Figurative decolonization is as perilous a concept as figurative violence.
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When we speak of a Decolonization Commission, we emphasize the word "process" because decolonization is not oriented to a singular endpoint known in advance, and nor is it about purity of method or intent.
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It's one of the places that we can think about decolonization.
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The term 'decolonization' has been used frequently to describe the exhibition yəhaw̓.
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This year's march marginalized intersectional queer struggles and ongoing fights for decolonization.
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A place, in other words, that is undergoing a process of decolonization.
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During this "golden age" for Europe, imperial powers had to navigate decolonization.
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No other 5003th-century war of decolonization produced a Dien Bien Phu.
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The artist's turn to the pastoral was a defiant act of decolonization.
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She saw this as a feminist act and a step toward cultural decolonization.
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Denis's parents supported decolonization, and she is adamant that "Chocolat" is not autobiographical.
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A place, in other words, that is undergoing a process of decolonization. 7.
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Monge is plain in his opinion that "decolonization" is the only way forward.
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Despite Ho's sincere efforts to negotiate decolonization peacefully, the French wanted Indochina back.
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But now in my work, I find myself being very passionate about reconciliation and decolonization, but it's tricky because if I use the word decolonization at work, well it could potentially make me look like I'm anti-establishment or anti-government.
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What referents attach to "decolonization" when it is named in regard to aesthetic practices?
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The people at Standing Rock were not the only ones considering decolonization this summer.
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A central phenomenon in modern world history is Western imperialism and its aftermath, decolonization.
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I am constantly asking myself these questions: Why does the decolonization of museums matter?
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But I am not always sure what the term "decolonization" actually connotes in its usage.
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Babylon (1980) portrays Jamaican musical collectives, called sound systems, as movements of decolonization and resistance.
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It's interesting because it was native foods that brought me to the threshold of decolonization.
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But the work we can do to support decolonization and dismantle racism must be done.
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It has never recovered from the double blows of deindustrialization and decolonization, Mr. Peraldi said.
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At the same time, you can't force decolonization into anyone, because then you are re-colonizing.
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Their objection was that the language of rights and the consequences of decolonization threatened the market.
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The letter outlines seven points for the scope of the "Decolonization Commission" the groups envision: 1.
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Dr. Walker, 35, is a postdoctoral fellow in international studies, focusing on global decolonization at Dartmouth.
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Decolonization, ancestral memory, healing practices and the idea of surrender as an act of self-empowerment.
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The Allies' victory in World War II and decolonization sparked a long postwar expansion of democracy.
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For France, it was ambition by other means after the World War II humiliation and decolonization.
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After World War II, he was an inspiration for many decolonization movements in Africa and Asia.
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After World War II, He was an inspiration for many decolonization movements in Africa and Asia.
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Activists make moves toward decolonization for Indigenous Peoples' Day, and the Studio Museum expands its scope.
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We cite some of them to exemplify the interconnectedness of struggles that characterize the project of decolonization.
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It comes down to responsibly sourcing your food based on your views on decolonization and food security.
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For Native Americans and the indigenous, decolonization is a journey of healing from our historical trauma narrative.
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The current of Divest LA and other movements like it around the country, their energy, is decolonization.
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Colonial legacies are at the heart of the Marrakech Bienniale, and Fadda explores the limits of decolonization.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: Decolonization in the Martian context requires asking questions about who is entitled to what land.
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If healing is the word of the day, decolonization may be the word echoing uneasily through the night.
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But of course it's not until decolonization in the '22000s and '22004s that the balance is really shifted.
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It begins with your mind and spirit, and being conscious of what the term "decolonization" means to you.
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Decolonization was the era of grand slogans about the advancement of peoples and modernization through massive infrastructure projects.
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From the 1960s to the 1990s, after the first wave of decolonization, military coups were rife in Africa.
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Anti-gentrification activists are calling on the museum to create a "Decolonization Commission" after a controversial curatorial hire.
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Many see the renewed debate over Islam in the West as a function of decolonization, its second wave.
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Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York's most popular museums.
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Since the removal of the Rhodes statue the radicals have settled on an overarching demand for national decolonization.
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After WWII and after the period of decolonization that followed through the 1970s, borders have been really quite fixed.
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When decolonization starts at development, when more stories by more people are told, this weight might be slowly lifted.
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Counterinsurgencies from Rome through the Cold War years of decolonization and Vietnam involved sharp descent into barely restrained ferocity.
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There are sound precedents for this in earlier crises: Germany in the aftermath of 1945, and France following decolonization.
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In retrospect, it will rank in the same league as 1066, the English civil war, American independence, and India's decolonization.
