Indigenous Cultural Translation

Sterk, Darryl Cameron

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“…Elizabeth Povinelli (1995Povinelli ( , 1998Povinelli ( , 2002 argues that within the act of recognising Indigenous identities, liberal multicultural discourses are loaded with contradictions and embedded in power relations. Building on the Lacanian concept of 'meconnaissance' , she shows that multiculturalism aspires to welcome and solicit a plurality of ways of life while reserving a power to refuse behaviours and ideas that are offensive to it-a feature shared by many cultures, including Indigenous cultures (see Sterk, 2020). For her, 'law is one of the primary sites through which liberal forms of recognition develop their disciplinary sides as they work with the hopes, pride, optimism and shame of Indigenous and other minority subjects' (Povinelli, 2002: 184).…”

Section: Indigenous Recognition and Indigenous Courtsmentioning

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Legal Indigeneities: Identity, Authenticity, and Power in Taiwan’s Indigenous Courts

Upton

2022

Int. J. Taiwan Stud.

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In this article I examine performances of Indigeneity in encounters between Indigenous people and the Taiwan legal system. Studying displays of Indigenous identities reveals the processes through which individuals and communities draw upon histories and practices to fashion themselves as Indigenous and engage with wider publics through performances and performative acts. Focusing on three encounters between Indigenous people and the Taiwan legal system, displays of Indigeneity in these encounters were multivalent and involved a repertoire of creative performative acts as Indigenous actors used court spaces, like the new ad hoc Chamber of Indigenous Courts, to perform identities that confounded essentialist conceptions of Indigeneity, introduced alternative ontological parameters, and assumed state governance responsibilities. These performances suggest a contextually situated engagement with the postcolonial state where Indigenous identities are anchored in the past and forward-looking, reinforce or challenge the category of Indigeneity, and themselves operate as techniques of power.

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Section: Indigenous Recognition and Indigenous Courtsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal Indigeneities: Identity, Authenticity, and Power in Taiwan’s Indigenous Courts

Upton

2022

Int. J. Taiwan Stud.

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Pedagogical devices

Sterk

2022

Babel

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The “partial translation” of Inuktitut-language lyrics in the Indigenous film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (directed by Zacharias Kunuk, 2001) has been interpreted as a means of challenging outsiders to understand the film “emically,” meaning from insiders’ perspectives. On this interpretation, Atanarjuat is linguistically exclusionary, because the challenge of partial translation effectively excludes most outsiders from a full understanding. But given the problem of language shift in Indigenous communities, we should not expect Indigenous films to be linguistically exclusionary in general, or they would exclude young Indigenous insiders along with outsiders. We should instead expect Indigenous films to adopt an inclusionary approach to subtitling, consistent with projects of language revitalization. To see what form such an approach might take, I analyzed three Indigenous films from Taiwan in which speech in Atayalic languages is subtitled in Mandarin. Staggered over three-and-a-half decades, these three films index the subtitling approach as a function of concern about language shift. I found that all three films were fully, not partially translated, but that the two films made in a context of concern about language shift were subtitled pedagogically. The two pedagogically subtitled films are “devices” for the pedagogy of Atayal, the most widely spoken Atayalic language. This result from Taiwan suggests that a pedagogical approach might be common in the subtitling of Indigenous films in settler societies around the world.

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Visual Ethnography as a Research Methodology

Kaye

2022

Methodological Innovations in Research and Academic Writing

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The chapter presents a rationale for using visual ethnography as part of the methodology in qualitative research and illustrates what visual ethnography methodology is capable of accomplishing when imagery is included in the investigative process. Visual ethnography offers a venue for collecting and analyzing data that would otherwise be inaccessible and positions imagery as an important, rather than a minimal or occasional, choice for use in qualitative research. Topics include contemporary definitions of visual ethnography and its value in qualitative research, historical applications of visual ethnographic theory that influence the way researchers view visual ethnography today, and contemporary uses of visual ethnography in data collection and analysis. Finally, the conclusion explores the future of visual ethnography.

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Indigenous Cultural Translation

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Legal Indigeneities: Identity, Authenticity, and Power in Taiwan’s Indigenous Courts

Legal Indigeneities: Identity, Authenticity, and Power in Taiwan’s Indigenous Courts

Pedagogical devices

Visual Ethnography as a Research Methodology

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