Cold War Cultures

Cold War CulturesThe Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term Cold War Culture is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in

and encourages some critical distance from the images of violence that pervade philosophical critique

racialized bodies that are far too often rendered invisible in structural analyses of the global south

despite both of their engagements

Our focus is on thrips and other small

exploring how ritual contains and diverts the threat of violence by reconciling antagonistic spirits

and contemplates on their language usages

Karl Rahner

Gitanjali (1912) is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore

the missionary Robert Morrison

arguing that morality is socially constructed

and rarely thought of as a human achievement

people are reconsidering civic monuments in light of an imperial past