Politics and Racism Beyond Nations: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Crises

ISBN-13: 9783030917227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 370 str.

J. P. Linstroth

Opis

This book brings together theoretical knowledge from diverse fields as anthropology, biology, neurology, peace studies, political science, psychology, and sociology to address key challenges that transcend borders. It demonstrates how differences are created on many levels to reveal how the “othering project” is evident through national policies of immigration, through aspiring nationalisms, through genocidal inhumanity, and the subsequent effects of such othering evident in racial trauma. It further argues that we cannot limit our understanding of racism to forms of “white nationalism” or “whiteness movements” in the developed world and regions but look to the global formulation of such discrimination in colonial histories. The book introduces each chapter by providing rich ethnographic narratives from informants based upon the author’s  research on nationalism, racism, genocide, terrorism, trauma, scientific tolerance, and love and peace as well as some auto-ethnographic narratives from the author’s research on these themes.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PERMISSIONS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2 – IMMIGRATION & RACISM

·         Introduction

·         Myths on Race and Invasion of the ‘Caravan Horde’

·         Border Policies from Hell

·         Borders on Insanity?

·         Arundhati Roy on Indian Migrant-Worker Oppression and India’s Fateful Coronavirus Crisis

·         Conclusions

CHAPTER 3 – NATIONALISM & TERRORISM

·         Introduction

·         Celebrating Terrorism?

·         End of an Era for ETA?: May Basque Peace Continue

·         Fear and Loathing for the So-Called ‘New’ IRA

·         Footnoting History for the Sake of History and for the Sake of Peace

·         The Problems with an Imagined Community

·         Nations, Nationalism, and Non-Nation Political Movements

·         Conclusions

CHAPTER 4 – CULTURAL GENOCIDE,

GENOCIDE, & AMERINDIAN GENOCIDE

·         Introduction

·         Protecting the Most Vulnerable from Genocide

·         Will Ethnocide in Western China Become Genocide?

·         Why Indigenous Lives Should Matter

·         Preventing Brazilian Indigenous Genocide and Protecting the Amazon

·         The Politics of Denial, the Brazilian President, and the Fate of Amazonia

·         Genocidal Disease (COVID-19) as It Is Happening in Amazonia

·         Bolsonaro’s Continuous Follies and the Extermination of Brazilian Indian

The Genocide We’re Allowing In Amazonia

·         Conclusions

 

CHAPTER 5 – RACIAL TRAUMA & RACISM

·         Introduction

·         A Racist President and Racist Trauma

·         What about the Amerindians during the Coronavirus Pandemic?

·         Coronavirus, Poverty, and Structural Violence

·         Malcolm or MLK?

·         Why Race Is Everything in America!

·         Why Natives in the United States Support #Black Lives Matter

·         Conclusions

 

CHAPTER 6 – ENVIRONMENT, HUMANISM,

SCIENCE, & TOLERANCE

·         Introduction

·         Teaching Tolerance

·         Primates Are Us—Being Self, Being Others

·         Mother of Us All

·         The Science and Politics Behind the Brazilian Amazon Mass-Fires

·         Bolsonaro Fiddles While the Amazon Burns

·         Why the Developing World Cannot Flatten the Curve with Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Beyond

·         Why a Race Is Not a Virus and a Virus Is Not a Race

·         History and Science as Candles in the Dark

·         Conclusions

 

CHAPTER 7 – EMPATHY, LOVE, & PEACE

·         Introduction

·         It’s Not Batman, or Superman, or Wonder Woman—But Peaceworkers

·         In the Name of ‘Love’

·         What Is Love?

·         Why a ‘Re-Indigenization’ of Society Makes Sense

·         Conclusions

 

CHAPTER 8 – CONCLUSIONS

O autorze

J.P. Linstroth is Adjunct Professor at Barry University, USA, and an Honorary Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Member at Catholic University of New Spain, USA. He is the author of Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland (2015), co-recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Grant, and former Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. He has a D.Phil. degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Blurb

This book brings together theoretical knowledge from diverse fields as anthropology, biology, neurology, peace studies, political science, psychology, and sociology to address key challenges that transcend borders. It demonstrates how differences are created on many levels to reveal how the “othering project” is evident through national policies of immigration, through aspiring nationalisms, through genocidal inhumanity, and the subsequent effects of such othering evident in racial trauma. It further argues that we cannot limit our understanding of racism to forms of “white nationalism” or “whiteness movements” in the developed world and regions but look to the global formulation of such discrimination in colonial histories. The book introduces each chapter by providing rich ethnographic narratives from informants based upon the author’s  research on nationalism, racism, genocide, terrorism, trauma, scientific tolerance, and love and peace as well as some auto-ethnographic narratives from the author’s research on these themes.

J.P. Linstroth is Adjunct Professor at Barry University, USA, and an Honorary Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Member at Catholic University of New Spain, USA. He is the author of Marching Against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland (2015), co-recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Grant, and former Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. He has a D.Phil. degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford.