Courage and Commitment: Paul Robeson, Peacebuilding, and Citizenship Education

Fernekes, William R.

doi:10.1080/00933104.2004.10473246

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“…While less critical, these provide crucial first-person accounts, often originating from the Robeson family or his close friends (e.g., Brown, 1976;Robeson, 1930;Robeson Jr., 1989;Seton, 1958). Recent studies primarily focus on his lack of memorialisation and the importance of his legacy in education (e.g., Blum, 1998Blum, , 1999Blum, , 2008Dunn, 1987;Ellis, 2013;Fernekes, 2004;Harrison & Lampman, 2001). There has yet to be a study that completely integrates both his ideas and his geographies.…”

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The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

Rhodes

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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Memorialisation of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an "honorary Welshman" and a "Welsh achiever." How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson's philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialised into those of a Welsh hero through the theoretical lens of absent presence and geographies of biography. I explore this relationship between Wales and Robeson further to understand his influence and commemorative presence in Wales via the material memorial landscape of Robeson and how he is represented within broader Welsh memorialisation and nationalism. Through the discourse of the memorial landscapes of Wales, elements of his philosophy may be over-or under-represented.For example, he connected with the strong socialist history in Wales, but the complexity of Robeson's philosophical framework remains absent. Why were only some of his philosophical beliefs transmitted into Welsh society and the memorial landscape? This paper reveals both the presence and absence of Paul Robeson's complex biography in the material memorial landscape in Wales. As a case study on the inclusion of (auto)biographical knowledge in the context of complex geographies and landscapes, this work frames biographical inclusion and exclusion as vital geographic concerns, particularly in the precarious Black geographies of Paul Robeson in Wales. In so doing, it further reifies the indelible connections between geography, biography, and the socio-political contexts from which memorial landscapes emerge.

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The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

Rhodes

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Criterion Collection, 2007; Dorinson and Pencak, 2002; Stewart, 1998), yet none completely integrate both his ideas and his geographies, let alone in a way that represent memorial landscape. The lack of popular knowledge of him (Brown, 1976; Von Blum, 1998; Wright, 1975) and the importance of his legacy in education (Dunn, 1987; Fernekes, 2004; Harrison and Lampman, 2001; Von Blum, 1998, 1999, 2008) dominate the literature. With the exception of East Berlin (Carmody, 2014) and Peekskill, NY (Rhodes, 2016a), the place-based memory of Paul Robeson has primarily been ignored.…”

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Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition

Rhodes

2018

Memory Studies

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Since his first interactions with Welsh miners striking in London in 1929, Paul Robeson has been considered by some as an “honorary Welshman.” While the African American actor, athlete, activist, singer, and scholar never lived in Wales, he did have various interactions in Wales throughout his life. This special relationship persists on the memorial landscape of the country in various ways, but none as extensive as the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition. This article extends beyond an overview of the exhibition to identify it as an example of exceptional memorialization techniques. Combining the concepts of participatory, temporary, and mobile memorialization, in order to commemorate Paul Robeson through a sensorial, spatially, and conceptually diverse program, Let Robeson Sing! exhibits memory through a unique and engaging memorial landscape. This article situates the exhibition within the techniques of participatory, temporary, and mobile memorialization, and how the combination of the three provides a unique, effective, and affective form of commemorating Paul Robeson in Wales.

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“…Gaudelli, 2007; Myers, 2008) and peacebuilding studies (e.g. Fernekes, 2004; Kirkwood-Tucker, 2004) that are often couched within international or global studies (e.g. Gaudelli, 2003; Thornton, 2005).…”

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Do words matter?: Using inquiry and the politics of naming to promote critical global citizenship education

Johnson

Hamblin

2022

SSRP

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Purpose US president Donald J. Trump has referred to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as the “Chinese” virus. Trump's choice of terms (i.e. naming) provides an illustrative entry point concerning the politics of naming and how analysis of language used within historical and political contexts can be used to engage students with global education principles.Design/methodology/approach This work aims to extend Hanvey's (1976) notion of perspective consciousness to include critical elements (e.g. Andreotti, 2014) that aim to uncover power structures that ultimately shape worldviews and manifest in communicative signs/signals (e.g. language). Utilizing Dewey's invocation of language as the “tool of tools,” the authors provide a series of three classroom-ready inquiries that serve to foster critical global citizenship education.Findings Three classroom-ready inquiries informed by the inquiry design model are presented along with resources needed to teach them.Originality/value Research has suggested the concept “global” is understood by much of the world as an instrument of US hegemony that commonly normalizes Western supremacy myths (see Andreotti, 2014; Myers, 2006). Running parallel with these concerns are research findings that suggest practitioner avoidance of global citizenship education (see Cogan and Grossman, 2009; Merryfield and Kasai, 2010; Zong, 2009). With these concerns in mind, this work provides teachers with accessible tools that promote critical notions of global citizenship education in the classroom.

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Courage and Commitment: Paul Robeson, Peacebuilding, and Citizenship Education

Cited by 6 publications

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The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

The absent presence of Paul Robeson in Wales: Appropriation and philosophical disconnects in the memorial landscape

Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition

Do words matter?: Using inquiry and the politics of naming to promote critical global citizenship education

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