Charles Forsdick
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198160144
- eISBN:
- 9780191673795
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198160144.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively ...
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From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively obscure, his extensive work on exoticism largely unavailable. With the appearance of the Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on diversity were at last fully apparent. Segalen's understanding of the exotic is radically different from that of his colonial contemporaries. His exoticism — or Aesthetics of Diversity — focuses on the instability of contact between different cultures and represents a unique response to the decline of diversity triggered by colonialism and Westernization. Recent attention to Segalen in a variety of fields — post-modern sociology, post-colonialism, literary criticism, anthropology — indicates his role as a precursory theorist of the exotic whose work is of increasing contemporary relevance. At a moment when exoticism is rapidly emerging as a term of critical currency, this study of the genesis of Segalen's aesthetics is a timely contribution to work in this area.Less
From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively obscure, his extensive work on exoticism largely unavailable. With the appearance of the Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on diversity were at last fully apparent. Segalen's understanding of the exotic is radically different from that of his colonial contemporaries. His exoticism — or Aesthetics of Diversity — focuses on the instability of contact between different cultures and represents a unique response to the decline of diversity triggered by colonialism and Westernization. Recent attention to Segalen in a variety of fields — post-modern sociology, post-colonialism, literary criticism, anthropology — indicates his role as a precursory theorist of the exotic whose work is of increasing contemporary relevance. At a moment when exoticism is rapidly emerging as a term of critical currency, this study of the genesis of Segalen's aesthetics is a timely contribution to work in this area.
Balagangadhara
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198082965
- eISBN:
- 9780199081936
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082965.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
As India emerges as an important global player, a serious question arises: how to relate to the existing descriptions of India that are centuries old? This question presents itself as a task for the ...
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As India emerges as an important global player, a serious question arises: how to relate to the existing descriptions of India that are centuries old? This question presents itself as a task for the current and future generations of intelligentsia in the twenty-first century, whether Indian or Western. This task will consist of reconceptualizing India Studies because most studies on India have been carried out using theories and concepts drawn primarily from the western culture. It also consists of reacquiring the insight that neither knowledge nor truth is a matter of majority decision or based on the strength of common-sense prejudice. Questioning inherited beliefs requires an intellectual courage that is on par with the bold nature of the challenge. Responding to this challenge in any meaningful way requires that we identify the scientific weakness of the current theories about the Indian culture and society. In this book, a first step is taken towards this end. It not only looks at debates about the concept of culture in anthropology and into the merits of critiques of Orientalism but also scrutinizes Studies on Hinduism, the nature of Inter-cultural dialogues, and their implications to normative political philosophy. It also outlines the methodology for a comparative study of cultures. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, this book brings home the basic truth that understanding cultures and societies straddles multiple intellectual domains. By initiating a process of comparative study of cultures, this work is bound to challenge many uncritical assumptions made by students and scholars of Indian society and culture.Less
As India emerges as an important global player, a serious question arises: how to relate to the existing descriptions of India that are centuries old? This question presents itself as a task for the current and future generations of intelligentsia in the twenty-first century, whether Indian or Western. This task will consist of reconceptualizing India Studies because most studies on India have been carried out using theories and concepts drawn primarily from the western culture. It also consists of reacquiring the insight that neither knowledge nor truth is a matter of majority decision or based on the strength of common-sense prejudice. Questioning inherited beliefs requires an intellectual courage that is on par with the bold nature of the challenge. Responding to this challenge in any meaningful way requires that we identify the scientific weakness of the current theories about the Indian culture and society. In this book, a first step is taken towards this end. It not only looks at debates about the concept of culture in anthropology and into the merits of critiques of Orientalism but also scrutinizes Studies on Hinduism, the nature of Inter-cultural dialogues, and their implications to normative political philosophy. It also outlines the methodology for a comparative study of cultures. Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, this book brings home the basic truth that understanding cultures and societies straddles multiple intellectual domains. By initiating a process of comparative study of cultures, this work is bound to challenge many uncritical assumptions made by students and scholars of Indian society and culture.
