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Vivimos sumergidos en la política, bombardeados por noticias nacionales o internacionales que yuxtaponen guerras, elecciones, crisis económicas, delitos de sangre. En este marco, periodistas, intelectuales mediáticos y ensayistas varios, en lugar de echar luz sobre el debate público, introducen lugares comunes, cuando no errores o distorsiones. Del otro lado, el cientificismo de algunos investigadores los inhibe de ocuparse del mundo social por...
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La conquista de México ha sido, a lo largo de la historia, una verdadera "guerra de imágenes" entre México y España, un caso flagrante de manipulación histórica, por ambas partes, cuyos ecos envenenados llegan hasta el presente.
La Corona española silenció la conquista de México en su propaganda bélica, en sus salas de batallas y en sus espacios de Estado. Los monarcas no querían ser recordados como conquistadores de las Indias sino como...
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Debates about decolonisation of the mind and of our curricula reveal the dark shadow cast over the world by the adventurers of the modern era, beginning in 1492. Decolonisation explores questions of justice, injustice and inhumanity that have geographically and intellectually shaped the course of history through overlapping colonial, decolonial and postcolonial eras.
This multidisciplinary collection uses the lenses of history, philosophy, literature...
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Spike Island was the largest British military-run prison for republican prisoners and internees in Munster and south Leinster during the Irish War of Independence, housing almost 1,400 men. The author has, compiled an outstanding record of all of these men using primary source material from Irish Military Archives, prisoners and internee autograph books and British Army records from the UK National Archives. The book describes the background to the...
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Drawing on case studies of organized violence-ranging from territorial wars and colonial conquests to non-state variants such as organized crime-this record offers a general theory to account for the use of force in both the state and civil sectors of society. Challenging the popular views that the dominant forms of violence are due to failings of human nature, this volume suggests that the laws and institutions favoring an approach to property rights...
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Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are few books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and resistance.
Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to...
8) ¿Micronesia española?: Historia de la reclamación española de soberanía en las islas del Pacífico
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¿Micronesia Española? aborda un tema apasionante y controvertido: el de los supuestos derechos de España sobre una porción de la Micronesia, fruto de la diferente concreción del Protocolo Hispano-Alemán de 1885 -que reconocía a nuestro país su soberanía sobre las Islas Carolinas y Palaos- y el Tratado de Venta de dichas islas al Segundo Imperio Alemán, de 1899. Se trata de una cuestión que, desde los años cincuenta, ha despertado tanto...
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Dans les années 1960, les colonies françaises d'Afrique subsaharienne accédaient officiellement à leur indépendance. On donnait les palais des gouverneurs aux nouveaux présidents, on nommait des ambassadeurs et on construisait des ambassades. L'État français disait vouloir ainsi normaliser ses relations avec ces pays souverains. Or, soixante ans plus tard, le faste des résidences de France, le comportement des diplomates et la marche de l'administration...
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Décoloniser la décolonisation québécoise
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L'œil du maître interroge le mythe du maître chez nous qui définit les luttes souverainistes au Québec, la relation au territoire et aux Premières Nations. Contre la conquête, la domination, la surveillance, Dalie Giroux revendique une autre idée de l'indépendance, à rebours de la violence fondatrice de l'État. Elle évoque le rendez-vous manqué avec un passé-futur décolonial du...
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This book compares the trajectories of states and societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America under neoliberalism, a time marked by serial economic crises, escalating social conflicts, the remilitarisation of North-South relations and the radicalisation of social and nationalist forces.
Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros bring together researchers and activists from the three continents to assess the state of national sovereignty and the challenges faced...
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The Soweto Student Uprising of 1976 was a decisive moment in the struggle against apartheid. It marked the expansion of political activism to a new generation of young activists, but beyond that, it inscribed the role that young people of subsequent generations could play in their country's future. Since that, momentous time students have held a special place in the collective imaginary of South African history. Drawing on research and writing by...
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Mainstream nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long. In this much-needed book, Ran Greenstein challenges this hegemony by focusing on four different, but at the same time connected, attempts which stood up to Zionist dominance and the settlement project before and after 1948.
Greenstein begins by addressing the role of the Palestinian Communist Party, and then the bi-nationalist...
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#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black...
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"Supimos cómo enfrentar el peligro para ganar nuestra libertad, sabremos cómo enfrentar a la muerte para mantenerla."
Toussaint L'Ouverture fue el líder de la Revolución haitiana del pasado siglo xviii, en la que los esclavos se rebelaron contra sus amos y establecieron la primera república negra. En esta colección de sus escritos y discursos, el expolítico haitiano Jean-Bertrand Aristide demuestra la profunda contribución de L'Ouverture...
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The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not unique, whatever the media may suggest. Lorenzo Veracini argues that the conflict is best understood in terms of colonialism, as like many other societies, Israel is a settler society. Looking at the evolution of other colonial regimes - apartheid South Africa, French Algeria and Australia - Veracini presents a thoughtful interpretation of the dynamics of colonialism.
He challenges two important...
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Unshared Identity employs the practice of posthumous paternity in Ilupeju-Ekiti, a Yoruba-speaking community in Nigeria, to explore endogenous African ways of being and meaning-making that are believed to have declined when the Yoruba and other groups constituting present-day Nigeria were preyed upon by European colonialism and Westernisation. However, the author's fieldwork for this book uncovered evidence of the resilience of Africa's endogenous...
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Washington's expansion of the War on Terror to the African continent substantiated claims that the U.S. fabricated terrorism in order to justify their military campaign. This book chronicles the effect of this warmongering and the creation of a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in the Sahara.
Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the US 'invasion' of the Sahel, the book shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes -...
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We fully endorse the concepts as set out by Lenin in 'State and Revolution'. It is now necessary, however, to incorporate the new elements of history into them. Lenin was writing with one Workers State before him, at a time when the profile of the capitalist State was neat. Today, that profile is no longer neat: in the Revolutionary State, the army no longer has the force, the status and the transcendence of the army in a full capitalist State. Here...
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The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer's residents rioted while Jaipur's citizens stayed calm. What explains these divergent patterns of ethnic conflict across multiethnic...
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