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Modernization As Spectacle in Africa
Av Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
945 kr
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For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality …
Modernization As Spectacle in Africa
Av Peter J. Bloom, Stephan F. Miescher m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
379 kr
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For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality …
Frenchness and the African Diaspora
Identity and Uprising in Contemporary France
Av Charles Tshimanga, Ch. Didier Gondola m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
343 kr
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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 …
French Colonial Documentary
Mythologies of Humanitarianism
Häftad, 2008
322 kr
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Despite altruistic goals, humanitarianism often propagates foreign, and sometimes unjust, power structures where it is employed. Tracing the visual rhetoric of French colonial humanitarianism, Peter J. Bloom’s unexpected analysis reveals how the project of remaking the colonies in the image of …
