... retained recourse to African and/or Islamic law. They were also granted the privilege to pursue higher education. The inhabitants of Saint-Louis shaped for themselves a collective representation in sharp distinction to that presented by the colonial authorities. The chapter argues that in challenging...

... the people and the decision makers. Political organizations, in the form of parties and interest groups, have been at the center of the basic models of democratic representation. They are so common and central to the political process that reforms of the institutions of representative democracy often focus...

... as the process of democratic representation. These facts deal with the political importance of noncitizens inside a country; the similar importance of people in other jurisdictions; the rapid rise and fall of a large number of civil society associations; the continuing importance of personal ties; the crucial...

... of artistic agency and historical representation. Where literature betrays its finitude, the performance of writing generates new configurations of history, nationhood, and “Chinese” identity. The chapter explores three issues: the dissemination of modern Chinese writing in visual terms, calligraphy and its...

... to literary culture. This relationship imbued fiction with a new social and cultural import, allowing authors to envision themselves as unique cultural educators. It also changed the nature of literary representation: writers came to depict social reality as a tissue of ideas produced by knowledge elites...

... or black museums. Bunch Lonnie collective past representation Smithsonian Institution violence Yeingst William identity formation “memory boxes” at NMAAHC narratives National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Washington D C United States U S history museums South Africa...

...Finally, in the conclusion, I revisit the puzzle of collective memory and the politics of representation or the “museumification of memory.” This chapter argues that memory and identity become artifacts in the interest of reconstituting the collective in the aftermath of prolonged and intense...

...This chapter talks about how we find ourselves in a politically anxious age, where such anxiety is caused by a destabilization in the relationship of identity to representation. The nation-state managed this relationship through its control of the narrative of sacrificial violence; the relationship...

... of thematically linked (English-language) bio-pics released since 1990, this book explores key issues surrounding their resurgence, narrative structure and production. It also looks at the issue of subject representation or misrepresentation in bio-pics and the critical response these type of films have...

... the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race. Robyn Autry consults museum archives, conducts interviews...

... and Brown Books. A budding theme in this earlier transitional work would soon find full articulation in his Philosophical Investigations. This theme refers to the problem of confusing the means of representation with what was represented, which Wittgenstein claims is the principal...

... Cadre management system Performance assessment cadre Uyghur Culture History Discourse Representation Xinjiang As the great classicist Moses Finley often liked to say, in the ancient world, all revolutionary movements had a single program: “Cancel the debts and redistribute the land...

... in a community, where each one is sustained by an imaginative project of narrative construction. Interpretation is always a representation of something—without a reference, representation is no longer interpretation. The chapter cites Memento (2000), The Box (2009...

...This chapter argues that the crisis of representation proves itself to be intertwined with a crisis in the theory of sovereignty, suggesting a deeper challenge to liberalism. Crisis of representation Foucault Michel Kant Immanuel Liberal democracy Modernism Modernity Discourse analysis...

...This is a reading of Sebald's “The Emigrants” which takes up the interrelated issues of memory, repetition, photographic documentation, image and representation, and the Holocaust. Citation Description The Emigrants Sebald Herzog Werner History Kaspar Hauser film “Like Day and Night Memory...

... (1845), show how such films utilise the motif of Carmen and intertextuality as rhetorical tropes, navigating between the colonial and postcolonial story spaces in an act of returning the gaze while displaying a self-reflexivity about the politics of storytelling and representation. By appropriating...

...Chapter 3 treats the museum not only as a site of memory, but also as a site of employment. It considers how the collective representations require management over time, focusing on some of the banal or profane dimensions of memory work: the budgets, the political wrangling, staff composition...

... decisively undertaken the critique of representationalism—and they are Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin,” ³ the term “critique of representation” clearly does not have the same meaning it does above. In this analytic context, it is not a question of acknowledging the thing itself, its excess...

...This chapter examines the evolutionary biology of the human mind. The earliest known examples of external thought emerged approximately 1.5 million years ago in the form of carved stone objects called bifaces. These tools achieved an externalized mental representation status since...

...This book examines why we need institutional reform by focusing on six facts about politics and the false assumptions about their relationship to democratic institutions as well as the process of democratic representation. These facts deal with the political importance of noncitizens inside...