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Tulika Print Communication Services 1857 – Facets of the Great Revolt
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£11.39
Zubaan Organizing Empire Individualism, Collective
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£14.99
Tulika Books Voices of Komagata Maru – Imperial Surveillance
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£25.50
Sexto Piso Editorial La Herencia Colonial y Otras Maldiciones:
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£20.57
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hegemonía o supervivencia: La estrategia
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£14.89
Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, S.A. Crisis atlntica automa e independencia en la
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£18.60
University Press of Southern Denmark Unheard Voices: A tranquebarian Stroll
Book SynopsisOn 16 April 1620, Raghunatha Nayak of Tanjore invited Danes to settle down and establish trade in Tharangampadi known also as Tranquebar. Over the next 225 years, several hundred Danes made Tranquebar their home, and over a thousand found their resting place here. During this period, printing was established by German missionaries, a Protestant mission was founded, science and arts flourished, an astronomical observatory was set up and an exploration of the Nicobar Islands took place. The town had to be rescued several times from impending wars. This book shows glimpses of this exciting period from the remains left by the Danes. Arranged as a walking tour of the town, we pass by places where significant people lived and noteworthy events took place.
£29.34
Aarhus University Press Dark Continent?: Images of Africa in European
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£45.00
Aarhus University Press Teaching Post-colonialism & Post-colonial
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NIAS Press Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in
Book SynopsisLaos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.
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NIAS Press Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in
Book SynopsisLaos, 1900 - a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, a fertile place teetering between an ancient pastoral existence and the modern machine age. Alfred Raquez's Laotian Pages vividly describes his exploration of the diverse kingdoms of Laos at the turn of the last century with the same Parisian verve and ironic turn of mind that he brought to his first travel book, In the Land of Pagodas. Raquez's keen eye and sensitivity to the exotic in both nature and human culture, combined with a mastery of the genre and his hallmark conversational style, transport the reader to the largely unexplored frontier of fin-de-siecle Indochina. Long known only to specialists on the history and ethnography of the region, this new work presents a scholarly translation into English together with Raquez's original photographs that will finally allow a wide audience to experience the joys and hardships of travel in a land that is both timeless and forever changing. In addition, a wide-ranging introduction and extensive footnotes provide historical context and `then-and-now' perspectives on the cultures and landscape that have undergone massive change in the past century. In the Land of Pagodas, a scholarly translation by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux of Alfred Raquez's book of travels through China in 1899, was published in 2017 by NIAS Press.
£30.56
NIAS Press Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in
Book SynopsisLong regarded as a peripheral state in mainland Southeast Asia, Laos has attracted far less scholarly attention than richer and more powerful neighbours like Thailand and Vietnam. This has meant, however, that in Lao studies there is a greater potential for individual scholars to make significant contributions to their field. One such scholar is Australia's Martin Stuart-Fox, in honour of whom this festschrift has been produced with contributions from colleagues, former doctoral students and friends. The volume is more than a hagiography, however. Its chapters on Laos all make significant contributions to Lao studies. These range from the writing of Lao prehistory in Laos, to early Lao-Thai relations, from French colonial archaeology to medical practices and gun-boat diplomacy, from the `invention' of Laos as a modern state to its revolutionary transformation and present politics. Though the main focus is on the history, politics and national identity of Laos, essays also point `beyond' Laos, both geographically and metaphorically. In the first instance, the volume provides a welcome comparative perspective, from precolonial relations between Southeast Asian polities and European courts to colonial policies within French Indochina, to the structure of communist power in Vietnam. Three concluding essays point beyond Laos in a metaphorical sense in directions indicated by Professor Stuart-Fox's wider intellectual interests - to cultural legitimation and identity, to Buddhism and Buddhist meditation, and to how the principles of Darwinian evolution apply to historical change. Engaging Asia is thus a volume that will stimulate and satisfy, while at the same time honouring a scholar whose unusual career took him from marine biologist to war correspondent to respected scholar of Southeast Asian politics and history.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Desley Goldston) • Contributors • 1. Martin Stuart-Fox: Evolution of a Worldview (Jessica Harriden) • 2. On Writing Volume One of The History of Laos (Souneth Phothisane) • 3. The Half Millennium Quandary: Establishing the Ayutthaya–Lan Xang Frontier 1357–1827 (Pheuiphanh and Mayoury Ngaosrivathana) • 4. The La Grandière, 1894–1910: A French Naval Presence on the Upper Mekong (Kennon Breazeale) • 5. The Birth of French Research into the Prehistory of Laos (Lia Genovese) • 6. Nurse Khamphanh and His Dead Horse: The Practice of Biomedical Science in Early Twentieth Century Laos (Kathryn Sweet) • 7. The Invention of French Laos (Geoffrey Gunn) • 8. Laos in the 60s (Tim Page) • 9. The Lao Long of Cambodia: Ethnic Lao in the Cambodian Revolutions (Martin Rathie) • 10. Marxist Leninist Ideology Drove the Lao Revolution (Desley Goldston) • 11. Mobilizing Hearts and Minds: Reconciliation Politics in Laos (Soulatha Sayalath) • 12. Photographing Laos (Steve Northup) • 13. The Ethno-Religious Identity of the Tai People in Sipsong Panna and Its Resurgence in Recent Manuscripts (Volker Grabowsky) • 14. An Embassy from Banten at the Court of Charles II (Sarah Tiffin) • 15. Tonkinese Migrant Labour in Cambodia: A Coolie History (Margaret Slocomb) • 16. Decentralization in Vietnam: Resolving Central–Provincial Relations (Timothy McGrath) • 17. What is the First jhāna? The Central Question in Buddhist Meditation Theory (Roderick S. Bucknell) • 18. Biological and Cultural Evolution: A Proper Analogy (Juan Ramón Álvarez) • Afterword (Martin Stuart-Fox ) • Publications of Martin Stuart-Fox • Index
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NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
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NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
£30.57
Viella Editrice Dalle Alpi All'africa: La Politica Fascista Per
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£35.15
Damiani Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to
