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Women and migration : responses in art and history
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ISBN: 9781783745654 9781783745661 9781783745678 9781783745685 9781783745692 9781783746743 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Open Book Publishers

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Sweethearts : verliefd op de bevrijder
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ISBN: 9789401455114 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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De diamantdiaspora : een verborgen geschiedenis tussen Antwerpen en Havana
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ISBN: 9789463104043 9463104046 Year: 2019 Publisher: Antwerpen Polis

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Potential history : unlearning imperialism
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ISBN: 9781788735711 9781788735704 9781788735735 9781788735728 1788735706 1788735714 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Verso

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In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions--an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums--to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as "past" and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.

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