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Enrique Cecilio Cejas Yanes deposited Sistematización de los resultados de investigación del proyecto Gestión Ambiental en la integración universidad-educación técnica y profesional in the group
Curriculum Development on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoEl trabajo aborda la sistematización de los resultados científicos del proyecto Gestión Ambiental, en sus dos etapas, 2009-2012 y 2013-2016. Se obtuvieron 16 resultados científicos que posibilitaron el diseño de dos cursos en el Congreso Internacional Pedagogía 2009, 2011, 2013. Se defendieron 5 tesis doctorales relacionadas al proyecto. Los ejes…[Read more]
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Antonio Sotomayor deposited Celebrating the Colonial Nation in San Germán’s Patron Saint Festivities, 1950s. in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis work addresses the question of how the patron saint festivities in San Germán, Puerto Rico assisted in the reconstruction of the Puerto Rican nation during the 1950s. Particularly, I focus on how community leaders reproduced ideas of nationhood based on hispano-centric, white, Catholic, and patriarchal parameters. I investigate how an…[Read more]
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David Backer deposited Interpellation, Counterinterpellation, and Education in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoIn a recent essay in Rethinking Marxism, as part of a special issue on the legacy of Louis Althusser’s thinking,
Tyson E. Lewis takes up Althusser’s thinking on schooling, trade unionism, and seminars to delimit the concepts of
interpellation, counterinterpellation, and disinterpellation respectively. While Lewis’s work is a crucial first step…[Read more] -
Enrique Cecilio Cejas Yanes deposited Experiencias y retos de los proyectos de investigación en la universidad de ciencias pedagógicas in the group
Curriculum Development on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis paper shows a systematization of the research projects belong to Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas Enrique Jose Varona, Havana, Cuba between 2014-2016 and its projection for 2017 year. This paper has three essentials parts. Firstly, it explains theorist statements and way for designs a project in newest university. Secondly, is the…[Read more]
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Mohd Muzhafar Idrus deposited Globalization, Re-Discovery of the Malay ‘Local,’ and Popular TV Fiction through Audience Narratives in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe proliferation of TV fiction can be partly explained by TV producers attuning their products to draw audience’s attention. Narratives of love dominate the plots and almost always the good is pitted against the evil, rich against the poor – ultimately the good always wins. The formula may be clichéd, but in places where news of war, te…[Read more]
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Sara Santos deposited History Without Memory: The Memorialization of the Parsley Massacre in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis paper argues that in The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat seeks to historicize and memorialize the Parsley Massacre through the reframing of the historical event through Amabelle Désir’s fictional account. Through the conflation of historical artifact and literary imagination, the novel narrates, and therefore produces, a collective me…[Read more]
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ALMUDENA CORTES MAISONAVE deposited Violencia de género y frontera: migrantes centroamericanas en México hacia los EEUU in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoEste texto analiza el caso de la migración centroamericana que migra en y por México desde una perspectiva de análisis antropológico y feminista aplicados a las recientes propuestas sobre los regímenes migratorios y de movilidad. Se busca reformular las preguntas tradicionales de investigación que presentan el papel de la violencia criminal como…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun deposited The Political Consequences of the Protests against Neo-Liberal Reforms in Nigeria: The Case of OccupyNigeria Movement in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis paper analyses the mechanisms, outcomes, and consequences of the Nigerian protest movement using longitudinal qualitative research. To go about this, the paper looks at the protests in the context of neo-Liberal reforms, the essential trigger of the movement, its objectives, and its achievements are described. The movement started on January…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun deposited Repression of the Neo-Biafra Movement – Measures, Responses, and Consequences in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis paper analyses the measures, reactions, and consequences of the repression of the neo-Biafra movement in Nigeria using longitudinal qualitative research. To go about this, the paper looks at the political context within which the movement operates, it objectives, and its activities are described. The movement started in September 1999 in…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun deposited Repression of the Neo-Biafra Movement – Measures, Responses, and Consequences in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThis paper analyses the measures, reactions, and consequences of the repression of the neo-Biafra movement in Nigeria using longitudinal qualitative research. To go about this, the paper looks at the political context within which the movement operates, it objectives, and its activities are described. The movement started in September 1999 in…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Kevin Potter started the topic CfP Special Issue of Humanities on Postcolonial Literatures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Humanities, Special Issue:
“Disturbances of Home/land in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures”
Call for Papers:
In our vision of the home, or of what we associate with home, we tend to conjure up images of comfort, stability, permanence, primacy, and belonging. This image extends beyond the confines of an individual hou…[Read more]
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Abin Chakraborty started the topic CFP for Postcolonial Interventions, Vol. Iv, Issue 1, January 2019 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoPostcolonial Interventions has been striving consistently to explore new frontiers of knowledge in the field of postcolonial studies which remains characterised by fluidity, plurality and consistent refashioning of disciplinary boundaries. The next issue of Postcolonial Interventions will be an Open Issue that will hope to testify to this ever…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Welcome to Women also Know Literature in the discussion
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWelcome to Women also Know Literature. If you are not yet a member, we hope that you will join us!
We are a group of literature scholars inspired by the efforts of “Women Also Know History,” which has launched an impressive website dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of women historians. We hope to do the same for women sc…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception,” Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts 162 (2013): 77–96. in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe concept of the exception has heavily shaped modern political theory. In modernity, Kierkegaard was one of the first philosophers to propound the exception as a facilitator of metaphysical transcendence. Merging Kierkegaard’s metaphysical exception with early modern political theorist Jean Bodin’s theory of sovereignty, Carl Schmitt int…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev,” Comparative Literature Studies 50.1 (2013): 87-107. in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWhile ecocritical poetics have effectively challenged epistemologies of nature and culture, scholars such as Heise, Huggen, Nixon, and Garrard have critiqued this emergent field’s geographic and cultural provincialism. Seeking a rapprochement between Caucasus vernacular literatures and a literary-theoretical movement (ecocriticism) still dominated…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria,” Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229. in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe tension between feminism and national liberation is a commonplace of political mobilization across the postcolonial world. This essay traces how postcolonial nationalist and transnational feminist agendas were brought into conflict during the defense of a thesis on the novels of the Syrian writer Ghada al-Samman (b. 1942) that took place in…[Read more]
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Iskandar Zulkarnain deposited Ch. 8: Christian Sandvig, “Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis review of Chapter 8, “Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure” by Christian Sandvig is part of “crowd-sourced book review” project organized by Humanities, Arts, Science Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).
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Iskandar Zulkarnain deposited Polyspatial Resistance for the Sake of the “Real” Subalterns: Electronic Civil Disobedience as a Form of Hacktivism in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines Electronic Disturbance Theater’s virtual sit-in actions as a form of hacktivism in relation to the subaltern concept.
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