The Wilding of Cape York Peninsula

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Neale
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Partial Failure ◽  
Hand Part ◽  
Cape York ◽  
The One ◽  
Colonial Encounters

In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed, and through the misadventures and conflicts of inland expeditions it came to be understood as ‘wretched’ country populated with ‘treacherous’ peoples. Surveying subsequent uses of ‘the wild’ in this region, this chapter shows that if, on the one hand, part of the settler project has been to discursively and materially dictate the shape and texture of the region through such forms of wildness – ‘wilderness,’ ‘wild time,’ ‘wild blacks’ and ‘wild whites’ – then, on the other, the contemporary ‘wilderness’ should be understood not only as a product of the resistance and resilience of its Indigenous peoples, but also as the partial failure of this project.

scholarly journals Desecuritization as Displacement of Controversy: geopolitics, law and sovereign rights in the Arctic

Politik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Jacobsen ◽  
Jeppe Strandsbjerg
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
North Pole ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One

By signing the Ilulissat Declaration of May 2008, the five littoral states of the Arctic Ocean pre-emptively desecuritized potential geopolitical controversies in the Arctic Ocean by confirming that international law and geo-science are the defining factors underlying the future delimitation. This happened in response to a rising securitization discourse fueled by commentators and the media in the wake of the 2007 Russian flag planting on the geographical North Pole seabed, which also triggered harder interstate rhetoric and dramatic headlines. This case, however, challenges some established conventions within securitization theory. It was state elites that initiated desecuritization and they did so by shifting issues in danger of being securitized from security to other techniques of government. Contrary to the democratic ethos of the theory, these shifts do not necessarily represent more democratic procedures. Instead, each of these techniques are populated by their own experts and technocrats operating according to logics of right (law) and accuracy (science). While shifting techniques of government might diminish the danger of securitized relations between states, the shift generates a displacement of controversy. Within international law we have seen controversy over its ontological foundations and within science we have seen controversy over standards of science. Each of these are amplified and take a particularly political significance when an issue is securitized via relocation to another technique. While the Ilulissat Declaration has been successful in minimizing the horizontal conflict potential between states it has simultaneously given way for vertical disputes between the signatory states on the one hand and the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic on the other.

scholarly journals The conflict between agribusiness and indigenous peoples of Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 162-180
Author(s):  
M. Megre
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Agricultural Business ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Racial Ethnic

The ongoing conflict between agribusiness and Brazilian indigenous peoples is one of the largest conflicts in contemporary Brazil. It combines territorial dispute with racial, ethnic, and environmental issues. On the one hand, as the Brazilian economy mainly relies on agriculture, agricultural business has consolidated power across the country, strongly supported by the government. On the other hand, indigenous communities have been fighting for decades to have their territory demarcated and to ensure their people‟s security and rights. Apart from unsettled issues between indigenous communities and agribusiness, confrontation is aggravated by social intolerance and the heritage of colonialism. Despite being one of the most violent and widespread conflicts in the country, it is often disregarded and silenced by the Brazilian media, and the Brazilian society is barely aware about it.

scholarly journals CORRELATION OF MENTALITY WITH CULTS AND LIFE-SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMUR-SAKHALIN REGION

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
SERGEY V. BEREZNITSKY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The One ◽  
Global Values ◽  
Cultural Features

The aim of the research is to search for the regularities of the mechanism of functioning of the mentality of the Tungus-Manchus and Paleoasiatics of the Amur-Sakhalin region in relation to their complexes of cults, beliefs, rituals, and life-supporting technologies. The Tungus-Manchu and Paleoasiatics mentality is understood as a way of thinking based on specific worldview archetypes, knowledge, life-supporting technologies, a complex of dominant needs, beliefs, cults, traditions, and values. The system of life activity is considered as a complex of historically formed and constantly evolving cultural, ideological, economic and household components that allow an ethnic group to be preserved and reproduced in a specific geoanthropogenic landscape, creatively develop and improve its basic ethno-cultural features as global values. According to the author, the interaction of the mentality and the system of life activity is a bi-directional process: on the one hand, the mentality determines the ways and forms of life activity, on the other - the elements of culture that form the basis of life activity, make up the patterns, patterns, models and results of thinking that characterize the features of the ethno-cultural mentality of the ethnic community...

