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Scott MacLochlainn
Published: 25 November 2022
... Philippine Supreme Court proselytizing sign language born again Evangelicals Jesus Is Lord Church JIL Kulaman unnaming generic nonspecificity language semiotics technology media substitutes mimesis Indigenity postcolonialism the important thing ...
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Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Iron Age
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James F. Osborne and Jonathan M. Hall
Published: 26 December 2022
... of the various scholarly approaches to understanding that evidence that have been deployed to date, including Orientalizing and postcolonial positions, ethnicity and migration, and network analysis. Ultimately, the chapter proposes that we ought to consider variability, complexity, and inconsistency as the very...
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Africa in Theory
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Achille Mbembe
Published: 31 January 2017
... disciplines with their foundational categories. From anthropology to political economy, from post-structuralism to psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, Africa has been the purveyor of some of the most compelling concepts without which the face of modern criticism would be utterly poor. On the other hand...
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Published: 04 July 2019
... cosmopolitanism Creole postnationalism décalage diaspora disenchantment Kiavué Klod Konket Guy Murray David and the Gwo Ka Masters Schwarz Bart Jacques Tumblack musical group continuance Lyannaj pou gwoka resilience sovereignty postcolonialism creolization aurality detour opacity Glissant...
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Published online: 23 January 2020
Published in print: 04 July 2019
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The Adjusted State in the Meantime
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Caroline Melly
Published: 17 October 2017
... in the planning stages for many years, without enrolled investors, caught between the grim economic realities of the present moment and its ambitious future goals. Rather than theorizing employees’ efforts as indicative of the failure, emptiness, or dysfunction of the postcolonial African state, this chapter...
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Published: 22 May 2014
...This essay focuses on British efforts to manage emotion during the era of decolonization. As distinctive postcolonial regimes of emotion, welfare and decolonization were both expected to bring about not just dramatic changes in material and political conditions, but also to inaugurate new emotional...
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The Consolations of Recognition
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Miguel de Beistegui
Published: 04 May 2018
... the erotic Lacan Jacques pleasure psychoanalysis sublimation decolonization feminism masochism postcolonial sadism colonialism Coulthard Glen Sean emancipation Judaism phenomenology Alfred Taiaiake capitalism governmentality Marx Karl normalization patriarchy racism Simpson Leanne Dene...
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Published: 02 December 2016
..., this chapter points to the importance of framing this “history problem” in East Asia through the framework of after empire, which situates the question within intertwined processes of postimperial, postcolonial, and postwar dynamics. Seen through the lens of colonial inheritance, what is usually described...
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The Enduring Struggle: The Utility of a Colonial Institution in the Postcolonial World
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Sara Byala
Published: 15 June 2013
...This book concludes by analyzing the sad state of Gubbins’ plaque, and how it speaks to a global phenomenon. For we live today unsure of whether to adore, ignore, or expunge the remnants of old orders. Postcolonialism is a world where colonial and imperial remnants—be they institutions, laws, even...
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Published: 04 July 2019
... detour bigidi Lena Blou postcolonialism The preceding chapters have explored the ways in which gwoka participated in evolving auralities that are both contesting and contested. Although the rhetoric surrounding gwoka has emphasized a narrative of resistance, of grand marronnage ...
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A Place That Matters Yet: John Gubbins’s MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
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Sara Byala
Published online: 26 September 2013
Published in print: 15 June 2013
...This book unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. In examining this story, it sheds...
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Published online: 23 January 2014
Published in print: 27 November 2012
...What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? This book tackles the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space—as a fixed historic source for the African diaspora—the book envisions Africa...
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Published: 22 August 2016
... for Democratic Rights India Simlipal Tiger Reserve tourism conservation indigenous people Martínez Alier Joan nature refugees Serengeti National Park Tanzania wilderness environmental ethics Huggan Graham humanism postcolonial studies rights talk speciesism Tiffin Helen Wolfe Cary Australia...
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Published: 26 December 2022
...For many decades the reigning narrative for the spread of Greek and Phoenician culture and settlements around the Mediterranean Sea involved colonial models of unidirectional culture spread, typically evoked by phrases such as “Hellenization.” By the late twentieth century, however, postcolonial...
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The Contradictions of Global English
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John Guillory
Published: 30 December 2022
... imperialism, and the curriculum of this discipline will have to expand considerably in order to accommodate an exponential increase in literary work in English. At the same time, this curriculum must recognize the postcolonial context of literary production in English, attested by the movement to “decolonize...
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Visions of the Future
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Heidi Morefield
Published: 24 October 2023
... Foundation conference in Bellagio, Italy, and the 1979 UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development. At the same time, these multilateral fora did not necessarily represent the needs or desires of postcolonial leaders, who—in regional conferences such as CASTAFRICA—defined their own, much more...
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Making Mobility Matter
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Caroline Melly
Published: 17 October 2017
... moments in Dakar’s colonial and postcolonial history to highlight how conceptions of citizenship became entangled through time with experiences of urban and global mobility, the built environment, and shifting forms of authority, thus setting the scene for the chapters that follow. Université de Cheikh...
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Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire
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Yukiko Koga
Published online: 18 May 2017
Published in print: 02 December 2016
... that makes visible the entangled processes of “after empire,” which points to the often invisible, displaced, or seemingly separate postcolonial and postimperial processes that shape the afterlife of losses and their redemptions, to envisioning present and future relations to what remains, and to renewed...
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Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 25 October 2023