Siegfried Wiessner
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199642120
- eISBN:
- 9780191770401
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199642120.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Cultural difference provides the key context in which indigenous peoples' claims to self-preservation and flourishing arose. Existential threats to their survival prompted a global movement, starting ...
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Cultural difference provides the key context in which indigenous peoples' claims to self-preservation and flourishing arose. Existential threats to their survival prompted a global movement, starting in the 1970s, that resulted in widespread changes in domestic laws and a return of the First Nations to the table of actors in international law. This chapter discusses culture as a collective phenomenon and the attendant need to safeguard it through individual and collective rights. It highlights indigenous peoples' claims and the response of states by treaties and other international instruments, culminating in the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It ends with a discussion of the Declaration's legal effect and the extent to which it reflects customary international law rights to self-government, culture, and land as found in the International Law Association's authoritative Resolution No 5/2012 on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.Less
Cultural difference provides the key context in which indigenous peoples' claims to self-preservation and flourishing arose. Existential threats to their survival prompted a global movement, starting in the 1970s, that resulted in widespread changes in domestic laws and a return of the First Nations to the table of actors in international law. This chapter discusses culture as a collective phenomenon and the attendant need to safeguard it through individual and collective rights. It highlights indigenous peoples' claims and the response of states by treaties and other international instruments, culminating in the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It ends with a discussion of the Declaration's legal effect and the extent to which it reflects customary international law rights to self-government, culture, and land as found in the International Law Association's authoritative Resolution No 5/2012 on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Patrick D. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252041037
- eISBN:
- 9780252099588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Drawing from the cultural survival efforts of the Kayapó and the Paiter-Suruí, this chapter traces how indigenous rights and Western environmentalism have shaped each other. At the core of analysis ...
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Drawing from the cultural survival efforts of the Kayapó and the Paiter-Suruí, this chapter traces how indigenous rights and Western environmentalism have shaped each other. At the core of analysis is how, through the different periods of Amazonian activism, indigenous actors have been both framed by and drawn from the notion of the “Ecologically Noble Savage.” The political currency of this reoccurring trope has informed the creation of alliances between indigenous communities and Western eco-conscious actors to “save the rainforest.” While these partnerships have benefited both the “First World” and “Fourth World” actors involved, they have often been built on the false assumptions and divergent agendas. This shifting ground has produced very different environmental discourses over the last 40 years, moving the place of native Amazonians from one of confrontational eco-conscious cultural activists aligned with Green Radicalism to the shared market-based, scientifically validated indicators consistent with Ecological Modernization.Less
Drawing from the cultural survival efforts of the Kayapó and the Paiter-Suruí, this chapter traces how indigenous rights and Western environmentalism have shaped each other. At the core of analysis is how, through the different periods of Amazonian activism, indigenous actors have been both framed by and drawn from the notion of the “Ecologically Noble Savage.” The political currency of this reoccurring trope has informed the creation of alliances between indigenous communities and Western eco-conscious actors to “save the rainforest.” While these partnerships have benefited both the “First World” and “Fourth World” actors involved, they have often been built on the false assumptions and divergent agendas. This shifting ground has produced very different environmental discourses over the last 40 years, moving the place of native Amazonians from one of confrontational eco-conscious cultural activists aligned with Green Radicalism to the shared market-based, scientifically validated indicators consistent with Ecological Modernization.
Tisa Wenger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832622
- eISBN:
- 9781469605869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807894217_wenger.11
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter shows that, throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Native American efforts to achieve religious freedom have been essential to a broader fight for cultural survival. ...
