Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231170802
- eISBN:
- 9780231541015
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170802.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter analyzes the thought of Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha to argue for a secular state in order to ensure the practice of Islam.
This chapter analyzes the thought of Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha to argue for a secular state in order to ensure the practice of Islam.
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262027243
- eISBN:
- 9780262326155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262027243.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter examines the response of Africans to the criminalization of poaching in the wake of emerging wildlife conservation regimes during the colonial period. More specifically, it considers how ...
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This chapter examines the response of Africans to the criminalization of poaching in the wake of emerging wildlife conservation regimes during the colonial period. More specifically, it considers how Africans subverted the structures through which the European settlers had intended to colonialize them and now used them to engage in a process of self-liberation. The restriction camp at the Gonakudzingwa Detention Center in Zimbabwe became a spiritual site; teachers like Elias Chauke and the students under his custody defied the conformist agenda by leaving the country to go to Mozambique, train, get guns, and cross back into Rhodesia to fight and get rid of the European colonizers whom they accused of being unjust. The colonizers had used Africans to fight against tsetse fly; now the nationalists were using locals to fight against the Rhodesians. This chapter describes the transient workspaces of anticolonial organizing in relation to the metanarrative of nationalism in Zimbabwe.Less
This chapter examines the response of Africans to the criminalization of poaching in the wake of emerging wildlife conservation regimes during the colonial period. More specifically, it considers how Africans subverted the structures through which the European settlers had intended to colonialize them and now used them to engage in a process of self-liberation. The restriction camp at the Gonakudzingwa Detention Center in Zimbabwe became a spiritual site; teachers like Elias Chauke and the students under his custody defied the conformist agenda by leaving the country to go to Mozambique, train, get guns, and cross back into Rhodesia to fight and get rid of the European colonizers whom they accused of being unjust. The colonizers had used Africans to fight against tsetse fly; now the nationalists were using locals to fight against the Rhodesians. This chapter describes the transient workspaces of anticolonial organizing in relation to the metanarrative of nationalism in Zimbabwe.
Ivor L. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781934110836
- eISBN:
- 9781604738148
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781934110836.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This introductory chapter discusses the main themes and research methodology used in the presented study. This book tells the story of how several generations of West Africans, who were enslaved and ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the main themes and research methodology used in the presented study. This book tells the story of how several generations of West Africans, who were enslaved and forced to migrate to the Caribbean, were able to regroup to form communities in which their specific philosophies and lifeways could be taught to their off spring. It details how the Abakuá mutual aid society of Cuba was recreated in the 1830s from several local variants of the Ékpè leopard society of West Africa’s Cross River basin.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the main themes and research methodology used in the presented study. This book tells the story of how several generations of West Africans, who were enslaved and forced to migrate to the Caribbean, were able to regroup to form communities in which their specific philosophies and lifeways could be taught to their off spring. It details how the Abakuá mutual aid society of Cuba was recreated in the 1830s from several local variants of the Ékpè leopard society of West Africa’s Cross River basin.
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780262535021
- eISBN:
- 9780262345859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262535021.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter discusses the abandonment of “tsetse control operations” as the war of self-liberation intensified, into the fog of war in which the methods designed for mhesvi and other pests are ...
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This chapter discusses the abandonment of “tsetse control operations” as the war of self-liberation intensified, into the fog of war in which the methods designed for mhesvi and other pests are extended to those vatema viewed as varwi verusununguko (freedom fighters) and those designated magandanga (terrorists). This does not mean all vatema and all vachena shared the same perspective or that all freedom fighters behaved consistently with that description but the majority did. This lumping together of “problem animals” and “problem people” into “vermin beings” justified the extension and slippage of instruments and methods from zvipukanana to the dehumanized munhu, whose elimination constituted a form of pest control.Less
This chapter discusses the abandonment of “tsetse control operations” as the war of self-liberation intensified, into the fog of war in which the methods designed for mhesvi and other pests are extended to those vatema viewed as varwi verusununguko (freedom fighters) and those designated magandanga (terrorists). This does not mean all vatema and all vachena shared the same perspective or that all freedom fighters behaved consistently with that description but the majority did. This lumping together of “problem animals” and “problem people” into “vermin beings” justified the extension and slippage of instruments and methods from zvipukanana to the dehumanized munhu, whose elimination constituted a form of pest control.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310256
- eISBN:
- 9781846312557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846310256.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on the literary achievements and socio-political outlooks of John Cowper Powys. It demonstrates that his very important life-philosophy is best understood as a form of ...
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This chapter focuses on the literary achievements and socio-political outlooks of John Cowper Powys. It demonstrates that his very important life-philosophy is best understood as a form of individualist anarchism. The chapter examines some of his philosophical books that elaborate his personal philosophy of individual self-liberation.Less
This chapter focuses on the literary achievements and socio-political outlooks of John Cowper Powys. It demonstrates that his very important life-philosophy is best understood as a form of individualist anarchism. The chapter examines some of his philosophical books that elaborate his personal philosophy of individual self-liberation.
Aline Helg
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469649634
- eISBN:
- 9781469649658
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649634.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
The epilogue briefly examines slave self-liberation strategies and legal emancipation in the fifty years following general emancipation in the British colonies in 1838 up to the abolition of slavery ...
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The epilogue briefly examines slave self-liberation strategies and legal emancipation in the fifty years following general emancipation in the British colonies in 1838 up to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. The epilogue explores differences in national trajectories to abolition, with particular attention paid to Cuba, Haiti, and the United States in order to show how these national narratives mask a longer history of repression, white compensation, and slave survival. While emancipation was eventually enacted across the Americas, many states' recalcitrance to liberate slaves-or to compensate them once emancipated-meant that even after 1838, slaves still relied on self-liberation in order to gain their freedom. Given the relative rarity of outright slave rebellion, many of the strategies of self-liberation-including self-purchase, flight, and enlistment-used by slaves before 1838 remained central to their attempt to gain freedom in the Americas even after British emancipation.Less
The epilogue briefly examines slave self-liberation strategies and legal emancipation in the fifty years following general emancipation in the British colonies in 1838 up to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. The epilogue explores differences in national trajectories to abolition, with particular attention paid to Cuba, Haiti, and the United States in order to show how these national narratives mask a longer history of repression, white compensation, and slave survival. While emancipation was eventually enacted across the Americas, many states' recalcitrance to liberate slaves-or to compensate them once emancipated-meant that even after 1838, slaves still relied on self-liberation in order to gain their freedom. Given the relative rarity of outright slave rebellion, many of the strategies of self-liberation-including self-purchase, flight, and enlistment-used by slaves before 1838 remained central to their attempt to gain freedom in the Americas even after British emancipation.
