Comments for The Boiled Down Juice http://meredith-martin.com/blog A blog exploring the intersection of social justice, human rights based education, and folklife studies. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on June is Torture Awareness Month by marty http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-38 marty Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:04:45 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-38 it was downtown in raleigh. i'm curious if others have seen them too. it was downtown in raleigh. i’m curious if others have seen them too.

]]> Comment on June is Torture Awareness Month by meredith http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-37 meredith Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:08:31 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-37 I so agree. I never thought of faith based organizations being human rights based, but I think that is because we have too few models. I am learning more and more that there can be such a direct link between the two. When I was in DC this past week I saw a big black banner on a church near Embassy Row. Where was the banner you saw? Anyone else seen one? I so agree. I never thought of faith based organizations being human rights based, but I think that is because we have too few models. I am learning more and more that there can be such a direct link between the two.

When I was in DC this past week I saw a big black banner on a church near Embassy Row. Where was the banner you saw?

Anyone else seen one?

]]> Comment on June is Torture Awareness Month by marty http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-36 marty Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:16:42 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-36 i'm glad you posted this. the other day i saw a big black banner with bold white text hanging off the fence of a baptist church that said "end torture". patrick and i talked about it and wondering about its contextual placement (and design). had it been placed by an activist without the church's approval? was it "graffiti"? i never thought of baptists as particularly human rights based. (biased view i know, just going off of my extended families southern baptist tendencies) then i wondered about my immediate reaction. why couldn't a faith based organization also be human rights based? i agree with you that the intersection of faith and social justice is an interesting one. i know it made me think. i’m glad you posted this. the other day i saw a big black banner with bold white text hanging off the fence of a baptist church that said “end torture”. patrick and i talked about it and wondering about its contextual placement (and design). had it been placed by an activist without the church’s approval? was it “graffiti”? i never thought of baptists as particularly human rights based. (biased view i know, just going off of my extended families southern baptist tendencies) then i wondered about my immediate reaction. why couldn’t a faith based organization also be human rights based?

i agree with you that the intersection of faith and social justice is an interesting one. i know it made me think.

]]> Comment on Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook by meredith http://meredith-martin.com/blog/rethinking-globalization-teaching-for-justice-in-an-unjust-world-textbook/#comment-17 meredith Thu, 29 May 2008 03:13:11 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/rethinking-globalization-teaching-for-justice-in-an-unjust-world-textbook/#comment-17 Thanks for the comment Marty! Not off topic at all. I would like to know more. Thanks for the comment Marty! Not off topic at all. I would like to know more.

]]> Comment on Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World textbook by marty http://meredith-martin.com/blog/rethinking-globalization-teaching-for-justice-in-an-unjust-world-textbook/#comment-16 marty Thu, 29 May 2008 02:11:03 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/rethinking-globalization-teaching-for-justice-in-an-unjust-world-textbook/#comment-16 i haven't heard of this book. thanks for posting about it. i'm really interested in how students are being educated about social justice issues and complex diversity. i heard an interview the other day on north carolina public radio about race and public schools. it's interesting from a design perspective in the challenges that we face in representing people and events through design (such as text books)... a bit off from your post, but thought i'd share. :)ml i haven’t heard of this book. thanks for posting about it. i’m really interested in how students are being educated about social justice issues and complex diversity. i heard an interview the other day on north carolina public radio about race and public schools. it’s interesting from a design perspective in the challenges that we face in representing people and events through design (such as text books)… a bit off from your post, but thought i’d share.

:)ml

]]> Comment on “No One is Illegal,” most recent radio program from the show “Making Contact.” by Rachel Townsend http://meredith-martin.com/blog/no-one-is-illegal-most-recent-radio-program-from-the-show-making-contact/#comment-15 Rachel Townsend Thu, 29 May 2008 01:22:07 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/no-one-is-illegal-most-recent-radio-program-from-the-show-making-contact/#comment-15 Meredith I really like your recommendations! Here are some of my thoughts: Being an immigrant is a state of existence through which all areas of the immigrants life is filtered. This means that the immigrant identity is always present in the story being told. I would like to encourage our communities--and especially the academic community--to consider that (1) immigration is a political act (2) it is a defiant act by an individual against the transnational state and (3) immigration is an act of civil disobedience. Immigrants aren't just casualties of globalization. The immigrant is an agent of change, a participant in, and a definer of the movement that is working for the emancipation of all living, breathing things. I would love for people to realize that whenever we hear the story of the oppressed--in this case the immigrant--we are simultaneously hearing the future story of their liberation. Meredith I really like your recommendations! Here are some of my thoughts:

Being an immigrant is a state of existence through which all areas of the immigrants life is filtered. This means that the immigrant identity is always present in the story being told.

