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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Rastafari"”.
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"Hear Dem Cryin:" Rastafari and Framing Processes in Reggae Music
… of a marginalized oppressed group, the Rastafarians. The contemporary social movement literature focuses heavily on framing processes, how movement members portray their grievances to potential sympathizers. Reggae music is the most popular vehicle for the Rastafarians to disperse their …
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Stepping in Iration: Rastafari Ital Livity, Ecologies and Ecotheologies in Saint Lucia/Iyanola
… present within the philosophical outlooks of the Rastafari spiritual movement in St Lucia/Iyanola. Primarily, this research seeks to elucidate “Ital Livity”, a bricolage of Rastafari philosophical and cosmological concepts, and to place it in contemporary dialogue taking place in ecological and …
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Jah in the Flesh: An Examination of Spirit, Power, and Divine Envesselment in Rastafari
… the most significant theological shifts in the Rastafari movement: the transformation of the Rastafari deity, His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, from Jah in the flesh to the spirit that dwells within the body of each Rasta. Although the belief that Rastas are participants in the …
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From Marxist Guerrillas To Rastafari Warriors: The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of the National United Freedom Fighters
… market-oriented social reform, and spirituality (Rastafari)- was largely a consequence of material and discursive shifts produced by specific neoliberal governing practices instituted during and after the Structural Adjustment Program mandated by the International Monetary Fund in the mid-1980s. …
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Towards a Decolonial Caribbean Reparations Movement
… praxis of “groundings.” I propose the theory of Rastafari livity as a cartography to articulate the possibilities of internal and external liberation, which can inform the reparations campaign. Moreover, to illustrate the significance of arts and culture in creating transformative praxes, I …
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Rastas on the road to healing: plant-human mobilities in Cape Town, South Africa
… which individuals first come to engage with Rastafari and medicinal plants in Cape Town, South Africa, along with the movements through which they develop their knowledge and skill in relation to plant-medicines and healing. In doing so, the work develops an understanding of ganja (Cannabis …
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Connecting at the intersection: Conversing identities on a street corner in Cape Town
… of a KhoeSan identity presented a permeating Rastafari sense of belonging and reconnected with their Indigenous identity through their work with herbs. The research participants challenged hegemonic perspectives on identity, culture, health, and respectability. They carried out their practices …
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Millenarian movements and the politics of liberation: the Rastafarians of Jamaica
… of liberation, with particular reference to the Rastafarians of Jamaica. By the politics of liberation I mean, the infusion of a secular revolutionary ethic at both the individual and group level. It follows that my concerns revolve around identity change (the growth of pride and revolutionary …
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Rastaman vibration: The rhetoric of Bob Marley
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