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This chapter shows that, throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Native American efforts to achieve religious freedom have been essential to a broader fight for cultural survival. Their struggles have involved pivotal concerns such as the right to use peyote in religious ceremonies, the repatriation of human remains and sacred objects held in museums, the use and ownership of sacred lands, and the use of Indian religious practices by non-Native spiritual seekers. These campaigns, however, have borne only limited success, and religious freedom for Native Americans remains an elusive goal. As in the dance controversy, dominant conceptions of religion are among the factors that impede its achievement. The category of religion is a product of Euro-American historical development and leaves little space for the integrated, communal, and land-based qualities of indigenous traditions.Less
This chapter shows that, throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Native American efforts to achieve religious freedom have been essential to a broader fight for cultural survival. Their struggles have involved pivotal concerns such as the right to use peyote in religious ceremonies, the repatriation of human remains and sacred objects held in museums, the use and ownership of sacred lands, and the use of Indian religious practices by non-Native spiritual seekers. These campaigns, however, have borne only limited success, and religious freedom for Native Americans remains an elusive goal. As in the dance controversy, dominant conceptions of religion are among the factors that impede its achievement. The category of religion is a product of Euro-American historical development and leaves little space for the integrated, communal, and land-based qualities of indigenous traditions.
Libby Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300217513
- eISBN:
- 9780300225006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300217513.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The picaresque mode is a lens through which we can peel back the many layers of cultural memory that have accrued to the Great War moment, to uncover the attitudes, sensibilities, and worldviews of ...
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The picaresque mode is a lens through which we can peel back the many layers of cultural memory that have accrued to the Great War moment, to uncover the attitudes, sensibilities, and worldviews of the men and women who lived through the war as it unfolded. Rather than seeing themselves as passive victims or active resisters, as some postwar writers and critics have seen them, Great War soldiers and civilians imagined themselves as survivors. A tradition long associated with times of war and social chaos, the picaresque helps us to recover some of the finer detail and cultural references that made up the context in which and through which Great War texts were created. The picaresque is a literary/cultural mode through which we can understand the Great War moment and the ways in which novelists, graphic artists, journalists, and other culture makers attempted to make sense of it.Less
The picaresque mode is a lens through which we can peel back the many layers of cultural memory that have accrued to the Great War moment, to uncover the attitudes, sensibilities, and worldviews of the men and women who lived through the war as it unfolded. Rather than seeing themselves as passive victims or active resisters, as some postwar writers and critics have seen them, Great War soldiers and civilians imagined themselves as survivors. A tradition long associated with times of war and social chaos, the picaresque helps us to recover some of the finer detail and cultural references that made up the context in which and through which Great War texts were created. The picaresque is a literary/cultural mode through which we can understand the Great War moment and the ways in which novelists, graphic artists, journalists, and other culture makers attempted to make sense of it.
Ian Armit
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748608584
- eISBN:
- 9780748670710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748608584.003.0012
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter examines aspects of cultural survival and continuity in the region across the several millennia covered by the book. It examines the key role of environmental change and coastal erosion, ...
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This chapter examines aspects of cultural survival and continuity in the region across the several millennia covered by the book. It examines the key role of environmental change and coastal erosion, as well as the environmental constants faced by all Hebridean societies through the centuries.Less
This chapter examines aspects of cultural survival and continuity in the region across the several millennia covered by the book. It examines the key role of environmental change and coastal erosion, as well as the environmental constants faced by all Hebridean societies through the centuries.
Jared Hickman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190272586
- eISBN:
- 9780190272609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190272586.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
Traditional African associations and an established interpretation of the Promethean theft of fire as an allegory of the historical origins of astronomy facilitated the emergence of a ...
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Traditional African associations and an established interpretation of the Promethean theft of fire as an allegory of the historical origins of astronomy facilitated the emergence of a nineteenth-century consensus that modern astronomy was a legacy of a primordial African cultural achievement. This period conception of “African” culture invites us to analyze afresh two apposite discourses: representations of the famed African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, and reflections on and around the North Star in North American antislavery literature. This undertaking enables us, one, to trace a thinking of the “African” difference in global modernity as a Promethean rebelliousness against divine regimes that would withhold their power/knowledge from human beings; and, two, to develop a radically historicist approach to the question of African cultural “survivals” by carefully tracking in discourse-analytical terms an evolving notion of African provenance and reinterpreting pertinent cultural productions in light of contemporaneous meanings of Africanness.Less
Traditional African associations and an established interpretation of the Promethean theft of fire as an allegory of the historical origins of astronomy facilitated the emergence of a nineteenth-century consensus that modern astronomy was a legacy of a primordial African cultural achievement. This period conception of “African” culture invites us to analyze afresh two apposite discourses: representations of the famed African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, and reflections on and around the North Star in North American antislavery literature. This undertaking enables us, one, to trace a thinking of the “African” difference in global modernity as a Promethean rebelliousness against divine regimes that would withhold their power/knowledge from human beings; and, two, to develop a radically historicist approach to the question of African cultural “survivals” by carefully tracking in discourse-analytical terms an evolving notion of African provenance and reinterpreting pertinent cultural productions in light of contemporaneous meanings of Africanness.
Babacar M’Baye
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732337
- eISBN:
- 9781604733525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732337.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This chapter focuses on Mary Prince, the first black woman to free herself from slavery. While some critics have interpreted Prince’s work and life merely as individual struggles against slavery and ...
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This chapter focuses on Mary Prince, the first black woman to free herself from slavery. While some critics have interpreted Prince’s work and life merely as individual struggles against slavery and sexism, others have overlooked the African cultural survivals and Pan-Africanist sensibilities in them. Cynthia James asserts that Africa is absent in Prince’s narrative and minimizes the complex ways in which African cultures survived in the Caribbean in ways that can be analyzed only through reinterpretation of Caribbean literature from new perspectives. The chapter here interprets Prince’s narrative as a story of individual achievements and resistance that gives credit to the collective sacrifices of an African community in Antigua that spiritually and ideologically influenced her actions.Less
This chapter focuses on Mary Prince, the first black woman to free herself from slavery. While some critics have interpreted Prince’s work and life merely as individual struggles against slavery and sexism, others have overlooked the African cultural survivals and Pan-Africanist sensibilities in them. Cynthia James asserts that Africa is absent in Prince’s narrative and minimizes the complex ways in which African cultures survived in the Caribbean in ways that can be analyzed only through reinterpretation of Caribbean literature from new perspectives. The chapter here interprets Prince’s narrative as a story of individual achievements and resistance that gives credit to the collective sacrifices of an African community in Antigua that spiritually and ideologically influenced her actions.
Christopher Morton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198812913
- eISBN:
- 9780191850707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198812913.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture, Sociology of Religion
Chapter 2 sketches Evans-Pritchard’s early career and intellectual influences, before setting the scene for his first piece of fieldwork among the Ingessana people in Sudan by describing the reasons ...
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Chapter 2 sketches Evans-Pritchard’s early career and intellectual influences, before setting the scene for his first piece of fieldwork among the Ingessana people in Sudan by describing the reasons why his teacher Seligman asked him to continue an ethnographic survey there, including his interest in diffusionist ideas of ancient Egyptian cultural influence, as well as Tylorian survivals. It then goes on to outline some of reasons why Evans-Pritchard and Malinowski fell out shortly after his return from fieldwork among the Azande. It then goes on to describe Evans-Pritchard’s other ethnographic surveys for Seligman among a number of cultural groups, and the way in which he used photography as part of the work.Less
Chapter 2 sketches Evans-Pritchard’s early career and intellectual influences, before setting the scene for his first piece of fieldwork among the Ingessana people in Sudan by describing the reasons why his teacher Seligman asked him to continue an ethnographic survey there, including his interest in diffusionist ideas of ancient Egyptian cultural influence, as well as Tylorian survivals. It then goes on to outline some of reasons why Evans-Pritchard and Malinowski fell out shortly after his return from fieldwork among the Azande. It then goes on to describe Evans-Pritchard’s other ethnographic surveys for Seligman among a number of cultural groups, and the way in which he used photography as part of the work.
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- June 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199472598
- eISBN:
- 9780199089086
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199472598.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture, Race and Ethnicity
Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural entities, in northeast India, an area of mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices such communities ...
