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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
Top Insights
München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Koloniales Erbe verhandeln: Erinnerung und Macht bei der Aufarbeitung der Kolonialvergangenheit in Hamburg
Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag (2024), 345 pp.
"Im Sommer 2014 beschloss der Hamburger Senat, die Hansestadt solle als erste Stadt in Deutschland mit der Aufarbeitung ihrer Kolonialvergangenheit beginnen. Das Buch untersucht die Verhandlungen über die Neuausrichtung städtischer Erinnerungspolitik im Rahmen des Runden Tisches "Koloniales Erbe"
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The True Size of Africa
München; Völklingen: Hirmer; Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site (2024), 320 pp.
"Our richly illustrated volume takes a multifaceted approach to the giant continent of Africa, transcending prejudices and stereotypes through cultural history and contemporary art, constant shifts in perspective, and artistic diversity: human history encounters the colonial past and the omnipresenc
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Colonial heritage
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 11 (2024), pp. 21-34
"The prosperity of many industrialised countries was built on colonial exploitation, and the impacts of imperialism continue to haunt formerly oppressed regions. The global situation shows that neither stability nor cooperation can be taken for granted in any way. Former colonial powers must therefo
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
München: Beck, 5., durchges. Aufl. (2023), 127 pp.
"Das deutsche Kolonialreich war nicht groß und währte nur 30 Jahre. Es wirkte jedoch in vielfältiger Weise auf Deutschland zurück. Sebastian Conrad beschreibt, wie die koloniale Ordnung funktionierte, wo sie an ihre Grenzen stieß und wie die einheimischen Gesellschaften auf die Fremdherrschaft
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Disputed Archival Heritage
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg
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Human Rights and Technological Change: Conflicts and Convergences After 1945
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 392 pp.
"The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945. Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities
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Brennpunkt Westafrika: Die Fluchtursachen und was Europa tun sollte
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2022), 317 pp.
"Westafrika wird in Europa oft undifferenziert als Krisenregion wahrgenommen. Während fundierte Kenntnisse über die Geschichte und Gegenwart der dortigen Staaten vielfach fehlen, halten sich Stereotype über die Ursachen von Flucht und Migration in und aus Westafrika zäh. Der Soziologe Olaf Berna
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Visual Cultures of Africa
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp.
"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre
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Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry
Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 3 (2022), pp. 264-281
"The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industry in Namibia. By describing the attempt to publish a historical book about Nam
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Encoded Biases & Future Imaginaries
Kampala: Pollicy (2022), iv, 37 pp.
"This paper is the second in a series of three papers that explore the relationship between women in Africa today and Artificial Intelligence. In it, the authors explore the threats and benefits Artificial Intelligence brings to African women in different sectors; what it means to be an African woma
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Deutschland postkolonial? Die Gegenwart der imperialen Vergangenheit
Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2021), 610 pp.
"Der Umgang mit der Kolonialgeschichte, die hierzulande lange im Schatten der Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus und des Holocaust stand, unterliegt gegenwärtig einem grundlegenden Wandel. Zwar zählt auch Deutschland faktisch zu den postkolonialen Gesellschaften Europas, doch ist diese Tatsache
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Widerstand: Drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun = Resistance: Trois générations de lutte anticoloniale au Cameroun
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Initiative Perspektivwechsel (2021), 145, 145 pp.
"In den Comicgeschichten werden drei Generationen antikolonialen Widerstands in Kamerun skizziert. Das zentralafrikanische Land war 35 Jahre lang deutsche Kolonie. Die Geschichten des kamerunischen Königs Duala Manga Bell, der Anlu-Rebellion der Kom-Frauen sowie des Aktivisten André Blaise Essama
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Dealing with the Past: Perspectives from Latin America, South Africa and Germany
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021), 218 pp.
"During recent decades, the question of how societies deal with the past has received increasing attention from political actors, civil society and academia. Yet, dealing with the past continues to be a very controversial issue that causes polemic debates. This book contributes to a cross-regional a
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Konfrontation mit deutschem Kolonialismus: Tun wir genug?
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2021), 32 pp.
"Bei der folgenden Kurzbibliografie handelt es sich um einen Auszug aus der Datenbank des „Fachinformationsverbundes Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde“ (FIV-IBLK)." (Seite 2)
Post-koloniale Erinnerungsdiskurse in der Medienkultur: Der Genozid an den Ovaherero und Nama in der deutschsprachigen Presse von 2001 bis 2016
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 476 pp.
"Die Debatten um die Anerkennung des Ovaherero- und Nama-Genozids (1904-1908) im heutigen Namibia haben in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten wachsende öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Kaya de Wolff hat die deutschsprachige Presseberichterstattung in den Jahren 2001 bis 2016 über den Umgang mit de
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Manual de buenas prácticas para la difusión mediática de temas Mapuche
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 83 pp.
"Este manual está dirigido a estudiantes de comunicación, periodistas en ejercicio y medios de comunicación, con el fin de que sea utilizado como una herramienta para generar contenidos responsables e informados sobre los pueblos indígenas. Pero en un sentido amplio, es también útil y adecuado
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Untie to Tie: Koloniale Fragmente im Kontext Schule = Colonial Fragments in School Contexts
Berlin; Stuttgart: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 330 pp.
Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.
"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb
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Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2020), 241 pp.
"Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world's population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values
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