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Video games have become a limitless and multifaceted medium through which major corporations and Hollywood visionaries alike are reaching broader global audiences and influencing cultural trends at a rate unmatched by any other media. This book traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture.

Globalization of Japanese popular culture is reshaping the global cultural landscape. Some forms of Japanese popular culture (such as video games animation and sushi) are well-received internationally, whereas others (such as pop music, films and TV dramas) are only popular in Asia. Of all forms of Japanese popular culture, video game is perhaps the most powerful due to its strong universal appeal. It has dominated the world market since the mid-1980s. This article uses Singapore as a case study to demonstrate the global popularization of Japanese video games. There has been a boom of Japanese popular culture in Singapore in the 1990s. In particular, Japanese video games, comics and animation have become an integral part of youth culture in Singapore (Ng, March 2000: 234-246; Ng, May 2000: 44-56; Ng, June 2000: 1-14). Video game is a neglected topic in cultural studies. Although there are some basic studies of Japanese video games in the Western world (Hayes & Disney, 1995; Herz, 1997; Kinder 1991; Monopolies, 1995; Sheff, 1993), its impact in Asia is largely unknown. This article is a preliminary study of the Japanese video game culture and industry in Singapore from historical and socio-cultural perspectives, focusing on consoles, games and players. Based on interviews, questionnaires and data from newspapers and magazines, this research aims at pro viding a general overview of the history and impact of Japanese video games in Singapore. All the data and analyses are basic and this is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss any particular issue or theory in details. This paper consists of four sections. The first three sections outline the development of home video game consoles, handheld electronic games and game arcades respectively. The concluding section pinpoints the characteristics of the video

La presencia del arte contemporáneo latinoamericano en el mundo contemporáneo, es concebida y movilizada a través de la existencia de una diáspora que ha perdido toda clase de arraigo en sus lugares territoriales definitorios. Los lenguajes que éstas muestran tienden ha consolidar un gusto por la simultaneidad, por la complejidad, por lo marginal, por lo oculto, y por las relativizaciones de una realidad que se pregunta constantemente por el sentido de su ser. Las diásporas artísticas ubican sus propuestas en medio de una serie de posicionamientos, para tratar de narrar las historias y las situaciones, que comenzaron ha emerger, en el momento en el cual se establece una dominante epocal, observadora y tolerante de la diversidad de los márgenes. El arte de las diásporas parecía configurar un nuevo espacio de representación, digno de ser atrapado o explicado dentro de nuevas posiciones teóricas, que manifestarán el por qué de unas de estas expresiones, muchas veces imposibles de traducir ante la pérdida del sentido del monopolio cultural occidental en el campo de las artes. De allí que, se hallan confeccionado en el mundo contemporáneo tardocapitalista y posindustrial, posiciones teóricas que incluyentes y estudiosas de la alteridad, de las diferencias, de la otredad, de la subalternidad. Para partir de los enunciados fragmentarios y múltiples mostrados por las teorías multiculturalistas y por la Crítica Poscolonial. Un intento de dotar de sentido a una realidad global, que ha perdido las fronteras. En este sentido, el espectro teórico que estudia a la diversidad observa a las culturas, a sus contaminaciones y desplazamientos desde diversas perspectivas, las cuales han incido en el mundo del arte contemporáneo en la formulación de un Nuevo Internacionalismo incluyente de las representaciones de los otros. El arte latinoamericano en este contexto se encuentra convocado, invitado, para legitimar la puesta en escena de unas realidades que pretenden ser cercanas, y a su vez alejadas, por las tensiones producidas por las propuestas discursivas del multiculturalismo y del poscolonialismo, en sus lecturas sobre las culturas como opuestas y no como parte integrante de una metacultura global. Las diásporas se ubican a partir de la deconstrucción de los postulados mayores de estas nuevas tendencias teóricas, para evidenciar su localidad desde la particularidad de sus legados e historias. Espacio en el cual, los artistas pertenecientes a la diáspora contemporánea, han demostrado responder con presteza a la cantidad de situaciones presentadas en medio de una realidad interconectada desde tiempos anteriores, y que en la actualidad manifiesta la exacerbación de las relaciones con lo que se pretende diferente.

