Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Kim TallBear
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The World ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
First World

This essay is voiced by “IZ,” a character personifying the evolving field of “Native American” or “Indigenous” studies in the United States. IZ was introduced to readers in Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s edited volume Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations 2016, in which Moreton-Robinson wrote: “Twenty years into this century, Indigenous-centered approaches to knowledge production are thriving” and our “object of study is colonizing power in its multiple forms, whether the gaze is on Indigenous issues or on Western knowledge production.” Today, “critical Indigenous studies” represents a coming together of multiple national engagements by Indigenous scholars and sovereignty movements with universities around the world. In this essay, IZ’s object of study and critical polydisciplinamorous Indigenous engagement is a scientist searching for signs of “intelligent” life off-Earth.

scholarly journals Transnationalism as a Decolonizing Strategy? ‘Trans-Indigenism’ and Native American Food Sovereignty

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (s1) ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Paradigms ◽  
Nation States ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Indigenous Methods

Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze how Indigenous communities in the United States have been engaging in trans-Indigenous cooperation in their struggle for food sovereignty. I will look at inter-tribal conferences regarding food sovereignty and farming, and specifically at the discourse of the Indigenous Farming Conference held in Maplelag at the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. I will show how it: (1) creates a space for Indigenous knowledge production and validation, using Indigenous methods (e.g., storytelling), without the need to adhere to Western scientific paradigms; (2) recovers pre-colonial maps and routes distorted by the formation of nation states; and (3) fosters novel sites for trans-indigenous cooperation and approaches to law, helping create a common front in the fight with neoliberal agribusiness and government. In my analysis, I will use Chadwick Allen’s (2014) concept of ‘trans-indigenism’ to demonstrate how decolonizing strategies are used by the Native American food sovereignty movement to achieve their goals.

Lawsuits, not regulation, will shape US fracking

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Chemical Content ◽  
To Come ◽  
Fracking Fluid ◽  
Federal Rule

Subject The implications of new regulations on fracking. Significance The Department of the Interior on March 20 unveiled the first comprehensive federal rule to cover hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') operations on federally-owned and Native American lands. The rule adjusts construction standards to protect water resources and requires companies to disclose the chemical content of fracking fluid, as well as to give advance public notice of fracking activity. Impacts The United States may provide the template for shale regulations in other parts of the world. Water scarcity will lead to additional public policy constraints on fracking. The California drought will imperil the viability of the Monterey shale basin for years to come.

scholarly journals “One Side Celebrates and the Other Side is Grieving”

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
Noorie K Brantmeier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Native American ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Undergraduate College Students ◽  
Students Attitudes

Currently, few studies examine the learning and unlearning that takes place in Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) courses with non-Native and predominately white undergraduate college students in the United States (US). Due to the unique history, political status, Native nationhood, and sovereignty of the United States’ Indigenous Americans, there are unique issues associated with Native American studies content that differs from other diversity-focused courses. For many US-based college students, the opportunity to openly explore the historical and contemporary experiences of groups that are culturally and linguistically different from their own home culture often occurs when taking college courses (Chang 2002). The purpose of the current study was to understand how taking NAIS courses influences undergraduate college students’ attitudes towards Indigenous people, their history, and contemporary experiences. This qualitative analysis focuses on NAIS courses as the site of inquiry and is part of a larger mixed methods research study.

The Constitution and the Tasks Ahead

1955 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles McKinley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
First World War ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
World War ◽  
Italian Fascism ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
First World ◽  
Changing Society

A resurgent conservatism rules the day in the United States not only in public affairs but also in political speculation. Frightened by the uneasy ghost of the barbarism that was embodied in German Nazism and Italian Fascism and by the spread of Russian-spawned totalitarianism, political speculation in this and other democratic countries now shrinks from the hazard inherent in a rationalistic effort to remold the world of public affairs. Inquiry turns to the adoration of our inheritance, to the discovery of neglected or undervalued virtues in the institutions as molded by our forebears, and to the wise prevision which they, in simpler crisis times, expressed in their statesmanship.My own fundamental orientation toward government developed in the “progressive” decade before mankind's applecart was sharply tilted, if not completely upset, by the First World War. It rested upon an act of preference for a democratic, freely thinking, and freely associating society. It therefore shared something of the “divine discontent” felt by all political innovators, to whom the wisdom of the ancestors always has seemed incomplete and often inadequate to meet the demands of a constantly changing society.

scholarly journals Between Jihad and Salaam

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-124
Author(s):  
Jamaluddin Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
National Public Radio ◽  
International Media ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
The World ◽  
First World ◽  
Technical Terms

Today, politicians and political activists of every stripe recognize the powerof the international media. From the most gilded generalissimo to the grulrbiest guerrilla, there are few who would pass up a chance to plead their caseon the world stage. This has given foreign correspondents, particularlythose from first world countries like the United States, easy access tomovers and shakers across the globe. Unfortunately, understanding doesnot always come with access.Nowhere has this lack of understanding been more pervasive- or morepernicious - than among those reporters covering the Islamic world. JoyceM. Davis, deputy foreign editor for Knight Ridder newspapers and formerdeputy senior editor at National Public Radio, sets out to remedy this prolrlem in her book, Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam. Throughinterviews with 17 "Islamic leaders," Davis endeavors "to help us understandthe intellectual vitality that is now igniting the Muslim world."However, like too many of her colleagues, the author quickly becomes lostin the surface realities of that world. In the end, her book does little to challengethe stereotypes and misconceptions she promises to shatter.Davis begins the book with an introduction that outlines her missionwhile revealing the limits of her own understanding. While she deftly dispelssome of the more blatant misunderstandings about Islam, she alsothrows around technical terms like "lslamists" and "scholars" without ...

