Globalization And Postcolonial Studies Research Papers (original) (raw)

The limits of the planet and of natural resources impede pursuing the modern project based on permanent
growth and represent a major challenge for humanity. Drawing on an agency-centred approach, this paper addresses two two major questions:
‘Who are the social actors who challenge the normative orientation at the core of modernization and promote alternative values and practices that may contribute to the rise of a global age, or may embody glimpses of a global age society?’ and ‘Can we grasp some dimensions of life and society in the global age by studying current social movements? ’

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- Sociology, Social Change, Social Movements, Development Studies

The dislocated, deterritorialized discourse produced by repatriates from formerly European colonies has remained overlooked in academic scholarship. One such group is the Eurasian “Indo” community that has its roots in the former Dutch East Indies, today’s Indonesia. This article focuses on Tjalie Robinson, the intellectual leader of this community from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. The son of a Dutch father and a British-Javanese mother, Robinson became the leading voice of the diasporic Indo community in the Netherlands and later also in the United States. His engagement resulted in the foundation of the Indo magazine Tong Tong and the annual Pasar Malam Besar, what was to become the world’s biggest Eurasian festival. Robinson played an essential role in the cultural awareness and self-pride of the eventually global Indo community through his elaboration of a hybrid and transnational identity concept. By placing his focus “tussen twee werelden” (in-between two worlds) and identifying “mixties-schap” (mestizaje) as the essential characteristic of Indo identity, Robinson anticipated debates on hybridity, transnationalism, and creolism that only much later would draw attention from scholars in the field of postcolonial studies. This article highlights Robinson’s pioneering role in framing a deterritorialized hybrid alternative to nationalist essentialism in the postcolonial era.

A contribution to the genealogical elaboration of the Third World as a political project, this essay examines how decolonization constituted a new culture that defined the decolonized as new subjects of history. Previously thought to be without history and culture, the people of the Third World imagined a decolonizing world system, which allowed them to rethink culture and humanity as historical categories. To describe the nature of the world system of decolonization, I consider three foundational works that saw print following the historic Bandung Conference in 1955: Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Jose Maria Sison’s Struggle for National Democracy, and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. In the first half of the essay, I discuss how these intellectuals, particularly Sison, not only constitute a world system of decolonizing thought that is simultaneously local and planetary but also reconstitute culture and humanity as a whole. In the second and final part, I explore what their critical reception in American higher education reveals about the failures of postcolonial studies in the age of globalization.

An important center of dancehall reggae performance, sound clashes are contests between rival sound systems: groups of emcees, tune selectors, and sound engineers. In World Clash 1999, held in Brooklyn, Mighty Crown, a Japanese sound system and the only non-Jamaican competitor, stunned the international dancehall community by winning the event. In 2002, the Japanese dancer Junko Kudo became the first non-Jamaican to win Jamaica’s National Dancehall Queen Contest. High-profile victories such as these affirmed and invigorated Japan’s enthusiasm for dancehall reggae. In Babylon East , the anthropologist Marvin D. Sterling traces the history of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music. Sterling provides a nuanced ethnographic analysis of the ways that many Japanese involved in reggae as musicians and dancers, and those deeply engaged with Rastafari as a spiritual practice, seek to reimagine their li...

- by Marvin D Sterling
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- Japanese Studies, Anthropology, Education, Popular Music Studies

Townsend Middleton's The Demands of Recognition is an invitation to think through the everyday dilemmas of ethnic minorities as well as the state anthropologists who certify them as 'scheduled tribes' in contemporary India. Through an extended case study of Nepali-speaking groups that are collectively known as 'Gorkhas', Middleton shows how late liberal governmentality and what he calls the 'ethno-contemporary' make and remake each other. As the postcolonial state has devised affirmative action policies to redress the historical disadvantages of socially marginalized groups, a new kind of 'ethnopolitics' has emerged to claim the loaves and fishes offered by the state. In turn, this new ethnopolitics has compelled the state to rethink its classificatory schemas and mechanisms in order to decide which groups ought to be considered as 'tribes', and hence, merit affirmative action. In most cases, the primary aim of ethnopolitics in contemporary India is to enter official lists or 'schedules' that record castes and tribes as well as other groups deemed to be 'backward' enough to warrant affirmative action. The situation with the Gorkhas was no different after their demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland went unmet a generation ago. By undertaking a fine-grained ethnographic exploration of the Gorkhas' ethnopolitics and the travails of their interlocutors within the postcolonial ethnographic state, Middleton challenges us to interrogate our received notions of ethnicity and about the place of anthropology in our world.

