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:

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.

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.

Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit
Author: Dale W Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000009416

Originally published in 1985, twenty-three chapters are brought together in 4 parts dealing with, respectively, problems in rural finance, interest rate policies, politics and finance, and new directions for rural financial markets. In an introduction it is argued that cheap and abundant credit is often regarded as essential for rural development but that actions taken on the basis of this assumption have given disappointing results. Low-interest policies and the improper use of financial markets are seen as the principal reasons for this. It is recommended that higher and more flexible interest rates are allowed and that little or no attention is given to target loans. Informal lenders are thought to offer valuable services therefore they should not be discouraged. More emphasis should be put on voluntary savings mobilization and access to formal loans by non-farm rural firms. It is concluded that many traditional agricultural credit programmes are counterproductive and that attractive product and input prices together with higher yields would be more powerful in stimulating agricultural development.

Cooperative Self-help

Cooperative Self-help
Author: United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1934
Genre: Cooperation
ISBN: