How does a nation come to terms with losing a war-especially an overseas war whose purpose is fervently contested? In the years after the war, how does such a nation construct and reconstruct its ...identity and values? For the French in Indochina, the stunning defeat at Dien Bien Phu ushered in the violent process of decolonization and a fraught reckoning with a colonial past.Contesting Indochinais the first in-depth study of the competing and intertwined narratives of the Indochina War. It analyzes the layers of French remembrance, focusing on state-sponsored commemoration, veterans' associations, special-interest groups, intellectuals, films, and heated public disputes. These narratives constitute the ideological battleground for contesting the legacies of colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War, and France's changing global status.
Congolese writer In Koli Jean Bofane's most recent novel Congo Inc. (2014) explores various inflections of African participation in contemporary globalization. Bofane embarks on a dialectical ...undertaking, debunking globalization-hype as it de facto impacts Africa and showing in reverse that globalization means the participation of African subjects in the global economy as commodities rather than as actors. This reduction of African producers to the level of the raw material they produce in the extractive economies culminates in a negative biopolitics: a necropolitics embedded within economy-as-warfare. By contrast, Bofane suggests a mode of participation in globality (rather than globalization) that stresses an “affirmative biopolitics” of cosmic or planetary dimensions—a form of participation that outstrips and confounds all the pseudo- or semi-participatory sops that are thrown to the inhabitants of the African continent.
What next for freedom of speech? Morgan Begg
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2015, Letnik:
67, Številka:
4
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Upon becoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared that the government he was to lead would be a 'thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market.'
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CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
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What next for freedom of speech? Morgan Begg
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2015, Letnik:
67, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Upon becoming prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared that the government he was to lead would be a 'thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market.'
Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
495.
The lemonade problem Roskam, John
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2015, Letnik:
67, Številka:
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How can the Turnbull government's innovation plans be a success when it's too hard to even set up a lemonade stand? asks John Roskam.
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CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
496.
The lemonade problem John Roskam
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2015, Letnik:
67, Številka:
4
Journal Article
How can the Turnbull government's innovation plans be a success when it's too hard to even set up a lemonade stand? asks John Roskam.
Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (2014) seemingly echoes the historical struggles of Cloud Atlas (2004) in pitting active ethical agency against cannibalistic rapaciousness. And yet, the ...trans-universal war between a band of peaceful ‘Horologists’ and predatory ‘soul-decanters’ demonstrates how fantasy fiction offers alternative perspectives not only for socio-cultural models of diversity and difference, but for cosmopolitical power struggles being played out at supranational levels.The Bone Clocks opens up subversive spaces through which to think about threats facing the twenty-first century, from migration and xenophobic nationalism to ecological degradation and planetary destruction. By imagining progressive interrelationships between human and supernatural entities, the novel gestures towards fantasy literature’s unique capacity to extend future discussions of cosmopolitanism in new and innovative directions. While the presence of cosmopolitan theory has received much critical attention in Mitchell’s earlier fiction, this article will suggest that the speculative nature of The Bone Clocks is important in demonstrating the concept’s continuing capacity to serve as a fantastical form of imaginative cultural protestation and social polemic.
Through close readings of An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, supported by references to his other works, this article argues that Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro's ...novels betray an understated but distinct anti-American sentiment. Much has been made of the narcissism of Ishiguro's narrators and their attempts to manipulate historical and personal records to serve their own purposes. However, one of those purposes that have gone undetected is a willful political resistance to the postwar Americanization of Japan and Europe. In other words, the article argues that the novels discussed are, in fact, works of propaganda and, further, that they evidence, with a high degree of subtlety and linguistic sophistication, Ishiguro's own concerns that world literature and world culture more broadly were, as a result of World War II, subsumed into the American model, becoming homogenized.
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