Giovanna Ceserani
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744275
- eISBN:
- 9780199932139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744275.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, American History: pre-Columbian BCE to 500CE
This chapter traces the study and imagining of Magna Graecia in the twentieth century, from its involvement in Italian Fascism to global developments in its post-war understanding, concluding with ...
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This chapter traces the study and imagining of Magna Graecia in the twentieth century, from its involvement in Italian Fascism to global developments in its post-war understanding, concluding with snapshots from the early twenty-first century. Magna Graecia under Fascism is examined by contrasting the lives and work of Emanuele Ciaceri, Fascist historian of Greek South Italy, and Umberto Zanotti Bianco, anti-Fascist, activist within the Southern Question's debates and for protection of Italian cultural and archaeological heritage, and discover (with Paola Zancani Montuoro) of the major archaic sanctuary of the Sele. Later developments, such as post-colonial studies’ relation to Magna Graecia, are briefly sketched, culminating with a consideration of the region's place in a less Hellenocentric, twenty-first century Humanist world.Less
This chapter traces the study and imagining of Magna Graecia in the twentieth century, from its involvement in Italian Fascism to global developments in its post-war understanding, concluding with snapshots from the early twenty-first century. Magna Graecia under Fascism is examined by contrasting the lives and work of Emanuele Ciaceri, Fascist historian of Greek South Italy, and Umberto Zanotti Bianco, anti-Fascist, activist within the Southern Question's debates and for protection of Italian cultural and archaeological heritage, and discover (with Paola Zancani Montuoro) of the major archaic sanctuary of the Sele. Later developments, such as post-colonial studies’ relation to Magna Graecia, are briefly sketched, culminating with a consideration of the region's place in a less Hellenocentric, twenty-first century Humanist world.
Johannes Quack
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199812608
- eISBN:
- 9780199919406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812608.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
The Introduction provides an overview of the structure and arguments of the book. On the basis of a brief description of the Indian rationalist movement and the relevance of the work of Ulrich ...
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The Introduction provides an overview of the structure and arguments of the book. On the basis of a brief description of the Indian rationalist movement and the relevance of the work of Ulrich Berner, Charles Taylor, Max Weber and various post-colonial scholars, the introduction highlights the ways in which Disenchanting India makes an important empirical as well as theoretical contribution to a field of study that has widely been neglected: the spectrum of non-religiosity and unbelief in India, from religious indifferences to outright criticism of religion(s).Less
The Introduction provides an overview of the structure and arguments of the book. On the basis of a brief description of the Indian rationalist movement and the relevance of the work of Ulrich Berner, Charles Taylor, Max Weber and various post-colonial scholars, the introduction highlights the ways in which Disenchanting India makes an important empirical as well as theoretical contribution to a field of study that has widely been neglected: the spectrum of non-religiosity and unbelief in India, from religious indifferences to outright criticism of religion(s).
Satoshi Mizutani
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199697700
- eISBN:
- 9780191732102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697700.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter clarifies the book’s aim, scope, and approach. It first explains why and how the emergence of the ‘domiciled community’ (made of mixed-descent ‘Eurasians’ and ‘Domiciled Europeans’) in ...
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This chapter clarifies the book’s aim, scope, and approach. It first explains why and how the emergence of the ‘domiciled community’ (made of mixed-descent ‘Eurasians’ and ‘Domiciled Europeans’) in colonial India should be seen as inseparably linked to the historical construction of ‘whiteness’ under British rule and to the various socio-cultural measures which were meant to discipline its boundaries. The prime task of the book, the chapter argues, is to reveal the precise ways in which the existence of the community was identified as a problem—or as what was then called the ‘Eurasian Question’—and to ponder the deeper historical meanings of such problematization itself. The chapter then lays out the book’s theoretical frameworks by situating it within current theoretical debates in post/colonial studies. Finally, the chapter discusses the scope and limits of the book in terms of historical span, geographical areas, primary sources.Less
This chapter clarifies the book’s aim, scope, and approach. It first explains why and how the emergence of the ‘domiciled community’ (made of mixed-descent ‘Eurasians’ and ‘Domiciled Europeans’) in colonial India should be seen as inseparably linked to the historical construction of ‘whiteness’ under British rule and to the various socio-cultural measures which were meant to discipline its boundaries. The prime task of the book, the chapter argues, is to reveal the precise ways in which the existence of the community was identified as a problem—or as what was then called the ‘Eurasian Question’—and to ponder the deeper historical meanings of such problematization itself. The chapter then lays out the book’s theoretical frameworks by situating it within current theoretical debates in post/colonial studies. Finally, the chapter discusses the scope and limits of the book in terms of historical span, geographical areas, primary sources.
Vera Tolz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594443
- eISBN:
- 9780191725067
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594443.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ...
