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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
This book documents and interprets the trajectory of ethnographic
museums in Tunisia from the colonial to the post-revolutionary
period, demonstrating changes and continuities in role, setting and
architecture across shifting ideological landscapes. The display of
everyday culture in museums is generally looked down upon as being
kitsch and old-fashioned. This research shows that, in Tunisia,
ethnographic museums have been highly significant sites in the
definition of social identities. They have worked as sites that
diffuse social, economic and political tensions through a vast
array of means, such as the exhibition itself, architecture,
activities, tourism, and consumerism. The book excavates the
evolution of paradigms in which Tunisian popular identity has been
expressed through the ethnographic museum, from the modernist
notion of 'indigenous authenticity' under colonial time, to efforts
at developing a Tunisian ethnography after Independence, and more
recent conceptions of cultural diversity since the revolution.
Based on a combination of archival research in Tunisia and in
France, participant observation and interviews with past and
present protagonists in the Tunisian museum field, this research
brings to light new material on an understudied area.
Agrarian social movements are at a crossroads. Although these
movements have made significant strides in advancing the concept of
food sovereignty, the reality is that many of their members remain
engaged in environmentally degrading forms of agriculture, and the
lands they farm are increasingly unproductive. Whether movement
farmers will be able to remain living on the land, and dedicated to
alternative agricultural practices, is a pressing question. The
Political Ecology of Education examines the opportunities for and
constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril
settlement, a community born out of a massacre of landless
Brazilian workers in 1996. Based on immersive fieldwork over the
course of seven years, David Meek makes the provocative argument
that critical forms of food systems education are integral to
agrarian social movements' survival. While the need for critical
approaches is especially immediate in the Amazon, Meek's study
speaks to the burgeoning attention to food systems education at
various educational levels worldwide, from primary to postgraduate
programs. His book calls us to rethink the politics of the possible
within these pedagogies.
This 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy
presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex
development challenges associated with Africa's recent but
extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still
predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent.
Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and
perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the
continent, the authors consider the evolution of international
development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social,
economic and political contexts of Africa's urban development.
Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire
Benit-Gbaffou, Karen Buscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz,
Ton Dietz, Till Foerster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth
Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren
Smit, and Florian Stoll.
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