scholarly journals Wounaan Storying as Intervention: Storywork in the Crafting of a Multimodal Illustrated Story Book on People and Birds

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Rito Ismare Peña ◽  
Chenier Carpio Opua ◽  
Doris Cheucarama Membache ◽  
Frankie Grin ◽  
Dorindo Membora Peña ◽  
...  

A growing body of scholarship addresses what Indigenous peoples have always known: stories are critically important to who we are and how to be in the world. For Wounaan, an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, ancestors’ stories are no longer frequently told. As part of the Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam (National Wounaan Congress) and Foundation for the Development of Wounaan People’s project on bird guiding, birds and culture, and forest restoration in Panama, we leveraged the publication requirement as political intervention and anticolonial practice in storying worlds. This article is the story of our storying, the telling and crafting of an illustrated story book that honors Wounaan convivial lifeworlds, Wounaan chain döhigaau nemchaain hoo wënʌʌrrajim/Los niños wounaan, en sus aventuras vieron muchas aves/The Adventures of Wounaan Children and Many Birds. Here, we have used video conference minutes and recordings, voice and text messages, emails, recollections, and a conference co-presentation to show stories as Indigenous method and reality, as epistemological and ontological. We use a narrative form to weave together our collaborative process and polish the many storying decisions on relationality, time, egalitarianism, movement, rivers, embodiment, and verbal poetics through an everyday adventure of siblings and birds. Available as a multimodal illustrated story book in digital audio and print, we conclude by advocating for new media to further storying Indigenous lifeworlds.

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Xiang

As media technology advances, and with increasingly rapid development, there has been an unprecedented growth in the number of new media platforms emerging in China—and throughout the world—that are changing the procedures of how news is assembled and disseminated by effectively and efficiently adopting user-generated content that has injected new blood into the very nature of journalism. While essentially this is encouraging the productive use of social media platforms, it is also having an impact on users, transforming vast numbers into what are now recognized as “netizen journalists.” This leads us to inquire just how the journalistic outputs of short video platforms of such media outfits like Pear Video and Kwai are framed and also to explore how the roles of the “ordinary” users of such platforms are now defined by their participation in the actual production of news and information. This research aims to contribute to the many discussions on the above questions based on the journalistic study on three different news platforms: Xinhua News Agency’ as adopted and adapted content from Kwai, Kwai Insight, and Pear Video.


Author(s):  
Priscilla A. Day

Indigenous people across the globe are struggling for the cultural survival of their families and communities. This article provides an overview of indigenous people across the world and some of the many challenges they face to keep their cultures alive and strong. Indigenous peoples live throughout the world and share many common characteristics, which are described in detail in the article. Historical and contemporary challenges affecting cultural survival are provided, including accounts of the history of colonization and some of its lasting impacts on indigenous people and their cultures. Bolivia is highlighted as a country that has embraced the “living well” concept. The article closes by encouraging people to learn about and become allies with indigenous people because, ultimately, we are all impacted by the same threats.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Claudemira Vieira Gusmão LOPES