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This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ferment of revolution and war a group of scholars in St Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs, which anticipated the work of Edward Said and postcolonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. The book reveals that Said was indebted—via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union—to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the ‘Orient’? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things ‘Oriental’ engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, the book also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful and long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.Less
This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ferment of revolution and war a group of scholars in St Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs, which anticipated the work of Edward Said and postcolonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. The book reveals that Said was indebted—via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union—to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the ‘Orient’? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things ‘Oriental’ engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, the book also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful and long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.
Eve Rosenhaft and Robbie Aitken (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318474
- eISBN:
- 9781781380437
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318474.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
The essays in this volume explore the lives and activities of people of African descent – both black and white - in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. They go ...
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The essays in this volume explore the lives and activities of people of African descent – both black and white - in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. They go beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic emphasis of Black Studies, examining the experiences of Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. Their subjects include people moving between European states and state jurisdictions or from the former colony of one state to another place in Europe, African-born colonial settlers returning to the metropolis, migrants conversing across ethnic and cultural boundaries among ‘Africans’, and visitors for whom the face-to-face encounter with European society involves working across the ‘colour line’ and testing the limits of solidarity. The authors focus on the ways in which their subjects have used the skills and resources they brought with them and the ones they found in each place of arrival to construct themselves and their families as subjects of their own lives, and also what new visions of self and community (or politics) have been enabled by the crossing of borders. The volume is multidisciplinary, and the contributors include a novelist and a filmmaker who reflect on their own experiences of these complex histories and the challenges of narrating them.Less
The essays in this volume explore the lives and activities of people of African descent – both black and white - in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. They go beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic emphasis of Black Studies, examining the experiences of Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. Their subjects include people moving between European states and state jurisdictions or from the former colony of one state to another place in Europe, African-born colonial settlers returning to the metropolis, migrants conversing across ethnic and cultural boundaries among ‘Africans’, and visitors for whom the face-to-face encounter with European society involves working across the ‘colour line’ and testing the limits of solidarity. The authors focus on the ways in which their subjects have used the skills and resources they brought with them and the ones they found in each place of arrival to construct themselves and their families as subjects of their own lives, and also what new visions of self and community (or politics) have been enabled by the crossing of borders. The volume is multidisciplinary, and the contributors include a novelist and a filmmaker who reflect on their own experiences of these complex histories and the challenges of narrating them.
Joseph M. Hodge, Gerald Hödl, and Martina Kopf (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091803
- eISBN:
- 9781781706824
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091803.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development ...
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The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic perspectives, the book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, the book offers new and uncommon perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualizes the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of (colonial) development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and post-colonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the book is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history and on a central concept of the contemporary world.Less
The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic perspectives, the book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, the book offers new and uncommon perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualizes the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of (colonial) development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and post-colonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the book is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history and on a central concept of the contemporary world.
Andrea Bianchi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198725114
- eISBN:
- 9780191792533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198725114.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter describes the different waves of Third World scholarship in international law. In the 1960s the agenda for reform fully hinged on self-determination and the acquisition of sovereignty by ...
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This chapter describes the different waves of Third World scholarship in international law. In the 1960s the agenda for reform fully hinged on self-determination and the acquisition of sovereignty by colonized peoples. To the first generation of TWAIL, international law was at the same time the instrument of oppression used by colonial powers as well as a potentially viable project of emancipation for the future. For the next generation of Third World scholars, postcolonial realities are still evidence of exploitation and control and international law is part and parcel of new modes of colonial/imperialistic power. Legal scholarship is also responsible for constructing images of reality that have long ensured the reproduction of extant relations of power by which new forms of empire have been continuously created. Currently, the debate among Third World scholars revolves around the question of how to re-politicize international law and how to engage with it.Less
This chapter describes the different waves of Third World scholarship in international law. In the 1960s the agenda for reform fully hinged on self-determination and the acquisition of sovereignty by colonized peoples. To the first generation of TWAIL, international law was at the same time the instrument of oppression used by colonial powers as well as a potentially viable project of emancipation for the future. For the next generation of Third World scholars, postcolonial realities are still evidence of exploitation and control and international law is part and parcel of new modes of colonial/imperialistic power. Legal scholarship is also responsible for constructing images of reality that have long ensured the reproduction of extant relations of power by which new forms of empire have been continuously created. Currently, the debate among Third World scholars revolves around the question of how to re-politicize international law and how to engage with it.
Christina Elizabeth Firpo
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824847579
- eISBN:
- 9780824869007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824847579.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The epilogue explores the ways in which métis former wards’s lives were affected by being uprooted from their mothers and their culture and how life in protection societies shaped their identity. It ...
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The epilogue explores the ways in which métis former wards’s lives were affected by being uprooted from their mothers and their culture and how life in protection societies shaped their identity. It situates the late 20th century postcolonial history of the systematic removal of métis children in an international history of child removals.Less
The epilogue explores the ways in which métis former wards’s lives were affected by being uprooted from their mothers and their culture and how life in protection societies shaped their identity. It situates the late 20th century postcolonial history of the systematic removal of métis children in an international history of child removals.
