19 research outputs found
On the coloniality of ânewâ megaâinfrastructure projects in east Africa
This article responds to a preference for shortâterm history in research on the infrastructure turn by engaging with the longue durĂ©e of East Africaâs latest infrastructure scramble. It traces the history of LAPSSET in Kenya and the Central Corridor in Tanzania, revealing the coloniality of new and improved transport infrastructure along both corridors. This exercise demonstrates how the spatial visions and territorial plans of colonial administrators get built in to new infrastructure and materialise in ways that serve the interests of global capital rather than peasant and indigenous peoples being promised more modern, prosperous futures. The article concludes by suggesting that a focus on the longue durĂ©e also reveals uneven patterns of mobility and immobility set in motion during the colonial scramble for Africa and reinforced after independence. These âcolonial mooringsâ are significant as they shape political reactions to new megaâinfrastructure projects today and constrain the emancipatory potential of infrastructureâled development
Understanding Global Change: From Documentation and Collaboration to Social Transformation
The conclusion to the book situates the chapters within four programs of anthropological research on climate change: (1) documentation of local impacts of and adaptations to climate change, (2) connections to socioeconomic and political contexts, (3) collaborations with nonanthropologists, and (4) activism and social transformation. The final section notes the persistent challenges to creating positive change and meaningful research outcomes. It highlights some examples of success and outlines future directions for politically engaged anthropological work around climate change
Interrupted Flows and Delayed Transfers in Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigireâs âOne-wayâ Translation of âSusuâ
War Memories and the Refugeesâ Representation in Marie-ThĂ©rĂšse Toyiâs Weep not, Refugee
Changes in the Linguistic Landscape Resulting from Zimbabweâs Post-2000 Land Reforms: Recasting the First and Second Chimurenga
A critical psychology of the postcolonial
Of the theoretical resources typically taken as the underlying foundations of critical social psychology, elements, typically, each of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Post-Structuralism, one particular mode of critique remains notably absent: postcolonial theory. What might be the most crucial contributions that postcolonial critique can make to the project of critical psychology? One answer is that of a reciprocal forms of critique, the retrieval of a âpsychopoliticsâ in which we not only place the psychological within the register of the political, but - perhaps more challengingly - in which the political is also, strategically, approached through the register of the psychological. What the writings of Fanon and Biko make plain in this connection is the degree to which the narratives and concepts of the social psychological may be reformulated so as to fashion a novel discourse of resistance, one that opens up new avenues for critique for critical psychology, on one hand, and that affords an innovative set of opportunities for the psychological investigation of the vicissitudes of the postcolonial, on the othe