Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization

Jalata, Asafa

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“…Simply put, racism is an expression of institutionalized patterns of colonizing structural power and social control in order to transfer the value of labor and economic resources from the powerless to the powerful group. 1 The global process of racial/ethnonational inequality started through establishing settler colonialism, practicing terrorism and genocide, and intensifying two types of labor recruitment systems: wage labor for poor whites and coerced labor for enslaved non-whites (Roediger, 1991;Jalata 2001). The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant groups that initially dominated the world through the capitalist world system developed two major social stratification systems: classgender and racial caste systems (Du Bois 1977[1935).…”

Section: Global Capitalism Indigenous Africans and Injusticesmentioning

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The triple causes of African underdevelopment: Colonial capitalism, state terrorism and racism

Jalata¹

2015

Int. J. Sociol. Anthropol.

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The paper attempts to inform Africans and the world at large of the triple evils of colonial capitalism, state terrorism, and racism and of different forms of African resistance in order to search for new ways of implementing universal human rights laws and the rights of indigenous people. Most indigenous Africans are immensely underdeveloped and have suffered for more than five centuries because of these triple evils that have been imposed on them by European colonial powers, successive global powers, and their African collaborators. The European colonial powers, namely Spain,

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Section: Global Capitalism Indigenous Africans and Injusticesmentioning

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The triple causes of African underdevelopment: Colonial capitalism, state terrorism and racism

Jalata¹

2015

Int. J. Sociol. Anthropol.

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“…The processes of expropriation, racial slavery, and colonialism resulted in hierarchical organization of world populations through the creation of an elaborate discourse of race or racism (Jalata, 2001). "A racial project is simultaneously an interpretation, representation or explanation of racial dynamics", Howard Winant (1994: p. 24) writes, "and an effort to organize and distribute resources along particular racial lines" (author's emphasis).…”

Section: European Colonialism and Injusticesmentioning

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Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice

Jalata¹

2013

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This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Africans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descendants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or minimize the crimes committed against indigenous peoples and claim that their ancestors spread modernity and civilization around the world. Not recognizing these crimes and ignoring or forgetting or minimizing them have far reaching consequences for humanity and raise moral and ethical issues for the validity of modern civilization that claims to promote the principles of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, democracy, and social justice. The commitment to these principles and truly promoting them require reevaluating the past and present mistakes in the modern world system to openly and honestly debate them and seek correct and urgent solutions for the surviving indigenous peoples who are still suffering from state terrorism, massive human rights violations, dispossession of resources and rights, absolute poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

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“…The nature and role of the state has changed because of globalisation challenges in terms of structures and actors such as transnational elites, Multinational Corporation and technological transformation (Jalata, 2002). The main role of the state to date is to balance competing social forces.…”

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Land Resource In Tanzania: Whose State, Whose Resource?

Haulle¹

2015

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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This paper assesses land resource in Tanzania in relation to ownership, access and control for livelihood and development. The ownership of state and resources impacts the community stability and development. The paper employs political ecology approach to analyze the state of art in relation to land. In-depth interviews, Focus Group Discussions and Literature review were employed to establish historical trend in relation to conflicts and contradictions that exist in resource management. The paper advances that, since 1895, Tanzania has undergone a number of land reforms. Since then, principles of land tenure have not changed. This resulted to conflicts over land which occurs in different forms and scale. After independence, land was dispossessed in the name of national/or public interest to establish National Parks, agricultural projects and other projects that did not respond to internal demands. After the failure of the projects such land was not returned to the users. Moreover, Tanzania has formulated a number of laws to facilitate accumulation. These include commodification of land that raised its demand hence second scramble. About 16 Acts were enacted annually since 1990 to fulfil the demand that caused the rise of the question whose state. Both Tanzania and Mozambique inherited colonial systems of natural resource management and ownership which continue to inform the current practice. The state apparatuses are the agents of accumulation. The situation will be tense in future if not addressed now.

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Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization

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The triple causes of African underdevelopment: Colonial capitalism, state terrorism and racism

The triple causes of African underdevelopment: Colonial capitalism, state terrorism and racism

Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice

Land Resource In Tanzania: Whose State, Whose Resource?

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