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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Fanon, The Arab Spring and the Myth of Liberation

New Proposals, 2012
In the foreword to The Wretched of the Earth, Homi Bhabha asserts that Fanon’s work and his vision for decolonization toward a common African culture provide a blueprint for the conceptualization of social inequalities that have proliferated under global
Aisha Birani
doaj  

Conceiving global culture: Frantz Fanon and the politics of identity

Acta Academica, 2018
The article introduces Frantz Fanon’s notion of cultural humanism as a new way of conceiving global culture and, simultaneously, models a new framework for understanding the ethics and politics of identity today.
Chika Mba
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Begetting Silvio Gesell in the Modern Economy: A Marriage of Frederick Soddy and Kenneth Boulding

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Natural Economic Order, first published in 1916, Silvio Gesell warned against a fiat monetary system that in place of controlling the circulation of money with demurrage, sought to manage the system by accommodating demand for liquidity.
Ahmed Anwar
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A home for the 'wretched of the earth'

, 2018
Society
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Decolonial thinking and Europe: Decolonisation between particularity and universalism

Verbum et Ecclesia
Colonisation continues to have a tremendous impact on large parts of the globe and not only on previously colonised countries. Many of the current geopolitical, economic and environmental challenges that the globe faces cannot be thought of without ...
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Livestreaming the ‘wretched of the Earth’: The Christchurch massacre and the ‘death-bound subject’ [PDF]

Ethnicities, 2020
The livestreaming of terror, its co-production through live consumption and the massacre of lives as ‘entertainment’ propelled us into another long abyss of ethical challenges in the case of the xenophobic terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019. Livestreaming, as part of the convergence of technologies, enables narration in ‘real’ time,
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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