Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127660
J. Gani
ABSTRACT With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, the roles and relations of Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet, despite intellectual overlaps, mutual opposition to British colonialism, and a shared spiritual worldview, little has been written within postcolonial studies on the historical relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jamati Islam in South Asia. I explore the link between both movements as an example of anti-colonial connectivity that transcended territory. Though disconnected by geography and language, both groups were nevertheless tied by the deep connection of a shared belief system and the common experience of British imperialism. In particular, I argue their theology was not incidental but fundamental to both their anti-colonialism and their connectivity. I consider how that connectivity and solidarity evolved through time and shifting locations, reflecting the rich inheritance not just of post-colonies, but also of diasporic communities in the imperial metropole, inhabiting liminal spaces of unbelonging who often found community via these transnational movements. The purpose of the article is a recovery of history and a recognition of (at times overlooked) anti-colonial struggles and solidarities that do not fit neatly within disciplinary postcolonial norms.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-21DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127667
R. Persaud
ABSTRACT This article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures. Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney led epic struggles against authoritarianism in their native Guyana and contributed to the global fight for decolonization and national independence. The article also compares and contrasts the work of Jagan and Rodney.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127661
T. Seidel
ABSTRACT Borders, barriers, and walls separate and divide. The construction of walls, militarization of borders, and confiscation of land can be observed throughout the histories of settler colonialism with violent material and bodily effects, especially as it has been inflected through the logic and structures of racial capitalism. And yet, as borders, barriers, and walls ‘harden’ through new security practices, local struggles emerge that transgress, cross boundaries, and express anticolonial connectivities. This article examines one case of this along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border, where we observe both the coordination between the U.S., Israel and global business in the ‘hardening’ of border regimes, and struggles against that border violence seen with protesters in Los Angeles demanding human rights for Latin American migrants and Palestinians or campaigns for a ‘World Without Walls’. It argues that these anticolonial connectivities are examples of boundary-crossing work that bridge gaps and separations maintained by colonial domination and become powerful acts of resistance against those regimes.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-11DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127671
Quỳnh N. Phạm
ABSTRACT My essay examines the layered connections among anticolonial struggles. I confront the difficulty of tracing these connections as I excavate the global dimensions of bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s political work. As a Vietnamese revolutionary diplomat, she built transcontinental relations and friendships with people from other nations, liberation movements, and different walks of life. Yet the international relations that she actively constructed are rendered obscure not only by the Eurocentrism of disciplinary knowledge but also by gendered erasure and restricted framings of her diplomatic work. I look into sources from the margins to trace bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s cosmopolitan engagement in ngoại giao nhân dân (people’s diplomacy). This clues us into the political, material, and affective bonds among colonized peoples that sustain their struggles. It is crucial to shift our lens of research and protocols of knowledge to better attend to the submerged: the globality of anticolonial women, the underground connections that may be elusive in formal archives, the crossings and gatherings of those fighting for a decolonized world. This is not simply a matter of bringing the submerged into visibility, but learning from the submerged to re-conceptualize the range and depths of what constitutes global relations, past and present.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127670
Benedetta Zocchi
ABSTRACT Since 2018, the Bosnian Canton of Una-Sana became the bottleneck of the Western Balkan Route and the last frontier before the EU border. These events illustrate the logic through which the EU border performs in the Balkans, by containing and excluding both those inhabiting and those crossing the region. This study theorizes the Balkans as a liminal space, where the EU border is produced through a colonial logic diffusing dichotomized and hierarchical relations of subordination. It zooms in on the Bosnian frontier as a site where the EU border is simultaneously sustained and contested, drawing attention to tensions and initiatives enacted thorough the assemblage of those gathering beyond it. The paper is written in dialogue with people on the move, activists, volunteers, scholars and practitioners met during fieldwork in the Una-Sana Canton. Their lived experiences of connectivity, cultivated in spaces where the border simultaneously contains and assembles them, compose the central data of this study. Bringing scholarship on borders and migration in conversation with Balkan studies, the paper engages with liminality as an opportunity to rethink transversally about local, regional and global trajectories of coloniality assembling histories and bodies in the Balkans.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-07DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2129360
