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    Yearly Archive: 2014

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “To Hell with that Man Business!”: Gender Anxieties in The Salt Mines and The Transformation

    Author: Darren Arquero

    Introduction Panning through the dismal space of out-of-service garbage trucks against a dreary city skyline, the opening scene of The Salt Mines (1990) introduces us to Sara, a self-identified Latina[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Book Review: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair (Michael Deibert, 2013)

    Author: Soraya Aziz Souleymane

    Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Peter Clarke: Meditations on Space, Place and Movement

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    False Ideas About ‘Activism’ in Egypt and the Case of Egypt’s Copts: Outside the State and Within the Economy of Power

    Author: Karim Malak

    ‘Activism’[1] and the ‘human rights agenda’ as espoused by international and local organizations have created several norms about ‘advocacy’ and the ‘universality’ of ‘religious freedom’ in Egypt. Yet these concepts[...]

    Rael-Exhibition

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Featured · Magazine

    Vistas: A Visual Project by Raél Jero Salley & Photographs by Jared Thorne

    Note: This creative submission is a sister piece to the critical article, Antinomies of Neighborliness. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. ***** “To my compatriots, I have[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine

    Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence

    Author: Athi Joja

    Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1)

    L’actualité du patrimoine: Les formes d’extensivité historique et géographique de l’identité moderne

    Author: Nathanaël Wadbled

    « Notre activité suppose toujours l’intelligence d’autres personnes ; une bonne partie du bonheur humain consiste à ressentir des états d’âme étrangers. Le sens historique permet alors à l’homme moderne[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts

    Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary

    Author: Joy Hayward-Jansen

    “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]

    India-Pakistan-TwoTrack

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Track-Two Diplomacy between India and Pakistan: A Study in Diplomatic Overture

    Author: Samir Ahmad

    There has been a fundamental change in the way interstate relations are being conducted in modern times. The nature and working of diplomacy between and among states has undergone some[...]

    Woo-Featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Global Perspectives

    The Centipedes: Liminal Narratives Traveling through Others’ Bodies

    Author: Woo Yun Jin & Mathew Bumbalough

    The ‘reflexive turn’ in anthropology, marked by the publication of Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus) in 1986, raised fundamental issues of representation, epistemological authority, and Eurocentric colonialism in anthropological texts.[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Review of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s “Le Président”

    Author: Amber Murrey

    “When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013).  The question[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea

    Author: Marcus Brasileiro

    Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].

    Author: Indrani Mukherjee

    While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Souffrance ou héroïsme ? : Le sentiment des colons chinois dans la littérature chinoise au Tibet

    Author: Yue YUE

    En analysant des œuvres littéraires coloniales, Elleke Boehmer indique qu’au début du XIXe siècle, l’impérialisme britannique s’est identifié à Robinson Crusoë sur l’île sauvage qu’il s’efforçait de civiliser. Correspondant à[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Weird World Cup in the Land where Soccer is Everything

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Brazilian rapper Emicida, one of the most creative and perceptive pop artists in recent years, creates compelling drama in not only the content of what he says but also the[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Tem algo esquisito nesta Copa do Mundo, mas talvez não o que você pensa

    Author: Derek Pardue

    O rapper brasileiro Emicida, um dos artistas mais criativos e perceptivos nos últimos tempos, cria drama não somente nas suas letras mas também na dinâmica da sua voz. Na música[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Wall (Egypt 2014)

    Author: Abu Bakr Shawky

    There is an old saying in Egypt: “Keep walking next to the wall.” If you want to stay away from problems, walk next to the wall. If you don’t want to[...]

    Terraferma-Featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

    Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

    Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

    Indian-Elections-featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    The Spectacle of Indian Elections and the West

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

    DFace-2-featured

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Revitalizing Power of Urban Art: The Case of Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by the author.   Santurce is an area that boasts a varied cultural and artistic scene. Formerly known[...]

    Colectivo Basta-featured

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured

    El arte urbano y su poder revitalizador: el caso de Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]

    Haram-featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]

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