I would like to encourage our communities–and especially the academic community–to consider that (1) immigration is a political act (2) it is a defiant act by an individual against the transnational state and (3) immigration is an act of civil disobedience.

Immigrants aren’t just casualties of globalization. The immigrant is an agent of change, a participant in, and a definer of the movement that is working for the emancipation of all living, breathing things. I would love for people to realize that whenever we hear the story of the oppressed–in this case the immigrant–we are simultaneously hearing the future story of their liberation.

]]> Comment on Participatory Research in Folklore? by Amar Shah http://meredith-martin.com/blog/participatory-research-in-folklore/#comment-14 Amar Shah Sat, 17 May 2008 10:29:48 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/participatory-research-in-folklore/#comment-14 I have recently been considering how participatory research might connect to the field of ethnomusicology (sometimes defined as "the study of music as culture" or "the study of the way humans negotiate culture through music"). Ethnomusicology is considered by some to be a branch of folklore; like folkore, it deals with expressive culture and involves some of the same core methodologies. Unlike the broad field of folklore, however, ethnomusicology has a very narrow focus. Indeed, the focus of ethnomusicology seems sometimes to be so limited that one wonders whether it presents any benefit to the people who are the objects of its study. I ask: in what ways can ethnomusicology be brought to bear on questions of social justice? Does ethnomusicological scholarship present opportunities for anything beyond the accumulation of descriptive knowledge, and if so, can it be turned into a vehicle for social change? Ultimately, the debate may be over the centrality of music. Is it true that music reaches to something fundamental about the relations between members of a society? Or is music just a facet of a "superstructure" above a more important "base"? And if music is not central, why study it? I have recently been considering how participatory research might connect to the field of ethnomusicology (sometimes defined as “the study of music as culture” or “the study of the way humans negotiate culture through music”). Ethnomusicology is considered by some to be a branch of folklore; like folkore, it deals with expressive culture and involves some of the same core methodologies. Unlike the broad field of folklore, however, ethnomusicology has a very narrow focus.

Indeed, the focus of ethnomusicology seems sometimes to be so limited that one wonders whether it presents any benefit to the people who are the objects of its study. I ask: in what ways can ethnomusicology be brought to bear on questions of social justice? Does ethnomusicological scholarship present opportunities for anything beyond the accumulation of descriptive knowledge, and if so, can it be turned into a vehicle for social change?

Ultimately, the debate may be over the centrality of music. Is it true that music reaches to something fundamental about the relations between members of a society? Or is music just a facet of a “superstructure” above a more important “base”? And if music is not central, why study it?

]]> Comment on Listen Out Loud Audio Documentation Program by The Boiled Down Juice » Blog Archive » Youth Radio Programs–List 1 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/listen-out-loud-audio-documentation-program/#comment-5 The Boiled Down Juice » Blog Archive » Youth Radio Programs–List 1 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:29:33 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/listen-out-loud-audio-documentation-program/#comment-5 [...] During my summer internship I worked with the Kentucky Remembers! Project which gave me the wonderful opportunity to work with youth in Bowling Green and Paducah to teach the basics of oral history and folklife interviewing and document the oral histories of Civil Rights and human rights leaders in Kentucky. In working with the youth this summer, I realized more than ever the power of the recorded voice to speak about what it means to be human–to share stories, to seek a more just world, and to be active participants in the wonderful cultures around us. This summer I will continue to work with Kentucky Remembers and will have the opportunity to utilize a new and expanded version of the Listen Out Loud program to teach students who attend the Voices of Conscious: Human Rights Leadership Camp how to produce radio and podcast audio documents. These audio documents will reside on the Kentucky Remembers webpage where they can be used in the public schools and after school programs. A large portion of my independent study is preparing to teach the summer youth camps. To learn more about this summer’s program go here. [...] [...] During my summer internship I worked with the Kentucky Remembers! Project which gave me the wonderful opportunity to work with youth in Bowling Green and Paducah to teach the basics of oral history and folklife interviewing and document the oral histories of Civil Rights and human rights leaders in Kentucky. In working with the youth this summer, I realized more than ever the power of the recorded voice to speak about what it means to be human–to share stories, to seek a more just world, and to be active participants in the wonderful cultures around us. This summer I will continue to work with Kentucky Remembers and will have the opportunity to utilize a new and expanded version of the Listen Out Loud program to teach students who attend the Voices of Conscious: Human Rights Leadership Camp how to produce radio and podcast audio documents. These audio documents will reside on the Kentucky Remembers webpage where they can be used in the public schools and after school programs. A large portion of my independent study is preparing to teach the summer youth camps. To learn more about this summer’s program go here. [...]

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