The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary. Photography between France and Africa, 1900–1939

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Åsa Bharathi Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Imaginary

Framing "India": The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 1232
Author(s):  
Sanjay Subrahmanyam ◽  
Shankar Raman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Colonial Imaginary

scholarly journals At the end of the trade: obeah and black women in the colonial imaginary

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-218
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Colonial Imaginary

scholarly journals «Et io ne vidi uno in Napoli». Orientalismo e processi di patrimonializzazione dei femminielli napoletani

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 55-73
Author(s):  
Maria Carolina Vesce
Keyword(s):  
Local Identity ◽  
Campania Region ◽  
Implicit Stereotypes ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Colonial Imaginary

In Naples, as in several other cities of the Campania region (Italy), the word femminiello/femminella “traditionally” refers to effeminate men who behave and act as women. In the last decade femminielli/femminelle were the subject of a true heritagization process, intended to enhace and capitalize their “ancient identity”, now considered on the verge of extinction. Nonetheless, still today, people who self-identify as femminiello/femminella embody an “old-fashioned way” ideal of femininity, sometimes claiming the specificity of their local identity, and distancing themselves from the LGBTQI+ representations and identities. Based on the data collected during a long term fieldwork in Campania, this essay focuses on the processes of production, reproduction and manipulation of the femminielli/femminelle’ identities. More specifically by crossing literature and field notes, I will propose an analysis of the interactions between an orientalist and colonial imaginary that “produces” the femminiello/femminella as otherness (southern) and the reversal that occurs with the distinctive claim of gender experiences embodied by people who still identify as femminielli/femminelle. How do these imaginaries interact? And what implicit stereotypes lurk in such representations?

The sole of Africa: shoes in three African films

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-197
Author(s):  
Rachael Langford
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cultures ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Colonial Imaginary

The shoe in European colonial societies bears a particular weight of symbolism, for amongst the myriad object of the colonial imaginary, the coloniser’s emblematic dichotomies of civilised/uncivilised, white/native also found their expression in the shoe as another means of distinguishing the shod scion of civilisation from the subhuman, barefoot native. Thus, shoes in the imaginary of European colonial societies were objects of desire, anxiety, and phantasm; and the footprints of the past’s colonial shoe fetish can be uncovered in the attention accorded to shoes in the visual cultures of post-Independence, postcolonial societies too. This essay will look at a selection of post-Independence African films to explore how African filmmakers’ imaging of shoes responds to these past histories and present traces of colonial and postcolonial calciphilia.

2Precious2Mine: Post-politics, Colonial Imaginary, or Hopeful Political Moment?

Antipode ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1161-1183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Bond ◽  
Gradon Diprose ◽  
Andrew McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Imaginary

scholarly journals Osynligt förtryck och vita kroppar. Förhandlingar kring judiskhet i Sverige

Elore ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Nylund
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Whiteness Studies ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
Colonial Imaginary

The majority of the approximately 20,000 Swedish Jews are not immediately recognisable as Jews, and pass as ordinary Swedes. In this article, with inspiration from Critical Whiteness Studies, this invisibility is analysed in terms of whiteness. Critical Whiteness Studies argue that in postcolonial societies, such as Sweden, whiteness functions as a taken-for-granted norm that regulates who is regarded as white and Swedish. The aim of the article is to investigate the consequences of the norms of whiteness for Jewish life in contemporary Swedish society. From a large body of material on Jewish life in Sweden two interviews have been selected for analysis. The article argues that the practices of passing as white demand skills and knowledge about how and when it is suitable and adequate to expose or hide being Jewish. The interviewees find the category ‘Swedish’ far too limited to encapsulate Jewish life in all its forms. Their engagement in the practices of passing as white shows that Swedish contemporary society is imbued with colonial imaginary reproduction norms of whiteness.

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