Power-sharing and Identity-Politics Transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania by Moh'd Haji

“… Zanzibar has had a long unsettled political history from its colonial era to radicalized post-colonial politics. …”
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Brazilian and Chinese Cooperation in African Agriculture. A Practice-based Study by Frédéric Goulet, Jean-Jacques Gabas, Eric Sabourin

“…Firstly we show that, although justification rhetoric insists on a break with post-colonial and “economically motivated” cooperation, the national programs of China and Brazil are closely linked to commercial and industrial interests. …”
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Culture and tourism? Limits and potential of sustainable tourist development in Gorée, Senegal and Ilha de Moçambique, Mozambique by Elisa Magnani

“…The article presents the case of Gorée and Ilha de Moçambique, two small African islands declared World Heritage Sites for their past history connected to the slave trade and their colonial architecture. They are now cultural tourism destinations but, despite being endowed with a relevant historical and cultural heritage, and their relevance for the African and global history, they haven’t find yet a successful way of promoting their cultural resources as a means to reduce poverty, leaving the poor living conditions of the resident society threaten the very survival of the heritage resources. …”
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Négociation de la distance : les circuits de communication et de représentation des intérêts locaux (monarchie et empire portugais, xviie et xviiie siècles) by Maria Fernanda Bicalho

“…The second concerns the representation of the colonial elites of the main overseas cities and villages during the meetings of the Portuguese Cortes, especially starting in the second half of the 17th century, after the Restoration, or the Portuguese independence from the Habsburg Catholic monarchy in 1640. …”
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Le vignoble sud-africain dans l’ère post-apartheid, entre transformation et continuité by Julien Dellier, Eric Rouvellac, Sylvain Guyot

“…South African vineyards do represent - all together - a globalised productive sector, portions of agricultural land localised in still racially fragmented territories and a European colonial heritage. Nevertheless, they have started a transformation process in stage with new global imperatives on quality wines, and more surprisingly matching with South African post-apartheid changes. …”
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John Edgar Wideman, lecteur-archiviste de Frantz Fanon by Flora Valadié

“…In Fanon, a Novel, the intersection between fiction and the archive serves as a productive space where national and colonial grand narratives are defeated.…”
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Colonialité et occidentalocentrisme : quels enjeux pour la production des savoirs ? by Rachel Solomon Tsehaye, Henri Vieille-Grosjean

“…Adopting a reflexive and critique posture and using an inductive methodological approach and some elements from a literature review, the authors aim to shed light on the new forms of relevance attributed to the notion of coloniality. It provides a concept that may be enforced in the analysis of norms conflicts and social and cultural gaps. …”
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Os rios e pântanos nas primeiras representações cartográficas da vila Campos dos Goitacazes: imaginação geográfica e disputas de poder (final do século XVIII até começos do XIX)... by Maria Isabel de Jesus Chrysostomo

“…As a result of the movement of interiorization of the colony, these representations indicate different stages of the process of conquest and appropriation of the plain once inhabited by the silvícolas of the Goitacá nation. …”
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Energy-Optimal 3D Path Planning for MAV with Motion Uncertainty by Yamin Li, Bowen Sun, Ping Xia, Yang Yang

“…Based on these two models, we formulate the optimal path traversing the 3D map with minimum energy consumption using a heuristic ant colony optimization. Multiple sets of contrast experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.…”
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From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave by Audrey Goodman

“…It considers how two Native writers, Leslie Silko and Joy Harjo, resist the settler-colonial narrative of “vanishing” Indians in their multigenre texts. …”
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“One Nation under God?”: Ethnicity and Identity in Modern America by Gary D. German

“…We then go on to study the degree to which colonial American society and the institutions of the early American Republic were infused with this ideology. …”
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O inadmissível roubo da carta de alforria do nagô Pedro Allgayer: a escravidão em uma zona de imigração alemã (RS, séc. XIX) by Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira, Miquéias Henrique Mugge

“…Starting from a trivial case portrayed in a legal document, our goal is to make this case study an efficient observatory that shows the slave society in the German colony of São Leopoldo in the eighteen hundreds.…”
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Reflections on a century of road transport developments in West Africa and their (gendered) impacts on the rural poor by Gina Porter

“…It draws on diverse evidence, including twentieth century colonial archives, personal ethnographic field research undertaken over a 35- year period, associated quantitative surveys, and relevant secondary literature. …”
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A invenção do criollismo primitivo rioplatense (1770-1800) by Jaime Antonio Peire

“…Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a fabricação do criollismo primitivo no final do período colonial e as emoções identitárias nele inseridas. …”
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Circumventing the Nation: How to Develop a Postcolonial Archive on Public Health in India by Aprajita Sarcar

“…Historiography on late colonial public health governance in India has detailed the imprints of transnational funders, namely the Rockfeller Foundation and later, the Ford foundation on funding, research, and knowledge production around national programmes and personnel in India. …”
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Industrial Imperialism and the Museum: A Coal Biography by Anaïs Walsdorf

“…As it travelled through Wellington’s Colonial Museum, the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873, the British metallurgist John Percy’s Collection, and finally the Science Museum Group’s collections, the rock took on different meanings and values. …”
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres by Olivier Le Guen

“…Our approach will be comparative, through time – using colonial and ethnographical data of the twentieth century, and space – contemplating uses and beliefs of two maya groups, the Yucatec and the Lacandon Maya.…”
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A invenção do criollismo primitivo rioplatense (1770-1800) by Jaime Antonio Peire

“…Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a fabricação do criollismo primitivo no final do período colonial e as emoções identitárias nele inseridas. …”
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Nommer les lieux de la crise des opioïdes à Boston : un enjeu politique by Elsa Vivant

“…The reactions and demands of the residents of these different neighbourhoods reveal the power relationships in the urban space, the toponymic choices of which are the main focus of the analysis: Mass & Cass refers to the urban, colonial and racial history of the city and prohibition; Methadone Mile recalls the stigmatisation of users and places of care; Recovery Road expresses the emergence of new care and harm reduction practices at work in this sector. …”
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Francisco Nuñez-Hernán Cortés : réflexion autour d’une rupture (1544-1546) by Elisabeth Balancy

“…This mediator between the centre and the far away periphery emerges as an essential figure in the mother country/colonies’ relations.…”
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