Decolonisation and postcolonial studies Books

Book SynopsisA remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony SampsonThroughout its turbulent history, South Africa has frequently been the focus of worldwide attention usually hostile. Yet prejudice and ignorance about the country are widespread. The evolution of the present-day Rainbow Nation' has taken place under conditions of sometimes extreme pressure. Since long before the arrival of the first European settlers in the seventeenth century, the country has been home to a complex and uneasily co-existing blend of races and cultures, and successive waves of immigrants have added to the already volatile mixture.Despite the euphoria which greeted the dismantling of the apartheid system and the election as President of Nelson Mandela in April 1994, South Africa's history, racial mix and recent political upheavals suggest it will not easily free itself from the legacy of its tumultuous past. NTrade Review‘A masterly synthesis of past and present scholarship historical storytelling in the grand narrative tradition’Mail & Guardian ‘Sweeping, exhaustive and masterly’Scotland on Sunday ‘Excellent… a balanced account of a very complex story’Stephen Fleming, Irish Independent ‘Vital to an understanding of modern South Africa’Publishers Weekly ‘His assessments are judicious, his opinions fair. Welsh maintains a clear narrative thread through this hugely complex story’Stephen Taylor, New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Remapping Sovereignty places Indigenous anticolonial thought at the center of twentieth century global struggles over nation-state, political economy, and international order. Through a beautiful synthesis of political theory and history, Temin not only powerfully reconceives classic debates but he also demonstrates the essential conceptual importance of North American Indigenous arguments for making sense of the past and future of the decolonial project. The result is a truly innovative work of political reconstruction, with critical insights for both scholars and activists." -- Aziz Rana | author of "The Constitutional Bind""Temin aptly describes aspects of historical and contemporaneous social context associated with each theorist, including treaties; settler state citizenship; termination policy; the African American civil rights movement focused on individual integrationist inclusion in the settler state; the Canadian multicultural approach; capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy; “Third World” anticolonialism, decolonization, and socialism; and relations between radical Indigenous activists and established Indigenous nations." * Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Remapping Sovereignty Chapter One. Indigenous Self-Determination against Political Slavery: Zitkala-Ša and Vine Deloria Jr. on the Colonialism of US Sovereignty and Citizenship Chapter Two. The Struggle for Treaty: Ella Cara Deloria and Vine Deloria Jr. on Anticolonial Relations Chapter Three. “The Land Is Our Culture”: George Manuel on the Fourth World and the Politics of Resurgence Chapter Four. Indigenous Marxisms: Howard Adams and Lee Maracle on Colonial-Racial Capitalism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonisation of the modern world.'Astounding . . . history at its best' Yuval Harari'Utterly compelling' Financial Times'Superb' GuardianOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new nation: Indonesia.Four million civilians had died during the Japanese wartime occupation that ousted its Dutch colonial regime. Another 200,000 people would lose their lives in the astonishingly brutal conflict that ensued - as the Dutch used savage violence to reassert their control, and as Britain and America became embroiled in pacifying Indonesia's guerrilla war of resistance: the 'Revolusi'. It was not until December 1949 that the newly created United Nations finally brought the conflict an end - and with it, 350 years of colonial rule - setting a precedent that would reshape the world.Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eye-witness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative that is alive with human detail at every turn. A landmark publication, Revolusi shows Indonesia's struggle for independence to be one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century.'A magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece' SEBASTIAN MALLABY'One of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas ... a towering achievement' THOMAS MEANEY'A magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now' JASON BURKE'At once vast and intimate, a history in colour' LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK'A masterly display of the historian’s craft' J M COETZEE'A wonderful and important book' PETER FRANKOPANTrade ReviewAn astounding feat of both research and storytelling. History at its best -- Yuval HarariA long overdue and utterly compelling narrative history of the birth of Indonesia . . . unfolds over a vast geopolitical canvas and yet never falters . . . It is as intricate as the waterways of the archipelago and yet it hums along, like a steamer on the Java Sea, propelled by the stories of its astonishing cast * Financial Times *A wonderful and important book. David Van Reybrouck has written an authoritative and powerful history of Indonesia that not only reframes the birth of a nation but helps challenge ideas about the end of the European Age of Empire -- Peter FrankopanA magnificent fusion of oral history, sparkling analysis, and historical wisdom. Revolusi has it all: a masterpiece -- Sebastian MallabyRelating the story of this place is . . . a mammoth task, requiring a monumental research effort. This is what the Belgian historian David Van Reybrouck has achieved in his superb history, Revolusi * Guardian *A rare blend of formal daring, intellectual resourcefulness and journalistic fluency, Revolusi briskly ushers Indonesia onto the centre stage of modern history. It reveals, too, decolonisation as the main event of the 20th century — what has shaped our present and will decisively define the future -- Pankaj MishraA comprehensive, authoritative, and highly readable history of Indonesia, with a focus on the crisis decade of the 1940s, from the Japanese invasion to liberation from Dutch rule in 1949. Seamlessly interwoven with hundreds upon hundreds of personal testimonies, Van Reybrouck’s narrative is a masterly display of the historian’s craft and a welcome corrective to the fiction that the Dutch in the East Indies were a benign force -- J M CoetzeeDavid Van Reybrouk's book on the Democratic Republic of Congo was an extraordinary tour de force, setting a new standard for accessible and intelligent historical writing about sub-saharan Africa. His new work, Revolusi, is as passionate, rigourous, perceptive, powerful and highly readable. Again, Van Reybrouk combines a historian's clear analytic eye with a journalist's joy at discovering and recounting the experiences of participants in great events. The Indonesian revolution, with all its complexity and horror and excitement and influence, comes alive over these 600 or so pages. This is a magisterial but gripping account of events of urgent importance to us now -- Jason BurkeReal history invariably resides in the memories of ‘ordinary people,’ people who fall through the cracks, who are excluded from the ‘panoptic’ view of history, or the history of the victors (History with a capital H). Among the book’s many gifts—the depth of its research, the breadth of its inquiries, the poetry of its prose—it is this that has affected me the most: the insistence and humility of finding and allowing these voices, these eyewitnesses to history, to come to the fore. With scientific meticulousness and a rare narrative brilliance, Revolusi gives us a history at once vast and intimate, a history in colour -- Laksmi PamuntjakHistory as it should be. Carried by a democracy of ordinary voices, meticulous research, an eye for decisive detail, vivid language and drama, Van Reybrouck forges a fantastic visionary compass to where history was heading at the time: the imagining of a new world order by people of colour -- Antjie KrogDavid Van Rebyrouck's Revolusi is a major account of one of the most unlikely and astonishing sagas of decolonization. A fully embodied chronicle that combines the skills of a journalist and a historian, the book is a towering achievement. It was the last chance to tell the story of the Indonesian revolution while some of its participants were still alive, and Van Reybrouck seized it -- Thomas Meaney

