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Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population. Colombian indigenous communities' success in gaining collective control of almost thirty percent of the national territory is nothing short of extraordinary. In Managing Multiculturalism, Jean E. Jackson examines the evolution of the Colombian indigenous movement over the course of her forty-plus years of research and fieldwork, offering unusually developed and nuanced insight into how indigenous communities and activists changed over time, as well as how she the ethnographer and scholar evolved in turn. The story of how indigenous organizing began, found its voice, established alliances, and won battles against the government and the Catholic Church has important implications for the indigenous cause internationally and for understanding all manner of rights organizing. Integrating case studies with commentaries on the movement's development, Jackson explores the politicization and deployment of multiculturalism, indigenous identity, and neoliberalism, as well as changing conceptions of cultural value and authenticity—including issues such as patrimony, heritage, and ethnic tourism. Both ethnography and recent history of the Latin American indigenous movement, this works traces the ideas motivating indigenous movements in regional and global relief, and with unprecedented breadth and depth.

Indians of South America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Politics and government. --- Ethnology --- Indigeneity. --- authenticity. --- cultural representation. --- ethnographic methodology. --- ethnoracial identity. --- identity politics. --- indigenous movements. --- legal pluralism. --- recognition politics. --- reflexivity.

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This book analyses a corpus of epic and propagandistic texts written at the margins of the Spanish empire in the 16th century. It examines the representation of religious conflict in England, Germany and Holland during the reigns of Charles V and Philip II, centring on three episodes widely disseminated in European visual and emotional culture and around which certain foundational Spanish heroic narratives emerged: the martyrdom of the Carthusians and Jesuits in England; the Schmalkaldic War; and the siege of Antwerp. The volume considers the close relationships between epic and history; between epic and visual culture; and between Hispanic epic poetry and the history and religious cartography of Europe during the critical years in which the Anglican Church was evolvingand Lutheranism gaining strength in Germany.

Europe --- Religion --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Epic poetry, Spanish --- Religion in literature. --- War --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Anglicanism. --- Lutheranism. --- cultural representation. --- religious conflict. --- sixteenth-century Spanish epic poetry.

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Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to become the country with the highest number of museums in the world. But why have museums become so important?
This book, based on extensive research in a number of the museums themselves, examines recent changes in their display methods, narratives, actors and architectural style. It also considers their representations of Chinese national identity, millenarian history and extraordinary cultural diversity. Through an analysis of the changes affecting not only what we observe through museums, but also the very medium of observation (i.e. museums themselves), this book provides a unique, original and timely exploration of the ongoing changes affecting Chinese society, and an evaluation of their consequences.

Dr Marzia Varutti is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Museum Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

Museums --- Museum techniques --- National characteristics, Chinese. --- History. --- Political aspects --- Chinese national characteristics --- Museology --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Technique --- Applied museology --- Museography --- Museum practices --- Museum studies --- China. --- Chinese Cultural Politics. --- Chinese Museums. --- Chinese Society. --- Cultural Changes. --- Cultural Consequences. --- Cultural Diversity. --- Cultural Identity. --- Cultural Representation. --- Museum Development. --- Museums.

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Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'.

Art museums --- Art, Brazilian --- Collection management --- Brazilian art --- Art --- Art collections --- Art galleries --- Galleries, Art --- Galleries, Public art --- Picture-galleries --- Public art galleries --- Public galleries (Art museums) --- Arts facilities --- Museums --- Galleries and museums --- Brazilian art. --- Brazilian culture. --- Indigenous contemporary art. --- Indigenous curatorial agency. --- Indigenous curatorial practice. --- Indigenous people. --- art history. --- art world. --- colonial power. --- colonialism. --- cultural identity. --- cultural representation. --- decolonization. --- exhibitions.

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International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. McMillan draws on interdisciplinary work spanning law, criminology, humanitarianism, socio-legal studies, cultural studies, and human geography to show how understandings of international crime and justice hierarchize, spectacularize, and appropriate the suffering of others and promote an ideal of justice fundamentally disconnected from life as it is lived. McMillan critiques the mode of global interconnection they offer, one which bears resemblance to past colonial global approaches and which seeks to foster community through the image of crime and the practice of punitive justice. This book powerfully underscores the importance of the ideas of international crime and justice and their significant limits, cautioning against their continued valorization.

International crimes. --- International criminal law. --- Criminal justice, Administration of. --- Crimes against humanity. --- Cultural representation (and discourse?). --- Definition (although often approached in literature as ‘what is… a crime against humanity/international crime/international justice?’). --- Ethics / ethical. --- Humanitarianism. --- International community (and humanity?). --- International crime. --- International criminal justice (also international justice). --- International law. --- Postcolonial. --- International crimes --- International criminal law --- International criminal courts --- Criminal justice, Administration of