Tag: colonialism

• Worldview: Reflections on War — The battle for energy resources

  July 16, 2022

  In this episode of Worldview, Adam Boulton is joined by Professor Helen Thompson, Tim Marshall and Dr Daniel Yergin to discuss the global energy market. https://engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/worldview-reflections-on-war-the-battle-for-energy-resources/ more ›

• A little history of the Fierce Goddess

  July 10, 2022

  Many Indian philosophies are popular today, but Kali, the vital and existential goddess, stands in splendorous opposition to more placid religious traditions. In 1913 a British lawyer set to work… more ›

• France in Focus: The legacy of colonialism in France

  July 4, 2022

  The second of a four-part series examining France’s struggle to live up to its founding ideals. This episode explores the legacy of colonialism in France today. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-big-picture/2022/7/3/france-in-focus-the-legacy-of-colonialism-in-france more ›

• Africa’s Wikipedia Editors Are Changing How the World Sees Their Continent

  April 18, 2021

  There’s more information about the country of France than the entire continent of Africa on Wikipedia, says Sanneh. So, since 2018, the WikiAfrica Education initiative has been working to change that by… more ›

• Indigenous peoples guard ‘the lungs of the planet’ for all of us

  April 3, 2021

  The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›

• After slavery

  April 2, 2021

  Processes of historical reinvention tend to accompany moments of great economic and social transformation, such as the one that we’re living through at the moment. They produce a new historical… more ›

• Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software

  March 27, 2021

  Skip to main content https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/decolonizing-electronic-music-starts-with-its-software/ more ›

• Portugal must do more to confront colonial past, says Council of Europe

  March 24, 2021

  Europe’s top human rights body has called on Portugal to do more to confront its colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight… more ›

• How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’

  March 15, 2021

  There has been little acknowledgment of Portugal’s role in the transatlantic slave trade – until now. As a wet winter gives way to spring, Lisbon’s Campo das Cebolas square is… more ›

• China’s green colonialism : The climate crisis brings out superpower rivalry

  March 5, 2021

  Two new books reflect on how the cartographies of power are being redrafted in the twenty-first century. As Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro demonstrate in China Goes Green, the emergent… more ›