Race Nature And The Politics Of Difference

Author : Donald S. Moore,Jake Kosek,Anand Pandian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330911

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Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference by Donald S. Moore,Jake Kosek,Anand Pandian Pdf

How do race and nature work as terrains of power? From eighteenth-century claims that climate determined character to twentieth-century medical debates about the racial dimensions of genetic disease, concepts of race and nature are integrally connected, woven into notions of body, landscape, and nation. Yet rarely are these complex entanglements explored in relation to the contemporary cultural politics of difference. This volume takes up that challenge. Distinguished contributors chart the traffic between race and nature across sites including rainforests, colonies, and courtrooms. Synthesizing a number of fields—anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory—this collection analyzes diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations. Contributors draw on thinkers such as Fanon, Foucault, and Gramsci to investigate themes ranging from exclusionary notions of whiteness and wilderness in North America to linguistic purity in Germany. Some essayists focus on the racialized violence of imperial rule and evolutionary science and the biopolitics of race and class in the Guatemalan civil war. Others examine how race and nature are fused in biogenetic discourse—in the emergence of “racial diseases” such as sickle cell anemia, in a case of mistaken in vitro fertilization in which a white couple gave birth to a black child, and even in the world of North American dog breeding. Several essays tackle the politics of representation surrounding environmental justice movements, transnational sex tourism, and indigenous struggles for land and resource rights in Indonesia and Brazil. Contributors. Bruce Braun, Giovanna Di Chiro, Paul Gilroy, Steven Gregory, Donna Haraway, Jake Kosek, Tania Murray Li, Uli Linke, Zine Magubane, Donald S. Moore, Diane Nelson, Anand Pandian, Alcida Rita Ramos, Keith Wailoo, Robyn Wiegman

Author : Anand Pandian,Jake Kosek,Donald S. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ethnic relations
ISBN : 6612920653

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Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference by Anand Pandian,Jake Kosek,Donald S. Moore Pdf

A collection of essays that show the interdependence of concepts of race and nature.

Author : Michelle Montgomery
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607325444

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Identity Politics of Difference by Michelle Montgomery Pdf

In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status affects their educational success and social interactions. Montgomery contextualizes students’ representations of their racial identity choices through the compounded race politics of blood quantum and stereotypes of physical features, showing how varying degrees of "Indianness" are determined by peer groups. Based on in-depth interviews with nine students who identify as mixed-race (Native American–White, Native American–Black, and Native American–Hispanic), Montgomery challenges us to scrutinize how the category of “mixed-race” bears different meanings for those who fall under it based on their outward perceptions, including their ability to "pass" as one race or another. Identity Politics of Difference includes an arsenal of policy implications for advancing equity and social justice in tribal colleges and beyond and actively engages readers to reflect on how they have experienced the identity politics of race throughout their own lives. The book will be a valuable resource to scholars, policy makers, teachers, and school administrators, as well as to students and their families.

Author : Howard Winant
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816642809

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The New Politics of Race by Howard Winant Pdf

'The New Politics of Race' brings together Winant's new and previously published essays to form a comprehensive picture of the origins and nature of the complex racial politics that engulf us today.

Author : Rita Dhamoon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 077485877X

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Identity/Difference Politics by Rita Dhamoon Pdf

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates about identity and difference politics in contemporary western political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a nuanced critique of these debates by switching the focus from culture to power. Issues of power are examined through accounts of meaning-making – those processes through which meanings of difference are produced, organized, and regulated. Other forms of identity/difference such as whiteness, ableism, gender, and heteronormativity establish the analytic and normative value of Dhamoon’s alternative theoretical framework, and reveal that an exclusive preoccupation with culture can dissolve into essentialism – which too often provides a rationale for state regulation of groups deemed to be too different.

Author : Jake Kosek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822338475

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Understories by Jake Kosek Pdf

A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

Author : Ann Morning
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520270312

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The Nature of Race by Ann Morning Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-303) and index.

Author : Graham Wallas
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412825695

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Human Nature in Politics by Graham Wallas Pdf

If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take it out with the corner of his handkerchief, I generally close the eye as soon as the handkerchief comes near, and always feel a strong impulse to do so. Nobody supposes that I close my eye because, after due consideration, I think it my interest to do so.

Author : Iris Marion Young,Danielle S. Allen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691152622

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Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young,Danielle S. Allen Pdf

"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674417809

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Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson Pdf

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities, in becoming American, were re-racialized to become Caucasian.

Author : Katharina Schramm,David Skinner,Richard Rottenburg
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452542

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Identity Politics and the New Genetics by Katharina Schramm,David Skinner,Richard Rottenburg Pdf

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular importance is the preoccupation with origins and personal discovery and the increasing use of racial and ethnic categories in social policy. This new genetic knowledge, expressed in technology and practice, has the potential to disrupt how race and ethnicity are debated, managed and lived. As such, this volume investigates the ways in which existing social categories are both maintained and transformed at the intersection of the natural (sciences) and the cultural (politics). The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists, historians of science and sociologists of race relations; together, they explore the new and challenging landscape where biology becomes the stuff of identity.

Author : Jean-Frédéric Schaub
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691171616

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Race Is about Politics by Jean-Frédéric Schaub Pdf

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinking Racial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and racism. But do we? In this original and provocative book, acclaimed historian Jean-Frédéric Schaub shows that we don't—and that we need to rethink the widespread assumption that racism is essentially a modern form of discrimination based on skin color and other visible differences. On the contrary, Schaub argues that to understand racism we must look at historical episodes of collective discrimination where there was no visible difference between people. Built around notions of identity and otherness, race is above all a political tool that must be understood in the context of its historical origins. Although scholars agree that races don't exist except as ideological constructions, they disagree about when these ideologies emerged. Drawing on historical research from the early modern period to today, Schaub makes the case that the key turning point in the political history of race in the West occurred not with the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, as many historians have argued, but much earlier, in fifteenth-century Spain and Portugal, with the racialization of Christians of Jewish and Muslim origin. These Christians were discriminated against under the new idea that they had negative social and moral traits that were passed from generation to generation through blood, semen, or milk—an idea whose legacy has persisted through the age of empires to today. Challenging widespread definitions of race and offering a new chronology of racial thinking, Schaub shows why race must always be understood in the context of its political history.

Author : Bernard R. Crick
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226120643

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In Defence of Politics by Bernard R. Crick Pdf

Author : Davin L. Phoenix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108485906

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The Anger Gap by Davin L. Phoenix Pdf

Anger can be a powerful political resource, but it mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality.

Author : Ryan S. Gustafsson,Rebecca Hill,Helen Ngo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780429867170

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Philosophies of Difference by Ryan S. Gustafsson,Rebecca Hill,Helen Ngo Pdf

Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems. Insisting on the inseparability of ontology, ethics and politics, the essays and interview in this volume offer original and timely approaches to thinking nature, sexuate difference, racism, and decoloniality. The collection draws on a range of sources, including Latin American Indigenous ontologies and philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Mills, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The contributors think embodiment and life by bringing continental philosophy into generative dialogue with fields including plant studies, animal studies, decoloniality, feminist theory, philosophy of race, and law. Affirming the importance of interdisciplinarity, Philosophies of Difference contributes to a creative and critical intervention into established norms, limits, and categories. Invoking a conception of difference as both constitutive and generative, this collection offers new and important insights into how a rethinking of difference may ground new and more ethical modes of being and being-with. Philosophies of Difference unearths the constructive possibilities of difference for an ethics of relationality, and for elaborating non-anthropocentric sociality. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in Australian Feminist Law Journal.