François G. Richard
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226252407
- eISBN:
- 9780226252681
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226252681.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
Reluctant Landscapes analyzes the political history of rural communities in the Siin province (Senegal) over the last 400 years. Much of Africa’s global history has been told from the standpoint of ...
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Reluctant Landscapes analyzes the political history of rural communities in the Siin province (Senegal) over the last 400 years. Much of Africa’s global history has been told from the standpoint of states, but less is known about peasants, whose past has often been written as a tale of political rupture or cultural persistence. Drawing on archaeology, history, and anthropology, this book charts how Siin villagers variably accommodated, resisted, or evaded the incursions of indigenous states, the Atlantic economy, colonialism, and postcolonial government. It pays particular attention to the role of material world – both the landscapes crafted by farmers over generations, and the systems of objects with which they interfaced through trade – in mediating between villagers and broader historical forces, and in shaping their political experiences. Over time, these material worlds incorporated the coordinates of a changing political economy, yet they also conserved certain principles of political life, whose expressions continue to orient collective expectations about politics today. Grounded in Siin’s history and cultural geography, the book not only intends to sharpen historical understanding of peasant communities in Senegal, but it also essays wider critical reflections about capitalism, international slavery, colonial governance, and post-independence statecraft in rural West Africa.Less
Reluctant Landscapes analyzes the political history of rural communities in the Siin province (Senegal) over the last 400 years. Much of Africa’s global history has been told from the standpoint of states, but less is known about peasants, whose past has often been written as a tale of political rupture or cultural persistence. Drawing on archaeology, history, and anthropology, this book charts how Siin villagers variably accommodated, resisted, or evaded the incursions of indigenous states, the Atlantic economy, colonialism, and postcolonial government. It pays particular attention to the role of material world – both the landscapes crafted by farmers over generations, and the systems of objects with which they interfaced through trade – in mediating between villagers and broader historical forces, and in shaping their political experiences. Over time, these material worlds incorporated the coordinates of a changing political economy, yet they also conserved certain principles of political life, whose expressions continue to orient collective expectations about politics today. Grounded in Siin’s history and cultural geography, the book not only intends to sharpen historical understanding of peasant communities in Senegal, but it also essays wider critical reflections about capitalism, international slavery, colonial governance, and post-independence statecraft in rural West Africa.
Matt K. Matsuda
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195162950
- eISBN:
- 9780199867660
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162950.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book presents a broad ranging survey of French colonial engagements in the Pacific and Asian worlds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Multiple studies, each in a different territory, examine ...
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This book presents a broad ranging survey of French colonial engagements in the Pacific and Asian worlds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Multiple studies, each in a different territory, examine French ideas of imperialism as they become manifested through religion, nationalist and patriotic fervour, tropical fantasy, literary and artistic creation, or colonial match-making to shape a distinctly Gallic “Empire of Love” in the Pacific. Successive chapters examine contested colonial sites where the French were present in Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna, with analyses of encounter and conflict in France, Panama, Indochina, and Japan. Each chapter focuses on particular Islander, Asian, and French protagonists, from Kanak warriors and Tahitian monarchs, to French penal colony prisoners and Japanese courtesans as they negotiate power relations tied to emotions. All of the chapters are linked together by the politics and writings of the famed naval captain and novelist Pierre Loti.Less
This book presents a broad ranging survey of French colonial engagements in the Pacific and Asian worlds of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Multiple studies, each in a different territory, examine French ideas of imperialism as they become manifested through religion, nationalist and patriotic fervour, tropical fantasy, literary and artistic creation, or colonial match-making to shape a distinctly Gallic “Empire of Love” in the Pacific. Successive chapters examine contested colonial sites where the French were present in Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna, with analyses of encounter and conflict in France, Panama, Indochina, and Japan. Each chapter focuses on particular Islander, Asian, and French protagonists, from Kanak warriors and Tahitian monarchs, to French penal colony prisoners and Japanese courtesans as they negotiate power relations tied to emotions. All of the chapters are linked together by the politics and writings of the famed naval captain and novelist Pierre Loti.
Tony Crowley
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199273430
- eISBN:
- 9780191706202
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273430.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book studies the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Beginning with the Tudors and ending with recent language legislation in Ireland and Northern ...
