Human Zoos and the 1924 British Empire Exhibition
By Nabil Al-Kinani Human Zoos and the Spectacle of Empire Human zoos, or ethnographic exhibitions, were a colonial-era practice in which non-European people were displayed in fabricated environments to entertain and educate Western audiences. These exhibitions, which gained prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, were rooted in pseudo-scientific racism and imperial ideology, […]
Gender and debt
By Jerome Phelps, Debt Justice Neo-colonial debt and gender Debt is the principal tool of (neo)colonial extraction today, by which the wealth of the global south flows out across its borders to rich countries and their finance companies. This has changed the gendered impact of colonial oppression. In the past, profits flowed from the exploitation […]
