Renégocier l'appartenance : citoyenneté culturelle transnationale dans le roman "The Swinging Bridge" de Ramabai Espinet ; Renégocier l'appartenance : citoyenneté culturelle transnationale dans le roman "The Swinging Bridge" de Ramabai Espinet ; Renégocier l'appartenance : citoyenneté culturelle transnationale dans le roman "The Swinging Bridge" de Ramabai Espinet Auteur(s) : Solbiac, Rodolphe Solbiac, Rodolphe Solbiac, Rodolphe Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRILLASH : Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines CRILLASH : Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines CRILLASH : Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Extrait de : "Citoyenneté culturelle et mémoire collective dans la Caraïbe et ses diasporas" : journée d'étude, le 18 avril 2013. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane Résumé : "Cette communication s'articule autour de la problématique suivante : Quelle relation peuvent entretenir un texte littéraire Caribéen diasporique avec la question de la citoyenneté culturelle ? Rodolphe Solbiac explique d'abord la citoyenneté culturelle en s'appuyant sur la définition de Renato Rosaldo. "La citoyenneté culturelle concerne les aspirations des personnes occupant une position sociale minorée quant à leur perception dans la société. Et elle se caractérise, elle se manifeste par des actions qui consistent à utiliser l'expression culturelle pour revendiquer aussi bien la reconnaissance que l'accès aux droits."" "Cette communication s'articule autour de la problématique suivante : Quelle relation peuvent entretenir un texte littéraire Caribéen diasporique avec la question de la citoyenneté culturelle ? Rodolphe Solbiac explique d'abord la citoyenneté culturelle en s'appuyant sur la définition de Renato Rosaldo. "La citoyenneté culturelle concerne les aspirations des personnes occupant une position sociale minorée quant à leur perception dans la société. Et elle se caractérise, elle se manifeste par des actions qui consistent à utiliser l'expression culturelle pour revendiquer aussi bien la reconnaissance que l'accès aux droits."" Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V13149 V13149 V13149 V13149 | Partager |
"La domination masculine". Pourquoi travailler sur les coûts de la domination masculine ? Auteur(s) : Guionnet, Christine Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRPLC : Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caraïbe Extrait de : Les jeudis de l'Université. Université des Antilles Description : On a beaucoup analysé les formes prises par la domination masculine sur les femmes, mais on s'est rarement demandé à quelles conditions, pour les hommes, cette hégémonie pouvait exister et se maintenir : quels sont les investissements, les concessions, le prix à payer pour maintenir une position sociale hégémonique ? Sachant que dans tout processus de domination (le Roi soleil et sa cour décrits par N. Elias, la noblesse terrienne face aux paysans, etc.) il y a des coûts à payer pour conserver sa position dominante, pourquoi n'en serait-il pas de même pour les hommes ? Telles sont les questions qui nous ont donné envie d'examiner l'envers du décor, de tenter de comprendre les mécanismes (et non seulement les manifestations) qui sont au coeur de la domination d'une catégorie sociale (les hommes) sur une autre (les femmes) en général. Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V15218 V15218 | Partager |
Césaire, Camus et le colonialisme : même combat Auteur(s) : Ansel, Yves Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : AMC : Association Mélanges Caraïbes Extrait de : "Albert Camus, Aimé Césaire : poétiques de la révolte" : colloque, du 13 au 15 novembre 2013. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane Description : Yves Ansel revient d'abord sur les différentes similitudes existant entre Césaire et Camus. Il s'intéresse ensuite aux divergences de pensées entre les deux écrivains. Des divergences qu'il attribue aux différences de positions qui prennent essence selon lui dans le bagage historique de chacun des deux écrivain. Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V14025 V14025 | Partager |
Travaux sur l'acceptation des plantes dans la pharmacopée française ( recherche TRAMIL ) Auteur(s) : Nossin, Emmanuel Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : AIHP-GEODE : Archéologie Industrielle, Histoire, Patrimoine/Géographie- Développement Environnement de la Caraïbe Extrait de : "Rimed gran moun. Plantes et usages au fil du temps" : séminaire, le 15 décembre 2012. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane Description : Emmanuel Nossin présente ici deux aspects de la médecine traditionnelle. L'aspect réel et l'aspect symbolique. Il s'intéresse plus particulièrement à l'aspect symbolique et à la fonction magique des plantes. Il explique que le concept de plante magique appartient au système culturel européen mais que le surnaturel entre en compte en Martinique à cause des rituels accompagnant la médecine traditionnelle. Pour lui, les plantes s'emploient à construire l'identité martiniquaise. Après avoir traité de la position inconfortable du thérapeute traditionnel ou quimboiseur, Emmanuel Nossin présente quelques remèdes de la pharmacopée martiniquaise. Il démontre par la suite que certains termes de la médecine traditionnelle martiniquaise sont nés de l'apport européen, africain, indien et même chinois. Ces régions, ayant participé de l'enrichissement matériel de la pharmacopée martiniquaise, en contribuant à l'apport de plantes médicinales sur l'île. Siècle(s) traité(s) : 19 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V13015 V13015 | Partager |
