{"title":"Reading a 'porous' nation: Sri Lanka and the remnants of its civil war","authors":"S. Perera","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2129357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2129357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73592147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world","authors":"Alina Sajed, T. Seidel","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127652","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This special issue examines the connections among (post)colonial spaces forged in the struggle for national liberation and after. The focus on anticolonial/postcolonial connectivity indicates the existence of alternative forms of spatiality that go beyond the linear (and hierarchical) relationship between metropole and colonial spaces. Here we seek to challenge the dominant focus in the literature on the relations between colonial metropoles or hegemonic centres and colonized spaces. Rather we explore the ways through which colonized and postcolonial subjects cultivated knowledge ‘sideways’, meaning they inter-connected tactically, materially and intellectually without needing to call upon the imperial centre for interpretation or authorization. In surveying the connections between Algeria, Vietnam, Libya and Palestine, for example, or between Palestine and Mexico, between Islamic revivalist groups in the Middle East and the Asian subcontinent, in the making of Pan-Africanism and the anticolonial Caribbean, or the fragile moments of connections and solidarity in the Balkans - the articles in this special issue investigate a variety of anticolonial and postcolonial connectivities as well as a complex politics of solidarity that highlights both limits and blind spots but also untapped potentialities.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89828290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam","authors":"J. Gani","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127660","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, the roles and relations of Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet, despite intellectual overlaps, mutual opposition to British colonialism, and a shared spiritual worldview, little has been written within postcolonial studies on the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jamati Islam in South Asia. I explore the link between both movements as an example of anti-colonial connectivity that transcended territory. Though disconnected by geography and language, both groups were nevertheless tied by the deep connection of a shared belief system and the common experience of British imperialism. In particular, I argue their theology was not incidental but fundamental to both their anti-colonialism and their connectivity. I consider how that connectivity and solidarity evolved through time and shifting locations, reflecting the rich inheritance not just of post-colonies, but also of diasporic communities in the imperial metropole, inhabiting liminal spaces of unbelonging who often found community via these transnational movements. The purpose of the article is a recovery of history and a recognition of (at times overlooked) anti-colonial struggles and solidarities that do not fit neatly within disciplinary postcolonial norms.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"83 1","pages":"55 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83804929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism","authors":"R. Persaud","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127667","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures. Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney led epic struggles against authoritarianism in their native Guyana and contributed to the global fight for decolonization and national independence. The article also compares and contrasts the work of Jagan and Rodney.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"131 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80217142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border","authors":"T. Seidel","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127661","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Borders, barriers, and walls separate and divide. The construction of walls, militarization of borders, and confiscation of land can be observed throughout the histories of settler colonialism with violent material and bodily effects, especially as it has been inflected through the logic and structures of racial capitalism. And yet, as borders, barriers, and walls ‘harden’ through new security practices, local struggles emerge that transgress, cross boundaries, and express anticolonial connectivities. This article examines one case of this along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border, where we observe both the coordination between the U.S., Israel and global business in the ‘hardening’ of border regimes, and struggles against that border violence seen with protesters in Los Angeles demanding human rights for Latin American migrants and Palestinians or campaigns for a ‘World Without Walls’. It argues that these anticolonial connectivities are examples of boundary-crossing work that bridge gaps and separations maintained by colonial domination and become powerful acts of resistance against those regimes.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"94 - 111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83478266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân","authors":"Quỳnh N. Phạm","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127671","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT My essay examines the layered connections among anticolonial struggles. I confront the difficulty of tracing these connections as I excavate the global dimensions of bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s political work. As a Vietnamese revolutionary diplomat, she built transcontinental relations and friendships with people from other nations, liberation movements, and different walks of life. Yet the international relations that she actively constructed are rendered obscure not only by the Eurocentrism of disciplinary knowledge but also by gendered erasure and restricted framings of her diplomatic work. I look into sources from the margins to trace bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s cosmopolitan engagement in ngoại giao nhân dân (people’s diplomacy). This clues us into the political, material, and affective bonds among colonized peoples that sustain their struggles. It is crucial to shift our lens of research and protocols of knowledge to better attend to the submerged: the globality of anticolonial women, the underground connections that may be elusive in formal archives, the crossings and gatherings of those fighting for a decolonized world. This is not simply a matter of bringing the submerged into visibility, but learning from the submerged to re-conceptualize the range and depths of what constitutes global relations, past and present.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"82 10 1","pages":"146 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88035176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier","authors":"Benedetta Zocchi","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127670","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since 2018, the Bosnian Canton of Una-Sana became the bottleneck of the Western Balkan Route and the last frontier before the EU border. These events illustrate the logic through which the EU border performs in the Balkans, by containing and excluding both those inhabiting and those crossing the region. This study theorizes the Balkans as a liminal space, where the EU border is produced through a colonial logic diffusing dichotomized and hierarchical relations of subordination. It zooms in on the Bosnian frontier as a site where the EU border is simultaneously sustained and contested, drawing attention to tensions and initiatives enacted thorough the assemblage of those gathering beyond it. The paper is written in dialogue with people on the move, activists, volunteers, scholars and practitioners met during fieldwork in the Una-Sana Canton. Their lived experiences of connectivity, cultivated in spaces where the border simultaneously contains and assembles them, compose the central data of this study. Bringing scholarship on borders and migration in conversation with Balkan studies, the paper engages with liminality as an opportunity to rethink transversally about local, regional and global trajectories of coloniality assembling histories and bodies in the Balkans.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"165 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82655449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron","authors":"Alexandra Berry","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2022.2129360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2022.2129360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81955847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filmischer Widerstand","authors":"Teresa Millesi","doi":"10.1515/9783839464175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839464175","url":null,"abstract":"Seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts nehmen Konflikte um Land und Ressourcen in vielen lateinamerikanischen Ländern stark zu. Dieses Phänomen einer vermehrt neo-extraktivistisch orientierten Politik bedroht insbesondere Gebiete, in denen indigene Gemeinschaften leben. Im Kontext des indigenen Filmschaffens sind derartige Konflikte daher ein zentrales Thema. Wie werden Machtverhältnisse, unterschiedliche territoriale Vorstellungen und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen hier verhandelt? Teresa Millesi analysiert eine Auswahl von Filmen unter Einbezug raumwissenschaftlicher und ökokritischer Ansätze. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Bedeutsamkeit der Filme als Widerstandspraxis gegen die nationalstaatliche Hegemonie.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74650019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures","authors":"Branwen Gruffydd Jones","doi":"10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper examines how poetry served as a vehicle to imagine and call into being various subjectivities and affective relations which actively countered the restrictions of colonialism and racism, especially on the part of the assimilados, the small educated elite constructed by Portuguese colonialism. Several important forms of anticolonial connectivity are expressed in these poems: connections with the broader African diaspora in North America, the Caribbean and Brazil; connections with all continental Africans; connections across the spaces of the Portuguese colonial empire – Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe; and connections of solidarity and unity between the assimilados and indígenas of the Portuguese colonies. These various dimensions of affective connection were constitutive of a new anticolonial imagination and looked towards liberated futures.","PeriodicalId":46334,"journal":{"name":"Postcolonial Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"32 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81448979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}