El relato testimonial Biografía de un cimarrón de Miguel Barnet es uno de los pioneros del género narrativo y ha llamado la atención de la crítica desde el momento de su publicación. La ...novela-testimonio es vista por investigadores como un texto que permite el acceso del público lector a una episteme “genuina”, salvaguardada por un testigo de eventos históricos. El objetivo principal del presente artículo es demostrar que el relato del cimarrón y exmambí Esteban Montejo abre nuevos caminos de lectura y análisis de momentos históricos. En especial, nos enfocaremos en sus declaraciones sobre la guerra de la Independencia Cubana. Con este propósito, utilizaremos como herramienta metodológica la teoría de los Estudios Subalternos. El análisis pondrá en evidencia la negación de la agencia afrocubana en la historia oficial de la época independentista en Cuba, y ofrecerá una lectura de los eventos que reconozca el importante aporte afrodescendiente.
Thèses de Lyon Gramsci, Antonio
Tracés (Lyons, France),
11/2023, Letnik:
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The “Lyon Theses” are a unique document on the interwar European crisis and the changes in the mass parties inherited from the 19th century. The future secretary of the Italian Communist Party ...analyses the structural causes of the Italian political crisis, of which Fascism was the climax, and deduces the party’s mission and internal organization. The national crisis is referred to the formation of the risorgimentale State, with its specific coalition of ruling classes, and then to the disconnection of the main mass parties from the social needs of the subaltern classes: the industrial proletariat of the North and the peasantry of the South. Because of the social and geographical dualism that separates them, the Communist Party is charged with the historic mission of building the conditions for their alliance, which the industrial bourgeoisie and the urban petty-bourgeoisie, hegemonic under fascism, aim precisely to counter.
The concept of subaltern urbanization is about vibrant smaller settlements—outside the metropolitan shadow—sustainably supporting a dispersed pattern of urbanization. We propose a theoretical ...framework which draws on an empirical research collective using both large statistical and land‐use data sets and detailed case studies in non‐metropolitan Indian geographies. Anchored in postcolonial urban studies, it looks beyond the logic of agglomeration and questions our understanding of settlement hierarchies and the location of social and economic innovation processes, opening up an alternative reading of urbanization that could be valuable for other regions. Local agency is core to this concept, transporting the arguments of the ordinary and the subaltern beyond large cities. Our findings, apart from emphasizing the agency of smaller settlements, highlight their multiple local and translocal flows, shaping an autonomous external engagement that could exist independently of relationships with large cities. Further, even though the rural and the urban seep into each other, they do so organically, unlike the process in planetary urbanization. Additionally, the rural‐urban dichotomy remains performative, in that governance regimes influence the urbanization process. Appreciation of these dynamics can provide insights towards a better understanding of the system of human settlements, which is our goal in advancing this framework.
The essay emphasises the relevance of Gayatri Spivak's work in analysing Indian activism for gender/sexual rights. It underlines the exclusionary rubrics of the transnational biopolitical mapping of ...the gender(ed) subaltern. The essay builds narratives from the life-story account of A. Revathi -whose writing and activism demystify the global imperialist project of power in determining the universal sexed representation of gender liminal individuals. The ongoing debate in the essay leaps across an ontological disjuncture of the global epidemiological equation of the sexual subaltern as a universal fixed category. Instead, deploying Revathi's story and Spivak's theorization, the essay builds the deconstructive project of the hierarchized monolinguistic conceptual framework by the global metropole -offering a provincial/local call for self-representation.
Dada la crisis de los grandes paradigmas interpretativos del pasado es pertinente implementar, en el aula, situaciones de aprendizaje basadas en el análisis de las mentalidades populares. Con el ...objetivo de dotar al alumnado de las herramientas conceptuales para comprender el mundo actual y las relaciones sociales y de género en su perspectiva histórica, cabe un cambio historiográfico y epistemológico basado en el uso de diferentes fuentes. La nueva legislación educativa impele a reenfocar los contenidos de forma competencial mediante el recurso a las emociones y cogniciones. La Historia social de la Edad Moderna se trabaja mediante ciertos saberes básicos con el objetivo de desarrollar las competencias específicas. desde Situaciones de Aprendizaje desarrolladas sobre la empatía histórica en miniproyectos sobre la caza de brujas. Este acercamiento histórico a las relaciones de género excluyentes y a la brujería y su persecución suscita situaciones de empatía al comparar estos procesos con las experiencias vitales del alumnado. Respecto de los objetivos, cabe acercarse a la construcción del género desde la significatividad psicológica mediante la metodología cooperativa y desde los miniproyectos. Se generan situaciones de empatía para comprender de forma más operativa el fenómeno en su contexto histórico.
