Situating Globality
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Situating Globality
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Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Situating Globality written by Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Situating Globality challenges the dominant view that globalization is a primary threat to African societies and economies. It explores how these societies are appropriating elements of the emerging global culture, arguing the significance of this appropriation in local struggles, the expression of critical thinking, ideologies and ritual styles of behaviour. Combining an interest for micro-level processes of situating the multifaceted process of globality with the exploration of reflexivity, creativity and the production of knowledge, Situating Globality straddles the divide between anthropological and philosophical representations of Africa in the new world order. The first section examines philosophical issues relating to the production of knowledge in and about Africa from a globalizing perspective, while the other sections include case studies showing how these processes are accommodated in everyday life.
Situating Globalization
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Author : Cynthia Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Situating Globalization written by Cynthia Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Business & Economics categories.
The range of perspectives and original materials dealt with here highlights the renewed urgency of the struggle for cultural autonomy and voice within the context of globalization. Each author explores how the various processes at both the local and global levels intersect to create new discourses and debates around the "indigenization of knowledge." If a new wind of cultural decolonization is blowing through the Arab Middle East and is having profound impact on the lives of men and women, then we should expect a new scholarship to emerge in order to grasp it. This book is a contribution in that direction. A key dimension concerns the issue of borders and boundaries. These are both real and imaginary (i.e., symbolic and metaphoric), hegemonic and counter-hegemonic. Among these borders are spatial ones that determine individuals' and communities' everyday location and place in the world--these include boundaries of class, gender, territory, and language. Each of these separations in turn has embedded in it, and rests on constructions of "imaginary" borders and boundaries. The real and imaginary do not exist as two disparate entities but are inextricably linked to each other in a dialectical move that simultaneously enables and disables movement and action. Current re-visioning of globalization challenges past suppositions. Globalization is a new form of an ongoing process that took inception during the heyday of colonialism. It might serve as a descriptive term to articulate the current historical period, but it remains theoretically problematic and imprecise. Situating Globalization picks up on the problematics of power and its dispersal and concentration. The bearers of these cultural flows seek legitimacy from their potential constituency by positing their language--cultural and religious--as local and therefore inherently in opposition to the hegemonic cultural knowledge that has seeped in from "outside" and led to disempowerment of local "peoples" and "knowledges." Bearers make no mention to this Islamist knowledge, of the "foreignness" of this idiom to many within the societies in question. Any attempt to contest their positioning and bearers of the indigenous results in charges of either betrayal or brainwashing. Cynthia Nelson is professor of anthropology and dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sarah Lawrence College. She is author of Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart. Shahnaz Rouse is a member of its sociology faculty. Her research interests and publications cover agrarian transformation; social movements; the state, religion and gender identity.
Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Africa categories.
Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".
The Sea Is History
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Author : Carmen Birkle
language : en
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
Release Date : 2009
The Sea Is History written by Carmen Birkle and has been published by Universitatsverlag Winter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
The paradigm of Atlantic studies combines the concerns of history, culture studies, and literature and takes as its area of inquiry the so-called "circum-Atlantic world," an oceanic space triangulated by the land masses of Europe, Africa, and the Americas. As a field of inquiry, Atlantic studies has thus emerged in recent years to question and modify academic thinking which understood culture and history predominantly along the lines of the nation-state. In re-focusing on the Atlantic as a space in-between, intercultural and interdisciplinary research can establish readings which add new dimensions to our study of cultures on three continents. Based on the theories of William Boelhower, Donna Gabaccia, and Bernard Bailyn, "The Sea ist History" explores cultural, literary, and historical phenomena ranging from colonial times to the present and focusing on issues such as the colonial Atlantic, the Atlantic slave trade, history in the Caribbean, and transatlantic relations and negotiations. The volume brings together writers of fiction as well as scholars from a variety of fields (literature, history, cultural anthropology, and sociology) whose work draws on genres such as prose, poetry, drama, historical documents, film, and music.
Commodification
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Author : Wim M. J. van Binsbergen
language : en
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Release Date : 2005
Commodification written by Wim M. J. van Binsbergen and has been published by Lit Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
The empirically rich and analytically provocative contributions to this volume focus on Africa and on the process through which commodities come into being. Commodifcation is shown to be a powerful tool towards understanding the modern world, especially South economies and South-North interactions today. It greatly illuminates the three central concepts things, agency, and identities, and thus is conducive to the much-needed dialogue between anthropology and economics. In the book, some of the original contributors of A. Appadurai's edited collection from 1986 The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective meet with today's prominent names in the field (Jean & John Comaroff, Paul & Jennifer Alexander, R. Dilley, M. Rowlands, and award-winning N. Rose Hunt) and with scholars of the next generation: B. Weiss, R. van Dijk, J. Roitman, J. Leach, and I. Stengs. Together with W. van Binsbergen and P. Geschiere, this team explores the dynamics of Commodification.
Paideuma
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Paideuma written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Ethnology categories.
How Colonialism Preempted Modernity In Africa
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Author : Olúfémi Táíwò
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Release Date : 2010-01-11
How Colonialism Preempted Modernity In Africa written by Olúfémi Táíwò and has been published by Indiana University Press (Ips) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Based on the idea that Africa was already becoming modern before being derailed by colonialism, the author insists that Africa can get back on track and advocates a renewed engagement with modernity. Tools toward shaping a positive future for Africa are immigration, capitalism, democracy, and globalization.
Ask And You Shall Be Given
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Author : Robert Mbe Akoko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Ask And You Shall Be Given written by Robert Mbe Akoko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Cameroon categories.
Religion Culture Curriculum And Diversity In 21st Century America
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Author : Mary Alice Trent
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2007
Religion Culture Curriculum And Diversity In 21st Century America written by Mary Alice Trent and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Comprised of fifteen essays, Religion, Culture, Curriculum, and Diversity in 21st Century America, provides a cutting-edge examination of diversity issues against the backdrop of curriculum development and outcomes in Christian higher education. The primary focus on diversity of race, ethnicity, and disabilities is explored in comparison with institutional changes in these areas that harmonize the efforts of administration, faculty, and students. Hiring practices are analyzed, as well as recruitment and retention of minority faculty and students. This works' secondary focus is on similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam regarding international customs and norms of immigrants, primarily from Africa, Asia, and India on America's Christian academia. The work is reader-friendly and recommended for students and scholars as well as for laypersons desirous of keeping pace with current diversity trends in American culture and religion.
Who Pays The Price
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Author : Mally Shechory
language : en
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Who Pays The Price written by Mally Shechory and has been published by Nova Science Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Why is labour migration an issue of such public, social and political concern? How did it acquire such an importance? This book deals with exploitation on a massive scale. It is estimated that there are roughly 20 to 30 million unauthorised migrants world-wide, comprising 10%-15% of the world's immigrant stock. The book focuses on migrant workers, accompanied by as many dependants, who are driven by circumstances beyond their control to work in a country other than their own, in a foreign society that cannot function without them. Most countries admit only a limited number of labour immigrants to meet their labour market needs and priorities. The papers presented in this book cover a wide range of areas from various aspects. The points of view on and from different countries try to look at the very complex subject of migrant labourers from three main aspects -- social, legal and criminological. Theses papers cover a wide range of areas such as - prejudices and racial intolerance, official policies, living and health conditions, psychological and psychiatry aspects, criminality and victimisation and human trafficking. Some of the papers advance the Conflict theory, which seeks to catalogue the ways in which those in power seek to stay in power. Others reflect on basic facts advanced by other sociological and criminological theories.