Showing papers on "Emancipation published in 1998"

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Abstract: Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. By Saidiya V. Hartman. Race and American Culture. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 281. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-508984-7; cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-508983-9.) Saidiya V. Hartman's Scenes of Subjection interrogates the apparent transformation from slavery to freedom in nineteenth-century America by paying particular attention to the antebellum and postbellum South. The author hopes to explicate the ambivalence of emancipation in order to address the issues raised by the continuing subjugation of blacks in a liberal nation. Hartman gives particular attention to the role of force and violence in constructing and perpetuating subjugation. She speaks importantly to such major historiographical debates as the question whether antebellum southern slavery was a paternalistic institution. Paternalism has been presented as recognizing the humanity of the enslaved, in part as a response to northern liberalism and abolitionism. In contrast to claims that the master/slave relationship was based upon reciprocal ties of mutual responsibilities and affection, however, Hartman supports those who argue that slavery was fundamentally based upon dehumanizing white physical force and violence. What Hartman's postmodernist analysis perhaps particularly contributes to such debates is her creative use of both traditional and nontraditional historical sources of evidence to interrogate and deconstruct the meaning of the ordinary "scenes of subjection." She thereby reinterprets such routine practices as slave dancing and singing, seemingly encouraged by paternalistic masters, as required demonstrations of white dominance that were epitomized by the forced performance of terrified slaves on the auction block. Hartman's deconstruction of the legal non-existence of the rape of a slave woman also emphasizes the dehumanizing violence of the law of slavery. But, at the same time, the personhood of the enslaved was recognized in the sense that they could be charged and found criminally responsible and blameworthy for wrongdoing. The argument that the association of black agency with blameworthiness comprised a lasting legacy of slavery leads on to the book's second section, in which Hartman focuses on the South after emancipation. Hartman's extended deconstruction of meanings, and her prose, can at times be so convoluted that the reader might at times wonder what she means to say; however, the book's second section helps to clarify her thesis that emphasizing the damaging legacies of slavery to emancipation is central to her critique of an American liberalism that defines "liberty" as the self-mastery of the man who--owning himself--could freely exercise reason, choice, and consent. …

From bondage to contract

Abstract: In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860

Abstract: Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860. By Joanne Pope Melish. (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, c. 1998. Pp. xx, 296. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-3413-0.) In this ambitious and often compelling study, Joanne Pope Melish seeks to explore in detail, and then to reconfigure, our sense of the meaning of "gradual" emancipation in New England between 1780 and the Civil War. Working with a wide field of sources--from the mundane private transactions recorded in court records to the splashy come-ons of theatrical broadsides--she portrays the consequences of the end of slavery there as far more pernicious than we have been satisfied to think. Melish aims to show that the New England emancipation of African Americans was not so much the end of slavery as the creation of a deep racialist vision and, concurrently, an elaborate fiction about "free" New England that would fuel sectional debate to 1860. Melish argues in particular that the meaning of gradual emancipation is best seen in terms of two interrelated narratives, one that came to dominate accounts of slavery's end in the North, and another notable for its near total absence. The latter missing story is the story of how deeply embedded African American slavery was in the society and economy of early New England. As legal slavery faded from the social scene in New England in the mid-1820s, southern slavery emerged into a critical glare as never before. This coincidence drove the history of New England slavery out of the national debate, thus also effacing much of the history of New England African Americans, to the point where they themselves did not grasp the importance of their past. The other story, the one told instead, was of a perennially free New England, cradle of American liberty, and fortress against the increasingly evil South. Some of the ground Melish covers is familiar, such as the racial discrimination in political and economic life that constricted African Americans' citizenship. But most of her concerns in this broadly conceived book--the biological construction of African American bodies by white physicians, for example, and the striking images of racial role-reversal in drama, art, and literature--are freshly seen and compellingly interpreted in ways that broaden our understanding of how deep and yet problematic was the bond between racialist ideology and the twin images of free New England and slave South. …

