Fashion and Postcolonial Critique

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique
Author: Elke Gaugele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Fashion
ISBN: 9783956794650

Fashion and Postcolonial Critique outlines a critical global fashion theory from a postcolonial perspective. It investigates contemporary articulations of postcolonial fashion critique, and analyzes fashion as a cultural, historical, social, and political phenomenon involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization and globalization. Stemming from a range of different disciplines, such as art history, textile studies, anthropology, history, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, fashion media, and fashion theory, the contributions in this book reflect the multidisciplinary and diverse nature of postcolonial fashion research today. Contributors Christine Checinska, Christine Delhaye, Burcu Dogramaci, Sonja Eismann, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Birgit Haehnel, Sabrina Henry, Helen Jennings, Alexandra Karentzos, Hana Knízová, Christian Kravagna, Gabriele Mentges, Birgit Mersmann, Heval Okcuoglu, Walé Oyéjidé Esq., Leslie W. Rabine, Ruby Sircar, Angela Stercken, Sølve Sundsbø, Monica Titton Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 22

Nigerian Artists

Nigerian Artists
Author: Janet L. Stanley
Publisher: Hans Zell Publishers
Total Pages: 624
Release: 1993
Genre: Art
ISBN:

New Encyclopedia of Africa

New Encyclopedia of Africa
Author: John Middleton
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contains a collection of alphabetically-arranged entries from 'Abd al-Qadir to John Cummings on the history, geography, culture, religion and ideologies, wars, and economy of the African nations; and includes essays and photographs.

Gendered Visions

Gendered Visions
Author: Salah M. Hassan
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A collection of work by six prominent artists accompanied by critical essays which place the work in the context of the artists' socio-cultural backgrounds. All six artists are of African origin but work in the West: Ethiopian painter Elisabeth T Atnafu; US fibre and mixed-media artist Xenobia Bailey; Jamaican photographer Renee Cox; Cameroon photographer Angele Essamba; painter Houria Niati from Algeria; and Ethiopian sculptor Etiye Dimma Poulsen.

Land Transformation in Agriculture

Land Transformation in Agriculture
Author: M. G. Wolman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Case studies presented by international experts assess the worldwide impact of land transformation on ecosystems, analyzing and evaluating problems created by various forms of land use (agricultural, sewerage, landscaping, mining, etc.). Also explores land reclamation and areas in which further research is needed.

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara

Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara
Author: John Middleton
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

Arranged alphabetically. In addition to biographies, extensive country information (primarily postindependence), and historical events, the encyclopedia treats general topics in articles such as agriculture, political systems, and religion and ritual.

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution

Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution
Author: Aditya Goenka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135255598

The last twenty years have seen a transformation in the availability and use of credit among the less prosperous strata of Southeast Asian societies. Drawing on experiences from across the whole region, this book explores this important development, focusing especially on the modern or formal part of the microfinance sector.

African Cosmos

African Cosmos
Author: Christine M. Kreamer
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1580933432

A groundbreaking scholarly publication, accompanying an exhibition organized by the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts brings together exceptional works of art, dating from ancient times to the present, and essays by leading scholars and contemporary artists to consider African cultural astronomy: creativity and artistic practice in Africa as it is linked to celestial bodies and atmospheric phenomena. African concepts of the universe are intensely personal, placing human beings in relation to the earth and sky, and with the sun, moon, and stars. At the core of creation myths and the foundation of moral values, celestial bodies are often accorded sacred capacities and are part of the “cosmological map” that allows humans to chart their course through life.

Cooperative Financial Institutions

Cooperative Financial Institutions
Author: Carlos E. Cuevas
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821366858

A thorough inquiry into the distinctive features of cooperative financial institutions that should inform an appropriate legal, regulatory and supervisory framework.