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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Sobre Eleições Brasileiras

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Sempre que me perguntam sobre as eleições no Brasil, as pessoas esperam comentários sobre a disputa presidencial. É a única eleição em que posso participar como brasileiro vivendo no exterior.[...]

    Haiti-Curtis

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Early Postcolonialism in Haiti: On Being between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Author: Lesley S. Curtis

    Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    A Colonial Miseducation: Language & Unmaking Canadian Identity

    Author: Lee Skallerup Bessette

    I was born in Quebec the same year that Bill 101, or The Charter of the French Language, was passed in the Canadian province. There was something strange, in terms[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lições de São Paulo: Uma Mudança Merecida na Política Urbana

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Faltando dias para a eleição presidencial, no dia 5 de outubro, com tantos temas em jogo (veja aqui um resumo), a novela política e ideológica do Brasil segue em suspenso.[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lessons from São Paulo: A Deserved Shift in Urbanization Policy

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Photo Credit: Derek Pardue With only a few days left before Brazil’s presidential election on October 5th, and so many important social issues under scrutiny (see this review, for example),[...]

    ThisCountryIsALieAndWell-Galanin

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Transcendence, Transformation and Continuum: Summer 2014 at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    * All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Refugees, Language, Family, and Cooking: Sermon Excerpt by Ashley Makar

    Author: Ashley Makar

    Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Art of Compassionate Mimicry: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut (Book Review)

    Author: Preti Taneja

    Edwin Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India haunts writers with the implications of what can be achieved by what is not said. Damon Galgut ventures into this territory with his[...]

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    Appel à contributions: “Intersectionnalité, classe et praxis (dé)coloniale” (automne 2014)

    Author: The Editors

    Au cours de la dernière décennie, une vague de changements socio-politiques et économiques a déferlé sur la planète entière. Nous observons des conflits géopolitiques à l’échelle régionale de même qu’à[...]

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    Convocatoria: “Interseccionalidad, clases y praxis (des)colonial” (otoño 2014)

    Author: The Editors

    En esta última década, asistimos a una oleada de cambios sociopolíticos y económicos en todo el mundo. Estamos siendo testigos de un conflicto geopolítico a escala local e internacional, acentuado por[...]

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    Chamada de textos: “Interseccionalidade, classe, e a praxis (des)colonial ” (segundo semestre, 2014)

    Author: The Editors

    Ao longo da última década, tem-se observado um série de mudanças sócio-políticas e econômicas no mundo. Estamos presenciando conflitos geo-políticos numa escala local tanto quanto internacional, que vêm se intensificando[...]

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    Call for Papers: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis” (Fall 2014)

    Author: Editors

      The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]

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    Creative

    Accidents Waiting to Happen (fiction)

    Author: Lina Sergie Attar

    I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds                      [...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014)

    Letter from the Editor: Locating “Sites of Home”

    Author: The Editors

    In an era of instantaneous communication and mass movements of people, the location and claiming of “home”—as a political and spatial idea, as well as an affective one—is an increasingly[...]

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

    Mapping the Image of the Jew in Postmodern Arabic Fiction

    Author: Seddik Gohar

    “We aforetime grant to the children of Israel the Book (Torah)  the power of command,  and prophet-hood,  We gave them for sustenance, things good and pure, and we favored them[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured

    Ivy League Foundational Narratives and Academic Disciplinary Hierarchies

    Author: Silvia Spitta

    [H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas.  Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before.  He had gone to grade[...]

    Capoeida-Cuba

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

    Rediscovering lo cubano Through Capoeira in Cuba

    Author: Annie Gibson

    When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]

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

    Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism: An Aboriginal Woman’s Perspective

    Author: Celeste Liddle

    It is difficult to pinpoint a time when I began to associate race politics with gender politics personally, but I do know that it was quite early on in my[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Las fallidas transformaciones al interior del movimiento LGBT en el Perú: una interpretación crítica desde la perspectiva interseccional

    Author: Roland Álvarez Chavez

    El Contexto El haber sido miembro del Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (Mhol), una de las organizaciones gay/lésbica más antigua de Sudamérica[1] debería producir orgullo y satisfacción, pero ¿qué ocurre cuando[...]

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

    Le voyage en tant que dessinateur d’une nouvelle cartographie de la chercheuse.

    Author: Juliana Coelho

    Le rêve de Bali et le rôle des artistes voyageurs Confrontés au questionnement sur leur expérience à Bali, une des îles les plus connues de l’archipel indonésien, plusieurs artistes brésiliens[...]

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

    Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]

    "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[...]

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