Le futurologue marocain Mahdi Elmanjdra : théoricien universaliste de l'humiliation Auteur(s) : Chafik, Ayoub Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRILLASH : Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Extrait de : "L'impact des marges dans les capitales littéraires, artistiques, politiques" : journée d'étude, le 19 avril 2018. Université des Antilles Description : Chafik AYOUB, Docteur en Langue, Lettres et Traductologie axe son intervention sur la vie du Professeur Marocian Mahdi Elmandjra. Celui-ci se confronte pour la première fois à la réalité de l'humiliation coloniale, en tant que lycéen. Dans un acte d'opposition au comportement arrogant d'un commissaire français dans un Maroc colonisé, il se voit emprisonné et libéré quelques jours plus tard. Il a dû partir en exil à deux reprises à cause de ses positions idéologiques. Cette communication démontre qu'en marge du système coopératif opéré par l'Etat sécuritaire sur un large segment de l'Intelligentsia (en marge des alliances avec les pouvoirs politique, économique et ses logiques de marché, de l'expertise en contrepartie d'un gagne-pain), le refus de l'humiliation s'enregistre chemin faisant dans le parcours de Mahdi Elmandjra, et que, par ce refus, il s'est auto-marginalisé à l'oeuvre de perpétuer cette idée de dignité. Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V18135 V18135 | Partager |
L'intégration animale et végétale comme facteur favorisant les performances des systèmes polyculture élevage ; Mixed farming systems assessment according to crop livestock integration : case studies in Guadeloupe (FWI) Auteur(s) : Franchone, Audrey Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : INRA : Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Université des Antilles. Service commun de la documentation Extrait de : 52e congrès annuel de la Société caribéenne des plantes alimentaires / 52nd annual meeting of the Caribbean food crops society (CFCS), du 10 au 16 juillet 2016. INRA, CFCS Description : In the new context of the agro-ecological transition, present agricultural systems will have to produce more and better in a more constraint world. Mixed crop livestock systems (MCLS) represent sound alternative ways to progressively achieve these goals through crop-livestock integration (CLI). CLI exploits the synergies between cropping and livestock systems through organic fertilization with manure or plant association, use of crop residues to feed livestock, .... It offers many opportunities to improve productivity, as well as to increase resource use efficiency and improve the resilience of the whole farming system. In the scientific literature, authors advocate the interest of MLCS and CLI, based on theoretical considerations, modelling and empirical evidence from local case studies. But these studies do not clearly identify the respective roles of diversity of activities and CLI management practices in improving performances at the level of the whole farming system. Our aim was thus to assess CLI at farm scale in a range of MCLS and to explain farm performances by analyzing the combination of activities and the level of integration. We conducted our analyses in Guadeloupe, (French West Indies), where MCLS and CLI are complex but important challenges for local agricultural. In order to analyze CLI in a holistic and systemic way, we applied a method traditionally used in ecology, ecological network analysis, to study the structure, functioning and performance of agrosystems. This method was implemented on a range of Guadeloupian MCLS where CLI practices where identified. Nitrogen was retained to conduct the analysis due to its central role for both animal and vegetal productions. The ENA method allows an estimation of productivity, resilience, efficiency, productivity and self- sufficiency of the flows network. Our results show that 1/ efficiency and resilience appear correlated to the complexity and intensity of the network of flows; 2/ efficiency and resiliency are positively correlated when we consider them in terms of N flows; 3/ in the Guadeloupian context, CLI concerns mainly specific practices, as feeding pigs with a wide range of crop residues and organic fertilization of small market gardens and plots used to grow tubers. But at whole system level, CLI remains rare and mainly depends on conventional management practices as mineral fertilization and animal complementation of some farming activities as sugar cane, cattle breeding and banana. Moreover, the combination of productions implemented determines the potential of CLI and related performances linked to relative N efficiency of each production. Consequently, performance and especially efficiency and self-sufficiency depend more on the nature of the activity than on CLI management practices. There is still a gap between theoretical studies and CLI in practice, even though CLI is more complicated than simple flows and provides other services and functions. Dans le nouveau contexte de la transition agro-écologique, les systèmes agricoles actuels devront produire plus et les améliorer dans plus de monde de contrainte. Les systèmes mélangés de bétail de culture (MCLS) représentent des manières alternatives saines d'atteindre progressivement ces buts par l'intégration de culture-bétail (CLI). Le CLI exploite les synergies entre l'emblavage et les systèmes de bétail par la fertilisation organique avec l'association d'engrais ou d'usine, utilisation des résidus de culture d'alimenter le bétail,?. Il donne beaucoup d'occasions