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGSHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021Helps re-centre how we look at the world' PETER FRANKOPANGlobal history at its finest' SUNIL AMRITHA master class' OLIVETTE OTELE''Fascinating'' FINANCIAL TIMESStarting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world.After revolutions in America and France, a wave of tumult coursed the globe from 1790 to 1850. It was a moment of unprecedented change and violence especially for indigenous peoples. By 1850 vibrant public debate between colonised communities had exploded in port cities. Yet in the midst of all of this, Britain struck out by sea and established its supremacy over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, overtaking the French and Dutch as well as other rivals.Cambridge historian Sujit Sivasundaram brings together his work in far-flung archiveTrade Review‘Fresh, sparkling and ground-breaking, Waves Across the South helps re-centre how we look at the world and opens up new perspectives on how we can look at regions, peoples and places that have been left to one side of traditional histories for far too long’PETER FRANKOPAN ‘A magisterial intervention in world history’MARGOT FINN, PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ‘A breathtaking book. Sujit Sivasundaram takes the familiar story of the “age of revolutions” and turns it upside down, putting the voices, the hopes and the struggles of the seafaring peoples of the Indian and Pacific oceans at the heart of his account of how the modern world was forged … Global history at its finest: eloquent, surprising, and deeply moving’SUNIL AMRITH, AUTHOR OF UNRULY WATERS ‘Challenges our understanding of colonial history … [The] outstanding volume takes us on a gripping journey across the globe … [This] magisterial book brings to light a world history that has so far been cast aside by many world historians … A master class in history writing’OLIVETTE OTELE, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF SLAVERY AT BRISTOL UNIVERSITY ‘[There are] many fascinating stories in this rich and stimulating new history … Turns conventional wisdom upside down, and invites us to follow the making of the modern world from the Pacific instead … This is big history’SPECTATOR 'Fascinating … Brings to life the “surge of indigenous politics” that marked this era'FINANCIAL TIMES 'Brilliantly reconstructs how empire was made through voyages across oceans … An exemplar of historical writing'BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE ‘He follows little-known voyages across the southern oceans accomplished by multi-ethnic crews … He deftly outlines the singularity of the British Empire… As Sivasundaram convincingly argues in the global South this revolutionary age was defined by the way indigenous peoples responded to Western invasion'LITERARY REVIEW

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Remapping Sovereignty places Indigenous anticolonial thought at the center of twentieth century global struggles over nation-state, political economy, and international order. Through a beautiful synthesis of political theory and history, Temin not only powerfully reconceives classic debates but he also demonstrates the essential conceptual importance of North American Indigenous arguments for making sense of the past and future of the decolonial project. The result is a truly innovative work of political reconstruction, with critical insights for both scholars and activists." -- Aziz Rana | author of "The Constitutional Bind""Temin aptly describes aspects of historical and contemporaneous social context associated with each theorist, including treaties; settler state citizenship; termination policy; the African American civil rights movement focused on individual integrationist inclusion in the settler state; the Canadian multicultural approach; capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy; “Third World” anticolonialism, decolonization, and socialism; and relations between radical Indigenous activists and established Indigenous nations." * Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Remapping Sovereignty Chapter One. Indigenous Self-Determination against Political Slavery: Zitkala-Ša and Vine Deloria Jr. on the Colonialism of US Sovereignty and Citizenship Chapter Two. The Struggle for Treaty: Ella Cara Deloria and Vine Deloria Jr. on Anticolonial Relations Chapter Three. “The Land Is Our Culture”: George Manuel on the Fourth World and the Politics of Resurgence Chapter Four. Indigenous Marxisms: Howard Adams and Lee Maracle on Colonial-Racial Capitalism Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Becoming Global Asia centers Singapore as a crucial site for comprehending the uneven effects of colonialism and capitalism. In the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Singapore initiated socioeconomic policies and branding campaigns to transform its reputation from a culturally sterile and punitive nation to Global Asiaan alluring location ideal for economic flourishing. Rather than evaluating the efficacy of state policy, Cheryl Narumi Naruse analyzes how Singapore gained cultural capital and soft power from its anglophonic legibility. By examining genres such as literary anthologies, demographic compilations, coming-of-career narratives, and princess fantasies, Naruse reveals how, as Global Asia, Singapore has emerged as simultaneously a site of imperial desire, a celebrated postcolonial model nation, and an alibi for the continued subjugation of the so-called Third World. Her readings of Global Asia as a formation of postcolonial capitalism offer new conceptual paradigms for understanding postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and empire.