Children's Rights and the Developing Law

Abstract: Part I. Theoretical Perspectives and International Sources: 1. Theoretical perspectives 2. International children's rights Part II. Promoting Consultation and Decision-Making: 3. Adolescent autonomy and parents 4. Leaving home, rights to support and emancipation 5. Adolescent decision-making and health care 6. Promoting consultation and decision-making in schools 7. Children's involvement in family proceedings - rights to representation 8. Children in court - their welfare, wishes and feelings Part III. Children's Rights and Parents' Powers: 9. Children's rights versus family privacy - physical punishment and financial support 10. Parents' decisions and children's health rights 11. Educational rights for children in minority groups 12. Educational rights for children with disabilities 13. Children's right to know their parents - the significance of the blood tie 14. Children's right to know and be brought up by their parents 15. An abused child's right to state protection 16. Right to protection in state care and to state accountability 17. The right of abused children to protection by the criminal law 18. Protecting the rights of young offenders 19. Conclusion - themes and the way ahead Appendix I: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Appendix II: Human Rights Act 1998.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948

Abstract: Preface 1. Orientations 2. Geographies of Slavery and Emancipation 3. Legal Reasoning and the Geopolitics of Nineteenth-Century Race Relations 4. The Geopolitics of Jim Crow 5. The Reasonableness of Jim Crow Geographies 6. Restrictive Space and the Doctrine of Changed Conditions 7. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Dance, power, and difference : critical and feminist perspectives on dance education

Abstract: " In "Dance, Power, and Difference," eight leading dance educators from around the world examine the fundamental values and goals of dance and dance education. Using a variety of approaches-including general critique, case studies, and personal histories-"Dance, Power, and Difference" provides a foundation for reconstructing dance education in light of critical, social, and cultural concerns. This is not an answer book, however. It is a thought-provoking book that encourages readers to question traditional practices and develop a personal philosophy that is both critical and feminist. "Dance, Power, and Difference" seeks to transform the way readers think about dance-not only regarding how it is taught, researched, and critiqued, but also in terms of its purpose and aims. The contributors link dance to themes of human emancipation, multicultural awareness, and gender awareness, prompting readers to contemplate questions like these: - How do we think of and value ""the body"" in dance?- What cultural values, if any, should we impart to our students?- What changes might a feminist-oriented pedagogy for dance stimulate?- How should we prepare ourselves to work with students from cultures that are different from our own?- Should we perpetuate old teaching methods?Part I introduces the reader to foundational questions concerning curriculum, pedagogy, and research. Part II presents personal stories that place these questions in the context of specific situations. Part III discusses the role of dance within the broader political and social arena. Each chapter includes an abstract, critical reflections, questions to spur class discussion and individual thought, and references. "

The Jews of modern France

Abstract: "The Jews of Modern France" explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most vital Jewish population in western and central Europe. Paula Hyman looks closely at the period that began when France's Jews were offered citizenship during the Revolution. She shows how they and succeeding generations embraced the opportunities of integration and acculturation, redefined their identities, adapted their Judaism to the pragmatic and ideological demands of the time, and participated fully in French culture and politics. Within this same period, Jews in France fell victim to a secular political antisemitism that mocked the gains of emancipation, culminating first in the Dreyfus Affair and later in the murder of one-fourth of them in the Holocaust. Yet up to the present day, through successive waves of immigration, Jews have asserted the compatibility of their French identity with various versions of Jewish particularity, including Zionism. This remarkable view in microcosm of the modern Jewish experience will interest general readers and scholars alike.

Black religion and Black radicalism : an interpretation of the religious history of African Americans

Abstract: Since its first publication 25 years ago Black Religion and Black Radicalism has established itself as the classic treatment of African American religious history. Wilmore shows to what extent the history of African Americans can be told in terms of religion, and to what extent this religious history has been inseparably bound to the struggle for freedom and justice. From the story of the slave rebellions and emancipation, to the rise of Black nationalism and the freedom struggles of recent times, up through the development of Black, womanist, and Afrocentric theologies, Wilmore offers an essential interpretation of African American religious history.

