I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE REVIEW

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arsenal pulp, art, book, care, consent, David Ng, essays, featured, gender, hope, indigenous, justice, Kai Cheng Thom, Khelsilem, massy books, Musqueam, poetry, qtpoc, queer, radical, review, Squamish, trans, Tsleil-Waututh, vancouver, writing.

by Alex Valente

Content warning: suicide

On the evening of Friday, 18^th October 2019, I attended Massy Books launch of Kai Cheng Thom’s latest book I Hope We Choose Love – A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World, a collection of non-fiction and short poetic pieces that together form a net of radical hope-building for a time – and it has been a long time, as rightly noted in the introduction – when all hope seems lost. I follow Kai Cheng’s work online already, but I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from the event. I’m glad to say I’m still not entirely sure what happened.Continue Reading

ECONOMIES OF RECOGNITION

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged academics, academy, anthropology, Axel Honneth, care, colonisation, economics, featured, gift, giving, Goroka, indigenous, Marcel Mauss, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, new labour, Papua New Guinea, philosophy, politics, social theory.

by Liv Barnett

Academics are often accused of failing to make their research matter to audiences other than themselves. Anthropologists are particularly criticized for writing theories and ethnographies that not only go unread by non-anthropologists, but are also too inaccessible to those they may be writing about. Here I hope to try and explain a central aspect of my PhD research in Papua New Guinea and share some of the ways it has got me thinking about politics and economics in the UK.

The stereotyped anthropologist gets criticized for using the experiences of a usually colonised ‘other’ for their own project of producing knowledge that counters the taken for granted understandings people have of humanity or society in ‘the West’, which are presumed to be universal to human nature. This is a legitimate argument which has to be taken seriously. Therefore, I self-consciously use some of my observations in Papua New Guinea (enabled by the generosity of those who I lived with in PNG) and the ideas of European/western social theorists.

MEXICO AND THE EZLN – WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged amlo, caracoles, Civil Rights, compARTE, EZLN, featured, indigenous, land rights, Marichuy, Maya Railway, Mexico, NAFTA, native, Oaxaqueño, revolution, rights, US, Zapatista.

by Cristina Flores

2018 was a landmark year for Mexico. July saw the election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (popularly known as Amlo), whose party Morena won 53% of the popular vote. This landslide victory against the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), a centre-right party, has offered fresh hope for a country exhausted by corruption and fraud. The marginalisation of Mexico’s native communities, however, is in no way a resolved issue. Although Amlo’s social democratic agenda may seem to be an oasis in the desert for Mexico’s working classes, the fight for recognition, rights and justice amongst the indigenous peoples of Mexico continues. Arguably the most notable group leading this movement is the Zapatista Army of National Liberation – the EZLN.

This movement has re-emerged as a journalistic hot topic in the past few weeks, owing much to Amlo’s inauguration back in December and the recent commemoration of 25 years since the first EZLN uprising. So where did the movement come from, where are they now, and what does this mean for indigenous rights in Mexico?Continue Reading

UNJUSTIFIED UPROAR: CLOSING THE ULURU PATH

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged aboriginal, Anangu, Ayers Rock, Blackfulla, closure, discrimination, indigenous, prejudice, Uluru.

By Maud Webster

Content warning: racial abuse

Whilst Indigenous people in Australia are often shoved to the side and ignored in the media, they were thrown into the limelight last month, when the wider community of the Anangu, in conjunction with a board of representatives, made the decision that the Uluru path will be closed. Continue Reading

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Australia, australian bureau of statistics, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Greens, Australian Labour Party, australian politics, bestiality, civil union, electoral roll, equal marriage, expats, gay, Green Party, high court, homosexuality, indigenous, IVF, john howard, journalism, LGBT+, lgbtq, LGBTQI, liberal party, malcom turnbull, marriage, marriage act, marriage equality, marriage rebels, plebiscite, politics, postal ballot, postal plebiscite, postal vote, Queensland, referendum, rural, same sex, same sex parents, South Australia, stolen generation, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, tasmania, Tony Abbot, University of Melbourne, western australia, young voters.

by Laura Evans

Content warning: this article mentions homophobia

It’s been quite a week in Australian politics. You might have heard that the Turnbull government (a coalition of the centre-right Liberal Party and slightly further-right-but-mostly-rural National Party) have been debating marriage equality and have launched something called a postal-plebiscite. To understand why this is a Big Complicated Deal, we have to go back to 2004.Continue Reading

LAND RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND THE GLOBAL GREEN MOVEMENT

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Ade Zuchri, Africa, African Green Revolution, African Greens Federation, agriculture, BK Dalit, conservation, DAkar, deforestation, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, farming, Frank Habineza, GEN, Global Greens, Global Greens Congress, GM, GMOs, Green, Green Party, Greens2017, indigenous, indigenous activism, Indonesia, Indonesian Green Union, Joko Widodo, Kofia Annan, land clearances, land rights, monoculture, monsanto, Nepal, Nepali Greens, Papa Meissa Dieng, Rwanda, Samtra, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, Senegal, Sumatran orangutan, Sumatran rhino.

By Olivia Hanks

It is at the heart of our housing crisis, provides our food, and is still the principal determiner of wealth in the UK. Yet most of us in England do not spend very much time thinking about land. So it was an exciting and stimulating experience to attend a panel discussion at the recent Global Greens congress in Liverpool about land rights and how they form a vital part of the green movement worldwide.

ART FAIR EAST: A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF ART DEALERSHIP

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged A Heart of Glass, AFE, art, Art Fair East, arts, Barry Andrews, Beatles, Brian Korteling, Capital Culture Gallery, Community, cuba, east anglia, exhibtion, gallery, Havana, indigenous, James Sparshatt, John Crome, landscape, music, norfolk, norwich, painting, photography, review, Rima Saab, Robert Ladbroke, St Andrews Hall, Turner, visual arts, will teather.

by Hannah Rose

Art Fair East (AFE) is an annual contemporary visual art event showcasing emerging and established artists from East Anglia and around the globe, hosted by artists, galleries and dealers in St Andrews Hall – Norwich. 2016’s event was a hive of curiosity and arty repartee, with artists and agents on hand to engage and interact with visitors.Continue Reading

CULTURE FOR (WHITE) FASHION

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged African, Afropunk, appropriation, art, bindi, biro, culture, culture for fashion, design, face paint, fashion, indigenous, Mexican, native american, non-binary, original art, peace, spirit, tattoo, tribal, visual art, white.

by Asia Patel
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MEXICO AND THE EZLN – WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?

UNJUSTIFIED UPROAR: CLOSING THE ULURU PATH

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

LAND RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND THE GLOBAL GREEN MOVEMENT

ART FAIR EAST: A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF ART DEALERSHIP

CULTURE FOR (WHITE) FASHION

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