Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World

Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World
Author: Sarah Arens
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1837645221

This volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World

Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World
Author: Sarah Arens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781802078862

This volume pays tribute to Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), featuring essays that reflect her vast scholarship, from her focus on French colonialism in India, colonial nostalgia and imperial rivalries, all the way through to her final project on anti-colonial activism and its policing in France's cities.

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire
Author: Martin Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198713193

The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.

A Decolonial Feminism

A Decolonial Feminism
Author: Francoise Verges
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780745341101

For too long feminism and multiculturalism have been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. However, in this manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be handmaidens of capitalism, colonialism and imperialism and fight the system that created the boss, built the prisons and polices women's bodies.Attuned to the temporalities of contemporary struggles, the book incorporates issues such as Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, inclusion and exclusion, within feminist discourse. Throughout we touch upon feminist and anti-racist histories, as well as assessing contemporary activism, including #MeToo and the Women's Strike.Centring colonialism and imperialism within intersectional Marxism, this is an urgent demand to free ourselves from the capitalist, imperialist forces that oppress us.

Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
Author: Naoki Sakai
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2023-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000919447

This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional areas and the United States, the authors explore possibilities and obstacles to epistemic decolonization. By highlighting the connection between the control of work and the control of communication that has been at the core of the colonial regimes of accumulation (‘classic colonialism’), they present an entirely new form of disciplinary practice, not based on the equation of evolution and knowledge. An extensive introduction outlines the historical genealogy of Pax Americana epistemic hegemony, while individual chapters examine the implications for different regions of the world and different domains of activity, including visual culture, economy, migration, the arts, and translation. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to students and scholars in many fields, including Asian studies, American studies, postcolonialism, and political theory.

Decolonisation and the Law School

Decolonisation and the Law School
Author: Foluke I Adebisi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2024-06-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1040042767

This book explores strategies, approaches, tools, challenges, and reflections that animate the conversation around decolonisation in UK law schools. It investigates how we can have, within the UK law school, difficult conversations about the ways in which history has influenced what the law is, how law is taught, what law is taught, who the law works for, and who the law does not work for. The conversation about decolonisation of the university and curricula continues to raise questions for knowledge production and transmission in educational institutions. Decolonisation also raises questions about the impact of the preceding issues on people within and outside these educational institutions. The decolonisation debate is an opportunity for legal academics to reflect on the origins of their own individual academic practices in research as well as the content of their curriculum. This volume examines the preceding issues as they relate to academic practices and legal pedagogy in UK law schools. The authors examine how legal scholars can achieve aims of decolonisation within the practical aims of teaching of law, as well as the limitations and possible challenges of these endeavours. This volume will be of interest to legal scholars, legal educators, law students as well as legal practitioners who are engaged in questions of how decolonisation relates to law – broadly understood. It was originally published as a special issue of The Law Teacher.

Decolonization

Decolonization
Author: Dane Keith Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199340498

Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This work demonstrates that this process involved considerable violence and instability.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology
Author: Maria Grasso
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803921234

This comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedia, featuring entries written by academic experts in the field, explores the diverse topics within the discipline of political sociology. By looking at both macro- and micro-components, questions relating to nation-states, political institutions and their development, and the sources of social and political change such as social movements and other forms of contentious politics, are raised and critically analysed.

Research Handbook on Public Sociology

Research Handbook on Public Sociology
Author: Lavinia Bifulco
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 180037738X

Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.