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Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, a cura di Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, traduzione di Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156
Full text linkBook review of Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156.Recensione di Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, a cura di Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, traduzione di Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156
'Babilonia', oppure? Mobilità internazionale e logiche d'appartenenza nella Repubblica del Gambia
No full textNel marzo 2006 a Nouakchott, capitale della Mauritania, Kumba si dirige verso un quartiere periferico dove deve incontrare un suo "parente" che si occupa di affari legali. Da due anni aspetta una risposta dal tribunale al quale fece appello per chiedere un risarcimento all'azienda in cui lavorava il figlio Ahmed, licenziato in tronco, dopo un incidente sul lavoro. Forse ha sopravvalutato le capacità del governo di instaurare una legalità valida per tutti, ma la sua intraprendenza è segno della speranza che la transizione politica degli anni Novanta del Novecento ha suscitato in lei. Kumba è una donna fulaabe. Appartiene ad una minoranza etnica che è stata tra le principali vittime dei cosiddetti 'avvenimenti etno-razziali del 1989'. Ancora oggi i fulaabe sono uno dei gruppi più marginali nell'accesso alla spartizione della "torta" delle opportunità economiche e delle cariche politiche e amministrative mauritane". Privilegiando l'analisi di casi concreti, questo volume affronta la storia e l'attualità del dibattito su cittadinanza e diritti in Africa. Gli autori insistono sulle dimensioni vissute dell'inclusione e dell'esclusione e sulle battaglie quotidiane perché l'appartenenza politica si traduca in un fatto sostanziale. Il loro sguardo è rivolto all'Africa e alle migrazioni dall'Africa verso l'Italia e l'Europa, con l'idea che la ricerca africanistica offra modelli ed esempi, che consentono di leggere le tensioni del nostro presente
Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene & Martin A. Klein, eds., African Slaves, African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life
Full text linkLe volume dirigé par Alice Bellagamba, Sandra Greene et Martin Klein invite à réfléchir à la spécificité des rapports de servilité en Afrique, mais aussi à les penser en relation avec des phénomènes historiques, économiques et anthropologiques de longue durée et mondialisés. Selon cette perspective, les expansionnismes coloniaux, religieux et commerciaux, ainsi que la période postcoloniale peuvent être appréhendés comme des contextes au sein desquels des formes d’esclavage dites « domestiques..
Introduction: An Afro-Europeanist Perspective on EurAfrican Borders
No full textThe volume analyzes the formation of the Europe’s externalized border management of African migrations, as well as its socio-cultural, political, economic and existential underpinnings and implications. The introduction lays the analytical foundations of this collective endeavor. As it is a process emanating from Europe, scholars have primarily studied the externalization of Europe’s borders from ‘inside out’, that is, as seen in the migrant-receiving context and the external dimensions of the Union’s policy. By contrast, the introduction makes a case for studying the African ramifications of Europe’s southern border, arguing that Europe’s external borders have also become African borders. It uses the term ‘EurAfrican’ to tease out the relational nature of border-making, and the legacy of asymmetric exchanges, encounters and (imperial) imaginations informing in complex ways the current border and migration management strategies in the Euro-African space. In order to analyze EurAfrican borders and migration management, the introduction further argues, an Afro-Europeanist perspective is needed that destabilizes centric epistemologies and strives to reinforce the dialogue between Africanist and Europeanist scholarships on borders
EurAfrican Borders and Migration Management: Political Cultures, Contested Spaces, and Ordinary Lives
No full textBridges the gap between African and European borderlands research through an interdisciplinary examination of the border dynamics between these continents
Considers the spatial dimensions of the African and European border, the actors that create the borders, and the social and existential implications of these borders on the lives of Africans
Presents in-depth ethnographic research as well as extensive theoretical engagement from leading borderlands scholar
A Free Woman could Marry a Slave Because of Hunger”. Memories of Life in Slavery along the Northern Mozambique Coast
No full textOral sources are essential in research on Northern Mozambique history of the turn of the twentieth century. They open a window on a more recent and undocumented phase, which accompanies the establishment of the Companhia do Niassa as a chartered company in the islands between 1891 and 1929, the enforcement of the legal abolition of slavery, and the progressive emergence of racial classifications. The oral sources add to our understanding of past social dynamics the perspective of the people involved, as opposed to the perspective of the officials, and provide clues to the social and gender differences that existed among the slaves who lived on the islands or in proximity to them on the Northern Mozambican coast. While the demand for slaves was growing on the coast, highly organized systems of domestic slavery and complex relations of dependency among patrons, clients, and servants had already developed in the Zambezi Valley. This chapter analyses memories about domestic slavery gathered in the Querimbas Island and nearby areas
Frontiers of Exodus: Activists, Border Regimes and Euro-Mediterranean Encounters After the Arab Spring
No full textThis chapter documents the emergence of encounters and initiatives between European and Tunisian activists in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and of mass protests across Europe in 2010–11. It focuses, in particular, on activists belonging to Italy’s Global Project social movement. Rather than solely through the revolutionary spirit of this historical phase, the chapter shows that such cooperation also emerged through the political cultures developed over years of struggle against the EurAfrican border regimes in the Mediterranean. Global Project activists envisioned a biopolitical continuum between, on the one hand, migration and border governance and, on the other, the forms of politico-economic domination and alienation that triggered mass mobilizations on either side of the Mediterranean. Activists thus identified a ground for common struggles that would further unleash the possibility of ‘exodus’, that is, of creating autonomous spaces of self-determination away from power structures. By unraveling these frontiers of exodus, the chapter shows the limitations of narrowly defined, state-centered understandings of border politics and regimes in the EurAfrican space
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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