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This book studies the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Beginning with the Tudors and ending with recent language legislation in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the account set out in this text challenges received notions and reveals a complex, fascinating, and often surprising history. The linguistic aspects of the major issues that have united and divided Ireland are considered, including ethnicity, cultural identity, religion, governance and sovereignty, propriety and purity, memory, and authenticity. But rather than presenting the received wisdom on many of the language debates, this book revisits the material and considers new evidence in order to offer novel insights and to contest earlier accounts. Ranging across colonial state papers and the arguments of Irish revolutionaries, the writings of Irish priest historians and the works of contemporary Loyalist politicians, Gaelic dictionaries, and Ulster-Scots poetry, this book offers a re-reading of the role language has played in Ireland's political history. The text concludes by arguing that the Belfast Agreement's recognition that languages are ‘part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland’, must be central to the future social development of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland if the new voices on both sides of the border are to be heard.Less
This book studies the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Beginning with the Tudors and ending with recent language legislation in Ireland and Northern Ireland, the account set out in this text challenges received notions and reveals a complex, fascinating, and often surprising history. The linguistic aspects of the major issues that have united and divided Ireland are considered, including ethnicity, cultural identity, religion, governance and sovereignty, propriety and purity, memory, and authenticity. But rather than presenting the received wisdom on many of the language debates, this book revisits the material and considers new evidence in order to offer novel insights and to contest earlier accounts. Ranging across colonial state papers and the arguments of Irish revolutionaries, the writings of Irish priest historians and the works of contemporary Loyalist politicians, Gaelic dictionaries, and Ulster-Scots poetry, this book offers a re-reading of the role language has played in Ireland's political history. The text concludes by arguing that the Belfast Agreement's recognition that languages are ‘part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland’, must be central to the future social development of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland if the new voices on both sides of the border are to be heard.
A. Raghuramaraju
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198070122
- eISBN:
- 9780199080014
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198070122.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
Contemporary India, unlike the West, despite opening itself to modernity, contains pre-modern institutions such as the family. This chapter analyses how the model of Western nationalism fails to ...
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Contemporary India, unlike the West, despite opening itself to modernity, contains pre-modern institutions such as the family. This chapter analyses how the model of Western nationalism fails to realize some important aspects associated with Indian nationalism. It discusses one of the most influential works on this theme by Partha Chatterjee, whose works have revived Indian social theory. One of the underlying assumptions of Chatterjee's formulation is the construction of the monolithic West. This chapter revokes the relation between the idea of nationalism and Western societies and shows its discontinuities. This would entail opening up the contours of Chatterjee's discussion, going beyond its frame — the politics of the idea of nationalism in its transplanted context — so as to pose anew the question of the politics of this idea in its original context. The chapter also assesses the link between modernity and post-colonialism.Less
Contemporary India, unlike the West, despite opening itself to modernity, contains pre-modern institutions such as the family. This chapter analyses how the model of Western nationalism fails to realize some important aspects associated with Indian nationalism. It discusses one of the most influential works on this theme by Partha Chatterjee, whose works have revived Indian social theory. One of the underlying assumptions of Chatterjee's formulation is the construction of the monolithic West. This chapter revokes the relation between the idea of nationalism and Western societies and shows its discontinuities. This would entail opening up the contours of Chatterjee's discussion, going beyond its frame — the politics of the idea of nationalism in its transplanted context — so as to pose anew the question of the politics of this idea in its original context. The chapter also assesses the link between modernity and post-colonialism.
MATT K. MATSUDA
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195162950
- eISBN:
- 9780199867660
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162950.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This introductory chapter examines the unique ways the French empire in the Pacific developed historically in the 19th century. It proposes three basic arguments. First, that the French Oceanic ...
