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"This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives-including the inner and spiritual lives-of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons' lived experience as expressed in their own words"--

1. Introduction -- 2. Classic Ideas of Modernity, Culture, and Progress -- 3. Culture in Critical and Sociological Thought -- 4. Culture in Development Theory -- 5. Culture in Critical Development Theory -- 6. Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement -- 7. The Maya Idea of Culturally Sustainable Development -- 8. Garifuna Sustainable Development -- 9. Andean Indigenous Sustainable Development -- 10. Indigenizing Development -- 11. Indigenous Sustainable Development.

The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty were rooted in complex metaphorical language, in historical understandings of alliance, and in mobility in a landscape of layered interconnections of power. Where some versions of the interpretive paradigm of settler colonialism emphasise the violent 'elimination of the native', this work reveals that diplomatic transactions between the Iroquois Confederacy and British colonial and imperial agents reveal a hybrid language of alliance, sovereignty and territory. These languages and concepts of inter-cultural diplomacy provide contexts that suggest a more nuanced and dynamic relationship between colonialism and Indigenous power.

Part I: Politics of the Spirit 1. Cultural Organizations, Networks and Mediators: An Introduction Diana Roig-Sanz and Jaume Subirana 2. Rebuilding a Europe of Intellectuals (1918-1939) Christophe Charle 3. Cultural Mediators and Their Complex Transfer Practices Reine Meylaerts Part II: Cultural Organizations 4. A Representative Organization?: Ibero-American Networks in the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations (1922-1939) Martin Grandjean 5. The 1933 Dubrovnik PEN Congress or How to Deal with the Present That Was Already History Simona Škrabec 6. International PEN and the Republic of Literature Rachel Potter 7. The 1936 Meetings of the PEN Clubs and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation in Buenos Aires Alejandra Giuliani 8. Barcelona on the International Map of Modernity: The Conferentia Club's Role in the Interwar Period Gabriella Gavagnin Part III: Cultural Mediators 9. Joan Estelrich and International Cooperation: From the Years of Expansió Catalana to His Activity for the PEN Club in the Early-Mid-1930s Sílvia Coll-Vinent 10. The Spanish Center of the International PEN Through Its First Sumiller: From a Project of International Solidarity to an Expression of the Tensions oftheLiterary Society of Madrid (1922-1924) Laurie-Anne Laget 11. The International Relations of the Catalan PEN Until 1936: Guests, Congressors and Visitors Joan Safont Plumed 12. The International Dimension of the Portuguese "Politics of the Spirit": António Ferro, Júlio Dantas, Fidelino de Figueiredo Ângela Fernandes 13. Between the Local and the International: Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Antonio Aita at the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation Laura Fólica and Ventsislav Ikoff 14. Torres Bodet and the "Male Pedagogies": Radiography of a Thought of Transcultural and Transnational Circulation Mauricio Zabalgoitia Herrera 15. Universalisms in Debate During the 1940s: International Organizations and the Dynamics of International Intellectual Cooperation in the View of Brazilian Intellectual Miguel Ozório de Almeida Letícia Pumar

Die USA haben die Herausforderung der Covid-19-Pandemie im ersten Jahr weniger gut bewältigt als andere hochentwickelte Staaten, obwohl das Land in der Forschung führend ist und sein Umgang mit Krisen bislang als vorbildlich galt. Ein Hindernis bei der Pandemiebekämpfung bildeten die Lücken in der Gesundheitsversorgung und die massiven sozialen Unterschiede des Landes. Besonders die große Zahl Nichtversicherter, hohe Behandlungskosten und eine ungleiche Ausstattung der Krankenhäuser erschwerten es, Corona durch effektive Maßnahmen einzudämmen. Durch großzügige Rettungspakete konnte zunächst verhindert werden, dass die Armut im Land wuchs. Aber die Hilfen sind inzwischen ausgelaufen, und das niedrige Niveau sozialer Absicherung erhöht die wirtschaftlichen Kosten der Pandemie – mit drastischen Folgen für die Wohnungs- und Ernährungssicherheit einkommensschwacher Bevölkerungsgruppen. Gravierende Konsequenzen hatte die gesellschaftliche und parteipolitische Polarisierung in den USA. Sie verhinderte eine sachliche Diskussion, untergrub die Zusammenarbeit im Kongress wie auch zwischen Bundesregierung und Einzelstaaten und sorgte dafür, dass die Schutzmaßnahmen politisiert wurden. Das Führungsversagen von Präsident Donald Trump hat erheblich zur schlechten Bilanz der USA im Umgang mit Covid-19 beigetragen. Besonders sein geringes Vertrauen in Wissenschaft, ein ideologisch motivierter Verwaltungsabbau sowie Trumps charakterliche Schwächen standen konstruktiven Lösungsansätzen im Weg. Die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Pandemie werden über Jahre als Hypothek auf der US-Demokratie lasten. Auch unter Joe Bidens Präsidentschaft werden die Vereinigten Staaten vorrangig mit sich selbst beschäftigt sein, während ihre strategischen Rivalen versuchen dürften, vom Ansehensverlust des amerikanischen Gesellschaftsmodells zu profitieren. (Autorenreferat)

This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the "cultural turn" in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it is a necessary iteration in thinking on development. This new strain of thought could inform not only the work of development practitioners, graduate students, and theorists working in the Global South, but in the Global North as well.

"A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way in which southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era"--

"Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth-century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (c1705-1775), a Munsee prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank's life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid the upheavals of the era from the Seven Years' War to the American Revolution."--