RESUMONesta entrevista o mestre e professor Jayro Pereira de Jesus afirma que os negros e indígenas foram atravessados por um processo de enviesamento perpetrado pelo colonialismo. Dentre tantos prejuízos que o projeto colonial nos causou, ressalta a dualidade incrustrada dentro de cada um de nós.  Desfazer e descolonizar nosso pensamento requer o exercício de outro projeto de escola, no qual a noção de ancestralidade é fundamental para promover a unidade de negros e negras na diáspora. Afirma também não podemos mais viver de concessões, caso da Lei 10.639. Precisamos de um projeto de educação afropedagógico e afrocentrado que trabalhe a concepção ancestrálica da filosofia africana como edificadora de outra comportamentalidade existencial capaz de uma reontologização. Essa noção de ancestralidade precisa ser retomada a partir do ubuntu, Filosofia Africana fundamentada no “nós”, filosofia e epistemologia que entende a comunidade a partir dos vivos, dos ancestrais e a dos ainda não nascidos. Educação. Filosofia africana. Racismo.ABSTRACTIn this interview professor and master Jayro Pereira de Jesus states that black and indigenous peoples were crossed by a bias process perpetrated by colonialism. Among the many losses to which the colonial project has subjected us, it highlights the inlaid duality within each and every one of us. Undoing and decolonizing our thinking requires the exercise of putting into practice another school project, in which the notion of ancestry, as it is the element that organizes interiorities and the way of perceiving and being in the world of the African people kidnapped from Africa regardless of ethnicity, it is essential to promote the unity of black men and women in the diaspora. He also emphasizes that we can no longer live on concessions, such as Law 10.639. We need an Afropedagogical and Afrocentric education project that works with the ancestral conception of African philosophy as the builder of another existential behavioralism capable of a reontologization. This notion of ancestry needs to be taken up from Ubuntu, African Philosophy based on “us”, philosophy, and epistemology that perceives the community that of the living, that of the ancestors, and that of the not yet born.Afrocentred Education. African Philosophy. Ancestrality and Epistemic RacismRESUMENEn esta entrevista, el maestro y profesor Jayro Pereira de Jesús afirma que negros e indígenas fueron atravesados por un proceso de prejuicio perpetrado por el colonialismo. Entre tantas pérdidas que nos causó el proyecto colonial, destaca la dualidad incrustada dentro de cada uno de nosotros. Deshacer y descolonizar nuestro pensamiento requiere el ejercicio de otro proyecto escolar, en el que la noción de ascendencia es fundamental para promover la unidad de hombres y mujeres negros en la diáspora. También establece que ya no podemos vivir de concesiones, como en la Ley 10.639. Necesitamos un proyecto educativo afropedagógico y afrocéntrico que trabaje con la concepción ancestral de la filosofía africana como constructora de otro conductismo existencial capaz de reetología. Esta noción de ascendencia debe ser retomada de ubuntu, Filosofía africana basada en el “nosotros”, filosofía y epistemología que entiende la comunidad desde los vivos, los ancestros y la de los no nacidos.Educación. Filosofía africana. Racismo.SOMMARIOIn questa intervista, il maestro e professore Jayro Pereira de Jesus afferma che i neri e gli indigeni sono stati attraversati da un processo di pregiudizi perpetrato dal colonialismo. Tra le tante perdite che il progetto coloniale ci ha causato, mette in luce la dualità intarsiata dentro ognuno di noi. Annullare e decolonizzare il nostro pensiero richiede l'esercizio di un altro progetto scolastico, in cui la nozione di ascendenza è fondamentale per promuovere l'unità degli uomini e delle donne di colore nella diaspora. Si afferma inoltre che non possiamo più vivere di concessioni, come nella Legge 10.639. Abbiamo bisogno di un progetto educativo afropedagogico e afrocentrico che lavori con la concezione ancestrale della filosofia africana come costruttore di un altro comportamentismo esistenziale capace di reetologia. Questa nozione di ascendenza deve essere ripresa da ubuntu, la filosofia africana basata su "noi", filosofia ed epistemologia che comprende la comunità dai vivi, dagli antenati e da quella dei nascituri.Istruzione. Filosofia africana. Razzismo.


2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Deborah Solomon

This essay draws attention to the surprising lack of scholarship on the staging of garden scenes in Shakespeare's oeuvre. In particular, it explores how garden scenes promote collaborative acts of audience agency and present new renditions of the familiar early modern contrast between the public and the private. Too often the mention of Shakespeare's gardens calls to mind literal rather than literary interpretations: the work of garden enthusiasts like Henry Ellacombe, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, and Caroline Spurgeon, who present their copious gatherings of plant and flower references as proof that Shakespeare was a garden lover, or the many “Shakespeare Gardens” around the world, bringing to life such lists of plant references. This essay instead seeks to locate Shakespeare's garden imagery within a literary tradition more complex than these literalizations of Shakespeare's “flowers” would suggest. To stage a garden during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries signified much more than a personal affinity for the green world; it served as a way of engaging time-honored literary comparisons between poetic forms, methods of audience interaction, and types of media. Through its metaphoric evocation of the commonplace tradition, in which flowers double as textual cuttings to be picked, revised, judged, and displayed, the staged garden offered a way to dramatize the tensions produced by creative practices involving collaborative composition and audience agency.


Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter

Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Conrad and Welles, they embodied the hybridity of writing or the images of film; for al-Hakim and Mahfouz, the persistence of links between ancient Pharaonic civilisation and a newly independent Egypt. For Joyce, hieroglyphs symbolised the origin point for the world’s cultures and nations; for Pynchon, the connection between digital code and the novel. In their modernist interpretations and applications, hieroglyphs bring together writing and new media technologies, language and the material world, and all the nations and languages of the globe....


Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter

The first chapter of Hieroglyphic Modernisms exposes the complex history of Western misconceptions of Egyptian writing from antiquity to the present. Hieroglyphs bridge the gap between modern technologies and the ancient past, looking forward to the rise of new media and backward to the dispersal of languages in the mythical moment of the Tower of Babel. The contradictory ways in which hieroglyphs were interpreted in the West come to shape the differing ways that modernist writers and filmmakers understood the relationship between writing, film, and other new media. On the one hand, poets like Ezra Pound and film theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Sergei Eisenstein use the visual languages of China and of Egypt as a more primal or direct alternative to written words. But Freud, Proust, and the later Eisenstein conversely emphasize the phonetic qualities of Egyptian writing, its similarity to alphabetical scripts. The chapter concludes by arguing that even avant-garde invocations of hieroglyphics depend on narrative form through an examination of Hollis Frampton’s experimental film Zorns Lemma.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alwi Musa Muzaiyin

