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111 2 $aColloquium on the Rights of Subordinated Peoples$d(1988 :$cLa Trobe University)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89291010
245 14 $aThe rights of subordinated peoples /$cedited by Oliver Mendelsohn and Upendra Baxi.
260 $aDelhi ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
300 $aviii, 377 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Oliver Mendelsohn and Upendra Baxi -- Fighting for the Forest: State Forestry and Social Change in Tribal India / Ramachandra Guha -- From Savages to Security Risks: The Indian Question in Brazil / David Maybury-Lewis -- The Untouchables / Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany -- Cultural Rights and the Definition of Community / Veena Das -- A Question of Rights and Wrongs / Colin Tatz -- Legal Pluralism and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia / James Crawford -- Representing Aboriginal Women: Who Speaks for Whom? / Diane Bell -- Strategies of Women and Women's Movements in the Muslim World vis-a-vis Fundamentalisms: From Entryism to Internationalism / Marie-Aimee Helie-Lucas -- Fundamentalism and Women in Iran / Haleh Afshar -- The South African Native Administration Act of 1927: Reflections on a Pathological Case of Legal Pluralism / Martin Chanock -- Peoples of the Soviet North: Recent Developments / John Miller.
520 $aThis book attempts a framework in which the condition of subordinated peoples can be considered. The editors argue that the established categories of gender, race and class sometimes quarantine the experiences of groups, and so fail to develop a wider solidarity.
520 8 $aThis volume discusses some quite diverse people and situations: Tribals and 'Untouchables' in India, the Aborigines of Australia, the Indians of Brazil, the indigenous people of the old USSR, the Blacks of South Africa, and women under fundamentalist Islam.
520 8 $aThe problem of comparing the experiences of such diverse people arises partly, in the words of sociologist Veena Das, because we lack 'languages of suffering' that are morally orienting. Instead of empathy across communities, we tend to find a scrambling competition to be heard.
520 8 $aThis volume lays bare a great weight of subordination, and there is no naive optimism that it can be dismantled. Thus the situation of the Brazilian Indians, as recounted by David Maybury-Lewis, is catastrophic. Similarly, the Aborigines of Australia have been appallingly treated and exist at the bottom of Australian society. In India, tribals remain subordinate. South African Blacks will suffer the consequences of oppression long after the present regime is over.
520 8 $aBut the editors and most of the contributors are not without hope. They see signs everywhere that people are standing up for themselves as never before. Australian Aborigines have seized the forms of the dominant civilization (acrylic paint, electric guitars) and now sell their exciting paintings in the salons of New York. In India, the Dalits have created a literature which has begun reaching the Western World.
520 8 $aAt the same time, it is only with the sympathetic assistance of surrounding communities that the conditions of subordination will be systematically confronted. At the end of the twentieth century, this presents itself as one of the world's outstanding social issues.
650 0 $aHuman rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026379
650 0 $aWomen's rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147765
650 0 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147311
650 0 $aIndigenous peoples$xLegal status, laws, etc.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002386
650 0 $aDalits$xLegal status, laws, etc.
650 0 $aAboriginal Australians$xGovernment relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009596
700 1 $aMendelsohn, Oliver.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89291009
700 1 $aBaxi, Upendra.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81006958
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