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The Lord’s Resistance Army and the arms that brought the Lord : amplifying polyphonic silences in northern Uganda
2019
This article develops the notion of polyphonic silence as a means for thinking through the ethical and political ramifications of ethnographically encountering and writing about silenced violent pasts. To do so, it analyses and contrasts the silence surrounding two periods of extreme violence in northern Uganda: 1) the northern Ugandan war (1986–2006), which is contemporarily often shrouded by silence, and 2) the early decades of colonial and missionary expansion, which the Catholic church silences in its commemoration of the death of two Acholi catechists in 1918. Employing the notion of polyphony, the article describes how neither of these silences is a mere absence of narration. Instead,…
Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality
2022
This multidisciplinary volume reflects the shifting experiences and framings of Finnishness and its relation to race and coloniality. The authors centre their investigations on whiteness and unravel the cultural myth of a normative Finnish (white) ethnicity. Rather than presenting a unified definition for whiteness, the book gives space to the different understandings and analyses of its authors. This collection of case-studies illuminates how Indigenous and ethnic minorities have participated in defining notions of Finnishness, how historical and recent processes of migration have challenged the traditional conceptualisations of the nation-state and its population, and how imperial relatio…
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Language(s) of African Literature
2016
One of the most fundamental problems newly emerged national literatures and writers in Africa have had to face in the post-colonial era has been to decide in which language to write in order to appeal to both the native readers in their recently independent countries and to large (international) publishing houses that would foster the sales of their books overseas. An unequivocal decision was difficult to make since, on the one hand, in majority, they wanted to be faithful to family vernacular traditions but, on the other, they wished to disseminate their message to a broader audience in the Western world. This paper, then, attempts to uncover the ideas contained in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Deco…
Italian approaches to self-determination: theory and practice
2015
L'abolitionnisme de Victor Schoelcher, un humanisme mâtiné de colonialisme et de moralisme
1999
Although this title might be somewhat provocative, there is no intent to be anti-schoelcherist. The aim is not to diminish Victor Schoelcher's considerable achievements, but to fight against the unanimous preconceptions that have transformed this man into a myth. By studying the legal and political consequences of his proposals and his engagements, we have underlined not only the extent and complexity of his work for the Republic - that has been little known up to now, though Schoelcher ought to be considered to be one of the fathers of the Republic - but his contradictions too. Schoelcher was so sure of the virtues of the republican values of the mother country, that his fight, albeit huma…
La Justicia del Corazón-O'tan. Armonía y derechos indígenas desde la sabiduría tseltal en Chiapas. Descolonizando los derechos humanos, tejiendo inte…
2016
La interculturalidad es uno de los grandes retos del siglo XXI y pone en crisis el paradigma eurocéntrico y hegemónico de los derechos humanos, basado en la centralidad del Estado y en el carácter jurídico-normativo de los mismos. La teoría crítica de derechos humanos, desarrollada por Joaquín Herrera y David Sánchez (entre otros) complejiza los derechos humanos para entenderlos como procesos sociales, normativos e institucionales encaminados a defender la vida digna de ser vivida. La presente tesis a través de una metodología de colabor con el Centro de Derechos Indígenas de Chilón (Chiapas) intenta conocer cómo se reapropian los derechos humanos desde un contexto socio-político, cultural …
La costruzione del documento fotografico nella pratica etnografica. Il ritratto di tipi: verso un'analisi semiotica.
2021
Isole di memoria. Eritrei, meticci, italiani
2007
Geografie letterarie senza frontiere
2016
L’esperienza della ‘de-localizzazione’ trova nella scrittura un fecondo luogo di espressione delle istanze più variegate del complesso problema dell’‘incontro con l’altro’, che è d’obbligo oggi indagare nella prospettiva di trovare una dimensione ‘terza’, intersoggettiva, in cui si ingenera la necessità – non sempre soddisfatta – della rinuncia alla esclusiva proiezione del sé. La Letteratura dell’erranza è, allora, il luogo privilegiato per la rielaborazione e la ricostruzione, a partire proprio dalla distanza, di quella memoria storica che, se letta in chiave di discorso plurale, è capace di restituire. Consapevoli della vastità e della estrema variegatura dei temi e dei problemi storico-…
Compte rendu de : Owen White, The blood of the colony. Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria, Cambridge Massachusetts, London, Harvard Univers…
2021
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