In his dissertation published in 2011, musician and music sociologist Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt explores the extent to which popular music contains, transports, and negotiates (post-)colonial knowledge.
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The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) has posted on its website a guide for respectful and accurate designation of Native Americans in media coverage.
Author, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed resigned from her professorship at Goldsmiths College (University of London) in late 2016, in protest of the institution’s handling of sexual harassment. In her 2017 book, she explores questions of institutional power, personal agency, and feminist practice.
The US-American musician Saul Williams processes racist experiences from his childhood and youth in this track.
In this English-language video, central theories of the literary scholar Edward Said on colonial foreign representation of the so-called “Orient” by the “West” (“Orientalism”) are explained and compared with today’s forms of cultural representation and media reporting.
The network of activists, theater makers, musicians, filmmakers, and scientists was active nationwide for several years beginning in the late 1990s. With performances in public space, conferences, films, and publications, members opposed what one manifesto (1998) called “the question of passport and origin.
Between 2011 and 2015, the project of the international research network ejolt (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade) documented ecological distribution conflicts worldwide and the social struggles for more environmental justice that emerged from them.
The teaching material collection “We are here. What Our Colonial Past Has to Do with Flight and Migration” was published in May 2017.
This satirical video by U.S. artist Ken Tanaka uses an everyday scene to tell about the quick-witted handling of racist attributions and colonial stereotypes.
In her 1966 song “My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying,” Canadian-born musician, visual artist, and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie addresses the colonization of the Americas, the mass killings, expulsions, and disenfranchisement of indigenous people that accompanied it, and the centuries-long denial of these acts.
Argentine artist Chocolate Remix makes reggaeton – but without the sexism that is otherwise often inherent in the tracks of this genre.
Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary is set in 1980s New York City and tells stories from the lesbian, gay, and transgender scene there, grouped around what she calls “ballroom culture.”