Postcolonial theory has developed mainly in the U.S. academy, and it has focused chiefly on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century colonization and decolonization processes in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Colonialism in Latin America originated centuries earlier, in the transoceanic adventures from which European modernity itself was born. Coloniality at Large brings together classic and new reflections on the theoretical implications of colonialism in Latin America. By pointing out its particular characteristics, the contributors highlight some of the philosophical and ideological blind spots of contemporary postcolonial theory as they offer a thorough analysis of that theory’s applicability to Latin America’s past and present. Written by internationally renowned scholars based in Latin America, the United States, and Europe, the essays reflect multiple disciplinary and ideological perspectives. Some are translated into English for the first time. The collection includes theoretical reflections, literary criticism, and historical and ethnographic case studies focused on Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, the Andes, and the Caribbean. Contributors examine the relation of Marxist thought, dependency theory, and liberation theology to Latin Americans’ experience of and resistance to coloniality, and they emphasize the critique of Occidentalism and modernity as central to any understanding of the colonial project. Analyzing the many ways that Latin Americans have resisted imperialism and sought emancipation and sovereignty over several centuries, they delve into topics including violence, identity, otherness, memory, heterogeneity, and language. Contributors also explore Latin American intellectuals’ ambivalence about, or objections to, the “post” in postcolonial; to many, globalization and neoliberalism are the contemporary guises of colonialism in Latin America. Contributors : Arturo Arias, Gordon Brotherston, Santiago Castro-Gómez, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amaryll Chanady, Fernando Coronil, Román de la Campa, Enrique Dussel, Ramón Grosfoguel, Russell G. Hamilton, Peter Hulme, Carlos A. Jáuregui, Michael Löwy, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, José Antonio Mazzotti, Eduardo Mendieta, Walter D. Mignolo, Mario Roberto Morales, Mabel Moraña, Mary Louise Pratt, Aníbal Quijano, José Rabasa, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Catherine E. Walsh

In this essay, I aim to engage the growing body of scholarship that employs Indigenous feminist theories to understand and mobilize against the sexual and gendered violence committed against Native peoples. To accomplish this, I construct a Native feminist analysis of the 2010 Tribal Law and Order Act. I posit that despite the overwhelmingly positive characterizations of the legislation as “historic” in its potential to address violence against Native women and reduce crime in Indian country, a Native feminist reading of the Tribal Law and Order Act illuminates the degree to which the Act emerges from, engages with, and advances settler colonial and heteropatriarchal logics that cause violence against Native women in the first place. I suggest that although the Act does contain measures that have the potential to alleviate the experience of violence in Native women’s lives, it also diminishes tribal sovereignty, perpetuates the ongoing encroachment of tribal jurisdiction, regulates the boundaries of Native identity, and limits our ability to envision and enact practices of decolonization.

Ce mémoire se penche sur la diffusion de l'art contemporain autochtone au Québec de 1967 à 2013. Grâce à un corpus constitué de 640 expositions comprenant au moins un artiste des Premières Nations, métis ou inuit s'étant tenues quelque part dans la province à l'intérieur de ces 46 années, il a été possible de dresser un portrait global raisonné de ce qui s'est fait – ou ne s'est pas fait – concrètement, au-delà des a priori maintes fois reconduits. Il démontre, par exemple, que la décennie 1990 n'a pas été si « désertique » qu'il n'y parait, mais que la période 2000-2013, malgré son apparente vigueur, cache plusieurs dynamiques à l'œuvre au Québec rendant la reconnaissance et l'intégration des artistes autochtones dans le grand réseau des arts contemporains encore difficile. Ce mémoire apporte un éclairage sur le rôle marquant joué par les réseaux parallèles dans la diffusion de l'art contemporain autochtone, celui, parfois novateur, joué par les musées d'histoire et d'ethnographie ainsi que par les musées au sein même des communautés autochtones, puis la fermeture bien visible des institutions d'art du Québec jusqu'au milieu des années 2000. Il met également en lumière la présence de solitudes existantes au Québec, c'est-à-dire celle qui opère une division entre les artistes autochtones francophones et anglophones, favorisant grandement ces derniers, ainsi qu'entre artistes autochtones versus allochtones, les deux se mélangeant encore difficilement au sein des expositions. Enfin, ce mémoire permet de constater qu'en quatre décennies, le nombre d'artistes autochtones pratiquant de manière professionnelle au Québec n'a cessé d'augmenter, que Montréal s'est inscrite de plus en plus comme une métropole pouvant attirer des artistes autochtones de calibre national et international, que certaines régions du Québec, comme le Saguenay et l'Abitibi, ont, contrairement à d'autres, fait preuve d'une ouverture certaine face à l'art autochtone, mais également qu'il y a eu – et qu'il y a peut-être encore – une corrélation entre événements festifs et expositions accrues d'art contemporain autochtone, ce qui a tendance à le garder dans le domaine du folklore au Québec, et nuire véritablement à la reconnaissance des artistes professionnels.

