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    AmandaRogers-Featured

    Creative · Culture · Featured

    Picturing Legitimacy: Snapshots from the Arab World (Photo Series by Amanda Rogers)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    These photographs arose out of a long-standing interest in the modes of authority—religious, economic, political and cultural—in visual culture across the world. This set of images, dated between 2010 and[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

    Author: Kelsey Norman

    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Culture

    “For the Land of All Mongols”: Gada Meiren the Bandit, Hero, and Proto-Revolutionary

    Author: Anne Henochowicz

    On April 4, 1931, Old Gada (Lao Gada 老嘎达) and his guerilla troops were surrounded by the Fengtian (Manchurian) army on three sides and the Shar Mörön River on the[...]

    Creative

    Lettre d’un Citoyen Engagé à L’Empereur du Grand Empire (année 2560 après Jésus-Christ)

    Author: Umar Timol

    Maître, J’ai longuement réfléchi avant de vous écrire. Je sais que vous avez de nombreuses préoccupations et non des moindres. Vous êtes à la tête du plus vaste Empire de[...]

    God Loves Uganda

    Arts · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Righteous Crusades? Imperialism, homophobia and the danger of simplification in God Loves Uganda

    Author: Siobhán McGuirk

    In his new documentary, God Loves Uganda (2013), director Rodger Ross Williams trains a sharply focused lens on the Evangelical missionaries travelling from Missouri to “The Pearl of Africa” to[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Le 1er festival de théâtre populaire des travailleurs immigrés de Suresnes : naissance d’une lutte et d’une esthétique postcoloniales

    Author: Jeanne Le Gallic

    L’étude des courants artistiques postcoloniaux dans le champ de la recherche scientifique se caractérise par une lecture relativement tardive des mouvements et de leurs contextes d’émergence. Si les Postcolonial Studies[...]

    LasKrudas

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Hip hop cubano: entrevista con Las Krudas

    Author: Lara Dotson-Renta, PhD

    Krudas Cubensi (Las Krudas) son un grupo de rap formado en Cuba durante la década de los 90 con tres integrantes: Odaymara Cuesta, Olivia Prendes, y Odalys Cuesta (conocida como[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Global Perspectives

    Desigualdades sociais e saúde no Brasil

    Author: Ionara Magalhães de Souza & Edna Maria de Araújo

    Temos uma sociedade desigual, que se adaptou a esse padrão de desigualdade e dele se serve e a partir dele se reproduz (THEODORO, 2008, p.81). O Brasil é um país[...]

    Gonzales-1

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Poética de un yo mutilado: Identidad y cuerpo en la serie “Ofrendas” de Andrés González.

    Author: Guillermo Severiche

    ¡Oh innoble servidumbre de amar seres humanos, y la más innoble que es amarse a sí mismo! “Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma” Jaime Gil de Biedma El mito de Narciso[...]

    Creative

    Poetry, by Matt Reeck

    Author: Matt Reeck

    Double Analogy 1 Initial Disquietude. How easily people claim their actions are directed by the will of God. Initial Question. Why do people so abuse this phrase? Second Question. What[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    « Gbê est mieux que drap » : la musique urbaine, le nouchi et la révolte des jeunes en Côte d’Ivoire depuis les années 1990

    Author: Germain-Arsène Kadi

    Introduction Parallèlement à la crise sociale et politique qui secoue ce pays d’Afrique de l’ouest depuis deux décennies, la musique urbaine des jeunes a connu un développement prodigieux en Côte[...]

    Creative

    Poetry, by V. Shayne Frederick

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed, was it a red line or an amorphous shadow obscured by distance? Tea with strawberry creme[...]

    Laa No

    Creative

    Egypt in Revolution: Painting Series by May Kaddah

    It has been a tumultuous and transformative two years for Egypt.  Since the revolution began in January 2011, the country has witnessed many political events and social upheavals. Facing a[...]

    Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Points de vue arabes sur le postcolonialisme : Pour en finir avec le choc des civilisations

    Author: Ines Horchani

    Dans notre monde multipolaire, il nous faut, pour espérer avoir une vue d’ensemble, multiplier les points de vue et appréhender la notion de « postcolonialisme »  selon des lieux – géographiques, linguistiques[...]

    Uturo-Catalana1

    Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Lampedusa: “An Island Full of Pain; It Carries the Weight of the World’s Indifference” *

    Author: Tina Catania

    (Photo Source: Arthur Urbano) * Translated from Lampedusa protest sign for Letta’s visit: http://www.giovanilampedusa.it/notizie/681-immigrati-barroso-letta-contestazioni-lampedusa.html Why should we care now? Now that it makes American news? Now that it’s translated into English?[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture

    Littérature postcoloniale et transfert de l’héritage culturel : le dilemme linguistique des écrivains africains

    Author: Kouamé Adou

    Introduction Depuis les premiers contacts entre les Européens et les Africains, l’écriture est devenue un outil de communication indispensable pour le continent africain. En effet, non seulement elle a rendu[...]

    Vivant-Art-Collection

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    Haitian Art in the United States: An Interview with Florcy Morisset

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    Florcy Morisset is the founder and curator of Vivant Art Collection, a Philadelphia-based art gallery dedicated to displaying and promoting Haitian and other Caribbean art in the United States. Haiti,[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Écrire l’hybridité d’Haïti autour de la figure du roi Christophe, dans Le Royaume de ce monde de Carpentier et La Tragédie du roi Christophe de Césaire

    Author: Cyrielle Dodet

    In cultural, literary and postcolonial studies, hybridity, syncretism, creolization, métissage have become common tropes. (…) if everything is hybrid, what does hybridity mean? Hence the next question to come up[...]

    Creative

    Poetry, by Pradine Saint-Fort

    Author: Pradine Saint-Fort

    Untitled Dawn, the sooty film on that cherub’s face Two years, some months, a quantum of days – I guessed—engrossed in his joyful waddle Through the gutter, I follow this[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Toward a Political Economy of the Postcolonial

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Ever since the early 1980s when postcolonial studies was initially introduced to academia, the discipline has not ceased to grow. It has moved from its initial literary venture consisting of[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Histórias & Resistências: Famílias, sexualidades e juventudes no Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia

    Author: Helaine Pereira de Souza & Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti

    Las mujeres no solamente habrán de aportar relevante apoyo (para la construcción social), sino que han de tener un papel protagonista. (Asunción Miura, 2008.) Qual a influência de gravidez(es) que[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Inégalités sexuelles de scolarisation dans les régions Septentrionales du Cameroun : Recherche de facteurs

    Author: Hélène Kamdem Kamgno and Astadjam Yaouba

    Introduction D’après l’organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Enfance, l’éducation constitue un droit fondamental indispensable au développement de l’individu et de la société, et nécessaire au bien-être (UNICEF, 2007). Au-delà de[...]

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