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The Coloniality of Modern Taste

Author : Zilkia Janer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000818086

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The Coloniality of Modern Taste by Zilkia Janer Pdf

This book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomy’s engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste. The Coloniality of Modern Taste provides an understanding of gastronomy that moves away from the usual celebratory approach. Through a discussion of nineteenth-century gastronomic publications, this book illustrates how the gastronomic notion of taste was shaped by a number of specifically modern constraints. It compares the gastronomic approach to taste to conceptualizations of taste that emerged in other geographical and philosophical contexts to illustrate that the gastronomic approach stands out as particularly bereft of affect. The book argues that the understanding of taste constructed by gastronomic texts continues to burden the affective experience of taste, while encouraging patterns of food consumption that rely on an exploitative and unsustainable global food system. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, decoloniality, affect theory, sensory studies, gastronomy and food studies.

Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic Region

Author : Adrián Groglopo,Julia Suárez-Krabbe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000849073

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Coloniality and Decolonisation in the Nordic Region by Adrián Groglopo,Julia Suárez-Krabbe Pdf

This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality, and decolonisation mean and imply in the Nordic region. It brings together analysis of complex realities from the perspectives of the Nordic peoples, a region that is often overlooked in current research, and explores the processes of decolonisation that are taking place in this region. The book offers a variety of perspectives that engage with issues such as Islamic feminism and the progressive left; racialisation and agency among Muslim youths; indigenising distance language education for Sami; extractivism and resistance among the Sami; the Nordic international development endeavour through education; Swedish TV reporting on Venezuela; creolizing subjectivities across Roma and non-Roma worlds and hierarchies; and the whitewashing and sanitisation of decoloniality in the Nordic region. As such, this book extends much of the productive dialogue that has recently occurred internationally in decolonial thinking but also in the areas of critical race theory, whiteness studies, and postcolonial studies to concrete and critical problems in the Nordic region. This should make the book of considerable interest to scholars of history of ideas, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, international development studies, legal sociology, and (intercultural) philosophy with an interest in coloniality and decolonial social change.

From the Plate to Gastro-Politics

Author : Raúl Matta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031466571

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From the Plate to Gastro-Politics by Raúl Matta Pdf

This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine’s shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a food nation on the global stage. It focuses on the contexts, processes and protagonists that have endowed the country’s cuisine with new meaning, new coherence and prominence, and with the ability to communicate what was important for Peruvians after decades of political violence and economic decline. This work unfolds central processes of the culinary project ranging from the emergence of gastronomy, to the refiguring of indigenous people as producers, to the use of cultural identity as an authenticating force. From the Plate to Gastro-Politics offers a critical reading of what has been called a “gastronomic revolution”, highlighting the ways in which claims to national unity and social reconciliation smooth over ongoing inequalities. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of food studies, cultural anthropology, heritage studies and Latin American studies.

African Epistemologies in Higher Education Research

Author : Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000954043

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African Epistemologies in Higher Education Research by Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo Pdf

Bringing a needed perspective on African Epistemologies on the critical topics of higher education in relation to knowledge systems, this book highlights how knowledge creation processes influence higher education systems, society, and African development. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to frame the connections between academic knowledge systems. Specifically, it seeks to answer questions on the trends in knowledge mobility, histories, and sociological dimensions in knowledge production in post-colonial Africa. The discussion explores how existing knowledge systems can better align with past and present narratives throughout African history and philosophies. The primary thought behind this book is to deconstruct the idea of a free market, the issue of corruption, racism and the neoliberalist approach to knowledge creation and transmission. Thus, it seeks to answer questions on the history and sociological dimensions of knowledge production in higher education. The book argues that African epistemologies can be better understood by investigating present sociologies and histories shaping African higher education research. Researchers and university students in the field of sociology of education, economics of education, higher education and policy will find this book very useful.

