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Neocolonialism and the Global Prison in National Geographic\u27s \u3ci\u3eLocked Up Abroad\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay examines the reformulation of colonial ideologies in National Geographic Channel\u27s Locked Up Abroad, a documentary program that chronicles the narratives of Westerner travelers incarcerated in foreign nations.
Kelly, Casey R.
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Peasant settlers and the ‘civilizing mission’ in Russian Turkestan, 1865-1917 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article provides an introduction to one of the lesser-known examples of European settler colonialism, the settlement of European (mainly Russian and Ukrainian) peasants in Southern Central Asia (Turkestan) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Morrison, Alexander Stephen
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Colonizing the Thames [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A case in which colonial engineers and administrators, working in concert with engineers and officials based in Britain, sought to employ the "tools of empire" on the ...
John Broich
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Book Review: An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A review of An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 by Marine ...
Bauman, Chad
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Généalogie de la Philosophie des Lumières: de Nietzsche à la pensée postcoloniale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Postcolonial thinking is a critical epistemology which could be described as radical. It is founded on a colonial civilizing mission, matrix and legacy.
Rajaoson, Julien
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The Coronavirus: Biopolitics and the Rise of ‘Anthropocene Authoritarianism’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
If the lesson of the global response to the Coronavirus is that humanity itself is the problem, then Anthropocene Authoritarianism looks set to pose a larger long-term challenge to our ways of life than the virus itself.
Chandler, D., Chandler, D.
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Tabloid brand medicine chests: selling health and hygiene for the British tropical colonies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
During the late Victorian and early Edwardian period a surge of commodities went on display and were advertised throughout the empire. One such commodity was the Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (BWC) Tabloid brand medicine chest.
Johnson, R.
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Science and the “Civilizing Mission”:
France and the Colonial Enterprise
[PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Which part was played by science in the French “civilizing mission” ? From the 1880s, the interests of science were combined with those of national prestige. Colonization was undertaken in the name of science.
Petitjean, Patrick
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Pathways: A Concept, Field Site and Methodological Approach to Study Remoteness and Connectivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads a 5-year research project under the title ‘Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the
Saxer, Martin
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The international missions in Kosovo: what is in a name? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article problematizes the concept of ‘mission’ in international interventions, who is entitled to missionize and how the missionized subject is conceptualized.
Musliu, Vjosa, Orbie, Jan
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