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Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

By Irina Mihalache — March 26th, 2008
Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.


Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France

By Irina Mihalache — March 22nd, 2008
In October and November 2005, the emeutes (riots) in the Parisian banlieues re-stated the existing social conflicts between second and third immigrants from former North African French colonies and the French state. These instances of violence brought to life memories of colonialism and of the …


Marxxxist Alienation: Sexual Anthropomorphism of Realdolls™ and Construction of Man

By Elizabeth Record — March 18th, 2008
Looking at the changing interactions between the organic and inanimate constructions of capitalism.


The Complication of the Nation: Latin America and the Dialectic of Changing Imagined Communities

By Matthew Lymburner — January 18th, 2008
Despite differing conceptions on what this might actually mean, we are living in a global world. The system of nation states remains intact - and with it, nationalist sentiment from Argentina to Yemen, and everywhere in between - but it is …


One World

By Peru — December 15th, 2007
One World By Peru I was invited to a group show in Vienna. My idea was against the theme, “Canada VS Spain”, by having a map of Pangea when they were both (and all others) the same place. There is too …


Fair Trade and Global Justice: The Case of Bananas in St. Vincent

By Anna Torgerson — November 30th, 2007
Fair trade is a response to the instability of international commodity markets and to problems of monocultural production.