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Book SynopsisThe moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victoryIn 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse—twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant—was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies.    Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the Uni

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Book SynopsisQuestioning energy transition in the Arab region using a climate justice lensTrade Review'Demonstrates that the climate crisis - along with mainstream responses to it - is playing out along colonial lines. It's time to face up to this reality and build an anti-colonial struggle in response.' -- Jason Hickel, economic anthropologist and author of 'Less is More''This groundbreaking volume by scholars deeply embedded in the region's political and knowledge production milieus, offers a timely, indeed acute, analysis of what a just transition might mean for the region. The authors examine in theoretically and empirically rich essays contestations over the Sahara, greenwashing Israel's colonisation of Palestine, agricultural and mineral extractivism, green capitalism and finance and a range of other urgently pivotal subjects.' -- Laleh Khalili, author of 'Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula''A brave and timely book that offers hope for our planet. These essays from the Arab world analyse the complexity of the environmental issues at play in the region and offer an optimistic, global, democratic vision of transformative sustainability centred around climate justice.' -- Ahdaf Soueif, novelist and political and cultural commentator'A much-needed decolonized examination of the climate crisis for all sacrificial zones. A focus on the situation in North Africa, an area of intense contestations pitching the peoples against the relentless push by fossil fuel speculators and other forces of neoliberalism is both welcome and a clear warning that must not be ignored.' -- Nnimmo Bassey, author of 'To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Change Crisis in Africa''A must-read thought-provoking book for every researcher, policymaker and activist working on climate, energy, development and social justice issues in the Arab region. This volume educates and empowers its readers to think about the roots of the problems in clear, systematic, and transformative ways. A significant contribution to the literature on just transition, greenwashing, neocolonialism, extractivism, and neoliberalism.' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity'This book is crucial for those seeking alternative visions and policies to the complete disaster currently being produced by capitalism, and to capitalism’s failing global and local projects to deal with an issue that is a question of life and death. Despite the multi-dimensional crisis that the Arab region – and the whole world – is going through […] the Arab region remains largely absent from the intensifying debate over the future.' -- Wael Gamal, Egyptian writer and researcher in political economy'Just as the science is telling us loud and clear that the current situation of climate deterioration may be our last chance “before it is too late”, so the research and knowledge presented in this book, including its practical and feasible recommendations (which are directed to people rather than to the indifferent, comprador regimes in the Arab region), serves as wake-up call, reminding us of the urgent need to act before it is too late.' -- Nahla Chahal, Professor of political sociology, Editor-in-Chief, 'As-Safir Al-Arabi'‘[T]his book serves as a crucial link in the collective efforts and common priorities of climate experts and climate justice advocates in Arab countries who, moreover, refuse the new colonialism that is disguised in some agendas around addressing climate change and harnessing renewable energies. I hope this book can be a catalyst that will prompt governments and civil society organizations and institutions to pursue climate justice and achieve energy democracy in North Africa.’ -- Houcine Rhili, Development specialist, Tunisia'For anyone committed to putting the Just into Just Transition this is a vital intervention that connects the past to the present and challenges us not only to reimagine the future, but to stand with those on the frontlines fighting for it.' -- Asad Rehman, War on Want, UK'The inevitable consequences of climate change caused by extractivism will mostly affect vulnerable communities ... The authors push us to be critical of green projects and remind us that not everything green should be blindly accepted.' -- 'The New Arab'Table of ContentsTables and Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Just in Time – The Urgent Need for a Just Transition in the Arab Region - Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell PART I: ENERGY COLONIALISM, UNEQUAL EXCHANGE AND GREEN EXTRACTIVISM 1. The Energy Transition in North Africa: Neocolonialism Again! – Hamza Hamouchene 2. An Unjust Transition: Energy, Colonialism and Extractivism in Occupied Western Sahara - Joanna Allan, Hamza Lakhal and Mahmoud Lemaadel 3. Arab–Israeli Eco-Normalization: Greenwashing Settler Colonialism in Palestine and the Jawlan - Manal Shqair 4. What Can an Old Mine Tell Us about a Just Energy Transition? Lessons from Social Mobilization across Mining and Renewable Energy in Morocco - Karen Rignall 5. Towards a Just Agricultural Transition in North Africa - Saker El Nour 6. The Electricity Crisis in Sudan: Between Quick Fixes and Opportunities for a Sustainable Energy Transition - Razaz H. Basheir and Mohamed Salah Abdelrahman PART II: NEOLIBERAL ADJUSTMENTS, PRIVATISATION OF ENERGY AND THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 7. International Finance and the Commodification of Electricity in Egypt - Mohamed Gad 8. The Energy Sector in Jordan: Crises Caused by Dysfunctional and Unjust Policies - Asmaa Mohammad Amin 9. Renewable Energy in Tunisia: An Unjust Transition - Chafik Ben Rouine and Flavie Roche 10. The Moroccan Energy Sector: A Permanent Dependence - Jawad Moustakbal PART III: FOSSIL CAPITALISM AND CHALLENGES TO A JUST TRANSITION 11. A Transition to Where? The Gulf Arab States and the New 'East-East' Axis of World Oil - Adam Hanieh 12. The Challenges of the Energy Transition in Fossil Fuel Exporting Countries: The Case of Algeria - Imane Boukhatem 13. Unjust Transitions: The Gulf States' Role in the "Sustainability Shift" in the Middle East and North Africa - Christian Henderson About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHigh in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historical Indigenous perspectives of encounters with empire from the 1890s to the 1920s. Based on a wide range of research and enriched by sources newly digitised by the author through the British Library''s Endangered Archives Programme, Kyle Jackson sheds new light on the complex and violent processes of how and why diverse populations of highland clans in the Indo-Burmese borderlands came to redefine themselves as Christian Mizos. By using historical Indigenous concepts and logics to approach early twentieth-century imperial encounters, Jackson guides readers into a decolonial history of Northeast India, demonstrating the value of thinking not just about the histories of colonized peoples and concepts but also with them.Table of ContentsIllustrations; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Coming into View: Trade, Violence, Coercion (1870–1899); 2: Reading the Forest: Roads, Animals, Converts (1891–1912); 3 Adopting the Missionary: Messages, Commodities, Technologies (1894–1908); 4. Sensing the Mission: Hearing, Tasting, Harhna (1910s); 5. Crisis and Conversion: Bamboo, Debt, Disease (1906–1924); Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.

