1. Kolonialismus macht was – mit uns. „Die koloniale Welt ist eine manichäische Welt. Dem Kolonialherrn genügt es nicht, den Lebensraum des Kolonisierten physisch, das heißt mit Hilfe seiner Polizei und seiner Gendarmerie, einzuschränken. Wie um den totalitären Charakter der kolonialen Ausbeutung zu illustrieren, macht der Kolonialherr aus dem Kolonisierten eine Art Quintessenz des Bösen.…
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FANON TO PALESTINE: COLONIAL RACISM, TORTURE-VIOLENCE, AND COLONIAL ELITES
Lecture by Greg Thomas (Tufts University/USA) The name of FANON is far from foreign in Palestine and to the most urgent Palestinian political discourses of the past and the present. He is often now called upon in some way by young activists (in and outside of refugee camps), conventional scholars (in and outside of the…
THE COMPLETE FANON: AFRICAN REVOLUTION, BLACK POWER MOVEMENT, AND NEO-COLONIAL IMPERIALISM (BEYOND THE ACADEMIC MYTHS OF POST-COLONIALITY)
Lecture by Greg Thomas (Tufts University/USA) A revolutionary-psychiatrist and writer of African Revolution in pan-Africanist terms, Frantz Fanon may have been critically “recognized” in the U.S. academy of the West in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But this belated move was made after certain social movements of 1960s and 1970s had revived his work…