Imperialist nostalgia

Imperialist nostalgia…

I’ve been gathering stamps to share the stories they tell. These are just a few highlights that are much deserving of an extended essay. Great for tactile-visual learning.

“Imperialist nostalgia thus revolves around a paradox: a person kills somebody and then mourns his or her victim. In more attenuated form, someone deliberately alters a form of life and then regrets that things have not remained as they were prior to his or her inter- vention. At one more remove, people destroy their environment and then wor- ship nature. In any of its versions, imperialist nostalgia uses a pose of "innocent yearning" both to capture people's imaginations and to conceal its complicity with often brutal domination.“ Renato Rosaldo 1989

(not in order)

Barbados – Hurricane season, “YOU NEED TOURISM, TOURISM NEEDS YOU” 

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, iss. 1904 

Trinidad & Tobago - “YOUR SAFEST INVESTMENT” 

Nigeria – Anti-Apartheid, Soweto uprising, (iss. 1976 or 77) &
 Republic of South Africa – “Blood saves lives”, iss. 1986

Zaire – Malachite, iss. 1983

Hawaii - Queen Liliuokalani, iss. 1893 

Panama Canal Zone - Gaillard cut, iss. 1931

Sudan – cotton picking, iss. 1951
 
United Arab Republic – Palestinian refugees, World Refugee Year, iss. 1960

Ethiopia – World Refugee Year, iss. 1960

Montserrat – Sea Island Cotton, Plymouth overprint, iss. 1938 

Cameroon - Cotton, iss. 1973

Queen Astrid – Belgian Congo, iss. 1936 

Cuba - Conference Against the War in Vietnam series, Bombed house, iss. 1972
UK – “Acid rain kills”, iss. 1992

Soviet Union – In Memory of Patrice Lumumba, iss. 1961

Nigeria - Ten years of Independence, Oil export, iss. 1970 

Senegal – French/Africa “cooperation”, iss. 1964

US – “Native Culture” & Kit Carson from “Legends of the West” series, iss. 1994 

US – Smokey the Bear, 40 year commemoration, iss. 1984 

Cuba – 110 years of Cuba - Haiti Diplomatic relations 110 years, iss. 2014

Haiti – Ceremony at Caiman forest, iss. 1968