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    Global Perspectives

    "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) · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Le voyage en tant que dessinateur d’une nouvelle cartographie de la chercheuse.

    Author: Juliana Coelho

    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[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    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[...]

    "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[...]

    "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[...]

    Woo-Featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Global Perspectives

    The Centipedes: Liminal Narratives Traveling through Others’ Bodies

    Author: Woo Yun Jin & Mathew Bumbalough

    The ‘reflexive turn’ in anthropology, marked by the publication of Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus) in 1986, raised fundamental issues of representation, epistemological authority, and Eurocentric colonialism in anthropological texts.[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea

    Author: Marcus Brasileiro

    Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].

    Author: Indrani Mukherjee

    While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]

    "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[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Weird World Cup in the Land where Soccer is Everything

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Brazilian rapper Emicida, one of the most creative and perceptive pop artists in recent years, creates compelling drama in not only the content of what he says but also the[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Tem algo esquisito nesta Copa do Mundo, mas talvez não o que você pensa

    Author: Derek Pardue

    O rapper brasileiro Emicida, um dos artistas mais criativos e perceptivos nos últimos tempos, cria drama não somente nas suas letras mas também na dinâmica da sua voz. Na música[...]

    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[...]

    Terraferma-Featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

    Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

    Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

    Indian-Elections-featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    The Spectacle of Indian Elections and the West

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

    DFace-2-featured

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Revitalizing Power of Urban Art: The Case of Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by the author.   Santurce is an area that boasts a varied cultural and artistic scene. Formerly known[...]

    Haram-featured

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    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]

    Igbo school girls

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    Language as a Narrative of Post-Contact Dynamics in Nigeria

    Author: Chidi Ugwu

    C. Wright Mills’ sociological imagination draws attention to the fact that a number of social connections inform the apparently personal life of the individual. Today, even for those who are[...]

    Brasileiros(2)

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    “Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation”

    Author: Sarah Lempp

    To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place[...]

    Neighbours

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    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

    Public-Humanities

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    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

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