Search Results for decolonization

...Robert M. Rouphail Abstract The Cold War Indian Ocean world was a space in transition. As European empires retreated from the ocean's littoral states, the structure and makeup of what political entities would follow remained opaque and contested. Mauritius's relatively late formal decolonization...

... of the Indian Ocean searching for means by which to complete the process of decolonization. Rather, it was inherent to nationalist thought since at least the early nineteenth century and was inspired by a series of sentiments and emotions that call for further scholarly examination. [email protected]...

... as victims. ND: This interview is encouraging, because it throws up issues I hadn't considered, like the discourse around decolonization. During colonization, there were many attempts to tear culture away from Indigenous people and to eradicate some of their practices. The ability to think remained...

... lower value than it was actually worth. The legal implications of the 1895 treaty came to the fore for the administration at the point of decolonization, when the future of what is now Kenya and Tanzania was being pondered by the British. While the idea of an independent coast was never seriously...

... are challenged and explores the resistant role Lalela uLwandle played in this process. Meg Samuelson and Charne Lavery define the oceanic South as a category that encompasses the decolonized and still colonized landmasses of the South, including Indigenous Oceania and the frozen continent of Antarctica. 9...

... of overseas exploration and colonial expansion by European powers from the early fifteenth century onward, and following a process of metonymy and metaphor, it came to identify any set of islands forming a coherent topographical unit. 2 Furthermore, from the decolonizing seas of the Atlantic and Indo...

... that had all of us eager to contribute to the decolonization of teaching materials for East African students What I found in Goa were invaluable materials on the last years of Portuguese domination on the Swahili coast, in particular a cache of fourteen Swahili letters written in Ajami (Arabic script...

... the muting of explicit Arabized tropes of superiority, which was crushed under the weight of African nationalism during the decolonization era (1955–1963). It is in this postcolonial context of African primacy that members of previously excluded identities within a preexisting coastal hierarchy, like most...

... at UCLA. He is the author of the widely influential monograph Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization , which has been translated into French, German, and Polish. Michael's other books include The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators and Traumatic...

... These unequal legacies of Portugal's colonization have left Mozambique as one of the most impoverished nations in Africa, scarred by inequalities, a violent decolonization process, and postcolonial civil war. The sobering fictional world of The First Wife bears the mark of the enduring colonial...

..., her work examines intellectual histories and diverse forms of esthetic practice and cultural production. Omar Berrada is a writer, translator, and curator from Casablanca, Morocco. He works on the transmission of cultural memory in the wake of decolonization, with a special focus on visual forms...

... Intellectuals .” PhD diss., SOAS , University of London , 2015 . Mbembe Achille . “ Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive .” Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg . Mbembe Achille . On the Postcolony...

... in remaking from fragments, of reimagining, while acknowledging what has been broken. As Bill Ashcroft points out in reference to Walcott's own poetry, “this reconfigured language is not simply reflective of a decolonized reality, it is indicative of a new ontology prompted by the archipelago, one based...

... in their trilogies and tetralogies that challenges the temporal and spatial orthodoxies of colonial modernity. “Writing takes time,” Hitchcock writes, but in transnational trilogies and tetralogies, duration in dynamic place is a crucial chronotope of decolonization, one that must claim time differently to narrate...

... break through the bulwark of silences created by this war of narratives. Because the violence of the revolution occurred under the rubric of decolonization, was followed by an attempt to move the islands in a socialist direction, and resulted in the islands becoming part of a union with mainland...

... has now made its way back home in the twenty-first century. Postcolonial critics may certainly sense a delicious irony at play here, but, beyond schadenfreude, we must also be attentive to the case for decolonizing our world in toto, not merely a part therein. If this article has succeeded in its aims...