- by Uday Chandra
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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Rural Sociology, Social Movements

Les attentats terroristes réalisés au nom d'Al-Qaïda en France en janvier 2015 peuvent se lire comme un drame postcolonial né de la rencontre entre les "bonnes raisons" du jihadisme armé au Moyen-Orient et les "bonnes raisons" de... more

- by Eric Macé
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- Globalization And Postcolonial Studies

This article examines the structures of international relations that facilitate political violence in postcolonial states. It explores the intersections of patriarchy and imperialism in the contemporary political economy to understand how armed conflict and political violence in postcolonial states form an integral element of the global economy of accumulation in deeply gendered ways. By focusing on the structural level of analysis, this article argues that the siting of armed conflict in postcolonial contexts serves to maintain neo-colonial relations of exploitation between the West and non-West, and is made both possible and effective through the gendering of political identities and types of work performed in the global economy. I argue here that armed conflict is a form of feminized labour in the global economy. Despite the fact that performing violence is a physically masculine form of labour, the outsourcing of armed conflict as labour in the political economy is 'feminized' in that it represents the flexibilization of labour and informalization of market participation. So while at the same time that this work is fulfilling hegemonic ideals of militarized masculinity within the domestic context, at the international level it actually demonstrates the 'weakness' or 'otherness' of the 'failed'/feminized state in which this violence occurs, and legitimizes and hence re-entrenches the hegemonic relations between the core and periphery on the basis of problematizing the 'weak' state's masculinity. It is through the discursive construction of the non-Western world as the site of contemporary political violence that mainstream international relations reproduces an orientalist approach to both understanding and addressing the 'war puzzle'.

Reports of declining staple food availability and the possibility of a world food crisis first appeared in the international press in late 2007. Sub-Saharan Africa, with its deepening need for disaster food relief in arid and war-torn areas was most vulnerable. The economic viability of western donors’ food aid to the continent was increasingly being stretched. Largely missing from the press reports and general debate, however, was any acknowledgement of three decades of agrarian change in the South, which had profoundly altered the nature of global agricultural food production. Much of what was headlined as breaking news was, in fact, the logical outcome of already well-established vulnerabilities that analysts and media observers had failed to note.
This article asks how the changing character of African staple food demand fits into the wider global picture and why signs of escalating global food supply constraints were ignored despite international donor agencies’ professed concern with alleviating African rural poverty?

- by Deborah Bryceson
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- Food Security and Insecurity, Food Aid, Agrarian Change, Agriculture

The purpose of this paper is to articulate a set of ethical standards for international volunteer tourism. The standards are focused on promoting fair trade learning principles in the management and operation of volunteer programmes. Because of the unique social mission, research, and evaluation capacities of higher education, we propose first applying these principles specifically to international volunteer programmes operating at the university-community nexus. These standards have emerged through a collaborative, in-person and online process during the last two years with input by numerous concerned global citizens, international education practitioners and researchers, nongovernmental organization representatives, and community members. The document shared below represents current ‘best practice’ for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the negative impacts of volunteer tourism programmes for both host communities and volunteers.