Book Synopsis‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022 and will run at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center until Spring 2023. This project considers the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath while examining the social lives of Black Americans within various places including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic sites, and in public memory. This exhibition acknowledges artists’ constant involvement with efforts to explore the possibilities of freedom and their relationship to it. Their quest to be ‘as free as they want to be’ is envisioned in the subject matter they explore as well as in their persistent drive to innovate aesthetic practices in photographic media. The publication presents some 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation. Free as they want to be is inspired by the words of James Baldwin and the timely theme of FotoFocus, World Record, as well as events of late that have shaped the world as we know it. The artists selected for this publication are on the frontlines, creating, documenting, and writing. The works they have conceived reflect defining moments in the struggle for racial justice and equality. Free as they want to be presents an occasion to reflect upon the past, to mark significant defining moments – both triumphs and tragedies – that characterize a people and their experiences in the present – and to propose future possibilities. The artists offer images that advance a different sense of empowerment. Their images thus play an integral part in casting resilient narratives as they commemorate endurance, longevity, and accomplishment. The timing of a publication like this could not be more urgent given the human toll of the pandemic, widening economic disparities, the threat of war, voting rights, global migration crises, and quotidian violence. Proposed Artists: Terry Adkins; Radcliffe Bailey; J.P. Ball Studio; Sadie Barnett; Dawoud Bey; Sheila Pree Bright; Bisa Butler; Omar Victor Diop; Nona Faustine; Adama Delphine Fawundu; Daesha Devon Harris; Isaac Julien; Cathy Opie; Hank Willis Thomas; Lava Thomas; Carrie Mae Weems; Wendel White; William Earle Williams; anonymous tintype photographer – photo album
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Brill Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa:
Book SynopsisIn Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies.Trade Review[...] “Constant experimentation of approaches and the use of a wide variety of sources are the distinctive traits of this book [...]. Silvia Bruzzi’s book is an original and stimulating contribution that gives Eritrea the history of one of its foremost female protagonists”. Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia, in Aethiopica 23 (2020) pp. 292-295 [...] 'Cet ouvrage passionnant et érudit participe du renouvellement de l’approche biographique dans le champ des études africaines' Ophélie Rillon, CNRS, in Cahiers d’études africains 242 (2021) pp. 1-3Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations A Note on Transliteration and Dates Transliteration List Introduction Sufism, Colonialism and Gender Dynamics Sufism and the Female Body 1 Islamic Renewal Movements, Colonial Occupation, and the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region Islam and the Idrīsī Tradition in Northeast Africa The Establishment of the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region 2 Sufis at the Crossroads: Regional Conflicts and Colonial Penetration The Ḫatmiyya up against the Sudanese Mahdī A Marriage Alliance between the Mīrġanī and the Beni ʿAmer People Sīdī Hāšim: Spy or walī ? 3 Islam, Gender and Leadership Female Heirs by Blood Alone: A Power Vacuum? Women and Heresy in Sufi Centres Embodying Religious Orthodoxy 4 Fragmented, (In)Visible and (Un)Told Stories Looking for Muslim Women in Northeast African History Regional Women’s Centres of Empowerment and Religious Learning Baraka, Itinerant Preaching and the Mobility of Pious Women 5 Sufi Women’s “Fantasy”, Performances and Fashion Imagination and Desire in Women’s Bodies Women’s Fantasia in Sufi Regional Centres Visiting a Fashionable, Cosmopolitan Woman 6 Growing Visibility in the Political Arena Women’s Bodies, Photography, and Colonialism Growing Popularity Broadcast through Visual Media Visibility, Visuality and Power in Portraits of the Šarīfa 7 Marvels, Charisma and Modernity Performed and Contested Karāmāt Modern Enchantment: Colonial Technologies and Infrastructures Mediating Conflicts 8 Military Bodies: Askaris, Officials and “the Female Warrior” Religious Intermediaries and Regional Networks Enlisting Askaris and Colonial Propaganda The Defeat of Italy 9 A Female Icon of Muslim “Emancipation” for the Conquest of Ethiopia (1936–1941) Building Mosques: Muslim Policies from Libya to Ethiopia A Female Icon of Muslim “Emancipation” The Mosques Built in Honour of Sittī ʿAlawiyya Muslim Attitudes towards the Italian Occupation: From Collaboration to Agency 10 Conclusion: Sufi Memories Women’s Embodied Archives and Spirit Possession Embodying Sittī ʿAlawiyya’s Visit to Harar Sufi Visions and Historical Imagination Bibliography Index
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Brill Conrads Presence in Contemporary Culture
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Brill Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India
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Leiden University Press Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History
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Leiden University Press Images of the Indonesian War of Independence,
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Leiden University Press Serving the chain?: De Nederlandsche Bank and the
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Sidestone Press Transfer between Sea and Land: Maritime Vessels
Book SynopsisQuestions about the cultural exchange of both knowledge and material goods are just as topical today as in years gone by. These questions have gained increasing attention from scholars since the 1980s when the term ‘transfers cultures’ by historians arose. However, this book provides a completely new approach in this context by interdisciplinary investigation of cultural exchanges based on chosen objects from shipwrecks and land, significant written documents and verifiable transfer of knowledge.The publication combines studies from humanities and natural sciences. Thus, historians, archaeologists, and pharmacists have investigated the way of transfer by means of material and immaterial goods, such as ship lists, medicine, metal ware, exotic animals and Asian objects as well as ship constructions. They set out, the continuity and discontinuity of cultural exchange based on moving objects depending on different conditions such as region, time, demand and availability.The innovative contributions of the publication aim to improve the understanding of cultural exchange by sea, as well as its reflection on land in the Early Modern Time and are the results of a workshop, which took place in the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven, a Research Institute of the Leibniz Association, in 2015. The results show good promise for forthcoming investigations at the interface between History and Maritime Archaeology.The book targets graduate and post-graduate interdisciplinary researchers of archaeological, human, and natural sciences as well as everybody interested in both post-medieval and maritime history.Trade ReviewAll these papers are interesting and instructive in themselves. But they go beyond that. As a collection they demonstrate that ships are always parts of wider systems and, since these systems are highly mobile, the networks they establish, and the influences, connections, and cultural interactions they generate, can be enormously complex and far-flung. * International Journal of Nautical Archaeology *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Sources and Permission Notes on Contributors Foreword by the State Archaeologist of Bremen Uta Halle Introduction: Maritime vessels and their Significance for Early Modern Cultural Exchange Simone Kahlow Asian Objects in Europe Ways of Transcontinental Intertwining in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Gerson H. Jeute A Contribution to the Study of Global Trade Routes in the Post–Medieval Period: ‘Nuremberg wares’ from Venetian Shipwrecks in the Eastern Adriatic Patrick Cassitti With the Warship KRONAN in the Wake of Paracelsus Archaeological Finds Reflecting the Conception of Drugs in Seventeenth-Century Sweden Björn Lindeke and Bo Ohlson Exotic Animals Thoughts about Supply and Demand Based on Archaeological Finds Simone Kahlow The Lloyd´s List – A Global Intelligence Unit? Stefan Geissler Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Age Shipbuilding Anne-Kathrin Piele Index
