National selvstændighed og uafhængighed, postkolonialisme

A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial Times'Superb' GuardianOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia.Four million civilians had died during the Japanese wartime occupation that ousted its Dutch colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used savage violence to reassert their control, and as Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's guerrilla war of resistance: the 'Revolusi'. It was not until December 1949 that the newly created United Nations finally brought the conflict an end - and with it, 350 years of colonial rule - setting a precedent that would reshape the world.Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.'A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece' SEBASTIAN MALLABY'One of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas ... a towering achievement' THOMAS MEANEY'A magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now' JASON BURKE'At once vast and intimate, a history in colour' LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK'A masterly display of the historian's craft' J M COETZEE'A wonderful and important book' PETER FRANKOPAN

In the early twenty-first century, the concept of citizenship is more contested than ever. As refugees set out to cross the Mediterranean, European nation-states refer to »cultural integrity« and »immigrant inassimilability,« revealing citizenship to be much more than a legal concept. The contributors to this volume take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how cultures of citizenship are being envisioned and interrogated in literary and cultural (con)texts. Through this framework, they attend to the tension between the citizen and its spectral others - a tension determined by how a country defines difference at a given moment.

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 transmodernizing, pluriversalizing, decolonizing, queering, and/or posthumanizing thinking and practice.

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.

An insightful look at the onset of colonialism in Central Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives, examining the ultimately tragic participation of African elites in colonial rule.

The first comprehensive account of one of the darkest and mostly forgotten episodes of the Troubles.

”… 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.

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.

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.