Rouven Kunstmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rouven Kunstmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rouven |
| FAMILY NAME | Kunstmann |
| SIGNATURE | KUNSTMANN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Londres |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonizing Independence
The monograph Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria's First Republic and Israeli Interventions by Lynn Schler addresses a gap in the current scholarship on the Nigerian state in the second half of the twentieth century. The transnational connections between Nigeria and Israel are a seminal but understudied field that Schler‘s book describes. Schler puts forward the argument about the duality of Nigerian politics during the First Republ…
Fashioning Nationalism and the Shaping of the Public Sphere in 1950s Nigeria
This article analyses the changing public sphere in the 1950s from the perspective of Nigerian newspapers, such as the West African Pilot, the Nigerian Tribune, the Daily Service, the Akede Eko, and the Daily Times. Because a central feature of the public sphere was the self-fashioning of politicians and journalists, this article addresses different tenets of emerging postcolonial subjectivities. Journalists expressed a multitude of nationalist i…
The Global Histories of Books
Exporting Empire
In this book, Christopher Prior explores the personal motives and thoughts of members of the British colonial service in Africa during the first half of the twentieth century. Diaries, memoirs, reports and correspondence provide a wealth of sources for this historical study. Prior contends that personal gains, career prospects and an overall sense of individualism determined the aspirations of colonial officials. He divides his book into six them…
The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954
This paper focuses on the increasingly important role played by pictorial journalism in the struggle for Nigerian self-rule. From the late 1920s onwards, daily newspapers printed portrait photographs with a pro-colonial slant: members of the colonial administration, international heads of state, foreign ministers and, occasionally, the highest-ranking Nigerian politicians. To challenge a dominance of pro-colonial depictions, the anti-colonial Wes…
The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954
This paper focuses on the increasingly important role played by pictorial journalism in the struggle for Nigerian self-rule. From the late 1920s onwards, daily newspapers printed portrait photographs with a pro-colonial slant: members of the colonial administration, international heads of state, foreign ministers and, occasionally, the highest-ranking Nigerian politicians. To challenge a dominance of pro-colonial depictions, the anti-colonial Wes…
The politics of portrait photographs in southern Nigerian newspapers, 1945-1954
This paper focuses on the increasingly important role played by pictorial journalism in the struggle for Nigerian self-rule. From the late 1920s onwards, daily newspapers printed portrait photographs with a pro-colonial slant: members of the colonial administration, international heads of state, foreign ministers and, occasionally, the highest-ranking Nigerian politicians. To challenge a dominance of pro-colonial depictions, the anti-colonial Wes…
Exporting Empire
In this book, Christopher Prior explores the personal motives and thoughts of members of the British colonial service in Africa during the first half of the twentieth century. Diaries, memoirs, reports and correspondence provide a wealth of sources for this historical study. Prior contends that personal gains, career prospects and an overall sense of individualism determined the aspirations of colonial officials. He divides his book into six them…
The Global Histories of Books
Fashioning Nationalism and the Shaping of the Public Sphere in 1950s Nigeria
This article analyses the changing public sphere in the 1950s from the perspective of Nigerian newspapers, such as the West African Pilot, the Nigerian Tribune, the Daily Service, the Akede Eko, and the Daily Times. Because a central feature of the public sphere was the self-fashioning of politicians and journalists, this article addresses different tenets of emerging postcolonial subjectivities. Journalists expressed a multitude of nationalist i…
Decolonizing Independence
The monograph Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria's First Republic and Israeli Interventions by Lynn Schler addresses a gap in the current scholarship on the Nigerian state in the second half of the twentieth century. The transnational connections between Nigeria and Israel are a seminal but understudied field that Schler‘s book describes. Schler puts forward the argument about the duality of Nigerian politics during the First Republ…
African history and culture studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Newspaper (2 works)