Indigenous Rights and Resistence to Globalisation
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 21-04-15 12:06
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- Indigenous rights and resistance to globalisation
- Genocide and ethnocide
- Genocide is the deliberate killing of groups of people particular to a nation or ethnic group
- Hutu/Tutsu in Rwanda where Tutsi's culture were being murdered by Hutu's in attempt to eradicate their culture
- Ethnocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group
- Causes of ethnic conflicts
- Erkisen: land issues and territorial conflicts including deterritorialisation
- Social memory and history, power asymmetry and dominance over indigenous people (Cormaroff)
- Genocide is the deliberate killing of groups of people particular to a nation or ethnic group
- Globalisation and homogenisation
- Globalisation is the process by which businesses or other organisations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
- Globalisation threatens the idea of idenity as it reminds people that they actually like and want to be unique
- It increases contact between different ethnic groups due to modern technology
- Homogenisation: to make uniform or similar
- Many indigrnous groups choose aspects of globalisation that they like such as phones, TV but reject those that contrast with their beliefs
- Harris found that the Inca and Maya tribes assimilated white knowledge into their but kept traditional medicine and rituals
- Languages have homgenised too, some countries speak entirely English others mix such as "Singlish"
- The Ainu
- Japan didn't recognise the existence of minorities and called them a underdeveloped group
- The Ainu reclaimed their rights an an ethnicity through commodification of their culture - they made themselves a tourist destination and attraction
- This is an example of a revitialist movement
- Globalisation is the process by which businesses or other organisations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale
- Human Rights made in 1948
- Universality vs. relativism
- The rights should be representative of the entire world, but are based on modern Europe philosophy and so are relativistic when they should be universalistic
- Some anthropologists point out that expecting those rights to be applicable in places in such as Africa is a ethnocentric error
- However it is understood that HR must be offered to everyone despite cultures and values - this is universalistic
- Wilson points out that human rights can be interpreted differently in different socieities
- The rights should be representative of the entire world, but are based on modern Europe philosophy and so are relativistic when they should be universalistic
- Human Rights and local context
- HR are focused on promoting individuals rights addressing for example gender issues
- But what about the cultural right? expressing and belonging to a community
- The AAA issued a staement that cultural rights should be encouraged as long as they comply with international principles for HR
- But what about the cultural right? expressing and belonging to a community
- HR are focused on promoting individuals rights addressing for example gender issues
- Human Rights and gender and equality
- Gender
- The US has yet to join, if they did many would follow as they are the cultural superpower globally
- Belarus says that the re-introduction of traditional women roles through Mother's day imposes western-feminists views around the world
- Children
- Child soldiers for boys and sexual slavery for girls
- Forced marriage in rural India and Sudan
- Gender
- The Sawi in Guinea
- They practiced cannibalism and sacrificing widows during funerals
- The Dutch forced them to stop, thus have been accused of cultural imperialism
- Universality vs. relativism
- Genocide and ethnocide
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