“Haneke provides a masterful critique of contemporary postcolonial reality.”
Category: History
[Essay] Putin’s Foundation Myth: Russian Memory and the Second World War — Joseph Barker
“Putin’s government has successfully influenced a range of cultural forms to manipulate the politics of memory from above.”
[Essay] Race, Ethnicity and Queer Theology — Tom Hillsdon
“The theology of queer black scholars has moved the voices and experiences of queer black people from the margins to the centre.”
[Essay] A Brief History of Chinese Nationalism 1901-1949 — Joseph Barker
“The limited nationalism of the KMT fundamentally served the interests of China’s intellectuals and the bourgeoisie.”
[Essay] Subversive Cinema from Waters to Carax — Louis Armand
“Where cinema was, ego will be.”
[Interview] Nation, Ethnicity and Race in Russian Television: Professor Vera Tolz — Joseph Barker
“As Putin’s Russia continues to present a growing threat to the geo-political stability of Eastern Europe, academic research investigating the portrayal of nation, ethnicity and race in modern Russian media has become an incredibly significant and influential field.”
[Essay] Why radio is not an exhausted form — Mariana Des Forges
“Auditory storytelling deprives the brain of the passive satisfaction of ‘being shown.’”
[Essay] Enfranchisement and Equality: Feminism, Politics and Religion in the Middle East — Tim Harvey
“The main cultural obstacle for feminist movements in the Middle East is the reproduction, on a national level, of the traditional patriarchal family model, which sees men as active and women as passive members of the nation.”
[Essay] British India: Empire, Ideology & Race — Joseph Barker
“Simply by offering political and social benefits to particular classifications of race, the British were able to create competition between Indian groups where none existed prior to colonial rule.”