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Some activists argue that its removal would be a form of spiritual decolonization, a notion that has also provoked debate.
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Decolonization, assuming that the ex-imperial powers could maintain favorable trade relations, eliminated administrative costs and the associated ideological contradictions.
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Mao Zedong's theories inspired many groups fighting for decolonization and minorities' rights, giving Beijing an opportunity to wield international influence.
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Typically, decolonization has been understood by museum administrations to be limited to exhibition displays, programming, and how particular communities are represented.
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The United Nations policy of promoting decolonization was supported, each for its own reasons, by both America and the Soviet Union.
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There was war in Vietnam, decolonization across the rest of the former French empire and the strident uprisings of May 1968.
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I used to feel there was a civil war inside me because neither country has properly addressed the issue of decolonization.
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Yang does not believe in such a radical, global politics of decolonization and solidarity, or at least does not say so.
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For decades after decolonization, Iraqis defined themselves first by their ethnicity as Arabs or Kurds or by their nationality as Iraqis.
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For one thing, after decades of decolonization and ethnic sorting, there are simply fewer separatist movements clamoring for their own countries.
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This week's offerings include a workshop on decolonization, a history of NYC squatting, a one-woman show in a bathroom, and more.
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Handwritten notes addressed to Pe Benito's grandmother illustrate the artist's research into non-binary Filipinx identity — a subtly radical act of decolonization.
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In part one of my dialogue with Prescod-Weinstein, we discussed decolonization and intersectionality; here I'll begin by asking her about inclusion.
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He adamantly opposed the decolonization of Asia and Africa, arguing that the world was best served by a continuation of European domination.
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An activist since high school who pushed for the "decolonization" of Puerto Rico, she says she never expected to hold political office.
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The hundreds of people gathered at the museum to show their support for decolonization efforts had many different reasons for being there.
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Not that decolonization can be obtained, it's an ongoing process, but at least it's a space where we can have a conversation.
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But it was also a time of intense political instability, fueled in part by decolonization and the war for independence in Algeria.
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Though it is mostly academics and activists who invoke decolonization directly, the ideas behind it are alive among Indigenous people young and old.
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SEATTLE — The word 'decolonization' has been bandied about all over national and regional arts outlets lately, but it is often misused or misunderstood.
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A university spokesperson told the Independent that the decision was not related to recent decolonization protests such as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.
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Perceiving sub-Saharan Africans either as former subjects decolonized or as the agents of decolonization, they can only defend them or idealize them.
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Consider the process of decolonization that accelerated in the years after World War II. The United States nominally took an anti-colonial position.
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The EU's predecessor organization—a bloc based on the trade of coal, steel, and other commodities—was founded in the wake of decolonization.
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The video considers the notion of decolonization in modern day South Africa, and how the concept has changed in an increasingly digital age.
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"Dawn" was a wishful parable of decolonization and counterinsurgency, concerned with the competing but equally legitimate claims of two tribes occupying adjacent territory.
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"There are so many stories of how ice has insisted on itself and acted as an agent of decolonization somehow," Singh Soin says.
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While slum lords, culture wars, and big tobacco have been replaced in today's parlance by gentrification, decolonization, and kleptocracy, Haacke's lessons still apply.
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" Worawongwasu continued: "The removal of Kanders from the Whitney board is just the starting point of the decolonization of our museums and schools.
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"I go back and look at a history of decolonization through the interrogation of artists that have looked at it," Fada told Hyperallergic.
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Najla's parents were born in the Western Sahara under Spanish colonial rule, and were raised in the tumult that accompanied the decolonization of Africa.
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A queer and trans mixed-race artist, with Indonesian roots but raised in the West, Martohardjono uses their practice to explore decolonization through movement.
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It supported decolonization—as it did in Dutch Indonesia—if it thought the brutality of colonial rule might make communism look attractive by comparison.
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" She said the debt crisis had set profound changes in motion and she hoped Puerto Rico could finally "have a legitimate process of decolonization.
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In truth, hearts and minds mattered as much as ideology, perhaps even more so during the unfurling age of African and Third World decolonization.
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Still, paying for France to reclaim its colony just as the world was about to experience a wave of decolonization was a dubious undertaking.
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And it was useful during the soul-searching about Britain's place in the world that accompanied decolonization and Britain's entry to the European Community.
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Since 1945 Southeast Asia had been a caldron of conflicts created by the complex combination of decolonization, the Cold War and longstanding local rivalries.
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This new attention was, he argued in "The Last Utopia," a consequence of decolonization, the Vietnam War's end and the decay of Communist regimes.
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The islands, which are home to US military base Diego Garcia, were separated from the former British territory of Mauritius during decolonization in 653.