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Amsterdam University Press Foreign Cultural Policy in the Interbellum: The
Book SynopsisThis book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of the rise of fascist dictatorships in Europe. Van Kessel focuses in particular on the activities of the British Council and the Italian Dante Alighieri Society in the Mediterranean area, where their respective country's strategic and ideological interests most evidently clashed.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN CULTURAL POLICY Chapter 2: THE DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY AND THE BRITISH COUNCIL AGENCY AND INDEPENDENCE Chapter 3: CONSTRUCTIONS OF 'ITALIANITÀ' AND 'BRITISHNESS' Chapter 4: THE BATTLE FOR CULTURAL HEGEMONY IN MALTA Chapter 5: NATIONAL CULTURE AND IMPERIAL CONQUEST: THE DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY IN ABYSSINIA AND THE BRITISH COUNCIL IN EGYPT Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography
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Bloomsbury India The Raj: A Journey through Ten Documents
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Bloomsbury India The ‘Civilisational Mission’: From Discovery to
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Bloomsbury India Indian People and Society: From Discovery to the
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Bloomsbury India Domesticity, the Social Scene and Leisure: From
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Bloomsbury India Rebellions and Wars: From Discovery to the
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited The Broken Script: Delhi under the East India
Book SynopsisCombining immaculate scholarship with extraordinary storytelling, Swapna Liddle has produced an outstanding book of narrative historyâon a great city in transition, and on early modern Indiaâthat will be read and discussed for decades.
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Bloomsbury India Aurobindo
Book SynopsisThis book elaborates the politico-ideological viewpoints of Aurobindo, as displayed when he reigned as one of the major nationalist leaders defining Indian nationalism. Bidyut Chakrabarty examines Aurobindo's politico-ideological ideas during the period (1893-1910) when he was an active participant in the New Nationalist' or Democratic Nationalist' campaign, which started with the bifurcation of the Indian National Congress between the Moderates and Extremists (also known as the Revolutionary Nationalists) in its 1907 annual session, held at Surat.Chapters cover Aurobindo's distinctive ideas of nationalism, which he evolved in collaboration with his colleagues, especially Lal-Bal-Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal), and how he redefined the practice of nationalism. The book also demonstrates that unlike his predecessors, the Moderates, Aurobindo set out many strategies including boycott and passive resistance to execute the distinctive plan he designed to attain his politico-ideological goal. Other topics include the relatively less discussed aspect of Aurobindo's socio-political ideas, namely his unique model of education as an antidote to many of the crippling socio-cultural prejudices, and the importance of Bhagavad Gita in shaping Aurobindo's politico-ideological priorities.
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Bloomsbury India Orientalism Liberalism and Colonial
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HarperCollins India Krantikari: Bharat ke Swatantrata Sangram ki Ek
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Bloomsbury India Reinventing Aurobindo Ghose
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Zubaan Contesting Nation – Gendered Violence in South
Book SynopsisAn innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence—in wars of direct and indirect conquest—marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization.The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11 mobilizations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, shedding light on the force with which brutal events encompass lives and disfigure communities. This powerful book examines the very borders such brutality maintains and its intimate and lasting effects on bodies and memories.
£28.46
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Uprising of 1857
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Seeta: Ordeals and Tribulations of a Widow in 1857 Mutiny
£46.54
Pan Macmillan India Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose's Life, Politics and
Book SynopsisThe complete life story of SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE from the pen of Krishna Bose, an eminent member of the Bose family and pioneering Netaji researcher. Featuring 95 images and letters from family albums and Netaji Research Bureau archives. Written over six decades by an esteemed scholar and Bose family member, Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose''s Life, Politics and Struggle vividly reveals the human being alongside the revolutionary and freedom fighter, traversing Bose''s life from childhood to his mortal end in August 1945. Krishna Bose travelled the subcontinent and the world to discover Netaji''s life. As she pieces together her findings, we gain striking new insights into Subhas Chandra Bose''s political motivations, his personal relationships, and the epic journeys and daring military campaigns he undertook to secure India''s independence. We visit the Manipur battlefields where the Indian National Army waged its valiant war, the Andamans where Netaji raised the national tricolour; Singapore, where the INA tookshape; Vienna and Prague, his favourite European cities; and Taipei, where his life was tragically cut short. We meet Netaji''s key political contemporaries from Nehru and Gandhi to Tojo and Hitler. And we learn in gripping detail about the Azad Hind Fauj''s spirit of unity and the bravery in war of its men as well as the women who fought as the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Krishna Bose closely knew many personalities who feature in this book Basanti Debi, Subhas''s adopted mother; Emilie Schenkl,his spouse; Lakshmi Sahgal, Abid Hasan and many other leading soldiers of the Azad Hind movement who all shared vital memories that helped complete Netaji''s life story. Drawing on Netaji Research Bureau''s archives and decades of fieldwork and interviews, this book offers an unmatched portrait of Subhas Chandra Bose the man, his politics and his epic struggle for India''s freedom. Krishna Bose''s writings were compiled, edited and translated from Bengali by her son Sumantra Bose. Krishna Bose''s writings were compiled, edited and translated from Bengali by her son Sumantra Bose.