Debate: Liberalism, Equality, and Fraternity in Cohen’s Critique of Rawls

Abstract: Above all, we note the fact that the so-called rights of man, the droits de l'homme as distinct from the droits du citoyen, are nothing but the rights of a member of civil societyÐi.e., the rights of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the community . . . Political emancipation is the reduction of man, on the one hand, to a member of civil society, to an egoistic, independent individual, and, on the other hand, to a citizen, a juridical person . . . Only when the real, individual man reabsorbs in himself the abstract citizen, and as an individual human being has become a species-being in his everyday life, in his particular work, and in his particular situation, only when man has recognized and organized his ``own powers'' as social powers, and, consequently, no longer separates social power from himself in the shape of political power, only then will human emancipation have been accomplished.ÐMarx, On The Jewish Question, 1844

The Culture of Redemption and the Administration of Freedom as Research

Abstract: This essay focuses on the systems of “reason” in the educational sciences. It examines today's image of the constructivist teacher and child who, from different ideological agendas, collaborate and “construct knowledge” in a decentralized system of education. This image, it is argued, is an effect of power. It functions historically as a governing practice that links political rationalities about progress to the construction of individual identities. Contemporary research inscribes a 19th-century premise that the purpose of research is the social administration of the subjects (and subjectivities). This administration embodies a redemptive culture that promises empowerment and emancipation, but the particular scaffolding of ideas functions to consolidate and conceal power relations as the educational sciences inscribe “action,” “practice,” and “the soul.”

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality

Abstract: The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays particular attention to the role that blacks played in the movement. In the half-century following the American Revolution, a sizable free black population emerged, the result of state-sponsored emancipation in the North and individual manumission in the slave states. At the same time, a white movement took shape, in the form of the American Colonization Society, that proposed to solve the slavery question by sending the emancipated blacks to Africa and making Liberia an American 'colony'. The resistance of northern free blacks was instrumental in exposing the racist ideology underlying colonization and inspiring early white abolitionists to attack slavery straight on. In a society suffused with racism, says Goodman, abolitionism stood apart by its embrace of racial equality as a Christian imperative. Goodman demonstrates that the abolitionist movement had a far broader social basis than was previously thought. Drawing on census and town records, his portraits of abolitionists reveal the many contributions of ordinary citizens, especially laborers and women long overshadowed by famous movement leaders. Paul Goodman's humane spirit informs these pages. His book is a scholarly legacy that will enrich the history of antebellum race and reform movements for years to come. '[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth' - "Acts" 17:26.

Glandular politics : Experimental biology, clinical medicine, and homosexual emancipation in fin-de-siècle Central Europe

Abstract: Focusing on the work of the physiologist Eugen Steinach and the clinician and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, this essay explores the complex interplay of experimental biology and medical discourse in the construction of a male homosexual identity in early twentieth-century Central Europe. Hirschfeld's collaboration with Steinach, the essay demonstrates, was not simply an instance of the imposition of a biomedical model of sexuality on the homosexual community by a hegemonic medical profession. Hirschfeld, a physician who was also a leader of the German movement for homosexual emancipation, used Steinach's theory to anchor a new biological model of homosexuality, claiming that male homosexuals were neither diseased nor depraved but formed a distinct, autonomous group of organically feminized men. The redefinition of homosexuality resulting from Steinach's and Hirschfeld's research, the essay argues, was not related exclusively to the specific politics of homosexual emancipation but also to more general debates, anxieties, and contestations over the cultural meanings of masculinity and femininity.

Rethinking risks to human subjects in genetic research

Abstract: Although the concern of biomedical researchers for the well-being of human subjects is as old as research itself, the modern era has a well-defined beginning. The horrors conducted by the Nazi doctors under the name of research led directly to the drafting in 1946 of the Nuremberg Code (1949; Annas and Grodin 1992). Only 500 words long, the document holds a hallowed place in western culture. Not unlike the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the United States, the Nuremberg Code firmly rejects for all time the notion that humans may be treated as objects in clinical research.

New voices in the nation : women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964