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Recently, Canada has been in the forefront of the decolonization movement, which demands that institutions account for their role in the histories of colonialism.
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Over 60 protesters from 20 community groups held a protest at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday to reiterate their demands for a decolonization commission.
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One of the strengths of the book is deSouza's reflection on language — its importance to the project of decolonization and to artistic meaning/expression.
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Instead of sidestepping our call for a Decolonization Commission, we urge the leadership at the Brooklyn Museum to respond publicly and adequately to its substance.
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It is one of the few games ever made to take place in Bangladesh (renamed Alordesh), and grapples with the problems of decolonization and deindustrialization.
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Inuqtaq hunting ugruk was going to be a life-giving act of intentional decolonization, our way of keeping alive a simple custom that's become sacred.
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He led India to independence less than three decades later, in 1947, setting into motion a process of decolonization that profoundly shaped the 20th century.
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Most of them knew little of the political complexities and nuances of decolonization, making the travel literature on which they relied that much more important.
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It's not enough just to call for "decolonization," a recent watchword in European museum studies; the whole fiction of cultural purity has to go, too.
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In early 2000s, President Thabo Mbeki cast his resistance to the scientific data on the sexual transmission of AIDS as a model of intellectual decolonization.
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They compel the AMNH to establish an independent Decolonization Commission, demanding the museum reconfigure its racial stereotyping and demeaning ethnographic displays of non-White people.
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The Indian Ocean islands, which are home to US military base Diego Garcia, were separated from the former British territory of Mauritius during decolonization in 1968.
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He writes about gentrification, activist art, institutional decolonization, art education, and lots of other topics with a clarity that often eludes other books of this type.
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Rather, what is required is the decolonization of the entire staffing system of Creative Time, and all such arts organizations based in Europe and North America.
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The road forward must substantially involve multiple stakeholders: museum workers, artists, intellectuals, and the collectives and community groups who are already enacting decolonization on the ground.
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Decolonization, in short, was not specifically a Cold War phenomenon, but the way it played out in many countries was certainly shaped by Cold War tensions.
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The United Nations had declared the 1950s a "decade of decolonization," he said, and Puerto Rico was put on a list of colonies to be freed.
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Sidibé was one of the first photographers to provide the outside world with insight into West African culture as the continent began the process of decolonization.
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Britain has now been instructed to properly finish the process of decolonization, and return the Chagos Islands, located half way between Africa and Indonesia, to Mauritius.
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"The full decolonization of Mauritius, and of Africa, is long overdue," Namira Negm, who represented the African Union in the court case, said in a statement.
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Our Time for a Future Caring primarily brings together the work of eight artists, from different generations, who have reflected on the Gandhian legacy of decolonization.
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The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia voted against independence from France on Sunday in a long-awaited referendum that capped a 21988-year long decolonization process.
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It is an ongoing call to undertake the work of decolonization, a task that will not end in our lifetimes, nor the lifetime of Artists Space itself.
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Evident in his incantatory painting "Alphabets" (1962, reworked 1968), Ibrahim El-Salahi abstracted Arabic and African iconography to reflect the everyday environment of Sudanese people amidst decolonization.
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Nineteen organizations have signed a letter calling on the Brooklyn Museum to form a "decolonization commission" after another letter to the institution last week went largely ignored.
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Related: 100% Sustainable Art Blossoms in Colorado | #50StatesofArt In Seattle, Decolonization Is a Full-Time Gig | #50StatesofArt Sea Meets Sky in a Tennessee Artist's Cosmic Collages | #50StatesofArt
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I think it's because for the work of decolonization, space, land, water, air—all of these things are extremely central, so actually having physical space changes everything.
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Cultural practitioners — who emerged from OWS, Me Too, Black Lives Matter, and Decolonization movements, armed with intersectional theories — have been demanding structural transformation from top to bottom.
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OPEC was founded by Iran and Saudi Arabia in 1960 (along with Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela) during a period of decolonization and economic transformation in the Middle East.
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He was a guerilla leader who opposed Portuguese colonialist rule, and later fought against the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which assumed power after decolonization.
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Fiercely anti-communist, National Review saw the civil rights movement as symptomatic of a perilous trend toward egalitarianism—one that was allied with decolonization movements around the world.
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Which may explain why, after emerging from obscurity half a century ago like an accidental byproduct of decolonization, over the years it has become Singapore's most political language.
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A DJ set by Edna Avalos titled Baile, Liberación, Resistencia fuses reggaetón, psychedelic cumbia, dembow, and other Latin American musical forms in the service of decolonization and resistance.