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Roli Books Pvt Ltd Banned & Censored: What the British Raj Didn't
Book SynopsisThe book dives into the history of sedition and censorship in colonial India. Closely examining 100 texts that the British Empire banned, censored or deemed seditious, the work brings to life these lost gems from India’s freedom, cultural, and social movements. It includes writing by figures famous and obscure, of events immortalised and forgotten, by Indians and non-Indians, by people jailed and free, by politicians and missionaries, by travellers and novelists, and in several Indian as well as European languages. Each excerpt illuminates not just its author’s thought processes, but the times in which it was composed and circulated.
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Bloomsbury India Thugs and Dacoits: Volume VI: The Imperial
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Lannoo Publishers Recaptioning Congo: African Stories and Colonial
Book SynopsisRecaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 – 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo. Text in English, French and Dutch.Trade ReviewRecaptioning Congo is on the list of the New York Times 2022 Art Book: "…unfolds rare amateur photo magazines, 1930s studio portraiture, and missionary and ethnographic documentation, and also wrenching but important photos of colonial atrocities." - New York Times
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Leuven University Press Religion, colonization and decolonization in
Book SynopsisReligion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries, the Marian shrines of the Catholic Church, the Islamic brotherhoods, and the Jewish community of Lubumbashi, to the 'African' churches of the Congolese diaspora in Brussels and Paris, the healers of Kimbanguism, the televangelism of the booming Pentecostalist churches in the great cities, the Orthodox communities of Kasai, and the 'invisible' Mai Mai warriors in the brousse of Kivu. During the colonial period religion was no less central to people's lives than it is today. More surprisingly, behind the seemingly smooth facade of missions linked closely to imperial power, also then faith and worship were marked by diversity and dynamism, tying the Congo into broader African and global movements. The contributions in this book provide insight into the multifaceted history of the interaction between religion and colonization. The authors focus on the institutional (including legal) political framework, examine the complex interaction between indigenous and 'imported' non-African religious beliefs and practices, and zoom in on the part religions played in the independence movement as well as on their reaction to independence itself. Contributors: Piet Clement (Bank of International Settlements), Bram Cleys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Anne Cornet (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren) Marie Dunkerley (Exeter University), Zana Aziza Etambala (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren), Anne-Sophie Gijs (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Miguel Bandeira Jer nimo (University of Coimbra), Emery Kalema Masua (University of the Witwatersrand), Sindani E. Kiangu (Universit de Kinshasa), Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi (Stanford University) Dominic Pistor (Simon Fraser University), Jean-Luc Vellut (Universit Catholique de Louvain), Vincent ViaeneTrade ReviewAl vanaf de eerste bladzijde van de inleiding poneren zij immers dat ze vooral de verscheidenheid van de religieuze ervaringen ten tijde van kolonisatie en dekolonisatie tot hun recht willen laten komen. Daarmee nemen ze expliciet afstand van de te eenzijdige focus op missionering die de religieuze geschiedenis van koloniaal Congo tot dan had beheerst. Religie was er veel méér, zo betogen ze, dan de pogingen van katholieke (en in snel verminderende mate ook protestantse) missionarissen om hun geloof aan de Congolese bevolking op te dringen. [...] Dat deze verscheidenheid door de samenstellers van dit boek in de schijnwerpers wordt geplaatst, is vanzelfsprekend positief. Zoals ze het zelf verwoorden in hun inleiding: “The picture is one of vivid colours. It is not yet high definition, but it is no longer monochrome.” Marnix Beyen, Volkskunde 2021 - 1Hiermee zijn een aantal aspecten uit de geschiedenis van Congo aangesneden, maar die toch ook wel doen verlangen naar een nieuw standaardwerk over de rol van missionarissen en kerken vanaf de 19e eeuw tot de huidige Democratische Republiek Congo. Hoe de verschillende congregaties en ordes te werk gingen in de hun toegewezen gebieden, hoe de verhoudingen met de staatsinstellingen verliepen, hoe zich geleidelijk aan een inlandse clerus en kerk ontwikkelde, en welke rol de verschillende (christelijke) kerken en andere geloofsgemeenschappen vandaag spelen in dit onmetelijke land. Dekolonisatie betekent niet dat men eenvoudig weg de geschiedenis achter zich kan laten. Integendeel. De spanningsvelden die er in de huidige RDC zijn hebben hun historische wortels. Dit soort werken, zoals de bundel die nu voorligt, kunnen er toe bijdragen om niet alleen de politieke of sociale geschiedenis van het land te beschrijven, maar ook aandacht te hebben voor de belangrijke rol van religies, onder welke vorm dan ook.Herman Lodewyckx, Acta Comparanda, 2021L’ année 2010 est marquée par la commémoration du cinquantenaire de l’ indépendance de la République du Congo. Parmi les très nombreuses manifestations scientifiques qui prennent alors place, le KADOC organise un colloque international intitulé ‘Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960’. Celui-ci réunit une trentaine d’intervenants, historiens et hommes d’Église surtout, dont la plupart proviennent de Belgique, de la République démocratique du Congo ou des États-Unis. Les actes de cette rencontre internationale paraissent dix ans plus tard sous le titre bilingue ‘Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960.’ Bérengère PIRET, Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, LI, 2021, 3The book is engaging, enjoyable, and a high-quality product, with all chapters well written and capably edited. Students of the colonial encounter, and in particular of missionary action in Congo, will find rich references and numerous suggested avenues for future research.Matthew G. Stanard, TSEG, VOL. 18, NO. 2, 2021, https://tseg.nl/article/view/10788/12072, DOI: 10.52024/tseg10788Its three sections proceed, as the editors explain, from the political to the socio-cultural and personal order, yet, each section exemplifies the deep entanglements of these domains. The authors aim to put religious agency at centre stage, focusing on the cultural interface created by the missionary encounter. This approach highlights both the interplay between objectives and interests of consecutive colonial administrations, policies of Protestant and Catholic missionary organisations, practices of missionaries on the ground and mediation and appropriations by their converts: African Christians who became key players in carving out multiple meanings of religion in Congo.Marit Monteiro, SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC, 116 (2022), 403–506, DOI: 10.24894/2673-3641.00127[...] a worthwhile contribution to scholarship on Congo [...] hopefully it should help stimulate new research in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Congolese religious history.David Maxwell, The English Historical Review, 2022, ceac253, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac253Table of ContentsIntroduction Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys and Jan De MaeyerIntroduction Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys et Jan De MaeyerRELIGIONS AND THE COLONIAL STATE / LES RELIGIONS ET L’ÉTAT COLONIAL Premières évangélisations de l’Afrique centrale et éthique sociale, 1500-1900. Entre morale de conviction et morale de responsabilité Jean-Luc VellutInternationalism, Religion and the Congo Question An introduction, 1875-1905 39 Vincent ViaeneReligion and Politics in the ‘Congo’. Portugal and the European inter-imperial competition, c. 1865-1890 Miguel Bandeira JerónimoLes droits des autochtones. Un enjeu dans les relations jésuites-État, fin XIXe-début XXe siècle Anne-Sophie GijsCatholic Missionaries and the Production of Kasai as a Colonial Landscape, 1890-1960 Bram CleysINTERMEDIARIES / INTERMÉDIAIRES Musique et univers sonores dans le champ missionnaire des Grands Lacs. Perception, emprunts et transferts au Kivu, Rwanda et Burundi, 1908-1940 Anne CornetHome is where the Heart is? Debates between missions and colonial administrators over accommodation for Congolese students at the École Unique des Assistants Médicaux Indigènes, Léopoldville, 1929-1946 Marie BryceReligion et médecine au Congo Belge. Pratiques et savoirs des 1assistants médicaux «indigènes» issus de Kisantu (Fomulac) et de leurs patients, 1937-1961 Emery M. KalemaVivre (à) la Mission. Mémoires individuelles, histoire collective Elisabeth Mudimbe-BoyiTHE CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL MISSIONS / LA CRISE DES MISSIONS COLONIALESTempels Revisited. The conversion of a missionary in the Belgian Congo, 1930s-1960s Piet ClementDevelopmental Colonialism and Kitawala Policy in 1950s Belgian Congo Dominic PistorLes missions catholiques et les émeutes de Léopoldville, 4 janvier 1959 Zana EtambalaLe mouvement muleliste comme théorie et pratique religieuses en diocèse d’Idiofa (Province du Kwilu, R.D.C.) Sindani E. KianguIndex Authors / Auteurs Colophon
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Leuven University Press The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary: Photography between France and Africa, 1900-1939
Book Synopsis"It was very difficult to find a way of writing about the different perspectives of France and Africa, of Africans in France and the French in Africa.", Simon DellUnique study of portraiture in the colonial imaginaryFrench colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary.Anyone interested in the history of colonial Africa will have encountered innumerable portraits of African elites produced during the first half of the twentieth century, yet no book to date has focused on these ubiquitous images. Dell analyses the production and dissemination of such portraits and situates them in a complex and conflicted field of representations.Moving between European and African perspectives, The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary blends history with art history to provide insights into the larger processes that were transforming the French metropole and colonies during the early twentieth century.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade Review... un livre très fouillé du professeur Simon Dell sur cinq séries de portraits photographiques entre France et Afrique (principalement le Cameroun) entre 1900 et 1939 [...] Pour chaque série, l’auteur fait une analyse argumentée, très détaillée, quasi « entomologique », des écrits et des images, naviguant entre théorie de philosophie politique et analyse iconographique détaillée. Marc Lenot, 31 Août 2020, Lunettes RougesSituating his study within the move to take art history beyond Eurocentrism and into the field of world art studies, Simon Dell works persuasively across historiography, literary criticism, and, centrally, visual analysis. Drawing inspiration from Levinas’s reflection on the ethics of encounter, he foregrounds the place of the photographic medium, both in the construction of the colonial narrative and as appropriated or resisted by African leaders contending with imperial hegemony. Dell explains how its European provenance meant that the photographic portrait was never a neutral medium in the colonial context. [...] Throughout this important book, Dell’s deft, studied sequencing of visual material provides illuminating points of access to a wider historical narrative.Edward J Hughes, French Studies, December 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knaa243Jeder, der sich für die Kulturgeschichte der europäischen Kolonisation interessiert, wird dieses Buch mit Gewinn lesen.Matthias Waechter, Historische Zeitschrift, 2021, Volume 312 Issue 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hzhz-2021-1063Dell offers a new and very useful analysis of the complicated interrelationship between France, African colonies, and photography during the years between 1900 and 1930—a moment when the “French empire” was at its strongest. Most importantly, he recognizes that there are many kinds of colonizing gazes, and he analyzes in depth three case studies to tease out the differences. Kim Sichel, The Journal of Modern History 2023 95:2, 474-475, https://doi.org/10.1086/724605Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Making men Citizens and subjectsA new humanity The Republican imaginary and the colonial imaginary The colonial imaginary renewed Portraits, points of view, and representation Portraits and subjectivities 2. Perception, apperception and disavowal André Gide and Marc Allégret in the CongoGide’s queer disposition Allégret’s apprenticeships Perceiving the African The heart of things Difference and differentiation Resistance and accommodation Allégret’s editions Missionary perceptions Civilisation, portraiture and contingency 1 3. Staging, actors and audiences The Exposition coloniale internationale in ParisLyautey’s project Time, portrait, patriarchy Structures of resistance and the limits of opposition Shame Roger Parry’s third space The burden of civilisation 4. Performance, appropriation and dispossession King Ibrahim Njoya and Mosé Yeyap in the Cameroon GrassfieldsExtraversion and representation Njoya’s appropriations The making of Yeyap The palace and the museum Exhibition, alienation and dispossession The uses of the image of Njoya Yeyap’s arts in France Epilogue Charles Atangana between Africa and FranceNotes Sources Illustration Credits Index
