Post-Colonialism
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Příspěvek si klade za cíl představit problematiku konstrukce “japonskosti”, “korejskosti” a “těch druhých” a s nimi související ideu “národního dědictví” vzhledem k antropologii post-kolonialismu. V prvé řadě budeme brát v úvahu... more
Tra il XVI e il XVIII secolo, le corti europee adottarono politiche demografiche di riforma dei rispettivi territori di confine attraverso l’impianto di coloni stranieri. Questo saggio prova a fornire un primo inquadramento di questo tipo... more
Not-guilty verdicts, mistrials, and impunity for the Bundy family and many of their supporters in the armed confrontations over public land use in Nevada and Oregon. Expanded access for private oil, gas, mining, and logging industries and... more
The dislocated, deterritorialized discourse produced by repatriates from formerly European colonies has remained overlooked in academic scholarship. One such group is the Eurasian “Indo” community that has its roots in the former Dutch... more
The essay focuses on the “travel”of various debates—orientalism, post-colonialism, postzionism—between the U.S. and Israel, between one institutional zone and political semantics and another. Through a comparative history of these... more
Resumen: No pequemos de inveterado realismo, que nadie pudiera comprometerse con descartar los tremebundos e inolvidables coletazos del proceso expansionista español en Guinea Ecuatorial, por más que fuera aquel pueblo al respecto,... more
Prof Mahmood Mamdani’s (2018) book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary of Africa the Legacy of Late Colonialism is the second edition of a book published by Princeton University Press in 1996. Citizen and Subject reveals the challenges... more
In this book I endeavour to offer a concise account of Islamic archaeology as it has developed and is today in the region of geographical Syria-Palestine. The region offers the archaeologist particular attractions in dealing with an... more
Enclosed is the syllabus and course notes from the upper division course I teach in PostModernism and Post-Marxist Critical Theory. It occurs to me that some of these essays--ranging from Horkheimer and Adorno, Baudrillard, Foucault, and... more
A post-colonial reading of Bertha Mason from Jane Eyre
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
This PhD thesis engenders new approaches to the understanding, appreciation, and experience of modern and contemporary ceramic art. It focusses on two recent outputs. The initial, Scorched Earth: 100 Years of Southern African Potteries... more
"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to... more
"James Joyce, as a postcolonial Irishman, understands the connection between Ireland and the Orient . In his texts, his characters often contemplate the Orient while numbly living out their routines in Ireland, but Joyce’s Irish Oriental... more
This research examines the gap between the socio-political and economic reality of Palestine, under Israeli Occupation, and the perceptions, assumptions and limitations of small aid donors like Switzerland in a colonial context. It looks... more
This paper will discuss the idea of modernism in territory as complex as India, with a focus on the city of Chandigarh. It will be examined how Chandigarh operates within the notion of national identity in India, and specifically, whether... more
Cornelia Parker is a British-born, London-based artist set to show at Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art as part of this year’s Sydney International Art Series. Her works are marked by an unusual amount of order, coupled with an... more
Les auteurs proposent une réflexion sur l’impact que pourraient avoir les récents développements en droit international des droits de l’homme sur les revendications foncières des peuples autochtones au regard de la Convention européenne... more
This paper aims to highlight the influences of the colonial discourse in the discussion of ancient art form China, with particular regard to the taotie motif of Shang bronze ritual vessels. On this topic, two main opposite schools of... more
Yep, fuck it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it.
Este trabalho visa a questionar a interculturalidade, com base no pensamento abissal e da colonialidade. Infelizmente, esse pensamento ainda está presente na Sociedade Brasileira não nos termos do acordo territorial, mas as negociações... more
Technology has become a transformative medium for the transmission of information within the indigenous, post-colonial Native Hawaiian land control movement. The movement has harnessed the power of the Internet to convey traditional... more
This is a detailed review of my best-selling book Drinking with Ghosts: The Aftermath of Apartheid's Dirty War (BestRed, South Africa, 2014) by Dr Iain Edwards in the South African Journal of Science, May-June 2015. The book was... more
No presente artigo analisamos o processo de ocidentalização da América Latina como herança do processo neocolonial que, por meio de discursos do Ocidente, perpetua a relação entre colonizador e colonizado. Assim, com base na literatura... more
Questo articolo presenta un'analisi storica e antropologica di alcune dinamiche socio-politiche legate alla produzione del cotone nella Repubblica dell'Uzbeki-stan. L'intento ultimo è di riflettere su come lo sfruttamento del lavoro e, in... more
This is a short essay on Chris Marker's work Les Statues meurent aussi. The text is in Finnish.
Carrera de Historia - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
In today’s globalisation, countries compete with each other in the same manner as the multinational corporations do. Recently, the term ‘nation-brand’ has appeared, together with a nation-brand index that tracks how a particular country's... more