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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang Abstract This article analyzes how the colonial naming structure creates and sustains what it means to be human and nonhuman in coloniality. It begins with a preliminary reading of Sylvia Wynter’s interpretation of Frantz Fanon’s “white mask” as a cultural technology, where...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of colonial unseeing and the refusal to name Black female flesh as sacred. She rereads these visual artifacts through the question of iconicity, and claim these images as sites of Black feminist fugitivity and resistance. Since Maier-Preusker, various references to the painting have found other ways...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Jennifer Thorington Springer Abstract “‘Roll It Gal’: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso” examines the ways in which Caribbean women's bodies, namely those of black women, have been overly sexualized in calypsos. More importantly, this article examines how Hinds (re)claims calypso...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and domestication. Wildness for Flamboyant was a collective orientation, which can be traced within their feminist and queer organizing, the disruption of Dutch colonial spatiality, and the politics of archival in/visibility. In 2015, I came across Flamboyant’s “what’s in a name” explanation, shared...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
...María Beatriz Serrano-Abreu Abstract Turbanteo Consciente, literally “consciousness headwrap wearing,” is the term facilitators, participants, and collaborators have coined to name the process of thinking, creating, and promoting the headwrap workshops, a self-developed project that has been going...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
...” present impossibility of escape from paradigmatic dehumanization for those who accept the terms and terminology of the colonizers is carefully unspooled in “De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure.” Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang begins this piece by taking...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 307–329.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Anene Ejikeme Abstract This essay argues that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s short story “Headstrong Historian” offers a woman’s perspective on the Igbo encounter with European colonialism, a history made famous by Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart who told the story from a male perspective...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... for women fighting imperialism within aggressor nations. This transnational feminism supported an explicitly pro-socialist vision for the future. Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 anticolonialism decolonization transnational feminism Afro-Asian solidarity peasant women Colonialism...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., but, rather, I looked for the foundation of the home of Pierre Alphonse Phaeton-the man whose name had survived the French colony and outlived Dauphin Plantation. Bythen, I had read Pettigrew's history of Dauphin Plantation, 5 in which he told the story of the region, relying on Moreau de Saint-Mery...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 133–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 Sámi Indigenous feminism relationality mining Without the inclusion of Indigenous women’s and LGBTQ2s’ knowledge, “the academy cannot have a full understanding of colonialism as a process nor can it fully understand Indigenous...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 April 2024
... time about the range of pathologizing techniques used to contain and erase marginalized people’s tactics of survival against colonial violence. If there is something traumatizing in this narrative, it is not the powerful lesson of survival in the name of what Kyle Whyte ( 2018 ) calls “collective...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries referenced the wealth that Germany was amassing through colonial extraction. Many of Berlin’s central streets and plazas are named for colonizers of this era, who, after the Berlin West Africa Conference, entered Africa with weapons and committed atrocities...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 193–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... palace Changgyeonggung was converted into a zoo that also featured botanical gardens and museums. In 1911, a year after the occupation, the colonial government degraded the place even more by taking out the word gung , meaning “palace,” from its name. The new name, Changgyeongwon, indicated...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... naming the caste location , should have been a no-brainer. But it needed engagement because we are touching on an issue in which academics and feminists have been complicit: invisiblising caste. —Anu Ramdas, “Casteless Academe, Name-Calling Dalits?” Critiques of Brahminical feminism by the caste...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Massachusetts–based offices are on Nonotuck land. In this we formed part of a wave of solidarity with Indigenous peoples that necessarily begins with recognition of how settler colonialism is deeply ingrained, embedded, and naturalized in every way, from place-naming conventions to thought structures. Further...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the structuring of state and interstate violence. Copyright © 2002...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 73–103.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Linnaeus, led them to imagine the botanist as a kind of"new Adam," whose pleasure in naming resembles the scene in Eden. It was then an easy step, according to Bewell, for colonial ventures in the South Pacific to be narrated in this idyllic way: "one can see the ease with which the nostalgic associations...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... into borrowing money from Britain to cover the cost of buying its own territory. The evil of colonialism has morphed in the name of globalization: “Chai became a beverage invented in California” (7), Palestine is the new social justice summer camp for wealthy American teens (34), and “Pepsi buys water rights...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 335–357.
Published: 01 October 2019
... lack of a deeper acknowledgment of and commitment to Indigenous communities, does not register as a problem because there is a sense that simply by naming settler colonialism one is being critical enough. As I explore in the next section, the superficial alliance with resistance to settler colonialism...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. In the political geography created during the colonial periods Yoruba speakers were divided between western Nigeria and the eastern portion of the Republic of Benin. The name Yoruba was originally given to residents ofOyo, but during the nineteenth century European...
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