Colonialism | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Rui Assubuji

rebsl — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:48:19 +0000

From Mozambique, Rui Assubuji is a research associate within the SARChI Chair of Visual History & Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape. He built his professional background in video and photography, working for Mozambican National Television from 1985 and free-lancing since 1992. His PhD dissertation titled ‘Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850 – 1930)’ opens new tracks of historical analysis and methodology through a critical discussion of Mozambique’s photographic archives. His interest in audiovisual evolves from its production, usages, the space of memories, debate, and knowledge creation, to its handling, management, conservation, archives, and public access.

Tamanisha J. John

rebsl — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:04:48 +0000

Dr. Tamanisha J. John is an Assistant Professor of Black Politics in the Department of Politics.

Prior to joining 91��ɫ's Department of Politics in July 2023, she was an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Clark Atlanta University's Mack H. Jones Department of Political Science. Dr. John studies Caribbean development, sovereignty and politics, as well as Canadian foreign policy, economic imperialism, financial exclusion, and corporate power. She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Class, Race and Corporate Power, the Review of Radical Political Economy, and Social and Economic Studies.

Tamanisha received her Ph.D. in 2021 from Florida International University, and her dissertation Canadian Banks and Imperialism in the English-Speaking Caribbean, won the 2022 Best Dissertation Award from the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA).

Keywords: Capitalism, Caribbean, Colonialism, Development, Underdevelopment

Rabiat Akande

alexall5 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:24:13 +0000

Rabiat Akande works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, Islamic law, International law, and (post)colonial African law and society. Her current research explores struggles over religion-state relations in comparative contexts and illuminates law’s centrality to one of modernity’s most contested issues—the relationship between religion, and the state, and society—while also interrogating law’s complex relationship with power, political theology, identity, and socio-political change. These issues are at the forefront of her book project, Constitutional Entanglements: Empire, Law and Religion in Colonial Northern Nigeria (under contract with Cambridge University Press), which traces the emergence of “secularism” as a constitutional idea of ordering religion-state relations in early to mid-twentieth century British Colonial Northern Nigeria, and grapples with the postcolonial legacy of that inheritance. Dr Akande’s work has been supported by grants and prizes including Cravath International research fellowship, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs fellowship, Harvard Academy grants, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Research Grant, as part of a Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative, among others.

Immaculée Uwanyiligira

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 02:03:02 +0000

Immaculée Uwanyiligira is a second year PhD student in Social Work. She holds a BA in Languages and Literature (Makerere University), an MSc in Information and Telecommunication Systems (John Hopkins), and an MA in International Affairs (Columbia).

She worked for the UN World Food Program as Head of the Information Technology and Telecommunication Unit (1998–99); at the UN Secretariat (1999–2010) in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations as Head Information Technology Section in DPKO’s Situation Centre (1999–2003); and as a Political Analyst (2003–10) in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan; supporting the implementation of peace agreements, developing conflict-resolution and post-conflict peacebuilding responses. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as Senior Program Manager for the UN Economic Commission for Africa providing strategic advice to ECA’s leadership and managing the implementation of flagship projects and programs. From 2018–19, she worked as a consultant for the UN Development Program in Mauritius and Seychelles, advising the UN system on strategic engagement with the two countries. Prior to joining the UN, she held various positions (Systems Engineer, Information Management Specialist, Technical Support Specialist) for six years in the United States private sector in the field of Information Technology.

From 2010 to 2013, she worked as Ambassador of Rwanda to the Netherlands, accredited to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia and to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. She was responsible for multiple portfolios, including bilateral and multilateral relations, and tourism, trade and investment promotion.

Fanny Teissandier

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:56:07 +0000

I am a Master's student in Social Anthropology, focusing my thesis on the activism of Malian undocumented migrants in the Paris region. My work hopes to shed light on migrants' experiences of state violence and practices of resistance. In particular, I will be studying the political discourses that emerge from migrant collectives, which tie contemporary structures of state racism to France's historical and ongoing colonialism on the African continent. I will also pay close attention to how police repression shapes an urban sensorium that targets migrants and racialized people through technologies of violence such as random police checks, surveillance, verbal and physical harm, and even chemicals (tear gas). My analysis of resistance strategies will similarly highlight the multiple sensory dimensions of migrant activism, notably in the artistic expressions of music, dance and urban art.

Matthew Robertshaw

alexall5 — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 01:50:22 +0000

Matt Robertshaw is a PhD candidate in History at 91��ɫ. He focuses on Haiti, the Caribbean and French colonialism in Africa. He is also a video essayist via Sleeper Hit History on YouTube.

Denielle A. Elliott

rebsl — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:20:00 +0000

Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at 91��ɫ in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Science and Technology Studies program. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Her research for the large part focuses on arts-based ethnography and the intersections of colonialism, medicine and science, and politics. She has conducted fieldwork in British Columbia (Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on HIV/AIDS, epidemiological surveillance and colonial health) and in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya (‘Safari Science’, experimental medicine, scientific infrastructure, and the politics of transnational science).

Her current project entitled "Neurological Imaginaries" explores the sensorial and affective dimensions of traumatic brain injuries.

Her recent book publication, (Routledge 2019), is a collaborative account of immunologist Davy Koech's life's work building bioscientific infrastructure in Kenya and his relationship with former president Daniel arap Moi.

She is co-editor with Anna Harris of the with Somatosphere.

Dhouha Triki

alexall5 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:57:27 +0000

Dhouha Triki is a fourth-year doctoral student interested in feminist agency and revolutionary struggles against state feminisms in the Arab region of North Africa. Her research aims to conceptualize the manner women's agency and struggle for liberation in this region transcends, extends, and complicates the political state post-colonial identity and the ghostly residue of colonialism and imperialism.