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The story of the global pharmaceutical industry’s complicity in the AIDS related deaths of millions of Africans, Asians and Latin Americans is a story that, like politics and religion, gets[...]
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An earlier, abbreviated version of this piece appeared previously on Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/when-revolution-comes-israel-2013121112851708923.html The Hunger Games franchise has been hailed for spreading a new hopeful message of revolution to millennials[...]
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Photo Credit: © Mohamad Ojjeh, 2013 (Syria) Last December, we visited the Turkish town of Reyhanli, close to the Syrian border, to volunteer at a local Syrian school for refugee[...]
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(Articulo en español) Oscar López Rivera is a freedom fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico. He has the unenviable distinction of being the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in[...]
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Photo Credit: © Lara Dotson-Renta, 2013 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (Article in English) Oscar López Rivera es un luchador por la independencia de Puerto Rico. Tiene la distinción nada envidiable[...]
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[L]’idée même de classer les écrivains par langue est déjà pour moi une idée assez provinciale. Je ne suis pas un écrivain de langue française, ni francophone, je suis un[...]
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Issues of immigration, refugees, and asylum continue to blur the definition of national borders and call for a renewed debate on human rights. The Postcolonialist supports continued conversations on such[...]
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Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte Australian woman who lives in Melbourne. She is the current National Indigenous Organiser for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She has previously worked in[...]
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There is an overwhelming sense of pride that comes with being South African. Wherever I go in the world, the shadow cast by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela envelops me and my[...]
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What if we declared ourselves perpetual refugees in solidarity with all refugees needing safe human harbor from violence and domination and injustice and inequality? …We are all refugees horribly displaced[...]
Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives
Introduction “Religion can contribute to a post-patriarchal world.” [1] The silence around feminism and religion is a profound one, and its roots lie in the metanarrative of secularising[2] that influences[...]
Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Global Perspectives
Introdução A última década, situada em um contexto internacional favorável, de protagonismo do capital financeiro, de alta demanda por recursos naturais e commodities agrícolas (das quais o país é grande[...]
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Em ensaio sobre os encontros e desencontros da vida cotidiana, Margaret Chillemi observa que os encontros afetuosos são como devires carregados de potências que nos tornam mais fortes e resistentes[...]
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“Civil War doesn’t start when countrymen raise their weapons against each other. It starts when they lose their humanity,” commented Egypt’s notorious political satirist Bassem Youssef, following the military dispersal[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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[...]
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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?[...]
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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[...]
