Squatters, access to land, and production of national narratives in post-colonial Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Martin S. Shanguhyia
Keyword(s):  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial

scholarly journals The Second World War, Imperial and Colonial Nostalgia: The North Africa Campaign and Battlefields of Memory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Kingsepp
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The North ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
And Function ◽  
Multidirectional Memory

The article addresses the function of (post)colonial nostalgia in a context of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) in contemporary Europe. How can different cultural memories of the Second Word War be put into respectful dialogue with each other? The text is based on a contrapuntal reading (Said 1994) of British and Egyptian popular narratives, using a qualitative content analysis of 10 British tv documentary films about the North Africa Campaign, and data from qualitative interviews collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, during visits 2013--2015. The study highlights considerable differences between the British and Egyptian narratives, but also significant similarities regarding the use and function of nostalgia. In addition, the Egyptian narrative expresses a profound cosmopolitan nostalgia and a longing for what is regarded as Egypt’s lost, modern Golden Age, identified as the decades before the nation’s fundamental change from western-oriented monarchy to Nasser’s Arab nationalist military state. The common elements between the two national narratives indicate a possibly fruitful way to open up for a shared popular memory culture about the war years, including postcolonial aspects.

Real Imagined Communities: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History

Design Issues ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjetil Fallan ◽  
Grace Lees-Maffei
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World History ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Design History ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Political Economic

Contemporary design is global. Along with international developments in higher education, the influence of post-colonial theory, and intellectual endeavours like ‘world history’, design historians are now writing Global Design History (to use the title of a 2011 edited collection). While the nation state is no longer the only socio-cultural or political-economic unit forming our identities and experiences—if it ever were—this article examines the value of national frameworks in writing design history and asks whether moves to discard them are premature. Are national histories of design dependent upon outmoded generalisations and stereotypes? Or do they demonstrate cogent frameworks for the discussion of common socio-economic and cultural conditions and shared identities? Globalizing design history involves writing new histories of neglected regions and nations and revisionist histories informed by the findings and methods of new comparative and global histories, of celebrated industrial nations.

Beyond “imagined” nostalgia: Gunsan's heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Hyun Kyung Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Korean History ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Japanese Colonial

Abstract In South Korea, romanticization of the era of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) has long been taboo: the period is widely regarded as one of the most painful and shameful parts of South Korean history. However, during the past decade unexpected cracks have appeared in established national narratives on the colonial period. This paper explores the dissonance between long-standing national narratives and the commodification of local heritage sites for tourism, by examining the heritagization of Japanese colonial architecture in the city of Gunsan. Despite the Gunsan Municipal Government positions the city's colonial stories in ways that largely align with national official narratives on Japanese colonial history, such efforts have unexpectedly generated feelings of imagined nostalgia in three ways: (1) through clashes between official colonial history and the means by which colonial daily life is depicted in Gunsan's Modern Cultural Belt; (2) through the interwoven colonial and post-colonial stories presented in the city's Modern Historic Landscape District and (3) through the commercialized colonial and post-colonial stories articulated by private businesses in Gunsan. This paper suggests that productive nostalgia can help to overcome the limit of the current form of Gunsan's heritagization, and to construct Gunsan's diverse local memories

scholarly journals The Second World War, Imperial, and Colonial Nostalgia: The North Africa Campaign and Battlefields of Memory

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Eva Kingsepp
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The North ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
And Function ◽  
Multidirectional Memory

The article addresses the function of (post)colonial nostalgia in a context of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) in contemporary Europe. How can different cultural memories of the Second Word War be put into respectful dialogue with each other? The text is based on a contrapuntal reading (Said 1994) of British and Egyptian popular narratives, mainly British documentary films about the North Africa Campaign, but also feature films and novels, and data from qualitative interviews collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, during visits 2013–2015. The study highlights the considerable differences between the British and Egyptian narratives, but also the significant similarities regarding the use and function of nostalgia. In addition, the Egyptian narrative expresses a profound cosmopolitan nostalgia and a longing for what is regarded as Egypt’s lost, modern Golden Age, identified as the decades before the nation’s fundamental change from western-oriented monarchy to Nasser’s Arab nationalist military state. The common elements between the two national narratives indicate a possibly fruitful way to open up for a shared popular memory culture about the war years, including postcolonial aspects.

scholarly journals Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zarine L. Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Race ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Racial Projects ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Over Time

“Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization in Singapore. While multiplicity and diversity are important characteristics of Singaporean society, Singapore's multiracial ideology is firmly based on separate, racialized groups, leaving little room for racial projects reflecting more complex identifications. This article explores national narratives of race, culture and belonging as they have developed over time, used as a tool for the state, and re-emerging in discourses of hybridity and “double-barrelled” racial identifications. Multiracialism, as a maintained structural feature of Singaporean society, is both challenged and reinforced by new understandings of hybridity and older conceptions of what it means to be “mixed race” in a (post-)colonial society. Tracing the temporal thread of racial categorization through a lens of mixedness, this article places the Singaporean case within emerging work on hybridity and recognition of “mixed race”. It illustrates how state-led understandings of race and “mixed race” describe processes of both continuity and change, with far-reaching practical and ideological impacts.

A fragmented and forgotten decolonisation: the end of European empires in the Sahara and their legacy

2013 ◽  
pp. 204-218
Author(s):  
Berny Sèbe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The 1960S

As postcolonial historical processes in the Sahara have tended to be absorbed more or less artificially in the national narratives to which they came to belong (with or without the consent of the populations in question), decolonization processes at work in the Sahara and their consequences have long remained neglected territory. Berny Sèbe closes this gap by looking at the fragmented and forgotten decolonization of the Sahara as a whole. This author discusses the genesis and consequences of the division of the region between more than ten new independent countries, inverting the traditional frameworks through which decolonization is interpreted and considering alternative paths. Favouring a geographical and socio-economic perspective over the typical concentration on geopolitical outcomes, Sèbe analyses the reasons for the failure of several projects of unification, from the French-led OCRS to Colonel Kaddafi’s goal of a United States of the Sahara. The author considers the extent to which the multiple conflicts the Sahara has witnessed since the 1960s can be understood as a legacy of colonial times that post-colonial governments have been unable to address satisfactorily.

Cultural Diversity and Critical Dietetics: A Scholarship of Cross-Cultural Engagement

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
Craig Alan Hassel
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Classical Chinese Medicine

As every human society has developed its own ways of knowing nature in order to survive, dietitians can benefit from an emerging scholarship of “cross-cultural engagement” (CCE).  CCE asks dietitians to move beyond the orthodoxy of their academic training by temporarily experiencing culturally diverse knowledge systems, inhabiting different background assumptions and presuppositions of how the world works.  Although this practice may seem de- stabilizing, it allows for significant outcomes not afforded by conventional dietetics scholarship.  First, culturally different knowledge systems including those of Africa, Ayurveda, classical Chinese medicine and indigenous societies become more empathetically understood, minimizing the distortions created when forcing conformity with biomedical paradigms.  This lessens potential for erroneous interpretations.  Second, implicit background assumptions of the dietetics profession become more apparent, enabling a more critical appraisal of its underlying epistemology.  Third, new forms of post-colonial intercultural inquiry can begin to develop over time as dietetics professionals develop capacities to reframe food and health issues from different cultural perspectives.  CCE scholarship offers dietetics professionals a means to more fully appreciate knowledge assets that lie beyond professionally maintained parameters of truth, and a practice for challenging and moving boundaries of credibility.

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