Villes Miroirs
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Museum Transformations
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Author : Annie E. Coombes
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-04-06
Museum Transformations written by Annie E. Coombes and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-06 with Business & Economics categories.
MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.
African Migrations
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Author : Abdoulaye Kane
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-18
African Migrations written by Abdoulaye Kane and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-18 with Social Science categories.
“Engaging case studies . . . add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas.” —Choice Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.
Historical Dictionary Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
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Author : Emizet Francois Kisangani
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Historical Dictionary Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo written by Emizet Francois Kisangani and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with History categories.
The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo looks back at the nearly 48 years of independence, over a century of colonial rule, and even earlier kingdoms and groups that shared the territory. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on civil wars, mutinies, notable people, places, events, and cultural practices.
African Cities
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Author : Francesca Locatelli
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-05-20
African Cities written by Francesca Locatelli and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-20 with Social Science categories.
This book examines how the unprecedented expansion of African cities, which are the products of specific histories, poses serious challenges to equitable service provision and raises contentious claims to the ownership and control of urban spaces.
Kinshasa
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Author : Filip De Boeck
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24
Kinshasa written by Filip De Boeck and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with Social Science categories.
Reading African cities into contemporary theory—reprint of a richly illustrated reference work In their internationally acclaimed publication Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa’s urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architecture Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.
Colonial Transactions
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Author : Florence Bernault
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Colonial Transactions written by Florence Bernault and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use of human organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as "transactions." Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon. Overturning theories of colonial and postcolonial nativism, this book is essential reading for historians and anthropologists of witchcraft, power, value, and the body.
Breaking Rocks
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Author : Joe Trapido
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Breaking Rocks written by Joe Trapido and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons – who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola – this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, as well as a glimpse into the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Frenchness And The African Diaspora
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Author : Charles Tshimanga
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Frenchness And The African Diaspora written by Charles Tshimanga and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with History categories.
In 2005, following the death of two youths of African origin, France erupted in a wave of violent protest. More than 10,000 automobiles were burned or stoned, hundreds of public buildings were vandalized or burned to the ground, and hundreds of people were injured. Charles Tshimanga, Didier Gondola, Peter J. Bloom, and a group of international scholars seek to understand the causes and consequences of these momentous events, while examining how the concept of Frenchness has been reshaped by the African diaspora in France and the colonial legacy.
Migrants And Strangers In An African City
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Author : Bruce Whitehouse
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-14
Migrants And Strangers In An African City written by Bruce Whitehouse and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Finding place and identity in a globalized world
The Western In The Global South
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Author : MaryEllen Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-24
The Western In The Global South written by MaryEllen Higgins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-24 with Performing Arts categories.
The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.