Engendering Nationality: Haudenosaunee Tradition, Sport, and the Lines of Gender1

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Downey
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
North American ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Native Canadians ◽  
Significant Element ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
And Gender

The Native game of lacrosse has undergone a considerable amount of change since it was appropriated from Aboriginal peoples beginning in the 1840s. Through this reformulation, non-Native Canadians attempted to establish a national identity through the sport and barred Aboriginal athletes from championship competitions. And yet, lacrosse remained a significant element of Aboriginal culture, spirituality, and the Native originators continued to play the game beyond the non-Native championship classifications. Despite their absence from championship play the Aboriginal roots of lacrosse were zealously celebrated as a form of North American antiquity by non-Aboriginals and through this persistence Natives developed their own identity as players of the sport. Ousted from international competition for more than a century, this article examines the formation of the Iroquois Nationals (lacrosse team representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in international competition) between 1983-1990 and their struggle to re-enter international competition as a sovereign nation. It will demonstrate how the Iroquois Nationals were a symbolic element of a larger resurgence of Haudenosaunee “traditionalism” and how the team was a catalyst for unmasking intercommunity conflicts between that traditionalism—engrained within the Haudenosaunee’s “traditional” Longhouse religion, culture, and gender constructions— and new political adaptations.

Race, Gender, and National Identity in the American and British Telephone Industries

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venus Green
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Black Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
Telephone Operators ◽  
Telephone Industry ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This article compares the racially heterogeneous, privately-owned American telephone industry, and the relatively homogeneous, publicly-owned British system, to examine how race and gender constructions implicit in the national identities of the two countries influence employment opportunities. For all the differences in the histories of the two telephone industries and variations in the construction of racial, national, and gender identities, blacks in the United States and Britain had remarkably similar experiences in obtaining employment as telephone operators. This leads to the conclusion that the power of national identity in the workplace is strongly based on “whiteness”. Despite their limited access to national identity, white women experienced advantages that were denied to black women, which illustrates how race modified the impact of gender on the privileges of national identity.

scholarly journals Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Marianna Charitonidou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines an ensemble of gender and migrant roles in post-war Neorealist and New Migrant Italian films. Its main objective is to analyze gender and placemaking practices in an ensemble of films, addressing these practices on a symbolic level. The main argument of the article is that the way gender and migrant roles were conceived in the Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Cinema was based on the intention to challenge certain stereotypes characterizing the understanding of national identity and ‘otherness’. The article presents how the roles of borgatari and women function as devices of reconceptualization of Italy’s identity, providing a fertile terrain for problematizing the relationship between migration studies, urban studies and gender studies. Special attention is paid to how migrants are related to the reconceptualization of Italy’s national narrations. The Neorealist model is understood here as a precursor of the narrative strategies that one encounters in numerous films belonging to the New Migrant cinema in Italy. The article also explores how certain aspects of more contemporary studies of migrant cinema in Italy could illuminate our understanding of Neorealist cinema and its relation to national narratives. To connect gender representation and migrant roles in Italian cinema, the article focuses on the analysis of the status of certain roles of women, paying particular attention to Anna Magnagi’s roles.

‘Irishness’, the 1937 Constitution, and Citizenship: A Gender and Ethnicity View

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronit Lentin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Central Factor ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Narrow Definition ◽  
The Republic ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of

This paper argues that ‘Irishness’ has not been sufficiently problematised in relation to gender and ethnicity in discussions of Irish national identity, nor has the term ‘Irish women’ been ethnically problematised. Sociological and feminist analyses of the access by women to citizenship of the Republic of Ireland have been similarly unproblematised. This paper interrogates some discourses of Irish national identity, including the 1937 Constitution, in which difference is constructed in religious, not ethnic terms, and in which women are constructed as ‘naturally’ domestic. Ireland's bourgeois nationalism privileged property owning and denigrated nomadism, thus excluding Irish Travellers from definitions of ‘Irishness’. The paper then seeks to problematise T.H. Marshall's definition of citizenship as ‘membership in a community’ from a gender and ethnicity viewpoint and argues that sociological and feminist studies of the gendered nature of citizenship in Ireland do not address access to citizenship by Traveller and other racialized women which this paper examines in brief. It does so in the context of the intersection between racism and nationalism, and argues that the racism implied in the narrow definition of ‘Irishness’ is a central factor in the limited access by minority Irish women to aspects of citizenship. It also argues that racism not only interfaces with other forms of exclusion such as class and gender, but also broadens our understanding of the very nature of Irish national identity.