Abstract: During World War II, movements organized to resist Nazi occupation grew throughout Europe. In Greece the resistance movement also involved an unprecedented opportunity for social and political change initiated by the largest organization, the National Liberation Front or EAM. Key leaders envisioned postwar Greece as a popular democracy structured to allow a range of new voices to be heard. Believing gender equality to be one of the hallmarks of modernity, they attempted to expand the category of "national citizen" to include women as well as men. Janet Hart describes, often in the words of the Greek women involved, how lives were transformed by active participation in the resistance against the Nazis and in the anticommunist aftermath of the war. Political action proved exhilarating for women who had grown up in a prewar world of narrowly constricted gender roles. Hart has interviewed many survivors, and their testimony transcends local boundaries to capture the experience of emancipation. New Voices in the Nation explores the historical memory of social transformation, finding in personal narrative a key to new conceptions of societal change. The author places the resistance movement in an international context by examining how the struggle to promote modern political culture among ordinary people took shape on the ground in the course of the battle against conquering Axis forces. Hart uses insights gleaned from former partisans, Italian leader and political philosopher Antonio Gramsci, histories of black consciousness, and her own perceptions as an African American to explore topics of compelling current concern: the relation between gender and political action, the role ofnationalism in the raising of gender-based consciousness, and the ways in which social movements, by challenging the political status quo, may ultimately find themselves targeted as threats to state equilibrium.

Critical leadership for education in a postmodern world: emancipation, resistance and communal action

Abstract: This article explores possibilities for critical approaches to leadership in contemporary schools. Focusing on recent critiques of so‐called traditional critical approaches by ‘postmodern’ scholars, I contrast their preferences for resistant over emancipatory (revolutionary) action with the former. In doing so I compare Marx's, Habermas’, Baudrillard's and Foucault's views of human regulation, the roles of the individual self or subject and the constitution and function of groups in their respective theories and assess their utility for critical leadership in education. I conclude that the key for a politics that will enable individuals to resist oppressive school practices rests with the ability of subjects to recognize and seek out forms of community they share with others. I conclude the article with an example of how one school employed these kinds of strategies.

Empowerment, Emancipation and (Health Promotion Policy)

Abstract: Conventional approaches to social intervention assume that the solutions to social problems lie in the ability to organize the social world according to the technocratic mindset of the state administrative apparatus An emancipatory approach to intervention adheres to the principle that systemic activity must be rationalized by collective understanding emerging from everyday experience This article examines the extent to which Canadian empowerment oriented health promotion programs demonstrate a capacity to support this emancipatory interest Using a Habermasian framework I put forward the argument that the political strength of such programs lies in their capacity to create communicative spaces which allow for the exploration of common interests and the emergence of collective political agency Resume: Les approches traditionnelles a l'intervention sociale partent du principe que les solutions aux problemes sociaux reposent sur la capacite d'adapter le monde social aux attitudes ancrees des technocrates de l'appareil administratif de l'Etat Une approche emancipatrice a l'intervention sociale soutient qu'il faut rationaliser l'activite systemique au moyen d'une comprehension collective issue du vecu quotidien Le present article examine jusqu'a quel point les programmes canadiens de la promotion de la sante de type habilitateur peuvent eclairer cette approche emancipatrice A l'aide d'un schema inspire de Habermas, je soutiens que la force politique de ces programmes depend de leur capacite de creer des possibilites de communication qui facilitent l'exploration des interets communs et l'action politique collective Introduction Since the early 1980s social programmers and activists within the health promotion, adult education and social welfare sectors increasingly have used the language of empowerment oriented intervention to articulate and develop strategies for enhancing the skills, knowledge and behavioural capacity of the dispossessed This paper assesses the emancipatory potential of this "empowering" approach to social intervention using a Habermasian analytical framework My interest in pursuing this concern is twofold First, I hope to advance the potential of empowerment oriented intervention as an emancipatory project The issue is particularly relevant for feminists and other critical thinkers whose interventionary efforts are directed at the dissolution of oppressive social practices and structures Second, I hope to contribute to the growing body of literature which explores the practical, everyday dimensions of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action (Fischer, 1985; Carr and Kemmis, 1986; Forester, 1988, Hart 1989; Collins, 1991; Welton, 1995; Marshall, 1995; Parkin, 1996) In pursuing this argument, first I will provide an introduction to the practice of social intervention and a description of empowerment oriented intervention specifically as it has been articulated in the social programs emerging from Health Canada's Ottawa Charter (1986) Second, I will discuss what Habermas argues are the disempowering attributes of the social interventionary process -- the privileging of technocratic rationality, systemic appropriation of communication, and the disempowerment of the political citizen Using three Health Canada projects as examples, I will examine the extent to which these characteristics continue to manifest themselves in social programs which are based on some notion of empowerment Third, I will argue that the emancipatory "moment," or critical fulcrum in empowerment oriented interventions, lies in the emphasis on group participation and mutual support I will argue that it is here that one finds the legitimate starting point for the construction of an emancipatory approach to social intervention Intervention, Empowerment and Health Promotion In advanced capitalist societies, organized state-initiated social programming has become the remedial response to an ever growing list of societal ills …

Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory

Abstract: Acknowledgements The Contributors 1. Introduction - Sue Penna, Martin O'Brien and Colin Hay 2. Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Identity and Environments in Giddens' Social Theory - Martin O'Brien 3. Radical Politics - Neither Left Nor Right? - Ted Benton 4. Beyond Emancipation? the reflexivity of social movements - Paul Bagguley 5. Exploring Post-Traditional Orders: Individual Reflexivity, 'Pure Relations and Duality of Structure - Nicos Mouzelis 6. Life Politics, the Environment and the Limits of Sociology - Peter Dickens 7. Criminality, Social Environments and Late Modernity - Dave Smith 8. Modernity and the Politics of Identity - Martin O'Brien and Jenny Harris 9. Theorising Identity, Difference and Social Divisions - Floya Anthios 10. A World of Differences: What if it's so? How will we know? - Charles Lemert 11. Responses and Reflections: An Interview with Anthony Giddens Bibliography Index

He Is the Sun, She Is the Moon: Women in Early Modern Germany

Abstract: Preface: women in the history of early modern Europe. Women's lives, life stories, and history in the early modern period the stages of a woman's life - the course of life and life stories marriage - keeping house and making a living work and life become family-based professionalization, experience, and common sense "the Lord have mercy on all pregnant women" - the female body as destiny? "single and unattached" - maids and widows "evil" women - sorceresses and witches gynarchy - women in charge women's courage - pious women, rebellious women women's rights, civic rights, human rights -emancipation and coming of age in the age of enlightenment and revolution? "he is the sun, she is the moon".

The age of ideology : political ideologies from the American revolution to postmodern times

Abstract: Introduction - PART 1: ENLIGHTENMENT AND EMANCIPATION - The Politics of Modernity - The Revolutionary Challenge - PART 2: IDEOLOGIES OF MODERNITY - Liberalism and Modernity - Socialism and Emancipation - Conservative Critiques - Nationalism and Its Ambiguities - PART 3: THE CRISIS OF IDEOLOGIES - The Crisis of Modernity - Critiques of Enlightenment Ideologies - The Future of Ideology

The Fall of the Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options

Abstract: Sociology and social sciences in general have developed as part and parcel of the tension between social regulation and social emancipation that underlies the project of modernity. This tension seems to have vanished as social emancipation has become the double, rather than the opposite, of social regulation. Therefore, the reinvention of the social sciences presumes a new start for the social sciences focused on the generation of powerful interrogations and destabilizing images, made possible by the supersession of the modern equation of roots and options and by a shift from the conventional duality between structure and agency to a new, enabling duality between conformist action and action-with-clinamen.

Quasheba, mother, queen: Black women's public leadership and political protest in post‐emancipation Jamaica, 1834–65

Abstract: (1998). Quasheba, mother, queen: Black women's public leadership and political protest in post‐emancipation Jamaica, 1834–65. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 90-117.

'This is De Test": Festival and the Cultural Politics of Nation Building in the British Virgin Islands

Abstract: In this discussion of an annual festival commemorating emancipation in the British Virgin Islands I examine the interconnections among concrete social and political structures and circumstances and the contingent histories put into play in moves to constitute a sense of national identity. By focusing on a competition between bands from two neighboring but politically distinct islands, I map a complex "national" identity that crosscuts local, regional, and global affiliations. I also elucidate broader questions about identity formation in a transnational context. [British Virgin Islands, Caribbean, national identity, festival, transnationalism, creolization, citizenship)

Postmodern Ethical Conditions and a Critical Response

Abstract: Postmodern, poststructural, and critical theorists say that there are no universally valid foundations for norms. Whether or not we think that ethics exists in international life, or ought to, these theorists maintain that there are no firm grounds for any particular ethical belief. Rather, they argue, ethics is contextual.Many, perhaps most, students of international ethics believe that such approaches have little to offer considerations of international ethics. Christopher Norris says postmodernists are nihilists: “Postmodernism is merely the most extreme (or as some would say, most consistent and consequent) version of this desire to have done with all truth-claims beyond what is presently and contingenty ‘good in the way of belief.‘” Ken Booth argues: “If one scratches a committed post-modernist one will almost certainly find a comfortably well-off Western urban liberal. Those who live against the wall, or who have emancipated themselves from such a position, do not hold these views.… The reason for this is obvious, and relates to the fact that post-modernism—certainly that of a doctrinaire variety—does not deliver an ethics for the emancipation of victims across the world.”

