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Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Strategies for Decentering the Narratives of Modernity: Goody, Wolff, Chakrabarty and Fabian – Part 1 Veronică Lazăr [PDF]

Political Studies Forum, 2022
This two-part article attempts to decipher four different critical strategies for decentering Eurocentrist narratives that promoted “the West” simultaneously as an agent, as a goal and as a yardstick for evaluating modernization processes across the ...
Veronica Lazăr
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism

, 2022
International audienceThis book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of Marx, who claim that this accusation is a myth.
Lindner, Kolja
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Critics and Encounters in the Contemporary Social Structures

, 2020
In an environment where debates on Eurocentrism have rapidly started to increase and densify, it is possible to assert that Eurocentrism is constructed upon dichotomies.
Bulut, Firdevs
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Teachers Attitudes to Eurocentrism in History Teaching : A Qualitative Study of Eurocentrism in Upper Secondary School

, 2022
Detta examensarbete är inramat kring att undersöka lärares attityder till eurocentrism i historieundervisningen. Dessutom behandlar arbetet hur undervisningen kan påverka elevers historiemedvetande i fråga om eurocentrism.
Cullborn, Cristian, Martinez Preza, Juli
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND POSTCOLONIAL REVISIONISM: V. S. NAIPAUL’S AFRICAN FICTION [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2012
A major concern in V. S. Naipaul’s fiction is man’s relationship with nature and the cultural and discursive construction of this relation. Most notably in his African novels (In a Free State and A Bend in the River) Naipaul engages critically with a
Roxana Doncu
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Ways of Doing Genealogy: Inquiry after Foucault. A Group Interview with Verena Erlenbusch, Simon Ganahl, Robert W. Gehl, Thomas Nail, and Perry Zurn

Genealogy+Critique, 2017
A group interview on issues of methodology in the work of Michel Foucault, the discussion focuses less on the 'interpretation' of Foucault's work and more on the critical and transformative redeployment of Foucault's philosophical toolkit.
Colin Koopman
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