Orfalea Center Thematic Research Cluster
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation
Liberation Publications
The monographs, articles, journals, websites, dissertations, and theses listed below are resources dedicated to liberatory ideals focusing on the oppressed populations of Global East and Global South.
These sources are aimed at students, educators, researchers, and political organizers, all radical thinkers and activists. These resources lend themselves not only to classroom teaching and professional scholarship but also independent research initiatives, group discussions, and radical organizing. These materials feature a variety of resources that vary in complexity, and are meant to be accessible to all.
These published materials illustrate the prevailing interests of the current members of the Resistance, Autonomy, and Liberation Cluster. These publications are a means to decode the historical and contemporary contestations within our contemporary neocolonial and neoimperial world-system. We hope that these materials will stimulate vital conversations around Resistance, Autonomy, and Liberation and contribute the expansion of these themes in the future.
Additional Resource Submissions
This list of publications are by no means comprehensive. We hope to develop it through dialogue with like-minded students, educators, researchers, and activists across the world.
If you would like to submit a resource that you believe should be added , please complete this Google Form, listing all the required details about your proposed resource. As the form states, please try to recommend freely available resources to the fullest extent possible.
If you have any queries about appropriate resources or any other aspect of this project, please reach out to the Resistance, Autonomy, and Liberation Research Cluster at ralcluster@gmail.com.
Dissertations and Theses
Cannibal logic: Latin America under the sign of an other thinking
American neocolonialism? The impact of United States cable television on the culture of St. Kitts
“A Burmese Wonderland”: British World Mining and the Making of Colonial Burma
Electricity Reform: The Case of Sourcing and Cost Management in Steel Manufacturing
Struggles over culture: Zimbabwean music and power, 1930s–2007
Iron Mothers and Warrior Lovers: Intimacy, Power, and the State in the Nyiginya Kingdom, 1796-1913
Peaceful Coexistence: Sino-African Relations and the Evolution of Maoist Internationalism
Africological Reconceptualization of the Epistemological Crises in Postcolonial Studies
The Incorporation of India: The Tata Business Firm Between Empire and Nation, Ca. 1860-1970
The Intimacies of Racial Capitalism: Chinese Capital and Migration in South Africa
Blue Caribbean/Black Pacific: Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Publishing Practices
Higher Education Policymaking in Africa: The Role of National Actors in Senegal and Ghana
The Rhetoric of “Balance”: Neo-colonialism and Resistance in the Global Battle for Generic Drugs
Investments or Neocolonialism: The Factors that Drive Chinese Foreign Direct Investments to Africa
Inassimilable remains: Trauma, nation, and the politics of forgetting in the Asian/American Pacific
Problems of rural change in Latin America: A comparative view
The Noise Silence Makes: The Ghanaian State Negotiates Ritual Ban on Noise Making in Accra
The Prostitute as Citizen: Mobile Women, Urban Space, and the Threat of Disorder in Zimbabwe
A History of Music and Politics in Mozambique from the 1890s to the Present
Websites/e sources
Articles
Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis
Remembering Sam Moyo: Intellectual Formation and Contributions
Livelihoods, Land and Political Economy: Reflections on Sam Moyo’s Research Methodology
Prospects for Equitable Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Revisiting Sam Moyo’s Work on the Land Question