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Water Flourishing in the Anthropocene
Get PDFWhat does it entail to foreground water flourishing as a stance toward the Anthropocene? During an exercise at the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, about twenty participants individually drew images of ‘water flourishing’ leading, with only one or two exceptions of Edenic representations, to a wall of images depicting no humans. That small experience reproduced a larger cultural and environmental management configuration: people-less water flourishing. If we face such constraints in imagining, representing, and enacting hydro-flourishing, we remain stuck in familiar loops either of: 1) elemental thinking that excludes the human; or 2) anthropocenic thinking that too often addresses the human primarily as destroyer. How do we imagine our being with water in different ways? How do we move away from pervasive narratives of water crisis without, at the same time, romancing water? Feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous approaches to water and its cultural politics ask us to consider the elemental not only in substance, but also in rights regimes and in the project of flourishing. In this paper, we present examples of water flourishing projects and impasses from three sites: Kathmandu, Nepal; Perth, Australia; and the Florida Everglades, United States. All show both the problems and the promise of co-centering the human and nonhuman in their interdependent relations when it comes to water flourishing
The Persistence of Cultural Studies: A Brief Consideration of the Place and Purpose of Cultural Studies in an Otherwise Turbulent World
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‘He Wasn’t Able to Understand What I Was Saying’: The Experiences of Returnees’ Speaking Western Armenian in ‘Eastern’ Armenia
Get PDFSince Armenia’s independence in 1991, thousands of diasporans have made the decision to return and settle in the ancestral homeland. The returnees, who speak Western Armenian, one of the two standardised forms of modern Armenian, are switching to the use of Eastern Armenian, the official variant of the homeland. Using two determinants of language perception—standardisation and vitality—this paper analyses the reactions received by thirty returnees who emigrated from nine countries, when speaking Western Armenian to an Eastern Armenian-speaking society. The vitality of the language shows signs of increasing through an encouragement by locals aware of the language’s historical significance, and an admiration of its ‘beauty’ and terminology. A heightened vitality has led returnees to feel confident about its use during social interactions and the possibility of the standard being incorporated into the nation’s linguistic narrative. However, confusion and ridicule due to a differing pronunciation, vocabulary, terminology, and the inability to be understood by some in Armenian society, has led to discomfort by returnees who are shifting to the usage of Eastern Armenian. At present, the use of Western Armenian in the homeland remains within the confines of family, friends and returnee circles. Despite the changing status of Western Armenian through a notable welcoming of the language into the linguistic narrative of the country, some segments of Armenian society do not perceive Western Armenian as an acceptable standard for broader use in Armenian society and national institutions. The homeland’s inconsistent, and at times questionable, acceptance of the language perpetuates the status quo that Western Armenian remains an unacceptable standard within the homeland and for use only in the diaspora
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No full textThe soul of Papua is divided. Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period, the communities in the west are now regarded as part of Indonesia and live under military oppression described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systematic terror and alleged genocide whilst those in the east enjoy their legitimate freedom and independence. This paper revisits the creation of Indonesia after the Pacific War with the training, resources, and Fascist ideology of the Japanese Imperial Army and how it has maintained control of the archipelago to the present day. With a focus on West Papua it asserts that the people of this island archipelago have been denied their rightful independence. As a result of multiple breaches of the Charter of the United Nations covertly orchestrated by the United Nations Secretariat in collusion with Sukarno the people of West Papua were illegally transferred to Indonesia. It is advanced that the method of maintaining control over West Papua and the entire Indonesian archipelago is via a systematic programme of military oppression perpetrated by a neo-fascist military dictatorship on behalf of the US government
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