scholarly journals Relations of ruling in the colonial present: An intersectional view of the Israeli imaginary

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madalena Santos
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
Categorical Framework ◽  
And Gender

This article presents a categorical framework for the interrogation of power relations in the study and analysis of Israeli colonialism in Palestine. Following critical anti-racist feminist approaches, I highlight the relationality between race, class, and gender constructions that are crucial to colonial rule. Extending Chandra Mohanty’s (1991) reading of Dorothy Smith’s “relations of ruling”, I outline six intersecting categories of colonial practices to examine Israel’s particular colonization forms and processes. These categories include: racial separation; citizenship and naturalization forms and processes; construction and consolidation of existing social inequalities; gender, sexuality, and sexual violence, racialized and gendered prisoners; and “unmarked” versus “marked” discourses. Understanding colonial experiences as heterogeneous and plural, I conclude by arguing for the furthering of decolonial and anti-racist feminist analyses from within specific sites of resistance.

scholarly journals DAS NARRATIVAS DO CINECLUBE EM CÁCERES ÀS NARRATIVAS DA ESCOLA INDÍGENA LUTUMA DIAS: a educação escolar indígena diferenciada

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Naine Terena De Jesus ◽  
Maritza Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
School Education ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal Education ◽  
Aboriginal Culture ◽  
Didactic Material ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

 Este artigo foi produzido no âmbito do Projeto Cineclubes - Cinema, infâncias e diferenças, realizado pelo Ateliê de Imagem e educação, do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação da UNEMAT - MT. As narrativas acerca dos povos indígenas do Brasil, apresentadas por professores participantes do Cineclube, movimentaram o pensamento das autoras para a releitura da tese de doutorado Audiovisual na Escola Terena Lutuma Dias: educação indígena diferenciada e as mídias, cujo foco era a problematização sobre a educação escolar indígena e o uso do audiovisual, em especial, para o ensino da cultura indígena e principalmente se este seria um material didático capaz de contemplar as necessidades pedagógicas dos professores Terena, frente aos recursos como livros e cartilhas que estão atualmente disponíveis na escola indígena. Revisitar a tese e trazer tais informações a este artigo, se deu devido ao fato das narrativas do Cineclube se tornarem personagens conceituais para se pautar a educação escolar indígena visando enriquecer o conhecimento do leitor acerca de diferentes contextos e realidades da educação no país. Palavras-chave: Educação indígena. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infância. Indígenas.OF THE NARRATIVES OF THE CINECLUBE IN CÁCERES TO THE NARRATIVES OF THE ABORIGINAL SCHOOL LUTUMA DIAS: the differentiated aboriginal pertaining to school education Abstract: This article was produced in the scope of the participation of the authors in the Cineclubes Project - Cinema, infancies and differences, carried through for the Ateliê de Imagem and education, of the Program of After-graduation in Education of the UNEMAT - MT. The narratives concerning the aboriginal peoples of Brazil, presented for participant professors of the Cineclube, had put into motion the thought of the author for the releitura of the thesis of doutorado Audiovisual in the School Terena Lutuma Dias: aboriginal education differentiated and the medias, taking it to revisit it the problematização on the aboriginal pertaining to school education and the use of the audiovisual, in special, for the education of the aboriginal culture and mainly if this would be a didactic material capable to contemplate the pedagogical necessities of Terena professors, front to the resources as books and cartilhas that they are currently available in the aboriginal school. To revisit the thesis and to bring such information to this article, if gave due to the fact of the narratives of the Cineclube if to become conceptual personages to pautar the aboriginal pertaining to school education aiming at to enrich the knowledge of the reader concerning different contexts and realities of the education in the country.Keyworks: Aboriginal education. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infancy. Aboriginals. LAS NARRATIVAS DE CINECLUBE EN CÁCERES Y NARRATIVAS DE LA ESCUELA INDÍGENA LUTUMA DIAS: una educación escolar indígena diferenciadaResumen: Este artículo no ha sido reproducido en ningún momento de la participación de las autoras en el Proyecto Cineclubes - Cine, infancias e diferencias, realizado por Ateliê de Imagem y educación, Programa de Pós-graduación en Educación de UNEMAT - MT. Como narrativas acerca de los dos indígenas indígenas del Brasil, las presentaciones de los profesores participantes del Cineclube, movimentaron el pensamiento de la autora para una relevación de las enseñanzas de los medios de comunicación audiovisual en la escuela Terena Lutuma Dias: educación indígena diferenciada y como mídias, A educação escolar indígena y el uso del audiovisual, en especial, para el aprendizaje de la cultura indígena y principalmente en el este material seria didático capaz de contemplar como necesidades pedagógicas de los profesores Terena, . Revisar el texto de este artículo, se ha dado por el hecho de las narraciones de Cineclube, se convertirá en personajes conceptuales para el aprendizaje de la educación en el país.Palabras clave: Educación indígena. Interculturalidade. Tic. Infância. Indígenas.                                