d'améliorer la productivité, aussi bien que d'augmenter l'efficacité d'utilisation de ressource et d'améliorer la résilience du système d'exploitation agricole entier. Dans la littérature scientifique, les auteurs préconisent l'intérêt de MLCS et de CLI, basé sur des considérations théoriques, modeler et des preuves empiriques des études de cas locales. Mais ces études n'identifient pas clairement les rôles respectifs de la diversité des activités et des pratiques de gestion de CLI en améliorant des interprétations au niveau du système d'exploitation agricole entier. Notre but était ainsi d'évaluer le CLI à l'échelle de ferme dans une gamme de MCLS et d'expliquer des interprétations de ferme en analysant la combinaison des activités et du niveau de l'intégration. Nous avons réalisé nos analyses en Guadeloupe, (des Antilles françaises), où MCLS et le CLI sont des défis complexes mais importants pour agricole local. Afin d'analyser le CLI d'une manière holistique et systémique, nous avons appliqué une méthode traditionnellement employée en écologie, analyse réseau écologique, pour étudier la structure, le fonctionnement et l'interprétation des agrosystems. Cette méthode a été appliquée sur une chaîne de Guadeloupian MCLS où des pratiques en matière de CLI où identifiée. L'azote a été maintenu pour réaliser l'analyse due à son rôle central pour les productions animales et végétales. La méthode d'ENA permet une évaluation de la productivité, de la résilience, de l'efficacité, de la productivité et de l'autosuffisance du réseau d'écoulements. Nos résultats prouvent que 1 efficacités et résiliences semblent corrélées avec la complexité et l'intensité du réseau des écoulements ; 2 efficacité et élasticité sont franchement corrélés quand nous les considérons en termes d'écoulements de N ; 3 dans le contexte de Guadeloupian, CLI concerne principalement des pratiques spécifiques, en tant que les porcs de alimentation par un large éventail de résidus de culture et de fertilisation organique de petits jardins du marché et complots employés pour cultiver des tubercules. Mais à au niveau système entier, le CLI demeure rare et dépend principalement des pratiques de gestion conventionnelles en tant que complémentation minérale de fertilisation et d'animal de quelques activités agricoles comme canne à sucre, élevage et banane. D'ailleurs, la combinaison des productions mises en application détermine le potentiel du CLI et des interprétations relatives liés à l'efficacité relative de N de chaque production. En conséquence, l'interprétation et particulièrement l'efficacité et l'autosuffisance dépendent davantage de la nature de l'activité que sur des pratiques de gestion de CLI. Il y a toujours un espace entre les études et le CLI théoriques dans la pratique, quoique le CLI soit plus compliqué que des écoulements simples et fournisse d'autres services et fonctions. Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V16247 V16247 | Partager |
Fertigating lettuce (Lactuca sativa L..) using compost tea ; Fertigant la laitue (Lactuca sativa L ..) en utilisant le thé de compost Auteur(s) : Eudoxie, Gaius Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles. Service commun de la documentation University of West Indies, Trinidad &Tobago Extrait de : 52e congrès annuel de la Société caribéenne des plantes alimentaires / 52nd annual meeting of the Caribbean food crops society (CFCS), du 10 au 16 juillet 2016. INRA, CFCS Description : Crop nutrient management is a critical component of productivity and quality. Commercial horticulture has relied almost exclusively on inorganic nutrient sources to satisfy plant nutritional requirements. Compost tea represents a sustainable alternative technology but its use has not been extensively researched. A factorial experiment was conducted subjecting lettuce plants to four increasing concentrations of compost tea; 0, 5, 10 and 20 % (m/v) applied at either 100 or 200 cm3 plant-1 day-1, for 30 days. At the end of the trial, measurements were made of leaf area (LA), yield, shoot and root dry mass (DM), root to shoot ratio, and nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents of shoots and roots. Compost tea concentration significantly (P < 0.05) affected all growth indices showing a similar pattern. Increasing concentration up to 10 % (m/v), positively improved growth and yield above the control. Increasing further to 20 % (m/v) reduced LA, yield and dry mass. For these variables, applying compost tea at 200 cm3 plant-1 day-1 resulted in a better response. Increasing concentration of compost tea showed a directly proportional relationship to shoot and root N content. However, the effect was non-significant for P. Yield and shoot DM were affected by the combination of compost tea concentration and application rate. Similar patterns of increasing yield were seen for increasing concentration within both rates however, the differences were significant for all concentrations at the higher application rate. Application of 200 cm3, 5 % compost tea resulted in the greatest yield, shoot and root DM. In addition to root DM, root surface area was significantly correlated with yield and shoot DM. Compost tea used at appropriate concentrations improved root growth and lettuce productivity. Siècle(s) traité(s) : 21 Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V16281 V16281 | Partager |
