigenous intercultural education? It is based on the hypothesis that, based on the principle of pluralism of ideas and pedagogical conceptions, inscribed in art. 206, III (CRFB, 1988), article on the guiding principles of education, the constituent incorporated, in the list of rights recognized by the Constitution, the right to intercultural education. The research uses the method of deductive approach, with contribution in the bibliographical analysis and the jurisprudence applicable to the subject. It is concluded that the problem of indigenous intercultural education is not in the apparent absence of constitutional normativity, but in the effectiveness of the fundamental right to education that is adopted by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988.KEYWORDS: Constitution; Intercultural Education; Indigenous; Pluralism; Ethnoeducation. 

Adopting a Rights-based Approach to Non-communicable Diseases among Indigenous Peoples in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-155
Author(s):  
Ebenezer Durojaye ◽  
Mariam Wallet Med Aboubakrine
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Communicable Diseases ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Non Communicable Diseases ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rising Incidence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Human Rights Standards

This article examines non-communicable diseases (ncds) as a challenge among indigenous population in Africa. From a rights-based perspective, the article considers some of the social determinants of health and other challenges that can aggravate ncds among indigenous groups in Africa. It further examines the recognition of the right to health of indigenous populations under international law. This is followed by a discussion on some of the barriers to addressing ncds among indigenous peoples in the region. It concludes by urging African governments to be more proactive in adopting measures grounded in human rights standards to address the rising incidence of ncds among indigenous peoples in the region.

The Interplay of Russian Law, Indigenous People and the Oil and Gas Industry – A Need for Non-Governmental Regulation?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Minna Pappila
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Certification System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Production Areas

This article scrutinizes how Russian legislation considers the rights of the indigenous peoples living in Russian oil production areas, and if there is a need for non-governmental certification standards in Russia. To do this, the Russian legislation has been compared with certain requirements of a new EO100TM Standard which seeks to regulate the social and environmental aspects of the oil and gas industry. The results of the study reveal that there are many aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights, such as access to information, possibilities for free, prior and informed consent, and the right to pursue traditional livelihoods, that Russian legislation does not adequately address. Since quick improvements in Russian legislation are unlikely, the use of an oil and gas certification system could help to improve the current situation in areas where the law does not safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples.

Does Ethical Theory Have a Future in Bioethics?

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Beauchamp
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Stable Marriage ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
Practical Field

The last twenty-five years of published literature and curriculum development in bioethics suggest that the field enjoys a successful and stable marriage to philosophical ethical theory. However, the next twenty-five years could be very different. I believe the marriage is troubled. Divorce is conceivable and perhaps likely. The most philosophical parts of bioethics may retreat to philosophy departments, while bioethics continues on its current course toward a more interdisciplinary and practical field.I make no presumption that bioethics is integrally linked to philosophical ethical theory. Indeed, I assume that the connection is contingent and fragile. Many individuals in law, theological ethics, political theory, the social and behavioral sciences, and the health professions carefully address mainstream issues of bioethics without finding ethical theory essential or breathtakingly attractive. This is not surprising. Moral philosophers have traditionally formulated theories of the right, the good, and the virtuous in the most general terms.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document