Can the ancestors speak? For the 2022 annual meeting of the Religious Education Association (REA), themed "Becoming Good Ancestors," an essential question is, "can the ancestors speak?" To answer ...this question, the presidential address seeks to uncover: who are the REA's ancestors? Where are they speaking? What is the guild's role in forming good ancestors? The address claims that not all ancestors can communicate their knowledge in the guild's current form, ways of gathering, or ways of forming scholars. Yet, there is potential in the REA's work to be more inclusive of our many ancestral lineages.
Amazonian struggles for recognition Fraser, James Angus
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965),
December 2018, 2018-12-00, 20181201, Letnik:
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Since the 1988 Constitution, forest peoples of Brazilian Amazonia have been struggling for territorial recognition. Yet studies of recognition in post colonial contexts, based on cases with clear ...settler/indigenous distinctions, are highly critical of recognition, seeing it as a form of “neoliberal multiculturalism,” a co‐option of subaltern identities with limited emancipatory potential. I question these critiques by examining struggles for legal and intersubjective recognition of subaltern identity categories “Índio” and “Agroextractivista” and corresponding territories of the “Terra Indigena” and “Reserva Extractivista” on the Madeira and Tapajós Rivers in Brazilian Amazonia, where heterogeneous origins of forest peoples belie simple settler/indigenous distinctions. I engage a key question, the relationships of subaltern peoples with state institutions, and highlight a finding, the relevance of the state's “proximity,” often underestimated in the literature. I build a theory of decolonial recognition combining Axel Honneth's idea of recognition as love, rights and solidarity with David Scott's late‐Foucauldian reworking of Frantz Fanon. Herein, the Fanonian colonised subjectivity is shaped by the negation of love, rights and solidarity, that is to say, misrecognition. The subject requires legal and intersubjective recognition in order to positively incorporate love, rights and solidarity into their “practices of techniques of the self.” On the Tapajós, territorial struggles are more successful owing to a stronger sphere of legal recognition – the presence of state institutions – and a history of Church and union grassroots organisation, both supporting greater intersubjective recognition among forest peoples. On the Madeira, a much weaker sphere of legal recognition has resulted in a situation of intractable conflict around territorial struggles which have correspondingly less intersubjective recognition. I conclude that a theory of decolonial recognition is of considerable utility in elucidating the dynamics of subaltern emancipatory struggles for territory.
Playing Subaltern Mukherjee, Souvik
Games and culture,
07/2018, Letnik:
13, Številka:
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The postcolonial has still remained on the margins of Game Studies, which has now incorporated at length, contemporary debates of race, gender, and other areas that challenge the canon. It is ...difficult to believe, however, that it has not defined the way in which video games are perceived; the effect, it can be argued, is subtle. For the millions of Indians playing games such as Empire: Total War or East India Company, their encounter with colonial history is direct and unavoidable, especially given the pervasiveness of postcolonial reactions in everything from academia to day-to-day conversation around them. The ways in which games construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics, and society are often deeply imbued with a notion of the colonial and therefore also with the questioning of colonialism. This article aims to examine the complexities that the postcolonial undertones in video games bring to the ways in which we read them.
Probing the nature of social mobilization of minorities germinating from the COVID-19 crisis is the focal point of this paper. While medico-scientific discourses to fight the Pandemic gained ground ...in Global North, the Global South is still grappling with pseudo-knowledge/occult science narratives. The BJP displayed spectacular political opportunism during this Pandemic by prescribing traditional health practices to gain a hegemonic sway over the masses who became objects in this pedagogical discourse, often coupled with islamophobic propaganda birthed conspiracy theories binarily structured on ‘Otherness’. The purpose of this paper is to reveal findings of a self-conducted survey of the social activities of a former squatter colony based in Kolkata to examine subaltern consciousness/agency demonstrated through gaps and fissures of negotiation with power structures. Often alternate translational spaces showed possibilities of articulation from such indeterminacy and dissent. This paper’s crux is built on such collective activities like propitiating Corona Devi through religious rituals that draw precedent from similar subaltern community movements during the British Raj to counter epidemics by the worship of ‘Sitaladevi/Salabai’. The paper traces historical contingency in subaltern resistance within the domain of conflicting relations between tradition and rationality.
In this study, we surface the problems of representation mainstream organizational theory encounters in documenting and telling accounts of subaltern actors and social transformation. We explore how ...writing practices that draw on feminist postcolonial literary traditions can transform organizational studies of social change. Drawing on three literary texts—Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi, Urmila Pawar's The Weave of My Life, and Arundhati Roy's Ministry of Utmost Happiness—we reflect on how we may represent the lives of others. Inspired by these three writers, we suggest solidaristic transgression, unsettled habitation, and counter‐discursive memory work as three modes of engagement that challenge us as academics writing for change.
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