Decolonising Political Concepts

Author : Marie Wuth,Valentin Clavé-Mercier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000999464

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Decolonising Political Concepts by Marie Wuth,Valentin Clavé-Mercier Pdf

This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions as well as their substantive translations into practices. Despite the acclaimed 20th century decolonisation waves, coloniality still remains in subtle and obvious practices, in visible and invisible mechanisms of power, in the privileging of certain knowledges and the dismissing of others. Decolonising Political Concepts critically addresses the role political concepts play in the continuing legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality. This book, building on postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and ideas, demonstrates how concepts may be used as oppressing political and epistemological tools. By presenting efforts to decolonise political concepts, the book signals the potential for genuinely postcolonial academic and political contexts. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and engaging with a wide array of geographical contexts, the chapters examine concepts such as agency, violence, freedom, or sovereignty. This book enables readers to critically engage with concepts used in political discourse and allows them to reflect on their impact and alternatives. It will appeal to graduate students and scholars from international relations, social sciences, or philosophy, as well as to socio-political actors engaged in decolonisation agendas.

Critical and Reflective Intercultural Communication Education

Author : Fred Dervin,Xiaowen Tian
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031407802

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Critical and Reflective Intercultural Communication Education by Fred Dervin,Xiaowen Tian Pdf

This book provides answers to the following questions: How could visual art support us in reflecting about interculturality critically? When we look at, engage with and experience art, what is it that we can learn, unlearn and relearn about interculturality? The book adds to the multifaceted and multidisciplinary field of intercultural communication education by urging those working on the notion of interculturality (researchers, scholars and students) to give art a place in exploring its complexities. No knowledge background about art (theory) is needed to work through the chapters. The book helps us reflect on ourselves and on our engagement with the world and with others, and learn to ask questions about these elements. The authors draw on anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and sociology to enrich their discussions of critical interculturality.

A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

Author : Jane Chin Davidson,Amelia Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119841807

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A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework by Jane Chin Davidson,Amelia Jones Pdf

WILEY BLACK WELL COMPANIONS TO ART HISTORY A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework explores the ways specialists and institutions in the fine arts, curation, cultural studies, and art history have attempted to situate art in a more global framework since the 1980s. Offering analyses of the successes and setbacks of these efforts to globalize the art world, this innovative volume presents a new and exciting way of considering art in its global contexts. Essays by an international panel of leading scholars and practicing artists assert that what we talk about as ‘art’ is essentially a Western concept, thus any attempts at understanding art in a global framework require a revising of established conceptual definitions. Organized into three sections, this work first reviews the history and theory of the visual arts since 1980 and introduces readers to the emerging area of scholarship that seeks to place contemporary art in a global framework. The second section traces the progression of recent developments in the art world, focusing on the historical and cultural contexts surrounding efforts to globalize the art world and the visual arts in particular global and transnational frameworks. The final section addresses a wide range of key themes in contemporary art, such as the fundamental institutions and ontologies of art practice, and the interactions among art, politics, and the public sphere. A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, researchers, and general readers interested in exploring global art beyond the traditional Euro-American context.

Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia

Author : Carlos Garrido Castellano,Bruno Leitão
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786838742

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Curating and the Legacies of Colonialism in Contemporary Iberia by Carlos Garrido Castellano,Bruno Leitão Pdf

Combining postcolonial studies, curating and contemporary art, this book surveys the role played by artistic curatorship and contemporary art museums in the shaping of identities and cultural planning in contemporary Iberia. The book’s main hypothesis is that contemporary art has been pivotal in the construction of contemporary Iberia, a process marked by the attention paid (in heterogeneous, not always satisfactory ways) to the entanglement of the legacies of colonialism and the present-day status of Iberian territories as cosmopolitan societies now integrated in the European Union. We argue that, at least from the 1990s, curating emerged as a key activity for Iberian societies to display and configure an image of themselves as modern and fully integrated in the European cultural landscape. Such an image, however, had to cope with the legacies of colonialism and the profound socioeconomic transformations of these societies. This book is concerned with bringing together, while redefining and expanding, Iberian and curatorial studies.

