The underdog world
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Anthropology, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Brasil, Daniel Rodrigues
issued: 2016-01-13T15:20:48Z
issued: 2016
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Various communities, including those glossed as traditional, indigenous, subaltern, Afro-descended, tribal, or, in an older vocabulary, primitive, pre-modern, non-civilized, barbaric, and polluted, in particular contexts, can find themselves in a situation I have come to refer as underdogs. Underdog references communities which are positioned to access various levels of historical consciousness in order to mobilize their struggles against impinging, dominant, homogenizing forces. These forces are based in a colonial culture against which communities resist. The strategies of resistance both refer to their traditions and to their historic circumstances, as well as their recognition of historical fluidity which allows them the possibility of facing, encountering and rewriting their histories. This resistance has made them resilient. Ethnographic research conduced together with the quilombola community of Periperi, in the state of Piauí, Brazil; the neighbourhood of La Marina, in Matanzas, Cuba, and the Hwlitsum indigenous people, in British Columbia, Canada shows that these communities in an underdog situation cannot back off from their challenges to existing modes of power of their local and regional setting in their efforts to mitigate their status as polluted. Experiencing being in such situations throughout their trajectory has led these communities to a condition they have not been able to run from, albeit finding new ways to embrace it, in the underdog world they live in.
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note: THE UNDERDOG WORLD by Daniel Rodrigues Brasil B.Sc. in International Relations, University of Brasilia, 2002 M.Sc. in Sustainable Development, University of Brasilia, 2008 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Anthropology) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) December 2015 © Daniel Rodrigues Brasil, 2015 THE UNDERDOG WORLD Daniel Rodrigues Brasil Thesis presented to PhD Program of Post-Graduation in Compared Studies of the Americas of the University of Brasília for the title of PhD in Social Sciences Supervisor: Professor Stephen Grant Baines (CEPPAC/DAN/UnB) Supervisor: Professor Bruce Granville Miller (Anthropology/UBC) Examination Board: Professor Dr. Julie Cruikshank (Anthropology/UBC) Professor Dr. Alfredo Wagner Berno de Almeida (UEAM) Professor Dr. Rosa Elizabeth Acevedo Marin (UFPA) Professor Dr. Lilia Gonçalves Magalhães Tavolaro (CEPPAC/UnB) Substitute: Professor Dr. Camilo Negri (CEPPAC/UnB)ii Abstract Various communities, including those glossed as traditional, indigenous, subaltern, Afro-descended, tribal, or, in an older vocabulary, primitive, pre-modern, non-civilized, barbaric, and polluted, in particular contexts, can find themselves in a situation I have come to refer as underdogs. Underdog references communities which are positioned to access various levels of historical consciousness in order to mobilize their struggles against impinging, dominant, homogenizing forces. These forces are based in a colonial culture against which communities resist. The strategies of resistance both refer to their traditions and to their historic circumstances, as well as their recognition of historical fluidity which allows them the possibility of facing, encountering and rewriting their histories. This resistance has made them resilient. Ethnographic research conduced together with the quilombola community of Periperi, in the state of Piau…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2016-02
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0223377
language: eng
degree discipline: Anthropology
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56473