Suffering, the experience of violation brought on by an act of violence or violent circumstances, is omnipresent in today's world - if only indirectly through global media representation. Despite this apparent immediacy, understanding how a person makes sense of his or her suffering tends to be ...
(2014). Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: A History of Suffering, by Heike I. Schmidt. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 776-777. doi: 10.1080/03086534.2014.966577doi:10.1080/03086534.2014.966577Thomas...
the role of violence in the struggle for Indian independence from British colonialism and Gandhi's own views on when, if ever, violence is appropriate. ... Greg,Mileski - 《Cu Scholar》 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 ColonialismandViolenceinZimbabwe:ahistoryofsufferingbyHeikeI.Schmidt(review) In lieu...
InThe Old Drift, Namwali Serpell writes about the history of colonialism in southern Africa and its global ripples in the present. Told as a story about three families (European, African, and Indian) and spanning three generations, the novel centers around the Zambezi river and the adjacent Ka...
ZimbabweThe widespread land occupations of 2000 demonstrate the uneasy fit of commercial farm workers within the politics and development of Zimbabwe. Not only have farm workers borne the most violence at the hands of land occupiers, but their current socio-political situation on predominantly white-...
‘Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa’. There Agawu assesses how African music was transformed by the imposition of European tonality from the mid-nineteenth century in what amounted ‘to musical violence of a very high order, a violence whose psychic and psychological impacts remain to be...
tensions around migration, as millions of people flee violence and poverty in places such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Central America, or are displaced by climate change. Olsson said the committee's choice was not a response to recent headlines, and it had been following Gurnah's work for...
Review: Heike L. Schmidt, Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: A History of Suffering (2013)Review of the monographHeike L. Schmidt, Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe A History of Suffering, Woodbridge, Suffolk James Currey, , ISBN ---,pp.Alois S. MlamboAfrica Spectrum...
trophy hunting, in the way it privileges Western elites in accessing Africa's wildlife resources. However, the West's passionate criticism of violence against animals was viewed by participants as overblown, and as evidence of their (Westerners') higher regard for animals than for African people....
Lane, Profits from Power: Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-Controlling Enterprises (1979), views the simultaneous construction of the imperial states and of the great trading companies in terms of their interactions in the economics of controlling violence. Three major expositions of the ...