Le travail de l’artiste huron-wendat Pierre Sioui est assez méconnu au Québec. Prolifique dans les années 1980 et ayant exposé aux quatre coins du Canada ainsi qu’aux États-Unis, Sioui a ensuite totalement disparu du milieu des arts contemporains autochtones. Une relecture du travail de cet artiste permet de redécouvrir un créateur fascinant tout à fait inscrit dans les préoccupations esthétiques et politiques de sa décennie. Sioui semble surtout avoir employé sa démarche artistique au service d’une redécouverte de son identité et de ses racines. Il l’a fait par le biais de recherches à la fois théoriques, cosmologiques et esthétiques des valeurs et de la culture huronne, le conduisant vers une thématique entourant principalement le sens des rituels, la mort et le cycle de la vie. Tous ces vieillards dans ses oeuvres, ces cadavres, ces ossements et ces crânes, parlent de relations entre mort et renaissance, entre colonialisme puis réappropriation, et semblent être pour Sioui une véritable trame créatrice à renouveler sans cesse.

Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation. This audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson.

Discussion of Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008) by Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jauregui (eds.).

This article is a portal into the rapidly expanding historiography of modern Brazil. It highlights the major nodes of discussion and debate among historians of Brazil over the last two decades, and describes how these debates have been shaped by broader shifts in the historical profession. Two themes frame this survey of the new historiographical trends for postcolonial Brazil. One is the impact of the linguistic or cultural turn on that historiography. Slower to have an impact in the Brazilian historiography were the writings of the Subaltern Studies scholars and postcolonial theorists.

Este libro reúne ensayos de doce teóricos latinoamericanos, quienes hacen una reflexión acerca de la diversidad epistémica en el mundo contemporáneo. Plantean que la decolonialidad en el siglo XXI tendrá que dirigirse a la heterarquía de las múltiples relaciones raciales, étnicas, sexuales, económicas y de género que quedaron intactas durante el siglo XX.

Este trabajo trata sobre artes visuales modernas y contemporáneas en América latina. Como ejes trasversales del texto se plantea: la decolonialidad y la antropofagia crítica. Parte desde la problematización de las estéticas decoloniales y la revisión histórica del arte latinoamericano del siglo XX, primero modernista luego posmoderno, desde una aproximación decolonial. Su intención es analizar si la opción decolonial es viable para artes visuales. Pretende analizar la propuesta de la decolonialidad, así como sus límites y sus principales riesgos. Además de establecer puentes con la ética posmoderna y la ética latinoamericana. En el capítulo dos trata como eje principal la antropofagia, tanto como movimiento artístico moderno, como propuesta de producción y aproximación crítica, cultural y artística. Mira a la antropofagia como proceso y como metodología posmoderna de resistencia. Bajo estos parámetros analiza la obra de tres artistas modernistas latinoamericanos: Joaquín Torres García, Tarsila do Amaral y Wilfredo Lam. Luego, y a partir de esta aproximación, en el capítulo tres se plantea el análisis crítico a una práctica artística: la muestra ARTNIVORA (2011) del colectivo femenino de arte La emancipada en Quito. Analiza en esta muestra, como el colectivo emplea la antropofagia crítica para buscar un argumento de emancipación de género. En esta muestra de arte actual, las estrategias de la apropiación y la cita contemporáneas son leídas como una práctica antropofágica. La intención es presentar un diferente punto de vista para la producción y la apreciación de las artes visuales y plásticas contemporáneas latinoamericanas, tanto obras de arte, como el trabajo creativo y los procesos de sus autores y autoras. El texto plantea la importancia del sentido de pertenencia con la localidad en la expresión de arte visual, si bien emplea un lenguaje cuyos códigos pueden ser leídos internacionalmente, su anclaje es su localidad y problemáticas insertas en un contexto local.