Alexandra Berry
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Seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts nehmen Konflikte um Land und Ressourcen in vielen lateinamerikanischen Ländern stark zu. Dieses Phänomen einer vermehrt neo-extraktivistisch orientierten Politik bedroht insbesondere Gebiete, in denen indigene Gemeinschaften leben. Im Kontext des indigenen Filmschaffens sind derartige Konflikte daher ein zentrales Thema. Wie werden Machtverhältnisse, unterschiedliche territoriale Vorstellungen und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen hier verhandelt? Teresa Millesi analysiert eine Auswahl von Filmen unter Einbezug raumwissenschaftlicher und ökokritischer Ansätze. Im Zentrum steht dabei die Bedeutsamkeit der Filme als Widerstandspraxis gegen die nationalstaatliche Hegemonie.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127656
Branwen Gruffydd Jones
ABSTRACT This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper examines how poetry served as a vehicle to imagine and call into being various subjectivities and affective relations which actively countered the restrictions of colonialism and racism, especially on the part of the assimilados, the small educated elite constructed by Portuguese colonialism. Several important forms of anticolonial connectivity are expressed in these poems: connections with the broader African diaspora in North America, the Caribbean and Brazil; connections with all continental Africans; connections across the spaces of the Portuguese colonial empire – Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe; and connections of solidarity and unity between the assimilados and indígenas of the Portuguese colonies. These various dimensions of affective connection were constitutive of a new anticolonial imagination and looked towards liberated futures.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-05DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127664
Paul Emiljanowicz
ABSTRACT This article explores the translocality of 1960s Ghana. It brings into conversation the connectivities crafted by official state diplomacies conducted by Kwame Nkrumah’s government in the name of Pan-Africanism and the activisms, organizational work, and movements of Pan-African, diaspora, and white European women within and beyond Ghana, against the backdrop of a racialized global Cold War order. Focusing on the messiness and tensions of these connections I bring into conversation seemingly separate agential topics. Whether it is through state visits with Eric Williams, the tensions of minister exchange programmes with Guinea, or of diaspora conferences and organizing by African and Afro-American women, and the racialized and gendered dynamics of Nkrumaism, each is entangled and co-constituted with the wider ideational and material reality of the relational living postcolonial project. The variety of experiences, dramas, disputes, and possibilities, speak to how Ghana’s connections with the world were interpreted and used to advance visions of civil rights and Pan-Africanism, while also operating within, against, and beyond the state. The relational project of Nkrumaism demonstrates how translocal power can be crafted to change the nature of translocal entanglements, not erase them, but make them more equitable, while simultaneously reproducing underlying tensions.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2023.2127655
Alina Sajed
ABSTRACT This article explores the lateral connections between the Algerian anticolonial struggle and other similar struggles in the colonial world. Such connections linked up Algeria to Vietnam, Black Panthers in the U.S., and Palestine, among others. Not only were these anticolonial connections crucial to the FLN's strategy, but this strategy and the Algerian struggle more generally were crucial in generating the Third Worldist momentum as Algiers became the ‘Mecca of Revolution'. I examine how, although the goal of anticolonial struggles was national independence, the terrain whether logistic, ideological and even strategic was decidedly translocal. The focus on anticolonial connectivity in the Algerian War becomes a pretext for engaging with a political paradox: while the decolonization process seeks the recovery of dignity by the colonized, the nation-state becomes both the condition for the instantiation of this ideal, and the straightjacket that contains and limits its full realization. Here I re-focus the discussion from ‘alternatives to nation-state' to the idea of historical necessity. I thus treat the anticolonial narrative in more complicated ways, seeing it both as a necessary tragedy and as a narrative of ‘crushed hopes.’
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