"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) · 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 · 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 · 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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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: 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[...]
The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives
The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives
i. En una actividad de presentación de un proyecto comunitario en el municipio costero de Loíza para “dar voz” a los jóvenes de comunidades marginadas mediante talleres de escritura creativa,[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured
Introducción I walk over the broken eggshells on the corner of E and 13 and wonder what paths Eleguá opened today? Cuba is the daughter of Ochún. Be careful because[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives
1. Introdução Por mais poderosos, articulados e sofisticados que sejam os aparatos filosóficos, epistemológicos, institucionais e teórico-ideológicos em favor do capitalismo e do imperialismo, os sujeitos sociais e coletividades oprimidas[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Featured · Global Perspectives
Nearly every block of the former sleepy colonial town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, Mexico now hosts a “Travel Agency”, which advertises trips to Tecate, Baja California, Altar, Sonora, and Tijuana,[...]
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Whenever I am asked about the Brazilian elections, people expect me to say something about the presidential run. It is the only election to which I am entitled to participate[...]
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Sempre que me perguntam sobre as eleições no Brasil, as pessoas esperam comentários sobre a disputa presidencial. É a única eleição em que posso participar como brasileiro vivendo no exterior.[...]
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Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]
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Faltando dias para a eleição presidencial, no dia 5 de outubro, com tantos temas em jogo (veja aqui um resumo), a novela política e ideológica do Brasil segue em suspenso.[...]
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Photo Credit: Derek Pardue With only a few days left before Brazil’s presidential election on October 5th, and so many important social issues under scrutiny (see this review, for example),[...]
The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured
[H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas. Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before. He had gone to grade[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Featured
When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives
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) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives
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
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[...]