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Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural entities, in northeast India, an area of mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices such communities have, and what are some of the strategies such communities use to resist marginalization? In recent years, many such small groups are participating in large state-sponsored ethnic festivals, and organizing their own community festivals. But are these signs of their increasing agency or simply proof of their continued marginalization? How do state policies and political borders— inter-state as well as international—impact on a community’s need to perform their ethnicity? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this work, on the basis of ethnographic fieldwork conducted among the small Tangsa community living in Assam in northeast India. The study also reveals the asymmetry in the relations between the dominant power-wielding Assamese and the Tangsa. In summary, this is a study about marginality and its consequences, about performance of ethnicity at festivals as sites for both resistance and capitulation, and about the compulsions, imposed by the state and dominant neighbours, that can force small ethnic groups to contribute to their own marginalization.Less
Can small indigenous communities survive, as distinct cultural entities, in northeast India, an area of mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices such communities have, and what are some of the strategies such communities use to resist marginalization? In recent years, many such small groups are participating in large state-sponsored ethnic festivals, and organizing their own community festivals. But are these signs of their increasing agency or simply proof of their continued marginalization? How do state policies and political borders— inter-state as well as international—impact on a community’s need to perform their ethnicity? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this work, on the basis of ethnographic fieldwork conducted among the small Tangsa community living in Assam in northeast India. The study also reveals the asymmetry in the relations between the dominant power-wielding Assamese and the Tangsa. In summary, this is a study about marginality and its consequences, about performance of ethnicity at festivals as sites for both resistance and capitulation, and about the compulsions, imposed by the state and dominant neighbours, that can force small ethnic groups to contribute to their own marginalization.
Kristine Yohe
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037900
- eISBN:
- 9780252095160
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037900.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's 1857 poem “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio,” Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved, and Morrison's 2004 libretto Margaret Garner. Through ...
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This chapter examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's 1857 poem “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio,” Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved, and Morrison's 2004 libretto Margaret Garner. Through examining the various interpretations of Margaret Garner's history in the poem, novel, and opera, it becomes clear that her rebellious act resulted in metaphorical cultural survival even though her daughter did not literally survive. In other words, through the sacrifice of her child, Garner transcended her bondage, exerting her claim for maternal power over the tomb of institutional subjugation. Moreover, through asserting her right to decide what happened to her children, Garner defied slavery by surrendering the physical flesh in order to allow the metaphysical spirit to survive. Through these different genres, Harper and Morrison reconfigure the circumstances of Garner's decision, with powerful effect.Less
This chapter examines Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's 1857 poem “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio,” Toni Morrison's 1987 novel Beloved, and Morrison's 2004 libretto Margaret Garner. Through examining the various interpretations of Margaret Garner's history in the poem, novel, and opera, it becomes clear that her rebellious act resulted in metaphorical cultural survival even though her daughter did not literally survive. In other words, through the sacrifice of her child, Garner transcended her bondage, exerting her claim for maternal power over the tomb of institutional subjugation. Moreover, through asserting her right to decide what happened to her children, Garner defied slavery by surrendering the physical flesh in order to allow the metaphysical spirit to survive. Through these different genres, Harper and Morrison reconfigure the circumstances of Garner's decision, with powerful effect.
Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198708629
- eISBN:
- 9780191779558
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198708629.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book investigates the fascination surrounding the Unknown Woman of the Seine in literature and the visual arts at the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. ‘L’Inconnue de la ...
