Building upon our previous work, The Postcolonialist seeks new submissions for its next issue, “Postcolonial Apertures: Horizons of (De)Coloniality.” Recent years have seen critical changes occur across postcolonial regions, forcing[...]
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The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives
Our latest call for papers, “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom” sought to explore and question the notions of speech and open-ended discourse as “free,” and to[...]
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Che Guevara once said that revolutions are driven by a deep sense of love.[1] I smile at these words, for I have witnessed such love of humanity in the pedagogical[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives
Apesar dos avanços no combate à desigualdade de gênero no mundo e da presença das mulheres em todos os segmentos da sociedade, as conquistas ainda são lentas e o mito[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
Cet article se propose d’interroger le tournant postcolonial opéré par le rap français dans les années 2000 en s’intéressant à la fois à l’émergence d’une critique postcoloniale dans cette musique[...]
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“…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives
En octubre del 2001, publicamos un estudio lexicográfico sobre la penetración del español americano en la lengua italiana contemporánea. En el léxico estudiado, se documenta la “crónica” de los últimos[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Uncategorized
As if it is the same thing As milk from her breasts. As if it is something which flows secretly Between us like a memory Growing deeper as it vanishes.[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives
A global ‘War on Terror’ is being waged against women’s rights.[1] A rancid war waged on a historically notorious terrain of gendered, asymmetrical power relations. A battle of bugle calls[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
On peut lire du désespoir dans la question – fameuse, rituelle, depuis longtemps routinisée – que pose Antoine Compagnon dans sa conférence inaugurale au Collège de France : Pourquoi parler –[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured
¿Qué ocurre cuando una novela da que hablar antes de su publicación? ¿Qué ocurre cuando se la conoce sólo por uno de los temas que aborda? Sin duda, la última[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Featured · Magazine
A film about renowned social photographer Sebastião Salgado, created by master documentarian Wim Wenders, makes sense from the outset. The two figures share a history of political commentary, each crafting[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Magazine
Liberté d’expression et humour font l’objet d’une quête permanente de leurs limites. C’est un truisme de rappeler que la liberté n’est pas l’espace ouvert à tous les possibles contenus dans[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured
Si l’on s’en tient à l’étymologie, le mot expression – dérivé du latin tardif expressio « action de faire sortir en pressant », du verbe exprimere (de ex et premere)[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
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[...]
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Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]
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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[...]
“Fanon was angry. His readers should still be angry too. Angry that the wretched of the earth are still with us. Anger does not in itself produce political programs for[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
Unlike groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (also known as Daesh), Boko Haram and other insurgent groups in sub-Saharan Africa are less frequently,[...]
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Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani is often compared to William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, and occasionally, to Arab authors such as Yahya Haqqi, all bound together as allegorists. The Palestinian novella, Men[...]
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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[...]
