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The objective of entangled history and the environment is to introduce climatic and other environmental factors into the postcolonial debate on the unequal power relations between the metropolis and its colonies. Dealing with both environment and empire, as well as unequal (colonial) power relations, has so far largely occurred in separate fields, environmental history, and postcolonial studies. The book attempts to bring the two strands together and to combine the conceptual perspective of intertwined history and comparative practices in order to highlight both material and constructed (or discursive) aspects of the environment as a factor in the formation of unequal (colonial) power relations. Two case studies are conducted through this conceptual lens. The first offers a new perspective on Christopher Columbus' first contact with the Arawak in Hispaniola in 1492. The second examines how climate became an argument for enslaving Africans and displacing them to sugar plantations in the Caribbean.

Environmental history; postcolonial studies; climate; the Caribbean; entangled history

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This book presents the first in-depth critical and historical examination of the internationally renowned National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) in the context of postcolonial theatre. Combining a postcolonial theoretical framework with performance studies and dance analysis, the study examines the interrelationship of Jamaican modern dance theatre aesthetics and the Caribbean's complex cultural genealogy since 1492. Addressing issues of postcolonial nationalism and Jamaican identity politics, the book provides the first comprehensive study of the NDTC's modern dance theatre works as it situates dance theatre choreography at the centre of postcolonial independence politics and cultural theory in the Caribbean.

Dance --- Cultural Studies. --- Dance. --- Postcolonial Studies. --- Postcolonialism. --- Theatre Studies. --- Theatre; Dance; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Postcolonialism; Theatre Studies --- Postcolonialism and the arts. --- National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. --- Arts and postcolonialism --- Arts --- Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company --- Jamaica NDTC --- N.D.T.C. (National Dance Theatre Company) --- NDTC (National Dance Theatre Company) --- Theatre --- Cultural Studies --- Postcolonial Studies --- Postcolonialism --- Theatre Studies

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The intimate relationship between global European expansion since the early modern period and the concurrent beginnings of the scientific revolution has long been acknowledged. The contributions in this volume approach the entanglement of science and cultural encounters - many of them in colonial settings - from a variety of perspectives. Historical and historiographical survey essays sketch a transcultural history of knowledge and conduct a critical dialogue between the recent academic fields of Postcolonial Studies and Science & Empire Studies; a series of case studies explores the topos of Europe's 'great inventions', the scientific exploitation of culturally unfamiliar people and objects, the representation of indigenous cultures in discourses of geographical exploration, as well as non-European scientific practices. 'Entangled Knowledges' also refers to the critical practices of scholarship: various essays investigate scholarship's own failures in self-reflexivity, arising from an uncritical appropriation of cultural stereotypes and colonial myths, of which the discourse of Orientalism in historiography and residual racialist assumptions in modern genetics serve as examples. The volume thus contributes to the study of cultural and colonial relations as well as to the history of science and scholarship. Overall, the collection should be of great interest to scholars working on cultural and colonial relations, and the history of science. While its broad scope and multidisciplinarity will make it attractive to a wide audience especially as a teaching tool [...] - Anita Kurimay in: European Review of History/Revue europeenne d'histoire, Vol. 20, Issue 4, 2013

Synchronic Palimpsests --- Postcolonial Studies --- Europe Penetrated by Islam --- Discovery of America --- American Archaeology --- Georg Forster --- Humboldt to Darwin --- Guatemala --- China --- Epochenübergreifend

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This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply chains, these essays reveal the global food system as one that is inherently disruptive of human lives and flourishing, and of relationships between people, places, and environments. The pandemic thus represents a particular, acute moment of disruption, offering a lens on a deeper, longer set of systemic processes, and shining new light on transformational possibilities.

Human geography --- Anthropology --- Society & social sciences --- food system --- supply chain --- COVID --- pandemic --- crisis --- production --- labour --- Indigenous studies --- postcolonial studies --- cultural studies --- food sovereignty --- alternative food --- farmworker collectives

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Rassistische Polizeikontrollen gehören zum Alltag in Europa. Sie machen auf drastische Weise sichtbar, wer nicht als Mit-Bürger*in gilt. Während ein Großteil der Dominanzgesellschaft diese rassistische Praxis als normal empfindet, sind immer mehr betroffene Menschen nicht mehr bereit, sie widerstandslos zu akzeptieren. Der Band versammelt wissenschaftliche, künstlerische und aktivistische Beiträge zu den gesellschaftlichen Hintergründen und Wirkungsweisen von Racial Profiling und den Möglichkeiten eines intersektionalen antirassistischen Widerstands. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Schweiz, ergänzt durch Perspektiven von Autor*innen, die mit dem deutschen Kontext vertraut sind. »Ein gelungenes und umfassendes Buch über rassismuskritische Prozesse und Racial Profiling.« Halua Pinto de Magalhaes, Widerspruch, 73 (2019) »Der Sammelband vereint 21 wissenschaftliche, künstlerische sowie experimentelle Texte und beinhaltet Fotos und Skizzen zu Aktionen und Gerichtsverfahren. Durch diese ungewöhnliche Publikationsform gelingt es, der Leser*innenschaft die Thematik in einer Tiefe und Unmittelbarkeit zugänglich zu machen.« Nora Trenkel, genderstudies, 35 (2019) O-Ton: »Niemand kann sich Rassismus entziehen.« - Serena Dankwa und Tarek Naguib im Interview beim Aargauer Kulturmagazin (S. 24-28) im Juli 2019. »Eindeutig ist, das Buch liefert Anstösse - keine Anleitungen - und trifft damit ins Ziel.« Aargauer Kulturmagazin, 7/8 (2019) O-Ton: »Innerhalb der Polizei wird das Problem kleingeredet« - Serena Dankwa und Sarah Schilliger im Interview bei Journal B am 29.05.2019.

Ethnic studies --- Antiracism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Feminism. --- Gender Studies. --- Intersectionality. --- Postcolonial Studies. --- Postcolonialism. --- Racism. --- Violence. --- Racial Profiling; Rassismus; Antirassismus; Feminismus; Intersektionalität; Postkolonialismus; Gewalt; Kriminologie; Kriminalisierung; Polizei; Postcolonial Studies; Gender Studies; Kulturwissenschaft; Racism; Antiracism; Feminism; Intersectionality; Postcolonialism; Violence; Criminology; Criminalization; Police; Cultural Studies