Henri Lauzière
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231175500
- eISBN:
- 9780231540179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231175500.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Chapter 5 discusses the significance of the post-independence rupture and how it drove a wedge between purist Salafis and most other Islamic activists, including modernist Salafis.
Chapter 5 discusses the significance of the post-independence rupture and how it drove a wedge between purist Salafis and most other Islamic activists, including modernist Salafis.
Jane Anna Gordon and Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813175164
- eISBN:
- 9780813175195
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813175164.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
Richard Wright left readers with a trove of fictional and nonfictional works about suffering, abuse, and anger in the United States and around the globe. He composed unforgettable images of ...
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Richard Wright left readers with a trove of fictional and nonfictional works about suffering, abuse, and anger in the United States and around the globe. He composed unforgettable images of institutionalized racism, postwar capitalist culture, Cold War neo-imperialism, gender roles and their violent consequences, and the economic and psychological preconditions for personal freedom. He insisted that humans unflinchingly confront and responsibly reconstruct their worlds. He therefore offered not only honest social criticisms but unromantic explorations of political options. The book is organized in five sections. It opens with a series of broad discussions about the content, style, and impact of Wright’s social criticism. Then the book shifts to particular dimensions of and topics in Wright’s writings, such as his interest in postcolonial politics, his approach to gendered forms of oppression, and his creative use of different literary genres to convey his warnings. The anthology closes with discussions of the different political agendas and courses of action that Wright’s thinking prompts—in particular, how his distinctive understanding of psychological life and death fosters opposition to neoslavery, efforts at social connectivity, and experiments in communal refusal. Most of the book’s chapters are original pieces written for this volume. Other entries are excerpts from influential, earlier published works, including four difficult-to-locate writings by Wright on labor solidarity, a miscarriage of justice, the cultural significance Joe Louis, and the political duties of black authors. The contributors include experts in Africana studies, history, literature, philosophy, political science, and psychoanalysis.Less
Richard Wright left readers with a trove of fictional and nonfictional works about suffering, abuse, and anger in the United States and around the globe. He composed unforgettable images of institutionalized racism, postwar capitalist culture, Cold War neo-imperialism, gender roles and their violent consequences, and the economic and psychological preconditions for personal freedom. He insisted that humans unflinchingly confront and responsibly reconstruct their worlds. He therefore offered not only honest social criticisms but unromantic explorations of political options. The book is organized in five sections. It opens with a series of broad discussions about the content, style, and impact of Wright’s social criticism. Then the book shifts to particular dimensions of and topics in Wright’s writings, such as his interest in postcolonial politics, his approach to gendered forms of oppression, and his creative use of different literary genres to convey his warnings. The anthology closes with discussions of the different political agendas and courses of action that Wright’s thinking prompts—in particular, how his distinctive understanding of psychological life and death fosters opposition to neoslavery, efforts at social connectivity, and experiments in communal refusal. Most of the book’s chapters are original pieces written for this volume. Other entries are excerpts from influential, earlier published works, including four difficult-to-locate writings by Wright on labor solidarity, a miscarriage of justice, the cultural significance Joe Louis, and the political duties of black authors. The contributors include experts in Africana studies, history, literature, philosophy, political science, and psychoanalysis.
Christi A. Merrill
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229550
- eISBN:
- 9780823241064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823229550.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
One cannot ignore the brutal facts of the violent events leading up to and following Partition that have made the story so meaningful to people half a century later. At the same time, one must ...
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One cannot ignore the brutal facts of the violent events leading up to and following Partition that have made the story so meaningful to people half a century later. At the same time, one must acknowledge that it is not entirely the real-life situation referenced, but the way these experiences have been translated that has so captured people's imaginations. To find a more flexible and heterogeneous rubric for understanding these translations in postcolonial politics, one might look to Shankar's distinction between a vernacular and a transnational postcolonialism so that one might begin interrogating the assumption that such translations must be understood in the modern, nationalist terms that can only read multiplicity as exemplary of a postlapsarian, post-fall-of-the-Tower-of-Babel narrative of chaotic destruction.Less
One cannot ignore the brutal facts of the violent events leading up to and following Partition that have made the story so meaningful to people half a century later. At the same time, one must acknowledge that it is not entirely the real-life situation referenced, but the way these experiences have been translated that has so captured people's imaginations. To find a more flexible and heterogeneous rubric for understanding these translations in postcolonial politics, one might look to Shankar's distinction between a vernacular and a transnational postcolonialism so that one might begin interrogating the assumption that such translations must be understood in the modern, nationalist terms that can only read multiplicity as exemplary of a postlapsarian, post-fall-of-the-Tower-of-Babel narrative of chaotic destruction.
Nancy J. Jacobs
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300209617
- eISBN:
- 9780300220803
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300209617.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ornithology
This unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with ...
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This unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, the author asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birders have in collaborating with ornithologists? By distilling the interactions between European science and African vernacular knowledge, this stunningly illustrated book offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature.Less
This unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnography, scientific publications, private archives, and interviews, the author asks: How did white ornithologists both depend on and operate distinctively from African birders? What investment did African birders have in collaborating with ornithologists? By distilling the interactions between European science and African vernacular knowledge, this stunningly illustrated book offers a fascinating examination of the colonial and postcolonial politics of expertise about nature.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311093
- eISBN:
- 9781846313332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846311093.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explores the obvious discrepancies between concepts of migration based on historical experiences and aestheticized theories. This link is examined through looking at two recent cultural ...
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This chapter explores the obvious discrepancies between concepts of migration based on historical experiences and aestheticized theories. This link is examined through looking at two recent cultural theorist works that attempt to bridge the gap between postmodern ‘travelling theory’ and postcolonial cultural politics, namely Paul Carter's Living in a New Country (1992) and Iain Chambers' Migrancy, Culture, Identity (1994). These works are examples of the new ‘migrant aesthetic’ that employs poststructuralist theories of displacement to account for migrating people, goods and ideas within the so-called New World Order. The usefulness of cultural theory in tackling the historical experiences of migration is also discussed. At its best, cultural theory can provide feasible methodologies to be used in the interrogation of the conceptual unevenness present in all forms of human representation.Less
This chapter explores the obvious discrepancies between concepts of migration based on historical experiences and aestheticized theories. This link is examined through looking at two recent cultural theorist works that attempt to bridge the gap between postmodern ‘travelling theory’ and postcolonial cultural politics, namely Paul Carter's Living in a New Country (1992) and Iain Chambers' Migrancy, Culture, Identity (1994). These works are examples of the new ‘migrant aesthetic’ that employs poststructuralist theories of displacement to account for migrating people, goods and ideas within the so-called New World Order. The usefulness of cultural theory in tackling the historical experiences of migration is also discussed. At its best, cultural theory can provide feasible methodologies to be used in the interrogation of the conceptual unevenness present in all forms of human representation.
Radhika Parameswaran
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814737309
- eISBN:
- 9780814744680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter provides a critical treatment of whiteness against a transnational web of visual technologies as they permeate the fabric of everyday life in India. The tide in the semiotics of skin ...
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This chapter provides a critical treatment of whiteness against a transnational web of visual technologies as they permeate the fabric of everyday life in India. The tide in the semiotics of skin color in India's visual economy of mobile and cross-cutting magazine, television, Internet, and film images oscillate between the binaristic opposing poles of “whiteness/lightness/fairness is generally positive” and “blackness/darkness/brownness is generally negative.” In globalizing India's shifting ethnoscapes, fluctuations in skin color are also tied to the greater rate of traffic in white and Indian female bodies that are moving across borders through new channels of mediated culture. Finally, the cultural politics of the epidermis in India also haunts the visual field of postcolonial national state politics, an arena that presents opportunities for future work.Less
This chapter provides a critical treatment of whiteness against a transnational web of visual technologies as they permeate the fabric of everyday life in India. The tide in the semiotics of skin color in India's visual economy of mobile and cross-cutting magazine, television, Internet, and film images oscillate between the binaristic opposing poles of “whiteness/lightness/fairness is generally positive” and “blackness/darkness/brownness is generally negative.” In globalizing India's shifting ethnoscapes, fluctuations in skin color are also tied to the greater rate of traffic in white and Indian female bodies that are moving across borders through new channels of mediated culture. Finally, the cultural politics of the epidermis in India also haunts the visual field of postcolonial national state politics, an arena that presents opportunities for future work.
Mona Chettri
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199483556
- eISBN:
- 9780199097692
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199483556.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change, Science, Technology and Environment
‘Rowdies or rowdy’ refers to a person who fits somewhere between a gangster and a goon, not a criminal per se but prone to crime and violence, usually at the behest of political leaders. ‘Rowdies’ ...
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‘Rowdies or rowdy’ refers to a person who fits somewhere between a gangster and a goon, not a criminal per se but prone to crime and violence, usually at the behest of political leaders. ‘Rowdies’ are the face of political movements, an integral and ubiquitous feature of Darjeeling politics. Their centrality to popular movements indicates a form of hill politics that challenges accepted notions of political participation, democracy, and mobilization. The essay engages in an assessment of the political culture of Darjeeling through the perspective of the ‘rowdies’ who are a product of the social, political, and material circumstances of postcolonial Darjeeling. It examines the vital role that ‘rowdies’ play in shaping the political terrain of the region and how their lives provide a context through which to understand contemporary state and society in Darjeeling.Less
‘Rowdies or rowdy’ refers to a person who fits somewhere between a gangster and a goon, not a criminal per se but prone to crime and violence, usually at the behest of political leaders. ‘Rowdies’ are the face of political movements, an integral and ubiquitous feature of Darjeeling politics. Their centrality to popular movements indicates a form of hill politics that challenges accepted notions of political participation, democracy, and mobilization. The essay engages in an assessment of the political culture of Darjeeling through the perspective of the ‘rowdies’ who are a product of the social, political, and material circumstances of postcolonial Darjeeling. It examines the vital role that ‘rowdies’ play in shaping the political terrain of the region and how their lives provide a context through which to understand contemporary state and society in Darjeeling.
