Violence And Gender In Africa S Iberian Colonies

Author : Andreas Stucki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030172305

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Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies by Andreas Stucki Pdf

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices – from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola, Mozambique, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author mines newly available and neglected documents, including sources from Portuguese and Spanish women’s organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation of new nation-states.

Author : Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004504073

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Spain’s African Colonial Legacies by Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré Pdf

This book applies a comparative perspective to reconstruct the contemporary histories of Equatorial Guinea and Morocco. It explores the margins of the local Spanish cartographies to resize the effects of its colonisation in its small African empire.

Author : Robert Aldrich,Andreas Stucki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350092426

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The Colonial World by Robert Aldrich,Andreas Stucki Pdf

The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With a post-1800 focus and extensive background coverage tracing the subject to the early 1700s, the book charts the rise and eclipse of European empires. Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki integrate innovative approaches and findings from the 'new imperial history' and look at both the colonial era and the legacies it left behind for countries around the world after they gained independence. Dividing the text into three complementary sections, Aldrich and Stucki offer an original approach to the subject that allows you to explore: - Different eras of colonisation and decolonisation from early modern European colonialism to the present day - Overarching themes in colonial history, like 'land and sea', 'the body' and 'representations of colonialism' - A global range of snapshot colonial case studies, such as Peru (1780), India (1876), The South Pacific (1903), the Dutch East Indies (1938) and the Portuguese empire in Africa (1971) This is the essential text for anyone seeking to understand the nature and complexities of modern European imperialism and its aftermath.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004459397

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Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World by Anonim Pdf

This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.

Author : Toyin Falola,Mohammed Bashir Salau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110678017

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Africa in Global History by Toyin Falola,Mohammed Bashir Salau Pdf

This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria "This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

Author : Martin Thomas,Gareth Curless
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192636638

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The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies by Martin Thomas,Gareth Curless Pdf

The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have fired interest in colonial experiences of rebellion, while current western interventions in sub-Saharan Africa have prompted accusations of 'militarist humanitarianism'. Yet, despite mounting interest in counter-insurgency and empire, comparative investigation of colonial responses to insurrection and civil disorder is sparse. Some scholars have written of a 'golden age of counter-insurgency', which began with Britain's declaration of a Malayan Emergency in 1948 and ended with the withdrawal of US ground troops from Vietnam in 1973. It is with this period, if not with any presumed 'golden age' that this volume is concerned. This Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of overseas empires. It attempts a systematic study of the global effects of organized anti-colonial violence in Asia and Africa. The objective is to reconceptualize late colonial violence in the European overseas empires by exploring its distinctive character and the globalizing processes underpinning it.

Author : Nuno Domingos,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Ricardo Roque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030191672

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Resistance and Colonialism by Nuno Domingos,Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,Ricardo Roque Pdf

This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to read and (de)code these issues in archival documents – and how to conjugate documental approaches with oral history, indigenous memories, and international histories of empire. The topics explored include runaway slaves and slave rebellions, mutiny and banditry, memories and practices of guerrilla and liberation, diplomatic negotiations and cross-border confrontations, theft, collaboration, and even the subversive effects of nature in colonial projects of labor exploitation.

Author : Andreas Zeman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110765052

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The Winds of History by Andreas Zeman Pdf

Author : Donald Bloxham,A. Dirk Moses
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 9780192865267

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Genocide by Donald Bloxham,A. Dirk Moses Pdf

The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an expert in the field and comprises an up-to-date survey of emerging and established areas of enquiry while highlighting problems and making suggestions about avenues for future research. Each essay also has a select bibliography to facilitate further reading. Key themes include imperial violence and military contexts for genocide, predicting, preventing, and prosecuting genocide, gender, ideology, the state, memory, transitional justice, and ecocide. The volume also scrutinises the concept of genocide - its elasticity, limits, and problems. It does not provide a definition of genocide but rather encourages the reader to think critically about genocide as a conceptual and legal category concerned with identity-based violence against civilians.

Author : Christoph Kalter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837699

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Postcolonial People by Christoph Kalter Pdf

Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of 'returning' settlers from Portuguese Africa.

Author : Mongor-Lizarrabengoa,Sarita Naa Akuye Addy
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648894817

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Hispanic and Lusophone Voices of Africa by Mongor-Lizarrabengoa,Sarita Naa Akuye Addy Pdf

Africa is usually depicted in Western media as a continent plagued by continuous wars, civil conflicts, disease, and human rights violations; however, an analysis of the region’s cultural output reveals the depth and strength of the character of the African people that has endured the burden of colonialism. Undoubtedly, much of the scholarship on African literature focuses on countries colonized by the British such as South Africa and Nigeria; however, the African nations colonized by Spain and Portugal have also made major literary contributions. This volume examines the literature and cinema of the African nations colonized by Spain and Portugal (Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe) to demonstrate the complexity and heterogeneity of these countries in their attempts to establish a post-colonial identity. This volume is intended for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers seeking to study Hispanic and Luso-African literature and film, and so better understand cultural production in previously underrepresented nations of Africa.

Author : Christian Gerlach,Clemens Six
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030549633

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The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions by Christian Gerlach,Clemens Six Pdf

This handbook explores anti-communism as an overarching phenomenon of twentieth-century global history, showing how anti-communist policies and practices transformed societies around the world. It advances research on anti-communism by looking beyond ideologies and propaganda to uncover how these ideas were put into practice. Case studies examine the role of states and non-state actors in anti-communist persecutions, and cover a range of topics, including social crises, capitalist accumulation and dispossession, political clientelism and warfare. Through its comparative perspective, the handbook reveals striking similarities between different cases from various world regions and highlights the numerous long-term consequences of anti-communism that exceeded by far the struggle against communism in a narrow sense. Contributing to the growing body of work on the social history of mass violence, this volume is an essential resource for students and scholars interested to understand how twentieth-century anti-communist persecutions have shaped societies around the world today. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659

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The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow Pdf

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484

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African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel,Sebastiaan Faber,Pedro García-Caro,Robert Patrick Newcomb
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789624427

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Transatlantic Studies by Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel,Sebastiaan Faber,Pedro García-Caro,Robert Patrick Newcomb Pdf

This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.