Se trata de revisar las concepciones canónicas de la modernidad artística latinoamericana desde una perspectiva crítica y situada desde los estudios decoloniales y el hacer en las cátedras Historia de las Artes Visuales III e Historia de la Música III de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. En ambas materias se trabajan contenidossobre las artes locales, nacionales y latinoamericanas/sudamericanas, en comparación conlos movimientos europeos de la modernidad y la contemporaneidad. Este proyecto revisa algunas líneas historiográficas recientes sobre la historia y la teoría de las artes locales ylatinoamericanas. Se revisarán, también, algunos casos de producciones artísticas.

As bell hooks points out in “Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand,” writing an inclusive art history is no easy task. Until very recently, Aboriginal women have been written out of Canadian art history, or rather art history has been written around us. How do we write ourselves in? It falls far beyond simple insertion; the erasures are far too deep. Insertion presumes a simple forgetfulness, an oversight, a neglecting of the obvious. Insertion assumes a presence. It implies a shared mode of history, a common belonging to a collective archive, and an agreed-upon understanding of what it means to be an artist. Beyond the important considerations of race, gender, culture, and social class, our distinct legal status in Canada must be acknowledged. This was particularly true for women artists working between 1880 and 1970. For much of the time period under consideration, First Nations communities lived under a profoundly restrictive regime of colonial power. Relationships between First Nations people and the Canadian state have been defined by the Indian Act, a piece of legislation enacted in 1876 and surviving, through many amendments and revisions, until the present time.

Résumé livre : The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is an in-depth study on the use of photographic imagery in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the present. This volume of fourteen essays provides a thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in representing Canadian identities. In essays that draw on a diversity of photographic forms, from the snapshot and advertising image to works of photographic art, contributors present a variety of critical approaches to photography studies, examining themes ranging from photography's part in the formation of the geographic imaginary to Aboriginal self-identity and notions of citizenship. The volume explores the work of photographs as tools of self and collective expression while rejecting any claim to a definitive, singular t... Source: Publisher

James Brady was a mid twentieth-century Indigenous political organiser, trapper, prospector, writer, and intellectual. He was also a prolific photographer. This article considers the significance and aesthetics of Brady’s photographic archive through the lens of Indigenous visual sovereignty. Brady was Métis - one of Canada’s three recognised Indigenous peoples along with First Nations and Inuit. The Métis engaged in two conflicts with the Canadian state and negotiated the entry of a province into confederation. For a significant period of history, they lived outside Canadian infrastructures, whether the system of First Nations’ reserves created in the post-treaty era or Euro-Canadian settlements. Particularly vulnerable to land loss and displacement, the Métis were in desperate condition when Brady first began travelling with his camera. Brady’s photographs document the political rebirth of Métis people and the resilience and persistence of Métis communities in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. They bear photographic witness to the lived experience of sovereignty rooted to place and continue to resonate with his subjects and their descendants

Catalogue d'exposition publié à l'occasion de l'exposition tenue au Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, et Winnipeg Art Gallery, du 22 janvier au 8 mai 2011. Now is the moment to reconfigure our notions of time to reveal alternative ways of thinking and being for the future. In Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years Indigenous artists imagine the future within the context of present experiences and past histories. By radically reconsidering encounter narratives between native and non-native people, Indigenous prophecies, possible utopias and apocalypses, this exhibition proposes intriguing possibilities for the next 500 years. "We all in different measure have carved out the future," observes Hopi photographer and filmmaker, Victor Masayesva, in his book Husk of Time. "We are all clairvoyants, soothsayers, prophets, knowingly assuming our predictions. Close Encounters brings together over 30 Indigenous artists from across Canada, the United States, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, including newly commissioned work from Rebecca Belmore, Faye HeavyShield, Kent Monkman, and Edward Poitras. Jimmie Durham's sculptural work A Pole to Mark the Centre of the World (at Winnipeg) will be an ongoing critique of widely held ideas surrounding space and location, while James Luna's poignant installation The Spirits of Virtue and Evil Await my Ascension, addresses issues of ritual and the passing of time. Close Encounters showcases artists and artworks that collectively invent provocative futures from a diversity of perspectives and practices. With its myriad histories, trajectories, tensions, collisions, and self-image(s), the city of Winnipeg offers an intriguing juxtaposition for these artistic mediations. Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years presents international Indigenous perspectives in a city that in many ways also epitomizes the future of Aboriginal people in Canada. Works in multiple venues throughout the city will serve as catalysts to invent different ways of thinking, acting, and being in the world of our shared future. At this pivotal moment in time, Close Encounters invites engagement with the speculative, the prophetic, and the unknown