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Disability and postcolonialism Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Esme Cleall
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Asis De
Physical or cognitive disability of a person is the embodied form of disablement, whereas disability can be seen as metaphoric of disqualification from being ‘normal'. As the mother of the disabled...
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Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Subhadeep Ray
This article examines a body of early twentieth-century Bengali fiction foregrounding persons marked as disabled (including people experiencing physical disability, learning disability and chronic ...
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Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Maitrayee Misra
In this article, I focus on Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People as case study, a literary representation of the compound crises of disability and a postcolonial chemical disaster that resulted in m...
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Disabling labour: race, disability and Indian indentured labour on Fijian sugar plantations, 1879–1920 Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jane Buckingham
The establishment in the1830s of the Indian indentured labour system as a cheap labour source for British sugar plantations provoked criticism from parliamentarians, missionaries and labour advocat...
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‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Caroline Lieffers
The Panama Canal Zone’s American administration established Palo Seco Leper Colony in 1907 in order to contain individuals with Hansen’s disease. Yet containment was never a simple strategy. This a...
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Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Lara Kriegel, Alex Lichtenstein
In 1951, deaf/blind activist Helen Keller, then seventy years old, made a 10-week tour of South Africa. She visited nearly thirty schools and institutions for the deaf and blind and attended nearly...
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Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Noel Mariam George
This paper attempts to demystify the antagonistic relationship between modernity and tradition as construed by Ashis Nandy. As a prominent voice in postcolonial scholarship, Nandy saw modernity as ...
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Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Vedant Srinivas
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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The everything everywhere war Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ibrahim Bechrouri
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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It’s about time: some notes on quantum history Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Iain Chambers
The insistence on anachronism, where contemporary migrants forge the unauthorised routes of a present-day underground railroad, not only provides us with another means to map the present. It also r...
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Representations of Edward Said Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Wouter Capitain
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Colonialism and politics from the abyss Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Thomas Dekeyser
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Unsettled borders: the militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous land Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Iván Chaar López
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Edward Hunt
For decades, the United States has administered compacts of free association with the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Scholars have ...
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Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Philip Burnett, Erin Johnson-Williams, Yvonne Liao
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Philip Burnett
ABSTRACT What might the study of soundscapes bring to postcolonial understandings of past musical practices? In this article, I explore this question with reference to archives documenting that nineteenth-century mission activities are full of auditory information. Accounts of hymn singing, printed artefacts, and methods of musical pedagogy are a few examples of the evidence we find in the mission
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Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Roe-Min Kok
ABSTRACT How were colonial music examinations received in South Asia? Since 1898, the British-based Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) has offered certificates in Western art music in the region. Focusing on Ceylon/Sri Lanka and Bombay/Mumbai (North India), this article delves into archival correspondence retrieved – not without challenges – from the ABRSM’s headquarters in London
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Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Erin Johnson-Williams
ABSTRACT Derrida’s work on ‘archive fever’ has prompted a great deal of academic reflection about the archive and what a critical ‘archiving’ of the past can imply for our understanding of the present. And yet, if the object of historical study is musical sound, what can a ‘fevered’ approach to the archive tell us through the silence of its dusty materials? When adding in the further complexity of
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Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Tim Edensor, Shanti Sumartojo
This paper contributes to recent debates about memorials and the persistence of outmoded forms that commemorate figures associated with slavery and colonial depredations. The focus is on John Batma...
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Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Chandan Kumar Sharma, Bhaswati Borgohain
ABSTRACT Indigenization has been an important nationalist project undertaken by various colonized countries seeking to liberate the existing knowledge systems from colonial hegemony. In India too, one witnesses serious efforts at indigenization that began during the colonial rule as part of the anti-colonial nationalist struggle. This continued after independence with new vigour. It found resonance
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Correction Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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The climate of history in a planetary age Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Miguel Vatter
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Xiaochun Lei
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The politics of eviction and citizenship in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, India Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Juri Baruah
ABSTRACT Floods and erosion have been among the primary factors to induce the displacement of indigenous Axomiya and the Miya communities in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam. This trend has been observed since the last quarter of the twentieth century, and more prominently in the first decade of the twenty-first century. These displaced communities encountered eviction as their self-settlement in exclusive
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Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Katlyn Quenzer
ABSTRACT In this article, I look at the nature and significance of Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s support to the Palestinian Resistance in his early years of power (roughly 1969–1980) and connect it to the broader anti-colonial, anti-imperial message that was an important part of his early years. My intention is neither to portray Gaddafi as a great hero nor emphasize his eccentricities to the point of obscuring
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Defend the brutes Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Musab Younis
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Rock, water, life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Jess Auerbach
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Arcia Tecun, S. Ata Siu‘ulua
ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Tonga is a modern nation-state monarchy with a dominant discourse and popular narrative that claims it was ‘never colonized’ or ‘not formally colonized’ by modern foreign powers. In this article the authors argue otherwise, that Tonga was and is colonized, albeit more appropriately expressed through the concepts of coloniality within western modernity’s global paradigm. This
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The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Kevin Henry Villanueva
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Falling into history: a case for the restitution of Mbali tombstones and the revival of the realms of memory of the enslaved Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 João Figueiredo
Building on Valentin Mudimbe’s claim that as soon as African mnemonic devices are removed from their societies of origin, they are inhibited from performing their social functions, this article arg...
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Walking with Foucault in Gaza Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Rezvaneh Erfani
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Reading a 'porous' nation: Sri Lanka and the remnants of its civil war Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Sasanka Perera
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Alina Sajed, Timothy Seidel
ABSTRACT This special issue examines the connections among (post)colonial spaces forged in the struggle for national liberation and after. The focus on anticolonial/postcolonial connectivity indicates the existence of alternative forms of spatiality that go beyond the linear (and hierarchical) relationship between metropole and colonial spaces. Here we seek to challenge the dominant focus in the literature
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Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Randolph B. Persaud
ABSTRACT This article examines the thinking and political practices of two of the Caribbean’s most noted political figures. Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney led epic struggles against authoritarianism in their native Guyana and contributed to the global fight for decolonization and national independence. The article also compares and contrasts the work of Jagan and Rodney.
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Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Jasmine K. Gani
ABSTRACT With almost every part of the Muslim world having suffered from European colonisation, the roles and relations of Islamicate movements in anti-colonial history cannot be ignored. And yet, despite intellectual overlaps, mutual opposition to British colonialism, and a shared spiritual worldview, little has been written within postcolonial studies on the historical relationship between the Muslim
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‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Timothy Seidel
ABSTRACT Borders, barriers, and walls separate and divide. The construction of walls, militarization of borders, and confiscation of land can be observed throughout the histories of settler colonialism with violent material and bodily effects, especially as it has been inflected through the logic and structures of racial capitalism. And yet, as borders, barriers, and walls ‘harden’ through new security
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Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Quỳnh N. Phạm
ABSTRACT My essay examines the layered connections among anticolonial struggles. I confront the difficulty of tracing these connections as I excavate the global dimensions of bà Nguyễn Thị Bình’s political work. As a Vietnamese revolutionary diplomat, she built transcontinental relations and friendships with people from other nations, liberation movements, and different walks of life. Yet the international
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Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Benedetta Zocchi
ABSTRACT Since 2018, the Bosnian Canton of Una-Sana became the bottleneck of the Western Balkan Route and the last frontier before the EU border. These events illustrate the logic through which the EU border performs in the Balkans, by containing and excluding both those inhabiting and those crossing the region. This study theorizes the Balkans as a liminal space, where the EU border is produced through
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Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Alexandra Berry
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Paul Emiljanowicz
ABSTRACT This article explores the translocality of 1960s Ghana. It brings into conversation the connectivities crafted by official state diplomacies conducted by Kwame Nkrumah’s government in the name of Pan-Africanism and the activisms, organizational work, and movements of Pan-African, diaspora, and white European women within and beyond Ghana, against the backdrop of a racialized global Cold War
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Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Branwen Gruffydd Jones
ABSTRACT This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boundaries of colonized and racialized worlds in the works of militant poets of the Portuguese colonies in Africa. From the 1940s to the 1960s a distinct form of anticolonial poetry emerged written by a generation of Angolans and Mozambicans who became involved in the liberation struggles. The paper
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Between Algeria and the world: anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Alina Sajed
ABSTRACT This article explores the lateral connections between the Algerian anticolonial struggle and other similar struggles in the colonial world. Such connections linked up Algeria to Vietnam, Black Panthers in the U.S., and Palestine, among others. Not only were these anticolonial connections crucial to the FLN's strategy, but this strategy and the Algerian struggle more generally were crucial
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Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities? Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Vanessa Barolsky
In 2017, the Uluru Statement calling for Voice, Treaty and Truth was released by Australia’s Referendum Council. The Uluru Statement calls for a Makarrata Commission to oversee a process of ‘agreem...
