Culture

Articles

• UK: HOW CULTURE CAME TO APPROPRIATE RACE
  25 September 2018, by siawi3

  For the left, too, culture has become the key component of its version of identity politics. Different minority groups, whether African Americans, Indigenous Australians, Muslims or gays, are seen as possessing distinct cultures, identities, and ways of thinking. To confront racism and oppression, many argue, requires a defence of each group’s distinct identities – a mirror image of the New Right argument. We need to rethink the way we imagine race, culture and the relationship between the two.

• South Asia: Divorce by Halala
  30 September 2018, by siawi3

  Divorce is a way for a couple to move on with their lives and form new relationships; halala is a crime against a woman. Either way, whether divorced or remarried via halala, a stain is applied to the woman’s honour. Halala works to retain a family’s social position and to prevent women from making a second marriage, entrapping them with their former husbands. Every woman deserves her rights, which includes the right to move forward with a decision to divorce regardless of the obstacles.

• Canada : Communautarisme et ’appropriation culturelle’
  8 septembre 2018, par siawi3

  Au cĹ“ur de ces polĂ©miques, ce que l’on dĂ©signe comme « appropriation culturelle » et qui plaide que seules les personnes concernĂ©es dans leur sang, auraient le droit d’Ă©voquer tel ou tel problème, tel ou tel peuple. Seuls les AmĂ©rindiens pourraient, selon ce concept, parler de leurs ancĂŞtres et de leur destin. « L’appropriation culturelle » serait l’exploitation par des personnes appartenant Ă  la culture majoritaire, de biens matĂ©riels ou immatĂ©riels, issus de minoritĂ©s mal traitĂ©es par ces cultures majoritaires.

• France : Colloque « L’universitĂ© sous influence » (Paris, 15 juin 19)
  26 juillet, par siawi3

  « Racialisme, indigĂ©nisme, dĂ©colonialisme, identitarisme, diffĂ©rentialisme, intersectionnalitĂ©, ghettoĂŻsation de toute nature, sont les nouveaux outils de stĂ©rilisation de la pensĂ©e critique, de confiscation de la libertĂ© acadĂ©mique et de renoncement Ă  la scientificitĂ©. »

• India: Delhi University Withdraws Syllabus Revisions Amid Threats from the Right-Wing
  28 July, by siawi3

  Selected news reports

• Brazil’s Film Sector Up in Arms Over Jair Bolsonaro’s Censorship Threat
  26 July, by siawi3

  Since Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated as Brazil’s president in January, the former military officer turned right wing populist politician has been vocal in his attacks on what he deemed the country’s overly liberal institutions. On Thursday, Bolsonaro set his sights on Brazil’s film industry, with the president threatening to shut down AgĂŞncia Nacional do Cinema (ANCINE), the federal film funding agency, if it refused to apply government-backed “filters” on the movies it invested in.

• Pakistan: Centuries-old Sikh heritage shrine vandalised
  31 May, by siawi3

  Pakistan has several shrines of importance to the Sikh community. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Imran Khan also formally inaugurated work on the Kartarpur Corridor, which will give Indian devotees access to the Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara on the Pakistan side of the border. Khan has also proposed to open access to the ancient Sharda Peeth temple which stands in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

• The Maldives: UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights wars bout rising Muslim fundamentalism
  18 June, by siawi3

  Fundamentalism is one of the greatest threats to the rich culture of the Maldives, including Maldivian practices of Islam. Many people referred to and rejected the imposition of a version of Islam that they saw as imported from other countries, such as Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, which was reportedly accelerated by the internet, by streams of foreign funding and by Maldivians studying in madrasas in these countries before returning home.

• Analyzing the Art of Resistance
  9 June, by siawi3

  A theatre director is beaten and stabbed to death in front of his apartment. Another is shot to death in front of his wife and child. A filmmaker is kidnapped, his fingers cut off, and he’s left to bleed along the roadside. A radio DJ wakes to see his car in flames. A writer comes home to a house drenched in kerosene. A dancer is raped. A performance artist is kidnapped and beaten. A singer is imprisoned for years. A television comedian is kidnapped, threatened and told to never work again or be killed. These are real cases of artists whose artwork speaks truth to power and upholds social justice. It is important to uncover the ripple effects of these artists’ courageous behaviour and in doing so, learn how to better support, defend, and protect those who undertake it, at great risk to their own safety.

• 100 Women 2016: Female Arab cartoonists challenge authority
  29 November 2016, by siawi3

  As part of the 100 Women season, the BBC asked three female cartoonists from North Africa to take up their pens and illustrate how the custom of male guardianship continues to affect women’s lives in their countries.

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