La créolistique saisie par la question du sujet : l'intuition de Jean Bernabé Auteur(s) : Bélaise, Max Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRILLASH : Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines Extrait de : "Tracées de Jean Bernabé" : colloque international, du 25 au 27 octobre 2017. Université des Antilles Description : Jean Bernabé n'a pas manqué de poser la question du sujet en articulation avec la pensée de Saussure, de Benvéniste et d'autres mapipi de la linguistique. En effet, le créoliste martiniquais installe le sujet dans un étroit rapport à la langue. Sa position de principe : « Le sujet, autre marque de bi-ubiquité, est dans la langue et la langue dans le sujet. Ce dernier est aussi dans la culture et la culture est en lui ». Cependant, comment émerge ce sujet dans un contexte de violence qui lui a nié toute existence ? Objectivement, l'homme créole, qui a intériorisé l'idée selon laquelle la langue créole serait langue de la misère et de l'arriération ? comme le déclare l'homme de sciences (du langage) ?, peut-il s'affirmer comme sujet par l'appropriation de celle-ci ? Quel rôle assigne-t-il à la transmission en tant que processus de construction de la personne comme sujet ? Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V17263 V17263 | Partager |
La nouvelle donne politique de l'île de la Réunion (2010-2014/2015) Auteur(s) : Combeau, Yvan Année de publication : Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRPLC : Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Caraïbe Extrait de : "Etat et sociétés en Outre-mer" : colloque, les 27 et 28 novembre 2014. Université des Antilles et de la Guyane Description : Yvan Combeau, Professeur en Histoire à l'Université de la Réunion, propose une analyse sur l'histoire politique immédiate de La Réunion permettant de mettre en perspective l'évolution des positions de la société et du personnel politique. Le propos a pour objet de caractériser les actuels positionnements de La Réunion sur les projets de décentralisation, la définition d'une région-stratège, les dimensions politiques de l'Indianocéanie, etc. Dans un premier temps, la communication s'attache à caractériser le présent d'une société politique réunionnaise, avec les nouveaux rapports de forces politiques (évolutions électorales depuis quatre années, stratégies de coalitions...) et une présentation d'un paysage politique atomisé. Elle souligne la reconstruction et la fragmentation du tableau politique. Sur ce nouvel échiquier en mouvement, le second temps porte sur les oscillations et recompositions des discours politiques quand ils abordent les enjeux institutionnels et sociaux qui traversent la société réunionnaise. A un an des élections régionales de 2015, La Réunion politique s'observe encore comme une "instable photographie". Droits : CC-BY-NC-ND - Attribution - Pas d'utilisation commerciale - Pas de modification Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/fichiers/V16010 V16010 | Partager |
Forum with Parliament Members : Students Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination ; Audio Recordings of the Proceedings Auteur(s) : Caribbean IRN Résumé : From the PNCR, GAP MPs free to vote conscience on gay rights bill
By Johann Earle
Stabroek News
June 11, 2003
The PNCR will allow its members to vote their conscience on the controversial Constitution (Amendment) Act of 2001 which seeks to prevent discrimination against persons on the basis of their sexual orientation and other grounds.
A number of religious organisations are opposed to the passage of the bill because it includes sexual orientation as one of the grounds. They are concerned that it could lead to a legalisation of homosexual relations and demands for recognition of gay marriages among other things.
PNCR Member of Parliament (MP) Vincent Alexander told a forum at the National Library on Saturday, that the Bill did not seek to legalise homosexuality, but to ensure that persons would not be discriminated against based on their sexual preferences.
He was one of two parliamentarians who showed up - the other being PNCR member, Myrna Peterkin.
The forum was organised by Students Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), a group comprising fifteen students from the University of Guyana which was formed about two weeks ago.
Alexander expects the vote on the bill to come up before the National Assembly in a matter of months.
Paul Hardy, Leader of the Guyana Action Party (GAP), told Stabroek News that his party would not be using the so-called parliamentary whip. He added that GAP took a decision that every member should vote according to his or her own conscience. “We have no right to deny the rights of others based on sexual orientation. [The Bill] will guarantee rights to the homosexual.” GAP is in Parliament as part of an alliance with the Working People’s Alliance. GAP/WPA has two MPs.
The bill was met with rejection from some members of the religious community in 2001 and as a result of this, the President did not assent to it.
In a statement on Monday, the Central Islamic Organisa-tion of Guyana (CIOG) said that it stood in firm opposition to the Bill. The CIOG says the general purpose of the bill may be commendable and that the organisation’s objection is not based on a willingness to promote discrimination. Rather, the CIOG said, it was based on the fact that specific legal protection on the basis of sexual orientation without definition or qualification gives tacit legitimacy to practices which are considered criminal in Islam. “It is foreseeable that such a legal nod of approval (subtle as it may be) of these practices may pave the way for greater social (or even legal) acceptability in the future which, from the perspective of all Muslims including those in Guyana, is an undesirable and sinful outcome,” the CIOG statement said.