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Katarzyna Falęcka (Berlin, Germany) Beyond Metaphor: Women and War Histories of decolonization often cast women either as victims of colonial aggression or as heroines participating in nationalist struggles.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads At a Christie's antiquities auction on October 30, while an exceedingly rare Assyrian relief sold for $31 million, decolonization protesters demonstrated outside.
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Recent debates about decolonization have called for the repatriation of art and artifacts including the return of the Elgin Marbles and France's restitution of 26 objects to Benin.
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Her prints greet visitors to the Met Breuer exhibition Home is a Foreign Place, which remaps Western narratives of modern art in a global context of decolonization and displacement.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, amid decolonization and the Cold War battle for hearts and minds in newly independent countries, world elites became obsessed with a new danger: overpopulation.
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But it also makes it more evident that I am part of a diasporic, colonized people, and I'm hoping ultimately I can create avenues of decolonization through the work.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia voted against independence from France on Sunday in a long-awaited referendum that capped a 21988-year long decolonization process.
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Politicians are questioning the island's status as an "associated free state" with some even calling for a process of decolonization and accusing the federal board of being a "dictatorship."
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This period of extreme instability, which ended in 1976 with the election of the first constitutional government, also saw the start of the decolonization process in Portugal's African colonies.
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At that time, superpower rivalries between East and West meant that "we were used as pawns in Africa's entire decolonization process," Mr. Dabengwa wrote in a paper in 2015.
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London decided that during the decolonization process, the Chagos archipelago would be separated from the rest of Mauritius and incorporated into a separate colony, the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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One rider in the film calls the annual crossing an act of "decolonization," and it's powerful to see over 100 horses descending on Wounded Knee at the journey's culmination.
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Because of the court's opinion, Britain is likely to come under renewed pressure in the United Nations General Assembly, which historically has been in the forefront of decolonization issues.
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If the super-talls and The Vessel seek to make a definitive statement of the global city's rise to power, decolonization is the question of how to resist it.
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Indeed, the decolonization of art institutions that Black's supporters claim to want entails critical analysis of systemic racism coupled with a rigorous treatment of art history and visual culture.
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South Africa's official government position - as re-affirmed by Zuma in one of his state of the nation addresses - is to support "self determination and decolonization for the Western Sahara".
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But despite the national attention to this case, one point has gone largely ignored in my view: Stopping DAPL is a matter of climate justice and decolonization for indigenous peoples.
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It is definitely safe to say that for Craig, the subject of Native American cuisine and decolonization is more of a way of life than just a way to eat.
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"The removal of the statue will not be the end of this movement, but rather the beginning of the decolonization of the university," read UCT Rhodes Must Fall's mission statement.
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After settler-colonialism dominated New Zealand, many Indigenous cultural practices were suppressed but have been reintroduced in recent decades as Indigenous New Zealanders make waves toward personal and cultural decolonization.
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Paradise as a goal for the individual or the group has gradually replaced the dreams of development, stability and wealth promised by postwar decolonization in the so-called Arab world.
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The #FeesMustFall movement also pushed for what students are calling the "decolonization" of Eurocentric institutions and curriculums, as well as protections for janitors and other poorly paid workers on campuses.
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Asbrink is throughout attentive to the complex dynamic produced by the Holocaust's multiple aftermaths, the urgently necessary and terrifyingly confusing process of decolonization and the consolidation of the Soviet bloc.
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He first served as foreign minister under the military-controlled civilian government and led the decolonization in Africa, ending years of war in Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique and other territories.
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Admittedly, the renewed and hip conversations about decolonization have confused me as the layers — governance, repatriation, representation — get piled on, and the core of a multi-pronged effort, gets buried.
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Titled "Disunited States of Africa," Nú Barreto's piece is meant to evoke the pieces Africa was left in following decolonization; red stands for blood, yellow for anger, and green for hope.
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It's tempting to see all this as an example of old-style British imperial arrogance -- and the British mindset as the last great bastion of Empire still holding out against decolonization.
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Art criticism deals with issues of community cohesion, decolonization of major institutions, education, relationships among actors within the arts ecosystem, racism, exploitation, institutional responsibility, the public trust, poetry, feminism, and on.
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S. Feminist Network for Decolonization, an advocate for the women, accuses Marano of historical denialism on comfort women and being unaware of what is being published under his name in Japanese.
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The very clear shift for inclusion in the 89-year-old institution is a part of a growing conversation in the art world about representation and decolonization of traditionally white spaces.
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The process of decolonization changed this context, and began to make some Scottish people see themselves as more the last of the people subjugated by the English than as co-subjugators.
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On Sunday, April 29, dozens of protesters occupied the Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum as they reiterated demands for a decolonization commission, about which the art institution has remained silent.