Foucault and the Modern International

Author : Philippe Bonditti,Didier Bigo,Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137561589

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Foucault and the Modern International by Philippe Bonditti,Didier Bigo,Frédéric Gros Pdf

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary world-'international', 'neoliberal', 'biopolitical' and 'global'- and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucault's work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations, international political sociology, international political economy, political theory/philosophy and critical theory more generally.

Globalization and the Decolonial Option

Author : Walter D. Mignolo,Arturo Escobar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317966715

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Globalization and the Decolonial Option by Walter D. Mignolo,Arturo Escobar Pdf

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "coloniality", understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity and whose members are based in South America and the United States. The project called for an understanding of modernity not from modernity itself but from its darker side, coloniality, and proposes the de-colonization of knowledge as an epistemological restitution with political and ethical implications. Epistemic decolonization, or de-coloniality, becomes the horizon to imagine and act toward global futures in which the notion of a political enemy is replaced by intercultural communication and towards an-other rationality that puts life first and that places institutions at its service, rather than the other way around. The volume is profoundly inter- and trans-disciplinary, with authors writing from many intellectual, transdisciplinary, and institutional spaces. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies.

Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

Author : Hatem Akil,Prof Dr Hatem Akil,Simone Maddanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463727450

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Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic by Hatem Akil,Prof Dr Hatem Akil,Simone Maddanu Pdf

This book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, etc., including a contribution by Alain Touraine. From coloniality to pandemic, modernity can now represent a global necessity in which awareness of human and environmental crises, injustices, and inequality would create the possibility of a modernity-to-come.

The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan

Author : Ayelet Zohar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004518346

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The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan by Ayelet Zohar Pdf

In The Curious Case of the Camel in Modern Japan, Ayelet Zohar addresses issues of Orientalism, colonialism, and exoticism in modern Japan, through images of camels – the epitome of Otherness, and a metonymy for Asia in the Japanese imagination.

Good Places and Non-places in Colonial Mexico

Author : Gómez-Herrero Gómez,Vasco de Quiroga
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 076181924X

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Good Places and Non-places in Colonial Mexico by Gómez-Herrero Gómez,Vasco de Quiroga Pdf

High state official and judge of the Supreme Court or the Segunda Audiencia, and later first bishop of the state of Michoacan, Vasco de Quiroga is still celebrated for the alternative community models he established for the Purepecha Indians in the Northwestern state of Michoacan in Mexico. This study offers the most complete approach to date to the writings directly attributed to this state official of the Spanish Empire and also to the scholarship about him. This work provides critical readings of Quiroga's texts including the Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Hospitals of Santa Fe de Mexico and Michoacan, Información en Derecho, De Debellandis Indis and the Juicio de Residencia, and relates them to more widely know figures such as Ginés de Sepúlveda, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Francisco de Vitoria among others. This book will be of interest to all those engaged in the history of literature, legal studies, utopianism, Hispanic/Spanish studies of the Early Modern Period, Colonial Latin American Studies and Golden Age Studies.

Beyond Coloniality

Author : Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253036278

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Beyond Coloniality by Aaron Kamugisha Pdf

Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.

Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism

Author : Mentan, Tatah
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956762163

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Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism by Mentan, Tatah Pdf

There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the pretext of spreading freedom and democracy. Democracy is beautiful. But it is no proof against imperialism. Whether democracy is causal is another whole consideration. It may be a case of the 'least bad of evil alternatives.' It may be a case of a state of social and political development over and above the way people organize themselves. It may be the fate of rational life on a planet with insufficient energy reserves to support locomotion without predation. But what gives anyone the right to go into a sovereign country and change its foundation through War? The whole democracy & freedom line is a lie to give Western imperialism a friendly face. Imperialism and its lie of spreading democracy is an unmitigated evil, whether for material gain, or the pride fostered by active participation in the machinery of state. Therefore, a people seeking to control their destiny must decolonize imposed Western democracy.