#Colonialism

Articles (10)

• 🇺🇸 ‘Colonialism did its job of isolating us’ – Colombia VP — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  Francia Marquez called for stronger Latin America–Africa ties to boost growth and challenge colonial legacies.

  Related: #Isolation
• 🇬🇧 Manure dryers and devil dancers: the British empire’s attempt to use photography to control India — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In a new exhibition, the featured images reflect Britain’s attempts to classify and curb the subcontinent’s population, but they also demonstrate the nobility of their subjects – and the futility o...

  Related: #Photography, #Social Control
• 🇺🇸 ‘Amazomania’ Review: A Provocative Look at the Colonial Gaze in the Amazon — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  “Amazomania” is exactly the kind of documentary one hopes to see in the main competition of a film festival like CPH:DOX: ambitious, sprawling, with a lot on its mind. It demands patience from the aud...

  Related: #Cultural Critique
• 🇺🇸 Why Mamdani Mentioned Palestinians in His St. Patrick’s Day Message — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York hailed Ireland’s fight for self-determination and its history of solidarity, including with Palestinians.

  Related: #Solidarity
• 🇺🇸 ‘Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)’ Trailer: Lucrecia Martel’s Provocative True Crime Documentary Puts Colonialism on Trial — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  Exclusive: "La Ciénaga" and "The Headless Woman" filmmaker directs her first feature-length documentary, here about the murder of Argentine indigenous activist Javier Chocobar.

  Related: #True Crime
• 🇺🇸 Reliving a colonial, exploitative history in Venezuela and Iran — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  These two oil-rich nations have not forgotten the lessons from decades of unfair extraction. Did the U.S. learn from decades of subsequent conflict?

  Related: #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Stranger’ Trailer: François Ozon Does Albert Camus in Summery, Black-and-White Style — 04/03/2026 [USA]

  Exclusive: "Summer of 85" breakout Benjamin Voisin plays Meursault, the walking existential black hole whose crime is not only murder but indifference once he kills an Algerian man.

  Related: #Existentialism, #Adaptation, #Indifference
• 🇬🇧 How photography helped the British empire classify India — 21/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.

  Related: #Photography, #Cultural identity
• 🇺🇸 ‘Wolfram’ Review: Warwick Thornton’s ‘Sweet Country’ Follow-Up Is Just as Ravishingly Bleak — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  Berlin: A sequel to the 2017 film brings back familiar characters into new, and just as harrowing, scenarios.

  Related: #Indigenous resistance, #Family bonds
• 🇺🇸 1. The Monroe Doctrine — 19/01/2026 [USA]

  What is the 1823 doctrine, and how has it been used since by US presidents?

  Related: #Foreign Policy, #History