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Globalization and “Minority” Cultures Studies in International Minority and Group Rights Series Editors Gudmundur Alfredsson Kristin Henrard Advisory Board Han Entzinger, Professor of Migration and Integration Studies (Sociology), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Baladas Ghoshal, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Peace and Conflict Studies, South and Southeast Asian Studies), New Delhi, India; Michelo Hansungule, Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Baogang He, Professor in International Studies (Politics and International Studies), Deakin University, Australia; Joost Herman, Director Network on Humanitarian Assistance the Netherlands, the Netherlands; Will Kymlicka, Professor of Political Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada; Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group Kolkata, India; Prakash Shah, Senior Lecturer in Law (Legal Pluralism), Queen Mary, University of London, the United Kingdom; Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Åbo Akademi University, Dept. of Education, Vasa, Finland; Siep Stuurman, Professor of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Stefan Wolff, Professor in Security Studies, University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom. VOLUME 8 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/imgr Globalization and “Minority” Cultures The Role of “Minor” Cultural Groups in Shaping Our Global Future Edited by Sophie Croisy LEIDEN | BOSTON This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc License at the time of publication, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Globalization and “minority” cultures : the role of “minor” cultural groups in shaping our global future / edited by Sophie Croisy. pages cm. -- (Studies in international minority and group rights, ISSN 2210-2132 ; volume 8) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-28207-0 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Optical fiber communication. 2. Telecommunication. 3. Minorities. 4. Group identity. 5. Globalization. I. Croisy, Sophie. TK5103.592.F52G56 2014 305--dc23 2014035135 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual ‘Brill’ typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 2210-2132 ISBN 978-90-04-28207-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-28208-7 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by the Authors. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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This book is printed on acid-free paper Contents List of Figures viii List of Contributors ix Globalization and “Minority” Cultures Introductory Comments 1 Sophie Croisy PART 1 Reconceptualizing the Role of Minority Cultures in a Global Context From Anthropophagy to Glocalization A Hundred Years of Postcolonial Responses to Globalization 23 Jacques Pothier Mondialisation, minoritarité et conscience altéritaire 31 Emir Delic Reflexive Minority Action Minority Narratives and New European Discourses 55 Tove H. Malloy PART 2 Minority Cultures and “Glocal” Political Resistance: Thinking New Models of Identity and Citizenship Indigenous Peoples and National Self-Image in Australia and New Zealand 77 Adrien Rodd Globalization and Resistance The Tibetan Case 92 Molly Chatalic vi Contents Can the Afghan Diaspora Speak? Diasporic Identity in the Shadow of Human Rights 109 Shirin Gul Sadozai and Hina Anwar Ali Protecting Minority Population in Europe with European law 122 Coralie Fiori-Khayat PART 3 Minorities’ Economico-Environmental Struggles Feudalism and Integration of the Native Peoples of Peru in the Worldwide Economy 141 Natividad Ferri Carreres Re-Singing the World Indigenous Pedagogies and Global Crisis during Conflicted Times 160 Makere Stewart-Harawira Idle No More Indigenous People’s Coordinated Reaction to the Twin Forces of Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism in Canada 185 Ryan Duplassie PART 4 Non-Homogeneous Forms of Cultural Development: The Lingustic Paradigm Indigenous Languages, Gender and Community Organisation in the Era of Globalization The Case of the Mazatec Women of the Naxi-í in Oaxaca, Mexico 207 Karla Janiré Avilés González and Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte Against the Ethnicisation of Regional Territorial Minorities Contribution from the Basque Experience in France 224 Thomas Pierre Contents vii PART 5 Art as Resistance Visualizing Development with Identity Relational Aesthetics of Indigenous Collaborative Community Art Projects 237 Pauline Oosterhoff, Arno Peeters and Iris Honderdos Communication for Social Change in Indigenous Communities; Limitations of Community Radios and Other Proposals Igloolik Isuma Productions 258 Bianca Rutherford Iglesias and Concepción Travesedo de Castilla PART 6 Literary Dismantlements of Global/Colonial Domination L’indianisme au Brésil au travers des traductions, des adaptations et des transpositions en français du poème épique de José de Santa Rita Durão sur la découverte de Bahia Caramurú. Poema épico do descobrimento da Bahia (1781) 281 Alain Vuillemin Spatiality and the Literature of Globalization 302 Sze Wei Ang Tierno Monénembo’s ‘Fula’ Between Distance and Empathy 319 Roxana Bauduin Index of Names 329 Index of Subjects 334 List of Figures Figure 1 Overview shot of the installation “The Red, Gold and Green of the Khasi” 245 2 Close-up of the installation “The Red, Gold and Green of the Khasis” 246 3 Khasi farmer women with traditional umbrellas 246 4a Traditional Khasi umbrella in the installation 247 4b Serpent as a threat to Khasi culture 248 5 “Rooted” installation overview; inscribed sculptures of trees and baskets 250 6 Uwa rangers killed Chelangat Saima and his brother, when they were grazing their cattle inside the park boundaries 252 7 Women in the village of Mengya, weaving baskets for the installation 253 8 Uprooted seedlings and children’s drawings 253 List of Contributors Sophie Croisy received her Ph.D. in contemporary anglophone literature from the University of Florida, usa, in 2006. She is an assistant professor at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, where she teaches American lit- erature, language teaching pedagogy and English for the sciences. Her research is in trauma studies; she focuses specifically on representations of trauma in Native American literature. She is the author of Other Cultures of Trauma: Meta-metropolitan Narratives and Identities (2007). She is currently working on a book on the politics of trauma in Louise Erdrich’s most recent fiction. Jacques Pothier is a professor of American literature at the University of Versailles Saint- Quentin-en-Yvelines, where he is a member of the chcsc (Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines) research group. He is a vice-president of the Institut des Amériques (France). He has published two books, William Faulkner : essayer de tout dire (Paris, Belin, 2003) and Les nouvelles de Flannery O’Connor (Nantes, France, Le Temps, 2004). His fields of research cover the literature of the South, interactions between the literature and history of the South and Latin-American literature, modernism and post-modernism, litera- ture and the visual arts, the theme of space, the epistemology of American Studies, the role of literature in the construction of ethnic, local or national identities and as privileged field for cultural transfer. He is involved in the edition of the works of William Faulkner in la Pléiade, Gallimard. Emir Delic is an assistant professor at Saint-Anne University and a researcher associated to the research chair on francophone literatures and cultures in Canada. Emir Delic has a Ph.D. in French literature and critical theory from the University of Ottawa. His research interests are the institutional stakes of minority literatures and the philosophical approaches to the poetics of three genres (the tale, the essay, travel writing). His current research is on the links between identity and otherness in Franco-Canadian literature. His most recent publication is a special issue of the journal @nalyses, co-directed with Lucie Hotte and Jimmy Thibeault, entitled “Devenir soi avec les autres. Identité et altérité dans les littératures francophones du Canada” (@nalyses, vol. 6, no 1, winter 2011 [on line: www.revue-analyses .org]). He is currently working on a book about the global hermeneutics of the “minorized” subjects through a study of their relationship to time. x List of Contributors Tove H. Malloy is the director of the Danish-German research centre, the European Centre for