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"The key issue facing indigenous peoples as they gain new rights and raise their profile within Latin America's newly democratic states is how to reconcile the cultural inheritance that makes them indigenous with forces that aim to tether them to national identities or unleash upon them the corrosive acculturation implied by globalization. . . . This collection of commentaries - framed by the wisdom of Noam Chomsky - offers an excellent point of departure for the student interested in addressing such questions. With a significant focus on education, the writers address the thorny yet timeless issue of how to reconcile the ancient with the modern. . . . If there is one theme that emerges, it is of the potential for inter-communal co-operation and the concrete benefits diversity can bring to Latin American social life." --Gavin O'Toole, The Latin American Review of Books
"An exhaustive, thought-provoking presentation of timely arguments that will be of interest to readers and students interested in how indigenous communities can continue to survive in sync with the outside world without being smothered by it."-Deborah Donovan --Booklist
"Two direct interviews with Chomsky enhance this articulate examination of challenges facing indigenous peoples today, including a positive viewpoint of means by which indigenous cultures can resist total assimilation, endure and spread hope. Highly recommended." --The Midwest Book Review
"[New World of Indigenous Resistance] bills itself as a virtual hemispheric' conversation" and claims to be the first book of its kind. It is certainly an eye-opener. . . .a book that could change the way its readers think about education forever." --Green Left
"This book is unique, thought-provoking and inspiring. The voices included in this edited collection, most of them unheard in mainstream Western academia, not only denounce the crimes committed against Indigenous peoples, but also reflect decades of Indigenous struggle, resistance, hope and commitment. . . . This book speaks to students, teachers, administrators and researchers from different disciplines and invites them to work together and follow the exemplary struggles of Indigenous peoples in different parts of America." --Teachers College Record
"For those interested in Chomsky, a very intriguing book was published last year in which a group of indigenous people from around Latin America invited Chomsky to be part of 'hemispheric conversation between equals.' Two interviews with Chomsky were used as the starting point for a wide array of responses from 'renowned activists, educators and scholars from the indigenous Americas,' discussing issues of concern to the original people of the Americas." - Peace News
"An exhaustive, thought-provoking presentation of timely arguments that will be of interest to readers and students interested in how indigenous communities can continue to survive in sync with the outside world without being smothered by it."-Deborah Donovan --Booklist
"Two direct interviews with Chomsky enhance this articulate examination of challenges facing indigenous peoples today, including a positive viewpoint of means by which indigenous cultures can resist total assimilation, endure and spread hope. Highly recommended." --The Midwest Book Review
"[New World of Indigenous Resistance] bills itself as a virtual hemispheric' conversation" and claims to be the first book of its kind. It is certainly an eye-opener. . . .a book that could change the way its readers think about education forever." --Green Left
"This book is unique, thought-provoking and inspiring. The voices included in this edited collection, most of them unheard in mainstream Western academia, not only denounce the crimes committed against Indigenous peoples, but also reflect decades of Indigenous struggle, resistance, hope and commitment. . . . This book speaks to students, teachers, administrators and researchers from different disciplines and invites them to work together and follow the exemplary struggles of Indigenous peoples in different parts of America." --Teachers College Record
"For those interested in Chomsky, a very intriguing book was published last year in which a group of indigenous people from around Latin America invited Chomsky to be part of 'hemispheric conversation between equals.' Two interviews with Chomsky were used as the starting point for a wide array of responses from 'renowned activists, educators and scholars from the indigenous Americas,' discussing issues of concern to the original people of the Americas." - Peace News
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Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity? Specifically, can their communities benefit from national education while resisting the tendency of state-imposed programs to undermine their cultural sovereignty, language, and traditions? According to Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado, these are among the core questions being raised by indigenous societies whose comunalidad—or communal way of life—is at odds with the dictates of big business and the social programs of the state.
To explore these issues in depth, Meyer and Maldonado conducted a series of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and invited numerous organizers and intellectuals from indigenous communities of resistance to comment. In three in-depth conversations, Chomsky offers poignant lessons from his vast knowledge of world history, linguistics, economics, anti-authoritarian philosophy, and personal experience, and traces numerous parallels with other peoples who have resisted state power while attempting to modernize, develop, survive, and sustain their unique community identity and tradition. Following the interviews are commentaries from more than a dozen activists and intellectuals from the Americas, who speak from their own on-the-ground experiences and work with indigenous communities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Peru, and Panama.
This is a powerful reflection on the interconnected issues of education, cultural preservation, globalization, forms of resistance, and possibilities for hope on local, regional, and national levels.
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"New world of indegenous resistance"Like anything else from Noam Chomsky is totaly awesome, straight to the point of the important issues in this world and "must read" material for anyone who wishes to really understand what is going on.