At Saturday’s event, Muslim teacher Moulana Mohamed Ali Zenjibari spoke of instances of abuse, discrimination and harsh penalties meted out to gay and lesbian persons in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia and noted that the Quran did not sanction such punishments for homosexual behaviour.
President of the CIOG, Fazeel Ferouz told Stabroek News that a meeting to discuss a strategy with regards to the bill was planned for tomorrow with various religious groups.
Stabroek News tried to get a comment on the issue from the PPP/C but to no avail.
ROAR leader, Ravi Dev said that his party was now having discussions on the issue. ROAR feels that it is an important question which has to do with morality and should be discussed across the country. He added legislators had to be in tune with their constituents on the issue.
SASOD is lobbying for the legislation through the sensitisation of MPs.
Keimo Benjamin, a law student at UG, gave a presentation based on the jurisprudential aspects of the discussion on sexual orientation. He argued that morality should not be the only guiding principle on which to base the laws. Sexual activities between two consenting male adults in private could not be equated with a violation of a person’s rights, he said, making the point that the thrust of his presentation was not whether homosexuality was wrong, but whether it violated the rights of others. He said that the attitudes of some towards this subject were based on preconceived notions and prejudices. He cited studies to show that the suppression of certain perceived deviant sexual impulses in persons might do more harm than good. One Harvard University study of teens who said they were gay indicated that those teens were three times more likely to commit suicide.
Vidyaratha Kissoon, of Help and Shelter, in his contribution on Saturday, expressed his displeasure at the low turnout at the forum and urged the parliamentarians who showed up to take the message to their colleagues. He noted that because of homophobia, the numerical minority was terrified of speaking out against instances of discrimination. Gays and lesbians in Guyana were subjected to ridicule and abuse, and walk the streets at night not looking for sex necessarily, but for the companionship of persons who empathise with them.
During his presentation, Joel Simpson, another member of SASOD, outlined a number of changes made within national jurisdictions that had international implications. One such crucial change was South Africa’s 1996 adoption of a new constitution, making that country the first in the world to expressly include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination. It was the first time a developing country had taken the lead with respect to the rights of sexual minorities.
He also said that according to Douglas Sanders, a Canadian jurist, the rights of homosexual, bisexual or transsexual men and women had never been officially recognised by the United Nations, despite the fact that international laws on the issue began to emerge at the close of the Second World War.
Simpson said that under Article 170 (5), as amended by Section 8 of the Constitution (Amendment) (No. 4) Act 2000, the President is required to assent to any bill which is returned by the National Assembly unaltered after a two-thirds majority within 90 days of its presentation to him. To the parliamentarians present, Simpson stressed that the onus was now on them to adequately represent their constituents which include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual Guyanese.
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Vote on sexual orientation should be a matter of conscience - MP Alexander
By Esther Elijah
Guyana Chronicle
June 8, 2003
PEOPLE’S National Congress (PNC/R) Member of Parliament Mr. Vincent Alexander, said the Opposition will vote on “conscience” when the piece of legislation on sexual orientation is again brought before the National Assembly.
“With specific reference to my party, when this Bill gets back to the Parliament in the spirit of the arguments here, we will not use the `whip’. Our party will not say we have to vote for the provision (in the Sexual Orientation Bill). We will allow our members to vote as a matter of conscience,” he told participants gathered in the Conference Room of the National Library.
“We feel this is a matter of conscience. You may end up with a collective position but you have to deal with us individually,” Alexander said at a poorly attended public consultation aimed at gaining support for sexual orientation to be considered a fundamental right in Guyana.
Alexander, one of the main persons who sat on the Constitutional Reform Commission that addressed this controversial clause, said the legislation was not meant to legalise homosexual activities in Guyana.
“It was intended to ensure that persons who have an orientation - a way of thinking - which may or may not lead to a certain activity, to not be discriminated against, in terms of their rights,” he explained.
Alexander noted that very often, discussions on the sexual orientation provision in the Bill have led to seepages into other areas where debates centre on the “right to be homosexual.”
“I am saying the Bill does not comment on that… However, law is peculiar, especially in a Common Law system. Once you venture out and change the law, very often you open other windows which we cannot definitively say exist or does not exist in advance,” he said.
“The fear of some people is that the legislators might say one thing and the Courts will eventually say something else. While some people can’t argue against the law, per say, they will say this has opened a window of opportunity not meant to be opened. So, it is better to stay without a window than open it and then have a possibility of something you didn’t intend to happen - happening sometime in the future.”
