Indigenous Networks At The Margins Of Development

Author : Giovanna Micarelli
Publisher : Edtitorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789587168198

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Indigenous Networks at the Margins of Development by Giovanna Micarelli Pdf

This work is based on research and advocacy with the people of two multiethnic indigenous resguardos located at the outskirts of the Colombian towns of Leticia and Puerto Nariño. Through an analysis of the relationship between development institutions and indigenous people, the book examines the dynamics of social praxis in contexts where development is debated, enforced, and subverted, and it does so in a dialogue with the critical perspective of post-development, and the critiques woven by indigenous people on the basis of their experiences, world-views, and embodied perceptions of well-being. In spite of being the postulate of development “the improvement of the people’s quality of life,”indigenous people express the feeling that their life quality has become worse as development projects proceed, and they see themselves as both physically and spiritually ill. While they become increasingly involved in the development apparatus, they strive to resist the implicit beliefs of development as well as its practical workings. In a situation of crisis, which pervades, as a virus, the human, social, and cosmic bodies, indigenous people endeavor to cure the pathogenic energy of development through the strengthening of cultural meanings and the weaving of intercultural alliances. For the supra-ethnic ensemble known as People of the Center, this twofold process is articulated through the ritual consumption of coca and tobacco. This work asks why this philosophical and ritual system is able to resonate in an indigenous multicultural context, and how it generates schemas for political agency that intertwine in a powerful way healing, dissent, and the consolidation of intercultural networks

Author : Mario Blaser,Glenn McRae,Harvey Feit
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848137042

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In the Way of Development by Mario Blaser,Glenn McRae,Harvey Feit Pdf

A collaboration between indigenous leaders, social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, In the Way of Development explores the current situation of indigenous peoples enmeshed in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy. The volume assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations all starting with indigenous peoples as actors, not victims. The accounts come primarily from North America, but include also studies from South America, and the former Soviet Union. In the Way of Development shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. This fact makes local political agency possible, but also, ironically, opens the possibility of undermining it.

Author : Lin Poyer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824891817

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War at the Margins by Lin Poyer Pdf

War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world’s political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities’ commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century’s end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity.

Author : Tema Milstein,José Castro-Sotomayor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351068826

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Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity by Tema Milstein,José Castro-Sotomayor Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity brings the ecological turn to sociocultural understandings of self. The editors introduce a broad, insightful assembly of original theory and research on planetary positionalities in flux in the Anthropocene – or what in this Handbook cultural ecologist David Abram presciently renames the Humilocene, a new “epoch of humility.” Forty international authors craft a kaleidoscopic lens, focusing on the following key interdisciplinary inquiries: Part I illuminates identity as always ecocultural, expanding dominant understandings of who we are and how our ways of identifying engender earthly outcomes. Part II examines ways ecocultural identities are fostered and how difference and spaces of interaction can be sources of environmental conviviality. Part III illustrates consequential ways the media sphere informs, challenges, and amplifies particular ecocultural identities. Part IV delves into the constitutive power of ecocultural identities and illuminates ways ecological forces shape the political sphere. Part V demonstrates multiple and unspooling ways in which ecocultural identities can evolve and transform to recall ways forward to reciprocal surviving and thriving. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity provides an essential resource for scholars, teachers, students, protectors, and practitioners interested in ecological and sociocultural regeneration. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity has been awarded the 2020 Book Award from the National Communication Association's (USA) Environmental Communication Division.

Author : Jane Carey,Jane Lydon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317659327

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Indigenous Networks by Jane Carey,Jane Lydon Pdf

This edited collection argues for the importance of recovering Indigenous participation within global networks of imperial power and wider histories of "transnational" connections. It takes up a crucial challenge for new imperial and transnational histories: to explore the historical role of colonized and subaltern communities in these processes, and their legacies in the present. Bringing together prominent and emerging scholars who have begun to explore Indigenous networks and "transnational" encounters, and to consider the broader significance of "extra-local" connections, exchanges and mobility for Indigenous peoples, this work engages closely with some of the key historical scholarship on transnationalism and the networks of European imperialism. Chapters deploy a range of analytic scales, including global, regional and intra-Indigenous networks, and methods, including histories of ideas and cultural forms and biography, as well as exploring contemporary legacies. In drawing these perspectives together, this book charts an important new direction in research.

Author : Farah Mihlar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907919384

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Voices from the Margins by Farah Mihlar Pdf

Author : Katia Iankova,Azizul Hassan,Rachel L'Abbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317117315

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Indigenous People and Economic Development by Katia Iankova,Azizul Hassan,Rachel L'Abbe Pdf

Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa. A considerable amount of research has been done during the twentieth century mainly by anthropologists, sociologists and linguists in order to describe, and document their traditional life style for the protection and safeguarding of their established knowledge, skills, languages and beliefs. These communities are engaging and adapting rapidly to the changing circumstances partly caused by post modernisation and the process of globalization. These have led them to aspire to better living standards, as well as preserving their uniqueness, approaches to environment, close proximity to social structures and communities. For at least the last two decades, patterns of increased economic activity by indigenous peoples in many countries have been viewed to be significantly on the rise. Indigenous People and Economic Development reveals some of the characteristics of this economic activity, 'coloured' by the unique regard and philosophy of life that indigenous people around the world have. The successes, difficulties and obstacles to economic development, their solutions and innovative practices in business - all of these elements, based on research findings, are discussed in this book and offer an inside view of the dynamics of the indigenous societies which are evolving in a globalised and highly interconnected contemporary world.

