Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Abu Lughod, Lila

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial.…”
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La molteplicità e la crisi by Stefania Consigliere, Cristina Zavaroni

“…Managed in a way that both conceals and naturalizes postcolonial geopolitical violence, current migratory flows bring the anthropological field in our backyards, facing us with unprecedented forms of crisis both among migrants and among operators. …”
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THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by M. M. Lebedeva, M. V. Harkevich

“…The bases for the school may be found in Russian spiritual philosophy, the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, Russian cultural studies, postcolonial tradition of national historical science.…”
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Film Review: Jagun Jagun, Nigeria, 2023. Produced by Euphoria 360 Media. Netflix. 129 minutes, Yoruba (with English subtitles). No price reported. Directed by Tope Adebayo and Adeb... by Yemi Atanda

“…Generally, the film occludes the postcolonial thematic relevance in the modern political African leaders in their visionless Machiavellian ideology. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

“…After briefly surveying the colonial exploitation of the Roman heritage, the article delves into the postcolonial era, where Habib Bourguiba's regime used tourism as a lever for modernization and rapprochement with Europe, thus redefining Tunisia's geopolitical position. …”
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Le Guyana: "Land of Six Peoples" ou "One People, One Nation" ? by Léna Loza

“…Although top officials rejoice in the cohesiveness of Guyanese society, the latter is seemingly struggling to overcome the painful legacy of the colonial era. Examining postcolonial questions about Guyana entails transcending the traditional dichotomy "former colonizers/former colonized people." …”
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Cambiando las éticas y las políticas del conocimiento: lógica de la colonialidad y postcolonialidad imperial by Walter D. Mignolo

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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The research subjects position their worship of the patron saint – as the deity of their arrival city – alongside their devotion to Hindu female goddesses, by drawing analogies between local devotional practices and the religious experiences of postcolonial Mauritius. The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“… Question of identity remains one of the most important and debatable concept in the world of postcolonial theory especially when it is related to cultural identity of the diaspora. …”
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New Area Studies as an Epistemological Framework: Some Reflections of Knowledge Production and Positionality by Marianela Barrios Aquino

“…In this paper, I argue that New Area Studies is useful as a lens through which to engage with decolonial and postcolonial critiques of the social sciences and humanities. …”
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Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Lila Abu-Lughod

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial. …”
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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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Filming Up: Brazilian Elites Through an Ethnographic Lens by Alex Vailati, Walter Andrade

“…Social inequalities within and outside cinema production infrastructure allow the affirmation of several directors, who implicitly contest this postcolonial order through their production focused on empowered groups. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory advanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. …”
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Collective Awareness and Lyrical Poetry: The Emergence of Creole Literary Culture in the Archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“…It could be a way of overcoming the Eurocentric “chronopolitics” that remained valid also in the postcolonial studies, associating the decolonial processes, on the one hand, with the metropolis as a place where the decolonial thought took shape, and on the other, with the chronology, rhythms, and trends of its literary evolution. …”
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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…This study applies deconstruction, a key theory in postcolonial studies, to analyze and reinterpret the meaning within Tiara Andini's popular Indonesian song, Maafkan Aku. …”
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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. Through the discussion of themes such as ancestral presence, the aesthetics of orature, and the political significance of group or society (ẹgbé) ̣ among the Yorùbá, the paper seeks to showcase the presence of a characteristic of Yorùbá oral literature in which personal, cultural, economic, social and political issues become inseparable. …”
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O ESTADO ATUAL DA SOCIOLOGIA: algumas observações face ao próximo Congresso ALAS by Alain Caillé

“…Propõe então que se a sociologia quiser sobreviver terá de se abrir para as novas discussões como a dos postcolonial studies e subaltern studies, e também a dos gender studies e care studies, e aquelas teorias de importante dimensão moral como as do reconhecimento e do dom. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In Àfọ̀njá and Gáà that context is provided by the empire phase of Yorùbá civilization in which Yorùbá civilization was the dominant point of reference; in Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì ̀ the drama is situated in the context of postcolonial Nigerian city, in a nation that boasts large ethnic nationalities of which the Yorùbá are only one and in which Yorùbá culture is mediated by the postcolonial state with its symbol of the English language as the means of communication and its cultural spin offs. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The cooperation between Prince and Strickland has been analysed as one the very first instances of a deep convergence betwen feminist and postcolonial interests. I argue that it would be even more infesting to include Pringle himself in the play of this ’interval’ between Prince’s martyred body and her voice. …”
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