scholarly journals Rogers Act 1924: establishment of a professional USA Foreign Service

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Tetiana Klynina
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
First World War ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
World War ◽  
Foreign Service ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
First World ◽  
Selection Of

The article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of the legal framework that made possible the existence and functioning of the US foreign service. The purpose of the article is to clarify the preface and the course of formation of the professional foreign service of the United States, which was reflected in the adoption of the Rogers Act. The methodological basis of the study. The study was based on the principle of historicism, which contributed to the consideration of the phenomenon under study in its development and made it possible to identify periods in the formation of a professional diplomatic service. The use of the problem-chronological method contributed to the preservation of the historical heredity and integrity of the picture; the application of the comparative method made it possible to identify significant changes that occurred after the adoption of Rogers’ Law, which was considered through the use of the method of analysis. A historiographical description of the main scientific works devoted to the research topic is given. Analyzed works A. Evans, T. Lay, I. Stewart etc., which became the basis for the study. The scientific novelty lies in the systematization of ideas about qualitative and quantitative changes in the diplomatic service after the adoption of the relevant law. The author concludes that before the adoption of the Rogers Act there was no control over the selection of diplomatic and consular staff and the negative consequences of such a decision were especially evident during the First World War. Therefore, the historical conditions in which America found itself at that time became a challenge for the continued existence of the consular and diplomatic services, and therefore the issue of restructuring and modernization of these services in the United States and its transfer to another, qualitatively new level. In general, the author emphasizes the change in the status of foreign service, which was introduced by relevant legislation, namely the Rogers Act, the need for which was caused by certain historical conditions of the American state and its place on the world stage. Prior to the enactment of the Diplomatic Service Act, there was virtually no control over the selection of diplomatic and consular personnel representing the United States on the world stage. After the First World War, it became clear that the diplomatic service needed to be restructured. That is why Rogers’ law was passed, which, in fact, was the first legislative attempt to resolve this issue.

Making Settler Colonialism Visible in Sport Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Chen ◽  
Daniel S. Mason
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sport Management ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Nation States

This study discusses how an epistemological shift—explicitly acknowledging the embedded position of the sport management field in settler colonial societies and its effect on knowledge production therein—is necessary for the field to mobilize social change that problematizes and challenges ongoing settler colonialism. Reviewing previous research examining social change in sport management, the authors then argue that settler colonialism, a condition that underlies some nation-states that produce leading sport management knowledge—the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—should no longer remain invisible in our research. Drawing upon Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, and sport-related work from other social science disciplines, the authors contextualize the position of non-Indigenous scholars and then address three questions that highlight the relevance of settler colonialism to sport management research. They conclude with a discussion on possible ways in which settler colonialism can be visibilized and thus challenged by non-Indigenous scholars.

scholarly journals Time and the Bibliographer: A Meditation on the Spirit of Book Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-206
Author(s):  
Matt Cohen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Native People ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Studies

In light of the global return of tribalism, racism, nationalism, and religious hypocrisy to power’s center stage, it is worth returning to the question of the relevance of bibliography. It is a time when, at least at the seats of power in the United States and some other places, books seem to have become almost meaningless. Bibliographic pioneer D.F. McKenzie’s strategy was not to constrain bibliography in self-defense, but to expand it, to go on the offense. What is our course? This essay explores bibliography’s past in order to suggest ways in which it can gain from an engagement with the methods and motivating concerns of Indigenous studies. The study of books has often functioned within a colonialist set of assumptions about its means and its ends, but at the same time, having been at times in something of a marginalized position themselves in their professions, its practitioners have developed unique tools, passions, and intellectual focuses with decolonial potential. That unusual “spirit”, in dialogue with Native people and Indigenous ideas — about media, about what constitutes a “process”, and about the historical and political meanings of recorded forms — may be key to transforming the imagination of the study of books and to enriching its place in the world.

Reconquest and Crusade in Spain

1987 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 31-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Growth ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Medical Imagery ◽  
The World

In the summer of 1898 the entire Spanish fleet was destroyed in two successive engagements with the navy of the United States: the most comprehensive, catastrophic and humiliating naval defeats of modern history. Not only did these reverses shear Spain of the last shreds of transatlantic empire: they also inflicted a severe psychological blow to the Spanish nation at large. Already a stranger to most of the invigorating developments in economic, cultural and political life which had transformed western Europe in the course of the nineteenth century, Spain found that her backwardness and feebleness had now been devastatingly exposed to the gaze of the world. Spain had become a laughing-stock among the nations. What had gone wrong? The ‘Generation of ‘98’ was the name given to the group of intellectuals and public men who set themselves to ponder this question. They conceived of their task in large terms. It was not just a matter of diagnosing and treating present and local sickness—to employ the medical imagery of which they were so fond—but of taking account of the whole organism which was so visibly ailing; and this involved examining its early growth. An historical dimension was built into their deliberations from the outset. It is for this reason that 1898 is a significant date for the historian of medieval Spain.

Standing Rock Unites International Protesters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Hailey Hahn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World

This chapter examines the involvement of youth members of the Lakota Sioux’s organization and promotion of the Standing Rock protest of 2017 through new and social media. This protest against the expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) brought together many Native American communities as well as their supporters from within the United States and around the world. This chapter focuses on the ways that international herding communities, including representatives of Sámi and Bedouin communities, joined and supported the Standing Rock protests. It also examines activities prompted by herding activists who took part in the DAPL protests.

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