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Decolonizing Nationalism: Reading Nkrumah And Nyerere’S Pan-African Epistemology, Jesse Benjamin
Decolonizing Nationalism: Reading Nkrumah And Nyerere’S Pan-African Epistemology, Jesse Benjamin
Jesse Benjamin
Using the perspective of intellectual history, this essay explores the lives and philosophies of Julius K. Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, heads of state in Tanzania and Ghana, respectively, as well as philosophers, activists, and Pan-African leaders throughout their lifetimes. The central focus is on their concepts and practices of nationalism, and their attempts to transcend the confines of colonial, Western epistemologies in formulating new African social practices. Their concepts of African socialism, pan-Africanism, and neo-colonialism are examined closely. Their lived experiences with injustice in Africa and the Black Atlantic shaped their perspectives. Their unfinished work bequeathed to us tools for …
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture, Robert Rotenberg, Alaka Wali
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture, Robert Rotenberg, Alaka Wali
Robert Rotenberg
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Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg
Material Agency In The Urban Material Culture Initiative, Robert Rotenberg
Robert Rotenberg
This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets of objects. I advocate an approach to collecting in museums based on the tactics people use to create these assemblages at home. What theorizing about material agency offers to our collection program is a focus …
Everyday Violence, Quotidian Griefs: Kidnapping In The Pankisi Gorge, Rebecca Gould
Everyday Violence, Quotidian Griefs: Kidnapping In The Pankisi Gorge, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.