Decolonial Hip Hop: Indigenous Hip Hop and the disruption of settler colonialism

ABSTRACT

Contemporary Detroit has gone through many changes – or so it appears. From streets lined with vehicles made by Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors and driven by the nearly 2 million people who called the city home in 1950 to certain parts of the city looking like ghost towns; from a population that dwindled to 670,000 to the revival of downtown. Yet, what has been remarkably consistent is the invisibility of the Motor City’s Indigenous population. Indeed, Indigenous erasure, combined with rhetoric and policies that continue to marginalize and subjugate African Americans in Detroit, create a place rooted in multiple colonialisms. This essay examines how Detroit’s Indigenous Hip Hop artists resist settler colonialism through art, creativity, and culture as well as the practices of Detroit 2.0, a rhetoric and policy used by Detroit elites to reimagine it as a place of opportunity. By making visible the connections between blackness and indigeneity, as well as by linking the struggle of colonized peoples in Detroit to those in Palestine, Indigenous artists are not only asserting their humanity and challenging the longstanding idea of their erasure, but also constructing pathways for artists and activists to disrupt the effects of multiple colonialisms that continue to marginalize people of colour in urban areas. Detroit’s Indigenous Hip Hop artists make socially conscious music and also participate as activists in the city of Detroit. They serve as a window onto contemporary Indigenous identity, represent an exemplar of the urban Indigenous experience, and combine activism with art in a variety of ways.     

Symposium on political communication and social movements: audience,persuasion, and influence

ABSTRACT

This article argues that an important contribution that political communication can offer social movement studies is a more variegated understanding of social movement audiences and their role in social movement strategy and processes. Specifically, the article introduces a coarse typology of social movement audiences and discusses the importance of understanding differences in the goals of these audiences and what kinds of influence, from messaging or other forms of pressure, may be important to affect different audiences in movements’ favors. The article also examines the ways in which audiences are active, shaping what messages they are exposed to, consume, believe, and act upon. The call of the article is to bring a concern for audiences into social movement studies in the hopes of wedding these more media and communication-focused concerns with the kinds of structural and material influences social movement studies is so accomplished in investigating.     

基于矛盾的事实的分析:儒学研究之片论

从陈康对于中国传统文化知行背离的考察中,可以引申出以基于矛盾的事实分析为方法,改进儒学研究的意见:基于文本实际背离的事实分析,需要区分儒学的文本和实际的两种传统,由此才能更为深入地认识和实现儒学的当代价值;基于正负结果同在的事实分析,需要注意儒学理论内在的两面性,由此才能更为有效地解释儒学在传统社会产生的正负双重作用;基于相反评价共存的事实分析,需要阐明儒学在被现代化瓦解的同时,又显示出与现代互补的历史辩证法,由此才能更为深刻地阐明儒学在今天何以具有了正面价值。     

Shanghai as a Method——Exploration of the Possibility of a Reflective Shanghai Studies

Shanghaiology undergoes the process from the repeated disputes resulting from the advocate of Shanghaiology to multidisciplines development in the name of Shanghai Studies.However,Shanghaiology and its...     

智慧旅游的构成、价值与发展趋势

智慧旅游利用云计算、物联网、高速移动通信技术和智能终端设备为支撑,满足未来旅游管理中的管理智能化、服务主动化、旅游个性化和信息对等化发展需求,提升旅游产业现代服务业的科技含量和服务质量。同时,智慧旅游具有国际化、品牌化、个性化、集成化、科技化的发展趋势,成为大型景区形成独特竞争优势、培育国际竞争力的重要路径和方式。     

赫哲族体育旅游现状及发展对策研究

中国赫哲族体育旅游资源内容丰富、功能多样,具有鲜明的地域、民族特色和良好的社会资源条件。本文在现有文献资料,通过专家访谈和实证调查,对赫哲族体育旅游资源现状进行细致的剖析和重新认识,提出赫哲族体育旅游发展的一些设想和方案,为黑龙江省民族体育旅游业发展提供理论参考。     

马克思对世界古代史研究的贡献

马克思在分析大量史料和文献的基础上,对世界古代史进行了全面而精深的研究,科学地论证了古代世界的社会经济形态、生产关系、经济状况、城邦体制、阶级结构,古代社会的基本矛盾和奴隶斗争,古代社会的文化和艺术.马克思的研究纠正了当时一些肤浅和混乱的看法和观点,推动了对世界古代史的科学研究,他的这些论断,迄今仍是我们对世界古代史研究的指导思想.     

西藏体育旅游资源优势与发展对策研究

体育旅游是近年来兴起的现代旅游方式之一,且已成为旅游市场的一个新亮点。西藏拥有丰富的体育旅游自然资源与人文资源,体育旅游发展前景广阔。但西藏地处高原,交通设施相对落后,制约了体育旅游的发展。因此,西藏要结合实际,抓住机遇,充分发挥政府的主导作用,制定对策,建设和完善基础设施,扩大宣传,加强西藏体育旅游资源的整体规划与开发,打造体育旅游精品项目,促进西藏体育旅游业的快速发展。     

川黔渝生态区古盐道旅游资源深度开发的SWOT分析

旅游资源的深度开发就是根据旅游者对旅游目的地的现实和潜在需求,充分挖掘其文化的内涵,以整合和构建整体的文化形象,从而增加旅游吸引力和辐射力。在深入调查的基础上,主要对川黔渝生态金三角地区古盐道旅游资源深度开发的优势、劣势,机遇、威胁进行分析,期望能为相关区域的旅游开发提供参考。     

Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces

This article sheds new light on the diverse modes in which migration and religion intersect in shaping everyday transnational practices by exploring the articulations of religion and business migration in an emerging Chinese-led transnational mission field. Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Wenzhou, Rome and Paris, I show how a large group of transnational Chinese merchants has adopted a vigorous homegrown evangelical Christianity as the spiritual and social anchor of their territorial mercantile culture in diaspora. These merchants have actively engaged in producing religious activities and events that link China to Europe and in resacralizing secular real estate and attaching evangelistic meanings to Europe's historic urban spaces. For rural-originated migrants who embrace a global hierarchy of places, the evangelical discursive distinction between the mundane and the transcendent spheres finds expression in their perceived opposition between the peripheral local and the modern global centre in the global market economy.