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In an interview at his home, Mr. Cancel Miranda said the previous decolonization — the one carried out by the Popular Democrats — had been a sham, and had provoked the attack on Congress.
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While Canada 150 celebrations forwarded narratives and imagery that appropriated and erased Indigenous identities in Canada, Soule has been fighting for representation, autonomy, and decolonization with a mix of activism and art.
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On the season finale of RISE, host Sarain Fox hangs out with militant hip-hop group Savage Family, whose music aims to spread a message of resistance and decolonization to Native Americans.
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By participating in a decolonization process, the Whitney leadership could set an example for other institutions as they come under increasing scrutiny, paving the way for a process at a city-wide scale.
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From "A Bend in the River" to "The Enigma of Arrival" to "Finding the Centre," Naipaul&aposs books explored colonialism and decolonization, exile and the struggles of the everyman in the developing world.
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Most of America's bases were acquired during the era of decolonization, after World War II, when traditional colonial powers such as Britain and France were shedding colonies around the world, especially in Asia.
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In an area that can be isolating for its heteronormative focus on home life and individual freedom, these kinds of events enable a communitarian experience under the aegis of conservation, agriculture, and decolonization.
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But as conversations about decolonization become trendy, it's important to remember that truly benevolent acts are slow payoffs earned through hard work — not shortcuts with high, and quick, rates of feel-good returns.
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Protesters from 20 grassroots groups, including the American Indian Community House — the latest organization to join a broad coalition pressuring the museum to create a decolonization commission — descended on the large Beaux-Arts Court.
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Non-indigenous environmentalists are only allies if they work broadly toward decolonization, instead of aligning with indigenous peoples only when a particular issue, such as opposition to one pipeline, seems to match their interests.
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Relatedly, The Book of Exile (2016) by architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti documents the stories of refugees in occupied Palestine — an "act of decolonization" and an effort to keep a suppressed culture alive.
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His long career came to an end when mass democracy was on the rise, when decolonization was on the march, and as political freedoms and rights began to be seen as indivisible and universal.
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And for today's demonstrators, getting Congress to adequately fund its Indian Country programs, or pay adequate attention to the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis means actively participating in the decolonization of establishment institutions.
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Although Ayas blames the politicized coverage of Witte de With's decision to change its name on Holland's upcoming local elections in March, the topic of museum decolonization is not new, not even in Dutch institutions.
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Mr. Hammarskjold, whose name is on buildings in and around the United Nations headquarters in New York, was an iconic Swedish diplomat, the organization's second secretary general and a strong advocate for decolonization in Africa.
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After building with comrades in the Netherlands and South Africa on protest strategies in their movements for decolonization and free education, I understood even better that resistance to state violence is a global freedom struggle.
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This so-called decolonization of museums has not been embraced by everyone, but for some people who have not seen their histories reflected in museum displays, it seems like a move in the right direction.
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Hammer weaves in historical contexts of African decolonization and Middle Eastern falcon racing with a light touch, but the central mission remains his search for the answer to the question: Why does Lendrum do it?
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In 2011, Governor Eddie Baza Calvo relaunched the Commission on Decolonization, which seeks to educate residents on the three status options available: independence, free association, and full integration with the U.S. as a new state.
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Under a broad umbrella of decolonization, the project will explore the intersection of Black Lives Matter, Palestinian liberation, indigenous struggles, transnational worker campaigns, and gentrification — all within and beyond the economy of the art system.
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Important conversations about repatriation of stolen artifacts, reallocation of cultural space for community needs, and honestly pursuing decolonization processes at institutions dealing with the exhibiting of and education about art would have to take place.
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The referendum, the result of a 30-year long decolonization process, is the first auto-determination vote to be held in a French territory since Djibouti in the Horn of Africa voted for independence in 1977.
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The group conversation will explore how artists and art institutions can center and elevate the voices of Indigenous women, thereby setting the stage for greater accountability and more meaningful steps toward decolonization, land reclamation, and rejuvenation.
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The U.N. resolution adopted on Wednesday backs a non-binding advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in February, which found Britain had acted unlawfully in the decolonization process and should relinquish control.
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In the wake of World War II and a general movement towards decolonization worldwide, France adjusted how it dealt with its colonies and autonomy was gradually increased within areas which did not win full self-rule.
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Board of Education, and amid waves of decolonization freeing black and brown peoples from European colonial rule around the world, King saw a new and more just world being born from the destruction of the old.
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Ricardo René Díaz Ortiz, a 23-year-old on a Fulbright teaching fellowship in Brazil, calls capoeira "a tool for self-decolonization" the likes of which he had never come across in his native Puerto Rico.