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Book SynopsisNew Approaches to Decolonizing Fashion History and Period Styles: Re-Fashioning Pedagogies offers a wide array of inclusive, global, practical approaches for teaching costume and fashion history.Costume designers, technicians, and historians have spent the last several years re-evaluating how they teach costume and fashion history, acknowledging the need to refocus the discourse to include a more global perspective. This book is a collection of pedagogical methods aimed to do just that, with an emphasis on easy reference, accessible activities, and rubrics, and containing a variety of ways to restructure the course. Each chapter offers a course description, syllabus calendar, course objectives, and learning outcomes, as well as sample activities from instructors across the country who have made major changes to their coursework. Using a combination of personal narratives, examples from their work, bibliographies of helpful texts, and student responses, contributors sTable of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives and Taking Chances 1. Re-Fashioning Time: An Object-Based Approach to The History of Style 2. Research Methods for Fashion History and Technology 3. Conscious Fashion History 4. Fashion Forward: A History of Dress in Global Context 5. Global Dress History for Undergraduate General Education 6. Historic Costume and Decor Utilizing People- and Place-Based Curriculum 7. An Abridged Clothing History in Four Construction Techniques 8. Examining and Creating Connections in Costume History Through Cultural Intersections and Alternative Assessment Models 9. Expanding and Deconstructing the Western Fashion History Ideology 10. Fashion and Costume: Global Adornment and Attire 11. The March of History Gives Way to Flowers in a Field 12. Activities for the Classroom Project A: Worn History: Personal History Through Clothes Project B: Final Assignment: World Building Project C: Historic Tools and Techniques: An Exercise in Material Culture Observation

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Book SynopsisIn a rural village in nineteenth-century Nigeria, British colonial rule is finally starting to loosen its grip. As a new generation of educated locals seize their chance to take back power, a deadly disease threatens to wipe out their invaluable cocoa crop and end their village for good.In the Yoruba land of west Nigeria, the village of Ipaja faces a crisis one of identity, power, and famine. At the center are two young men with very different ideas on how to prevent the oncoming catastrophe. Although they both claim to have the village''s best intentions at heart, neither can deny the power they stand to gain if the other one fails.As tensions rise, the village must decide who they can trust and who will be able to save them from a deadly disaster...Trade Review(An) enchanting story of a cocoa community in Western Nigeria where the country's shift from colony to independent nation is acted out in terms of a serious-farcical conflict. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThis timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's life and times. It covers his long relationship with Africa during the most important period in Anglo-African history, from nineteenth-century imperial rule to independence and the emergence of modern Africa. Churchill first went to Africa during the British re-conquest of Sudan in 1898 and would spend almost the next sixty years dealing with Africa as soldier, journalist, government minister, and finally prime minister. Churchill's story is one of transition from the height of late-Victorian British imperialism to the acceptance of African nationalism in the middle years of the twentieth century. He helped to shape British colonial policy in Africa from the first decade of the twentieth century through the Second World War and colonial Kenya's Mau Mau crisis of the 1950s. Few British leaders were as closely involved with Africa as was Churchill.

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Book SynopsisA 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) 'GROUND-BREAKING' Bernardine Evaristo 'UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY' Elif Shafak 'IMPORTANT' Sathnam Sanghera 'A GENEROUS OFFERING' Nana Darkoa Sekiyamah 'QUIETLY RADICAL' Evening Standard 'INTIMATE' GuardianWhat can ancestral practices teach us about how to live fuller lives today?Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body image, making her question everything from body-modification rituals such as tattoos and piercings to the foundations of sexuality, as well as attitudes towards puberty, ageing and death. This book charts her year-long journey of radical unlearning. Bringing together global scholarship, on-the-ground reportage, personal anecdotes and interviews with beauty experts, practitioners and service users, she reassesses notions of body image beyond those of the colonial, patriarchal gaze. Decolonising My Body is a powerful excavation of the Eurocentric beauty standards that have long shaped how, in particular, those from the Global Majority are perceived and view themselves. Taking us from puberty to end-of-life, Hirsch shows us that the ways in which we adorn and present ourselves have spiritual implications and shape the possibilities we see for ourselves in the world. These insights and discoveries will empower you to reconnect with your own ancestry, better understand the link between beauty, history and (respectability) politics, and liberate yourself from mainstream standards and systems that aren’t serving you. *Co-host of the LOYALTY podcast with Peter Frankopan*Trade ReviewExceptionally rich, inspiring, challenging, wise and moving. I didn't realise I needed this book until I read it and felt stirrings towards my own ancestral awakening of African female cultural beliefs and practices that were sadly long ago lost to the colonial project. This is a ground-breaking book that speaks to all women. * Bernardine Evaristo, author of 'Girl, Woman, Other' *I would wholeheartedly recommend Decolonising My Body by Afua Hirsch. It is a very brave and honest exploration, almost and excavation of Eurocentric standards of beauty and perceptions of body, particularly of the female body. It is also a calm and wise call of an awakening, a friendly – or sisterly – invitation to a transformative journey beyond these mental walls that have been erected around and between us by capitalism and patriarchy and colonialism. I found it both universal and timely -- Elif Shafak * The New Statesman Books of the Year 2023 *There's something on every page of this book that you didn't know before, or makes you look at things a new. An important publication. -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of 'Stolen History' and 'Empireland'Decolonising my Body is both a generous offering, and a joy filled testimony. Afua skilfully pulls us into her world, and generously allows us to accompany her on a journey of questioning and unpacking notions of beauty. This exploration lights a path for all people who seek to (re)connect with more expansive understandings of beauty. -- Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, author of 'The Sex Lives of African Women'Afua has cut through so much of the noise to provide an enlightening and necessary reflection on how we can learn from the wisdom and beauty of our ancestors to become spiritually healthier humans. This book is a knowledge gift to us all. * Naomi Evans, author of 'The Mixed Race Experience', co-Founder of Everyday Racism *The journalist, commentator and author of Brit(ish) reflects on twelve months radical unlearning of Eurocentric and patriarchal conventions of beauty in this powerful and challenging volume. * Waterstones, 'Best Books of 2023: Politics' *This is a vital, challenging account of reassessing body image beyond the colonial, patriarchal gaze – told with Hirsch’s trademark rigour and purpose * i, *Christmas Gift Guide 2023* *Decolonising My Body is Hirsch’s pilgrimage towards another definition of rest and care, one that feels ancestral and intimate. As a reader you can’t help but be swept up in her quest of gentle unlearning and relearning -- Niellah Arboinne * The Guardian *A remarkable journey to unlearn western beauty standards and explore ancestral skin, hair and body modification rituals. -- Funmi Fetto * Observer *Disarmingly honest... quietly radical * Evening Standard *Praise for Brit(ish): Highly personal and yet instantly universal, this is a book that millions will instantly relate to. The book for our divided and dangerous times. * David Olusoga, author of 'Black and British' *Praise for Brit(ish): A warm, informative and occasionally heart-wrenching blend of personal and political and the messiness between the two' * Nikesh Shukla, author of 'The Good Immigrant' *

