From the blog, “Gazing Westward”:
Regarding,
Cobb, Amanda J. “Powerful Medicine: The Rhetoric of Comanche Activist LaDonna Harris.” SAIL 18.4 (2006): 63-85.
Cobb’s article defines LaDonna Harris as a Native American rhetorician who ultimately offers a rhetoric of decolonization through her insistence that all understanding, communication, and change comes through cultural values - in her case, Comanche values. Cobb spends time first establishing Harris’ leadership roles from the 1970s to the present as not a traditional leader working within a hierarchy but a leader who subverts “traditional,” hegemonic leadership ideals in her rhetorics. Harris’ rhetorics are defined by her 1)focus on sustaining and expanding social/community networks, drawing from Comanche values, 2)creation of new spaces and new possibilities, 3)focus upon creation of a forces of social changes tided to collective groups/thinking rather than her own individual ideas and ethos, 4)disruption and redefinition of ideas, language, meaning, and rhetorics that historically maintain colonization. Cobb argues that Harris is most valuable, rhetorically, for how she creates rather than what she creates (66). Cobb spends six years studying Harris via her Harris’ writing, interviews with Harris, and working with Harris and concludes that Harris’ rhetoric is ultimately a rhetoric of decolonization that offers “powerful medicine” to her community.
Read more at:
http://gazingwestward.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/cobb-amanda-j-powerful-medicine-the-rhetoric-of-comanche-activist-ladonna-harris-sail-184-2006-63-85/
Categories: DECOLONIZATION
Tagged: indigenous values, ladonna harris, rhetorics, social networks
From the blog of Jim Till, currently a member of the Executive Committee of Project Open Source|Open Access at the University of Toronto:
“Christian Sylvain, the Director, Policy, Planning, and International Affairs of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), made a presentation, Open Access and SSHRC, at Open Access: the New World of Research Communication, in Ottawa, October 12, 2007. (My thanks to Peter Suber, Background on the OA policy at the SSHRC, Open Access News, October 18, 2007, for a news item about this presentation).
This sentence in the abstract of the presentation caught my eye: “Discusses why SSHRC policy encourages rather than requires open access”. (See Policy Focus for SSHRC’s webpage about Open Access).”….
Read more at:
http://tillje.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/sshrc-policy-on-open-access/
Categories: OPEN ACCESS/OPEN SOURCE
Tagged: canada, funding, research, SSHRC
October 25, 2007 · 1 Comment
Claims of Maori separatist plot begin to unravel
By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent
Published by The Independent, 23 October 2007
A week after 17 people were arrested in anti-terrorist raids, New Zealanders are asking whether their security forces foiled an astonishing plot by militant Maori separatists – or whether they made a monumental error of judgement.
Extreme secrecy surrounds the affair, with only two of the 17 detainees being identified and the media excluded from court hearings. But those held in dawn raids across the nation are said to include a mixture of white anarchists and environmental activists as well as Maori radicals.
As well as swooping on homes in cities including Auckland and Wellington, police sealed off a hamlet in the Ureweras, a mountainous area of the North Island, which they claim was the site of terrorist training camps. The isolated, thickly forested region, home to the Tuhoe tribe, is now the focus of national attention.
New Zealand is not usually associated with terrorism. The only terrorist act carried out there was the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, by French secret agents in Auckland harbour in 1985….
READ MORE AT:
http://news.independent.co.uk:80/world/
australasia/article3087264.ece
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Categories: INTRODUCTION
