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Performing Pan American Airways through coloniality : an ANTi-History approach to narratives and business history
2018
This paper centers on the role of narratives in business history from an ANTi-History perspective. We focus on the networked processes through which narratives are told of, for, and by multi-national companies embed the development of ‘new imperialism’ and coloniality. We set out to achieve this through a discussion and application of ANTi-History to a study of Pan American Airways and particularly its performance as a maturing multi-national company and its relationship to postcoloniality. In the process, we also hope to contribute to recent calls in business history for more explicit accounts of the methods used in the development of historical accounts. We are concerned to encourage ‘a n…
Another Baltic Postcolonialism: Young Latvians, Baltic Germans, and the emergence of Latvian National Movement
2014
This article looks at the emergence of Latvian nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century from the intercultural perspective of postcolonial theory. The writings of early Young Latvians, and the reaction to them from the dominant Baltic German elite, show that the emergence of a modern Latvian nationalism is to a large extent due to postcolonial mimicry, as described by Homi Bhabha. Attempts to imitate German cultural models and to develop a Latvian high culture lead to hostile reactions from the German side, which, in their turn, lead to increasing consolidation of Latvian nationalism. Since the Baltic German elite increasingly legitimized its rule in terms of cultural superiority, the Youn…
‘World-class’ fantasies : A neocolonial analysis of international branch campuses
2018
In this article, we build on postcolonial studies and discourse analytical research exploring how the ‘world-class’ discourse as an ideology and a fantasy structures neocolonial relations in international branch campuses. We empirically examine how international branch campuses reproduce the fantasy of being so-called world-class operators and how the onsite faculty members identify with or resist this world-class fantasy through mimicry. Our research material originates from fieldwork conducted in business-school international branch campuses operating in the United Arab Emirates. Our findings show the ambivalent nature of mimicry towards the world-class fantasy to include both compliance …
Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings
2010
In the contemporary world, the figure of the migrant, moving across spaces, cultures and languages, has acquired unprecedented centrality. Migrants have transformed the ways of representing, and narrating, the transnational world in which they live, responding in new fashions to one of the oldest impulses of men and women of every place and time: the impulse to tell stories. By engaging with notions of diaspora, postcoloniality, nomadism, translation, exile and migration, the study moves across the Anglophone and Italophone spectra offering a compelling definition of migrant literature at the turn of the millennium. Chapters on Cristina Garcia, Nuruddin Farah, Caryl Phillips and Ubax Cristi…
Historic constructions of the early multinational: on power, politics and culture in Pan Am narratives
2018
This paper examines how Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) - an early incarnation of a multinational enterprise (MNE) - developed its image as an international company. In particular, we examine how the company developed and managed potentially conflicting narratives, including the modernising US company and the airline of 'the Americas' (specifically South America); the carrier of US national interests and the politically neutral actor serving to unify cultures; the purveyor of exotic experiences and the pioneer of modernism. Through a focus on organisational narratives, we reveal the powerful influence of such story telling (through design and serendipity) on images of the peoples and co…
"Rappresentazioni del corpo del colonizzato, riletture postcoloniali a confronto", Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn (eds.), Body Trade, New York, Rou…
2003
Un'indagine interdisciplinare sulle raffigurazioni del corpo del colonizzato e del prigioniero, nel contesto del colonialismo europeo, in Australia e nel Pacifico, corre sul filo di questa raccolta di saggi, opera di autori di varie nazionalità e diversa formazione. I temi centrali di Body Trade, la mercificazione del corpo dell'Altro e le rappresentazioni del colonizzato, sono dibattuti con l'intento di riesaminare i miti della civiltà occidentale e del cannibalismo, attraverso l'analisi di un vasto repertorio di pratiche coloniali, prese a soggetto di romanzi, riviste, fotografie e film, tutte opere pubblicate lungo un arco temporale che si snoda dal Settecento ai giorni nostri.
The Foreign Female Body as a Symbolic Resource in Marina Warner's "Queen of Sheba"
2008
Marina Warner contaminates different versions of the Queen of Sheba “story” in which the Queen is specifically “a queen of the South” and in which her otherness is impressed on her dark/black body. Warner juxtaposes various narratives with different orders of corporeal readings that can be visibly condensed in the image of the queen as she crosses a (Mediterranean) border/watercourse raising her dress and showing her legs. This image dominates the exotic versions that have been reworked by Warner even within colonial models. Warner shows how the queen’s body becomes a symbolic resource for an ideological conflict that changes perspectives according to the context but that is always fought o…
Les topologies imaginaires de Lauren Beukes dans Moxyland (2008) et The Shining Girls (2013)
2019
International audience; This article examines two novels published by South African writer Lauren Beukes. More specifically, it explores the way in which the two cities in which the novels are set blur a number of boundaries, thus creating paradoxical, and intermedial, topologies.
Fogli di anglistica, I (1-2 n.s.), 2007, pp. 210
2008
Il primo numero della nuova serie della rivista specialistica Fogli di anglistica, qui recensito, è principalmente dedicato alla letteratura di viaggio. La seconda delle due sezioni in cui il volume è suddiviso è dedicata poi, in particolare, al viaggio in Sicilia.
RECENSIONE A R. Guha, G.C. Spivak, (introduzione di E.W. Said), Subaltern Studies. Modernità e (post)colonialismo, presentazione di S. Mezzadra, Ombr…
2005
I Subaltern Studies sono una corrente di studi prevalentemente storici, sorta in India nei primi anni ‘80 fa e che ha avuto una straordinaria diffusione in numerose parti del mondo. Grazie alla cura di Sandro Mezzadra, è ora possibile consultare in italiano alcuni dei saggi, ormai classici, prodotti da tale esperienza di ricerca. Come spiega Said, nella sua introduzione, i subaletrn studies muovono dalla constatazione che la storia indiana sia stata scritta da un punto di vista colonialista ed elitario, sebbene gli attori principali siano stati i ceti subalterni. Da ciò proviene la necessità di una nuova narrazione del passato che offra lo spazio e l'importanza dovuta agli esclusi dalla sto…