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Teaching English, 'Changing Lives': The British Council and the Neoliberal Preservation of British Imperialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article critically analyses the modern function of the British Council, which operates as a primarily educational organisation in many formerly-colonised nations such as India and Pakistan.
Arish Mudra Rakshasa-Loots
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Anglobalisation And The Making Of The Third World. The British Empire In India

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2015
The world as we know it is, in a large measure, a product of what Neill Ferguson calls “anglobalization.” Even today it is difficult to assess the legacy of the British Empire. My article focuses on the great famines in British India. It attempts to look
Penier Izabella
doaj   +1 more source

The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Book Review of The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism, by Denise Blake Oleksijczuk. ISBN 9780271037929.
Boyd Childress
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White settlement and irrigation schemes: CF Rigg and the founding of Bonnievale in the Breede River Valley, 1900-c.1953

open access: yesContree, 2013
The idea to initiate irrigation development as part of a white colonisation scheme and a political movement to settle Britons on land in South Africa dates back to the culmination of British imperialism in the late nineteenth century.
Wessel Visser
doaj   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Develop the Colonial Estate: The Reasons for British West African Railways [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This Dissertation is a history of reasons and motivations behind building the first railways in British West Africa. It analysis Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos and Northern Nigeria from the early 1890s to 1906.
Bruckner, Andrew
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

The Second Epoch: Liberal Imperialism and Decolonization. 1846-1974. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The costs and benefits of European Imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty of Lusaka, 1974.Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid, 1998.Patrick K.
Cain, Peter   +7 more
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Islamic Law and Imperialism: Tracing on The Development of Islamic Law In Indonesia and Malaysia

open access: yesAl-Ihkam: Jurnal Hukum dan Pranata Sosial, 2018
This study has demonstrated that the Dutch and British occupation in Indonesia and Malaysia, proves Edward Said’s assessment of imperialism a vehicle for cultural hegemony.
Imam Mawardi
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

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