On the front lines of freedom :black and white women shape emancipation in Virginia, 1861-1890

Abstract: X INTRODUCTION .. The glorious dawn of freedom": Virginia Women and Emancipation 2 CHAPTER ONE .. A new order of things": Wartime Slavery and Slave Management 19 CHAPTER TWO ··vou can go when you want to. You are just as free as she is!'': Wartime Escape and Liberation 61 CHAPTER THREE ··Liberty and Equal Rights Before the Law": Freedwomen's Struggle to Establish Freedom and Claim Justice 120 CHAPTER FOUR Cooking, Washing, Ironing, and Feeding the Fowls: Freedwomen and Former Mistresses Renegotiate Domestic Labor 175 CHAPTER FIVE Maternalism Versus Mutual Assistance: Intertwined Pasts and the Development of Black Community Life 227 CHAPTER SIX ''The ladies took a deep interest in the affair": Emancipation Day Celebrations and Lost Cause Commemorations 276 CONCLUSION A "peculiar hopefulness" 319

Nation und Emotion: Europäische Befindlichkeiten

Abstract: As rationally and effectively the program of the nation has been helping to establish economically and politically the European modern age since the late 18th century on one hand, as emotionally it works then on the other hand and at the same time as an esthetic and cultural conception. Since in the light of cultural imaginations and value horizons the nation is, as it were, anthropologized. So it takes as a global life world model of identity and loyalty the place of the religion having alone been able before to mobilize collective feelings and practices in a similarly intensive way. In these reflections/considerations is therefore asked for the topicality/actuality of this historical connection of nation and emotion in Europe changed after 1989, but also for possibilities of emancipation of the national from its historical model - as simply one of the many possibilities to get in a useful relation with the social environment as well as with history.

The Emancipation-Jouvay Tradition and the Almost Loss of Pan

Abstract: From 1838, 1 August was the official day of the emancipation celebration. Steelband was the emancipation jouvay movement's new force. It had arrived at the beginning of a new epoch. The colonialist movement was on its last legs. Self-government and independence were around the corner. Steelband was the emancipation jouvay movement's new force. It had arrived at the beginning of a new epoch. Steelband had moved to the Savannah, followed briefly by the emancipation jouvay movement. The opportunity of binding the steelband to indigenous effort, of fulfilling the emancipation jouvay dream of liberating a society to self-confidence and creativity was never undertaken. Today, pan stands looking in three directions, the streets, the Savannah and the pan yard. The world has changed, it seems as if pan no longer needs to choose which avenue it will take to carry onward the emancipation jouvay tradition.

Union & emancipation : essays on politics and race in the Civil War era

Abstract: In Union and Emancipation, seven leading historians offer new perspectives on the issues of race and politics in American Society from the antebellum era to the aftermath of Reconstruction. The authors, all trained by Richard H. Sewell at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, address two major themes: the politics of sectional conflict prior to the Civil War, illuminated through ideological and institutional inquiry; and the central importance of race, slavery, and emancipation in shaping American political culture and social memory. Contributors consider the national culture, the centrality of the nation-state in understanding American history, the place of race in redefining what it meant to be an American, the way the Civil War helped to redefine the nature of the 'political, ' and of 'citizenship, ' and the significance of political parties through the ideas and interests that motivate them. The collection, with its dual themes of union and emancipation, will provoke debate, offer insight, and challenge recent interpretations of this turbulent period in American history.

Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia

Abstract: Culture and Development Culture and Developmement Regional Cooperation The State-Development Impasse Decentralization and Rural Development Managing Ethnicity Foreign Aid for Conflict Development in Sri Lanka Pakistan Bound To Fail? Minorities in Bangladesh Tribal Self-determination Untouchable Emancipation Human Rights in South Asian Scholarship Imagining South Asia The New World Order