Prison Abolition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayla M. Martensen ◽  
Beth E. Richie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Movement Strategy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Prison Abolition ◽  
Abolition Movement

Prison abolition as an American movement, strategy, and theory has existed since the establishment of prison as the primary mode of punishment. In many of its forms, it is an extension of abolition movements dating back to the inception of slavery. The long-term goal of prison abolition is for all people to live in a safe, liberated, and free world. In practice, prison abolition values healing and accountability, suggesting an entirely different way of living and maintaining relationships outside of oppressive regimes, including that of the prison. Prison abolition is concerned with the dismantling of the prison–industrial complex and other oppressive institutions and structures, which restrict true liberation of people who have been marginalized by those in power. These structures include white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and ablest and heteronormative ideologies. The origins of the prison regime are both global and rooted in history with two fundamental strategies of dominance, the captivity of African-descended peoples, and the conquest of Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples, land and resource. Similarly, the origins of prison abolition begin with the resistance of these systems of dominance. The contemporary prison abolition movement, today, is traced to the Attica Prison Uprising in 1971 when incarcerated people in the New York prison rebelled and demanded change in the living conditions inside prison. The nature of the uprising was different from prior efforts, insofar as the organizers’ demands were about fundamental rights, not merely reforms. Throughout the history of abolition work, there is continuous division between reform and abolition organizers. When the lives, voices, and leadership of the people most impacted by the violence of these oppressive regimes is centered, there is minimal space for discussion of reform. Throughout the abolition movement in America, and other western cultures, the leadership of Black, Indigenous, women, and gender-nonconforming people of color play a pivotal role. By centering the experiences of those most vulnerable, abolitionists understand prison does not need to be reformed and is critical of fashionable reforms and alternatives to prisons which are still rooted in carceral logic.

Drinkin’ and Carryin’ On in Search of Community

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry T. Watkins
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Friendship Networks ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Lesbian Community ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
Gain Access

Before market forces created recognizable sites of gay and lesbian community, some queer Floridians leveraged their race and class privileges to create or gain access to spaces in order to find others like themselves. This chapter uses bars, “gay parties,” and friendship networks to show the ways that postwar mobility shaped queer socializing through complex negotiations of desire and access. In Tallahassee, the Cypress Lounge at the Floridan Hotel became an unofficial gay bar, while Florida’s powerbrokers schmoozed and facilitated connections to national identity-based rights discourses. Others used their private homes to host networks of gay and lesbian friends from around the panhandle. In Pensacola, Trader Jon’s and the Hi-Ho Five O’Clock Club were queered by sexually and gender non-conforming individuals.

Sustainability in Photography Can Change the World

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Rowena H. Scott
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
World Environment

Photography plays important, but undervalued and misunderstood, roles in how modern urban humans relate to nature and how nature is mediated to us, forming our perceptions and national identity. Typically landscape photography depicts nature aesthetically as sublime, picturesque and beautiful. Photographs have been powerful raising awareness of sustainability and communicating political messages. The chapter reviews the influence of two great Australian wilderness photographers, Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, as well as Edith Cowan University's (ECU) Photography for Environmental Sustainability Competition. In conjunction with World Environment Day, the university invited students to submit photographs that showcase the principles and practices of environmental sustainability. This chapter describes the history, purposes and impact of photography and the competition. Starting as an engagement partnership between the environment coordinator, academics and the Perth Centre for Photography, it is now an international competition across Australia and New Zealand, not exclusive to photography students, hosted by Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS).

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