The New Peasantries
I never thought of the word ‘peasant’ as a compliment, but to many people around the world it has become a badge of honour. I was unaware of the extensive literature that champions peasantry as an...
View ArticleVigil, José María (ed.): Toward a Planetary Theology
Vigil, José María (ed.): Toward a Planetary Theology. (Along the Many Paths of God, Vol. V), Dunamis Publishers / Montreal 2010, 198 pp. The Spanish-Panamanian liberation theologian VIGIL has now...
View ArticleReview of Libby Porter, Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning...
Stories are told, and retold, by victors. In Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning, Libby Porter challenges readers to consider how stories are understood, told and enacted in communities in...
View ArticleReview of Martin McKinsey, Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats,...
Martin McKinsey's Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination is an energetic comparative reading of three very different poets, each occupying a peculiar position with respect to the cultural and...
View ArticleReview of Graham Huggan and Ian Law, ed. Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe...
The collection of essays in this volume resulted from the “Racism/Postcolonialism/Europe” conference held at the University of Leeds, in 2006. Transdisciplinary in its methods, postcolonial studies are...
View ArticleReview of Jeanne Choy Tate’s Something Greater: Culture, Family, and...
Tocqueville believed an individualism that leads people to be "shut up in the solitude of his own heart” could be detrimental to communal life and may even threaten democracy itself.
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