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Book SynopsisFrom a major scholar, a postcolonial perspective on key current and historical issues in Anglicanism, foregrounding the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South.In recent years, the Anglican Communion has been consumed by debates about gender, sexuality, authority, and biblical interpretation, which have frequently divided along North/South lines. Much of these controversies stem from the colonial history of Anglicanism.Written by a pioneer in postcolonial theology, this groundbreaking volume challenges Eurocentrism and racism in the Anglican Church by highlighting the voices of theologians and church leaders from the Global South. The Anglican Tradition from a Post-Colonial Perspective scrutinizes Anglican theology and history to advocate for the decolonization of the Church. It examines controversies on Christianity and the social order; economic justice; gender and sexuality; women’s leadership; worship; and the Church’s mission in a religiously pluralistic world.Trade Review“Here is the definitive global Anglican Studies text for our times. With consummate scholarly wisdom Kwok Pui-lan traverses the multiple complexities inherent in the subsequent developments of the colonially transplanted Church of England.”––Jenny Te Paa Daniel, Te Mareikura, Director, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Otabo University, New Zealand“Kwok Pui-lan is one of the major voices in postcolonial Anglican theologies today. Her astonishing ability to synthesize such a wide range of scholarly literature with depth and clarity is a gift to the academy and the church. Like several of her previous books, this one will be in use for a generation in support of a renewed vision of postcolonial Anglicanism.”––Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Histories, Claremont School of Theology“In The Anglican Tradition from a Postcolonial Perspective Kwok Pui-lan calls us, once again, to move beyond the limits of Anglo-American hegemony in our understanding and experience of the global body of Christ known as Anglicanism. Using a postcolonial lens drawing upon many diverse voices from around the world, she provides hope and understanding to the challenges and changes before the Anglican Communion today.”––Ian T. Douglas, retired Bishop Diocesan of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut"From 1543 to present challenges, Kwok Pui-Lan presents a clear-eyed look at the contexts of the Anglican Communion within the history of colonialism and empire. Kwok’s clarion call for truth and reconciliation, not gaslighting, among Anglicans could model healing for other Christian communities.”––Stephanie Y. Mitchem, Interim Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Carolina“This is a timely and engaging interaction of postcolonial perspectives with Anglican traditions and outlooks. It is a book that we have needed for some time. We are greatly in Kwok’s debt for what will quickly establish itself as a necessary text in Anglican and ecumenical studies.” ––Stephen Spencer, Advisor on Theological Education and Lambeth Conference Implementation, Anglican Communion Office

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Book SynopsisFor those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word “multiculturalism” can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history. The book focuses on the student and youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by global movements for decolonization and anti-racism, which aimed to fundamentally transform their society, as well as the fierce repression of these movements by the state, corporations, and university administrations. Part of the response has been sheer violence—campus policing, for example, only began in the ’70s, paving the way for the militarized campuses of today—with institutionalized multiculturalism acting like the velvet glove around the iron fist of state violence. And yet today’s multiculturalism also contains residues of the original radical demands of the student and youth movements that it aims to repress: to open up the university, to wrench it from its settler colonial, white supremacist, and patriarchal capitalist origins, and to transform it into a place of radical democratic possibility.Trade Review“This book boldly calls for a multiculturalism that is deep and committed rather than one that is superficial and institutionally driven. Alessandrini shows how we can produce a radical multiculturalism if we build from the ongoing legacies of decolonization. May we all heed its rallying cry.”—Roderick A. Ferguson, author of We Demand: The University and Student Protests “Written with wit and imagination . . . it also provides us with a timely reminder as to how the study of multiculturalism can resist the platitudes of pundits who pontificate about political correctness, critical race theory, wokeism, or some other moral panic.”—Daniel McNeil, author of Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel GenerationDecolonize Multiculturalism seeks to steal the project of multiculturalism from the clutches of opportunistic elites aboard “armed lifeboats” and put it back into the hands of young rebels—past, present, and future—for the sake of destroying the world to build it anew. In prose, so playful and fun, that makes decolonization irresistible, Tony Alessandrini weaves together a history of the present to chart out a future worth fighting for.—Noura Erakat, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

