#Indigenisation

[aerochampaviation]

#Indigenisation #aerospace #Airframe design #Wing design #Fuselage design #Landing gear design #Engine design #Pneumatic system design

[faithfromanewperspective]

someone tell me about the Elon musk wastewater thing in Texas like. I know it’s treated. it’s not that hard to use the nutrients where they need to nutrient (hydroponics hello or simply a biofiltration garden) and I’ve not seen the actual nutrient levels like there’s a chance it will be fine. there’s a chance they do not care. both could be true. but I need to actual science not hysteria when did environmentalism become this? I swear just give me the numbers I still remember toxicology from uni I will figure out if it is okay then design you a solution spaceX we can come up with something that works for all parties here

#I need to hire someone to do this research for me #water sensitive urban design #just can we stop xploiting our ecosystems or treating them like a political device please #decolonise. indigenise. land stewardship. is that so hard?

[edge-oftheworld]

somehow the mixture of invasion day and calum posts (yes they finally arrived) on my dash is really fitting actually

#for those who don’t know it’s a weird holiday australia has #celebrating colonisation though most people don’t think too hard and just like having a day off work #like to go to the beach in the summer. most aussies don’t think too hard about it and that’s the tragedy #decolonising and indigenising australia is very important btw and we can do it in a kind way #and here his birthday was yesterday and I imagine growing up he probably didn’t think too hard about it but still it’s awkward #like legit invasion day growing up was just a day off in the first week of school every child needed #and sydney in general is pretty alright at celebration cultural and ethnic diversity #but now we get to celebrate an indigenous man (to nz not australia tho) who’s had all this success and stayed humble and kind #and when he’s shared the way he thinks it is in such a refreshing non colonial way as a mixed race aussie I do really feel #calum hood #go listen to his mirror sessions if u get a chance

[katiajewelbox]

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#mesoamerica #native american #indigenous #indigenous americans #native mexicans #pre columbian #indigenise #decolonise #artwork #central america #mexico #aztecs #mayans #shamans #shamanism #suspense #graphic novel #dreams #dream seer #folklore #kickstarter

[psychotrenny]

Self-Indigenisation is something that I brought up on an earlier post and I think it’s something more people should be aware of. It describes the way that Settler populations will claim Indigenous identities for themselves in order to justify their presence on the land and mistreatment of actually Indigenous populations. This can include using tenuous or even outright fabricated Lineal connections to indigenous peoples in order to claim membership to a group they have no social or cultural ties to. The most well-known example in North America are USAmericans who claim that their grandmother was a “Cherokee Princess” or something of the like in an attempt to buttress their identity as being in some way more impressive or “authentic”. Another example I’ve read about is White Quebecois (who at most might have a very distant indigenous ancestor, and sometimes not even then) with no connection to Indigenous communities claiming indigenous identity in order to launch lawsuits over land rights, sometimes even to the direct detriment of actually indigenous communities. Self-Indigenisation can also include claims that a particular settler population itself has some deep enough connection to the land that it can be considered indigenous. In South East Australia in the 1930s you had locally born Settlers explicitly assert themselves as the original inhabitants of the land and the actual indigenous peoples as nothing more than peripheral transients. The idea of US Appalachian settler populations being some sort of indigenous people has become a recurring one in scholarship and activism in the region and serves as way to assert the rightfulness of their ownership of the land even in a progressive and supposedly anti-colonial context. I haven’t personally read it myself but apparently the book Distorted Descent by Darryl Leroux does a pretty good job of exploring Self-Indigenisation in contemporary Canada.