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This introductory chapter examines the unique ways the French empire in the Pacific developed historically in the 19th century. It proposes three basic arguments. First, that the French Oceanic empire was not thought of as a bounded territory, but rather as a web or grid of strategic locations called “points d'appui,” and that this allowed an “empire” to develop even where there were no actual colonies. Second, that the French Pacific empire depended upon an idea of romance, often contrasted with British “indirect rule” which became manifested in strong sentiments of “love of country” imposed upon and negotiated by local peoples. Third, that connected cases can be drawn to illustrate a “French Pacific” from histories that are often studied separately, for example Asia (Japan, Indochina), Polynesia (Tahiti), Melanesia (New Caledonia), Central America (Panama), Europe (France).Less
This introductory chapter examines the unique ways the French empire in the Pacific developed historically in the 19th century. It proposes three basic arguments. First, that the French Oceanic empire was not thought of as a bounded territory, but rather as a web or grid of strategic locations called “points d'appui,” and that this allowed an “empire” to develop even where there were no actual colonies. Second, that the French Pacific empire depended upon an idea of romance, often contrasted with British “indirect rule” which became manifested in strong sentiments of “love of country” imposed upon and negotiated by local peoples. Third, that connected cases can be drawn to illustrate a “French Pacific” from histories that are often studied separately, for example Asia (Japan, Indochina), Polynesia (Tahiti), Melanesia (New Caledonia), Central America (Panama), Europe (France).
Dúnlaith Bird
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199644162
- eISBN:
- 9780199949984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter discusses the role of the travelogue, both as a locus for the safely bound exotic Other, and as the potential conduit for hybrid constructions of identity. It introduces the central ...
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This chapter discusses the role of the travelogue, both as a locus for the safely bound exotic Other, and as the potential conduit for hybrid constructions of identity. It introduces the central concept of vagabondage, the search for identity through motion in women’s travel writing from Olympe Audouard and Isabella Bird to Isabelle Eberhardt. The chapter establishes a composite basis of gender and postcolonial theory, creating a nuanced critique of Edward Said and Judith Butler. It gives a historical overview of the British and French colonial empires from 1850–1950 and their representations in popular culture. It also analyses the persistent structures of Orientalism and their impact on European gender roles and travel writing. A brief biography of the main women travel writers discussed and an outline of following chapters are also given.Less
This chapter discusses the role of the travelogue, both as a locus for the safely bound exotic Other, and as the potential conduit for hybrid constructions of identity. It introduces the central concept of vagabondage, the search for identity through motion in women’s travel writing from Olympe Audouard and Isabella Bird to Isabelle Eberhardt. The chapter establishes a composite basis of gender and postcolonial theory, creating a nuanced critique of Edward Said and Judith Butler. It gives a historical overview of the British and French colonial empires from 1850–1950 and their representations in popular culture. It also analyses the persistent structures of Orientalism and their impact on European gender roles and travel writing. A brief biography of the main women travel writers discussed and an outline of following chapters are also given.
Hyun Ok Park
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171922
- eISBN:
- 9780231540513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171922.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Chapter 3 examines the ways that debates on hierarchical transnational Korea entail reparation politics for Korean Chinese.
Chapter 3 examines the ways that debates on hierarchical transnational Korea entail reparation politics for Korean Chinese.
Jason Herbeck
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940391
- eISBN:
- 9781786944948
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940391.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, ...
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Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.Less
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.
Christopher B. Balme
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184447
- eISBN:
- 9780191674266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184447.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
This book focuses primarily on post-colonial theatre and drama. Theatrical syncretism is a direct result of post-colonialism and the decolonization process ensuing from it. The whole study is ...
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This book focuses primarily on post-colonial theatre and drama. Theatrical syncretism is a direct result of post-colonialism and the decolonization process ensuing from it. The whole study is predicated on two assumptions: that formal response is more readily comparable across cultures, whereas thematic response usually is not; and that formal response is implicated in the wider ideological issues of post-colonialism and decolonization, that the choice of form on the part of an artist is a political act, and that every modification and indigenization of the theatrical form implies an ideological standpoint. This book sets itself the task of exploring in detail and from a cross-cultural comparative perspective these strategies of formal response.Less
This book focuses primarily on post-colonial theatre and drama. Theatrical syncretism is a direct result of post-colonialism and the decolonization process ensuing from it. The whole study is predicated on two assumptions: that formal response is more readily comparable across cultures, whereas thematic response usually is not; and that formal response is implicated in the wider ideological issues of post-colonialism and decolonization, that the choice of form on the part of an artist is a political act, and that every modification and indigenization of the theatrical form implies an ideological standpoint. This book sets itself the task of exploring in detail and from a cross-cultural comparative perspective these strategies of formal response.
