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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic
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Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur
Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), ix, 459 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen T
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
Division in the Land of ‘the Unspoken’: Examining Journalistic Practice in Contemporary New Caledonia
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 52-71
"While the Kanaks’ pro-independence protests against French settlers have been extensively documented in the global media and academic literature, another protest – more subtle and diffused, but deeply embedded – is now taking place in New Caledonia (South Pacific) to decide whether to remain
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Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika: Der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 278 pp.
Deutscher Kolonialismus: Fragmente seiner Geschichte und Gegenwart
Berlin; Darmstadt: Deutsches Historisches Museum; Theiss Verlag (2016), 333 pp.
"In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jhs. baute Deutschland ein weites Kolonialreich auf. Dass dieser Teil der deutschen Geschichte heute oft vergessen ist, hängt mit dem frühen Verlust der Kolonien nach der Niederlage im Westen Weltkrieg zusammen. Kolonialgeschichte aber ist ein zentraler Teil einer g
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Nacionalismo y colonaje: Su expresión histórica en la prensa de Bolivia
La Paz: Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Bolivia, 4th ed. (2016), 248 pp.
"En 1943, con 40 años a cuestas, Carlos Montenegro escribió un ensayo que fue publicado con el sugestivo título de Nacionalismo y coloniaje: Su expresión histórica en la prensa de Bolivia, una obra fundamental para la configuración del discurso del nacionalismo revolucionario que se forjó des
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Reporting on the Independence of the Belgian Congo: Mwissa Camus, the Dean of Congolese Journalists
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 81-99
"Many individuals were involved in the Belgian Congo's attainment of independence. Born in 1931, Mwissa Camus, the dean of Congolese journalists, is one of them. Even though he was opposed to this idea and struggled to maintain his status as member of a certain ‘elite’, his career sheds light on
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Afrika: Geschichte eines Kontinents
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 319 pp.
"Lutz van Dijks spannende Geschichte Afrikas - die er vor allem für junge LeserInnen geschrieben hat - [...] beleuchtet unzählige Facetten des Kontinents. Sie beginnt bei der Entstehung des Erdteils und den ersten Menschen, die von hier aus in alle Welt wanderten. Sie erzählt von den frühen Hoch
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Re-Conceptualizing the Analysis of Media Development and Trajectories hereof in Post-Colonial Societies
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2015), pp. 131-146
"Using South Africa as a case study, this article presents a new argument for an adaptation of the Comparative Media Systems Model by Hallin and Mancini. The article proposes that factors of race, class and gender and intersections hereof as well as nation-building be added to the model to better su
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Sklaverei
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 65, issue 50-51 (2015), 46 pp.
"Seit jeher beuten Menschen andere Menschen aus. Die Geschichte der Sklaverei – lange Zeit als Eigentum an einer anderen Person definiert – endete jedoch nicht mit ihrer rechtlichen Abschaffung. Spätestens mit der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948 ist das Verbot von Sklaverei z
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Fantômas sous les tropiques: Aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale
Paris: Eds. Vendémiaire (2015), 285 pp.
From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide
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Media Control, Colonialism and the Making of an Authoritarian Postcolonial African State: The Case of Botswana
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 45-58
"Observing the emergence of public service broadcasting on the eve of colonialism in Botswana (early 60s to early 2000s), the central thesis of the article is that the roots of control of the media in contemporary Botswana can be traced to British anxieties about the possibility of a nationalist rev
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Dekolonisation und Film: Ein Literaturbericht
Werkstatt Geschichte, issue 69 (2015), pp. 7-22
"Der Beitrag analysiert den Zusammenhang von Dekolonisation und Film. Durch die Synthese vorhandener Literatur werden in einem ersten Schritt Kontinuitäten in der Filmproduktion und in Filminhalten vom Kolonialzeitalter bis in die Gegenwart nachgezeichnet. Daran anschließend werden mit der Dekolon
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Deutscher Kolonialismus - ein vergessenes Erbe? Postkolonialität in der rassismuskritischen Bildungsarbeit
Frankfurt am Main: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank (2015), 48 pp.
In Service of Two Masters: A Political History of Radio in Pre-Independence Botswana
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 28, issue 6 (2014), pp. 958-976
"This study identifies and critically analyses the major imperial (global and regional) political and economic factors and decisions that influenced and shaped the development of pre-independence radio broadcasting in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. With little or no consideration of the needs of the
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Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 144 pp.
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2014), ix, 283 pp.
"Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë's
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Missionary Printing
In: The Book: A Global History
Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 107-115
"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo
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