To count or not to count? Insights from Kenya for global debates about enumerating ethnicity in national censuses

There is an impasse on the question of whether or not to enumerate identity groups in national censuses, given their potential to variously facilitate dominance and an emergence from marginalisation. In this paper, we theorise the impasse in Kenya as relating to a colonial history of the strategic use of ethnicity to divide and rule; a demographic makeup with both some large ethnic groups and many small ones; and the local social construction of ethnicity, which allows significant latitude for collapse, disaggregation and change of group identities. This case corrects the dominance of Europe and the Americas in census studies and offers insights for assessing the political stakes of counting, namely, the need to bring past and present into conversation; to consider the varied political effects of demography; and to consider the particular significance and meaning of ethnicity and race in context.

Ethnicity and race in access and usage of health and social care: results from a scoping review

Scholarship on ethnicity and old age is at a crossroad now that increased diversity is a given in older populations. The same holds true for the study of the role that ethnicity and race play in access and usage of health and social care in old age. This presentation relies on a scoping review of scholarship published between 1998 and 2020 that brings attention to the ways in which ethnicity & race – as grounds for stratification and disadvantage - are made sense of in this scholarship. The presentation will describe the topics that the review divulged, whether racism has been acknowledged in this scholarship so far, and how this has been the case. In doing so, this presentation will argue that if we are to address the inequalities that older ethnic minorities face we need not only a diversity-astute research agenda but also an injustice-aware one.

Analisis Gemma Tulud Cruz tentang Teologi Bertahan Hidup di tengah Pandemi: Perspektif Teologi Asia

Surviving under challenging situations and suffering is a natural act for someone who has hope. Because if not, then suicide is the chosen path. The Covid-19 pandemic to date has caused suffering for humans in all aspects throughout the world, predominantly in Asian countries. The question of how to deal with suffering and the implementation of salvation today is relevant for discussion. This article aims to reveal the particular way Asian people, according to Gemma Tulud Cruz's perspective in deal with suffering. The method used is qualitative exploratory with a focus on disclosing the thoughts of Gemma Tulud Cruz. The results show that Asian ways to survive are silence, humor, laughter, community storytelling, singing, and dancing. This can apply to a community that not bound by religion, ethnicity, and race. Of course, the main thing is faith and hope in the person of Jesus. This characteristic can be correlated with the context of survival in Indonesia in the face of suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Abstrak: Bertahan hidup dalam situasi sulit dan penderitaan adalah tindakan wajar yang dilakukan oleh seseorang yang memiliki pengharapan. Sebab jika tidak, maka bunuh diri adalah jalan yang dipilih. Pandemi covid-19 hingga saat ini melahirkan penderitaan bagi manusia dalam segala aspek di seluruh dunia, khususnya negara-negara Asia. Pertanyaan bagaimana menghadapi penderitaan itu dan implementasi keselamatan di masa kini menjadi relevan untuk didiskusikan. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan cara khusus orang Asia menurut perspektif Gemma Tulud Cruz dalam menghadapi penderitaan. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif eksploratif dengan fokus pengungkapan pemikiran Gemma Tulud Cruz. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kekhususan dari cara orang Asia untuk bertahan hidup adalah dengan berdiam, humor dan tertawa, bercerita dalam komunitas, bernyanyi dan menari. Hal tersebut dilakukan dalam komunitas yang tidak tersekat agama, suku, dan ras. Tentu yang utama adalah iman dan pengharapan kepada pribadi Yesus. Ciri khas ini dapat dikorelasikan dengan konteks bertahan hidup di Indonesia dalam menghadapi penderitaan akibat pandemi covid-19.

Race, ethnicity and a post-racial/ethnic future: A philosophical reflection

Ethnicity and racial identity formation are elements of our social world. In recent years, there has been numerous works on ethnicity and race. Both concepts are controversial in different disciplines. The controversies around these concepts have been heated up by scholars who have devoted their time to the discourse of ethnicity and race, and to understand the ascription of both concepts. Ethnicity and race have been causes of conflict, prejudice and discrimination among various ethnic and racial groups around the world. Thus, this paper is an attempt to discuss and critically reflect about race, ethnicity and a post-racial/ethnic future in line with Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze’s idea of the post-racial future.

Romanticism in Mexico

During the nineteenth century, romanticism became central to how Mexicans engaged in practices of self-definition. Romanticism in Mexico was an intellectual and artistic movement that was at once autonomous and connected to transcultural influences. As evidenced by the works of historians and literary scholars, as well as novelists, politicians, poets, and antiquarians from the period, romanticism was gendered in terms of women’s participation and representation, and in themes such as love, family, virtue, domesticity, and eroticism. Women were critical to the transmission of romanticism in quotidian practices of attending theater and opera, hosting salons, and instilling appreciation for poetry and the natural world in their families and their communities. Romanticism also exercised a profound influence on how Mexicans thought about ethnicity, race, and nationalism. In their quest for a unique national identity, Mexican intellectuals looked to the indigenous past and celebrated mestizaje as the foundation of Mexico’s cultural patrimony, even as they persisted in exclusionary practices toward their indigenous and casta compatriots. Romanticism offers a fruitful area to reevaluate well-studied themes of Mexican history, particularly its complex relationship with nationalism, modernization, gender, and the politics of ethnicity and race.