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This fear of a cultural catastrophe dates back about a generation: After years of decolonization, the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 provided Old Europe with more searing proof that it had lost its imperial power.
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I recently attended the Tilting Axis gathering on West Indian French island Guadeloupe, where delegates from around the world gathered to look beyond trendy notions of decolonization to examine colonial-undoing as an act of empowerment.
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In Concerning Violence, footage of the decolonization of Africa during the '60s and '70s was narrated by Fugees singer Lauryn Hill reading excerpts from Frantz Fanon's essay of the same name from The Wretched of the Earth.
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Yet, diverse institutions, including the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the San Diego Museum of Man in the U.S., and others throughout this country and overseas, have taken significant steps on the road to decolonization.
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Both are also the only alternatives to end, once and for all, more than 6900 years of colonial rule by the U.S. There are simply no other true decolonization options available to the people of Puerto Rico.
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Curator Reem Fadda gave us a sprawling show — with lots of historical materials — that eluded classification but still had some clear threads throughout (decolonization, materiality, modernism outside of the West, histories of power, and resistance to homogeneity).
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If the 20th century saw decolonization and the fall of empires, the 21st century is seeing the internal corollary of that process: a relentless challenge in Western societies to the white mind-set, white assumptions, white amnesia.
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"This starts a completely different conversation, so rather than decolonization the project plays with an alternative or restart for African Diaspora history, where the impact of slavery, colonialism and destabilizing migration do not exist," explains Burton to Creators.
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They have also requested that the AMNH establish an independent Decolonization Commission to assess the impact of persistent racist stereotypes and demeaning representation of non-European people on display within the fifth most-visited museum in the country.
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"The policy of import substitution was popular during the period of decolonization ... It's one of those policies that looks good on paper but doesn't work," said Timothy Kaldas, a fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP).
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Beginning with 15 partnering institutions from Canada, Australia, and the United States, the network will be "a consortium of presenters committed to the decolonization process in the very DNA of their organizations," the Alaskan choreographer of Yup'ik descent said.
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This is why we insist that Kanders is but a symptom of a fundamental structural crisis for the art system, and that the removal of Kanders must be understood as but one step in a broader process of decolonization.
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In a non-binding advisory opinion, the top United Nations court for inter-state disputes said Britain had acted unlawfully in the decolonization process and should relinquish control over the islands, which it calls the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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The #FeesMustFall movement has channeled anger at the slow pace of reform in South Africa, calling for the 'decolonization' of a society that continues to preserve white privilege; its activists have little patience for indulging New South Africa's gentle founding myths.
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"It is becoming increasingly clear that the only thing that will save our land for everyone is Indigenous science," said Miller, who is currently writing a history of Puyallup sovereignty that includes sections on Lushootseed language revitalization, decolonization, and shellfish.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The calls for a "Decolonization Commission" at the Brooklyn Museum are growing, as more anti-gentrification activist groups are demanding a response to a letter organized by Decolonize This Place and released last week.
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The latest statement (included in full below) comes after the Brooklyn Museum ignored the calls by local groups to establish a "Decolonization Commission," while characterizing statements by them and others as "personal attacks," which do not appear in last week's letter.
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The forthcoming issue intends to address the limits of queerness outside normative white contexts, and how decolonization and the schema of radical liberation might provide new context to how LGBTQ culture operates in regions like Latin America and the Global South.
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This model has been knocked around over the years, first by decolonization, then by decades of economic hardship, the growing stigmatization of cultural differences, the fervent individualism of new generations and globalization, which has narrowed the state's room for maneuver.
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These problems seemed to reflect the intellectual challenges of the decolonization movement in general, as there's yet no agreed-upon roadmap toward one unified goal since it is a process, one that is continuous and grapples with the systems of power.
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The energies of the student uprising are undeniable and, many believe, necessary, but the call for decolonization suggests a final reckoning with the white minority, a settlement that cannot be reached without upending the Constitution and society as a whole.
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Along with the triumph of African independence, however, the political crises of decolonization revealed central quandaries — from the place of ethnic identity in politics to the role and legitimacy of state power — that still trouble the continent and the wider world.
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"Mauritius is also very much concerned about security in the world and that is why we have repeatedly said that we do not have any problem with the military base, but that our decolonization process should be completed," he said.
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"My father was in his 70s when I was a kid, and it was a time in his life that he had returned to Indigenous ceremonies and practices that I now understand as authentic actions of decolonization and re-Indigenizing," she says.
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France has never come to terms with this long, brutal war of decolonization, which resulted in the loss of its most cherished colony; it was only classified as an actual war, rather than "law enforcement operations" within France's rightful territory, in 1999.