Alexander added: “I want to say I’ve found this activity to have been rich from the perspective of the amount of research which was done by student (speakers). Without any comment as to whether I agree with the arguments, I would wish that much more research on other issues be done by students, and that at the University (of Guyana) students would find it convenient to have forums on other issues, with the same depth of research for their own intellectual development.”
Alexander and other Opposition M.P, Lurlene Nestor were the only three Parliamentarians in attendance at the session organised by the recently formed `Students Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination’ (SASOD), a group that has a membership of 15 mostly University of Guyana (UG) students from various faculties.
SASOD was established two weeks ago.
With the exception of members of the press, the consultation only managed to attract 11 persons, a handful of who were SASOD members.
While congratulating the students for an “insightful” presentation, Nestor pointed out that whether or not she chooses to agree with their position is “another issue” and she is entitled to her “own view”.
“The issue of sexual orientation is very `toucheous’ …while we agree with the human rights provisions and all that as a society, we must also revert to our own society. Some of the very critical questions that I would want to ask is whether or not at the society (level) we are ready for that kind of thing,” she remarked.
“We cannot, at (any) time, ignore the religious groups in our society. If we look at statistics going back to 1992 from a survey done by the Bureau of Statistics, we would see that a small section of the Guyanese population might be considered as people who do not subscribe to a religious view. While the laws are not necessarily based on moral values, we must acknowledge the fact that we might want to revert to many of the cases that (concern) laws that protect public morality.”
Nestor told the speakers at the consultation these were some of the issues that they needed to deal with.
She highlighted, too, that what must be examined is the effects of same-sex marriages on society and how this issue must be tackled.
“These are some of the things we should consider and I don’t think you dealt with that in the presentations,” Nestor stated, adding that the issues must be addressed “frontally.”
“Do we think that with the coming to being of this Bill that there might be quite a number of challenges to the Constitution in relation to the same issue of a man marrying a man? What do we do at the society (level)? Do we recognise that?” were the questions directed at the five speakers at the session.
Nestor continued: “There is some argument that says, `Oh the Bill does not promote homosexuality or does not encourage a man to marry (another) man, but if you look at Section (15) that talks about `non-discrimination’ then how can we not, with the passage of this Bill, allow a man not to marry (another) man.”
According to Nestor, matters of this nature constitute some of the “inconsistencies” of the Bill.
On the argument raised by presenters at the session on who determines what is morality, Nestor said in the concept of democracy it is the people who are the determinants based on a “line of thinking.”
She also rebutted on grounds that put the spotlight on teachers who may have been caught “interfering” with their young students and who may subsequently be dismissed from their jobs.
“Could you imagine such a person interfering with a boy below age 10 - and by virtue of the fact that the Bill is there, the judges (in the case) will have to use their discretion in terms of what happens. We will have more Constitutional changes and problems (arising with the passage of the Bill).”
SASOD member and law student, Joel Simpson, in reply, said he doesn’t think any homosexual in Guyana wants to “run into a church and ask that people marry them or anything of that sort.”
At one point likening the church to a “club”, Simpson claimed the church has the right to exclude whomever it wants. He further stated that in accordance with the Constitution, people of the same sex do not currently have the right to marry, and will also not be able to do such an act with the passage of the Bill.
However, Simpson said it is possible that the law, with the passage of the Bill, would have to recognise same-sex domestic partnerships in relation to employment benefits, sharing of properties, etc.
Simpson said he believes there should be a realm of “public” and “private” morality between consenting adults, and implied that the Bill did not fully give “rights” to homosexuals.
But, Nestor interjected: “I am informing you further…that the Sexual Orientation provision has, in fact, in some way recognised the rights of homosexuals and we must accept that.”
Meanwhile, there was no vocal Christian representative(s) at the consultation and apart from the two Opposition representatives none other participant gave comments or directed questions at the presenters.
Other speakers in support of the sexual orientation clause were: Moulana Mohammed Ali Zenjiban, Assistant Director of the International Islamic College; Denuka Radzik from Red Thread, Keimo Benjamin, UG law student and Vidyartha Kissoon from Help & Shelter.
The Sunday Chronicle has been reliably informed that the Georgetown Ministers Fellowship, representing groups of Christian leaders staunchly against sexual orientation as a right in Guyana, have recently prepared a detailed 16-page document outlining issues arising from research to further boost their argument against the inclusion of the clause.
The document is yet to be made public.
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Du nom indigène des îles de l’archipel des Antilles Auteur(s) : L'Etang, Gerry Résumé : Construit à partir de l’examen systématique de la plupart des sources disponibles, cartes, archives, chroniques, ouvrages et relations des XVIème et XVIIème siècles, le présent travail se définit comme une présentation générale de la toponymie indigène des Antilles. Y sont présentées, quand elles existent, les tentatives de définition formulées par les auteurs modernes, ainsi toutes celles que nous permettent l’état actuel des connaissances relatives aux dialectes Arawak des Grandes et des Petites Antilles. Les îles sont distribuées ci-après selon l’ordre naturel de leur position le long de l’arc antillais, de la Floride au Venezuela. Droits : Ce document est protégé par le droit d'auteur. Il ne peut en aucun cas être utilisé sans l'autorisation de l'auteur et des ayant droits recherch:HASH01770dab508ee9674171765c | Partager |
Boats and ocean liners anchored in Saint George’s harbor, Grenada ; The Bryant Slides Collection ; The Bryant Slides Collection, Grenada Auteur(s) : Unknown ( Photographer ) Résumé : The slides were taken on collecting trips sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation, where books, music and art indigenous to the regions were gathered. The are organized by geographical location. Boats and ocean liners anchored in Saint George’s harbor, Grenada. A yacht with what appears to be the name Sans Souci is flying a United States of America and the Grenadan flag (1967-1974). In 1967 when Grenada became a British Associated State, it adopted a blue-yellow-green flag with a nutmeg in the center. The nutmeg represented Grenada’s position as the “Spice Isle” and is also featured on the Coat of Arms. This flag was used until 1974 when Grenada gained independence. Merchant Vessel (MV) Geestcape, partially pictured, entered service in 1966. In 1935, the Van Geest brothers in Spalding, United Kingdom started a horticultural business. The brothers later expanded their business to include a cargo service to carry horticultural produce, primarily bananas, from the Windward and Leeward Islands to Europe. MV Geestcape is also flying the flag of the British Merchant Navy, a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper left corner. Motor Ship (MS) Renaissance, behind MV Geestcape, was built in 1966. Until 1977, Renaissance operated primarily on the Marseille-Haifa route under Compagnie Navigation de Paquet (Croiseres Paquet), Marseille, France. The cruise liner had many subsequent owners throughout her history, until her disposal in 2010. She is pictured here flying the French flag. In the distance overlooking the harbor is Fort George, Grenada’s oldest fort which was built by the French in 1705. Fort George continues (2013) to function as the headquarters for the Royal Grenada Police Force, which it has housed since 1854 when the Colonial Government took over control of the fort. Slide labeled Grenada Harbor. Grenada -- Caribbean region -- Saint George's, Saint George Droits : All rights to images are held by the respective holding institution. This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL 32816 phone (407) 823-2576, email: speccoll@mail.ucf.edu CFM1972_01a Sheet 44:9 http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00029627/00001 | Partager |
L'image de l'Amérique au début de la colonisation : débat Auteur(s) : Bertin-Elisabeth, Cécile Duviols, Jean-Paul Auteurs secondaires : Létang, Gerry Loading the player... Éditeur(s) : CRILLASH : Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en lettres, langues, arts et sciences humaines CRILLASH : Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en lettres, langues, arts et sciences humaines Résumé : Jean Paul Duviols tente de déterminer l’origine authentique du nom des trois caravelles de l’expédition vers le Nouveau Monde. Par la suite, ce sera sur la considération positive du rôle de Christophe Colomb parmi les conquistadors alors qu’en réalité c’est lui qui a initié ce profond mouvement de colonisation. Dominique 15 Caraïbe insulaire Droits : Document protégé par le droit d'auteur fichiers:HASH224d7e5caf8cad15c199da | Partager |
Des élèves de troisième s'expriment sur le français et le créole en Martinique Auteur(s) : Barreteau, Daniel Heeroma, David J.H. Résumé : Cette étude résulte d'une enquête sociolinguistique menée auprès d'élèves de troisième, en Martinique. Il s’agissait, d’une part, de préciser comment, dans une situation de diglossie, deux langues en présence (le créole et le français) sont pratiquées à l’oral (pratiques quotidiennes) et à l’écrit (lecture/écriture) et, d’autre part, de décrire les positions des élèves à l’égard de l’introduction du créole dans le système éducatif français. Martinique Droits : Ce document est protégé par le droit d'auteur. Il ne peut en aucun cas être utilisé sans l'autorisation de l'auteur et des ayant droits recherch:HASH952f1810b0d88fa1654dc3 | Partager |
Carte indiquant la position des stations météorologiques, géophysique et océanographique. (D'après la carte au i /50.000 dressée par M. A. Meunier.) Extrait de : Le service météorologique et de physique du Globe de la Martinique (Antilles françaises) () Résumé : Carte précisant la position des stations météorologiques, géophysique et océanographique de la Martinique Siècle(s) traité(s) : 19 Droits : Domaine public Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/images/NAN130450008i1 NAN130450008i1 | Partager |
