Kolonialismus

In den ruinierten Landschaften einer von Kolonisierung geprägten Welt erscheint Sprache als Vehikel ökonomischer Aneignung und flüchtiger Begegnungen. Anne Storch und Ingo H. Warnke legen mit ihrem wissenschaftlichen Essay ein Tagebuch, eine Feldstudiendokumentation und einen Dialog über ihre Reise von Sylt über Kairo nach Sansibar vor - und hinterfragen dabei den linguistischen Blick ihrer Erfahrungen. Dabei gerät ihr Schreiben ins Stocken und sucht Wege zum Sprechen in der neokolonialen Welt. In Verbindung mit einer kritischen Sichtung postkolonialer Arbeiten zielt das Buch auf die Austreibung aus den Grenzen der Sprachlosigkeit.

Seit 40 Jahren herrscht in Afghanistan Krieg. Bisher war die Frage der Machtverteilung, also die Definition der Hoheitsgebiete der einzelnen Elitefraktionen, nicht klar zu erkennen. Frangis Dadfar Spanta untersucht die unterschiedlichen Konfliktdynamiken, um dann Lösungsschritte für einen Friedenbildungsprozess vorzuschlagen. Anhand der unterschiedlichen Eliten aus Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft, Medien, Bildung und Religion zeichnet sie die Patronage-Klientel-Netzwerke nach. Eine Besonderheit der Studie bilden Interviews mit Ashraf Ghani, Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Atta Noor sowie mit zwei Taliban-Repräsentanten. Die Untersuchung ist aufgrund ihrer theoretischen und methodischen Herangehensweise sowohl für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftler_innen als auch für Anthropolog_innen lesenswert.

Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.

Southern Rhodesia was a colony of the British Empire. In 1980, it gained independence as modern-day Zimbabwe, after a long liberation struggle, and a bitter guerrilla war. Guerrilla Girl tells the story of Shupai, and her journey to liberation. Follow her from impoverished childhood in a convent school in rural Rhodesia; to her experiences of discrimination and injustice as a young woman in the capital Salisbury; her radical awakening amongst youth political groups; to her transformation into a highly trained freedom fighter. The women of Zimbabwe had to fight for liberation on two fronts: from the domination of the common colonialist enemy, and from the male chauvinism of their countrymen. Most African men in Zimbabwe found it hard to accept women as fighters, let alone as armed guerrillas. Women had a hard time asserting themselves as capable and trusted liberators, always in danger of being put down by their male counterparts. Whilst the names of the characters are fictitious, the majority of events and places are true.

Throughout its history, the American West symbolized a place of hope and new beginnings, where anything was possible, especially for men. However, the history written until the 1970s and 1980s excluded women. Sigrid Schönfelder illustrates how the American West served as a catalytic gold mine for many transformations for women. It draws on the life narratives of three healthcare providers whose devotion within the social reform movements of the long nineteenth century contributed significantly to shaping healthcare policies. Their stories show how women contributed to place-making in the West and served as role models for other women to enter the field of medicine.

Ignorancia y libertad no riman. Personas, organizaciones y países albergan claroscuros. Lo sensato es conocerlos, asumirlos y gestionarlos con proporción. Paradigma de tal desafío es la Leyenda Negra: estereotipos que -conscientemente o no, del siglo XVI a hoy- transmiten una imagen falsa de la realidad histórica de España al magnificar miserias y silenciar grandezas. Una verdad exagerada se aproxima a una mentira.Ante un fenómeno tan poliédrico y controvertido, Enrique Sueiro armoniza sutileza y matiz con verdades sin complejos y mentiras al desnudo. Huye de la visceralidad de fuentes que van de la extrema defensa al radical ataque. Consciente de que lo veraz no es la equidistancia entre dos falsedades, estas páginas inyectan apertura mental para: Adaptar la percepción a la realidad, no al revésDesvelar la mentira de la verdad exageradaCombatir la mentira de la verdad omitidaVerificar datos, ofrecer contexto y embridar emocionesConocer claves del comportamiento humanoSaber comunicar reputaciónPonderar lo anecdótico y lo sintomáticoLos hechos tardan en confirmarse, pero las emociones afloran ipso facto. Tan urgente como importante es verificar si la retórica coincide con la realidad.

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Vol. 2 of Free People from Mental Slavery. God bestowed him with blessings for serving the universe with his emancipated mind. This book is based on experience to make the world a better place. Paseka S. Mazibuko is from Tshiame in Harrismith (Free State Province, South Africa).

