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The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT This article re‐examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of ‘humanity’. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the ‘stranger’ and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the ‘outsider within’, the study rethinks
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From decolonizing knowledge to postimperialism
American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 375-386, August 2023., 2023 Abstract To open new disciplinary imaginings, we must reinvigorate the relationship between utopian and anthropological thought. This is already underway in efforts to decolonize knowledge. Though such efforts have different emphases, they are located within a field of ideological and utopian struggles that must be understood in the context of ...
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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THE WEIGHTLESS STATE: PowerPoint and the Everyday Work of Making Senegal Matter
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 274-302, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Executives at APIX, Senegal's state investment‐promotion agency, cast their office as the vanguard of a new kind of state formation, one remade through decades of austerity and resolutely focused on the nation's future. They imagined PowerPoint as especially critical to this mission, as it had the potential to move the state beyond the ...
CAROLINE MELLY
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Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South
Development and Change, Volume 53, Issue 6, Page 1123-1150, November 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Researchers in development studies have expressed discomfort at the hierarchy inherent in the use of ‘North’ and ‘South’, and cognate concepts like ‘First’ and ‘Third World’, or ‘emerging economies’. Instead of setting aside the terminology, this article delves into the layered meaning‐making around the notion of the South.
Nikita Sud, Diego Sánchez‐Ancochea
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On Islam and Portraiture: Lithography, Glass Painting, and Photography in Senegal
Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 774-797, September 2022., 2022 Scholars have for decades challenged the popular belief that Islam is intrinsically and implacably hostile to anthropomorphic art. Rooted in this literature, this essay argues that Islam was responsible for popularizing portraiture in Senegal, which previously featured none.
Giulia Paoletti
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Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 397-417, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper discusses the relevance of radical scholarship by exploring the case of the Centre International pour le Développement (CID), founded by Brazilian geographer Josué de Castro during his exile in Paris. Drawing upon Latin American works on the “Lettered City” and the evolving role of intellectuals in constructing critical knowledge, I
Federico Ferretti
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Other radical geographies: Tropicality and decolonisation in 20th‐century French geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 540-554, September 2021., 2021 This paper analyses the anticolonialist commitment of a group of French geographers who variously criticised French colonialism or directly contributed to decolonisation movements in Africa in the central decades of the 20th century. Based on the analysis of works and unpublished archives of these scholars and activists, I argue that their work can be ...
Federico Ferretti
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Fanon, the recovery of African history, and the Nekyia
, 2022 European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1565-1576, December 2022.
Komarine Romdenh‐Romluc
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Le verset : entre le vers et le paragraphe [PDF]
, 2007 Cet article s’interroge sur les caractéristiques formelles du verset moderne, considéré comme une forme intermédiaire entre le vers libre et le poème en prose.
Szilagyi, Ildikó
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Fanon's critical humanism: Understanding humanity through its “misfires”
, 2022 European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1583-1590, December 2022.
Magali Bessone
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