Why Is Haiti So Poor? Auteur(s) : Geggus, David Éditeur(s) : Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida ( Gainesville, FL ) Résumé : (Funding) Sponsored by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund in the CLAS Dean's Office and organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. (Biographical) Prof. Geggus received his Ph.D. in 1979 from York University, England, M.A.s from the Universities of London and Oxford (1972, 1976), and his B.A. from Oxford University in 1971. He joined the University of Florida Department of History in 1983 after holding research positions at the Universities of Southampton and Oxford. He has published five books, including Slavery, War and Revolution (Oxford, 1982) and Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Bloomington, 2002), and more than one hundred academic articles. Dr. Geggus teaches courses on Caribbean history and slavery in the Atlantic world. He has been awarded fellowships from the French Government, British Academy, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, and John Carter Brown Library. Droits : All rights reserved by the source institution. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00000385/00001 | Partager Voir aussi |
Horizon de Paris Année de publication : Éditeur(s) : Berne, Etablissement des arts graphiques H & A Kummerly & Frey Extrait de : Frontières entre le Brésil et la Guyane française. Second mémoire présenté par les Etats-Unis du Brésil au Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse, arbitre choisi selon les stipulations du traité conclu à Rio-de-Janeiro, le 10 avril 1897 entre le Brésil et la France. Tome VI. Atlas (N°20) Résumé : Carte du monde Description : Reproduction amputée de la notice explicative qui encadrait le planisphère : "USAGE. Cette carte est la projection du globe sur l'horison de Paris: Elle a cela de commode que par le moien de son echelle, on connot sur le champ la distance de Paris à toutes les positions qui s'y trouvent (...)". Siècle(s) traité(s) : 18 Droits : Domaine public Permalien : http://www.manioc.org/images/B_CG973FRAN_RES_00F-15010_006_0020 B_CG973FRAN_RES_00F-15010_006_0020 | Partager |
“Finding the Silver Voice: Afro-Antilleans in the Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida” Auteur(s) : 13th International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL)—Panama in the Caribbean: The Caribbean in Panama. University of Panama, Panama City, November 13-16, 2013. ( Conference ) Vargas-Betancourt, Margarita ( Author, Primary ) Résumé : (Acquisition) Collected for University of Florida's Institutional Repository by the UFIR Self-Submittal tool. Submitted by Margarita Vargas-Betancourt. This paper was part of the panel Panama Silver and the Making of Modern Literature, which introduced a collaborative, digital humanities course entitled “Panama Silver, Asian Gold: Migration, Money, and the Making of Modern Caribbean Literature,” and illuminated the significance of West Indians in Panama for the formation of Caribbean literature. The panelists designed and taught the course at Amherst College, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami. In the first paper in this panel, Rhonda Cobham-Sander articulated the overarching goal of the course; namely, that these two, closely related migrations were critical to the development of the Caribbean middle class, political nationalism, and national literatures. In the second paper, Leah Rosenberg outlined primary historical and literary sources on West Indians in Panama now available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) and discussed how this supports collaboration in teaching and research. In the third paper, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt discussed the challenges of finding archival materials concerning West Indians in Panama in, U.S.-oriented archives (which we are using in the course). In the final paper, Donette Francis demonstrated the implications of positioning Panama Silver, the capital accumulated by West Indians, as critical to shaping modern Caribbean literature by reexamining Salkey’s understudied 1971 novel, The Late Emancipation of Jerry Stover. Droits : All rights reserved by the submitter. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00003593/00001 | Partager |
Breaking Sexual Silences in the Caribbean - Workshop Programme Auteur(s) : Breaking Sexual Silences Project Éditeur(s) : University of the West Indies Cave Hill/University of Reading University of the West Indies Cave Hill/University of Reading ( Barbados ) Résumé : (Funding) Support for the development of the technical infrastructure and partner training provided by the United States Department of Education TICFIA program. Outline from the website at http://www.reading.ac.uk/minorities/Projects/min-project-breaking-sexual-silences.aspx In recent years, some of the most urgent and highly-charged public and political debates in the Caribbean have centred on sexual citizenship and gay rights. To date, popular cultural forms and the acute homophobia of the dancehall have dominated national and international attention. The very public exchanges between Caribbean musicians and western-based gay rights campaigners have given the region a reputation for homophobia, intolerance and hate crimes. This project seeks to shift the axes of these debates by drawing on a recent body of Caribbean creative writing that addresses issues of sexual self-determination and sexual diversity in a more positive and progressive way. It will make visible the possibilities for understanding sexual differences and the modes of reconciliation to be found in a literary archive. The project will also engage a group of Caribbean scholars across other disciplines to develop a new language for articulating sexual difference. It will stage a panel debate for a Caribbean public, as well as producing academic publications and supporting graduate work. Droits : All rights reserved by the source institution. | Partager |