peer reviewed / In Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (1991), the characters are constantly on the move: tropes of mobility recur throughout the novel. Cars, hotels, business and leisure travel, modern technologies and the figure of what can be referred to as the Afropolitan avant la lettre play a pivotal role in embodying meanings that pertain to class...
ABSTRACT This essay explores the issue of oral production in English as a foreign language in Brazil. It reports the difficulty some students find to speak the language to matters of authority and legitimacy constituted in a particular history of language policies. Interest in the theme emerged because many Brazilian students who know English state...
The popular and academic perspective on cities of the Global South like Kingston, Jamaica is that they are rife with violence. While crime in many ways does organize life in Kingston, the city, like many cities the world over, is very much shaped by a contemporary preoccupation with security and insecurity. A casual visitor to Kingston will notice ...
The popular and academic perspective on cities of the Global South like Kingston, Jamaica is that they are rife with violence. While crime in many ways does organize life in Kingston, the city, like many cities the world over, is very much shaped by a contemporary preoccupation with security and insecurity. A casual visitor to Kingston will notice ...
The popular and academic perspective on cities of the Global South like Kingston, Jamaica is that they are rife with violence. While crime in many ways does organize life in Kingston, the city, like many cities the world over, is very much shaped by a contemporary preoccupation with security and insecurity. A casual visitor to Kingston will notice ...
A contre-courant des recherches qui analysent les mobilités internationales liées à l'Afrique subsaharienne à partir de flux sud-nord et sud-sud, cet article s'intéresse à une mobilité particulière de l'Europe vers le Sénégal, plus spécifiquement vers la ville de Saint-Louis, dont l'île historique est classée au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depui...
Este artigo procura investigar as algumas matrizessócio-históricasda violência e do sofrimento na formação social do Brasil no intuito de analisar os limites e as possibili-dades que a clássica obra “O Povo brasileiro” de Darcy Ribeiro pode oferecer para compre-ender a conjuntura de violência que padece a sociedade brasileira desde os tempos coloni...
Au Sénégal, les îles de Gorée et de Saint-Louis, anciens comptoirs coloniaux, sont classées au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité. Ces lieux de mémoire sont aussi des communes où se côtoient plusieurs catégories d’acteurs économiques et politiques, mêlées à une population résidente née de mobilités et de migrations nationales et transnationales. Ces ...
Black Europe: Subjects, Struggles, and Shifting Perceptions collects essays on Black Europe and Black Europeans focusing on a significant contemporary paradigmatic change—that by which Europe no longer means centrism and expatriation only, or the dialectical antithesis of anti-colonial struggles, but can now be viewed and pondered as a continuously...
La notion de « blanchité » fait l'objet de peu de recherches académiques. Elle constitue pourtant une matrice ethnicisée transnationale, mobilisée dans l'expression sociale des différences et des stigmates, qui questionne les frontières Nord-Sud. Les assignations « ethniques » ne circulant pas seulement de l'Occident vers l'Ailleurs, il apparaît pe...
