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The Pogroms in South Africa: a Crisis in Citizenship OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 - 15:14
Richard Pithouse
Richard Pithouse analyses the politics of “xenophobia and authoritarianism” in South Africa

 

subject: Africa | Nationalism | Race

Rooms of Colossal Bones – Pedro Costa’s Trilogy Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Thursday, 26 June, 2008 - 12:20
Ana Balona de Oliveira

Pedro Costa's films belie both the cinematic exploitation of suffering and the documentary urge to record truth and fix recognition. Ana Balona de Oliveira sifts through the bones and ruins of Costa's Fontaínha trilogy, set in a disappearing Lisbon slum

 


Western Sahara Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 20:24
Western Sahara

Image: Refugee camp in western Sahara, http://www.arso.org/05-3.htm


The Failure of Political Theology Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 - 15:33
Angela Mitropoulos

The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty


Destination Darfur: a new cold war over oil Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Wednesday, 15 August, 2007 - 21:36
Vijay Prashad

In 'Lobster' 53 Robin Ramsay notes that the US 'military-industrial complex', in its perpetual need to generate enemies, "has just landed a big one: Africa".  While the Bush administration has created the long-lobbied for Unified Command for Africa, it's the NGOs, Hollywood liberals, Clinton functionaries and other sundry 'multilateralists' of the Save Darfur Coalition who are leading the charge.
This article comes from Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad08112007.html


A conversation with Peter Linebaugh OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Friday, 16 March, 2007 - 02:25
Tao Ruspoli / Peter Linebaugh

The Counterpunch video interview with Peter Linebaugh is at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/ruspoli03142007.html


ANOTHER PERSON DIES IN ANOTHER DURBAN SHACK FIRE OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by Josie on Tuesday, 15 August, 2006 - 13:12
Abahlali baseMjondolo

Press Release 13 August 2006 At around 8:30 p.m.


Somalia: killed by kindness OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Monday, 26 June, 2006 - 17:56
Brendan O'Neill

One thing the Spiked/Living Marxism faction usually does competently is denouncing spurious 'humanitarianism' (currently, it seems, being rebranded as 'human security') in geopolitics.  This text (re-posted from http://www.spiked-online.com) is a useful brief history of the century of Western interference in Somalia that created the 'failed state' pretext for perpetual re-interference.  It touches on the crucial question of 'aid' as economically destructive exten


FLOSS Redux: Notes on African Software Politics Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 23 November, 2005 - 14:54
Soenke Zehle

The info-technological development of Africa is providing a critical laboratory for testing the utilitarian and egalitarian claims of the FLOSS community. The question of whether to adopt a free or proprietary route quickly expands beyond the immediate consideration of set up costs. Soenke Zehle considers how FLOSS fares in the competition to be the fittest 'tropical' technology, assesses different visions of continent-wide development, and examines FLOSS's own ambiguous economics


Another Gaze Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 9 February, 2005 - 00:00
Simon Njami

A wind of change is blowing through the curation and discussion of African contemporary art. With touring shows such as Africa Remix (coming to the Haywood Gallery in February 2005) and the new Luanda Triennial (commencing 2006), the heated debates of the ’80s and ’90s are starting to bear fruit: African art is less and less the art world’s token Other, and increasingly taken on its own terms. Simon Njami, curator of Africa Remix and co-founder and editor of Revue Noire, sketches the curatorial and discursive terrain

subject: Africa | Art | Politics

Sound Samples Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 9 July, 2001 - 23:00
John Hytnyk

First in a series of specials unpicking facets of Rear/View’s different areas of coverage, John Hytnyk digs into Music with a review of The South Asian Sound of Britain.

subject: Africa | Media | Music

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