HKRB Essays: Fashion and China–Africa Relations
Johanna von Pezold uses insights from her fieldwork in Mozambique to explore China–Africa relations through the lens of fashion.
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Archive for: Writing Colonialism today
Our History Is The Future
Shelley Angelie Saggar reviews an account of the Standing Rock event which makes clear the connection between the voices of ancestral resistance and those of contemporary struggle.
Insurgent Empire
Shelley Angelie Saggar reviews Priyamvada Gopal’s impressive new book on the British Empire.
Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Carissa Ma reflects on the continuing significance of the seminal text in postcolonial ecocritcism.
Night of Happiness
Ragini Mohite reviews Tabish Khair’s latest novel, a sensitive acknowledgement of the indignities faced by minority communities and individuals in contemporary India.
Imperial Boredom
Josh Gabert-Doyon reviews a revisionist history of the dash and dare of British imperialism and colonialism.
Colonial Violence
Matthew Kovac reviews a timely re-examination of the violence that underscored Europe’s imperial and colonial ventures.
Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia
Harry Yi-Jui Wu reviews a collection of essays that discuss the often disorienting impact of the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to East Asia.
