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Colonial Impotence

Author : Benoît Henriet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110652730
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Impotence written by Benoît Henriet and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies.

Colonial Impotence

Author : Benoît Henriet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110649098
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonial Impotence by : Benoît Henriet

Download or read book Colonial Impotence written by Benoît Henriet and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies.

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Author : Jessica Hinchy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849255X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India written by Jessica Hinchy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.

Imperial Intoxication

Author : Gerard Sasges
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824866916
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Intoxication written by Gerard Sasges and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state’s deeply unpopular alcohol monopoly required extensive systems of surveillance and interdiction and the creation of an unwieldy bureaucracy that consumed much of the revenue it was supposed to collect. Yet despite its heavy economic and political costs, this unproductive policy endured for more than four decades, leaving a lasting mark on Indochinese society, economy, and politics. The alcohol monopoly in Indochina was part of larger economic and political processes unfolding across the globe. New research on fermentation and improved still design drove the capitalization and concentration of the distilling industry worldwide, while modernizing states with increasing capacities to define, tax, and police engaged in a never-ending search for revenue. Indochina’s alcohol regime thus arose from the same convergence of industrial potential and state power that produced everything from Russian vodka to blended Scotch whisky. Yet with rice liquor part of everyday life for millions of Indochinese, young and old, men and women, villagers and city-folk alike, in Indochina these global developments would be indelibly shaped by the colony’s particular geographies, histories, and people. Imperial Intoxication provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. It illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule. It highlights the role Indochinese played in shaping the monopoly, whether as reformers or factory workers, illegal distillers or the agents sent to arrest them. And it links these long-ago stories to global processes that continue to play out today.

Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory

Author : Reena Dube
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230509665
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory written by Reena Dube and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.

From Impotence to Authority

Author : Mark A. Burkholder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From Impotence to Authority written by Mark A. Burkholder and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Naipaul's Strangers

Author : Dagmar Barnouw
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215796
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Naipaul's Strangers written by Dagmar Barnouw and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his reporting on Islamic true believers to his descriptions of the postcolonial world, V. S. Naipaul has been a controversial figure in contemporary letters. Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories (Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival, and A Way in the World) that best exhibit a growing awareness of the complexities of cultural difference--and the incompleteness and uncertainty of understanding "strangers." In this book, Dagmar Barnouw explores the sophisticated strategies and experimentations that Naipaul employs in his cultural critique and in his enterprise of learning about and documenting the enduring strangeness of this world.

Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature

Author : Birgit Neumann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000060500
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature written by Birgit Neumann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual practices in Anglophone literatures addresses the power of images, vision and visual aesthetics to regulate cultural visibility and modes of identification in an unevenly structured world. The representation of visual practices in the imaginative realm of fiction opens up a zone in which established orders of the sayable and visible may be revised and transformed. In 12 chapters, the book examines narrative fiction by writers such as Michael Ondaatje, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, David Dabydeen and NoViolet Bulawayo, who employ word-image relations to explore the historically fraught links between visual practices and the experience of modernity in a transcultural context. Against this conceptual background, the examination of verbal-visual relations will illustrate how Anglophone fiction models alternative modes of re-presentation that reflect critically on hegemonic visual regimes and reach out for new, more pluralized forms of exchange.

Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies

Author : Seodial Frank Hubert Deena
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820462226
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies by : Seodial Frank Hubert Deena

Download or read book Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies written by Seodial Frank Hubert Deena and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies is a pioneer in advancing the difficult but necessary argument of situating and centering Caribbean literature and criticism at the foundation of multicultural and postcolonial studies through an interdisciplinary, international, and intercultural manner, made possible by the author's unique multicultural and transnational interest and experience. Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcoloniai Studies argues that Caribbean criticism - shaped by the region's socio-economic, political, and historical phenomenahas a more complex and significant marriage with postcolonial and multicultural studies than acknowledged by the international community. Caribbean scholars should not only seek to legitimize and publicize the marriage and its depth, but also expand the borders of its scholarship and protest its "disneyfication" and prostitution."--BOOK JACKET.

