For postcolonialists
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Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoWith the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]
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Benedict Okundaye deposited The Intra-Covid Renaissance: Envisioning Resilient Urban Neighbour- ‘Wood’ in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThe focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]
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Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Ghalib Translations of Daud Kamal: ‘The Nightingale of a Garden Which is Yet to Come Into Existence’ in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 4 weeks agoEssay on Daud Kamal’s Ghalib translations.
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months agoSatire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.
Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months agoThe pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]
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Oksana Nesterenko replied to the topic CFP Special Session on Decolonizing New Music in the Post-Soviet space in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months agoThe deadline is extended to January 15, 2023!
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Oksana Nesterenko started the topic CFP Special Session on Decolonizing New Music in the Post-Soviet space in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks agoUntil recently, studies about Russian composers have dominated music scholarship on the countries of the former Soviet Union. Postcolonial theory can provide a useful framework to expanding research on music repertoire from the former Soviet Republics. The SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group is planning to propose a…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]
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Christiane Wagner deposited Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 9 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThe focus of this issue is on environmental aesthetics, with the aim of exploring the various aspects of aesthetic appreciation. Environmental Aesthetics: Socio-Territorial Conflicts throughout Media is part of a session that I organized at the IV International ISA Forum, Porto Alegre, held on February 23–27, 2021, for the Research Committee on S…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThe essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoI discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing (Preprint) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Iskandar Zulkarnain deposited Locating Cultures in Video Games and Interactive Fiction in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoText of my keynote talk at Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES) about video game cultures, focusing on the global south.
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Cosmopoéticas da desobediência informe: leitura contra-colonial do regime da extração no catálogo Lumière in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoConsiderando o catálogo Lumière como experiência inaugural do cinema mundial, este artigo propõe uma leitura anarquívica de algumas de suas imagens. Diferenciando a operação do cinematógrafo como dispositivo cosmotécnico de arquivamento do mundo e aparelho cosmopoético de invenção de mundos, exploro as formas de inscrição da diferença no…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoSince the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more] -
Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Tarzan, um negro: para uma crítica da economia política do nome de “África” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoDesde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited مسلم مطالعۂ مذاہب پیٹریس بروڈئر کی نگاہ میں: ایک تنقیدی جائزہ /Patrice C. Brodeur on the Muslim Study of Religions: An Appraisal in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Muslim study of religions has claimed the attention of some modern Western scholars. Patrice C. Brodeur, a scholar of religious studies, based at the University of Montreal, is one of them. He delves into the historical realities and epistemological developments that shaped the Muslim study of other religions in the past as well as in…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Revisiting Reconsidering “Jewish-Christian Relations”: Some Thoughts on Theory, History, and Antiquity in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoPaper delivered at Cornell University, March 7, 2013 to the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Translation and activism in the time of the now (Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIntroduction to The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism
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