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