Tag: Colonial History
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LGBT History in India: A Colonial Legacy
In 2018, India overturned the section of the Indian Penal Code that criminalised homosexuality. Sophie Whitehead investigates the legacy that British colonialism has left on India’s attitudes towards LGBT people.
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Sacagawea: The Key to Success
Written by Amy Hendrie. How do you tell the story of someone entirely from external sources? Amy Hendrie engages with this troubling historiographical problem in relation to the Indigenous American figure of Sacagawea, an extraordinary woman who played the biggest part in the exploration of the territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate
Written by Megan Sickmueller. What dynamics remain at the heart of the present climate crisis? Megan Sickmueller examines the historic (and present role) of capitalism and colonialism in this, with its separation of the economy from the social and the ecological.
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The Women’s War 1929: An Overlooked Event
Written by Claudia Efemini. The Women’s War of 1929 is a seldom discussed political and social movement, likely due to the fact that it was a movement resisting British Colonial Rule in Nigeria, and was orchestrated by women. But what happened? And why should we put this back in the historical limelight?
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On Building a Nation: The Price of Utopia
Written by Megan Sickmueller, this piece discusses the thought of Martinican philosopher Franz Fanon in regards to the nation, race and colonial struggle, and relates it to the legacy and project of Steve Biko, a pre-eminent figure in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
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Through the Looking Glass: Photography and Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Written by Jack Bennett. The technology of photography has been deeply entangled with imperial expansion. However it has been a contested technology too and used by colonised peoples.
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The Curse of Oil
Written by Finlay Cormack. The history of oil is one steeped in colonial discourses and imperial ambitions. With continuing conflict arising from this commodity in the Middle East, how can we understand the influence of the global north in the origins of oil disputes?
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Representations of Rehabilitation: Experiences of Disability in Africa, 1940-1963
Written by Jack Bennett. Policies towards disability were a central plank of the colonial and postcolonial state. A key factor in the development of policy was exchange between colony and metropole.
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