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While he and the other archeologists I spoke to see the Instagram trade as a step in the wrong direction in this process of reconciliation and decolonization, both Scragg and Reynders told me that the Instagram community has its own set of ethical guidelines.
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That article directly bolstered the museum's position while disregarding not only our call for a Decolonization Commission, but also the support and involvement of many Brooklyn community organizations, including Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (BAN), Equality for Flatbush (E2100F), and Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP).
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"RISE is groundbreaking through its voicing of important issues around land, decolonization, and political governance told through an indigenous point of view by showcasing the people who are leading this change globally," said Michelle Latimer, the Algonquin/Métis the director and series producer of RISE.
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What motivates the masses, gives sense to their despair, lightens the weight of the world and compensates for sorrow no longer is the promise of a rich and happy country, as was the case after decolonization; it's a vision of paradise in the afterlife.
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By 1969, decolonization may have destroyed any notion that non-European parts of the world, though populated, were not civilized and thus justifiably made subject to European sovereignty – however, there was not a single person living on the moon; even life itself was absent.
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By 1969, decolonization may have destroyed any notion that non-European parts of the world, though populated, were not civilized and thus justifiably made subject to European sovereignty — however, there was not a single person living on the moon; even life itself was absent.
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Back then, the countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East — born out of decolonization often violently wrested from occupying forces that had imposed on them war, poverty and misery — advocated for a vision of the future based on independence, egalitarianism, development, wealth creation, justice and coexistence.
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As the United Nations pushed for global decolonization, Justice Breyer wrote, we and the Truman administration entered into a social contract that made us neither colony nor state, but something new, called a "commonwealth" in English and, in Spanish, an "estado libre asociado" (free associated state).
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In New York, Mr. Enwezor's major exhibitions include "The Short Century," a history of modern African art and decolonization movements, seen at MoMA PS1 in 2002; and "Rise and Fall of Apartheid," an exhibition of South African photographers at the International Center of Photography in 2012.
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In Chika Okeke-Agulu's 2015 book Postcolonial Modernities: Art and Decolonization and Twentieth-Century Nigeria, he comments on El Anatsui's historic ties to institutions and artists in Africa, asking: Is it really possible to fully understand, say, the magnificent metal and wood sculptures of El Anatsui . . .
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He played behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and in the Democratic Republic of Congo during decolonization in 203, during which both sides of a civil war called a truce to watch him perform, then picked up fighting again once his plane took off.
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The 103-page catalog is its own monument, weighing in at more than 10 pounds, and its dozens of contributors reground postwar art in the cataclysm of the Holocaust, the rise of the Iron Curtain, African decolonization movements, and nationalist reforms from Latin America to Southeast Asia.
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Sunday's protest was the latest effort to bring the Brooklyn Museum and the neighboring Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the table to discuss issues of anti-gentrification and decolonization, while working to ensure that the institutions play positive roles in reflecting and protecting the diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods.
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What do you know about imperialism and colonialism in Africa, the decolonization and liberation movements on the continent, and the events of 217 that led to the independence of 22 nations that year — including Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo?
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The former wards read like a who's who of mid-20th-century tragedies: Spaniards displaced by civil war in the late 1930s; Jews and Gypsies fleeing the Nazi regime during World War II; Algerians escaping their homeland in the 1960s after fighting on France's side during a bitter decolonization war.
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Denize Ribeiro, a professor of Health and Nutrition at the Federal University in Sao Felix and a founding member of Coletivo Angela Davis—an organization for Black women centered on decolonization and the critical theory of subalternity—has attended Boa Morte for over 15 years, sometimes alone and sometimes with friends.
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Changes in the structure of the electorate emerged in force during a period of unprecedented upheaval in the 1960s, when a combination of liberation movements — committed to civil rights, women's rights, sexual freedom, the student left, decolonization and opposition to the Vietnam War — swept across Europe and the United States.
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Focusing on the tumultuous few decades of decolonization and nation-building, the curators Suheyla Takesh, of the Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, and Lynn Gumpert of the Grey have brought together 90-odd prints and paintings by Arab, Berber, Jewish and other artists from Algeria to Iraq.
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"The United Kingdom is under an obligation to bring an end to its administration of the Chagos Archipelago as rapidly as possible, thereby enabling Mauritius to complete the decolonization of its territory in a manner consistent with the right of peoples to self-determination," the ICJ said in its judgment.
