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Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of autonomous Native peoples in Brazil. The central argument of the book is that Indigenous groups took the initiative in their contacts with Brazilian society. Rather than fleeing or evading contact, Native peoples actively sought to appropriate what was useful and potent from outsiders, incorporating new knowledge, products, and even people, on their own terms and for their own purposes. At the same time, autonomous Native groups aimed to control contact with dangerous outsiders, so as to protect their communities from threats that came in the form of sicknesses, vices, forced labor, and land invasions. Their tactical decisions shaped and limited colonizing enterprises in Brazil, while revealing Native peoples' capacity for cultural persistence through transformation. These contact strategies are preserved in the collective memories of Indigenous groups today, informing struggles for survival and self-determination in the present.

Indians, Treatment of --- History. --- Brazil --- Ethnic relations --- Brazil. --- Indigenous peoples. --- alliance. --- autonomy. --- borderlands. --- colonial legacies. --- colonialism. --- contact. --- intercultural trade. --- resistance. --- White people --- Indians of South America --- Autonomy. --- Relations with Indians --- Wars

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More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today's capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.

Mineral industries --- Colonial Global Economy. --- Colonial Legacies. --- Extractive Infrastructure. --- Financial Imagination. --- Financialization. --- Humanitarian Aesthetics. --- Predatory Lending. --- Racial Capitalism. --- Racialized Borders. --- Settler Colonialism. --- colonial debt. --- colonial economics. --- colonialism. --- imperial economy. --- imperial expansion. --- imperialism. --- industrial economics. --- modern capitalist economy. --- racial capitalism.

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Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.

African literature (French) --- African literature (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Space in literature. --- Territory, National --- National territory --- Boundaries --- History and criticism. --- In literature. --- African Literature. --- Anglophone/Francophone Novel. --- Canonical West African Texts. --- Colonial Legacies. --- Development Projects. --- Edward Said. --- Global Capitalism. --- Legislative Papers. --- Liberation Movements. --- Literary Expression. --- Madhu Krishnan. --- Postcolonial. --- Space. --- Spatial Structures. --- Territorial Borders. --- Territorial Planning. --- West Africa. --- Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel. --- Writing Spatiality.

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Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin's Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum's various work practices, this book highlights the Museum's embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum's everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum - the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections - and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum's present - processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn. With a preface by Sharon Macdonald. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Ethnological museums and collections. --- Ethnological collections --- Ethnology --- Anthropological museums and collections --- Museums --- colonial museum collections;ethnological museum;colonialism;colonial legacies --- 069 --- 325 --- 325 Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek)--EU --- Landverhuizing. Kolonisatie. Immigratie. Emigratie --(politiek)--EU --- 069 Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--LONDON --- Permanente tentoonstellingen. Musea--LONDON --- Art, Colonial --- Musées --- Art colonial --- Collection management --- Gestion des collections --- Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. --- Museology --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- collections management --- postcolonialism --- Ethnologisches Museum [Berlin]