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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology
This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans
deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history?
Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often
contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans
have traditionally identified in opposition to their neighbors on
the island of Hispaniola - Haitians of African descent - she finds
that the Dominican Republic's social elite has long propagated a
national creation myth that conceives of the Dominican as a perfect
hybrid of native islanders and Spanish settlers. Yet as she pores
through rare historical documents, interviews contemporary
Dominicans, and recalls her own childhood memories of life on the
island, Ricourt encounters persistent challenges to this myth.
Through fieldwork at the Dominican-Haitian border, she gives a
firsthand look at how Dominicans are resisting the official account
of their national identity and instead embracing the African
influence that has always been part of their cultural heritage.
Building on the work of theorists ranging from Edward Said to
Edouard Glissant, this book expands our understanding of how
national and racial imaginaries develop, why they persist, and how
they might be subverted. As it confronts Hispaniola's dark legacies
of slavery and colonial oppression, The Dominican Racial Imaginary
also delivers an inspiring message on how multicultural communities
might cooperate to disrupt the enduring power of white supremacy.
Cybercartography in a Reconciliation Community: Engaging
Intersecting Perspectives, Volume Eight gathers perspectives on
issues related to reconciliation-primarily in a residential /
boarding school context-and demonstrates the unifying power of
Cybercartography by identifying intersections among different
knowledge perspectives. Concerned with understanding approaches
toward reconciliation and education, preference is given to
reflexivity in research and knowledge dissemination. The
positionality aspect of reflexivity is reflected in the chapter
contributions concerning various aspects of cybercartographic atlas
design and development research, and related activities. In this
regard, the book offers theoretical and practical knowledge of
collaborative transdisciplinary research through its reflexive
assessment of the relationships, processes and knowledge involved
in cybercartographic research. Using, most specifically, the
Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project for context,
Cybercartography in a Reconciliation Community provides a high
speed tour through the project's innovative collaborative approach
to mapping institutional material and volunteered geographic
information. Exploring Cybercartography through the lens of this
atlas project provides for a comprehensive understanding of both
Cybercartography and transdisciplinary research, while informing
the reader of education and reconciliation initiatives in Canada,
the U.S., the U.K. and Italy.
Further Developments in the Theory and Practice of
Cybercartography, Third Edition, Volume Nine, presents a
substantively updated edition of a classic text on
cybercartography, presenting new and returning readers alike with
the latest advances in the field. The book examines the major
elements of cybercartography and embraces an interactive, dynamic,
multisensory format with the use of multimedia and multimodal
interfaces. Material covering the major elements, key ideas and
definitions of cybercartography is newly supplemented by several
chapters on two emerging areas of study, including international
dimensions and language mapping. This new edition delves deep into
Mexico, Brazil, Denmark, Iran and Kyrgyzstan, demonstrating how
insights emerge when cybercartography is applied in different
cultural contexts. Meanwhile, other chapters contain case studies
by a talented group of linguists who are breaking new ground by
applying cybercartography to language mapping, a breakthrough that
will provide new ways of understanding the distribution and
movement of language and culture.
During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political
dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by
intellectuals across Europe. John Millar, a Scottish law professor
and philosopher, was a pioneer in making gendered and familial
practice a critical parameter of cultural difference. His work was
widely disseminated at home and abroad, translated into French and
German and closely read by philosophers such as Denis Diderot and
Johann Gottfried Herder. Taking Millar's writings as his basis,
Nicholas B. Miller explores the role of the family in Scottish
Enlightenment political thought and traces its wider resonances
across the Enlightenment world. John Millar's organisation of
cultural, gendered and social difference into a progressive
narrative of authority relations provided the first extended world
history of the family. Over five chapters that address the
historical and comparative models developed by the thinker,
Nicholas B. Miller examines contemporary responses and
Enlightenment-era debates on polygamy, matriarchy, the Amazon
legend, changes in national character and the possible futures of
the family in commercial society. He traces how Enlightenment
thinkers developed new standards of evidence and crafted new
understandings of historical time in order to tackle the global
diversity of family life and gender practice. By reconstituting
these theories and discussions, Nicholas B. Miller uncovers
hitherto unexplored aspects of the Scottish contribution to
European debates on the role of the family in history, society and
politics.
The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines the
social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience
of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses,
and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to
local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity.
Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize,
Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and
Spain. Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and
the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary
practice has become foundational for local identities. The book
also discusses the unfolding construction of "local taste" in the
context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural
political divides are created between meat consumption and
vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class,
popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. In
addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as
kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market
of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and
shaping taste and political identities.
Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and
Activisms examines the processes by which activist successes are
limited, outlines a theoretical framing of the liminal and temporal
limits to social justice efforts as "contained empowerment." With a
focused lens on the third wave and contemporary forms of feminism,
the author investigates feminist activity from the early 1990s
through responses and reactions to the overturning of Roe v. Wade
in 2022, and contrasts these efforts with anti-feminist, white
supremacist, and other structural normalizing efforts designed to
limit and repress women's, gendered, and reproductive rights. This
book includes analyses of celebrity activism, girl power,
transnational feminist NGOs, digital feminisms, and the feminist
mimicry applied by practitioners of neo-liberal and anti-feminism.
Victoria A. Newsome concludes that the contained nature of feminist
empowerment illustrates how activists must engage directly with
intersectional challenges and address the multiplicities of
structural oppressions in order to breach containment.
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