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The ‘sick man’ beyond Europe: the orientalization of Turkey and Turkish immigrants in European Union accession discourses in Germany
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A New Graduate Studies Programme: the Graduiertenkolleg Postcolonial Studies at Munich University
No full textAfrica’s colonial present: development, violence, and postcolonial security
No full textThis chapter draws on Derek Gregory’s idea of the ‘colonial present’ in an attempt both to politicize the postcolonial and to embed postcolonial concerns at the heart of geopolitics. It addresses the geopolitical position of Africa in the US-sponsored ‘war on terror’ by exploring the tensions that exist between biopolitical processes of security and development. It concludes with a discussion of alternative modernities which suggests that other forms of biopolitics are being practised, in Africa and elsewhere, that subvert the imperial ambitions of the colonial present even if they do not always succeed in resisting it
Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature, Animals, Environment
Get PDFReseña de Libro: Huggan, Graham and Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature,
Animals, Environment (New York/London: Routledge, 2010), vi+245 pp
Qullissat:Historicising and Localising the Danish Scramble for the Arctic
No full textIn what might be described as the scramble for the contemporary scramble for the Arctic, it is easily forgotten that the region contains many examples of previous, more isolated scrambles from whose histories we might learn something pertinent to the current one. In our case study, we focus on the mining town of Qullissat and its closure in 1972, but we also examine its aftermath as a vibrant cultural, social, and political trope in Greenland. Founded in 1924, Qullissat in time grew to become one of Greenland’s largest towns with a modern, prosperous, dynamic and inventive society. As a symbol of the disastrous effects of the Danish modernisation of Greenland, Qullissat’s closure became a significant trigger in the movement towards Home Rule. For the local residents of Qullissat, the displacement from homes, families, and friends led to disruption and despair. This case study examines the legacy of Qullissat as a symbol of the colonial relationship and its continuing impact on Greenland today, offering a localised perspective on the intricate connections between colonial, postcolonial, and neocolonial forces’ influence on Greenlandic people and their environments.The rise and fall of the town and coal mine at Qullissat raises a number of challenging questions about Danish administrative culture in Greenland. Through this historical case study, the authors challenge the assumption that the so-called scramble for the Arctic is solely about our own contemporaneity. The establishment of the coal mine and its labour-force town in 1924 constitutes a much earlier scramble. Importantly, it illustrates how such scrambles represent a continued colonial mindset whose power lines are both deliberately and inadvertently opaque. While the wilful exercising of colonial power has attracted much attention in postcolonial studies, the unintentional, disassembled side of colonial rule creates analytical confusion, not least because of the difficulties involved in tracing decision-making processes even where colonial rule is demonstrably hegemonic
Postcolonial Perspectives on the European High North:Unscrambling the Arctic
No full textThis book approaches the Arctic from a postcolonial perspective, taking into account both its historical status as a colonised region and new, economically driven forms of colonialism. One catchphrase currently being used to describe these new colonialisms is 'the scramble for the Arctic'. This cross-disciplinary study, featuring contributions from an international team of experts in the field, offers a set of broadly postcolonial perspectives on the European Arctic, which is taken here as ranging from Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic to the upper regions of Norway and Sweden in the European High North.While the contributors acknowledge the renewed scramble for resources that characterises the region, it also argues the need to 'unscramble' the Arctic, wresting it away from its persistent status as a fixed object of western control and knowledge. Instead, the book encourages a reassertion of micro-histories of Arctic space and territory that complicate western grand narratives of technological progress, politico-economic development, and ecological 'state change'. It will be of interest to scholars of Arctic Studies across all disciplines
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