- by Cody Paris and +2
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- Tourism Studies, Tourism Marketing, Tourism Management, Tourist Behavior

This working paper explores the social geography of anticipation, desire, exclusion, and control that has emerged as a result of Baloch fishermen’s entanglement with the Pakistani government’s plans todevelop a large commercial seaport in the small coastal town of Gwadar. Keeping in mind the centrality of everyday experiences in generating social forms, this paper describes how development, transnationalism, and ethnic identity are (re)configured on the ground. It is based on ethnographic encounters that foreground the lived experiences and imaginations of fishermen from Med kinship group who occupy a subaltern position within the local status hierarchy. On the one hand, the promise of becoming modern citizens of the future mega city incites new desires and longings among those fishermen who facilitate their incorporation into emergent regimes of labour and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, Pakistani security forces have tightened their control over the local population by establishing a cordon sanitaire around Gwadar Port and the town. These mechanisms of control have disrupted local fishermen`s experiences of place and intimate sociality and introduced elements of exclusion, fear, and paranoia. By interrupting the fishermen`s expectations of their rightful place in the city, it compels them to think of alternate ways to confront the state’s development agenda, including peaceful protest and armed struggle .

This article critically examines some of the recent works in Swiss national history. It argues that many of these works suffer, albeit in different ways, from a too narrowly construed, Eurocentric perspective. Consequently, they fail to offer an understanding of how Switzerland both shaped and was shaped by processes of imperial globalisation since the 1500s. The article goes on to argue for a ‘post-patriotic’ conception of Swiss national history that seeks to uncover how Swiss global entanglements fed into various hierarchies between gender groups, social classes, races and religious communities. The article ends with a historical example from 16th century Basel and Geneva, where book printers published books on the Spanish conquests of the Americas. The example illustrates how the historical beginnings of a Swiss nation and the beginnings of imperial globalisation in the 1500s were closely intertwined processes – and how the trajectories of Swiss history and the history of the world have remained intertwined ever since.

- by Aamir R Mufti
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- Critical Theory, History, Modern History, Cultural History
- by Duana Fullwiley
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- African Studies, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Globalization

50% discount code: 50BNY14N.This book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations (IR) theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to the interplay between power, interest, ideas, identity, and resistance, in explaining continuity and change in international relations. Developed to provide students with the analytical tools and intellectual frameworks needed to understand the behaviour of different international actors in contemporary global affairs. This textbook responds to the challenges of a dynamic job market by assisting students to gain both thorough theoretical knowledge and training them to apply this knowledge to real world problems.

CONTENTS
Landmarks of American History from the Columbian Exchange to the U.S. Civil War
Landmarks of American History from Reconstruction to Obama
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: U.S. Foreign Relations from the Spanish American War to Hiroshima
Uneasy Colossus: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1945-Present
Seminar: Paradox: War and Peace in the Age of the Atom
Graduate Seminar: Coming Together, or Coming Apart?: Colonialism, Decolonization, and Neocolonialism in the 20th Century
Seminar: Upsetting the Balance: An Environmental History of Globalization (not included)
Seminar: The Vietnam Wars (not included)

- by Jonathan Hunt
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- Globalization, U.S. history, Environmental History, International History
- by Marieke Krijnen
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- Real Estate, Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography

This article is a theory piece focused on causal propositions codification and future trends identification, both supported by descriptive statistical data. It aims to analyze the middle-term dynamics of globalization and deglobalization due to the effects of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, in general, and the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular. The broader context in which such dynamics are situated are the processes of capitalist world-economy restructuring, propitiated by the crisis the U.S. hegemony, on the one hand, and by the Chinese rise, on the other. We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic tends to deepen and accelerate ongoing processes of global fragmentation, especially in the productive and commercial dimensions. From the point of view of governments, in particular the United States, there are growing protectionist and manufacturing repatriation efforts. From the point of view of large corporations, the perception of risk derived from the suspension and rupture of global production chains emerges thanks to measures to prevent infection. Somehow, governments and companies can converge on understanding the world market as a growing source of risk and decreasing advantages. The counterpoint here may be China's interest and ability to lead the fight against the pandemic and post-pandemic recovery, restructuring the global order built in the last forty years in new institutional basis and from which it has been the main beneficiary.