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This book investigates the fascination surrounding the Unknown Woman of the Seine in literature and the visual arts at the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. ‘L’Inconnue de la Seine’, or the mask of a young dead woman said to have been dragged out of the river, has become, through its repeated representation within the avant-garde movements and popular media, both a commodity and a topic of general interest. Such luminaries as Rilke, Nabokov, Supervielle, Aragon, Horváth, Modiano, Cortázar, Man Ray, Magritte, Blanchot, Resnais,Truffaut, and Varda have expressed their infatuation with the Inconnue in prose, poetry, photography, and film. Aby Warburg defines art history as ‘a ghost story for grown-ups’, which describes well this book, narrating as it does the aura of an object that crosses epochs and geographical and linguistic frontiers. Along the way, it establishes a critical dialogue between works, ranging from the marginal to the canonical, and media (from texts to photographs, films and art installations), from the advances of mechanical reproduction to the century of cinema and the Internet era. It uncovers ramifications between past and contemporary preoccupations with representations of death, the feminine, anonymity, and the urban milieu. It views the Unknown Woman as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It explores how the mask’s metamorphoses track the main shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, and how they constitute points of negotiation through which to understand modernity.Less
This book investigates the fascination surrounding the Unknown Woman of the Seine in literature and the visual arts at the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. ‘L’Inconnue de la Seine’, or the mask of a young dead woman said to have been dragged out of the river, has become, through its repeated representation within the avant-garde movements and popular media, both a commodity and a topic of general interest. Such luminaries as Rilke, Nabokov, Supervielle, Aragon, Horváth, Modiano, Cortázar, Man Ray, Magritte, Blanchot, Resnais,Truffaut, and Varda have expressed their infatuation with the Inconnue in prose, poetry, photography, and film. Aby Warburg defines art history as ‘a ghost story for grown-ups’, which describes well this book, narrating as it does the aura of an object that crosses epochs and geographical and linguistic frontiers. Along the way, it establishes a critical dialogue between works, ranging from the marginal to the canonical, and media (from texts to photographs, films and art installations), from the advances of mechanical reproduction to the century of cinema and the Internet era. It uncovers ramifications between past and contemporary preoccupations with representations of death, the feminine, anonymity, and the urban milieu. It views the Unknown Woman as a symptomatic expression of a modern world haunted by the earlier modernity of the nineteenth century. It explores how the mask’s metamorphoses track the main shifts in the cultural history of the last two centuries, and how they constitute points of negotiation through which to understand modernity.
María Teresa Martínez Domínguez and Eurig Scandrett
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447317364
- eISBN:
- 9781447317395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447317364.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter is based on research and community work carried out in indigenous communities affected by the oil industry in both the Ecuadorean and Peruvian Amazon. In these areas local and regional ...
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This chapter is based on research and community work carried out in indigenous communities affected by the oil industry in both the Ecuadorean and Peruvian Amazon. In these areas local and regional socio-economic development programmes led by government agencies are often linked with the development of the oil industry, which implements community development programmes through its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. This model of development, based only on the unsustainable exploitation of non-renewable resources, has increased poverty and environmental destruction and has failed to satisfy local needs and to create a diversified economy that could open new development opportunities for all the region’s social groups. Furthermore, this model is not compatible with the long-term cultural and physical survival of indigenous peoples. It is therefore necessary to pave the way towards a post-oil model of development that includes the views and proposals of indigenous peoples and other social groups in the region. Concepts such us ‘environmental justice’ and ‘ecological debt’ may help to challenge dominant views of development in the region by highlighting that the current model is built at the expense of unfair access to the earth’s resources and unfair distribution of human-led environmental impacts.Less
This chapter is based on research and community work carried out in indigenous communities affected by the oil industry in both the Ecuadorean and Peruvian Amazon. In these areas local and regional socio-economic development programmes led by government agencies are often linked with the development of the oil industry, which implements community development programmes through its Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. This model of development, based only on the unsustainable exploitation of non-renewable resources, has increased poverty and environmental destruction and has failed to satisfy local needs and to create a diversified economy that could open new development opportunities for all the region’s social groups. Furthermore, this model is not compatible with the long-term cultural and physical survival of indigenous peoples. It is therefore necessary to pave the way towards a post-oil model of development that includes the views and proposals of indigenous peoples and other social groups in the region. Concepts such us ‘environmental justice’ and ‘ecological debt’ may help to challenge dominant views of development in the region by highlighting that the current model is built at the expense of unfair access to the earth’s resources and unfair distribution of human-led environmental impacts.
Sarah Conly
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190203436
- eISBN:
- 9780190203450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190203436.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
Even if population reduction is desirable in itself, will it have other consequences we can’t accept? Some believe that it will ruin the economy; that it will cause widespread sex selection harmful ...
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Even if population reduction is desirable in itself, will it have other consequences we can’t accept? Some believe that it will ruin the economy; that it will cause widespread sex selection harmful to the position of women; that only-children will suffer; that some cultures will lack enough population to continue. The chapter addresses all these concerns, arguing that in some cases the belief that there is a harm is unjustified (as in being an only child, or worries about cultural survival); in some cases the harm can be avoided even while we allow population limits (sex imbalance); and in some cases the existing system needs to be changed in any case (capitalist economies).Less
Even if population reduction is desirable in itself, will it have other consequences we can’t accept? Some believe that it will ruin the economy; that it will cause widespread sex selection harmful to the position of women; that only-children will suffer; that some cultures will lack enough population to continue. The chapter addresses all these concerns, arguing that in some cases the belief that there is a harm is unjustified (as in being an only child, or worries about cultural survival); in some cases the harm can be avoided even while we allow population limits (sex imbalance); and in some cases the existing system needs to be changed in any case (capitalist economies).