While most of the literature on the subject I could find focused on North America*, this process if far from unique to that region. Indeed, Self-Indigenisation is one of the major rhetorical strategies used to justify the continued existence of Israel especially in more “progressive” spaces. Like hell even just being active on tumblr recently is going to expose you to numerous Zionist claiming that the Israelis are the true natives of Palestine and that the Palestinian Arabs are merely “squatters”. “Zionism means Landback” and other such nonsense. To be clear there is very much an indigenous Jewish population in Palestine, the “Old Yishuv” Shepardim, but the Settlers who established the state of Israel are very not much it not it no matter how much they try and construct such an identity (such as by suppressing traditionally spoken Jewish languages like Yiddish and replacing them with a reconstructed for of Hebrew) or repute the identity of indigenous Arabs. Essentially self-indigenisation is an especially heinous tool that Settler populations use to evict indigenous peoples on a spiritual level in order to maintain their physical displacement. Such rhetoric must be resisted and discredited as much as possible lest it’s able to have its intended effect

*I suppose it makes sense given that I was only looking at English-language literature and that region is home to the most populous of Anglo settler states

#stella speaks

[decolonize-the-left]

“I struggled through school, being spoon-fed out of a bucket of whiteness every day,” he reflects. “I found ambition, pursued a formal education after high school and beyond but I knew I was just buying time and building credentials. I was subversive, contrarian, driven, and ready to do something big and bold. I wanted to turn the whole education system of torture on its head. I just needed to find a way.”

#ojibwe #chippewa #anishinaabe #anishinaabemowin #ojibwemowin #Anton Treuer

[slavicafire]

very interesting breakdown regarding rodnovery from Scott Simpson’s Strategies for Constructing Religious Practice in Polish Rodzimowierstwo:

A purely academic reconstruction of a religion from the past is “legitimate” when it is made up of fragments which have been selected solely on the basis of the academic authenticity and reliability of the evidence. When a particular fragment had not been recovered, a scholar may always choose to simply leave that space blank without perverting the intention of the reconstruction (whether it be pottery or religion). Rodzimowiercy, in contrast, need to have a complete and functional religion in order for it to be legitimate. If the participant finds her- or himself in personal need of a Slavic marriage ceremony, then that space must be filled by something in spite of the lack of a conveniently pre-existing Pagan marriage script from, say, the Wiślanie tribe in the early 10th century. It would be a serious perversion of the religious intent of such a reconstruction to give up suddenly at that point.

the strategies Simpson describes below the cut. a very recommended reading, too, so I hope the full text will get some attention as well. 

1. Direct re-enacting: faithully replicating a custom described in sources such as chronicles - which Simpson notices is rarely possible as stand-alone strategy given all the blanks and generally limited sources. the most classic of issues everyone interested in neo-paganism knows and battled. 

2. De-Christianising: removing obvious Christian elements from “sacred” folk practices - think rodnovery Kolęda removing Christian elements from a folk tradition - one that is rooted in customs predating Christianity on slavic lands, and so can be stripped back into its more “original” (and pagan) form.

3. Sacralising folklore: taking elements of “secular” folk tradition and re-framing them in religious practice - for example, elevating folk melodies to sacred songs accompanying rodnovery rituals, or adapting the circular toasting custom of passing a drinking vessel among participants of an event as a religious expression other than just a secular way of toasting common among peasants.

4. Sacralising the archaic: emphasising ancient, archaic, timeless, non-modern aspects, moods and motifs - similar to above, putting religious emphasis on things which in the past were simply common. think archeological finds regarding clothing and adaptation of everyday clothing of the past as sacred or ritual clothing for modern reconstructionist practice. another example: drinking horns and mead being chosen for religious ritual because they are seen as more authentic (incorrectly) than wine or cups which are “too modern”.

5. Sacralising the natural: emphasising that which is organic, untamed, rustic. the clear emphasis on low-tech content, everything is wood or stone or raw wool - celebrations are more likely to be felt as legitimate if they happen in the forest rather than in a bar. 

6. Aesthetising: artistic embellishment of existing practice. think how focused rodnovers are on creating religious visual art, music, craft mead for celebrations, hand embroidered banners and altar cloths, representations of deities and reimaginations of symbols. this helps build a language of religious expression which for rodnovers is much more communal and reliant on members of the religion. not every member of christianity feels responsible for making religious art to be used by the religion - that task is usually fulfilled by the hierarchical structure.

7. Indigenising: localisation of ideas and practices found elsewhere. so some foreign ideas are rejected in order to maintain cohesion (for example Valentine’s Day being seen as a US tradition which does not belong on slavic lands) vs acceptance and adoption of others. the biggest example Simpson gives is the widespread usage of Internet and social media in creation of this religious belonging. or utilising fire poi in kupala celebrations.

