The Entwined Human and Environmental Costs of the Colonial Project
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 56-71
Category: English
Intertwining the Ethno-botanical Amazonian Collections of Spix and Martius and Beyond
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 72-90
Introduction
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 47-55
Digitization Is Not Decolonization
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 31-46
Community Collaborations and Social Biographies of Museum Collections from Colonial Contexts
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 16-30
Report on CoMuseum 2023: Museums and Justice
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 179-180
Curating the In-Between
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 106-116
Review Essays
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 181-240
Asian Ethnology
Asian Ethnology
Un dîner presque parfait
L’utilisation croissante en cuisine de nouveaux robots multifonctions connectés génère des sentiments polarisés, qui vont de l’enthousiasme démonstratif au rejet radical. Ces affects interrogent les imaginaires et enjeux associés au « cuisiner-m…
Groundwater overdraft is water dispossession
The Coachella Valley sits at the geographic periphery of Los Angeles. Despite its physical and political marginality, the Coachella Valley is a key site of agricultural production in Southern California. Access to water is essential for ensuring the re…
Epilogue: The Power of Arts for Future Making in East Africa: From Kakuma Refugee Camp and Beyond
Through the example of migrants staying at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western Kenya, I show what art consumption and production means for people living in marginalised and restricted places in East Africa. With its 30 years of existenc…
Memories of Failed Futures: The Autobiography of Nicco ye Mbajo (1950–2021), a Popular Artist in Tanzania
The autobiography of Nicco ye Mbajo (1950–2021) provides insight into the life of an artist and his experiences as a cultural producer in Tanzania from independence to recent times. Belonging to the first generation of modern cultural produc…
Poetry’s Political Future(s): Deliberating Democracy and Justice in Somaliland
In February 2017, a poem titled “Muddici” (‘Plaintiff’) by Hargeysa-based poet Weedhsame went viral on social media. The poem accused members of Somaliland’s government of corruption and quickly elicited a series of supporting and opposing r…
Marco Tibasima’s Cartoon Representations of the Education Crisis in Tanzania
This paper examines the cartoons of Marco Tibasima, which portray the education system of Tanzania as dysfunctional and heading towards a bleak future. Through cartoons published in Habari Leo, NGO booklets, and on his blog, Tibasima provide…
Introduction: Time and Imagined Futures in Eastern African Art Forms
Artists in eastern Africa use songs, poems, fiction, cartoons, and other artistic forms to explore their lived experiences and future possibilities. Through their art they can envision alternatives to their current experiences, contest socia…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 3, that is going to be published in the second half of September 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is August 15, 2024.
Affective Turn, or Return?
The ‘affective turn’ suggests that we pay attention to how affects create subjectivities, build communities, and shape new forms of politics in the making. It invites us to move beyond established humanities and social science paradigms and …
The Aftermath – What Future for African Studies (in Europe?). A View From Behind the Scenes of ECAS9
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In the spring of 2023, the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place in Cologne. Though not unexpected (or unusual) this event sparked critical comments and questions. As the organisers, we understa…
Working (around/within/against) prior appropriation: Diverse hydrosocial practices to secure water for rivers
Water scarcity in the Western US, through the lens of political ecology, can be understood as inextricably shaped by power dynamics, governance structures, and legal practices of resource allocation. Water allocation in the region is determined largely…
CAES Vol. 10, № 2
Articles Deciphering of the Lemnos Stele inscription Alexander Akulov The Lemos Stele is a funerary monument with an inscription in the Lemnian language, that is a juncture between Etruscan and Hurro-Urartian. The inscription of side A tells about Holaie’s grandson/nephew named Zia: Holaie-z(1) nafoth(2) Zia-zi(3) mara-z(4) maw(5). Sialkʰweiz(6) awiz(7) Ewistho(8) zeronaith(9) ziwai(10). Aker(11) tawar-zio(12) Wamala-si-al(13) […]
Towards Teaching a Humanistic Anatomy: Confronting Racism in Human Anatomy Courses
Historically, the study of human anatomy has had a very complex relationship with race and racism in the United States. Today, BIPOC students are disproportionately excluded from the health sciences, in part because anatomy courses play the role of “ga…
Energy colonialism
Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are import…
Drought, settler law, and the Los Angeles aqueduct: The shifting political ecology of water scarcity in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada
This article examines how drought intersects with long-standing issues of ecological degradation and social inequity caused by water extraction. I focus on the case of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its ongoing impacts on communities and ecosystems in th…
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Two Oriental Images of Istanbul: Robbe-Grillet’s L’Immortelle and Erksan’s Time to Love [Full text]
Aslı Daldal
Çiftliks, Landed Elites, and Tax Allocation in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman V…