French state and citizens by those often described as “Islamists” began during the 1980s, mainly in cities and towns, including Paris, Toulouse, Tours, Nice, and Montauban. Until 2016, the only attacks on religious targets had involved an assault on those
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Contested Memory
Retrieving the Africanist (Liberatory) Conception of Non-racialism
Ndumiso Dladla
National Congress Youth League, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania in the 1950s, the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania in the 1960s and 1970s, the Azanian Peoples Organisation in the 1980s and more recently by the #RhodesMustFall Movement and the
Neoliberalism, Hedonism and the Dying Public
Reclaiming Political Agency through the Exercise of Courage
Grant M. Sharratt and Erik Wisniewski
mid-1980s. Yet, the kind of hedonism that we are describing here is not entirely dependent on the disposable income associated with the lavish kind of hedonism that is often envisioned; rather, this more humble form of neoliberal hedonism is more
The Ambiguity of Subversion
Resistance through Radio Broadcasting
Gisli Vogler
confidence in the pending overthrow of the apartheid regime in the 1980s. This is not to say that the subversive broadcasts confronted no further challenges which can feed into our reflection on the plausibility of other forms of resistance. The arrival of
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Subjectification in Pilgrimage to the Iran-Iraq War Battlefields in Contemporary Iran
Mahshid Zandi
. Without the material traces of warfare or border controls, would visitors even recognize the landscapes as battlefields? Are these strongholds and trenches recently made and part of RN tours’ installations or traces left from the 1980s? Frame Three
Colonising ‘Free’ Will
A Critique of Political Decolonisation in Ghana
Bernard Forjwuor
presupposition, if not openly stated, in both Eurocentric and postcolonial scholarship that the transfer of political power/administrative control (in the name of political independence) in the 1950s through the 1980s constitutes de jure political