Tag: Colonial

Free Download The History of a Periphery: Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia’s Pacific Lowlands
by Juliet B. Wiersema
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1477327746 | 191 Pages | True PDF | 53 MB

Free Download Denise Y. Arnold, "Situating the Andean Colonial Experience: Ayllu Tales of History and Hagiography in the Time of the Spanish "
English | ISBN: 1641894040 | 2021 | 452 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Re-situating Andean colonial history from the perspective of the local historians of ayllu Qaqachaka, in highland Bolivia, this book draws on regional oral history combined with local and public written archives. Rejecting the binary models in vogue in colonial and postcolonial studies (indigenous/non-indigenous, Andean/Western, conquered/conquering), it explores the complex intercalation of legal pluralism and local history in the negotiations around Spanish demands, resulting in the so-called "Andean pact." The Qaqachaka’s point of reference was the preceding Inka occupation, so in fulfilling Spanish demands they sought cultural continuity with this recent past. Spanish colonial administration, with its roots in Roman-Germanic and Islamic law, infiltrated many practices into the newly-conquered territories. Two major cycles of ayllu tales trace local responses to these colonial demands, in the practices for establishing settlements, and the feeding and dressing of the Catholic saints inside the new church, with their forebears in the Inka mummies.

Free Download Aleš Karmazin, "Liquid Sovereignty: Post-Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order "
English | ISBN: 3031479041 | 2023 | 275 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising powers, namely China and India. It aims to investigate how the sovereignty of these states is constituted, which includes the question of how sovereignty works and becomes constituted in specific contexts and cases that fall outside the discourses and positions of the so-called Westphalian (conservative, absolutist) sovereignty that is dominantly advocated by these two states on a global level. The core of this project explores specific contested cases and situates them vis-à-vis the broader approaches of China and India to sovereignty. I specifically analyse four particular cases: China’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Hong Kong and Taiwan and India’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Bhutan and Kashmir. In doing so, I will illustrate that sovereignty is a flexible and plasticphenomenon which can be intertwined with principles, models or practices that are usually seen as divergent from or contradicting sovereignty; for example, those that derive from China’s and India’s imperial and colonial history.

Free Download Aleš Karmazin, "Liquid Sovereignty: Post-Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order "
English | ISBN: 3031479041 | 2023 | 275 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising powers, namely China and India. It aims to investigate how the sovereignty of these states is constituted, which includes the question of how sovereignty works and becomes constituted in specific contexts and cases that fall outside the discourses and positions of the so-called Westphalian (conservative, absolutist) sovereignty that is dominantly advocated by these two states on a global level. The core of this project explores specific contested cases and situates them vis-à-vis the broader approaches of China and India to sovereignty. I specifically analyse four particular cases: China’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Hong Kong and Taiwan and India’s approach to sovereignty in relation to Bhutan and Kashmir. In doing so, I will illustrate that sovereignty is a flexible and plasticphenomenon which can be intertwined with principles, models or practices that are usually seen as divergent from or contradicting sovereignty; for example, those that derive from China’s and India’s imperial and colonial history.

Free Download Nishat Zaidi, "Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032247347 | 2023 | 354 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia.

Free Download Bina Sengar, "Indigenous Societies in the Post-colonial World: Responses and Resilience Through Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 9811987211 | 2023 | 338 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This edited book provides perceptions on "indigeneity" through a global perspective. Emphasizing the contemporary and postcolonial debates on indigenous, it delves into diversity and dissonance within indigenous concepts. Through its chapters based on theoretical and empirical studies from Asian, African, and American perceptions of indigenous societies, it brings out complexity, resilience, and response of "indigenous" in the post-colonial global society. It especially looks at how these societies manage to move forward by going beyond the stigma of the colonial past. The chapters in the book are divided into three sections where they discuss indigenous cultures through interdisciplinary perspectives. The narrative approach of historical concepts and contemporary indigenous challenges within the book include anthropological, cultural, ecological, historical, literary, and legal studies. The contributions in the collection come from widely respected international scholars whoare engaged in indigeneity and postcolonial questions. It allows the reader to (re)discover the theories and resilience of the indigenous societies that are historically marked and are reshaping the histories and contemporary narratives in the world. This book is of particular interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and people curious about the histories and the dynamic progress of the indigenous and indigenous societies of Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

Free Download Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States
by Naosuke Mukoyama
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009444301 | 248 Pages | True PDF | 4.54 MB

Free Download Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal
by Bernard Moitt
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009296477 | 252 Pages | True PDF | 5.26 MB

Free Download Douglas W. Leonard, "Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa"
English | ISBN: 1788315200 | 2019 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought.

Free Download Brian C. Arnold, "A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age"
English | ISBN: 9463729496 | 2022 | 496 pages | PDF | 22 MB
As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed, so too did the medium. Photography was not only an essential tool of colonialism, but it also became part of the movement for independence, a voice for reformasi, an agent for advocating democracy, and is now available to anyone with a phone. This book gathers essays by leading artists, scholars, and curators from around the world who have worked with photography in Indonesia and have traced the evolution of the medium from its inception to the present day, addressing the impact of photography on colonialism, independence, and democratization.