Infrastructural Empire and Anti-colonial Resistance (1890–1960)

2022 ◽  
pp. 54-86
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Resistance

Subordinate-Deity Models of Ultimate Reality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley J. Wildman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ultimate Reality ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Metaphysical Problem ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Subordinate-deity models of ultimate reality affirm that God is Highest Being within an ultimate reality that is neither conceptually tractable nor religiously relevant. Subordinate-deity models ceded their dominance to agential-being models of ultimate reality by refusing to supply a comprehensive answer to the metaphysical problem of the One and the Many in the wake of the Axial-Age interest in that problem, but they have revived in the twentieth century due to post-colonial resistance to putatively comprehensive explanations. Subordinate-deity ultimacy models resist the Intentionality Attribution and Narrative Comprehensibility dimensions of anthropomorphism to some degree but continue to employ the Rational Practicality dimension of anthropomorphism, resulting in a strategy of judicious anthropomorphism. Variations, strengths, and weaknesses of the subordinate-deity class of ultimacy models are discussed.

Unsettling Entitlement and ‘Ginx’s Baby’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica F Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
Popular Novel ◽  
The Many ◽  
Victorian Popular Culture

Abstract This story traces the many adventures of a title, from Edward Jenkins’s 1870 novel, Ginx’s Baby, through colonial resistance to imperial copyright law in Canada, to the photograph of a distressed baby that Charles Darwin featured in The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals and that the art photographer Oscar Rejlander reproduced as popular cartes de visites. The reiterative use of the title across genres and oceans conjures an image of Victorian popular culture as an unregulated bazaar affording the surprising emergence of unintended creators. Copyright history, frame analysis, and name theory help explain how the title of a popular novel could lend itself to so many unrelated creative objects.

scholarly journals The Counter/Actual: Art and Strategies of Anti-Colonial Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Claire Norton
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Summary The article explores how a number of artists have employed the counter/actual as a form of past-talk in a conscious intervention into socio-political and ethical issues arising from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. I argue that such uses of the counter/actual more effectively foreground the injustices arising from the occupation while not only problematising the process of representation but also deconstructing the ways in which histories are intimately intertwined with relations of power and practises of legitimisation; they do not simply reproduce “the (f)actual” but work to repossess the past from the dominance of hegemonic interests.

The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800-1920

1984 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 824
Author(s):  
Jidlaph G. Kamoche ◽  
Cynthia Brantley
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Resistance

The Giriama and Colonial Resistance in Kenya, 1800-1920

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Margaret Jean Hay ◽  
Cynthia Brantley
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Resistance

Collision with the Colonies, 1765–1774

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Composite Structure ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
The Government ◽  
George Iii ◽  
Stamp Act

Burke's parliamentary career began with a major political crisis that would loom large in national debates for a further seventeen years. The rift with America represented the most dramatic controversy to emerge during the first half of the reign of George III. Colonial resistance mounted a challenge to the composite structure of the Empire and to the nature of metropolitan authority. This chapter charts Burke's response to the developing situation down to the eve of the outbreak of the war of independence. From the beginning he was wary about a contest over “rights,” pitting the claims of the colonists against the government. By December 1765, Burke had decided that the repeal of George Grenville's Stamp Act offered the only means of reconciling both sides.

“Never to Be Forgotten”

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Gary L. Steward
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Colonial Resistance ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
Stamp Act

This chapter explores the clergy’s doctrine of political resistance expressed during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765. The clergy’s justifications of political resistance as the Revolutionary-era troubles began emerged against the backdrop of clerical arguments for resistance articulated after the overthrow of Governor Edmund Andros in 1689. The memory of Andros, his tyrannical reign over New England, and the clergy’s resistance to him were evoked by the clergy during the Revolutionary era. This act of pre-Revolutionary resistance provides important context for understanding how the clergy themselves thought about the moral legitimacy of resisting one’s political authorities in the Revolutionary period. Colonial resistance to oppressive British agents was not a new or novel idea.

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