Trade is a form of business that is run by many people around the world, ranging from trading various kinds of daily necessities or primary needs, to selling the need for luxury goods for human satisfaction. For that, to overcome the many needs of life, they try to outsmart them buy products that are useful, economical and efficient. One of the markets they aim at is the second-hand market or the so-called trashy market. As for a trader at a trashy market, they aim to sell in the used goods market with a variety of reasons. These reasons include; first, because it is indeed to fulfill their needs. Second, the capital needed to trade at trashy markets is much smaller than opening a business where the products come from new goods. Third, used goods are easily available and easily sold to buyer. Here the researcher will discuss the behavior of Muslim traders in a review of Islamic business ethics (the case in the Jagalan Kediri Trashy Market). Kediri Jagalan Trashy Market is central to the sale of used goods in the city of Kediri. Where every day there are more than 300 used merchants who trade in the market. The focus of this research is how the behavior of Muslim traders in the Jagalan Kediri Trashy Market in general. Then, from the large number of traders, of course not all traders have behavior in accordance with Islamic business ethics, as well as traders who are in accordance with the rules of Islamic business ethics. This study aims to determine how the behavior of Muslim traders in the Jagalan Kediri Trashy Market in buying and selling transactions and to find out how the behavior of Muslim traders in the Jagalan Kediri Trashy Market in reviewing Islamic business ethics. Key Words: Trade, loak market, Islamic business


Author(s):  
Elena F. GLADUN ◽  
Gennady F. DETTER ◽  
Olga V. ZAKHAROVA ◽  
Sergei M. ZUEV ◽  
Lyubov G. VOZELOVA

Developing democracy institutions and citizen participation in state affairs, the world community focuses on postcolonial studies, which allow us to identify new perspectives, set new priorities in various areas, in law and public administration among others. In Arctic countries, postcolonial discourse has an impact on the methodology of research related to indigenous issues, and this makes possible to understand specific picture of the world and ideas about what is happening in the world. Moreover, the traditions of Russian state and governance are specific and interaction between indigenous peoples and public authorities should be studied with a special research methodology which would reflect the peculiarities of domestic public law and aimed at solving legal issue and enrich public policy. The objective of the paper is to present a new integrated methodology that includes a system of philosophical, anthropological, socio-psychological methods, as well as methods of comparative analysis and scenario development methods to involve peripheral communities into decision-making process of planning the socio-economic development in one of Russia’s Arctic regions — the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and to justify and further legislatively consolidate the optimal forms of interaction between public authorities and indigenous communities of the North. In 2020, the Arctic Research Center conducted a sociological survey in the Shuryshkararea of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, which seems to limit existing approaches to identifying public opinion about prospects for developing villages and organizing life of their residents. Our proposed methodology for taking into account the views of indigenous peoples can help to overcome the identified limitations.


Author(s):  
Benedetta Zavatta

Based on an analysis of the marginal markings and annotations Nietzsche made to the works of Emerson in his personal library, the book offers a philosophical interpretation of the impact on Nietzsche’s thought of his reading of these works, a reading that began when he was a schoolboy and extended to the final years of his conscious life. The many ideas and sources of inspiration that Nietzsche drew from Emerson can be organized in terms of two main lines of thought. The first line leads in the direction of the development of the individual personality, that is, the achievement of critical thinking, moral autonomy, and original self-expression. The second line of thought is the overcoming of individuality: that is to say, the need to transcend one’s own individual—and thus by definition limited—view of the world by continually confronting and engaging with visions different from one’s own and by putting into question and debating one’s own values and certainties. The image of the strong personality that Nietzsche forms thanks to his reading of Emerson ultimately takes on the appearance of a nomadic subject who is continually passing out of themselves—that is to say, abandoning their own positions and convictions—so as to undergo a constant process of evolution. In other words, the formation of the individual personality takes on the form of a regulative ideal: a goal that can never be said to have been definitively and once and for all attained.


Author(s):  
T. M. Rudavsky

Of the many philosophical perplexities facing medieval Jewish thinkers, perhaps none has challenged religious belief as much as God’s creation of the world. No Jewish philosopher denied the importance of creation, that the world had a beginning (bereshit). But like their Christian and Muslim counterparts, Jewish thinkers did not always agree upon what qualifies as an acceptable model of creation. Chapter 6 is devoted to attempts of Jewish philosophers to reconcile the biblical view of creation with Greek and Islamic philosophy. By understanding the notion of creation and how an eternal, timeless creator created a temporal universe, we may begin to understand how the notions of eternity, emanation, and the infinite divisibility of time function within the context of Jewish philosophical theories of creation.


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