Tag: Imperialism

Welcome to Volume 5 Issue 1 of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Dear Readers, Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, whose publication coincides with the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. At first, during late January and early February 2020, the world breathlessly stared at China, fascinated by the ill fate that had befallen its populace, deemed to be far removed from the …

“A New and Curious Route to Cairo” – World’s Fairs and the Stereotyping of the Middle East (1851–1893)
Author: Holly O’Farrell, University of Limerick, Ireland Email: holly.ofarrell@ul.ie Published: April 4, 2020 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.5.1.04 Citation: O’Farrell, H. (2020). “A New and Curious Route to Cairo” – World’s Fairs and the Stereotyping of the Middle East (1851–1893). IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.5.1.04 Abstract This paper looks at the exhibiting of Middle Eastern cultures in …

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 5 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 5 – Issue 1 Editor: Professor Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Published: April 4, 2020 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.5.1 Editor’s Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, whose publication coincides with the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. Holger Briel, Editor-in-Chief, IAFOR Journal of Cultural …

Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Migritude and Planetarity
In this talk, Professor Gaurav Desai aims to think through “the figure of the migrant not just as someone who moves from one sociopolitical context – village, town, city, nation – to another, but to think through migrant experiences as they relate to larger planetary concerns.”