Search Results for the postcolonial project

..., cultural thinkers were able to problematize the rigid conception of tradition, loosening the grip of political nationalists on the postcolonial project. They were able to explain how the hysteria surrounding the defeat of the postcolonial project had given rise to a criminalizing rhetoric, how texts...

...Paul Tiyambe Zeleza The essay discusses the trajectory of the African renaissance as an idea and a project, a task that in essence entails examining Africa's postcolonial development paradigms, performances, and prospects. It is argued that this idea represents a recurrent yearning for a usable...

... inside and outside the world body. Anticolonial ideas and their attendant discourses of autonomy, self-rule, and postcolonial sovereignty circulated to the emerging human rights system at its inception in the late 1940s. This new international regime proved to be a fertile site for projects of advocacy...

... until the early postcolonial period. Conserving mangroves and freshwater creeks was not antithetical to maritime ports but part of the same administrative project. Political and infrastructural shifts from the river to the tide naturalized the erasure of coastal fresh water and transformed the coast...

...Madeleine Dobie Since the landmark intervention of Edward Said, the “Orient” has been widely rejected as a repository of European projections of alterity, and the Mediterranean is variously embraced as a promising framework for cross-cultural relations and transnational scholarship and rejected...

...James A. Reilly History writing is a powerful tool in the construction of collective memory. Typically in postcolonial states, history is linked to a national project. Methods and tropes of national history writing aim to create or reinforce a sense of shared identity rooted in past experience...

... India’s resources under the logic of emerging markets. About a quarter of postcolonial India’s scheduled tribe population has been displaced by development projects, often through foreign loans and investments. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 environment indigenous people India...

...Beyza Lorenz Abstract Building on recent scholarship on postcolonial theory and the history of the modern Middle East, this article analyzes the viewpoints of late nineteenth-century Ottoman novelists on the modernization projects of the Tanzimat and post-Tanzimat periods. It argues...

... infrastructures currently being built in the sea in postcolonial India only intensify the expropriations of colonial projects that were staged in the sea. Second, urban fishers work not only at sea but also on the dry land of the city. As chances for making livelihoods at sea are steadily foreclosed, fishers...

... project right from the of non-European life worlds, its intellectual start, in his book’s titular epigraph from the traditions are also inadequate to the task of European philosopher of hermeneutics, Hans- subaltern history. This postcolonial...

..., instantiates an antecedent of postcolonial critique and represents a decidedly anti-Eurocentric, internationalist project that held the promise of Global South comparatism. Halim’s article discusses selected issues raised in Lotus , considers the curtailment of its potential by the Cold War, and reflects...

...Sandipto Dasgupta Dasgupta’s essay revisits the long-standing debate about colonial continuity in postcolonial India’s constitutional system. The Indian constitution makers sought to produce a system embodying a transformational constitutional vision—that is, a constitutional structure that could...

...Ben Mendelsohn Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, is a human-constructed peninsula built from sand dredged off the continental shelf, imagined as a ten-square kilometer, semiautonomous, mixed-use district. While most scholarly analyses emphasize the project’s neoliberal development fantasies...

...Siavash Saffari Abstract Leading twentieth-century Iranian public intellectual Ali Shariati has been described by some as a proponent of a project of nativism and cultural authenticity. This article offers an alternative reading of Shariati, one that highlights the germination of his thought...

... of animal descent in nationalist vocabularies. Transgressing and policing the human-nonhuman divide, Sivasundaram contends, was central to the project of empire; exposing empire’s power requires a widening of critical attention so that nonhumans are worthy of serious postcolonial critique. © 2015 by Duke...

... between Western intellectual anxieties and postcolonial methods and modes of thought. One domain for interrogating the contemporary significance of the work is the call for new ontologies and interpretive humility. This commentary examines these new ontologies through the rethinking of ways that agents...

...” of Cold War technopolitics into African geography, wherein the superpowers placed networked technologies inside postcolonial spaces for the collection of data. Although these technologies were nominally Soviet in origin, the story could also be read as one of Africans who invested their geography...

... and postcolonial nativist projects broadly. 1 While postindependence nationalization efforts, Africanization or indigenization projects, and anti-Asian sentiments characterized the “decolonizing currents” of East and Central Africa generally, anti-Asian nativism and exclusion were most violently expressed...

... a common aspirational space, one they understood as postcolonial and as a laboratory for socialist transformation, which they understood as a powerful way to repudiate dominant models of Western modernity rooted in colonial projects and escape from marginalization in a capitalist world order—ambitions...

... and therefore liberation. For and epistemological origins of the Soviet project scholars of colonialism and postcolonial history, referred to above but also that the Soviets them- too, there has often been an implicit sympathy for selves regularly and officially...