Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cult... more Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cultural and traditional identity within the African postcolony, with particular reference to the Vodou, Demoiselles de Porto-Novo and Code Noir series.
This paper investigates Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities... more This paper investigates Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cultural and traditional identity within the African postcolony and makes particular reference to his "Vodou", "Demoiselles de Porto-Novo" and "Code Noir" series.
The Spanish invasion of Mexico, a military project that began in 1519 when Spanish Conquistadors ... more The Spanish invasion of Mexico, a military project that began in 1519 when Spanish Conquistadors set off to colonise the New World, has remained a subject of many questions and contradictions in Mexican culture for the last five hundred years. The Conquest of America was the catalyst that caused a mighty cultural clash and a disruption of “archetypal patterns”. This clash has become the foundation for a mythological element of Mexican culture that holds far more gravitas today than the event itself: La Malinche. This mytho-historical matriarch has been the subject of representation and re-interpretation for many decades and still continues to exist as a noteworthy aspect of the cultural-political consciousness of Mexico and the greater Latin America today.
The "failures" of development and its unintended consequences "Development" is a term that variou... more The "failures" of development and its unintended consequences "Development" is a term that various leftist economists have blamed for the further infiltration of capitalists into the countries of the Third World. However, in the case of the Thaba-Tseka development scheme launched in Lesotho in order to reduce migrant labour and boost agricultural practices, such "development" did neither achieve significant success with regards to launching new means of production nor bring the country significantly closer to modernisation/ economic change (Ferguson, Lohmann; 1994:180). Especially in the case of the Thaba-Tseka project, it also becomes clear that the only lasting effect of development is the renewed government presence in the targeted area (ibid). This is also the most prominent result in The Park/Village (Ross, 2010), where various social complexities started arising from a new political awareness generated by the government's housing scheme -social complexities that did not, in the end, allow these people to truly live happier lives.
Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cult... more Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cultural and traditional identity within the African postcolony, with particular reference to the Vodou, Demoiselles de Porto-Novo and Code Noir series.
This paper investigates Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities... more This paper investigates Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou's use of colonial methodologies and visualities to investigate cultural and traditional identity within the African postcolony and makes particular reference to his "Vodou", "Demoiselles de Porto-Novo" and "Code Noir" series.
The Spanish invasion of Mexico, a military project that began in 1519 when Spanish Conquistadors ... more The Spanish invasion of Mexico, a military project that began in 1519 when Spanish Conquistadors set off to colonise the New World, has remained a subject of many questions and contradictions in Mexican culture for the last five hundred years. The Conquest of America was the catalyst that caused a mighty cultural clash and a disruption of “archetypal patterns”. This clash has become the foundation for a mythological element of Mexican culture that holds far more gravitas today than the event itself: La Malinche. This mytho-historical matriarch has been the subject of representation and re-interpretation for many decades and still continues to exist as a noteworthy aspect of the cultural-political consciousness of Mexico and the greater Latin America today.
The "failures" of development and its unintended consequences "Development" is a term that variou... more The "failures" of development and its unintended consequences "Development" is a term that various leftist economists have blamed for the further infiltration of capitalists into the countries of the Third World. However, in the case of the Thaba-Tseka development scheme launched in Lesotho in order to reduce migrant labour and boost agricultural practices, such "development" did neither achieve significant success with regards to launching new means of production nor bring the country significantly closer to modernisation/ economic change (Ferguson, Lohmann; 1994:180). Especially in the case of the Thaba-Tseka project, it also becomes clear that the only lasting effect of development is the renewed government presence in the targeted area (ibid). This is also the most prominent result in The Park/Village (Ross, 2010), where various social complexities started arising from a new political awareness generated by the government's housing scheme -social complexities that did not, in the end, allow these people to truly live happier lives.
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