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The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Haleh Zargarzadeh
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Laura Junka-Aikio
ABSTRACT Settler colonial theory has effectively highlighted the continuity of colonial structures, but less attention has been paid on how also the settler state has transformed over time, and how such changes have affected the manifold relationships between the state, the settlers and the natives. This article addresses trajectories of settler colonial change in Finland, building on theories of state
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Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 John Olorunshola Kehinde
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023)
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The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Marcelo Svirsky
This article presents a rationale to expand settler-colonial studies so as to conceptually fuse in the same proposition the question of settler-colonial permanence with that of the settler subject....
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Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Amit R. Baishya, Priya Kumar
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2022)
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Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Annu Jalais
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene introduces a new ‘universal collective’ – the human species seen as a group and acting as a global geophysical agent. This ‘universal collective’ has usually been written about from a Western perspective. It has rarely been explored in relation to what a ‘collective’ might mean outside the Euro-American zone. The challenge is to rethink ‘universal’ from within local traditions
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Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat, Katrine Smiet
ABSTRACT In the last decade, the terms ‘decolonial’ and ‘decoloniality’ have been deployed in an expansive manner and have gained increasing traction across many theoretical and political domains. Therefore, a critical assessment of the specific decolonial vocabulary is both timely and necessary. The relationship between the decolonial and the postcolonial especially requires more critical scrutiny
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Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Olimpia E. Rosenthal
ABSTRACT This article offers an overview of key debates that conditioned the reception of postcolonial and subaltern studies among Latin Americanist scholars. It begins by analysing the initial Latin American postcolonial debate, and it assesses the claims of academic colonialism and marginalization that were voiced in the course of the polemic. In particular, it considers how these arguments worked
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Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn? Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Josias Tembo
ABSTRACT The growing influence of Latin American decolonial thought has animated several African scholars in Africa, especially South Africa. As a result of this influence, numerous articles have been published calling for the decolonization, through the decolonial turn, not only of university curricula but also of the processes of knowledge production. But there has been silence on the impact of decolonial
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Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Katrine Smiet
ABSTRACT This article examines the commonalities and divergences between postcolonial and decolonial approaches to humanism and the question of the human, by way of an examination of the work of postcolonial scholar Edward W. Said and decolonial scholar Walter D. Mignolo. While at first glance, their stances may seem diametrically opposed, as the former is a staunch defender of humanism while the latter
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Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Sara de Jong
ABSTRACT Exchange between postcolonial and decolonial thought has been hampered by intellectual and political divisions despite a shared concern with decentring colonial hegemonies. Against the grain, this article brings the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos into conversation with Gayatri C. Spivak’s, centring on one key converging issue of concern – human rights. I argue that both thinkers share
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Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Luciana Ballestrin
ABSTRACT The encounter between postcolonialism and feminism, since the 1980s, has brought about important theoretical and political contributions to both fields, reverberating in the debate on gender to the present day. This article examines how the geopolitical division between North and South has influenced the global feminist debate, engendering a conflictual feminist discourse. This article intends
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Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Joseph Confavreux
(2022). Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 25, Postcolonial Responses to Decolonial Interventions, pp. 128-135.
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Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat
(2022). Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 25, Postcolonial Responses to Decolonial Interventions, pp. 136-141.
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‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935 Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Fiona Gatt, Catherine Gay
ABSTRACT In 1934, during the centenary celebrations commemorating Melbourne’s European settlement, the Age newspaper published a short history of the inner suburb of North Melbourne. By this time only people who had been children in the early years of the suburb were left to reminisce and they did so with great enthusiasm, writing a string of over 80 letters to the editor in response to the article
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Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity Postcolonial Studies (IF 0.922) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Sanjay Seth
ABSTRACT This article argues that the very idea of religion, as the genus of which the various ‘world religions’ are the species, is a modern invention, and thus comparisons between religions – including those pertaining to their capacity to recognize and adapt to the necessary distinction between matters of religion and matters properly belonging to secular society and the state – rest upon a deep