Ian Aitken and Camille Deprez (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474407205
- eISBN:
- 9781474430487
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407205.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to ...
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Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.Less
Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.
James Tully
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199552207
- eISBN:
- 9780191709654
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552207.003.0017
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter challenges the idea that constituent power is a necessary or neutral presupposition of politics. It argues that the concept of constituent power is a vital component of the deep and ...
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This chapter challenges the idea that constituent power is a necessary or neutral presupposition of politics. It argues that the concept of constituent power is a vital component of the deep and resilient global structure of imperial authority, one that denies and seeks to suppress the ‘always/already constituted’ way in which political community and authority is experienced and practised in other non-imperial contexts. It concludes by considering the conditions under which these alternative ways of constituting and doing politics might challenge or escape the dominant influence of the imperial authority structure.Less
This chapter challenges the idea that constituent power is a necessary or neutral presupposition of politics. It argues that the concept of constituent power is a vital component of the deep and resilient global structure of imperial authority, one that denies and seeks to suppress the ‘always/already constituted’ way in which political community and authority is experienced and practised in other non-imperial contexts. It concludes by considering the conditions under which these alternative ways of constituting and doing politics might challenge or escape the dominant influence of the imperial authority structure.
Drucilla Cornell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823257577
- eISBN:
- 9780823261574
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823257577.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This book grapples with fundamental questions regarding what type of revolution took place in South Africa over a more than 50 year long struggle. Each chapter grapples with the questions related to ...
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This book grapples with fundamental questions regarding what type of revolution took place in South Africa over a more than 50 year long struggle. Each chapter grapples with the questions related to the idea that the revolution in South Africa was a substantive revolution, because of its insistence on the establishment of a democratic and constitutional state that recognized the thoroughgoing wrongs of the colonial and apartheid past.Less
This book grapples with fundamental questions regarding what type of revolution took place in South Africa over a more than 50 year long struggle. Each chapter grapples with the questions related to the idea that the revolution in South Africa was a substantive revolution, because of its insistence on the establishment of a democratic and constitutional state that recognized the thoroughgoing wrongs of the colonial and apartheid past.
Keehyeung Lee
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098923
- eISBN:
- 9789882206885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098923.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter critically examines three competing positions on the Korean Wave or Hanryu in South Korea developed by the South Korean government, cultural producers and critical intellectuals; namely, ...
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This chapter critically examines three competing positions on the Korean Wave or Hanryu in South Korea developed by the South Korean government, cultural producers and critical intellectuals; namely, neoliberalism, state-centric nationalism, culturalism cum post-colonialism. It reviews a diverse range of issues regarding the rapid diffusion and growing popularity of South Korean cultural products across Asia by employing a critical and culturally nuanced approach. It aims to provide alternative, nonnationalist ways of envisioning the flow of South Korean popular culture across Asia so as to further inter-regional cultural understanding and dialogues. It then raises several thought-provoking issues and problematics on the emergence of Hanryu. Looking at the recent circulation of Hanryu discourses through the cultural studies lens presents new forms of explanation of translocally consumed cultural texts as well as new problematics that need more than critical discursive intervention.Less
This chapter critically examines three competing positions on the Korean Wave or Hanryu in South Korea developed by the South Korean government, cultural producers and critical intellectuals; namely, neoliberalism, state-centric nationalism, culturalism cum post-colonialism. It reviews a diverse range of issues regarding the rapid diffusion and growing popularity of South Korean cultural products across Asia by employing a critical and culturally nuanced approach. It aims to provide alternative, nonnationalist ways of envisioning the flow of South Korean popular culture across Asia so as to further inter-regional cultural understanding and dialogues. It then raises several thought-provoking issues and problematics on the emergence of Hanryu. Looking at the recent circulation of Hanryu discourses through the cultural studies lens presents new forms of explanation of translocally consumed cultural texts as well as new problematics that need more than critical discursive intervention.