Award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook provides the complete text of all three of America's constitutions, along with vital supplemental documents, in this unique handbook focusing on our constitutional history.

A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonisation, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great revolution in Haiti, movements towards political independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the diaspora of Caribbean people. In this second edition, Higman covers the political, social, and environmental developments of the last decade, offering sections on insular politics, Cuban communism, earthquakes, hurricanes, climate change, resource ecologies, epidemics, identity and reparations. Written in a lively and accessible style, and current with the most recent research, the book provides a compelling narrative of Caribbean history essential for students and visitors.

Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African Ideal draws on experiences in various decades on the ebbs and flows of African continental integration as a common African continental agenda. It attempts to contribute towards the grasp of critical theoretical position on international political economy and its application on the African socio-political, economic and ideological condition. This work critically engages with the works of Nkrumah, a leading African scholar on the African continental political unity in the political, economic and ideological fields of the struggle to achieve the continental socio-political, economic and ideological transformation in the strategic interests of Africa in its continental and international relations. As a means of demonstrating invaluable knowledge produced by Nkrumah for a critical engagement in the efforts to achieve African continental integration and transformation, this work provides a critical analysis of his position on the African continental integration and how the decisive majority of heads of state and government from the Organisation of African Unity to the African Union (AU) have waged the struggle against it.

The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada’s Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools.Stitching together memories of arrival at, day-to-day life within, and departure from the school with a socio-historical reconstruction of the school and its position in both Winnipeg and the larger residential school system, Did You See Us? offers a glimpse of Assiniboia that is not available in the archival records. It connects readers with a specific residential school and illustrates that residential schools were often complex spaces where forced assimilation and Indigenous resilience co-existed.These recollections of Assiniboia at times diverge, but together exhibit Survivor resilience and the strength of the relationships that bond them to this day. The volume captures the troubled history of residential schools. At the same time, it invites the reader to join in a reunion of sorts, entered into through memories and images of students, staff, and neighbours. It is a gathering of diverse knowledges juxtaposed to communicate the complexity of the residential school experience.

Mit der Unabhängigkeit Algeriens im Jahr 1962 verließen nicht nur eine Million europäische Siedler das Land in Richtung Frankreich, sondern auch etwa 85 000 'harkis': Muslime, die während des Krieges insbesondere als Hilfssoldaten die französische Armee unterstützt hatten. Kamen die 'harkis' als 'Verräter an der algerischen Nation', als 'gleichberechtigte französische Staatsbürger' und somit als Repatriierte, oder waren sie als Flüchtlinge anzusehen? Anna Laiß analysiert die von unterschiedlichen Fremdbildern geprägten Kontroversen sowie die damit verbundene schwierige Suche der 'harkis' und deren Nachkommen nach ihrem Platz in der Französischen Republik. Sie zeigt das Spannungsfeld zwischen universalistischem Ideal und kolonialen Handlungs- und Denkweisen auf, die sich in dem weit über die Dekolonisation hinausreichenden Untersuchungszeitraum in den Debatten um Integration und koloniale Erinnerungen wiederfinden.

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical frame of production and circulation of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it shaped and influenced Indian subjectivity.

This eye-opening book invites careful reflection on how we should respond to colonial and post-colonial wrongs from the perspective of international law, in particular international criminal law. In addition to a dozen case studies, the book offers analyses based on legal concepts such as subjugation, debellatio, continuing crime, and transfer of civilians, as well as on the discourses of Third World Approaches to International Law and transitional justice. It contains a number of practical suggestions for what can be done to enhance a sense of access to international law in connection with colonial wrongs. The book has eighteen chapters organised in five parts, addressing the context of the discussion on colonial wrongs and access to international law, legal notions, Colonial Burma, other former colonial territories, and indigenous populations. You find contributions by Morten Bergsmo, Joshua Castellino, Kevin Crow, Christophe Deprez, Shannon Fyfe, Gregory S. Gordon, Brigid Inder OBE, Wolfgang Kaleck, Asad Kiyani, Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Jacques P. Leider, LING Yan, Christophe Marchand, Hugo van der Merwe, Ryan Mitchell, Annah Moyo, Mutoy Mubiala, Matthias Neuner, Narinder Singh, Gunnar Ekeløve-Slydal, Derek Tonkin, Crépine Uwashema and YANG Ken. In their foreword, the co-editors explain - with reference to lingering consequences of the slave-based economy - why the book is dedicated to "those who will transmute the legacies of colonial wrongs and slavery into a wider, world-embracing solidarity and unity". The book calls for renewed leadership in this area.