Colonialismo y alteridad: el debate racial y cultural en la conquista de Argelia by María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía

“…La raza, la religión y el estado de civilización fueron los ejes centrales de un debate que muestra las contradicciones y las fisuras de la política y de la sociedad francesas ante la cuestión colonial.…”
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Casting the George Floyd story in a broader context by Gerson Uaripi Tjihenuna

“…The Black race has gone through many dehumanising experiences, including the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, and all manner of discrimination. This, in turn, has led to an inferiority complex because, for the most part, we have been defined by others – and not in the most positive of terms to say the least. …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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« Mon parent, ce nouvel ennemi ». Relations matrimoniales et intériorisation de l’Autre chez les Jebero d’Amazonie péruvienne by Ronan Julou

“…The Jebero, who stand for the ancient paragon of « Christian Indians » during the colonial period, are facing a deleterious change of their social relationship, marked by the loss of confidence in their close kin, now considered as potential enemies. …”
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Horrible British Histories: Young people in museums interrogating national identity through principles and practices of critical pedagogy by Sadia Habib

“…When working with young people in British museums, creating open and safe spaces for discussing the entanglements of contemporary multicultural identities with the legacies of British colonialism is necessary and long overdue.  By employing the principles and practices of critical pedagogy, heritage organisations can interrogate the dominant narratives about identity and belonging in Britain, and work with young people to highlight shifting, fluid and multiple identities and belongings in contemporary Britain. …”
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Un diálogo con Verena Stolcke “La naturaleza y la cultura no son los extremos de un continuum” by Montserrat Ventura

“…Se doctoró en Oxford en 1970, con una tesis sobre sexualidad y racismo en la Cuba colonial. Más tarde realizó trabajo de campo con mujeres jornaleras en una plantación de café de Sao Paulo, mientras cofundaba el Departamento de Antropología social en la Universidad de Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brasil). …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…Large groups of these animals live together and form huge interconnected colonies called reefs. Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet; an essential habitat for a wide variety of animal and plant species. …”
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CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP by M.M.-Y. Yuen

“…In addition, the notions of political charity and social friendship in Catholic social thought, particularly the social encyclical Fratelli Tutti, and the multi-axial analysis in post-colonial feminist theology are useful in upholding women’s dignity and moral agency in care situations. …”
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Unfixing the Frame: Visualizing Histories of Transcultural Contact, Exchange & Performance in Prince Roland Bonaparte’s Peaux-Rouges (1884) by Emily L. Voelker

“…Here, however, the author shifts focus to the experiences of the pictured sitters, examining the photographic exchange embodied in the work as a specific moment in ongoing settler colonial relationships between the Umonhon and European, followed by Euro-American, colonizers. …”
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Tordre les archives (queering archives) : oui, mais dans quel sens ? by Ruby Faure

“…I defend here the idea that queering the archives constitutes an ethical orientation, seeking to resist contemporary homo-nationalist calls, as well as the separation of the history of sexuality from that of the French colonial empire.…”
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Approche historique de l’agriculture urbaine au Dahomey (Bénin) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The first contacts with the Europeans (residents of forts and trading posts, Christian missionaries) promoted the development of a truck-farming agriculture; then, the colonial administration contributed strongly to rethink the city and agriculture by creating agricultural stations and a new town planning. …”
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Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. …”
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La recomposition des savoirs au Maghreb à l’époque de la coopération by Jean-Robert Henry

“…In the social sciences, it was an age of deconstruction and reconstruction of colonial knowledge, for inventing north-south relations, a time for reconfiguring the concept of cultural space and a time of intense multidisciplinarity. …”
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Colonialidad y turismo: la fábrica de las identidades y alteridades en India by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

“…País atravesado por la matriz colonial, India constituye un ejemplo adecuado para pensar las situaciones turísticas y mostrar cómo los actores institucionales (gobierno indio) y no institucionales (empresas, turistas domésticos, miembros de la diáspora) conjugan imaginarios turísticos para apoyar o redefinir las identidades colectivas y las alteridades –a veces incluso para reforzarlas. …”
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Moving up North by Olivette Otele

“…Analysing how notions such as the Mediterranean with its historical colonial legacies have been re-appropriated and given way to the term the Black Mediterranean, allows us to understand the way the history of migration from Europe to Africa was linked to the idea of conquest and progress, while 20th and 21st century stories of migration from Africa to Europe are associated with invasion and disorder. …”
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Values of the Land: Kinships as Climate Solutions in ‘The Honorable Harvest’ and ‘Land as Pedagogy.’ by Abigail Morton-Wilcox

“…Fundamentally, Kimmerer and Simpson reject and oppose the oppressive and exploitative systems at the centre of the climate emergency: settler colonialism and extractive capitalism, whilst simultaneously providing kinships with the living world as ways of mitigating such crises.…”
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Deviant Literary Works Towards Greater Cultural Coherence: the Case of Oceanian Writer Epeli Hau’ofa by Nelly Gillet

“…Hau’ofa se ré-approprie le discours colonial en le pervertissant et en lui faisant servir la cause d’une plus grande cohérence culturelle au sein de l’Océan Pacifique.…”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…Large groups of these animals live together and form huge interconnected colonies called reefs. Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet; an essential habitat for a wide variety of animal and plant species. …”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It shows the practice of engagement by the Kegites through which identity can be textually constructed in ways that politicize self-representation and challenge discourses grounded in the colonial and postcolonial histories of the Yorùbá people. …”
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Working with all nations and all relatives in feeding the future by Shaileshkumar Shukla

“…Standardized and top-down approaches of development that often dominate through limited, persuasive, and extractive euro-centric perspectives often dominate in Turtle Island and most colonial regions of the world. Food and food-sustaining relatives (land, water, plants, animals, micro-habitats) which are central to planetary health, are negatively impacted and threatened by these human pressures, which have severe implications for our ability to feed current and future generations (FAO et al., 2023; Planetary Health Alliance, n.d.). …”
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