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Leuven University Press Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies,
Book SynopsisReframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museumsHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies. Preface by Arjun Appadurai. Afterword by Roger SansiContributors: Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Annette Bhagwati (Museum Rietberg, Zurich), Clémentine Deliss (Berlin), Sarah Demart (Saint-Louis University, Brussels), Natasha Ginwala (Gropius Bau, Berlin), Emmanuel Grimaud (CNRS, Paris), Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós (Paris), Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Montreal), Toma Muteba Luntumbue (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture, Leiden), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin), Margareta von Oswald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Roger Sansi (Barcelona University), Alexander Schellow (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo), Anna Seiderer (University Paris 8), Nanette Snoep (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne), Nora Sternfeld (Kunsthochschule Kassel), Anne-Christine Taylor (Paris), Jonas Tinius (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Listen to an interview with editors Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/across-anthropologyTrade ReviewAn extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice—its real possibilities and constraints. The editors’ guiding concept of “trans-anthroplogy” avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today. James Clifford, Author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st CenturyI seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art. Thomas Fillitz, University of ViennaBy opening the debate up to a European perspective, with contributions related to the French, Belgium, Dutch and Italian contexts, this anthology offers a well-balanced set of statements, interviews and experiences that allow for different practices to resonate and establish common terrains of concern and enquiry. The editors have proposed a rich selection of points of view that neatly embody one of the key requests for a revision of the colonial past that its narrative be formulated through new forms of pluri-vocality, that "trouble", and thus avoid the smoothing effect of the singular institutional voice.En ouvrant ce débat a une perspective européenne, à travers des contributions liées aux contextes français, belge, néerlandais et italien, cette anthologie offre un ensemble équilibre de déclarations, d'entretiens et d'expériences, permettant a différentes pratiques d'entrer en résonnance et d'établir des terrains communs d'intérêt et d'enquete. Les directeurs de l' ouvrage ont proposé une riche sélection de points de vue qui incarnent bien l'une des demandes clés dans la révision du passé colonial: que le récit du colonialisme soit exprimé à travers de nouvelles formes chorales qui soient « troublantes », évitant ainsi l'effet de lissage des voix institutionnelles singulières.Felicity Bodenstein, Critique d'art 55, https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.68093An assemblage of research articles, reflections, and conversations, Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial provides a unique and necessary contribution to recent conversations questioning the meaning, relevance, and legitimacy of anthropology as a discipline [...] Offering ongoing projects of ontological shifts and epistemic critiques, this book demonstrates the potential for decolonizing practices in the museum, while also acknowledging that representational work is not enough. [...] I would recommend this work to scholars, students, and practitioners, especially those dubious of the efficacy of anthropology and museums. In interrogating the validity of anthropology and museums, these contributors have deftly demonstrated the radical potentialities offered by these institutions through epistemological technologies and ethical apparatus, even as their epistemic existence is reconsidered. Sowparnika Balaswaminathan, Museum Anthropology, November 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12239Table of ContentsList of imagesAcknowledgements Introduction: Across Anthropology Margareta von Oswald and Jonas TiniusMuseums and the Savage Sublime Arjun AppaduraiTransforming the Ethnographic : Anthropological Articulations in Museum and Heritage Research Sharon Macdonald“Museums are Investments in Critical Discomfort” A conversation with Wayne ModestFrontiers of the (Non)Humanly (Un)Imaginable : Anthropological Estrangement and the Making of Persona at the Musée du Quai Branly Emmanuel Grimaud“On Decolonising Anthropological Museums : Curators Need to Take ‘Indigenous’ Forms of Knowledge More Seriously” A conversation with Anne-Christine TaylorTroubling Colonial Epistemologies in Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum : Provenance Research and the Humboldt Forum Margareta von Oswald“Against the Mono-Disciplinarity of Ethnographic Museums” A conversation with Clementine DelissResisting Extraction Politics : Afro-Belgian Claims, Women’s Activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa Sarah Demart“Finding Means to Cannibalise the Anthropological Museum” A conversation with Toma Muteba LuntumbueAnimating Collapse: Reframing Colonial Film Archives Alexander Schellow and Anna Seiderer“Translating the Silence” A conversation with le peuple qui manqueArt-Anthropology Interventions in the Italian Post-Colony : The Scattered Colonial Body Project Arnd Schneider“Dissonant Agents and Productive Refusals” A conversation with Natasha GinwalaPorous Membranes : Hospitality, Alterity, and Anthropology in a Berlin District Gallery Jonas Tinius“What happens in that space in-between and beyond this relation” A conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng NdikungMaterial Kin : “Communities of Implication” in Post-Colonial, Post-Holocaust Polish Ethnographic Collections Erica Lehrer“Suggestions for a Post-Museum” A conversation with Nanette SnoepRepresentation of Culture(s) : Articulations of the De/Post-Colonial at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin Annette Bhagwati“How Do We Come Together in a World that Isolates Us?” A conversation with Nora SternfeldThe Trans-Anthropological, Anachronism, and the Contemporary Roger SansiList of contributorsVisual constellations across the fields Some lists to inspire the reader
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Leuven University Press Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial
Book SynopsisOne hundred years after the founding of the Ecole Coloniale Superieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flaneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia. With contributions by Pieter Boons, Sandrine Colard, Filip De Boeck, Bas De Roo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Sorana Munsya & Leonard Pongo, Herman Van Goethem, Sara Weyns, Nabilla Ait Daoud Participating artists: Sammy Baloji, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Maurice Mbikayi, Jean Katambayi, KinAct Collective, Simone Leigh, Hank Willis Thomas, Zahia Rahmani, Ibrahim Mahama, Angela Ferreira, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sven Augustijnen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Elisabetta Benassi, Pelagie Gbaguidi Free ebooks English/Dutch and French availableTrade ReviewIn de denkbeeldige stad Congoville worden de materiële en immateriële sporen van de beeldvorming, denk- en geheugenbeelden van deze veelgelaagde geschiedenis uitgediept. De impuls voor de tentoonstelling was historisch onderzoek naar de voormalige Koloniale Hogeschool Middelheim, die aan het gelijknamige museumpark grenst. Het museum werd opgericht toen de hogeschool, waar de toekomstige koloniale elite opgeleid werd, nog actief was. Het gefundeerde zelfonderzoek naar dit koloniale en imperialistische verleden, waarvan de rijke catalogus met nieuwe kennisproductie eveneens blijk geeft, is een essentieel onderdeel van het streven naar dekolonisatie. Merel Van Tilburg, Editie 213 september-oktober 2021The exhibition catalogue of Congoville offers a striking example of a postcolonial inventory jointly undertaken by artists, curators and critics. Invented by the curator Sandrine Colard, the very title of the exhibition, which took place in the former premises of the Ecole des Administrateurs Coloniaux, refers to an inventory of the traces of Belgium’s imperialist past in the country’s geography. The works by the fifteen invited artists are exhibited alongside a major archival project, and fully embrace these specifications.Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Autumn/Winter 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85502Le catalogue de l’exposition Congoville offre ainsi le saisissant exemple d’un travail d’inventaire postcolonial, conjointement pris en charge par des artistes, des curateurs et des critiques. Inventé par sa commissaire Sandrine Colard, le titre même de l’exposition, sise dans les anciens locaux de l’Ecole des Administrateurs coloniaux, désigne l’inventaire des traces d’un passé impérialiste dans le paysage belge. Jouxtant un important travail d’archives, les œuvres des quinze artistes sollicités embrassent pleinement ce cahier des charges.Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Automne/hiver 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85509Table of ContentsESSAYSForewordsIntroductionSandrine Colard Congoville: A Black Flâneur’s Path through a Post-Colonial CityFilip De Boeck Congoville–Putuville: Mirroring Models and Beyond in the (Post)Colonial World Nadia Yala Kisukidi In Congoville, the “Belgian-Negros” Never Saw the Light of Day: Travelling (Back) in TimeBas De Roo Masters in Colonization? The Colonial College of Antwerp and Its Legacies (1920-1960)Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo Congolese Resistance to Belgian Africa? The Colonial College of Antwerp (1920-1960)EXHIBITIONAbout the ArtistsArtist InterviewsPostfaceAbout the authorsColophon--------ESSAYSWoord voorafInleidingSandrine Colard Congoville: een zwarte flâneur op pad door een postkoloniale stadFilip De Boeck Congoville–Putuville: voorbij de spiegelbeelden in de (post)koloniale wereldNadia Yala Kisukidi In Congoville zagen de ‘Belgo-Negers’ nooit het daglicht: een (terug)reis in de tijdBas De Roo Masters in de kolonisatie? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen en zijn erfenissen (1920-2020)Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo Congolese weerstand tegen Belgisch Afrika? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen (1920-1960)TENTOONSTELLINGOver de kunstenaarsInterviews met de kunstenaarsNabeschouwingOver de auteurs Colofon
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Leuven University Press Colonial Legacies: Contemporary Lens-Based Art
Book SynopsisIn Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michele Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography and video art, these artists rework existent images and redress archival absences, making visible people and events occluded from dominant narratives. Their artworks are shown to offer a re-reading of the colonial and immediate post-independence past, blurring the lines of historical and speculative knowledge, documentary and fiction. Nugent demonstrates how their practices create a new type of visual record for the future, one that attests to the ramifications of colonialism across time.Trade ReviewThis book constitutes an outstanding contribution to the study of contemporary African art and historiography of the DRC. In its painstaking analysis of past and present images, it offers a timely analysis of Congolese culture and politics. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, French Studies, 2023, knad010, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad010 "... the book’s forte lays in the author’s careful method of close reading. Nugent rightfully prides herself for her attention to visual details. She reads artworks both along and against the grain, by zooming in on images, paying attention to their materiality, tracking their transformations and alterations, looking at the margins. Her book’s argumentative power also comes from its careful consideration of the historical scholarship on the Congo, as well as its rich theoretical apparatus. These foundations enable Nugent to contribute both to Congolese studies and to current scholarly conversations, on questions including visuality, memory, violence, technopolitics, and the body ... the book offers a highly stimulating study of critical artistic interventions ... It will appeal to readers interested in Congolese history, contemporary art, photography, and the making of new archives for the present." Pedro Monaville, African Arts (2023) 56 (2): 93–95, https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00713The real heart of this book, which makes an interesting contribution to the study of a highly dynamic contemporary Congolese art scene, lies with its delicate unpacking of the past futures the art under discussion renders visible. - Sarah Van Beurden, H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 136, https://h-france.net/vol23reviews/vol23_no136_VanBeurden.pdfTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Mining Lubumbashi: Sammy Baloji’s Mémoire Chapter 2. The Maintenance of Mobutu’s Zaire: Michèle Magema’s Oyé Oyé Chapter 3. The Image of Lumumba: Georges Senga’s Une vie après la mort Chapter 4. From Kinshasa to the Moon: Kongo Astronauts Coda. Between History and individual histories Notes Bibliography Index Colour Plate Gallery
