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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 72–82.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Fatima El-Tayeb This article addresses the long-term impact of colonialism on Europe’s internal structures and on its self-positioning in a global context. Using the 2015 refugee crisis as a focal point and centering the German example, the author explores the complex relationship between memory...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 114–126.
Published: 01 November 2019
... controls the historical narrative. In recent work, artists Zineb Sedira, Allan deSouza, and Mary Evans express both the instability of the migrant as a cipher and the anxieties that the migratory experience creates. The current global refugee crisis has fanned the flames of xenophobia and virulent...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 210–217.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at the conference. I’ve had the opportunity to return multiple times, and I have since exhibited and published in France. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo incidents, the refugee crisis, and the changing demographics in France and other parts of Europe, this investigation has taken on a wide range of complexities...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 180–183.
Published: 01 May 2020
... painting The Deluge (1805), on loan from Tate London. The pairing of these two works, selected by Akomfrah, in- vokes a connection between the legacy of the sea and its relationship to the history of slavery, global migration, and present discourses around the refugee crisis. The exhibition at SF- MOMA...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 112–130.
Published: 01 May 2021
... on planet Earth and the ways in which we produce, re- review of the superiority of French culture in the 2012 Intense produce, and consume our material environment. MTA s projects Proximité, La Triennale, Paris; and addressing the refugee crisis at look at the capitalist imperative to own and control...
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Nka (1998) 1998 (9): 38–43.
Published: 01 November 1998
..., under a glowing white statue of Christ; and the gray squalor ol luvenal Habyarimana was showing signs ol increasing instability in 1990. I B the refugee camps.The images were put there to illustrate news sto- "I lulu Power" extremists within the I labyarimana government began to incite I • ries...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 68–81.
Published: 01 November 2020
... concerns the Kojja refugee camps created in East Africa in the late colonial period to house Eastern European refugees during the Second World War.2 These works are part of Wolukau- Wanambwa s Uganda in Black and White (2010 14) collection, through which the artist explores issues and examines histories...
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 114.
Published: 01 May 2000
... to more are external refugees in reveal how these things have for neighboring countries. . . Man- too long manipulated and obscured...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 70–95.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Life: Artistic Reflections on the Politics of Refugee and Migrant Detention, CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen, April 17, 2015. © CAMP. Photo: Alba Oren Nielsen and Petersen Nka 71 Professor of Law Eva Smith leads the debate meeting Are Human Rights Being Violated in Denmark s...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... The Columbia University, and at New York University as connective thread among all of the essays is the way the Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor. Also, Enwezor in which Enwezor foreshadowed the capitalist-colo- was not a stranger to the College Art Association, nialist crisis from the purview...
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 48–55.
Published: 01 May 2000
... but usefully typical refugees ences at the local swimming pool. My perspec• racism had to be addressed specifically as an from the debris of the Left, all politically-correct tive, the precise inversion of hers, would argue aspect of the injustice he claims to abhor, no remedies against...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 60–79.
Published: 01 May 2008
... geological terms, fault lines reveal themselves disenfranchised citizens, immigrants, and as fractures in the earth's surface, but they also refugees, among others. Ultimately, the fault lines mark a break in the continuity of the strata. of our contemporary world manifest themselves Fault lines...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 6–13.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., even though there is no way of gauging his identity one way or another. If he is stateless, then the film locates him in the shadows of national grandeur and who these figures are, or how their amorous entwine- imperial display, as the interloper—­a refugee? an ment turns out. asylum...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 64–69.
Published: 01 November 2001
... that period, the news was filled with reports of refugees trying to escape from Haiti to the United States on rickety boats and makeshift rafts. This forced migration, the direct consequence of poverty and violence, echoes the other historical displacements of populations: the Middle Passage...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2021
... with the events of the twenty-first century from the few international-level curators who warned us 9/11 to the rise of nationalisms across the Western well of the dangers of the pretenses and hidden vio- world, to the surge in refugees across the world due lence of the global art complex. I then address two...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 80–89.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Romanian refugee and May’s architectural colleague in Nairobi; and Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and armaments minister. The DELIGHT of the YEARNER ERNST MAY and ERICA MANN in NAIROBI 1933–1953 Ernst May’s prototype for the Native House for Concrete Pre-manufacture, Nairobi...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (32): 90–95.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Romanian refugee and May’s architectural colleague in Nairobi; and Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and armaments minister. The DELIGHT of the YEARNER ERNST MAY and ERICA MANN in NAIROBI 1933–1953 Ernst May’s prototype for the Native House for Concrete Pre-manufacture, Nairobi...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 60–69.
Published: 01 May 2010
... imagined as solutions to a tional poles of postcolonial possibility and probabil- housing crisis — if not also a social and communal ity. Indeed, despite the French Republic’s ongoing crisis — witnessed after 1945 and again, signifi- reluctance to compile statistics regarding the eth- cantly...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 8–26.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as the paradox of crisis and creativity, as she tries to unravel the burgeoning of the women s fashion industry in Dakar in the 1990s in the aftermath of structural adjustment, which resulted in the col- lapse of the public sector industry, the rise of un- employment, and, consequently, the breakdown of social...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the slave ship, to cite Sharpe, from the forced movements of the enslaved to the forced movements of the migrant and the refugee, to the regulation of Black people in North American streets and neigh- borhoods, to those ongoing crossings of and drown- ings in the Mediterranean Sea, to the brutal colonial...