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This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a
crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as
a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing
labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate
disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market
town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and
spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the
urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these
categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and
more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even
in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political
abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and
social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities,
affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural
imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and
water.
This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a
crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as
a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing
labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate
disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market
town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and
spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the
urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these
categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and
more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even
in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political
abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and
social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities,
affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural
imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and
water.
This special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of
perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South.
Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South,
the essays develop new theoretical frameworks for thinking about
geography, inequality, and subjectivity. Contributors investigate
the construction of gender and racial formation in the global South
and also explore what is politically and theoretically at stake in
considering under-studied places like Guyana, or peripheries like
Melanesia. One essay considers how encounters between spaces in the
global South, specifically between Lebanon and West Africa, help to
refocus attention from the preoccupations of northern nations with
their former colonies to the frictions of decolonization. Several
articles focus on the role of popular culture in regard to the
geopolitical formation of the global South, with topics ranging
from film to music to the career of Muhammad Ali. Contributors:
Afro-Asian Networks Research Collective, Phineas Bbaala, Emily
Callaci, Aharon de Grassi, Pamila Gupta, Mingwei Huang, Sean
Jacobs, Maurice Jr. M. LaBelle, Christopher J. Lee, Roseann Liu,
Marissa J. Moorman, Michelle Moyd, Ronald C. Po, Savannah Shange,
Sandhya Shukla, Pahole Sookkasikon, Quito Swan, Sarah Van Beurden,
Sarah E. Vaughn, Jelmer Vos, Keith B. Wagner
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and
missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical
ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic
festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese
colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was
the 'incorrupt' corpse of Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish
Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint. Using distinct genres of
source materials produced over the long duree of Portuguese
colonialism, the book documents the historical and visual
transformation of Xavier's corporeal ritualisation in death through
six events staged at critical junctures between 1554 and 1961.
Xavier's very mutability as a religious, political and cultural
symbol in Portuguese India will also suggest his continuing role as
a symbol of Goa's shared past (for both Catholics and Hindus) and
in shaping Goa's culturally distinct representation within the
larger Indian nation-state. -- .
South Africa's future is increasingly tied up with that of India.
While trade and investment between the two countries is
intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have
much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both
countries are important players in the global South. As India
emerges as a major economic power, the need to understand these
links becomes ever more pressing. Can the two countries enter
balanced forms of exchange? What forms of transnational political
community between these two regions have yet to be researched and
understood? The first section of South Africa and India traces the
range of historical connection between the two countries. The
second section explores unconventional comparisons that offer rich
ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative
book looks to a post-American world in which the global South will
become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian Ocean
arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the
fore. The book's main contribution lies in the approaches and
methods offered by its wide range of contributors for thinking
about this set of circumstances.
This Element looks at the relationship between heritage and design
by way of a case study approach. It offers up ten distinct
portraits of a range of heritage makers located in Goa, a place
that has been predicated on its difference, both historical and
cultural, from the rest of India. A former Portuguese colonial
enclave (1510-1961) surrounded by what was formerly British India
(1776-1947), the author attempts to read Goa's heritage as a form
of place-ness, a source of inspiration for further design work that
taps into the Goa of the twenty-first century. The series of
portraits are visual, literary, and sensorial, and take the reader
on a heritage tour through a design landscape of villages, markets,
photography festivals, tailors and clothing, books, architecture,
painting, and decorative museums. They do so in order to explore
heritage futures as increasingly dependent on innovation, design,
and the role of the individual.
Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization
processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on
Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case
studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers
decolonization through the twined lenses of history and
ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness
accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She
looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples
across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of
dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and
ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the
production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which
took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through
material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of
colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the
theme of decolonization, offering a productive and new approach to
writing post-national histories and ethnographies. Finally, Gupta
demonstrates the value of using different source materials to
access narratives of decolonization, analyzing the work of
Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, and including lyrical prose
and ethnographical observations. Portuguese Decolonization in the
Indian Ocean World provides a nuanced understanding of Lusophone
decolonization, revealing the perspectives of people who
experienced it. This book will be highly valuable for historians of
the Indian Ocean world and decolonization, but also those
interested in ethnography, diaspora studies and material culture.
Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization
processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on
Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case
studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers
decolonization through the twined lenses of history and
ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness
accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She
looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples
across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of
dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and
ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the
production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which
took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through
material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of
colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the
theme of decolonization, offering a productive and new approach to
writing post-national histories and ethnographies. Finally, Gupta
demonstrates the value of using different source materials to
access narratives of decolonization, analyzing the work of
Mozambican photographer Ricardo Rangel, and including lyrical prose
and ethnographical observations. Portuguese Decolonization in the
Indian Ocean World provides a nuanced understanding of Lusophone
decolonization, revealing the perspectives of people who
experienced it. This book will be highly valuable for historians of
the Indian Ocean world and decolonization, but also those
interested in ethnography, diaspora studies and material culture.
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