Resistance or struggle photography is a term describing the photographic documentation of conflict between oppressed and oppressor from the perspective of the subjugated. An example of this genre is explored in the context of apartheid South Africa during the 1980s through the work of a collective called Afrapix. This group’s images of the repression of Black and Coloured populations by the apa...

Across Canada, remote and rural First Nations (Indigenous communities) are responsible for delivering services to community members. They use broadband networks for many kinds of service delivery including health, training and education, government and administration, language and culture, lands and resources, justice and policing and others (O’Donnell, Milliken, Chong, Walmark, 2010). Since th...

The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, ...

This paper considers aspects of language and its relation to political practices in psychiatry. It analyses the ways in which groups of psychiatric patients – selfdefined ‘self-harm survivors’ – have resisted psychiatry’s power to define their experiences in terms of the ‘official’ category, ‘Deliberate self-harm’ (DSH). DSH refers to self-inflicted injurious acts that do not result in death, i...

Please cite this article in press as: Soriano, C.R the Cordillera. Telemat. Informat. (2011), doi: The online communicative environment is expected to revolutionize political discourse as it expands to cover underrepresented groups and ideas. In this platform, marginalized groups such as indigenous communities from the developing world can articulate claims, strategically mobilize and participa...