scholarly journals Illuminating Details: Reflections on a Practice of Anthropology

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
Noel Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Work First

This revised address for the 2019 Weaver-Tremblay Award revisits some underlying questions about the practice of anthropology that have figured in my own work. First, why might one choose anthropology as a means of intellectual and practical inquiry into social and cultural phenomena? Second, what kinds of anthropological practice can be pursued? Finally, what types of knowledge can be acquired through anthropological approaches, and to what purposes might this knowledge be applied? These questions are considered within the context of two rather different fields of anthropological inquiry I have pursued: relations between Indigenous Peoples and state governments, on the one hand, and the social construction of sport, on the other. As well as sharing some unexpected analytical commonalities, these ostensibly disparate fields speak to the power that resides in illuminating details of the type that anthropologists are particularly adept in recognizing.

Direction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Nordlund
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 is entitled ‘Direction’, with a pun on the theatrical and the spatial senses of the word ‘direction’. The main purpose of the chapter is to mediate between, on the one hand, James Hirsh’s extended argument that Shakespeare’s soliloquies and asides were almost exclusively self-addressed, and, on the other, the modern tendency of scholars, actors, and directors to return Shakespeare to his medieval, audience-addressed roots. The chapter then turns to an extended reading of Launce’s soliloquies in The Two Gentlemen of Verona which explores how their satirical counterpoint to the main plot interrogates the underlying conditions of Shakespeare’s dramatic art.

Plato on Practical Reason and Practical Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. M. Olfert
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normative Structure ◽  
The One

In Chapter 1, I argue that in a number of dialogues, Plato proposes that when we reason about what to do, we are equally and inseparably concerned with two sets of aims or concerns: grasping the truth and gaining knowledge on the one hand, and acting and acting well on the other. That is, from the perspective of practical reasoning, the goals of grasping the truth and gaining knowledge is inseparable from, and equally fundamental as, the goals of acting rationally and well. I argue that this Platonic idea is a plausible and worth examining both on its own terms, and because it has a legacy in Aristotle’s notion of practical truth. As I argue in the remainder of the Book, Aristotle uses his innovative conception of practical truth to formalize and make explicit the dual normative structure of practical reasoning suggested by Plato.

The Death of (a) Cinema

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Nagib
Keyword(s):  
Local Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 focuses on Wim Wenders’s 1982 The State of Things, a watershed film that distils, in programmatic fashion, the idea of cinema’s inherent but unachievable mission to become material reality. The film is located at a significant historical juncture, which marks, on the one hand, the end of the European new waves and new cinemas, and, on the other, Hollywood’s move into a self-styled postmodern era, dominated by selfreflexive remakes. More pointedly, it attempts to theorise, in form and content, this cinematic end of history by means of a mise-en-abyme construction evolving across multiple layers of self-referentiality and self-negation, that exposes it to the contingencies of the local environment and improvisations of the characters/actors.

Hot Souls, Pneumatic Bodies, and Interplanetary Journeys

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Anya P. Foxen
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Medical Theory ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 establishes the origins of harmonial ideas in antiquity, focusing primarily on the Greek and later more broadly Hellenic world, and especially on thought of the Pythagorean, Platonic, Aritotelian, and Stoic traditions, ranging approximately from 500 BCE to 500 CE. It starts by exploring the evolution of cosmological ideas of harmony (harmonia) and sympathy (sympatheia) on the one hand, and spirit (pneuma) and its relationship to notions of the soul (psyche) on the other. It then proceeds to focus on the idea of a subtle body and the two spheres in which its utility has been explored: religious soteriology (or theurgy) and medical theory and practice.

