“…En ouvrant, pour finir, une réflexion sur les violences des XXe et XXIe siècles et les temporalités dans lesquelles elles s'inscrivent - substitution du héros à la victime et du présent au futur-, il affronte les débats d'aujourd'hui autour du mouvement postcolonial, promoteur d'un passé imposé. Un essai stimulant, qui redonne sa valeur à l'indispensable travail de l'historien -- Contracubierta…”

“…From the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic--a magisterial comic novel that is certain to take its place as a landmark of postcolonial African literature. In exile now for more than twenty years, Ngugl wa Thiong’o has become one of the most widely read African writers of our time, the power and scope of his work garnering him international attention and praise. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…This cutting edge and vibrant companion provides a rich resource for scholars and students of history, art theory, industry studies, journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis, and postcolonial studies."-- Provided by publisher…”

“…El objetivo planteado es estudiar si existe alguna posibilidad de crear una comunidad de diálogo eficaz entre las mujeres de distintas culturas partiendo de las teorías feministas, analizando el feminismo postcolonial y el pensamiento de la diferencia sexual. …”
Enlace del recurso

“…Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward. …”

“…This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license…”

“…In an era characterised by postsecular and postcolonial processes of religious change, re-enchantment and alternative spiritualities, the intersections of the popular and the sacred in music have become increasingly multifarious. …”

“…This is an essential read for scholars in Women's and Gender Studies, Feminist and Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies, and Comparative Literary Studies, as well as for those operating in the fields of Gender and Development Studies and Forced Migration Studies…”

“…Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward. …”

“…The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. …”

“…It will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, cultural studies, political studies, media studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, critical anthropology"--…”

“…Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. …”
Sumario

“…Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, 'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist, and in most ways were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. …”

“…La confrontación permanente de horizontes culturales muy diversos se extiende hacia las regiones geográficas de habla ibérica que, en el pasado, solían ubicarse en el Sur, sugiriendo una posición secundaria la cual, teóricamente, se calificó como subdesarrollada, periférica, tercermundista o subalterna postcolonial. Sin embargo, esta división ya no es aplicable a su función simbólica cultural, debido a que sus habitantes se desplazan con rapidez y, al mismo tiempo, se yuxtaponen con los migrantes de otros continentes, estableciendo nuevas relaciones entre ellos y con otras tradiciones lingüísticas. …”

“…"In Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights the combined analytical efforts of the fields of human rights law, conflict studies, anthropology, history, media studies, gender studies, and critical race and postcolonial studies raise a comprehensive understanding of the discursive and visual mediation of migration and manifestations of belonging and citizenship. …”

“…Enriching our understanding of the gendered history of the liberation struggle in Mozambique and informing broader discussions on gender and nationalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholarsof African history, especially the colonial and postcolonial history of Lusophone Africa, as well as gender/women's history and peace and conflict studies…”

“…Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós met ainsi en lumière une configuration de l’imaginaire national dans le Río de la Plata postcolonial. Elle dévoile, dans le même temps, comment la notion de « sociabilité», comprise comme l’expression d’une société policée, s’est enracinée dans l’idée civique de nation, idée qui sera prise comme modèle par les jeunes républiques hispano-américaines…”

“…This paper deals with the world's first constitutional recognition of such rights in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008 and takes a theoretical approach based in particular on postcolonial theories. It interprets these new rights as a hybrid right that provides general impulses for thinking about legal subjectivity and points in the direction of a participatory and inclusive model of rights that foregrounds the interdependencies and interrelatedness of legal subjects Derzeit wird an zahlreichen Orten der Welt diskutiert, ob Rechte der Natur ein adäquates juristisches Werkzeug für den Umgang mit den Umweltkrisen unserer Zeit sein könnten. …”

“…The book concludes with a look at the postcolonial challenges that the collection in Berlin faces and ways to connect the archaeological past with the indigenous present in the Chaculá-Region…”

“…The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. …”