Rik Pinxten

Je leest het in de kranten en je hoort het op de radio: het Avondland is moe. Veel mensen leggen verslagen de handen in hun schoot. "De politiek is te groot geworden", zuchten ze, "we zijn alle grip verloren." In dit boek steekt Rik Pinxten, wellicht onze grootste antropoloog, de wanhopigen, ontmoedigden en gedemoraliseerden een hart onder de riem: er zijn alternatieven. Maar dan moeten we wel voorbij de keuze tussen populistisch nationalisme en kosmopolitisme. Want Trump en Macron, dat is iets als Coca-Cola en Pepsi. Beide stromingen smaken hetzelfde: ze zijn kinderen van dezelfde TINA en ze dienen vrijwel identieke belangen. Neen, dan ziet de auteur andere pistes. Vertrekkend vanuit concrete voorbeelden tikt hij een heel nieuw scenario bij elkaar. De rode draad? Verander de wereld, wees actief in je eigen buurt én houd rekening met de mondiale context. Neem nu voeding, eeuwenlang een zaak tussen lokale groepen en families. Wordt het geen tijd onze dagelijkse kost uit handen van de agro-industrie te trekken? Een groot verhaal over kleine dingen die verbinden.

Het nieuwe vertrouwen

Ellen Preckler

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of international scholars who work in the social sciences and statements by non-practicing academics such as journalists and policy makers. The contributions of the scientists and the non-academic specialists are grouped around common themes, highlighting existing debates and bringing together widely scattered information. The book explores the ways in which old forms of racism persist in the urban context, and how traditional exclusion systems like casteism can be likened to contemporary forms like racism directed at refugees.

Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Eric Vandendriessche

The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the crossroads of anthropology and ethnomathematics to document indigenous mathematical knowledge and its inclusion in specific cultural patterns. More generally, the book demonstrates the heuristic value of crossing ethnographical, anthropological and ethnomathematical approaches to highlight and analyze—or "formalize" with a pedagogical outlook—indigenous mathematical knowledge. The book is divided into three parts. The first part extensively analyzes theoretical claims using particular ethnographic data, while revealing the structural mathematical features of different ludic, graphic, or technical/procedural practices in their links to other cultural phenomena. In the second part, new empirical studies that add data and perspectives from the body of studies on indigenous knowledge systems to the ongoing discussions in mathematics education in and for diverse cultural traditions are presented. This part considers, on the one hand, the Brazilian work in this field; on the other hand, it brings ethnographic innovation from other parts of the world. The third part comprises a broad philosophical discussion of the impact of intuitive or "ontological" premises on mathematical thinking and education in the light of recent developments within so-called indigenously inspired thinking. Finally, the editors’ conclusions aim to invite the broad and diversified field of scholars in this domain of research to seek alternative approaches for understanding mathematical reasoning and the adjacent adequate educational goals and means. This book is of interest to scholars and students in anthropology, ethnomathematics, history and philosophy of science, mathematics, and mathematics education, as well as other individuals interested in these topics.

Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics

Chia Longman

Ghislain Verstraete

With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which is implicit in racial theories and re-emerges in the ideological use of cultural identity in new rightist movements, and presents case studies from different parts of the world where researchers were confronted with racism and worked out ways of coping with it.

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Culture and Politics

Frank Harvey

Ingrid van Dooren

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Anthropology of Space

"First edition, fully updated here, appeared as Goddelijke Fantasie, Antwerp, Belgium with Houtekiet Publ. in 2000."--T.p. verso

The Creation of God

Diederik Aerts

Bart D'Hooghe

This volume is part of the ?Worldviews, Science and Us? series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the ?Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews? research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research, over the period of time between 2005 to 2010. Further information about this research community and a full list of the associated international research centers can be found at http: //www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/res/worldviews/

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