National selvstændighed og uafhængighed, postkolonialisme

Soucieux de gagner l¿indépendance et l¿autonomie du pays face au monde occidental et à l¿URSS, le leader révolutionnaire Mao Zedong a mené, entre 1949 et 1976, une «Révolution socialiste» continue. Cet ouvrage observe les formes de l¿autoritarisme maoïste en multipliant les angles de vue ¿ arcanes du pouvoir de parti-État, opposition au sein du système, voix réfractaires des petites gens, etc. S¿appuyant sur des sources inédites, l¿auteur offre des plongées sur des personnages de second ou troisième rang peu connus de l¿histoire de la Chine contemporaine, des éclairages sur une ville (Shanghai) plutôt que sur une histoire nationale, ainsi que sur une multitude d¿acteurs ordinaires impliqués dans les divers moments maoïstes. Ce décentrement du regard permet de dépasser le cadre étroit de la hiérarchie bureaucratique et de cerner la présence de diverses réponses individuelles et collectives aux formes centralisatrices et hégémoniques de l¿État maoïste. En dépit d¿un contrôle social mêlé de propagande et de terreur politique, la Chine d¿après 1949 n¿était pas exempte de diversité dans les comportements, ni de particularisme et de localisme : face à une autocratie omnipotente, les individus et les collectivités étaient loin d¿être aussi amorphes qüon l¿a longtemps imaginé. En ce sens, la rupture avec les histoires de la fin de l¿ère Qing et de l¿ère républicaine s¿avère moins accusée et moins définitive.

This book promotes constructive and nuanced transdisciplinary understandings of some of the critical problems that we face on a global scale today by thinking with and from the Global South. It is engaged in transmodernising, pluriversalising, decolonising, queering, and/or posthumanising thinking and practice.The book aims to contribute to and challenge current debates regarding knowledge, diversity, and change. This is achieved through the application of transdisciplinary and indisciplined perspectives to the Himalayan Anthropocene; transport services in Mexico City; the EU-Turkey border regimes and policy; egoism and the decolonisation of whiteness; the Witch and the decolonisation of the gender binary; Nepalese students in Denmark; and the decolonisation of global health promotion. The book thereby provides the reader a multiplicity of pathways of knowledges and practices that address current problems co-produced by the dominant Western colonial onto-epistemic outset, giving way to 'other' knowledge-practices, towards a pluriversal approach.This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as human geography, development studies, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, planning, and philosophy. It is also relevant to researchers, development workers and human rights/environmental activists, and other intellectual practitioners.

This volume offers a critical and creative analysis of the innovations of Deathscapes, a transnational digital humanities project that maps the sites and distributions of custodial deaths in locations such as police cells, prisons and immigration detention centres.

This book brings together voices from the Global South and Global North to think through what it means, in practice, to decolonise contemporary higher education.

”… nu kommer de ikke i kirken længere, de går til bjergsøen igen, de fortæller andre historier …”Indbyggerne i bjerglandsbyen drømmer urolige om røde papegøjer. En ung kvinde er forsvundet. En forsvunden mand er dukket op. Man forsøger at holde sig til traditionerne og samle sig om fejringen af byens grundlæggelse for 370 år siden. Og dog, for måske ligger en ny start endnu længere tilbage?Bjergets mund er en kollektivroman om en fattig sydamerikansk landsby, hvis primære indtægtskilde er rosenfarme, men som samtidig er på sporet af en anden og ældre rigdom.Dea Sofie Kudsk (f. 1990) er cand.mag. i kultur- og sprogmødestudier og historie. Sammen med sin colombianske mand og deres søn bor hun delvis i Salling, delvis i Colombia. Hun debuterede med romanen Bogotana (2017) og er siden udkommet med romanerne fjorden kysten (2018) og Udstrakt landskab (2020). Forfatterskabet bærer bl.a. præg af Kudsks arbejde med antikoloniel teori og af livet på to kontinenter.

In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to invest their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work. Technology developers, narratives, prototypes, and digital fabrication tools unite to achieve ambiguous Kenyan futures of technocapitalist market integration and decolonial emancipation in order to foster national well-being and disentangle Kenya from exploitative global structures.

Der vorliegende Band umfasst literaturwissenschaftliche Aufsätze zu Texten der (postkolonialen) deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur sowie theoretisch angelegte Beiträge zu Gewalt und Erinnerungsdiskursen. Aus interkulturellen, postkolonialen und didaktischen Blickpunkten heraus werden neue, sich für die postkoloniale Germanistik eröffnende Reflexionsfelder, Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven in einem Zeitalter globaler Krisen herausgestellt.

This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin was originally compiled by the Communist Working Circle, a Danish anti-imperialist group. In the late 1960s, the CWC developed the so-called "parasite state" theory linking the imperialist exploitation and oppression of the proletariat in the Global "South" with the establishment of states in the Global "North" in which the working class lives in relative prosperity. In connection with studies of this division of the world, CWC published these texts by Lenin with the title "On Imperialism and Opportunism."What is the relevance of these texts today? Firstly, the connection that Lenin posits between imperialism and opportunism-that is, the sacrifice of long-term socialist goals for short-term or sectional gains-is more pronounced than ever. Second, imperialism may, in many respects, have changed its economic mechanisms and its political form, but its content is fundamentally the same, namely, a transfer of value from the Global South to the Global North, with the political outcome being that the working class is divided into a highly-exploited proletariat in the South and a working class in the North which lives in relative prosperity. Lenin referred to this better-off section of the working class as a "labor aristocracy." With an introduction by former CWC member Torkil Lauesen.

