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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 126–135.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Tejumola Olaniyan Much scholarly effort over the last two to three decades has been spent debating cosmopolitanism and attacking or refurbishing its older understanding as something owned by the West and a marker of civilization that others should strive for. The criticisms, however, have tended...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 62–71.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Manuela Ribeiro Sanches Cosmopolitanism has been invoked to stress the potential advantages of thinking beyond the nation with regard to human rights, diasporic or intellectual affinities, as well as other forms of affiliation. However, nationalism does not have to amount to a mere manifestation...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 120–131.
Published: 01 May 2019
.... What is necessary now is not Pan-Africanism, feminism, or any movement that seeks to advance the rights of a particular social identity, but, instead, what is needed is a radicalized cosmopolitanism, a shift from a rhetoric of particularism to a rhetoric of universalism in order to help us relate...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 84–99.
Published: 01 May 2020
..., migration, displacement, loss, and vulnerability provide a stark contrast to the hopeful possibility of cosmopolitanism. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Cosmopolitanism migration displacement immigration xenophobia 84 Nka An Artist s Journey On Cosmopolitanism, Xenophobia, and Migration...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 130–139.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Holiday Powers This article looks at French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada’s artwork and her role at the Cinémathèque de Tanger (CdT) in response to the mutating cosmopolitanisms of contemporary Tangier, Morocco. The article focuses on her projects A Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project , Iris...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 136–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... prerequisite for African artists who wish to gain international success and recognition. As the exhibitions and artists addressed in this article convey, cosmopolitanism as a metaphor for mobility, and the ideal of co-existence, diversity, and tolerance as its unifying and defining factors, translates...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 40–54.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the cosmopolitan attitude as a paradox that on the one hand is oriented to the particular individual and on the other hand to an imaginary world community, that is, the universal. Taking this notion further to consider today’s world that is saturated with the imaginary and symbolic power of the Internet...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of cosmopolitan societies and selves; and the changing representation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a rare document of the black experience in postwar Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also provides an important frame of reference, overlapping...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 116–125.
Published: 01 May 2020
... considers how portrait photography was not an expression of a local modernity, in the way the concept is narrated in established studies of the cultural dimensions of globalization, but was an expression of the in-between. This can be described as a form of cosmopolitanism or creolization, depending...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 84–107.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of sculpture that speaks of a cosmopolitan vision in which several traditions collide to create a new visual language combining African-derived forms with a minimalist aesthetic. The new works and the archival material included in the retrospective exhibition Amir Nour: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit , organized...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 234–249.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., not only garnered broad institutional recognition and critical accolades, but also situated him within the French art historical modernist canon and a cultural field that one might describe as black Atlantic, global in scope and discursively cosmopolitan. This article summarily tracks Hervé Télémaque’s...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as a statement about modernity, but equally saw himself as deeply marked by his homeland. Read in dialogue and confrontation with cosmopolitanism, Gharbaoui’s oeuvre can be analyzed in terms of the multiple ways in which Gharbaoui tried to understand the materiality of the art itself, his relationship...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 146–148.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and was shaped by an international formal education and a Christian church. Africa has always had areas of cosmopolitan learning, and occluding this one stunts the image of Africa. Where Anatsui is concerned, we should neglect neither his African origins nor his education, love of books, and years of looking...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 50–63.
Published: 01 May 2024
... that struggled for self-determination in order to undo the domination of global empires but not foreclose cosmopolitanism. [email protected] © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 climate global history colonization Sudan tropical architecture The Verandah between Climate Determinism and Climate...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 6–7.
Published: 01 May 2020
... at the international conference Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Africa in Europe| Europe in Africa, held in Berlin, Germany, at Akademie der Künste, February 2 3, 2013. The con- ference was organized as a collaboration between Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Lisbon, Portugal; Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
... osmopolitanism in relationship to the entanglement of Africa and the West and its reconfiguration at the intersection of modernity and postcoloniality. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Afropolitanism cosmopolitanism xenophobia postcoloniality African and African diaspora art Journal of Contemporary...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 6–7.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of discrete and self-contained cultural boundaries. artists are manifestations of cosmopolitanism in the visual tie to their constant mobility in and out of Africa, hold out the but also challenge the art world to think critically and exam - Rather than locating the production...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 210–226.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., grappled with cosmopolitan ideas of mo­ dernity and modernism on the eve of World War II, Egyptian surrealists carved a niche within this global art world, not as cosmopolitans (a thesis supported by Liliane Karnouk) but as independent revolutionary artists.25 Egyptian surrealists were ac­ tors...
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Nka (1998) 1998 (9): 58–61.
Published: 01 November 1998
... of it, but also to observe the distinctions between different films and paper presentations. So, I tried my best to be very conscious of forms of the cosmopolitan. the reasons for my choices. Someone like Frederic lameson would posit universalizing...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 152–153.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., to a comfortable Making or in the ‘Wrong Place’: Contempo- He aptly demonstrates how Le complot “writerly” cosmopolitanism, with its rary Art and the Postcolonial Condition,” in d’Aristote parodies classical mimesis, attendant privileges and safe pub- Diaspora Memory Place: David Hammons...