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Leuven University Press A Violent History
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Amsterdam University Press America's Encounters with Southeast Asia,
Book SynopsisA century before the Philippines came under American control, Americans were already travelling to Southeast Asia regularly. This book looks at the writings of American diplomats, adventurers, and scientists and chronicles how nineteenth-century Americans viewed and imagined Southeast Asia through their own cultural-political lenses. It argues that as Americans came to visit the region they also brought with them a train of cultural assumptions and biases that contributed to the development of American Orientalism in Southeast Asia.Trade Review"With his well-written book, Farish fills an important knowledge gap by showing that, to protect its commercial interests in Southeast Asia, the U.S. was pursuing its own gunboat diplomacy as early as the 1830s." - Giorgio Mariani, Asian Journal of Social Science 48, 2020 "Farish Noor’s latest book presents a series of richly-textured critical explorations of a selection of key texts presenting windows on the ways in which the United States engaged with a range of different Asian societies over the course of the nineteenth century ... this book makes valuable contributions to several fields that do not often intersect in a single academic work: Southeast Asian history, nineteenth-century literature, and American studies. Readers coming from the perspective from any of these fields will learn much from Noor’s book, and his finely crafted prose helps to make it a thoroughly enjoyable read as well." - R. Michael Feener, University of Oxford, Review of International American Studies Vol. 12, 2019 "Absolutely unique, beautifully written and quite simply mind-blowing. This is a distinct and original piece of work that offers an account of American-Southeast Asian encounters through a lens that is rightly critical of Orientalist constructions of Asia. There is nothing else like this book and the field of Southeast Asian studies is very much in need of it." - Professor Rachel Harrison, SOAS, University of London "Highly original and un-put-down-able. Farish's work looks at the interaction of Americans with Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century and the development of American Orientalism. Studying the emerging Orientalist discourse in 19th century America through the works of American authors, this work has much to say about issues of racism, and the cultural and religious exceptionalism of the United States as it emerged as a colonial power." - Professor Peter Carey, Emeritus Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of IndonesiaTable of ContentsDedication Introduction: The Eagle in the Indies: America's early encounters with Southeast Asia, and how Southeast Asia was imagined in the 19th century. A book about books, and why books matter. Chapter 1. The Curtain Rises: America's Independence and The Birth of a New Naval Power. 1.I. 'To be considered as Actors on a most conspicuous Theatre': America's genesis and the world beyond. 1.II. The Birth of a New Naval Power 1.III. Between Expansionism and Isolationism: America's neutrality tested. 1.IV. Marking borders and stepping out: Southeast Asia Awaits. Chapter 2. Pepper and Gunboats: The Kuala Batu Affair and America's First Gunboat Action in Southeast Asia. 2.I. Boom! America's Pepper Rush begins. 2.II. Not so friendly after all: The Attack on the American Merchant Vessel Friendship. 2.III. 'You are authorized to vindicate our wrongs': America's first attack in Southeast Asia. 2.IV. Drama Awaits: The controversy over the Kuala Batu affair back home in America. 2.V. 'Conducted in a desultory manner': Francis Warriner's account of the Kuala Batu Attack. 2.VI. 'We have made no conquests, dethroned no Sultans': Jeremiah Reynolds' defence of American aggression. 2.VII. Far from the Madding Crowd: Embedded Writers and the Beginnings of American Scholarship on Southeast Asia. Chapter 3. Friends, but not Equals: Edmund Roberts' mission to Siam and the Birth of American Orientalism. 3.I. In Search of Friends: America's mission to Siam. 3.II. 'Not a single vessel of war was to be seen': Roberts' Mission to secure a friend for America. 3.III. The great unknown: Edmund Roberts' arrival in Siam. 3.IV. The American Eagle and the British Lion: 'Frienemies' in the Indies. 3.V. Regarding the feeble, un-Christian Other: Oppositional dialectics in Roberts' narrative. 3.VI. Edmund Roberts as the American Orientalist. Chapter 4. 'It was a scene of grandeur in destruction': Fitch W. Taylor and America's Second Attack on Sumatra in 1838. 4.I. Boom! Back to Sumatra we go. 4.II. 'May a merciful as well as a just God direct': Fitch Taylor's Christian Universe. 4.III. Finding Comfort in the Familiar: Fitch Taylor's deliberate blindness. Chapter 5. Flirting with Danger: Walter Murray Gibson, The American Nobody Wanted. 5.I. From Sea to Shining Sea: America's Expansion and Consolidation in the 1840s and 1850s. 5.II. 'Jealousy had met me at the threshold of Netherland India': Walter Murray Gibson's misadventure in Sumatra. 5.III. Will no one rid me of this troublesome man? The Walter Gibson Affair and its Impact on American-Dutch Relations. 5.IV. Those who can't do, write fiction: Walter Gibson as American Orientalist. 5.V. The Filibuster's Demise: Gibson's final Pacific adventure. Chapter 6. It is your shells I am after: Albert S. Bickmore's Voyage to the East Indies And America's Coming of Age. 6.I. From Antebellum to Post-Civil War United States: Another America Rises. 6.II. All for the Sake of Knowledge: Bickmore's Scientific Jaunt across the Dutch East Indies. 6.III. 'This indicates their low rank in the human family': Bickmore and the Theory of Racial Difference. 6.IV. Albert Bickmore's Adventure in Conchology and America's entry into the club of Civilized Western Nations. Chapter 7. Empire at Last: America's Arrival as a Colonial Power in Southeast Asia. 7.I. Travelling in the Shade of Empire: American Tourists and Amateurs in Southeast Asia. 7.II. That other Great Game to the East: America's rise as a Colonial Power from 1898. Chapter 8. Conclusion: American Orientalism in Southeast Asia. 8.I. American Orientalism: The contours of a New Language-Game, and its Users. 8.II. The Gathering of Minds: How the echo chamber was formed. 8.III. 'Indians', Indians, Asians, and the Disabled Native Other. 8.IV. Talking to themselves: American works on Southeast Asia as self-referential texts. 8.V. The Stories We Tell: America and Southeast Asia's entanglement, then and now. Appendix A: The treaty
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