8. Direct revelation from sacred beings (ancestors, spirits of nature, gods): If the sacred beings are understood as currently real, and if they have made their presence known to the Slavic tribes in the past, then they may do so now. think shamanic approaches, divination, contacting ancestors as beings with agency and influence, interpreting signs from gods.

#folklore #slavic folklore #rodnovery #slavic paganism #Strategies for Constructing Religious Practice in Polish Rodzimowierstwo

[onesettleronebullet]

Okay I understand that the absorptive and appropriation of the indigenous culture is something all colonisers take part in but that post about the Sudra being stolen from the Keffiyah, simplifies it to a ridiculous degree. I feel like the existence of Mizrahim in Israel is ignored in order to portray a certain picture of the Israeli colonial project unless they are portrayed as solely victims of it, when they are indeed both victims and perpetrators.

In this case, the Sudra is indeed a part of the Mizrahi cultural catalogue and essentially shares an origin with the Keffiyah and thereby is not a simple invention of or vulturing by the Israeli state. Rather, the Zionist project takes Mizrahi cultural affects and cannibalises them for its own use, using the orientalised view of Mizrahim and their culture as a legitimising force and decontextualising them from their origins in favour of Israelising them. This same process occurred with foods like hummus.

It's also obvious that this pseudo-indigenisation is a way to unseat and delegitimise culturally visible forms of Palestinian culture. Something can be a part of Jewish culture whilst being cannibalised by Israeli culture as a tool to diminish Palestinian culture - one does not preclude the other.

The OP also said this:

"Does that shit look jewish to you" as if Judaism has a specific look. Ironically, OP erases Mizrahim and their cultural affects, as if they had no cross-cultural contact with their Arab neighbours and in a sense confirms the dichotomy between Jew and Arab as wholly separate entities that Israel thrives off.

#newpad.txt

[indizombie]

Under Modi's leadership, India has grown considerably closer to Israel. New Delhi is the largest purchaser of Israeli weapons, amounting to more than $1bn per year. Between 2015-2019, Indian purchases of Israeli weapons increased by 175 percent. But Indian and Israeli companies have also started producing weapons in factories across India. The bouquet of weapons being co-produced by the two countries includes Tavor X95 assault rifles, the Galil sniper rifles, Negev light machine guns, as well as Hermes 900 medium altitude long endurance drones. Defence analysts say the partnership with India could assist in the mass production of Israeli weapons. Meanwhile, Modi has used his relationship with Israel to modernise India's army as well as bolster his image as a champion of indigenising production and manufacturing, known as his "Make in India" programme.

Azad Essa, ‘War on Gaza: Indian-made Israeli 'killer' drones set to make their way to Gaza’, Middle East Eye

#Azad Essa #Gaza #Palestine #India #Israel #Middle East Eye

[eaglesnick]

IS CAPITALISM WORKING?

Perhaps that question should be:”Is capitalism working for you?”  It is certainly working for the already rich members of our society.

“The gap between the richest in society and the rest of the population has widened over the 10-year period,” the ONS said. “The wealthiest 10% of households held 43% of all the wealth in Great Britain in the latest period; in comparison, the bottom 50% held only 9%.” (Guardian: 07/01/22)

And as the very rich become richer still, the rest of us become collectively poorer. Official figures tell us that there has been an increase in relative poverty from 13% in 1996 to 17.4% of working households in 2020. This figure is even higher according to the Roundtree Foundation, who put the figure at 20% (13.4 million people).

Clearly capitalism isn’t working for millions of people. But what is meant by the term capitalism? Kate Raworth, an economist, described it like this.