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Chinese Communists pushed back, directly in Korea by sending in troops, and indirectly in Vietnam by sending their own advisers and arming a new regular army for Ho, the People's Army of Vietnam, or P.A.V.N. All of this transformed Vietnam into the deadliest war of decolonization of the 21963th century.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When: Thursday, January 12, 6pm (free with RSVP) Where: The 8th Floor (17 West 83th Street, Union Square, Manhattan) Rulan Tangen will lead this workshop focused on decolonization, drawing on her experience as a dance artist and choreographer as well as her work with Native American communities.
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" He penned a letter to Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE objecting to the ballot's title, "Plebiscite for the Immediate Decolonization of Puerto Rico.
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Archeologists and historians keeping a close eye on the Instagram skull trade worry that it is an online microcosm of the West's dark colonial past, and at a moment in history when museums are beginning to take decolonization and repatriation of stolen remains seriously, some wonder whether the online trade is reopening barely healed wounds.
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Meantime Senator Juan Dalmau of the Puerto Rican Independence Party said on Twitter that: "Including colony as an option in the plebiscite is a setback to the aspirations of decolonization and former governor Anibal Acevedo Vila of the Popular Democratic Party said on Facebook that he would not be voting "as an act of conscience.
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It only heightens the discontent of young people with foreign origins, especially North Africans or their descendants, all the more so because the Maghreb's decolonization occurred in pain and humiliation: When France withdrew from Algeria, it left behind hundreds of thousands dead and created scars in the collective unconscious that remain to this day.
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"Decolonization Loop", done in the great satirical style of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal (1729), which offers a solution for the starving Irish — sell their children, of whom they have too many, as food — makes an outlandish proposition: European immigrants and their descendants either return home or apply for citizenship to a Native tribe.
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But what was most compelling were the nine sections — beginning with the struggle for decolonization from the 1940s through the 80s in many Southeast Asian countries, to more recent concerns with democracy, freedom of expression, and the reappraisal of identity by a current tech savvy generation — that mapped the ASEAN countries' (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) remarkable art scene.
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The selected works illustrate how landscape intersects with social justice, with the most prominent issue manifesting as demands for decolonization in the literal sense — ceding land back to the indigenous people it was ripped away from — and in a metaphorical sense, by dismantling hierarchies that value the customs of European colonizers' over those of Canada's indigenous people.
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Punished for reaching outside the boundaries of elite literature, Ngugi reacted by renewing his love affair with Gikuyu, writing in prison the first novel ever composed in that language of his ancestors, an act of defiance and decolonization that appropriates a Western genre and gives it an indigenous twist — a feat not without tension and risk.
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The United States' unapologetically racist immigration codes — with Asian exclusion and "national origins" at their core — survived the Great Depression, World War II, and the beginnings of the Cold War and decolonization; the presumption that the United States was or should be a white fortress in a mostly colored world was backstopped by science, religion, scholarship and popular culture.
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The United States has no incentive to rock that relationship, but it has enormous leverage, which in the past it has used at various times, as it did to ensure Spain's decolonization of the Western Sahara in 1975, to reverse Spain's decision to opt out of NATO in 1982, and to enroll Spain in the 2003 Iraq war.
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After much back and forth, discussions on local radio shows and national news coverage, Targ rolled out an action plan that included "Hosting a monthly series of free community workshops and seminars on topics such as consent, racism, decolonization and harm reduction" and "Offering/encouraging safe space training at [nearby] Carleton University to House of Targ staff," amongst other things.
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In the last decade, those involved with decolonization have been more engaged with contemporary arts patronage, particularly "art-washing," which can be used to describe the use of art by wealthy patrons to mask more sinister motivations and goals, such as the use of art and affiliated businesses and institutions to make gentrification more palatable and attractive to a broad public.
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" She further announced this assembly as a call-in for the museum to decolonize without delay, and addressed the intersections at which decolonization would take place: "It is with this anti-imperialist orientation and alignment with struggles for Indigenous lands and objects, Black liberation, and a free Palestine that we desire for the RISD Museum to hear our call to disown the Benin bronze from its collections.
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Discussing decolonization in the arts often centers settler colonialism as the singular structure or event that Indigenous artists must continually respond to, return the gaze back upon, or subvert and critique; in its best iterations, decolonizing the arts necessarily foregrounds the dismantling or structural transformation of institutions, the repatriation of stolen objects, and the creation of access and resources for Indigenous curators and artists working within arts institutions.
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Scholars such as Eugene Kontorovich and Abraham Bell have noted that under the international legal principle of Uti possidetis juris, "widely acknowledged as the doctrine of customary international law that is central to determining territorial sovereignty in the era of decolonization," emerging states presumptively inherit their pre-independence administrative boundaries, and thus international law clearly dictates that Israel inherit the boundaries of the Mandate of Palestine as they existed in May, 21967.
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