Men Between: The Role of Zambian Broadcasters in Decolonisation

This article traces the history of a group of Zambian broadcasters who established the first radio station in the country and made their mark on broadcasting for years to come. It describes their contribution to modern Zambian culture and to nationalist mobilisation. African broadcasters developed formats, ways of presenting and choices of music that appealed to Zambian listeners and established new, authentically local styles. While radio quickly established itself as an integral part of everyday life and culture in the colony, its effect was highly ambivalent. Broadcasters at the same time undermined and enforced the colonial project of using the medium as a transmitter of modernisation ideology. The article explores Thomas Turino’s characterisation of this team as ‘cosmopolitans’ and shows how they were influenced by BBC ideas of journalism and modernisation ideology. To do so, it analyses the relationships African broadcasters had with Europeans in senior positions and with colonial and postcolonial governments. This shared value system brought these Zambian broadcasters into conflict with the post-independence government and its plans to bureaucratise radio, despite their nationalist commitment and strong support for the United National Independence Party (UNIP) before independence.

Moving and dancing towards decolonisation in education: An example from an Indigenous Australian performance classroom

This paper explores the special type of thinking, moving and dancing place which is opened up for decolonisaton when students engage in an embodied pedagogical practice in Indigenous education. The author examines what decolonisation means in this context by describing the ways in which the curriculum, the students and teacher, and more generally the discipline of ethnomusicology itself, undergo a process to question, critique, and move aside the pedagogical script of colonialism in order to allow Indigenous ways of understanding music and dance to be presented, privileged and empowered. Key questions are: What is the relationship between embodiment and disembodiment and decolonisation and colonisation? In what ways is embodiment more than, or other than, the presence of moving bodies? In what ways is performativity an aspect of power/knowledge/subject formations? How can it be theorised? What could the pedagogical scripts of decolonisation look like?

O difícil percurso da lusofonia pelos trilhos da ‘portugalidade’

Com este artigo, pretendemos observar de que modo a ‘portugalidade’ – termo cunhado durante o Estado Novo – pontua a construção da lusofonia, que é um conceito pós-colonial. Não obstante afirmar-se que apenas falta colocá-lo em prática, o conceito de lusofonia não é consensual, subsistindo vários equívocos interpretativos. Ou se olha para ele a partir de uma centralidade portuguesa, reconstruindo as narrativas do antigo império, pela via do luso-tropicalismo ou ainda numa lógica de história do ressentimento. Ainda que, de forma residual, o discurso político português faça a ligação entre ‘portugalidade’ e lusofonia, concluímos que ambos os conceitos, quando associados, são incompatíveis, já que remetem sempre para uma centralidade portuguesa, o que não é compaginável com uma lógica pós-colonial, de interculturalidade.

Veure Àfrica a través de la mirada de Riszard Kapuściʼnski

El profund i humaníssim interès i la defensa que va exercir Ryszard Kapuściński de la identitat cultural africana constitueix un model a seguir sobre la construcció i el tractament dels “altres” en els textos periodístics. El present treball analitza la vida i la obra del corresponsal polonès per tal de plantejar qüestions com l’etnocentrisme del discurs dels mitjans de comunicació, la importància d’un tractament de subjecte de les fonts, la identitat cultural o la comunicació intercultural. A través dels objectius amb els quals Kapuściński definia el periodisme –“traductor de cultures” i “advocat d’Àfrica”- i la manera com exercia la professió de corresponsal es planteja quina és la visió i la mirada que Occident i el periodisme tenen de les altres cultures –establint com a context la civilització africana en el procés de descolonització del continent- i la necessitat d’una pràctica periodística respectuosa amb la diversitat cultural.

Une approche interculturelle des relations entre les nations autochtones et non-autochtones au Canada : une porte ouverte sur le postcolonialisme?

La situation économique, sociale et politique des nations autochtones au Canada et leur relation avec les nations non-autochtones présentent des similarités avec les anciennes colonies européennes. Peut-on qualifier cette relation de « coloniale » ? Cette interrogation est primordiale, vu les aspects immoraux et illégaux que prit la colonisation. Nous parcourrons la pensée d’auteurs reliés au libéralisme, au nationalisme autochtone et à l’interculturalisme et nous choisirons ce dernier comme angle d’approche. Nous élaborerons ensuite le concept de colonisation interne et nous le confronterons au cas des autochtones. Puis, nous présenterons les motivations à la décolonisation ainsi que la composition d’un hypothétique État postcolonial canadien et de nations et communautés autochtones décolonisées. Finalement, nous analyserons la démarche judiciaire, la négociation d’ententes d’autonomie gouvernementale, la mobilisation des masses et l’approche des word warriors, l’objectif étant d’évaluer jusqu’à quel point ces moyens s’inscrivent dans un éventuel processus de décolonisation des nations autochtones.

Thinking from the South: brazilian social thought and the case of Euclides da Cunha

The article presents the main ideas of Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909), a famous Brazilian intellectual from the beginning of the twentieth-century. Da Cunha was one of the first writers to provide a proto-sociological account of subaltern people in Brazil. The aim of the article is to review his contributions in the light of contemporary discussions concerning postcolonialism and decolonisation.