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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains an unshakably relevant study of the so-called “great divergence” between Africa and Europe

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Trauma and Affect: (Mis)Understanding Pain in Art and Affect linguistics experimental space where product designTrauma and Affect: both concepts have become increasingly important in the critique of art, literature, and of culture in general, since the 1990s. In those years, a turn to trauma and a bit later also to affect took place. The concepts were being used in a great variety of ways, and in many disciplines and domains, such as queer studies, feminism, cultural analysis, art critique, literary studies and postcolonial studies, as well as in disciplines