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Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls
Development Policy Review, Volume 42, Issue S1, June 2024.Abstract Motivation Strategic foresight is gaining traction for anticipating changes in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world—one which will require different mindsets and approaches. Yet international development co‐operation practitioners have been slow to adopt foresight.
Fraser Reilly‐King +2 more
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The German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 75-92, Winter 2024.Abstract This article engages with aesthetic acts of experimentation in Olivia Wenzel's 1000 Serpentinen Angst. Building on recent scholarship on the politics of aesthetics in Wenzel's text, I argue that these experiments are intertwined with key themes in the book, particularly issues of racialization and of Black (im‐)possibility in present‐day ...
Maria Roca Lizarazu
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August Wilson, Afrofuturism, & Gem of the Ocean
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 August Wilson's Century Cycle is as much a theatrical experiment of black cultural history and sociology as it is one of storytelling. Though often considered a realist playwright, Wilson walks beyond the realist landscape into speculative and imagined ...
Boynton Anthony Dwayne
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Contested Children's Literature: Que(e)ries into Chicana and Central American Autofantasias [PDF]
, 2015 Citation: Millan, I. (2015). Contested Children's Literature: Que(e)ries into Chicana and Central American Autofantasias. Signs, 41(1), 199-224.
Millan, Isabel
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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 33-50, January 2024.ABSTRACT Charlie, the main character in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Afrofuturist Christmas novella Synchronicity, is a Black single mother of Ghanaian heritage working as a graphic designer in Berlin who has spent her whole life feeling the constraints of her ancestral traditions.
joseph kebe‐nguema
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Janelle Monáe’s Sartorial Reconceptualization of the Black Gendered Body
Open Cultural Studies, 2022 Janelle Monáe is known for her black and white attire, pompadour hairstyles, James Brown-inspired dance moves, android alter-ego (Cindi Mayweather), and bent toward Afrofuturism. Monáe is also known for her politics.
Walters Tracey
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VOCABULARY FOR AN UNTHINKABLE GRAMMAR: SHARON DODUA OTOO'S SYNCHRONICITY
German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 51-67, January 2024.ABSTRACT This article examines the eponymous notion of ‘synchronicity’ in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novella, Synchronicity: the original story. Drawing on Denise Ferreira da Silva's notion of Black Feminist ‘poethics’, I argue that ‘synchronicity’ might serve as a ‘guide’ for the imagination that also expands significant critiques of (post)‐Enlightenment ...
Stephanie Galasso
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Liberation via Reliving the Suffering: A Study of August Wilson’s Monologues
IAFOR Journal of Arts & HumanitiesThe articulation of counter-discourse has long served as a central mechanism for expressing resistance, resilience, and the reclamation of histories centered on marginalized communities.
Sumita, Mayur Chhikara
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African Afro-futurism: Allegories and Speculations
Current Musicology, 2017 In his seminal text, More Brilliant Than The Sun, Kodwo Eshun remarks upon a general tension within contemporary African-American music: a tension between the “Soulful” and the “Postsoul.” While acknowledging that the two terms are always simultaneously ...
Gavin Steingo
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Collection Development and Plans for the Future!
, 2018 It’s finally starting to feel like spring, and I’m finally starting to develop my final project for my internship! So much has happened in the past few weeks; I’ve had the opportunity to observe a music class that was writing a musical and I’ve been ...
Vega, Ellianie
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