“To me capitalism is…yes its markets and its business but it’s more than that for those have been around for millennia. For me capitalism is an economic system that prioritises, above all, delivering profit for the owners of wealth. And that’s in terms of dividends for those who own stocks and shares in corporations; that’s in terms of rent for those who own land, and housing and real-estate; and that’s in terms of interest for those who own other peoples debt. And the key consequence of this is not just the obvious that it enriches the already rich, it systematically puts a squeeze on everything else that we value. So, it underpays and undermines waged workers. It privatises public goods like health care and transport. It exploits care that is provided by families and communities. It degrades the living world on which everything depends. It appropriates land   and culture from indigenised and racialised communities. And crucially it captures the legal system and political system so that it can secure and reproduce privilege.” (Kate Raworth, "Start The Week: BBC Radio 4: 27/02/23)

If only half of this is true, then maybe we should start to question whether the capitalist system we live under is fit for purpose? If it isn’t then perhaps a change in political and economic direction is called for.

#uk politic #kate Raworth #capitalism defined #rich #poor #poverty #inequality

[aerochampaviation]

#defence-aviation #Defence Aviation Reverse Engineering #Defence Aviation Indigenisation #defence-aviation parts

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[psychotrenny]

Hi! May I share your thread on TikTok? The one on how Israel isn't egalitarian in its "safe haven" for Jewish folk. It was so well written and informed. I wanted to make a similar video about how it indirectly Stokes antisemitism, but it'd would be better to highlight Jewish voices as I'm a black muslim

Feel free to if you want but to be absolutely clear that I myself am not Jewish. I just made that post to share some oft he things I've learned in response recent tide of zionist propaganda that's been all over the western media.

If your interested in a Jewish perspective then many Jewish tumblr users have made a lot of very good posts and additions that covers a lot of similar matters. Just of the top of my head there's lesbianchemicalplant (with posts like this, this and this ) and determinate-negation (i.e. this one and this one ) There's many others of course but between tumblr's awful search function and my own inconsistent tagging habits its hard to keep track of what I've read and no doubt there's many that I just haven't seen

Several of the articles I linked are also written by Jewish people or centered on a Jewish Perspective. This theme is likely most prominent in this article, which is focuses on an interview with the scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish Leftist anti-Zionism in the 20s and 30s

Also looking back on that thread and its responses I've realised a number of errors, or at least points where I employed poorly chosen language. I've conflated the Shepardic and Ashkenazis Old Yishuv in ways that I don't think are helpful; as the term is one coined by Zionist settlers to describe the various Jewish people already present in Palestine at the start of the settlement process and thus includes a number of different groups with differing histories and relationships to the land. I also used the term "indigenous" to describe them. This was in an attempt to outline how Jewish presence in Palestine isn't synonymous with Zionism (i.e. the creation of an ethno-state supposedly for all Jewish peoples everywhere) but it also had the effect of implying that they are exempt from participation n the Zionist colonial project which thy are very much not. My point was that there have been Jewish people in Palestine far before the era of Zionist colonialism but in the political sense referring to them as "indigenous", especially in implied reference to the contemporary political situation, was a poor use of the word . Additionally, while my readings on the early development of modern vernacular Hebrew reminded me very much of self-indigenization in terms of how it often evoked an ancestral connection to the ancient Kingdom of Israel (thinking of quotes from Eleizer Ben-Yehuda like "The Hebrew language can live only if we revive the nation and return it to the fatherland" ) it has been pointed out that this was very likely not the primary intention considering that Zionism originated at the very height of European settler-colonialism when such downplaying rhetoric wasn't really necessary. The (frequently forced) use of Hebrew as the spoken language likely had had far more to do with creating a new common culture and stripping Jewish migrants of their own so they could be more easily integrated into the state. While it seems to me that appeals to an ancestral land connection still featured far more in even early Zionism that in any other strain of European Settler-Colonialism (which indeed often made the "newness" of the conquered land a rhetorical point of pride, disregarding indigenous claims to the land without insisting that the settlers had any more rights than was granted with their force and diligence), I suppose that the term "self-indigenisation" may not be the most appropriate in this context and would be best restricted to the more modern faux-progressive forms of Zionist apologia. I'm sure there are many other mistakes I've made in that post or things I've overlooked, but these currently appear to me to be the most important once. Overall I'm honoured that you'd consider my writing worthy of such attention but would urge caution and insist that you seek out other sources in addition to it. Thank you for your time and good luck with the video

[newsorbiter]

Indigenous technologies transferred to industries at Digital India FutureLABS Summit 2024

The recently held launch event of  "Digital India FutureLABS Summit 2024" held at IIIT-Delhi witnessed the transfer of three indigenous technologies to twelve industries.  This initiative is a step towards the Innovation, Science, and Technology theme of Vikshit Bharat @2047, part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision. These technologies included the following: Thermal Camera:The thermal Smart camera features an inbuilt DPU to run various AI-based analytics. This indigenised technology targets applications across multiple domains, including Smart Cities, Industries, Defence, Health, and others. The field implementation, testing, and validation of this camera were done for road traffic applications. The technology was simultaneously transferred to the following eight industries comprising, RRPS4E Innovation Pvt Ltd, SCITA Solutions,  TAK Technologies Pvt Ltd, AABMATICA Technologies,  Prama India Pvt Ltd,  Samriddhi Automations Pvt Ltd, Norden Research and Innovation Centre and Vehant Technologies Pvt Ltd. CMOS Camera:The Industrial Vision Sensor iVIS 10GigE is a CMOS-based vision processing system with a powerful onboard computing engine for next-generation industrial machine vision applications. Fleet Management System: Personalised Transit Route Guidance System is a mobile app that aims to improve the travel experience for passengers by offering them the option to choose the most efficient or personalised routes of their choice. This technology was transferred to three industries simultaneously: Atulya Abhinav Tech Private Limited, Unidad Techno Labs (P) Ltd and IBI Group India Private Limited. The exchange of technology transfer documents took place in the presence of Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and Jal Shakti, Rajeev Chandrasekhar;  Sunita Verma, GC R&D in E⁢ E. Magesh, DG-CDAC; Kalaiselvan A, Director - CDAC Trivandrum; senior officials in the government, CEO & CTO of Industries. Read the full article

#DigitalIndiaFutureLABSSummit2024 #IIITDelhi #PrimeMinisterNarendraModi #VikshitBharat2047

[cccrhirdb2]

notes in class week 7

amazing news found out today!! the work book does not need to be submitted at the end (if you want) so I could not do any of the independent study and just do a lot of other shit but I wont ill still do the work I have to do!!.

anyway notes from class;

DISCUSSION: Have a discussion together about the construction of "New Zealand" as a nation, unpacking the ways in which we are 'reminded' of what it means to be a "New Zealander", in a dominant, mainstream sense? How might this operate on a series of inclusions and exclusions? Where do we get our ideas about 'being a New Zealander', or what a New Zealand 'is' or 'should be'? Who benefits from the ideas which dominate how New Zealand identity is defined in mainstream ways? What identities are used in Aotearoa that might challenge this, or be used to form different political unities? Discuss the connections you see between nationalism and language, and your independent study. You could start by making a list of all the things which are commonly perceived as definitively 'New Zealand', before moving on to your critical consideration. What does it mean to be Pākehā?

        “What does my day look like with active decolonising/indigenising?”

i always find it really difficult to relay/note down discussions - it really takes me out of being present in the conversation so I always seem to write half a note and then look back and forget what we were talking about.

at the bottom of this page is stuff about decolonising/indigenising nz so what different ways we could do our resource on in terms of our group project resource.

what independent study i actually have to do because Catherine went over it and told us what we do/don't actually have to do. pretty simple stuff other than the group work

[lawsunaomi]

Task 1

A poster for Lady Shaka, queer femme Polynesian DJ.

Inspired by the 'All Women Dance' poster, Poster for an all women’s dance held by the women of the Gay Liberation Front | c. 1970

Utilising the Design Thinking bootleg and the Double Diamond. Design Thinking bootleg: empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test.

The Double Diamond: discover, define, develop and deliver.

I've chosen an Event Poster for Task 1.

I wanted to create these posters because she is proud of her heritage and I wanted to show that off. In previous posters, she has already done so but I wanted to make it outright to the audiences that saw the posters.

I just found something great https://www.instagram.com/p/CrQ-NwkNCWJ/?img_index=1 - a Boiler Room article about Lady Shaka on re-indigenising club culture.

An article from Dazed, 'How can mainstream club culture become more inclusive?' https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/29163/1/how-can-mainstream-club-culture-become-more-inclusive

#des105