Paulus Wiryono Priyotamtama
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267309
- eISBN:
- 9780823272334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267309.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and ...
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For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and Bina Swadaya, Wiryono offers an articulation of the democratizing legacy left by figures like John Batista Dijkstra, S.J. The system of musyawara that Dijkstra championed—‘a traditional system of mutual dialogue, consultation, deliberation, and decision-making based on consensus’—grounds the contemporary Indonesian state philosophy of pancasila. In his analysis, Wiryono evaluates the effectiveness, and continued relevance, of this deliberative process for developing contemporary lay Catholic activists and, in the end, finds that the process of musyawara retains its effectiveness in the process of developing such activists, especially when their religious, social, and political commitments are coupled with social entrepreneurship and responsibility.Less
For Paulus Wiryono, grassroots, lay Catholic activism characterizes the contemporary, democratic character of post-colonial Indonesia. Through analyzing the lay movements Ikatan Petani Pancasila and Bina Swadaya, Wiryono offers an articulation of the democratizing legacy left by figures like John Batista Dijkstra, S.J. The system of musyawara that Dijkstra championed—‘a traditional system of mutual dialogue, consultation, deliberation, and decision-making based on consensus’—grounds the contemporary Indonesian state philosophy of pancasila. In his analysis, Wiryono evaluates the effectiveness, and continued relevance, of this deliberative process for developing contemporary lay Catholic activists and, in the end, finds that the process of musyawara retains its effectiveness in the process of developing such activists, especially when their religious, social, and political commitments are coupled with social entrepreneurship and responsibility.
Richard Evans
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199296101
- eISBN:
- 9780191712135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.003.0009
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines material culture by looking at the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa. It shows how the history of its design and creation maps the multi-faceted history of colonialism in ...
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This chapter examines material culture by looking at the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa. It shows how the history of its design and creation maps the multi-faceted history of colonialism in South Africa, and considers and problematises how the monument and its Pretoria counterpart, the Union Building, draw on Greek and Roman models including the Parthenon Sculptures, Trajan’s Column, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The Voortrekker Monument can variously be ‘read’ as an emblem of liberation struggle (Boers against British), as an expression of the ideology of apartheid, as a transmission of fascist symbolism, and as a statement of the new South Africa’s openness to its own histories. In comparing the two sites, the chapter develops the view that the British Empire claimed to inherit the mantle of Roman imperialism and Greek democracy by expressing them in the Union Building, while the Voortrekker Monument has a post-colonial energy in its desire for self-expression and its communication of a shaping event in the cultural memory.Less
This chapter examines material culture by looking at the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa. It shows how the history of its design and creation maps the multi-faceted history of colonialism in South Africa, and considers and problematises how the monument and its Pretoria counterpart, the Union Building, draw on Greek and Roman models including the Parthenon Sculptures, Trajan’s Column, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The Voortrekker Monument can variously be ‘read’ as an emblem of liberation struggle (Boers against British), as an expression of the ideology of apartheid, as a transmission of fascist symbolism, and as a statement of the new South Africa’s openness to its own histories. In comparing the two sites, the chapter develops the view that the British Empire claimed to inherit the mantle of Roman imperialism and Greek democracy by expressing them in the Union Building, while the Voortrekker Monument has a post-colonial energy in its desire for self-expression and its communication of a shaping event in the cultural memory.
Stephen E. Wilmer
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199296101
- eISBN:
- 9780191712135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.003.0014
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
The themes of the continually colonial and the neocolonial are prominent in this chapter’s discussion of Seamus Heaney’s Burial at Thebes. The chapter situates the discussion in the context of what ...