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Book SynopsisThis book, which combines scholarly articles with interviews, seeks to imagine a decolonized sociolinguistics. All the chapters are firmly grounded in southern approaches to knowledge production, focusing not only on epistemology but also on the complex relationship between epistemology and ontology. The chapters address issues ranging from author positionality to the central theorists of a southern sociolinguistics, and roam from the language classroom to the church, in ways which invite us to begin to decolonize ourselves and rethink normative assumptions about everything from academic writing to research methods and language teaching. The book provides scholars and teachers with inspiration for how to teach linguistics in ways that challenge colonial hegemonies and that allow one to ‘do’ sociolinguistics otherwise. It also makes a powerful argument that debates about decolonization, southern theory and social justice are not just academic pursuits: what is at stake is our future and how we imagine it.Trade ReviewThis book is a bold and timely contribution to debates about the role of power, privilege and perspective in the creation of knowledge. Particularly impressive is how contributors weave moving and personal stories of their experiences as scholars together with their empirically rich and theoretically complex accounts of their scholarship. This volume is a generously provocative intervention that provides a compass for future journeys in the field. * Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK *Akin to a capoeirista who swerves and slides and swings in syncopated disobedience to colonial oppression, this book has ginga. Each chapter engages southern theory not in mere references here and there but as integral to a project of rethinking language, re-shaping unjust worlds, and reimagining futures beyond our troubled times. The authors powerfully show how to decolonize our minds and de-Westernize our eyes and ears towards a sociolinguistic praxis that moves, grooves, and nourishes us. * Rodrigo Borba, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *In this critical and exciting collection, Deumert and Makoni introduce us, through the multiple voices and perspectives of authors from a variety of disciplinary and geographical positions, to different forms of disciplinary disobedience and epistemological delinking that provide a new foundation for the project of decolonizing sociolinguistics. A fascinating volume and a must read for those interested in the decolonial turn in the social sciences. * Anna De Fina, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsContributors Preface Chapter 1. Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Introduction: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics Chapter 2. Jaspal Naveel Singh: ‘Purifying’ Hindi Translanguaging from English and Urdu Emblems: A Sociolinguistic Decolonization of the Hindu Right? Chapter 3. Pia Lane: The South in the North: Colonization and Decolonization of the Mind Chapter 4. Conversation with Ellen Cushman Chapter 5. Alastair Pennycook: From Douglas Firs to Giant Cuttlefish: Reimagining Language Learning Chapter 6. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo and Dorothy Pokua Agyepong: Making the Secular Sacred: Sociolinguistic Domains and Performance in Christian Worship Chapter 7. Cristine Severo and Sinfree Makoni: The Relevance of Experience: Decolonial and Southern Indigenous Perspectives of Language Chapter 8. Alan S.R. Carneiro and Daniel N. Silva: From Anthropophagy to the Anthropocene: On the Challenges of Doing Research in Language and Society in Brazil and the Global South Chapter 9. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor: Localizing National Multilingualism in Some Countries in East Africa Chapter 10. Conversation with Lynn Mario Menezes De Souza Chapter 11. Sibonile Mpendukana and Christopher Stroud: Thoughts on 'Love' and Linguistic Citizenship in Decolonial (Socio)linguistics Chapter 12. Marcelyn Oostendorp: ‘Sociolinguistics Maak My Skaam [Sociolinguistics Makes Me Ashamed]’: Humour as Decolonial Methodology Chapter 13. Ana Deumert and Sinfree Makoni: Decolonial Praxis and Pedagogy in Sociolinguistics: Concluding Reflections Chapter 14. Crispin Thurlow: Commentary: From Southern Theory to Decolonizing Sociolinguistics – A Radical Listening Chapter 15. Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta: Commentary: Mobile Gazing, On Ethical Viability and Epistemological Sustainability Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that Linguistics, in common with other disciplines such as Anthropology and Sociology, has been shaped by colonization. It outlines how linguistic practices may be decolonized, and the challenges which such decolonization poses to linguists working in diverse areas of Linguistics. It concludes that decolonization in Linguistics is an ongoing process with no definite end point and cannot be completely successful until universities and societies are decolonized too. In keeping with the subject matter, the book prioritizes discussion, debate and the collaborative, creative production of knowledge over individual authorship. Further, it mingles the voices of established authors from a variety of disciplines with audience comment and dialogue to produce a challenging and inspiring text that represents an important step along the path it attempts to map out.Trade ReviewI have been learning so much from the Global Virtual Forum that I eagerly anticipated reading this book. It did not disappoint. From its moving tribute to Atila Calvente to its polyglossic treatment of knowledge and the question of who has the warrant to legitimize it, this book is both informative and inspirational, summoning us all to join in decolonizing linguistics. * Diane Larsen-Freeman, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA *This second volume from the Global Virtual Forum constitutes wading-the-languaging of decolonizing linguistics. Shaking off academia’s naturalized publishing regimes, it aligns with new creative waves-of-thinking that offer cascading waterfalls and deep currents that do the important work of disturbing mythical promises of universalistic truths. Scholars of all shades and denominations need to immerse themselves in these waterways. * Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Jönköping University, Sweden *In this thought-provoking and inspirational book, readers will find themselves invited to engage in dialogues about the various aspects of decolonial challenges, which reflect the different iterations of commitment to decolonization among the contributing authors. It is a treat if you are open to rethinking what language is and envisioning an alternative, inclusive intellectual trajectory of decolonial linguistics. * Mari Haneda, Pennsylvania State University, USA *Table of ContentsDedication Magda Madany-Saa: Interlude: In Memory of Átila Calvente Gratitudes and Acknowledgements Peter E. Jones: Foreword Sinfree Makoni, Cristine Severo, Ashraf Abdelhay, Anna Kaiper-Marquez and Višnja Milojičić: Why 'Shades of Decolonial Linguistics'? Chapter 1. David Bade: Living Theory and Theory that Kills: Language, Communication and Control Chapter 2. Salikoko S. Mufwene: An Iconoclast’s Approach to Decolonial Linguistics Chapter 3. Robin Sabino: Giving Jack His Jacket: Linguistic Contact in the Danish West Indies Chapter 4. John Joseph: Challenging the Dominance of Mind over Body in the History of Language Analysis Chapter 5. Peter de Souza and Rukmini Bhaya Nair: Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century Chapter 6. Tommaso Milani: Queer Anger: A Conversation on Alliances and Affective Politics Chapter 7. Bonny Norton: Identity and the African Storybook Initiative: A Decolonial Project? Chapter 8. Nick Riemer: Domination and Underlying Form in Linguistics Chapter 9. Alison Phipps and Piki Diamond: Decolonising Multilingualism: A Practice-Led Approach Višnja Milojičić and Rafael Lomeu Gomes: Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Arens, Nicola Frith, Jonathan Lewis and Rebekah Vince I. Colonial Continuities and Nostalgia Bayadères in the French Imagination: A Persistent Dance Tessa Ashlin Nunn Jean-Paul Kauffmann: Nostalgia, Empire and Imagined Resurrections Patrick Crowley A Russian Love Affair: Memory, Nostalgia and Transimperial Connections Srilata Ravi Colonialism, Race and Caribbean Migration: A History of the BUMIDOM Antonia Wimbush Continuity or Rupture?: Remapping the End of Empire in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Cycle Indien’ Julia Waters The Visible Other: Muslim Women, Feminism, and National Identity in France Edwige Crucifix Bridge Slaves of Fashion. Les Indiennes: The Extended Triangle The Singh Twins II. Decoloniality and Transcolonial Modes of Resistance Hidden Heritages and Unlikely Legacies: An Eastern Jerusalem in Hubert Haddad’s Premières neiges sur Pondichéry Rebekah Vince Decolonizing Collective Memory from within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France Catherine Gilbert Divided Worlds, Distorted Selves: Coloniality and the Process of Identification in Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit Abdelbaqi Ghorab The Enslaved Man in Un Cœur simple: A Story within a Story Sucheta Kapoor Mobility, Immobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous Jonathan Lewis Policing Black Anti-Colonial Activism in Interwar France: The Surveillance of Lamine Senghor in Fréjus, Marseille and Bordeaux David Murphy Afterword Charles Forsdick