Was muss nach dem Ende einer Diktatur getan werden, damit das Leid der Verfolgten ein Ende findet und die Geschichte sich nicht wiederholt? Wenige Langzeitstudien haben wissenschaftlich untersucht, welche Wirkungen Maßnahmen im Rahmen von Transitional Justice tatsächlich erzielt haben. Dieser Band analysiert anhand von sieben Ländern, was die Aufarbeitung von Diktaturen bewirken kann ¿ und wo ihre Grenzen liegen.

Stanislas de Boufflers (1738-1815), más conocido en su época como el caballero deBoufflers, forma parte de esos escritores menores que, por diversas razones, merecennuestra atención. En estas páginas, presentamos a este gran desconocido de laliteratura francesa de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, y analizamos su obranarrativa, relatos imprescindibles para comprender la personalidad del autor: por unlado, La Reine de Golconde, cuento libertino que refleja la mentalidad del joven Boufflers;por otro lado, La Mode, L¿Heureux accident, L¿OEuvre de charité, Tamara ou LeLac des pénitents, Le Derviche y Ah ! si..., cuentos morales escritos durante la primeradécada del siglo XIX que ilustran las convicciones conservadoras de Boufflers en losúltimos años de su vida.

A view into the book you can find under "https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-738_KolonialeKontexte-engl"Traces of colonialism in the palaces in Berlin and Brandenburg are evident. This guidebook presents 24 places, biographies and works of art with colonial references. Notes on the art and cultural-historical context are complemented by a perspective that focuses on aspects of colonial history, problems of existing narratives or information hitherto ignored.When visiting the palaces and parks, this guidebook enables all those interested in colonial contexts to discover stories previously untold. But it also invites all other visitors to broaden the thematic context of their tour.

Forgetting is forbidden. Unpunished, a continent, a "race" wants justice and reparation.It is important to know what actually happened and to record it.It is a deluge that has come over the black people. The most brutal, appalling and shocking crimes were committed against these people, which have not been properly condemned, excused and repaired to this day. So far, these crimes against humanity have gone unpunished, called genocide in other ethnic groups. On the contrary, the perpetrators deal with their crimes arrogantly and almost proudly, that even centuries after the numerous crimes they still make fun of the victims and thereby treat them derogatorily. This is unique in history. The whites who committed such crimes against life and humanity have no sensitivity to the fact that they systematically and according to plan abused, raped, mutilated, tortured and killed hundreds of millions of their (the victims') fathers, mothers, daughters, wives, children, babies, destroyed entire cultures, stole their wealth, soil, agriculture and stole much of the labor force.The historical reappraisal of the slavery and colonial past is very inadequate. Although this western world still owes its boom, development, social prosperity and stability, but also Africans:inside and blacks owe their impoverishment, social destruction, instability and their phenomena to these colonial times. This means that the consequences of slavery and colonialism are still very present today. On one hand, they bring privileges to the colonial masters and their societies that they do not want to lose, and on another hand, they still bring immense disadvantages to the victims and largely explain why they are the way they are and why they still cannot free themselves today. Every white person benefits from the crimes of their ancestors and every:r black person loses because of it."With my book, I want to contribute so that a terrible injustice against the continent of Africa and all the people who come from there is not forgotten and considered like "peanuts"." Dantse Dantse

Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise and not a single elected leader holds office, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti's infrastructure and institutions. How did a nation founded on liberation-a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers-come to such a precipice?In Aid State, Jake Johnston, a researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, reveals how long-standing US and European capitalist goals ensnared and re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti and its people with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further devastated a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, independent aid contractors, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness.

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in it China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic expansion of southeastern Chinese rivaled the colonial ambitions of Europeans overseas. In a story that dawns with the Industrial Revolution and culminates in the Great Depression, Melissa Macauley explains how sojourners from an ungovernable corner of China emerged among the commercial masters of the South China Sea. She focuses on Chaozhou, a region in the great maritime province of Guangdong, whose people shared a repertoire of ritual, cultural, and economic practices. Macauley traces how Chaozhouese at home and abroad reaped many of the benefits of an overseas colonial system without establishing formal governing authority. Their power was sustained instead through a mosaic of familial, fraternal, and commercial relationships spread across the ports of Bangkok, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Swatow. The picture that emerges is not one of Chinese divergence from European modernity but rather of a convergence in colonial sites that were critical to modern development and accelerating levels of capital accumulation. A magisterial work of scholarship, Distant Shores reveals how the transoceanic migration of Chaozhouese laborers and merchants across a far-flung maritime world linked the Chinese homeland to an ever-expanding frontier of settlement and economic extraction.