13 Nov 2025

Colonial Visualities and Their Influences Across Empires from the Late 19th to the 21st Century

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Intricately linked to postcolonial realities, this essay delves into the visual-cultural connections between the establishment and challenging of white-centric perspectives, with a special focus on resistance to, as well as (re-)appropriations of, visual coloniality by non-white communities.[1] As I show, these (re-)appropriations were partly ambiguous, and cannot be fully explained by exclusively applying Eurocentric theories of collective memory. Instead, I … Read More
23 Jul 2021

Education between Empires: International Schools in East Asia during the First Half of the Twentieth Century

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In the late nineteenth century, under the global condition, all societies had to newly define their place in an increasingly interconnected world.[1] During the time of the “great divergence”, the industrially leading centres of power made use of their competitive advantages to shape global relations according to their designs.[2] These imperial societies projected their power into the world and pursued … Read More