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‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Amy Bouwer
Widely celebrated as one of the most influential twentieth-century Australian poets, Judith Wright occupies a central and uncontested space in the national literary canon. The political drive of he...
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Debates on decolonization and postcolonialism in Kazakhstan Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Gabit Zhumatay
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Luke O’Sullivan
The debate over the status of mātauranga Māori – the practices and ideas of the first inhabitants of the islands that became known under British colonial rule as New Zealand – has a significance re...
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Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Natasha Lila Rooney
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Zahir Kolia
While studies have examined Charles Darwin's wide social and political impact, they have not adequately centred the combined influence of colonial systems of human differentiation and religion with...
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The middle-class sensorium and ethnographic provocations in Angola Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Vivian Chenxue Lu
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A postcolonial relationship: challenges of Asian immigrants as the third other Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 HiRho Y. Park
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Vanessa Burns
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Michele Lobo
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Lara Daley
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Getting closer Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Stephen Muecke
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Disability and postcolonialism Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Esme Cleall
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
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Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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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Correction Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Chandan Kumar Sharma, Bhaswati Borgohain
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 witne...
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The climate of history in a planetary age Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Juri Baruah
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 sin...
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Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Jess Auerbach
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2024)
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Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Arcia Tecun, S. Ata Siu‘ulua
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 ...
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The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Rezvaneh Erfani
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2024)
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Reading a 'porous' nation: Sri Lanka and the remnants of its civil war Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Sasanka Perera
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2024)
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Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Alexandra Berry
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 27, No. 2, 2024)
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Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana Postcolonial Studies (IF 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) 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 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Amit R. Baishya, Priya Kumar
Published in Postcolonial Studies (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2022)