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Fourth World

About: Fourth World is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 418 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6877 citations. The topic is also known as: 4th world nation.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the rationale for a comprehensive program of educational initiatives closely articulated with the emergence of a new generation of Indigenous scholars who seek to move the role of Indigenous knowledge and learning from the margins to the center of educational research, thereby confronting some of the most intractable and salient educational issues.
Abstract: Drawing on experiences across Fourth World contexts, with an emphasis on the Alaska context, this article seeks to extend our understandings of the learning processes within and at the intersection of diverse worldviews and knowledge systems. We outline the rationale for a comprehensive program of educational initiatives closely articulated with the emergence of a new generation of Indigenous scholars who seek to move the role of Indigenous knowledge and learning from the margins to the center of educational research, thereby confronting some of the most intractable and salient educational issues of our times.

754 citations

01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In the rhetoric of postcolonial nationalism and the struggles of indigenous Fourth World peoples, now minorities in their own homelands, visions of the past are being created and evoked.
Abstract: -Across the Pacific, from Hawai'i to New Zealand, in New Caledonia, Aboriginal Australia, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea, Pacific peoples are creating pasts, myths of ancestral ways of life that serve as powerful political symbols. In the rhetoric of postcolonial nationalism (and sometimes separatism) and the struggles of indigenous Fourth World peoples, now minorities in their own homelands, visions of the past are being created and evoked. Scholars of Pacific cultures and history who are sympathetic to these political struggles and quests for identity are in a curious and contradic tion-ridden position in relation to these emerging ideologies of the past. The ancestral ways of life being evoked rhetorically may bear little rela tion to those documented historically, recorded ethnographically, and reconstructed archaeologically—yet their symbolic power and political force are undeniable.

321 citations

BookDOI
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: As a result some of Australia's original inhabitants suffer from what has been described as Fourth World' standards of health as discussed by the authors, which is out of place in a country that prides itself on egalitarianism and a fair go for all.
Abstract: As a result some of Australia's original inhabitants suffer from what has been described as Fourth World' standards of health. This is out of place in a country that prides itself on egalitarianism and a fair go for all.

310 citations

MonographDOI
TL;DR: In this paper, Merlan explores the lives of Aborigines in the small town of Katherine, Australia and combines ethnography and theory to study issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity.
Abstract: Explores the lives of Aborigines in the small town of Katherine, Australia. Merlan combines ethnography and theory to study issues surrounding the debate about the authenticity of contemporary cultural activity. The vulnerability of Fourth World peoples to others' representations of them and the ethical problems this poses are recognised.

286 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20232
20221
20219
20205
201911
20189