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"Sociocracy" comes from the Latin word socius, meaning "companion" or "friend," and the Greek root cracy (from kratos), meaning "power" or "rule". Therefore, sociocracy literally means "rule by companions" or "peer governance," referring to a system of governance by people who regularly interact and have a common goa +
The word "Susu" has different origins and meanings, including the Mande people and language of West Africa, a term of endearment in some African and Asian cultures, and the word for "milk" in Indonesian and other Austronesian languages. It is also the name of an informal West African and Caribbean savings club. +
Swaraj is a concept from South Asia, most notably articulated by Mahatma Gandhi, that literally means “self-rule” (swa = self, raj = rule). +
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Ta Madok Maka (The Indigenous Karen’s Concept and Praxis of Reciprocity) +
Etymologically, tequio comes from the Nahuatl tequitl—“work,” “task,” or “tribute”—a term used in colonial New Spain for the personal labour tax owed by Indigenous communities, which re-signifies today as a communal contribution oriented to the common good. +
Thimuay (also spelled thimuway, timuay, and thimuway, among other variations) is the name of the most senior ancestral leader among the Subanon people of the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines. Less senior ancestral leaders are called "datu", just as they are elsewhere in the Philippines. Thimuay is equivalent to the titles "lakan", "sultan", or "rajah" in other Philippine cultures. +
Etymologically, the term “liberation” comes from the Latin liberare (“to set free”) and libertas (“freedom”), indicating the act of release from bondage or domination. The modifier “total” (from Latin totalis, meaning “whole” or “entire”) underscores the comprehensive nature of the project: liberation is not partial or selective, but aims at freedom in its entirety, across all beings and relations. +
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The word Ubuntu is an ancient African term, originating from the Nguni Bantu languages, that roughly translates to "humanity to others" or "I am because we are". It is rooted in the humanist philosophy that a person's identity is shaped by their community and their relationships with others. This concept is encapsulated in the Zulu proverb, "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu," which means "a person is a person through other people". +
In terms of origin, etymology, and epistemology, uhuru is an abstract noun built with the Swahili prefix u- (forming “-ness” or “-ity”) plus huru (“free”), itself derived from Arabic ḥurr and ḥurriyya (“free” / “freedom”).
In everyday usage it can mean personal liberty, but historically it has also signified collective liberation from colonial rule, racial domination, and economic subordination. +
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ver·nac·u·lar
/vərˈnakyələr/
noun
noun: vernacular; noun: the vernacular
(1) the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
"he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience"
(2) The terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity.
(3) architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
"buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular"
adjective
adjective: vernacular
(1) (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
(of speech or written works) spoken or written using one's mother tongue.
"vernacular literature"
(2) (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
"vernacular buildings"
Orign early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home-born’) +
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The term "sacrifice zone" originated in early 1970s North American livestock farming to describe degraded pastureland, but was later adopted by a National Academy of Sciences report in 1973 to discuss coal-mined areas, and then broadened by the environmental justice movement to represent any area harmed by toxic industrial activity for the benefit of other regions. The term shifted from a technical term in resource management to a rallying cry against the social and spatial expendability of marginalized communities and their environments. +