Durante las décadas de 1990 y 2000, una política conocida como Educación con Participación de la comunidad (EDUCO) se convirtió no solo en la piedra angular de la reforma educativa en El Salvador, sino además se convirtió en una política educativa de carácter global, conocida por descentralizar, hacia las familias rurales, la responsabilidad de contratar y despedir maestros. Como se presenta en este artículo, su ascenso a la fama no fue producto únicamente del contexto político-económico en el que nació; su fama también es el resultado de las evaluaciones de impacto producidas por el Banco Mundial, que sirvieron como base de evidencia a través de la cual ésta y otras instituciones internacionales podían promover, de forma legítima, el modelo neoliberal de participación de la comunidad representado por EDUCO. Sin embargo, de una manera problemática, una re-apreciación de estas evaluaciones de impacto, revela, en primer lugar, que los hallazgos y conclusiones sobre los efectos significativos de EDUCO no fueron justificados, y, en segundo lugar, que la producción de las evaluaciones de impacto en su conjunto es fundamentalmente defectuosa debido al nexo intelectual-político-financiero del cual emergieron estos estudios, y hacia el cual retornaron para promover—alrededor del mundo—soluciones de políticas orientadas al mercado. En este sentido, para explicar las dinámicas de la reforma que dieron lugar a EDUCO, este documento (a) revisa sistemáticamente los hallazgos y limitantes de cada uno de los seis estudios de impacto que constituyen la base internacional de conocimiento alrededor de esta política, (b) reconsidera lo que, de forma razonable, podemos exigir saber sobre EDUCO, (c) refleja las implicaciones nacionales e internacionales de la revisión crítica aquí presentada (d) resalta las falencias del método de investigación de las evaluaciones de impacto y (e) sugiere varios métodos alternativos que pueden ofrecer hallazgos relevantes para las políticas.

- by D. Brent Edwards Jr.
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- Latin American Studies, Political Economy, Education, Globalization

This paper is focused on the pilot quantitative research on youth culture building and gender construction through the Internet, media, popular culture, and computer games in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. There are some considerations of global, regional, and local contents of the Internet, media, and popular culture in students’ preferences in that research. In this study it was indicated that Russian context is spread in the Internet and media among the students’ interests while global one is widespread in popular culture. Although local Kazakh aspects are also presented on the Internet, media, and popular culture, it is not sufficient enough. Additionally, it was argued that Internet, media, popular culture, and computer games construct gender identity and sometimes gender equality of young people in present-day Kazakhstan.

- by Nazgul Mingisheva
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- Gender Studies, Globalization, Youth Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Can humanism be post-colonial? What is Africana Philosophy? Who is Lewis Gordon? This paper presents some typical elements of the Jamaican philosopher Lewis Gordon's thought and relates it to the field of Africana Philosophy. For this purpose, it seeks to delineate its theoretical influences and the usage of concepts, such as theodicy, bad faith and reason to understand anti-black racism. In this sense, the following argument pivots on Lewis Gordon's singular contribution to different areas of study, especially political philosophy, social sciences and the humanities.

This article presents a horizontal reading of Aliaa Elmahdy's and Amina Sboui's corporeal interventions alongside the efficacy of digital platforms in order to consider how algorithmic and normative protocols related to content filtering on social media amplify certain forms of political communication while prohibiting others. I argue that readings of Elmahdy's and Sboui's bodily politics through the lens of liberal feminism rely on what I call discourses of mimetic networking, where particular mediated events become reterritorialized as part of an archival knowledge of ‘Arabness’. This is done through the organization of data via hashtagging and content moderation, and through rhetorics of techno-optimism that mirror ‘first contact’ narratives which gender, racialize, and flatten complex and fluid engagements with new media in non-US/European contexts. The article concludes with a consideration of how the persistence of their corporeality relays with both normative and programmatic parameters online to make alternative visions of communication possible.

- by Nicole Sunday Grove
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- Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Globalization, Digital Media
- by Dora Renna
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- Creative Writing, History, English Literature, Languages and Linguistics

"The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences explores these competing narratives and the consequences of criminalizing immigration in the United States and abroad. It examines the impact of national, state, and local... more

- by Rich Furman
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- Critical Theory, History, Sociology, Criminology

