Reverse Colonization - 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 Reverse Colonization write by David M. Higgins. This book was released on 2021-09. Reverse Colonization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds (where technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England) that ask Western audiences to imagine what it's like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. In this book, David M. Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative (because they ask us to think critically about what empire feels like from the receiving end), reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. Everyone, now (including anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries) likes to imagine themselves as the Rebel Alliance fighting against the Empire (or Neo trying to escape the Matrix, or Katniss Everdeen waging war against the Capitol). Reverse colonization fantasy, in other words, has a dangerous tendency to enable white men (and other subjects of privilege) to appropriate a sense of victimhood for their own social and political advantage"--
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle - 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 Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle write by Stephen Arata. This book was released on 1996-08-29. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has been widely recognised that British culture in the 1880s and 1890s was marked by a sense of irretrievable decline. Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle explores the ways in which that perception of loss was cast into narrative, into archetypal stories which sought to account for the culture's troubles and perhaps assuage its anxieties. Stephen Arata pays close attention to fin de siècle representation of three forms of decline - national, biological and aesthetic - and reveals how late Victorian degeneration theory was used to 'explain' such decline. By examining a wide range of writers - from Kipling to Wilde, from Symonds to Conan Doyle and Stoker - Arata shows how the nation's twin obsessions with decadence and imperialism became intertwined in the thought of the period. His account offers new insights for students and scholars of the fin de siècle.
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.
Pollution Is Colonialism
Pollution Is 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 Pollution Is Colonialism write by Max Liboiron. This book was released on 2021-03-29. Pollution Is Colonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous, particularly Métis, concepts of land, ethics, and relations. Liboiron draws on their work in the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)—an anticolonial science laboratory in Newfoundland, Canada—to illuminate how pollution is not a symptom of capitalism but a violent enactment of colonial land relations that claim access to Indigenous land. Liboiron's creative, lively, and passionate text refuses theories of pollution that make Indigenous land available for settler and colonial goals. In this way, their methodology demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible but is currently being practiced in ways that enact more ethical modes of being in the world.
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction - 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 and the Emergence of Science Fiction write by John Rieder. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking study explores science fiction's complex relationship with colonialism and imperialism. In the first full-length study of the subject, John Rieder argues that the history and ideology of colonialism are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. With original scholarship and theoretical sophistication, he offers new and innovative readings of both acknowledged classics and rediscovered gems. Rider proposes that the basic texture of much science fiction—in particular its vacillation between fantasies of discovery and visions of disaster—is established by the profound ambivalence that pervades colonial accounts of the exotic “other.” Includes discussion of works by Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, George Tomkyns Chesney, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edmond Hamilton, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Henry Kuttner, Alun Llewellyn, Jack London, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, William Morris, Garrett P. Serviss, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, and H. G. Wells.
