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A Natural History of Modernity: Bernhard Grzimek and the Globalization of Environmental Kulturkritik
New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 55–82.
Published: 01 August 2016
... veterinarian to zoological director to global conservation activist, the article shows that the Malthusian fears that underpinned Grzimek's plea for national parks in sub-Saharan Africa that segregated people and wildlife had their origins in an environmental Kulturkritik born of post-Nazi and Cold War...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 119–131.
Published: 01 November 2023
... since 2015, the rise of the extreme right-wing party Alternatives for Germany, resurgence of discussion on German colonialism in Africa, and extended public debate around the controversial Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the essay centralizes questions of race, colonialism, and migration. Connecting these key...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 37–58.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and minds of European modernity.
In the colonialist phase (exemplified in poems like “Palau,” “Easter
Island,” “Orphic Cells,” or the ones I have singled out for analysis here: “Only
When” and “East Africa a similar array of Southern Words coincides with
more globally southern geographies...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 231–235.
Published: 01 November 2022
... above all be made clear to those “affected.” In this, I see a more important task for the public intellectual than the construction of the illusion that we all belong to the wealthy, and the others out there in Africa, India, Asia, or Latin America belong to the poor. In principle, the same thing...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Buenos Aires,
the Caribbean of Aimé Césaire, the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera,
and Alfaro Siqueiros. These additions remind us that metropolitan culture
was translated, appropriated, and creatively mimicked in colonized and post-
colonial countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 61–69.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of warming, it is projected that eight hundred million to three billion people living in drought-prone areas will subsist under conditions of chronic water scarcity; and regions with the youngest people (principally in Africa, where 40 percent of the population is under the age of fifteen) will experience...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 43–63.
Published: 01 November 2022
... analysis first took shape in the 1960s, during Latin American challenges to US imperialism and struggles for formal decolonization in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. But he also witnessed subsequent neocolonial subversions of the sovereign states founded in the midcentury, and tracked those states...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 215–229.
Published: 01 November 2022
... there in the world: the massacres continued, tens of thousands were thrown in Greek prisons; eighty, a hundred thousand were murdered by the colonialists in Madagascar while the French fought in Viet Nam; innumerable were the dead in Congo and in Angola; millions forced to keep working as slaves in South Africa...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (2 (113)): 51–88.
Published: 01 August 2011
... utility for American social science was further extended
through attempts to ascribe it to popular anticolonial movements in Africa and
Asia. By the early 1960s charisma had become a concept associated almost
exclusively with the leaders of nationalist parties in the “new states” created...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., for the majority
of that remnant. Moreover, that only very partial rescue was achieved with the
aid of goods purchased and organized throughout the British imperial world
from Australia to South Africa, India, and Palestine by an American Jewish
relief organization (American Jewish Joint Distribution...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 193–204.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as method.” Colonialism, Takeuchi pointed out, compromised the vaunted values of European modernity. “For instance, although equality might exist in Europe, one glance at Europe’s colonial exploitations in Asia and Africa revealed that equality has not been attained by all.” 10 It is through...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 37–49.
Published: 01 November 2023
... institutions to follow, both in Europe and elsewhere. A decentering of Black studies that acknowledges their fundamentally transnational and interdisciplinary formation through tangible measures rather than lip service is long overdue. This includes a rethinking of the marginal role that Africa still occupies...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
Published: 01 August 2017
... revolutionary music unfolded in the
midst of a constitutional crisis in the German Empire. With details of the colo-
nial war in Southwest Africa coming to light (including genocide of the Her-
ero and Namaqua), the Center and Social Democratic parties vetoed military
budget increases. Unable...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (3 (138)): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2019
... , “Ulrich Seidl Interview.” 31. German speakers have a colonial history in Namibia. The territory, claimed for the Germans by Otto von Bismarck in 1884, was then referred to as German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika). The occupation led to two decades of conflict, mostly with the Herero...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 133–162.
Published: 01 August 2017
... nationalism economic crisis debt References Cabral Amilcar . 1965 . “The Nationalist Movements of the Portuguese Colonies,” translated by Handyside Richard . Marxists Internet Archive . www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1965/tnmpc.htm . Curtis Mark . 2004...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (2 (128)): 1–20.
Published: 01 August 2016
... such as Cosmos. Humboldt’s
travels and writings from his journeys are emblematic for an ecological prac-
tice of movement, connectivity, and aesthetic weave that Ette labels “nomadic”
thinking and knowledge.
With a postcolonial analysis of Bernhard Grzimek’s wildly popular work
on Africa, Thomas...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 145–165.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . ———. n.d. “Arab-Israeli Dialogue: The Mountain House Meeting.” www.vamikvolkan.com/Arab-Israel-Dialogue%3A-The-Mountain-House-Meeting,-Caux,-Switzerland-%281983%29.php (accessed February 18, 2016) . ———. n.d. “Memory, Narrative, and Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ten Years of South Africa's Truth...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2017
... in North Africa or in other European sites,
should also be raised—and the article by Amy Walsh on the story of the Per-
sian (Safavid) carpet from the Czartoryski Collection in Kraków sheds light
on one such pertinent case.8
Thus the debate about what to do with the Gurlitt collection and how...
Journal Article
New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 217–224.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in German studies would transform the very matter of investigating Germanness (self-fashioning, relations between German self and other) into a global one. For instance, we might start looking at the events and contexts that led up to the murder of the Herero and Nama peoples in southwestern Africa...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 1–32.
Published: 01 August 2018
... subjectivity, and the happening of an “I” that exists, in the end, only on paper. To be sure, this is a masculine Western fantasy of Africa, merged with a dream of poetic omnipotence, insofar as Rönne’s associations both create and disarticulate the women they conjure up. 63 But to see in this passage...
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