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    Civil Discourse

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Writing Rites of Reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean Remembering

    Author: Melanie Manuel-Webb

    In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott noted that a “sense of elegy, of loss, even of degenerative mimicry” defines our understanding of the sweep of Caribbean and arguably post-plantation[...]

    Haiti-Slaves

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    From Port-au-Prince to Baltimore, with Love

    Author: Lesley Curtis

    A cartoon joking about the ease with which Haitians gained their freedom from French rule bounced around Facebook this week, as protests continued in Baltimore following the death of Freddie[...]

    Controversial statue. Image credit: UCT Rhodes must Fall

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    “Rhodes Must Fall” – Decolonisation Symbolism – What is happening at UCT, South Africa?

    Author: Brian Kamanzi

    Photo credit: UCT Rhodes Must Fall In this moment it appears increasingly clear that the growing levels of inequality and the tensions in national politics in the South African context[...]

    Charlie-Hebdo-featured

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    « Je suis Charlie » ? Laïcité, islam et guerre de l’erreur

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Quelle réponse, s’inscrivant dans une perspective postcoloniale, apporter aux attentats terroristes qui ont eu lieu à l’encontre du journal satirique français Charlie Hebdo, et ont conduit au massacre brutal de[...]

    reaja-full

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Summary Execution: A Recent Episode of Police Violence Against Young, Black Males in Bahia, Brazil

    Author: Cidinha da Silva

    Photo credit: Morgana Damásio. In protest in 2014 against the genocide of the Black population in the city of Salvador, Bahia promoted by the courageous and fearless campaign REAJA OU[...]

    Charlie-Hebdo-featured

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Defending Charlie Hebdo? Secularism, Islam and the War on Error

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Photo Credit What postcolonial response can be made of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which led to the brutal massacre of most its editorial board? On[...]

    Aguafiestas-image-featured

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Aguafiestas: Marginalidad y Protesta en Puerto Rico

    Author: Guillermo Rebollo Gil

    i. En una actividad de presentación de un proyecto comunitario en el municipio costero de Loíza para “dar voz” a los jóvenes de comunidades marginadas mediante talleres de escritura creativa,[...]

    Monumento TupacKatari(featured)

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Colonialidades em xeque – Lições a partir da experiência do movimento katarista da Bolívia

    Author: Maurício Hashizume

    1. Introdução Por mais poderosos, articulados e sofisticados que sejam os aparatos filosóficos, epistemológicos, institucionais e teórico-ideológicos em favor  do capitalismo e do imperialismo, os sujeitos sociais e coletividades oprimidas[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Releases

    Au Carrefour du didactisme brechtien et de la résistance post-coloniale : Protestants (2004) de Robert Welch

    Author: Virginie Privas Bréauté

    La pièce monologique apparaît en Irlande et en Irlande du Nord dans les années 1980, une vingtaine d’années après que Samuel Beckett s’y est intéressé. Pourtant, si, sur l’île, elle[...]

    Elections-Brazil.jpg

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Magazine

    Beyond the Elections: Politics in Brazil

    Author: Paulo Moreira

    Whenever I am asked about the Brazilian elections, people expect me to say something about the presidential run. It is the only election to which I am entitled to participate[...]

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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.[...]

    Bilingualstopsign-2

    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[...]

    cingapura

    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.[...]

    moradia_centro2

    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),[...]

    Welcome_refugees

    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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    "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[...]

    "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[...]

    Celeste-Liddle-2

    "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) · 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 · 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[...]

    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[...]

    "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[...]

    Egypt-Wall-1

    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[...]

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