Tag: post-colonialism
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Capitolocene and centricity. Interview with Andrea Staid
By Alessia D’Introno Through the anthropological view of nature conservation, cultural anthropologist Andrea Staid explains the different terminologies of the anthropological world and how they have influenced and continue to influence the world. In The Living House and Being Nature, she shatters the Western man/nature dichotomy and its consequent objectification of the environment, by introducing…
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The Cultural Representation from Visual Anthropology to the Post-Colonial Critique of Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-Ha
By Alessia D’Introno The work of filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha, through her iconic film Reassemblage, challenges the conventions of visual anthropology and documentary filmmaking by criticizing the colonial representations imposed on Africa. With a post-colonial and intersectional approach, she ushered in significant changes to the dominant narrative toward the end of the 20th century. The image…
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Behind paradigms. Interview with Elvira Vannini
By Alessia D’Introno In a focused and attentive reflection on contemporary art and its post-colonial paradigms, Elvira Vannini, art critic and historian, disseminates an all-feminist, ecological and anti-imperialist art. Through her magazine Hot Potatoes, she formulates a new critique. In her case, the terms feminism and de-colonialism do not imply a passing fad, but the…