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The themes of the continually colonial and the neocolonial are prominent in this chapter’s discussion of Seamus Heaney’s Burial at Thebes. The chapter situates the discussion in the context of what it regards as the ‘modern McCarthyism’ involved in the suppression, by the government of the United States, of the academic investigation of post-colonialism. It argues that Heaney’s language in the play relates both to the history of British colonialism in, and oppression of, Ireland, and to the contemporary neocolonialist actions of America and its allies in Iraq. It combines close textual and rhythmic analysis with discussion of the primary sources relating to the commissioning and production of Heaney’s play in 2004 to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The chapter suggests that the play takes up the post-colonial trope of gender politics as an analogy for geo-political developments.Less
The themes of the continually colonial and the neocolonial are prominent in this chapter’s discussion of Seamus Heaney’s Burial at Thebes. The chapter situates the discussion in the context of what it regards as the ‘modern McCarthyism’ involved in the suppression, by the government of the United States, of the academic investigation of post-colonialism. It argues that Heaney’s language in the play relates both to the history of British colonialism in, and oppression of, Ireland, and to the contemporary neocolonialist actions of America and its allies in Iraq. It combines close textual and rhythmic analysis with discussion of the primary sources relating to the commissioning and production of Heaney’s play in 2004 to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. The chapter suggests that the play takes up the post-colonial trope of gender politics as an analogy for geo-political developments.
Freddy Decreus
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199296101
- eISBN:
- 9780191712135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.003.0015
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter takes a sometimes wry look at the intellectual infrastructure of concepts of the post-colonial, locating these in the polarities between post-modernism and western humanism, but showing ...
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This chapter takes a sometimes wry look at the intellectual infrastructure of concepts of the post-colonial, locating these in the polarities between post-modernism and western humanism, but showing how the history and aspirations of post-colonial approaches actually challenge both systems of thought. In particular, the chapter investigates the impact of ancient non-western predecessors of the paradigm of tragedy (such as Gilagamesh), and modern non-western concepts and practices brought into productions of tragedy from Buddhist and Taoist traditions. It suggests that post-colonial analysis is part of a general politics of resistance which challenges closure in the western mind, and can enable the previously colonised ‘Other’ to turn the tables, transposing the western self into a psychoanalytically repressed ‘Other’. This chapter looks at colonialism and post-colonialism, classical literature and essentialism, and tragedy and universalism.Less
This chapter takes a sometimes wry look at the intellectual infrastructure of concepts of the post-colonial, locating these in the polarities between post-modernism and western humanism, but showing how the history and aspirations of post-colonial approaches actually challenge both systems of thought. In particular, the chapter investigates the impact of ancient non-western predecessors of the paradigm of tragedy (such as Gilagamesh), and modern non-western concepts and practices brought into productions of tragedy from Buddhist and Taoist traditions. It suggests that post-colonial analysis is part of a general politics of resistance which challenges closure in the western mind, and can enable the previously colonised ‘Other’ to turn the tables, transposing the western self into a psychoanalytically repressed ‘Other’. This chapter looks at colonialism and post-colonialism, classical literature and essentialism, and tragedy and universalism.
Harish Trivedi
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199296101
- eISBN:
- 9780191712135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.003.0017
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter situates post-colonial discussion in modern critical contexts. It contests any assumption that there is a seamless progression from colonial to post-colonial, either in terms of ...
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This chapter situates post-colonial discussion in modern critical contexts. It contests any assumption that there is a seamless progression from colonial to post-colonial, either in terms of historical experience or in psychological or intellectual perception. The chapter adds a further dimension of critical distance to the debates, not only by examining the assumption that classical texts are originary, foundational, and essential, but by doing so in the context of Indian culture and its classical (Sanskrit) tradition. It shows how India provides a contrast with other imperial uses of Greek and Roman texts and values, and probes the reasons for this, exploring how the Indian classics and Sanskrit heritage provided a counter-imperial cultural genealogy and also fed, sometimes paradoxically, into modern popular culture in India.Less
This chapter situates post-colonial discussion in modern critical contexts. It contests any assumption that there is a seamless progression from colonial to post-colonial, either in terms of historical experience or in psychological or intellectual perception. The chapter adds a further dimension of critical distance to the debates, not only by examining the assumption that classical texts are originary, foundational, and essential, but by doing so in the context of Indian culture and its classical (Sanskrit) tradition. It shows how India provides a contrast with other imperial uses of Greek and Roman texts and values, and probes the reasons for this, exploring how the Indian classics and Sanskrit heritage provided a counter-imperial cultural genealogy and also fed, sometimes paradoxically, into modern popular culture in India.
