PORTRAITS OF SAHARAWI MUSIC: WHEN CULTURAL PRESERVATION MEETS POLITICAL ACTIVISM

In 2015, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Toronto (QuAIA Toronto) announced that it was retiring. This article examines the challenges of queer solidarity through a reflection on the dynamics between desire, attachment and adaptation in political activism. Tracing the origins and sites of contestation over QuAIA Toronto's participation in the Toronto Pride parade, I ask: what does it mean for a group to fashion its own end? Throughout, I interrogate how gestures of solidarity risk reinforcing the very systems that activists desire to resist. I begin by situating contemporary queer activism in the ideological and temporal frameworks of neoliberalism and homonationalism. Next, I turn to the attempts to ban QuAIA Toronto and the term ‘Israeli apartheid’ from the Pride parade to examine the relationship between nationalism and sexual citizenship. Lastly, I examine how the terms of sexual rights discourse require visible sexual subjects to make individual rights claims, and weighing this risk against political strategy, I highlight how queer solidarities are caught in a paradox symptomatic of our times: neoliberalism has commodified human rights discourses and instrumentalised sexualities to serve the interests of hegemonic power and obfuscate state violence. Thinking through the strategies that worked and failed in QuAIA Toronto's seven years of organising, I frame the paper though a proposal to consider political death as a productive possibility for social movement survival in the 21stcentury.

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Kurdish Political Activism in Turkey: An Overview

10.23976/smep.2014008 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Cengiz Gunes

Keyword(s):

Political Activism

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SOME FACTORS OF COMMUNICATION TOURISM TYPES AFFECT THE TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc ◽

10.25073/0866-773x/395 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Nguyen Duy Dung

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Ethnic Groups ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Cultural Preservation ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Community Tourism ◽

Tourism Activity ◽

Central Highlands ◽

Practical Implications

The Central Highlands is an area with a large community of ethnic minorities to be living. In the process of integration into the world economy, community tourism are one of the economic sectors that are interested in developing in our country in general and the Central Highlands area in particular.Although the activity has not been long, but it can be said that tourism and community tourism are the basis and premise to contribute to the socio-economic development of the Central Highlands; contribute to restoring many traditional cultural values of ethnic groups. For a variety of subjective and objective reasons, tourism activity and community tourism have affected ethnic lifestyles, customs and culture in both positive and limited ways. This is an issue that needs to be considered for research, with practical implications for sustainable tourism activities to create momentum for economic development and cultural preservation of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands area in the period of accelerating industrialization, nationalization and international economic integration.

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BUILDING THE MODEL OF INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY IN CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION OF THE IDENTITY VALUE OF ETHNIC MINORITIES CULTURE IN ETHNIC MINORITY BOARDING GENERAL SCHOOLS, ETHNIC MINORITY SEMI-BOARDING GENERAL SCHOOLS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH LANGUAGE OF ETHNIC MINORITIES

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc ◽

10.25073/0866-773x/300 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ngo Quang Son ◽

Nguyen Thi Phuong

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minority ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Cultural Preservation ◽

Spiritual Values ◽

Linguistic Identity ◽

Modern Life ◽

Urgent Task ◽

Communication Efficiency ◽

History Of

Traditional culture of ethnic minorities is the material and spiritual values that are accumulated and preservedin the whole history of ethnic minority development. In thatcommon cultural flow, every ethnic minorities group in ourcountry has its own characteristics in traditional culture.That identity is expressed firstly in language. Language is animportant element of the ethnic minorities character, therefore,the loss of language is the loss of a great asset, thereby leadingto the erasure of art literature, religious beliefs and the custom,customary law.Therefore, in the context of modern life, preserving andpromoting the cultural and linguistic identity of ethnicminorities is an urgent task. In particular, pay specialattention to the method of cultural preservation through thedevelopment of Information, Education and CommunicationModel in ethnic minorities languages in schools and localcommunities.

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