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Book Synopsis Of the many European territorial reconfigurations that followed the wars of the early nineteenth century, the Ionian State remains among the least understood. Xenocracy offers a much-needed account of the region during its half-century as a Protectorate of Great Britain – a period that embodied all of the contradictions of British colonialism. A middle class of merchants, lawyers and state officials embraced and promoted a liberal modernization project. Yet despite the improvements experienced by many Ionians, the deterioration of state finances led to divisions along class lines and presented a significant threat to social stability. Sakis Gekas shows that the impasse engendered de- pendency upon and ambivalence toward Western Europe, anticipating the ‘neocolonial’ condition with which the Greek nation struggles even today.Trade Review “…a study that is not only relevant to scholars and students of modern Greece, but also to anyone interested in the history of the modern Mediterranean and of the British Empire.” • History: Review of New Books “Xenocracy is a valuable contribution that succeeds in raising broad questions and creating a dialogue between vast fields of scholarship through the analysis of a small-scale, ‘peripheral’ setting. Gekas’ empirical findings will constitute a solid reference for further studies on Mediterranean colonialism as well as the history of the Greek State. His book is therefore strongly recommended to all readers interested in state and class formation in the nineteenth century.” • H-Soz-Kult “The book is a very significant contribution not only to the history of the Ionian Islands but also to the history of the nineteenth-century Mediterranean and the development of the British imperialism… The field of Mediterranean history has recently received many interesting additions, and Xenocracy is among the best. The book should also appeal to those interested in the development of colonial governance in the region and beyond.” • Journal of Modern Greek Studies “…the book offers important insights on the nineteenth-century Mediterranean as a sea of colonial experimentation. One of Gekas’ most insightful points concerns the British colonisers’ creative play between interventionist and noninterventionist policies.” • Historein “Drawing on a wide array of Ionian and British archival sources, Gekas skillfully analyzes the governmentality of the British Empire in the islands…[He] provides an insightful look into the ‘modernizing’ attempts of British colonial rule by arguing that state formation in the first decades of the Ionian State went hand in hand with colonial public projects and public infrastructure works.” • American Historical Review “Well-written, conversant with a wide range of literature, and grounded in the relevant primary sources, this book makes meaningful contributions to numerous bodies of scholarship. In particular, it presents a sophisticated, holistic, multi-faceted analysis of commercial development and class formation in the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century, showing how economic development was deeply implicated in the creation of the colonial state.” • Thomas Gallant, University of California, San DiegoTable of Contents List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. The First Greek State and the Origins of Colonial Governmentality Chapter 2. Building the Colonial State Chapter 3. Law, Colonialism and State Formation Chapter 4. Colonial Knowledge and the Making of Ionian Governmentality Chapter 5. ‘A True and Hateful Monopoly’: Merchants and the State Chapter 6. State Finances and the Cost of Protection Chapter 7. Building a Modern State: Public Works and Public Spaces Chapter 8. ‘Progress’: State Policies for Ionian Development Chapter 9. Poverty, the State and the Middle Class Chapter 10. The Literati and the Liberali. The making of the Ionian bourgeoisie Conclusion: 1864; the end of colonial rule? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONESAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens from Asia and the Caribbean migrated to a motherland that often refused to recognise them. Race riots erupted in Liverpool and Notting Hill even as communities lived and loved across the colour line. In the 1950s and 60s, imperial violence came home too, pervading the policing of immigrant communities, including their sex lives. In the decade that followed, a surge of support for the far-right inspired an invigorated anti-racist movement.These tensions, and the imperial mindset that birthed them, have dominated Britain's relationship with itself and the world ever since: from the simplistic moral equation of Band Aid to the invasion of Iraq, in the tragedy of Stephen Lawrence and the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, we see how Britain's contradictory relationship with its past has undermined its self-image as a multicultural nation.Imperial Island tells a story of immigration and fractured identity, of social strife and communal solidarity, of people on the move and of a people wrestling with their past. It is the story that best explains Britain today.'An eye-opening study of the empire within' SHASHI THAROOR'Clear, bold, refreshing' LUCY WORSLEYTrade ReviewA masterful, ingeniously written telling of Britain's real history, stripped of its sugarcoating. Read this incisive and forensic book, and you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again -- OWEN JONESIncisive, important, and incredibly timely. An urgent and necessary account for anyone wanting to understand how Britain became the nation it is today -- Caroline Elkins, author of Legacy of ViolenceImperial Island shows us that Empire's legacy is soaked into Britain's landscapes and built into its cities and inescapably in the country's national DNA. An eye-opening study of the Empire within -- Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious EmpireCharlotte Lydia Riley radically retells a stale old story in her clear, bold, refreshing voice. Skilfully, inexorably and powerfully, she builds up a picture that's been hiding in plain sight for far too long -- Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and author of Agatha ChristieImperial Island is a marvellous account of how the empire made modern Britain. With an eye that ranges from popular culture to the highbrow, from high politics to the household, Charlotte Riley's book is a thought-provoking delight that absolutely everyone should read -- Stephen Bush, columnist for the Financial TimesAn immaculately detailed and impeccably researched account of what shaped Britain as we know it, following the collapse of empire. This is an urgent book and fine example of why the past, and knowledge of the past, is so important in the present -- HELEN CARR, author of The Red PrinceRiley’s absorbing new book … [is] a history of modern multicultural Britain and the myriad ways in which it has been shaped by empire and imperialism … Riley’s skills as a social historian are demonstrated to best effect in her use of personal testimonies, oral histories and popular culture sources to bring to life the everyday experiences of new migrants … The book is particularly rich on civil society campaigns against racism, and at documenting the political role played by the anti-war left in modern Britain … dexterously handled and carefully sourced * Financial Times *A withering indictment of cruel Britannia … a chilling history of institutional and public prejudice … Riley gives injustices that ought to be better known their due * Guardian *Riley shows that attitudes to empire in Britain were always complex and contested … provides some important corrections … [and] charts how, in the wake of decolonisation, imperialism continued to shape life in Britain … if the history of empire in Britain that Imperial Island tells is a very modern one, Riley shows, too, that our “history wars” have a long history of their own -- Hannah Rose Woods * New Statesman *At a time when discussion of the subject [of empire] can quickly devolve into ill-informed polemic, this offers an extensively researched, thought-provoking alternative * History Revealed *Riley’s book … examin[es], with considerable skill, Britain’s postwar retreat from empire … [and] recounts, with particular sympathy, the experiences faced by immigrants from the former empire * Telegraph *Riley's prose flows smoothly, connecting the dots to give the reader the wider picture. For anyone curious about Britain's colonial legacy in the modern era, Imperial Island will certainly be an eye-opener * The National *The familiar national story . . . is retold with the legacies of colonialism and racism front and centre. Other scholars have pioneered this approach . . . However, few have pursued the theme with as much gusto as Riley * History Today Best Books of 2023 *

