Thanks
Toyin
-- On 11 October 2010 16:32, kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:
dear all
i wish the attack on this term (third world) were more sophisticated. by ignoring the history of its inception we ironically disparage a term of political liberation. you can google it if you want to trace its origins back to the fifties, but it was embraced, as a kind of third way, between the two competing powers of the cold war, and came in the 60s to stand for revolutionary struggle for national liberation of colonized people.
with time, forgetfulness, lazy intellectual efforts, the sense of being third supplanted its earlier usages.
i am resigned to the change, but do no respect the weak arguments used against it. i now use postcolonial, a much weaker term politically. partly the problem in all cases is the weak reading of terms as literal, denotative and not connotative. maybe farooq can explain how this happens.
so gloria is right that it is used insultingly, but by ignoramuses; it is taken insultingly, but by those who ignore its historical meanings. it has lost its panache, just as the revolution for which it stood is now a thing of the past. the trouble is that there are lots of old timers out there like me who still actually believe in the ideals on which the concept of the third world was founded, who believe in the value of third cinema as well as third world cinema, who understand the history of its program and see the struggle as on-going, in the face of globalization and neoliberalism
ken harrowKenneth W. Harrow
At 10:39 AM 10/11/2010, you wrote:
Toyin Adepoju has a point. These days the term Third World is used insultingly. See for example
Huffingtonpost.com on the series 'Third World America'.
Studies of Emerging Economies, African and Asian Studies, Non-Aligned Studies
or Majority Studies are some possible alternatives that come to mind.
GE
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Very impressive.
Within the name of the prize,however,I have a problem with the section I highlight in black:
"Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award"
I am wary of such self categorisation,even if it has a degree of validity. Is Africa,for one,Third to the West,in all aspects?Even if one argues that, taken generally,this classification can be sustained,how helpful is it to the psyche of those who belong to this so called Third World?
I might have problems,I might not be living up to my potential but I would not be keen to be NAMED IN TERMS OF MY PROBLEMS beceause I am convinced I can rise above them sooner or later.
I would be much more comfortable if the prize were simply named Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Thanks
Toyin
On 10 October 2010 23:52, Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net<mailto:theai@earthlink.net>> wrote:
Professor Patrick Manning Is the Winner of the 2010 ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Good Greetings:
It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the wonderful news that the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award is Professor Patrick Manning of the University of Pittsburgh for his book titled The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture (2009) published by Columbia University Press. As in previous years, the Award's committee received numerous and excellent books from which the selection was made. The following is just a small sample of what the judges of the Award had to say about Manning's effulgent book:
"The author is adept at tying together what are seemingly separate and unconnected phenomena. Integrating such a complexity (six centuries and several continents) was challenging enough, but it was done with an almost elegant simplicity...."
"Manning challenges three paradigms that have shaped the study of African peoples: (1) their exclusion from studies on modernity, (2) their exclusion from a global integrated study as a group, and (3) their absence of clearly defined thematic structures that encapsulate the experiences of the Africana. Through a new approach to the study of the African Diaspora, Manning shows how African peoples in the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Mediterranean contributed to modernity through Diasporas, networks, mixes, hinterlands, and exchanges on the roads between centers...."
Please find below more details on the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award and the call for next year's Award. Next year's ATWS conference will be convened in Brazil, home of the Afrikan Samba.
In Peace Always
Abdul Karim Bangura/
Committee Chair
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CALL FOR BOOKS
THE 2010-2011 TOYIN FALOLA
ATWS AFRICA BOOK AWARD
The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, in honor of Toyin Falola, one of Africa's outstanding historians and intellectuals, will be given for the best book on Africa published in 2010-2011. Book submissions must be published in 2010 through June 15, 2011. The deadline for the submission of entries is June 30, 2011. The award will not automatically be given each year, but only whenever the committee decides that a book of considerable merit has been submitted. ATWS members are encouraged to enter their publications into the competition. The recipient will receive an elegant plaque, citation, and a $500 cash award.
Qualifications are:
1. Only monographs and studies will be considered. Please do not submit anthologies or edited works.
2. An individual who wishes to be considered must send a letter of application to the committee chair, Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012 E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net<mailto:bangura@american.edu>
3. Publishers are permitted to nominate an author's book as long as the above rules are observed.
4. An individual seeking the award is responsible for sending a copy of his/her book to each member of the committee.
Committee members are:
Dr. Abdul Karim Bangura, committee chair, The African Institution, 7532 Eighth Street, Washington, D.C. 20012. E-mail: theafricaninstitution@verizon.net<mailto:bangura@american.edu>
Dr. James T. Gire, Department of Psychology, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA 24450. E-mail: GireJT@vmi.edu<mailto:GireJT@vmi.edu>
Dr. Jose Arimateia da Cruz, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA 31419-1997. E-mail: dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu<mailto:dacruzjo@mail.armstrong.edu>
Dr. Ishmael Munene, Center for Education Excellence, Northern Arizona University, Flagg Staff, AZ 86011-5774. E-mail: Munene@nau.edu<mailto:Munene@nau.edu>
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