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Free Download Adam Lenton, "Decolonizing Russia?: Disentangling Debates "
English | ISBN: 1009664786 | 2025 | 75 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 radically changed the way many viewed the nature of the Russian state. The centrality of resentment and imperial nostalgia in Russian narratives led many to argue that Russian imperialism was a key force behind the invasion. By extension, this led to the idea that decolonization - largely in scholarship, but also among some policy circles - offered a way to better understanding Russia in this new context. To this end, this Element examines the debates over decolonization in the Russian case. It begins by contextualizing these debates through an examination of Russia's historical development as an empire. It then identifies and disentangles three key focal points: decolonization as domestic Russian politics, the transnational politics of decolonization, and decolonization as a scholarly endeavor. By doing so, this Element shows where decolonization has merit, but also where it is contested or limited.

Free Download Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1620979322 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 0.5 MB
Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters

Free Download Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah, "Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria: Anticolonial Mythmaking and Morality Tales, 1954-62"
English | ISBN: 0755652894 | 2024 | 284 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Alongside the diplomatic struggles of the early Cold War, European politicians worked to shape emotions about the postwar order-advocating fear of communism and hope for postwar recovery. In this context, the French Empire in North Africa emerged as one important emotional battleground, where Algerian nationalists and anti-colonial campaigners challenged French narratives about imperial pride and native hysteria. During the Algerian War (1954-1962), emotions thus became a pivotal part of the independence struggle. Accordingly, Decolonizing Emotions tracks affective politics during the revolution, focusing on members of the Front de libération nationale (FLN), Combattants de la libération (CDL), and Jeune Résistance. Delving into the manifestos, poetry, and personal diaries of anti-colonial activists, the book reveals a rich world of transgressive sentiments, emotional exile, and affective border-crossings. The stories that surface show how Algerians used biopower to combat an affective regime that refused native populations the right to be angry. The book further chronicles how Europeans complicated ideas of humanitarian pity and confronted the French production of political apathy. It is a history that holds modern relevance, speaking to contemporary debates over race relations and national pride, the pathologizing of Muslim emotions, and the contested process of how myths die (demythologization).

Free Download Helen Strudwick, "Death on the Nile: Uncovering the Afterlife of Ancient Egypt"
English | ISBN: 1907804714 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 148 MB
Death on the Nile deepens our understanding of the lives and concerns of ancient Egyptians as they prepared themselves for death and burial. Building on the growing trend in Egyptology to use scientific analysis and imaging to examine artefacts, this new volume focuses on one hundred objects from the Fitzwilliam Museum's renowned Egyptian collection.

Free Download Nicola McCartney, "Death of the Artist: Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities "
English | ISBN: 1784534145 | 2018 | 312 pages | PDF | 2 MB
There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid 'artivism'? Most strikingly, she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such, this book exposes the art world's financially incentivised infrastructures, but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion, this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construct new ways to reinvent itself and incite fresh responses to its work.

Free Download Death of a Racehorse: An American Story by Katie Bo Lillis
English | May 6, 2025 | ISBN: 1668017016 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 3.7 MB
The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport-horseracing-and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game.

Free Download Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming
English | April 29, 2025 | ISBN: 0593480066 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 26.2 MB
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious cults in American history.

Free Download Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life by Pamela Ayo Yetunde
English | April 22, 2025 | ISBN: 9798889831600, 9798889831617 | True EPUB | 249 pages | 1.9 MB
"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life."

Free Download David Hammons (October Files) edited by Kellie Jones
English | January 28, 2025 | ISBN: 0262549360, 9780262380249 | True EPUB | 254 pages | 3.1 MB
The first anthology of texts on the luminary contemporary artist David Hammons.

Free Download David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? by Mark Browning
English | October 30, 2007 | ISBN: 1841501735 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.2 MB
For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first book to explore how underground and mainstream fiction have influenced-and can help illuminate-his labyrinthine films.