Sarah Aren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3063315 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Aren |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Aren |
| ASSINATURA | AREN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-4999 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
Beyond a Monolithic Orient
Epistemological violence in the museum
This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, including site visits, digital analysis, and theoretical frameworks from Critical Animal Studies, colonial historiography, and decolonial thought, it demonstrates…
Killer Stories
Focusing on Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho (2003), this article traces a grotesque aesthetics that draws on other globally circulated texts, such as North American crime fiction, the literary trope of the serial killer and the 'evil mother', as well as on the recognition value of the city of Paris to appeal to a global, and in particular Western readership. While this new aesthetics is clearly informed b…
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Narrating the (Post)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing
This article investigates postnational(ist) dimensions of late twentieth-century Congolese writing based on Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez [ The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez ] (1985) and Pie Tshibanda’s Un fou noir au pays des blancs [ A Black Fool in the Country of the White ] (1999). Adopting Achille Mbembe’s concept of “necropolitics” and the grotesque, it explores the different approaches used to construct locali…
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Narrating the (Post)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing
This article investigates postnational(ist) dimensions of late twentieth-century Congolese writing based on Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez [ The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez ] (1985) and Pie Tshibanda’s Un fou noir au pays des blancs [ A Black Fool in the Country of the White ] (1999). Adopting Achille Mbembe’s concept of “necropolitics” and the grotesque, it explores the different approaches used to construct locali…
Narrating the (Post)Nation? Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing
This article investigates postnational(ist) dimensions of late twentieth-century Congolese writing based on Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez [ The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez ] (1985) and Pie Tshibanda’s Un fou noir au pays des blancs [ A Black Fool in the Country of the White ] (1999). Adopting Achille Mbembe’s concept of “necropolitics” and the grotesque, it explores the different approaches used to construct locali…
Killer Stories
Focusing on Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce (2016) and Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho (2003), this article traces a grotesque aesthetics that draws on other globally circulated texts, such as North American crime fiction, the literary trope of the serial killer and the 'evil mother', as well as on the recognition value of the city of Paris to appeal to a global, and in particular Western readership. While this new aesthetics is clearly informed b…
Introduction
The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the …
Epistemological violence in the museum
This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, including site visits, digital analysis, and theoretical frameworks from Critical Animal Studies, colonial historiography, and decolonial thought, it demonstrates…
Ailing Empires
This special issue explores the entanglements of medicine, science, and imperialism across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, foregrounding the paradox of ‘ailing empires’ in which health both sustained and destabilised colonial rule. Drawing on case studies spanning South Asia, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, the contributions examine how medical knowledge circulated across imperial and transnational network…
Beyond a Monolithic Orient
Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (3 obras) · Colonialism (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · African history and culture studies (2 obras)