Discourse on Colonialism

Césaire, Aimé

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“…Pluralistic modes of interpretation have been marginalised by the typical occularcentrism and objectivism of European scholarship for centuries, epitomised in the "look but don't touch" regulation of the museum (Gell, 1998;Gosden and Knowles, 2001;Howes, 2005;Classen, 2007;Candlin, 2009). Returning to hitherto subjugated multi-sensory subjectivity and alternative modes of description aligns with post-colonialist critique (Fanon, 1986;Césaire, 2000), therefore engaging profoundly with the sensory, emotional, and subjective experience of a photobook encounter reflects the openness and multiplicity of postcolonial ethics and forms a gesture of resistance to these entrenched knowledge cultures.…”

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confidence: 92%

Returning to Another Black Darkness: Materiality and Mattering in Photobook Encounters Over Time

Carlin

2022

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This article foregrounds a specific, memorable reading of the photobook Another Black Darkness by Sakiko Nomura to unravel the different socio-political agencies of objects and environments that configure how we interpret and understand photobooks, as individual creative works, and as a medium in general. It demonstrates a "methodology of encounter" that revisits an autoethnographic response written in 2018 to critique the ways that materiality, place, positionality, coincidence and time configure certain experiential knowledges that are situated in time and place. Repeat readings of the book and the original text uncover deeper analysis of these entangled affects. Photobooks are produced in multiple, and can be found in many different environments, with different rules of engagement, so it is necessary to develop a critical understanding of the medium that can account for this plurality of encounter. Through focusing on performative, relational moments of meaning-making with photobooks, the article links substance with significance, or, "matter and mattering" (Barad), and shows distinct, experiential capabilities of the photobook as an artistic form. RESUMO:Este artigo traz para primeiro plano uma leitura específica e baseada na memória do livro de fotografia Another Black Darkness, de Sakiko Nomura, de forma a desvendar as diversas agências sociopolíticas de objectos e ambientes que configuram o modo como interpretamos e compreendemos livros de fotografia enquanto trabalhos criativos individiduais e enquanto medium. O artigo demonstra a "metodologia do encontro" que revisita uma resposta autoetnográfica escrita em 2018 para criticar os modos como materialidade, lugar, posicionamento, coincidência e tempo configuram certos conhecimentos experienciais situáveis no tempo e no espaço. Leituras repetidas do livro e do texto original revelam análises mais profundas destas diferentes questões. Os livros de fotografia são produzidos em quantidade, e podem ser encontrados em muitos ambientes distintos, com diferentes regras de compromisso, pelo que é necessário desenvolver uma compreensão crítica do medium que tenha em conta esta pluralidade do encontro. Focando-se em momentos performativos e relacionais de produção de sentido com os livros de fotografia, este artigo associa substância e significado, ou "matéria e importância" [matter and mattering] (Barad), e explora capacidades distintas e experienciais do livro de fotografia enquanto forma artística.

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Section: Positionality and Subjectivity "This Book Asks Me About Myse...mentioning

confidence: 92%

Returning to Another Black Darkness: Materiality and Mattering in Photobook Encounters Over Time

Carlin

2022

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“…These assumptions are indebted to a Weberian history and analysis of religion and modernity that both analyze a historical development and predict and prescribe a teleology. Where much of the history of the 20 th century has indeed conformed to these globalizing predictions, the process has been one of violent imposition rather than automatic or systematic progression (Césaire 2001). The affinity between religious and capitalist practice is not at all surprising, since religions and religious actors are always in the world, engaged in practices of translation and commensuration.…”

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Ethical Practice, Trade, and Food: Muslim Restaurants in South Mumbai

Tayob

2023

J. Study Relig.

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The production, consumption, and distribution of food is central to many religious practices and often considered distinct from the capitalist imperative to market, commodify, and profit. Yet, even scholarship that overcomes the now outdated binary of morality or religion versus the immoral market, continues to represent religion as a distinct sphere of life, with a moral content contrasted or compared to market practice. It is considered an achievement to note how religious practice exhibits affinities with market developments. There is little recognition of how religions as discursive traditions are inseparable from questions of consumption, trade, and exchange, which render the very distinction of religion versus market as an obstruction to analysis. Through an ethnography of the narratives and material practices of two Muslim-owned restaurants in the old Muslim quarters of South Mumbai, I show how different calibrations of Islam are materialized in restaurant spaces and trade practices in the city. Within the context of increasing marginalization of Muslim bodies and food practice in Mumbai, I argue that the restaurants constitute a complex and differential moral economy of food, poverty, care, and aspiration.

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“…[28][29][30] Historically, neo-Marxist ideology was largely reflected by the efforts of national leaders, writers and activists who fought for independence and sovereignty, seeking to dismantle colonial empires and liberate countries from western control. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] More recently, elements of neo-Marxism are reflected in calls to 'decolonise global health', [41][42][43][44][45] where proponents demand a transformational change in global and national health practice.…”

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Understanding resilience, self-reliance and increasing country voice: a clash of ideologies in global health

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Background‘Resilience’, ‘self-reliance’ and ‘increasing country voice’ are widely used terms in global health. However, the terms are understood in diverse ways by various global health actors. We analyse how these terms are understood and why differences in understanding exist.MethodsDrawing on scholarship concerning ideology, framing and power, we employ a case study of a USAID-sponsored suite of awards called MOMENTUM. Applying a meta-ethnographic approach, we triangulate data from peer-reviewed and grey literature, as well as 27 key informant interviews with actors at the forefront of shaping these discourses and those associated with MOMENTUM, working in development agencies, implementing organisations, low-income and middle-income country governments, and academia.ResultsThe lack of common understanding of these three terms is in part a result of differences in two perspectives in global health—reformist and transformational—which are animated by fundamentally different ideologies. Reformists, reflecting neoliberal and liberal democratic ideologies, largely take a technocratic approach to understanding health problems and advance incremental solutions, working within existing global and local health systems to effect change. Transformationalists, reflecting threads of neo-Marxist ideology, see the problems as inherently political and seek to overhaul national and global systems and power relations. These ideologies shape differences in how actors define the problem, its solutions and attribute responsibility, resulting in nuanced differences among global health actors in their understanding of resilience, self-reliance and increasing country voice.ConclusionsDifferences in how these terms are employed and framed are not just linguistic; the language that is used is reflective of underlying ideological differences among global health actors, with implications for the way programmes are designed and implemented, the knowledge that is produced and engagement with stakeholders. Laying these distinct ideologies bare may be crucial for managing actor differences and advancing more productive discussions and actions towards achieving global health equity.

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Discourse on Colonialism

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Returning to Another Black Darkness: Materiality and Mattering in Photobook Encounters Over Time

Returning to Another Black Darkness: Materiality and Mattering in Photobook Encounters Over Time

Ethical Practice, Trade, and Food: Muslim Restaurants in South Mumbai

Understanding resilience, self-reliance and increasing country voice: a clash of ideologies in global health

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