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Book SynopsisAlarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, affecting some of the already most fragile communities most intensely, thus contributing to rising global inequality. The pairing of environmental crises and a sense of inadequacy facing hitherto celebrated models of citizenry informs a current spirit-of-the-times. The contributors to this volume place ethnographic or world cultures museums at the centre of these debates - these museums have been embroiled in longstanding debates about their histories, collections, and practices in relation to the colonial past.

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Book SynopsisA unique study of South African propaganda photography during apartheid.Throughout the apartheid era, South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate White rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photographic production and how it was tightly linked to the objective to build a White nation. Through scrutiny of the photographic material’s iconographies, its circulation in printed matters, and a comparison with works by photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Ernest Cole, and David Goldblatt, readers gain fresh insight into the country’s visual culture of the period. Based on the ambiguity of photographs, the monograph challenges the alleged dichotomy between so-called pro- and anti-apartheid photographies, highlighting how the regime was able to position photographs in the grey area of inconspicuousness.By blending photo theory and art historical analysis with historical studies, Building a White Nation will appeal to scholars and postgraduate students in cultural studies interested in photo history and theory, visual culture and art history, African studies, South African photography, Afrikaner nationalism, propaganda studies, postcolonial studies, and archive theory.Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewThis is an important piece of research on a topic that has, ironically, been neglected in recent histories of South African photography. The author’s engagement with the topic brings a sense of complexity to a series of influencing factors that could otherwise have been very simplistically treated. Instead, the author has sought to bring a sense of complexity to an argument about the intersection of photography, propaganda, and apartheid state making. Rory Bester, University of the Western CapeThis book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on photography and propaganda, African and specifically apartheid visual cultures, and ideas of nation and whiteness. It provides a detailed and multifaceted case study of the information service through from the founding of the apartheid regime through until the mid-1970s. In a context where there is a deepening of photo-historical research on African photographies, by state and non-state actors, this study fits well with current work in the field.Darren Newbury, The University of BrightonTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND FIGURESINTRODUCTION White Nation-building and the Myths of Afrikaner Nationalism Propaganda and Photography Researching Propaganda Photography and the State of the ArchivesI. SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMATION SERVICE I.1. The Information Service and Photography I.2. Publications I.3. Actors in the Propaganda MachineryII. CELEBRATING THE WHITE NATION II.1. The Inauguration of the Voortrekker Monument, 1949 II.2. ‘We Build a Nation’: The Jan van Riebeeck Festival, 1952III. H. F. VERWOERD: ‘MASTER-BUILDER’ OF THE WHITE NATION III.1. From Minister of Native Affairs to Prime Minister III.2. The Pivotal Year 1960 III.3. The Verwoerd Couple III.4. Statesman III.5. Pictorial AfterlifeIV. PROPAGATING SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT IV.1. Bantu Education IV.2. The Health Care System IV.3. Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, 1967V. PERFORMING THE STATE V.1. The Annual Openings of Parliament V.2. The Transkei Independence Celebrations, 1976VI. THE HENDRIK VERWOERD DAM VI.1. Symbol of Modernity and National Pride VI.2. The Dam in the Regime’s Visual NetworkCONCLUSIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY Archival Sources Literature Periodicals and Newspapers Film Online Sources Email Communication and InterviewsILLUSTRATION CREDITS

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