Author : Anabela Carvalho,Julie Doyle,Chris Russill
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782889712793

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Critical Approaches to Climate Change and Civic Action by Anabela Carvalho,Julie Doyle,Chris Russill Pdf

Author : Gerhard Gerold,Michael Fremerey,Edi Guhardja
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783662082379

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Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia by Gerhard Gerold,Michael Fremerey,Edi Guhardja Pdf

Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and provision of high quality wa ter, which cannot be replaced by alternative ecosystems. However, various forms of encroachment, mostly those made by human interventions, seriously threaten the continuance of rainforests in this area. There is ample evidence that the rainforest resources, apart from large scale commercial logging, are exposed to danger particularly from its margin areas. These areas, which are characterized by intensive man-nature interaction, have been identified as extremely fragile systems. The dynamic equilibrium that bal ances human needs and interventions on the one hand, and natural regeneration capacity on the other, is at stake. The decrease of rainforest resources is, to a sub stantial degree, connected with the destabilization of these systems. Accordingly, the search for measures and processes, which prevent destabilization and promote stability is regarded as imperative. This refers to both the human and the natural part of the forest margin ecosystem.

Author : Robert Potter,Tony Binns,Jennifer A. Elliott,Etienne Nel,David W. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000024180

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Geographies of Development by Robert Potter,Tony Binns,Jennifer A. Elliott,Etienne Nel,David W. Smith Pdf

Now in its fourth edition, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies remains a core, balanced and comprehensive introductory textbook for students of Development Studies, Development Geography and related fields. This clear and concise text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demonstrates informatively that ideas concerning development have been many and varied and highly contested - varying from time to time and from place to place. Clearly written and accessible for students, who have no prior knowledge of development, the book provides the basics in terms of a geographical approach to development what situation is, where, when and why. Over 200 maps, charts, tables, textboxes and pictures break up the text and offer alternative ways of showing the information. The text is further enhanced by a range of pedagogical features: chapter outlines, case studies, key thinkers, critical reflections, key points and summaries, discussion topics and further reading. Geographies of Development continues to be an invaluable introductory text not only for geography students, but also anyone in area studies, international studies and development studies.

Author : Reginald Byron,James Walsh,Proinnsias Breathnach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429796395

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Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin by Reginald Byron,James Walsh,Proinnsias Breathnach Pdf

First published in 1997, this timely collection of papers takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining sustainable development in a wide range of countries such as Ireland, Norway and Wales on the North Atlantic Margin. It features specialists in geography, social anthropology, tourism, sociology, regional studies, business, municipality studies, health policy and the rural economy. The contributors argue that a free marketplace and natural-resource sustainability are not always incompatible for green policies to be successful.

Author : R. Westwood,G. Jack,F. Khan,M. Frenkel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137309051

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Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies by R. Westwood,G. Jack,F. Khan,M. Frenkel Pdf

Core-Periphery Relations and Organization Studies draws together postcolonial and indigenous thinking through the conceptual lens of core-periphery relations to advance debate in organization studies. A particular aim of this book is to broaden, deepen and critically reassert a postcolonial imagination in this domain.

Author : Reginald Byron,John Hutson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429777400

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Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin by Reginald Byron,John Hutson Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume offers contrasting views from a variety of academic disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, management studies, planning, and sociology, which focus on the single two-fold problem of how to understand these issues and what, practically, might be done about them.

Author : Kate Meagher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847010162

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Identity Economics by Kate Meagher Pdf

This book is essential reading for those interested in the role of the informal economy in contemporary processes of growth and economic governance in Africa.

Author : Robyn Eversole,John-Andrew McNeish,Alberto D. Cimadamore
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848137059

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Indigenous Peoples and Poverty by Robyn Eversole,John-Andrew McNeish,Alberto D. Cimadamore Pdf

This book brings together two of today's leading concerns in development policy - the urgent need to prioritize poverty reduction and the particular circumstances of indigenous peoples in both developing and industrialized countries. The contributors analyse patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide, the centrality of the right to self-determination, and indigenous people's own diverse perspectives on development. Several fundamental and difficult questions are explored, including the right balance to be struck between autonomy and participation, and the tension between a new wave of assimilationism in the guise of 'pro-poor' and 'inclusionary' development policies and the fact that such policies may in fact provide new spaces for indigenous peoples to advance their demands. In this regard, one overall conclusion that emerges is that both differences and commonalities must be recognised in any realistic study of indigenous poverty.