scholarly journals Movilización política indígena contemporánea en Jujuy

Pelícano ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 088
Author(s):  
Agustina Fornero ◽  
Ana Valeria Avalo
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
The Other ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Contemporary Indigenous political mobilization in Jujuy ResumenEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la movilización indígena en Jujuy en el marco de las políticas indigenistas del Estado provincial, a principios del año 2017. Para ello examinamos la Ley 5915 de “Servidumbres Administrativas de Electroducto y Régimen Especial de Constitución y Servidumbres Administrativas para el desarrollo de proyectos de generación de energía eléctrica a partir de fuentes renovables sobre inmuebles de propiedad comunitaria”, en tanto política indigenista del Estado jujeño; y retomamos la mirada crítica del dirigente indígena y antropólogo omawakeño Gustavo Gabriel Ontiveros, miembro de la Asamblea de Comunidades Libres de Jujuy.Para ello, recuperamos las categorías teóricas de indigenismo latinoamericano (Colombres, 1975; Bonfil Batalla, 1981; Favre, 1998 y Díaz Polanco, 2009) y de colonialismo interno (Rivera Cusicanqui, 2010). Utilizamos como fuente principal una exposición realizada por Ontiveros en el marco de la “Semana del aborigen 2017: fortaleciendo en Córdoba la resistencia indígena, negra y popular”, organizado por el Instituto de Culturas Aborígenes (ICA), donde expone el conflicto entre las comunidades y el gobierno provincial, relata la movilización indígena realizada en contra de la Ley 5915 y refiere a los principales reclamos de los pueblos indígenas en Jujuy.AbstractThis paper aims to analyze the indigenous mobilization in Jujuy within the framework of the indigenous policies of the provincial state at the beginning of the year 2017. On the one hand we analyzed the Law of "Administrative servitudes of busway and special regime of constitution and administrative servitudes for the development of projects of generation of electrical energy from renewable sources on community-owned properties" as Indigenist policy of the Jujuy state. And on the other we retake the criticism of the indigenous leader and anthropologist Omawakeño Gustavo Gabriel Ontiveros, member of the Assembly of Communities Free from Jujuy.In this way, we recovered the theoretical categories of Latin American indigenism (Colombes, 1975; Bonfil Battle, 1981; Favre, 1998 and Díaz Polanco, 2009) and internal colonialism (Rivera Cusicanqui, 2010). We use as main source an exhibition carried out by Ontiveros in the framework of the "Aboriginal Week 2017: strengthening in Córdoba the indigenous resistance, black and popular", organized by the Institute of Aborigine Cultures (ICA). Where it exposes the conflict between the communities and the provincial government, it recounts the indigenous mobilization carried out against the law 5915 and refers to the main claims of the indigenous peoples in Jujuy.Key words: indigenous struggle, indigenism, colonialism, Jujuy

scholarly journals The ‘New Jungle Law’: Development, Indigenous Rights and ILO Convention 169 in Latin America (2016, PolDev)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bille Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The Other ◽  
Democratic Change ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Persistent Poverty ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between indigenous rights, international standards, and development in Latin America with a specific focus on ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples and its application in the region. Whereas, on the one hand, democratic change, constitutional reforms and the recognition of indigenous peoples signal the emergence of a new rights era, on the other hand, deep-running inequalities, persistent poverty and development conflicts reveal structural tensions and the ambiguities of recognition. While such ambiguity is often explained as a consequence of poor implementation and compromised rights standards, this article analyses trends in both orthodox and heterodox polities as well as in the international arena in order to draw further attention to how rights regimes are being renegotiated. Rights under this ‘new jungle law’ are no longer characterised by neglect and poor implementation, but through reappropriation, strategic attention and regulatory negotiations, revealing a sliding scale of potentialities between empowerment and normalisation.

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