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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.[...]
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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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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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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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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),[...]
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* 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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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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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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds [...]
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
“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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[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[...]
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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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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[...]
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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[...]
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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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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[...]
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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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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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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
‘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[...]
