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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Colonial archive"”.
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Relationality and theories of the gaze: an analysis of the black female body archetype in the work of contemporary African artists
The colonial archive is marred by a history of violence, particularly in its reductionist and hypersexualized portrayals of Black bodies, especially those of Black women. This problem is rooted in colonialism, racialized misogyny, and the commodification of Black bodies for the entertainment and …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… investigates the racial economy of the colonial archive, or the phenomenon of archival production and circulation through which race manifested as ways for empires to manage human resources.
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Identifying ‘Immigrants’ through Violence: Memory, Press, and Archive in the making of ‘Bangladeshi Migrants’ in Assam
… migrated from the former East Bengal during colonial times, and the Bodo Tribe, who mostly follow the Bathou religion in the Bodoland region of Assam. This conflict is often seen through the preexisting lens of communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in India. Here, conflict between a …
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MaBareBare, a rumour of a dream
… of the colonised is irrecoverable from the colonial archive. It does this through my quest for, and my encounter with, fragments associated with an episode of travel to Berlin by some Balobedu in 1897 and, subsequently, by myself in the present. This confrontation with the archive …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly “African”. Given that what we do know of how gender is conceived among African societies comes to us predominantly via the colonial …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly “African”. Given that what we do know of how gender is conceived among African societies comes to us predominantly via the colonial …
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Filmic Fabulation: The Imagining of pre-Nakba Palestinian Women's History Beyond the Archives
… practice, feminist counter-historiography, and decolonial filmmaking. By engaging with the archive as both a site of erasure and potential, this project grapples with its silences, gaps, and violences, in order to imagine new, disruptive, and future-facing narratives of Palestinian return. The …
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Film as an archive for colonial photographs: activating the past in the present
… research looks at the ways in which the colonial archive, and the colonial photographic archive in particular, can be reconstructed to produce new critical histories. The research argues for the potential of the moving image as a tool for re-staging colonial archives, as a means of …
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The archival records on Chinese slaves, convicts, exiles and ‘free blacks' at the Cape of Good Hope (1654 -1838): Conceptualising a digital curation project
Despite the growth of digital archives, there is no dedicated repository that systematically compiles the history of Chinese migration to South Africa. This qualitative study used 62 archival records housed at the Western Cape Archives and Records Service, to explore how the application of digital …
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Aboriginal and Colonial Geographies of the File Hills Farm Colony
Canadian government archives have primarily shaped scholars’ analysis of the File Hills farm colony on the Peepeekisis Reserve in south eastern Saskatchewan. While these colonial archives are valuable for research, they emphasise particular points in the government’s telling of the colony story. …
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Associational Life, Print Culture and Political Thought in Najaf, 1905-c.1941
… which accompanied imperial decline and quasi-colonial national integration. Drawing from journals and newspapers published in Najaf, other published material such as memoirs and pamphlets, as well as the British diplomatic and colonial archive, it explores Najafi ideas about social reform, …
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Sonic Records: Listening to Early Afro-Atlantic Literature and Music, 1650-1850
… violence of slavery and the print regime of the colonial archive participated in flourishing aural traditions. Black studies has a significant and long-standing tradition of scholarship on sound and music in literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, yet the earliest eras of Atlantic …
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Land rights & identity: the establishment of the Leliefontein Mission and its impact on the Little Namaqua of the Kamiesberg
… of 17th and 18th century travellers and the colonial archive this paper offers an in-depth analysis of both the pre-colonial and colonial occupation of the Kamiesberg. The patterns of transhumance adopted by the pre-colonial Little Namaqua were put under severe pressure at the dawn of the …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… to Tod, the region's first British colonial agent, rendered Tod's explorations in the form of courtly processions while also adapting drafted architectural drawings for the depiction of Udaipur's princely domains. I compare the works of Ghasi and Tod, among several others, with those …