Search Results for cultural and political decolonization

...-seated assumption prevalent among the ranks of Arab nationalists according to which one must disown their past traditions in order to become modern. The advent of cultural thinkers posed a grave challenge to this cherished evaluation, calling into question the agenda of political decolonization that Arab...

... the logic of neoliberal markets and legitimate capital gain, hence the tight connections between cultural heritage, industry, and tourism. While the concept developed as early as the nineteenth century in postrevolutionary France, its expansive political, juridical, and symbolic use has matured only after...

...Salma Siddique Abstract This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization...

....” deliberate global democracy and its future: the Cultural Studies 21, no. 2 – 3 (2007): 168 – 78. principle of democracy was going to be weak in Wilder, Gary. Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and international affairs especially when national se- the Future of the World. Durham, NC: Duke...

...Lila Abu-Lughod Abstract Sampling from the “Indigenous turn” in anthropology, this article asks what might be relevant for our thinking about the politics and ethics of social research practices in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region from the decolonizing efforts of those working in New...

... of a buzzword applied to curricula and embraced even by mainstream foundations eager to develop funding streams to support (in name) the intellectual/political project, this does not mean we should be cynical. Neither, however, should we take decolonization to be a metaphor. This forum is about one of the most...

... but also changed the practices of diplomacy and international politics through an abiding interest in the UN's development. Rather than removing international organizations from histories of decolonization, refining our understanding of the promises and perils of postcolonial diplomacy can better...

... E. Genova what he calls neoracism: a new racism “of the era of illustrates, the shared “political culture” that ex- ‘decolonization,’ of the reversal of the movement isted between France and French-­ruled West Af- of populations between old colonies and the old...

... of this equation we have the Soviet Union, in formation between 1917 and 1922 and in formal existence until 1991: a totalistic political, social, and cultural project with universal (and some would say its own internal colonial/imperial) aspirations, in revolution, continual and often violent evolu- tion...

..., and politics—different ambivalences. Rather, it is to invite a more serious complication of what our answer to the question of who could produce decolonizing alternative knowledge is, and a thinking of the risks we run by exclusively focusing on identity-based politics of inclusion and representation...

... repositories of formal sovereignty. A nuanced understanding of the historical and contemporary political, social, and cultural terrain of South Asia requires a broader conceptual framework that accounts for the multiple idioms and practices of sovereignty in the region and their legacies up until the present...

... British ofthe aspect overlookimportant to an scholars most caused also has spectives society.” and culture British post-war to relevance broad cultural impact of decolonization confiwas afi remains “there said, Wardhas Stuart Even so,as identity. demography,national and politics...

... in postcolonial France. To decolonize history also entails restoring the links between yesterday's anti-colonial movements and today's antiracist activism, too easily swept under the rug of the culture wars pitting apologists for colonialism against proponents of US-style identity politics, according...

... Difference . 81. For an excellent critique of Bangladeshi political culture that tolerates or even supports authoritarian power grabs to guard against Islamist politics, see Azam, Shanskritik Rajniti O Bangladesh . 82. Here I am paraphrasing Bob Marley's famous song “Redemption Songs...

... in North East Africa. Over the past decade the study of formal decolonization in the African and Black Atlantic world has been preoccupied with a debate over whether the nation-state was inevitably the political form through which twentieth-century anticolonial political arrangements had...

...Robert Vitalis Abstract In Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination , University of Chicago political theorist Adom Getachew has written a revisionist account of decolonization as “worldmaking” to inspire those who follow trailblazers like Kwame Nkrumah in pursuit of what...

... for understanding the dynamics of Soviet-African intellectual and political relations in the context of a new geopolitical order of the Cold War and decolonization, as it provided an essential interface between postcolonial conditions in distant world regions. The historical repertoire and cultural memory...

... why the federal utopias of 1946 had no chance of ever being realized. Central to these was the imperial nation-state of France and the forms of French political, economic, and racial privilege that would remain priorities during and after the moment of decolonization. The path that led to the nation...

... France and French Africa, 1945 – 1960. Prince- ton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. doi 10.1215/1089201x-4132977  . “The Dialects of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labour Movements in Postwar French Africa.” In Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois...

... of Self-Determination . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2019 . Gilroy Paul . Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2002 . Gilroy Paul . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness...