Colonialism Past and Present - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism Past and Present write by Alvaro Felix Bolanos. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Colonialism Past and Present available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays offers alternative readings of historical and literary texts produced during Latin America's colonial period. By considering the political and ideological implications of the texts' interpretation yesterday and today, it attempts to "decolonize" the field of Latin American studies and promote an ethical, interdisciplinary practice that does not falsify or appropriate knowledge produced by both the colonial subjects of the past and the oppressed subjects of the present. Using recent developments in postcolonial theory, the contributors challenge traditional approaches to Hispanism. The colonial situation under which these texts were composed, with all its injustices and prejudices, still lingers, and most studies have consistently avoided the connection between this colonial legacy and the situation of disenfranchised groups today. Colonialism Past and Present challenges discursive strategies that celebrate only European cultural traits, dismiss non-European cultural legacies, and solidify constructions of national projects considered natural extensions of European civilization since independence from Spain.
Empires of the Mind
Empires of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Mind write by Robert Gildea. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Empires of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
Empire, Development & Colonialism
Empire, Development & Colonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire, Development & Colonialism write by Mark Duffield. This book was released on 2013. Empire, Development & Colonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing. From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press
Colonialism in Question
Colonialism in Question - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism in Question write by Frederick Cooper. This book was released on 2005-06-06. Colonialism in Question available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Probably the most important historian of Africa currently writing in the English language. His intellectual reach and ambition have even taken influence far beyond African studies as such, and he has become one of the major voices contributing to debates over empire, colonialism and their aftermaths. This book is a call to reinvigorate the critical way in which history can be written. Cooper takes on many of the standard beliefs passing as postcolonial theory and breathes fresh air onto them."—Michael Watts, Director of the Institute of International Studies, Berkeley "This is a very much needed book: on Africa, on intellectual artisanship and on engagement in emancipatory projects. Drawing on his enormous erudition in colonial history, Cooper brings together an intellectual and a moral-political argument against a series of linked developments that privilege 'taking a stance' and in favor of studying processes of struggle through engaged scholarship."—Jane I. Guyer, author of Marginal Gains
The Sound of Silence
The Sound of Silence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sound of Silence write by Tiina Äikäs. This book was released on 2019-09-01. The Sound of Silence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.
