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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Indigenous movement"”.
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Decolonizing Democratic Hegemony: The Indigenous Movement and Democratization in Ecuador
This thesis examines the role of the indigenous movement in Ecuador on the ongoing process of democratization in that country. My study demonstrates that a comprehensive social movement such as Ecuador's indigenous movement has great potential for having a positive impact on democracy. However, …
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Face Paint & Feathers: Ethnic Identity as Symbolic Resource in the Indigenous Movement of Ecuador
The indigenous of the Amazon region of Ecuador unite against the petroleum industry and destructive resource extraction practices in order to preserve environment and indigenous cultures. Since the 1990s, the indigenous movement of Ecuador has played out in the international arena and become a …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… white America and worked toward reunifying an indigenous culture that had been fragmented by colonization and diaspora. This discursive practice of reinscribing Mexican Indian ancestry is a political act that I refer to as narrating the Aztec Nation. Indigenous movement activists across the …
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Mediating Gender Violence: "Witnessing Publics," Activism, and the Ethics of Human Rights Claim Making
… organizations (NGOs) represent violence against indigenous women--in text, image, and action--as human rights "evidence." By ethics I mean the deliberate use of morals, stated or unstated, in the representation of human rights abuses. In New York, my research focuses on the production, launch, …
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Critiquing Ethnohermeneutics Theories: A Call for an Author-Oriented Approach to Cross-Cultural Biblical Interpretation
… ethnohermeneutics and its development out of the indigenous movement. For the sake of clarity, key terms are defined. The project background, methodology, and the limitations and delimitations are also stated in this chapter. Chapter 2 gives a history of the ethnohermeneutics theories of …
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Exploring the Integration of Indigenous Science in the Primary School Science Curriculum in Malawi
… out of theoretical academic constructs, the indigenous movement has attracted the attention of the Malawian education system to explore the value for contextualizing science by way of indigenous technologies. This is a milestone decision but the beginning is not smooth. However, indigenizing …
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Dochas is Duchas, Hope and Heritage Gaelscoileanna; Transforming Power and Linguistic Ideology
… and ideological contexts from which the movement emerges, and their place in contemporary Irish society. Employing ‘machine theory’, the project examines the movement as both the product of, and also productive of power, desire, and competing social realities. Chapter one examines the …
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A educação física na escola indígena: limites e possibilidades
… I also consider the articulations of the indigenous movement with other popular movements, a combination of various stregthens and ideas that give new meanings and directions to the defense of the Brazilian indians as legitimate members of the national multi-ethnic society. Next, I discuss …
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O direito a um passado na luta para existir no presente: disputas pela memória indígena nas escritas da História do Rio Grande do Norte (1994-2021)
… of Rio Grande do Norte, the existence of indigenous peoples in that state became public. However, this fact came into conflict with the narratives consolidated by the classical local historiography, which admitted a disappearance of these ethno-cultural identities in the state. In view of …
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Conflict And Solidarity Between Anti-Colonial Environmentalism, Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Resistance, And The Labour
… how Canadian nationalism is an obstacle to Indigenous solidarity and environmentalism. In 2020, the Shut Down Canada movement that started from Wet'suwet'en territories against building the CGL pipeline on their land, which was a scale-up from the Idle No More movement, underscored the …
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Papel de la etnicidad en la sociedad yucateca, El: una continuación del colonialismo interno en el sur de México
… greatly from Guatemala, where there exists an indigenous movement, the population of the Yucatan Peninsula does not want to identify as indigenous. In Guatemala, they utilize cultural markers which are distinctly Mayan-Guatemaltecos in order to identify themselves as members of the indigenous …
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La quebrada y la costa peruanas en voces narrativas a mediados del siglo XX: María Rosa Macedo y Sara María Larrabure
… one hand, it investigates the development of the indigenous movement in Peru, which influenced Macedo´s thinking but does not distinguish her as an indigenous writer per se, as were their contemporaries Ciro Alegría (<em>El mundo es ancho y ajeno, </em>1941) and José María Arguedas (<em>Yawar …
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Nunavut, A Creation Story. The Inuit Movement in Canada's Newest Territory
… that supported it as part of a larger Inuit Movement and argue that it meets the criteria for a social movement. This study bridges several social sciences disciplines, including newly emerging areas of study in social movements, conflict resolution, and Indigenous studies, and offers …