This paper probes the symbolic in Jamaica Kincaid's short stories, My Mother and Girl. Its premise is that writers of Caribbean extract often deploy elements of symbolism to portray the peculiarities of their postcolonial experience and to express socio-cultural realities that may not be adequately explored by other means. This feature, therefore, necessitates a close and rigorous study of Caribbean writings to discover meanings communicated through symbolic characters, settings, atmospheric conditions and narrative undertones among others. This study, therefore, explores the historical and cultural experiences in the stories to highlight the socio-cultural dilemma and other historical complexities that shape the character of the Caribbean society. Using postcolonial theory as a critical compass, this paper is a library study through textual analysis and consultation of secondary sources to explore the content of the stories. The study concludes, therefore, that the use of symbolism in Caribbean literature, especially the short stories, is fitting and expedient to facilitate the depiction of the atypical range of experiences that shape Caribbean characters and which distinguishes them from other postcolonial societies. Further, the study shows that the writer succeeds, through the postcolonial experiences she explores, in communication her artistic vision to draw attention to the cultural limbo that is the lot of Caribbean characters.

Cultural Threads considers contemporary examples of artists and designers who work at the intersection of multiple cultural influences and use textiles as their vehicle. Ideas about belonging to multiple cultures, which in reality result in a sense of connection to everywhere and nowhere simultaneously, are pertinent to society today more than ever. So too are the multiple, often overlooked, histories behind the objects that make up our material world. Selected content uses the materials we associate with textiles, but function is not always the first priority of the maker. Much like the cultural references of their makers, many contemporary textiles exist in an in-between world, not wholly embraced by the establishments of art and design, nor functional objects in the conventional sense of craft. Contributors include Sabine Broeck, Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody (Heidi Chisholm/Sharon Lombard), Francoise Dupré, Christine Checinska, Elaine Reichek, Sarah Rhodes, Julie Ryder and Kevin Murray.

For almost three decades, “global culture” has been a significant area of inquiry for communication studies researchers. A portmanteau of “global” and “culture,” “global culture” can be conceived as a whole way of life of the world’s people, and also, cultural works that are produced and commonly consumed by people who live within and across many countries, not just one country. Taking this broad definition of global culture as a useful heuristic, this chapter contextualizes, summarizes, and critically assesses three narrower meanings of “global culture.” These articulations of global culture include: 1) mediated sociality as a whole way of life (e.g., the “global village”); 2) an Empire’s universalization or trans-nationalization of a particular way of life (e.g., “cultural imperialism”); and, 3) cultural works that are financed, produced, circulated and consumed by people across the borders of nation-states (e.g., “global popular culture”).

2007. Atenta contra la salud pública, impone estereotipos culturales y daña el patrimonio arquitectónico. Es un monopolio que explota a los jóvenes y mueve miles de millones de dólares por año. Se la acusa de todo esto y de mucho más.... more

- by Marcelo Pisarro
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- Anthropology, Globalization, Anthropology of Food, Post-Colonialism

Corporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us, and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national, and global agendas. Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all aspects of the relationship between business and society: from an historical analysis of the spread of capitalism as the foundation of the 'corporate' revolution in the late nineteenth-century to the regulation, ethics, and exclusionary implications of business in contemporary society. Furthermore, it examines how corporate power and capitalism might be resisted, outlining a range of alternatives, from the social economy through to new forms of open access or commons ownership.

- by Kean Birch and +1
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- Critical Theory, Business, Organizational Behavior, Business Administration
- by Mohamed A Eno
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- Critical Theory, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Psychology

Graphic novels in India and the subversive art of storytelling.

Affective and biological labor such as that found in call center and surrogacy work are indices of new forms of exploitation and accumulation within neoliberal globalization, but they also rearticulate a longer historical colonial division of labor. In this essay, feminist materialist scholarship provides the grounds to continue to scrutinize which kinds of exchange and subjectivity can even be represented by categories of labor. Leading to the question of what stakes are involved in asserting that gestational surrogates and others whose productivity occurs primarily through biological and affective processes are subjects of capitalist labor power. This essay argues that tracking vital energy, rather than value, as the content of what is produced and transmitted between biological and affective producers and their consumers holds on to the human vitality that Karl Marx describes as the content of value carried by the commodity and absolute use value of labor power to capitalist production, while also describing the content of these value-producing activities as greater than what can be described in terms of physical commodities and their value as represented through exchange.