Ricanness

Author : Sandra Ruiz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479825689
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Ricanness written by Sandra Ruiz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism In 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance begins with Lebrón’s vanguard act, distilling the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and revolutionary performance under colonial time. Ruiz argues that Ricanness—a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of time—uncovers what’s at stake politically for the often unwanted, anticolonial, racialized and sexualized enduring body. Moving among theatre, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry, and durational performance art, Ricanness stages scenes in which the philosophical, social, and psychic come together at the site of aesthetics, against the colonization of time. Analyzing the work of artists and revolutionaries like ADÁL, Lebrón, Papo Colo, Pedro Pietri, and Ryan Rivera, Ricanness imagines a Rican future through the time travel extended in their aesthetic interventions, illustrating how they have reformulated time itself through nonlinear aesthetic practices.

Libya: The Struggle for Survival

Author : G L Simons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349226335
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Libya: The Struggle for Survival written by G L Simons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

Author : Jeffry A. Frieden
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635775
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century written by Jeffry A. Frieden and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book Review In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them. Jeffry A. Frieden's insightful history explores the golden age of globalization during the early years of the century, its swift collapse in the crises of 1914-45, the divisions of the Cold War world, and the turn again toward global integration at the end of the century. His history is full of character and event, as entertaining as it is enlightening.

Ghost Colonies

Author : Ed Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741964684
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Colonies written by Ed Wright and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ghost Colonies' brings to light the fascinating but rarely told stories of history's lost colonies. Unlike many of the colonial 'success stories' from lands like America, Australia, Canada & South Africa, the ghost colonies were lands that failed entirely to live up to their promise.

Living in the Stone Age

Author : Danilyn Rutherford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022657038X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Living in the Stone Age written by Danilyn Rutherford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as “living, as it were, in the Stone Age.” For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people “primitive,” but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and for decades has been used to justify denying their basic rights. Why has this fantasy held such a tight grip on the imagination of journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large? Living in the Stone Age answers this question by following the adventures of officials sent to the New Guinea highlands in the 1930s to establish a foothold for Dutch colonialism. These officials became deeply dependent on the good graces of their would-be Papuan subjects, who were their hosts, guides, and, in some cases, friends. Danilyn Rutherford shows how, to preserve their sense of racial superiority, these officials imagined that they were traveling in the Stone Age—a parallel reality where their own impotence was a reasonable response to otherworldly conditions rather than a sign of ignorance or weakness. Thus, Rutherford shows, was born a colonialist ideology. Living in the Stone Age is a call to write the history of colonialism differently, as a tale of weakness not strength. It will change the way readers think about cultural contact, colonial fantasies of domination, and the role of anthropology in the postcolonial world.

Interpreting Colonial America

Author : James Kirby Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Colonial America written by James Kirby Martin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Handbook of Commodities History

Author : Stubbs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197502679
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Commodities History written by Stubbs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodities history follows these goods as they make their way from land and water through processing and trade to eventual consumption. It is a fast-developing field with collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary research, with new information technologies becoming increasingly important. Although many individual researchers continue to focus on particular commodities and regions, they often do so in partnership with others working on different areas and employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, placing commodities history at the forefront of local and global historical analysis. This Oxford Handbook features contributions from scholars involved in these developments across a range of countries and linguistic regions. They discuss the state of the art in their fields, draw on their own work, and signal lacunae for future research. Each of its 31 chapters focuses on an important thematic area within commodities history: key approaches, global histories, modes of production, people and land, environmental impact, consumption, and new methodologies. Taken together, the Oxford Handbook of Commodities History offers insight into the directions in which commodities history is heading, and the multiple ways in which it can contribute to a better understanding of the world"--

Gender and Masculinities

Author : Assa Doron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351565931
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Masculinities written by Assa Doron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up masculinities remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a collection of chapters that seek to unravel the complex ideas, practices and concepts revolving around gender structures and masculinities in India and Sri Lanka.The contributions to this volume draw on a range of disciplines, including history, comparative literatures, religion, anthropology, and development studies to illuminate the key issues that have shaped our understanding of gender relations and masculinities over time and across a range of geographical areas. By carefully attending to historical and contemporary gender ideologies and practices in South Asia, this book provides a critical exploration of masculinities in their plurality, as shifting, culturally located and embedded in religious ideologies, power relations, the politics of nationalism, globalisation and economic struggles. The volume will attract scholars interested in history, anthropology, sociology, nationalism, colonialism, religion and kinship, and popular culture.This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.