{"product_id":"deberlinization-9783035808162","title":"Deberlinization","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA multidisciplinary volume reflecting on the epistemological legacy of the colonial partitioning of Africa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1884, the Chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, convened a conference in Berlin to organise the division of the African continent among the industrial and military powers of the time. The result was a profound dismemberment of Africa's original political structures, which, driven by nationalism and a barbaric ethos of rule, had a lasting impact on the continent's political, socioeconomic, cultural, and spiritual development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred and forty years after the Berlin Conference, it seems more than urgent to disentangle this complex of colonial appropriation, identify its after-effects, and question its epistemological legacy—all the more so as Europe searches for a new positioning in the changing geopolitical balance of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis multidisciplinary anthology takes up the idea of a transnational performative utopia to explore the possibilities of refabulating the world order and its future. Between creative action and resistance, memory and foresight, \u003cem\u003eDeberlinization\u003c\/em\u003e opens up perspectives on trans-African cohesion and outlines a new poetics of sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650537898220,"sku":"9783035808162","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783035808162-deberlinization.jpg?v=1779326086","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/deberlinization-9783035808162","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}