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An Essential Read for Any Teacher Under the Shadow of Neoliberalism.,
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"New World of Indigenous Resistance" is a timely book that deserves a wide readership. Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado have assembled a potent group of indigenous scholars and activists from throughout North, Central, and South America. They and Noam Chomsky carry out long distance correspondence through several interviews and subsequent responses. The topics could not be more crucial: neoliberal globalization, exported pedagogies, standardized testing, threats to original peoples' epistemologies and ways of living. As the voices of the indigenous scholars become central to the book, the extreme urgency of the issues becomes tangible. The scholars' personal experiences and expertise offer true hope in these dangerous times. Chomsky, Meyer and Maldonado deserve high praises for this work: it is timely, compelling, and essential for any educator's library.
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Essential read for any individuals, students and scholars Interested in the Americas!,
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New World of Indigenous Resistance is shaped as an essential dialogue that provides an unparalleled breadth of perspective regarding indigenous resistance in the Americas. The book's participants address a myriad of important and directly related issues such as nation-state building, decolonization, neoliberal policies, preservation of indigenous lifeways and many other timely and vital issues permeating quotidian life in the Americas for both indigenous and non-indigenous peoples alike. Most importantly, this book provides the space for important dialogue not only between scholars but also with those who are directly involved in resistance action. As the authors state, "The commentators in this volume were selected to reflect and honor both scholarship and direct action as equal and necessary paths to wisdom." The result is a fascinating and deep examination of core issues that moves beyond the typical hegemonic, Western perspective that unfortunately is all too common in the academic canon focused on the Americas. Instead, this book equally pairs real life experience vis-à-vis autobiographical accounts from "voices" from the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina and many places in between with that of the academic work conducted by scholars writing from an equally varied range of locations and viewpoints in the Western hemisphere. As a result, the book, itself, serves as an essential conduit of decolonization as it brings together a multitude of experiences, opinions and academic commentary in a manner that exudes the very framework of comunalidad (explained by the editors as "the principle and practices of communal life and the source of indigenous identity and resistance") that forms a core foundation for this book. Thus, this book is an imperative read for anyone interested in gaining a profound, more well-informed understanding of contemporary issues and indigenous resistance in the Americas. Such a careful, in-depth examination of indigenous experiences with and reactions to hegemonic nation-state systems, therefore, is well overdue and greatly appreciated, making this book a vital addition to any bookshelf. New World of Indigenous Resistance explicitly opens the way for an expanded and more authentic dialogue with indigenous peoples and advocates who have resisted and survived centuries of subjugation and oppression, and their voices deserve to be heard!
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White academic views on Indigenous education,
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This was a good book, but much more limited in scope then the title and introduction implies. Basically, it is a collection of opinions of white scholars, or Indigenous people trained in Euro-western academic institutions, on Indigenous education. The theme is how to use Euro-western educational institutions and structures for carrying on Indigenous knowledge. Creating curriculum, using Indigenous languages, etc in Euro-western style classroom settings. It's an important issue, but they talk about it almost exclusively from a Euro-western perspective - as if Indigenous people don't already have methodologies for carrying on our knowledge.Pretty much the only contributor who is really coming from a non-academia background, the only organic Indigenous leader included in the text is Felipe Quispe Huanca. He is also de-legitimized and brushed off at the end of the book for being 'over the top' or 'emotional.' His is the main perspective that comes from a traditional Indigenous paradigm and is accordingly ignored, while the echoing voices of academics are reinforced as more realistic, accurate, and appropriate. So if your interested in hearing what academics, anthropologists, ethnographers, etc think about Indigenous resistance today, read this book. If you want to know what Indigenous people are thinking about resistance today, or what we've always thought, this book doesn't really get into that. This book is about colonized people trying to help Indigenous people survive within the colonial framework - this book is not about Indigenous people resisting the colonial framework altogether and continuing on the struggle to retain and revitalize our own Indigenous worlds. Sadly, by ignoring and even actively criticizing the Indigenous perspective that authentic resistance to the colonial paradigm is possible (and happening everyday), the book further asserts the fundamental 'manifest destiny' ideology of colonization. To them, colonization is inevitable, unstoppable, and our only hope at survival is in joining and reforming the colonial world. In my tribe, and apparently many others, we're taught that the colonial world is unsustainable and our only hope in survival comes in avoiding it as much as possible and awaiting its eventual downfall. The more we become a part of the colonial paradigm the more we are guaranteed not to survive. Just like they did with our landbases, our economies, our political structures, they are now trying to do with our knowledge - telling us that in order for it to continue we must colonize and institutionalize it. Of course, like in other historical cases, many will give in, but there are still those of us who do not. This book is a useful collection of voices from one side of the discussion. |
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