Colonialism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/colonialism/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Colonialism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/colonialism/ 32 32 “No Future” Lexicon: Darkness https://www.publicbooks.org/no-future-lexicon-darkness/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60090 Darkness often appears as a solely obscure and secondary trait of modernity; but, in truth, darkness impregnates and bolsters so densely modernity’s creative powers.

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]]> Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic https://www.publicbooks.org/are-species-timeless-talking-with-bathsheba-demuth-about-the-arctic/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60140 “There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”

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]]> Kafala in the Time of the Flood https://www.publicbooks.org/kafala-in-the-time-of-the-flood/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59223 The opposite of Kafala is being alive.

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]]> Beyond the “Burden of Belief”: Pádraig Ó Tuama on Religious Trauma, Eros, and Poetry as Prayer https://www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-burden-of-belief-padraig-o-tuama-on-religious-trauma-eros-and-poetry-as-prayer/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59255 “I began to look for other verbs when it comes to my doubt and my rage and my yearning and my sadness.”

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]]> Symbolic Sovereignty: Alvita Akiboh on the Materiality of Empire https://www.publicbooks.org/symbolic-sovereignty-alvita-akiboh-on-the-materiality-of-empire/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:00:06 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58498 “The US flag is always flying; if you buy something, the money is US money; and the stamps are US stamps.”

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]]> To Counteract Apocalyptic Technoscience, We Need New Myths https://www.publicbooks.org/to-counteract-apocalyptic-technoscience-we-need-new-myths/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58157 If there is contentment on the artist’s face, it is because she knows that she has left Babylon behind and is on her way to Zion.

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]]> The Pacific Islands: United by Ocean, Divided by Colonialism https://www.publicbooks.org/the-pacific-islands-united-by-ocean-divided-by-colonialism/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:00:27 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55775 “Deep in the Pacific, the impact of Western colonialism runs deep: it even shapes the way Pacific Islanders experience time.”

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]]> The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti https://www.publicbooks.org/the-us-has-never-forgiven-haiti/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54491 For Frederick Douglass, and for Black activists across the United States, there was no place more important to global Black freedom than Haiti.

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]]> To Understand Aztecs, Listen to Them https://www.publicbooks.org/to-understand-aztecs-listen-to-them/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54236 Have we who study Indigenous languages only succeeded in making things worse? And if this has happened, is there any way out?

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]]> Crossings into Indigenous Palestine https://www.publicbooks.org/crossings-into-indigenous-palestine/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54328 “If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, “Their oil would become tears.”

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