Tag: colonialism

• 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 ›

• Opstand & Vrijheid

  January 22, 2021

  Let op: Opstand & Vrijheid is gesloten. Reserveren is mogelijk vanaf 9 februari 2021. Opstand & Vrijheid bestaat uit drie onderdelen, waarin het verhaal van een opstand in context wordt gepresenteerd. Ook is… more ›

• Gilded splinters

  November 17, 2020

  To live in interesting times used to be a young person’s joyful expectation, or an ancient and veiled curse, wished ironically upon one’s enemies more ›