Lindsey N. Kingston
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190918262
- eISBN:
- 9780190918293
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190918262.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Democratization
The indigenous rights movement has embraced the idea of self-determination for framing their demands for economic, political, and cultural survival. Indeed, calls for tribal sovereignty problematize ...
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The indigenous rights movement has embraced the idea of self-determination for framing their demands for economic, political, and cultural survival. Indeed, calls for tribal sovereignty problematize the international community’s central focus on state governments for legitimizing human rights claimants. For communities such as the Onondaga Nation of Central New York, state membership comes second to the ties that bind one to an indigenous nation. (Indeed, the Onondaga Nation maintains a legally distinct territory just outside Syracuse, New York, and some members have rejected US citizenship in favor of tribe-issued passports.) While this chapter explores the historical trajectory leading to modern indigenous rights concerns—which include an ongoing process of cultural genocide—it focuses on how indigenous nations and tribal sovereignty challenge the reliance on state citizenship for recognizing personhood and claiming human rights. Calls for indigenous sovereignty offer alternative pathways for conceptualizing identification, legal status, and political membership.Less
The indigenous rights movement has embraced the idea of self-determination for framing their demands for economic, political, and cultural survival. Indeed, calls for tribal sovereignty problematize the international community’s central focus on state governments for legitimizing human rights claimants. For communities such as the Onondaga Nation of Central New York, state membership comes second to the ties that bind one to an indigenous nation. (Indeed, the Onondaga Nation maintains a legally distinct territory just outside Syracuse, New York, and some members have rejected US citizenship in favor of tribe-issued passports.) While this chapter explores the historical trajectory leading to modern indigenous rights concerns—which include an ongoing process of cultural genocide—it focuses on how indigenous nations and tribal sovereignty challenge the reliance on state citizenship for recognizing personhood and claiming human rights. Calls for indigenous sovereignty offer alternative pathways for conceptualizing identification, legal status, and political membership.
Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190663476
- eISBN:
- 9780190940263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190663476.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter opens with detailed analysis of deculturation policy during the Spanish, Mexican, and American governance of New Mexico and the Pueblos. In the more recent history it includes discussion ...
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This chapter opens with detailed analysis of deculturation policy during the Spanish, Mexican, and American governance of New Mexico and the Pueblos. In the more recent history it includes discussion of the Code of Indian Offenses, the General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), the Carlisle Indian School, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Hiawatha Asylum), and the evolving policies of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. These introductory remarks are followed by analyses of a 1935–1940 conflict at Santo Domingo (Kewa) Pueblo, when Archbishop Rudolph Gerken attempted to change traditional practice of Catholicism and to house a resident priest and sisters at Santo Domingo; and of a conflict at Isleta Pueblo that culminated when Monsignor Frederick Stadtmueller was removed in handcuffs by the pueblo governor in 1965. The Native American ministry of the archdiocese and native resistance to dogma are also considered more generally. Visiting information for Kewa and Isleta is included.Less
This chapter opens with detailed analysis of deculturation policy during the Spanish, Mexican, and American governance of New Mexico and the Pueblos. In the more recent history it includes discussion of the Code of Indian Offenses, the General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), the Carlisle Indian School, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Hiawatha Asylum), and the evolving policies of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. These introductory remarks are followed by analyses of a 1935–1940 conflict at Santo Domingo (Kewa) Pueblo, when Archbishop Rudolph Gerken attempted to change traditional practice of Catholicism and to house a resident priest and sisters at Santo Domingo; and of a conflict at Isleta Pueblo that culminated when Monsignor Frederick Stadtmueller was removed in handcuffs by the pueblo governor in 1965. The Native American ministry of the archdiocese and native resistance to dogma are also considered more generally. Visiting information for Kewa and Isleta is included.