Search results for "Post-colonial"
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“Sealfie”, “Phoque you” and “Animism”: The Canadian Inuit Answer to the United-States Anti-sealing Activism
2018
A corpus made by online Canadian newspaper articles, coming from the archives of CBC News, Vice Canada and Huffington Post Canada, and related multimedia contents such us audio interviews, videos and especially links to images and comments shared on Twitter, allows us to reconstruct the debate on the seal hunt that involved Canadian media in 2014. In specific, we propose an interpretation of the pro-sealing discourse by Canadian Inuit and Newfoundlanders as an ironic and incisive answer to the serious United States animal rights activists discourse, explaining how these two different points of view on animals come from a different experience of the environment and a different conception of …
Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara: Transnational Axes of Identity Articulation
2010
Crossing Borders. Concepts and Practices for a New Planetary Dimension
2020
The essay takes into account some categories and practices of colonial relations by considering both domination and subjectification processes and handles the concept of border and the complex dynamics of crossing, mobility, diaspora, and hybridization. The critical analysis of the hierarchical order of the world highlights the ways in which the relations between non-homogeneous elements produce conflict and assimilation practices, but also contaminations and inclusion. By assuming the "colonial" as a precarious concept, the essay stresses the discursive aspects of dominion but also the government, counter-conducts, and resistances, without forecloses the persistence of the epistemological …
Cyber-Activism Against Sexual Violence: #BringBackOurGirls
2020
En els últims anys, les campanyes digitals s’han convertit en eines potents de denúncia i defensa de les violències contra les dones. El seguiment massiu en demostra l’èxit. No obstant això, continuem preguntant-nos sobre els límits i les oportunitats d’aquests instruments, especialment en àrees de conflicte i violència extrema. En aquest article, a través d’una etnografia digital i de l’anàlisi de les dades de l’activisme en la xarxa social Twitter, explorem l’impacte de la campanya #BringBackOurGirls, que es va iniciar per a reclamar l’alliberament de 276 xiquetes segrestades pel grup terrorista nigerià Boko Haram a la ciutat de Chibok. Els resultats de la nostra investigació indiquen que…
Glimmering utopias: 50 years of African film
2010
The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias. Die Geschichte des…
Asimmetrie di genere e di razza in The Grass is Singing di Doris Lessing
2011
Published in the early 1950s, The Grass is Singing (1950), the first work by Doris Lessing (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007), through the deconstruction of certain normative characters traditionally attributed to Englishness, anticipates in its narrative plot some of those founding issues that, in the decades to come, would be explored both by the theoretical-critical writings of Second Wave Feminism and within that complex study field which became known over the Seventies, such as (post-) colonial studies. In the novel, the body of the white colonial woman living in the colonies is depicted as the site of opposite tensions and the traditional homogeneity of the group…
Landscapes of loss and destruction: : Sámi elders’ childhood memories of the second world war
2019
The so-called Lapland War between Finland and Germany at the end of the Second World War led to a mass-scale destruction of Lapland. Both local Finnish residents and the indigenous Sámi groups lost their homes, and their livelihoods suffered in many ways. The narratives of these deeply traumatic experiences have long been neglected and suppressed in Finland and have been studied only recently by academics and acknowledged in public. In this text, we analyze the interviews with four elders of one Sámi village, Vuotso. We explore their memories, from a child’s perspective, scrutinizing the narration as a multilayered affective process that involves sensual and embodied dimensions of memory. ©…
The Real World in a Geographical Imagery: World of Warcraft as Playful Cartography?
2017
World of Warcraft (WoW) is an extremely well-known and wide-spread virtual universe, populated by millions of people living, as of 2014, in 244 different countries, and so coming from different cultures. The game can be considered the final result of a half-century of growing interest in fantasy and virtual worlds; starting from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. In the passage from book to videogame, fantasy has become an immersive experience that captures the player and forces him or her to revise their idea of how the world works. Everyone can read these worlds as simple games or, rather, through multifarious levels that show the connections between reality and virtuality. Our paper aims a…
Postcolonialism and Decoloniality. Resistance and Counter-Conducts in the Current Neoliberalism
2020
Post and de-colonial studies define a huge and heterogeneous field of research, crossing several disciplines and territories. Their interdisciplinary interaction produces a fruitful and open space with vague boundaries. Divergent positions, sometimes even contradictory, different ways of being postcolonial prevent us from considering them as a homogeneous entity. However, the heterogeneity of the positions inside and across postcolonial and decolonial studies cannot be separated from a common basis, a core of concepts that move the analysis from the same starting point: the event of colonization.
Rimpatriati in terra straniera: Ragonese, Capretti, Samaritano e Costantini raccontano la "jaala"
2023
La “cacciata” degli italiani dalla Libia, nel 1970, coinvolse circa 20.000 persone che, nate in Libia, si sono ritrovate improvvisamente strappate dalla quotidianità e catapultati in un'Italia a loro assolutamente estranea e solo idealmente custode della loro cultura originaria. Questo lavoro presenta, a titolo esemplificativo, alcuni testi narrativi neocoloniali e neostorici di Rita Ragonese, Luciana Capretti, Andrea Amedeo Sammartano e Roberto Costantini che raccontano delle angosce, e del profondo senso di spaesamento sofferto da migliaia di italiani rimpatriati con la forza in una patria sconosciuta. The “expulsion” of the Italians from Libya, in 1970, involved about 20,000 people who, …