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ECMI Social Movements and Minority Rights Workshop

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The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is conducting the Social Movements and Minority Rights workshop 20 May 2021 – 21 May 2021 The thematic angle chosen for the event of the interaction between social movements and minority identity is by design interdisciplinary and responds to an existing research gap in social science research. The … Read more

Inaugural Episode

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In the inaugural episode, Camila Marinelli, a second-year doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, is joined by Dr Ankur Datta, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the South Asian University. Taking the lead from the term ‘displacement’, Camila and Ankur discuss Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir, India. They talk about mental health … Read more

Futures in Post-displacement Italy

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Please join us for a one-day workshop to plan/discuss the papers for a special issue of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies that is being edited by CMR directors Stavroula Pipyrou and Emma Bond When: December 18th, 2020; 2pm-5pm (UK) / 3pm-6pm (Italy) / 9am-12pm (EST) Where: Teams  

Twitter as a new arena for political debates

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By Evgeniya Pakhomova Due to the unprecedented number of postal ballots, the 2020 United States Presidential election turned into a nerve-racking one-week-long event. Competition in several key states was down to decimal fractions of a percent. As the first night of vote counting was coming to an end, it became crystal clear that the claims … Read more

Virtual Tour to the exhibition Mundos Indígenas/Indigenous Worlds

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Espaço do Conhecimento / Space of Knowledge of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG) launched on September 21st the Virtual Tour to their exhibition Mundos Indígenas / Indigenous Worlds. In the exhibition Mundos Indígenas the public is presented with ways of living, knowing, and taking care of the Maxakali, Pataxoop, Xakriabá, Yanomami, and Ye’kwana … Read more

Indias divise Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA)

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By Oona Singh Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) in December of 2019. Very quickly the act was subject to public criticism, concern, and uproar. The issues around the act are related to concerns surrounding its unconstitutional nature. The act outlines new provisions for citizenship. The pathways to citizenship provided by the … Read more

When our maracas shake, we’re on the move!

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Covid-19 is hitting indigenous people violently in Brazil. It’s not just the high mortality rate; other tensions and threats are being exacerbated by social isolation during the novel Coronavirus pandemic.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) has been working in partnership with our grassroots organisations and indigenous supporters.

The APIB has already achieved a historic milestone with the online version of the Free Land Camp – when the National Assembly for Indigenous Resistance was held and the National Committee for Indigenous Life and Memory was created. The committee is a collective effort to monitor and gather data on the pandemic across the whole country. We have now launched our plan to confront this Covid-19 Indigenous Emergency, and they are calling us to participate.

This is an international mobilisation to save lives. Please follow them and give your support.

@apiboficial

http://apib.info/

http://emergenciaindigena.apib.info/

The community of Quilombo Pinhões during Covid-19 / Quilombo de Pinhões durante o Covid-19

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*** this blog post is translated into Portuguese below *** In this video Débora Rodrigues shares with us a little bit about the situation at Pinhões during Covid-19. She focuses on how the community is dealing with the pandemic and helping each other to remain safe, as cases in Brazil have been sharply increasing since … Read more

Knowledge in time of Pandemic

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TEHÊY – FISHING OF KNOWLEDGE / TEHÊY DE PESCARIA DE CONHECIMENTO In the village Muã Mimatxi, located in the town of Itapecerica in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, the Pataxoop practice what is called ‘fishing of knowledge’ (pescaria do conhecimento). The knowledges, narratives and customs of the indigenous people of Minas Gerais are … Read more

Congratulations to Edgar Xakriabá for winning the Photography Award Art & Science

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We are happy to share that Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá, one of our Research Collaborators in the Project ‘Capturing new education models among Indigenous and Quilombola minorities in Brazil’, has won the Photography Award in 1st place for ‘Images created by photographic cameras: Wild and anthropic environment’. The prize is given by the National Council for Scientific … Read more

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