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Switzerland and ‘Colonialism without Colonies’
Interventions, 2015 In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European colonial power constellation.
Purtschert Patricia +2 more
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Political Globalization and Civil War in Former British Colonies
, 2012 The purpose of this paper to determine why civil war onset reduces political globalization in former British colonies. I set out by testing the relationship between being a former British colony and civil war presence, demonstrating a positive, though ...
Feltz, Luke O.
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A Kantian Argument for Sovereignty Rights of Indigenous Peoples [PDF]
, 2014 Kant’s non-voluntarist conception of political obligation has led some philosophers to argue that he would reject self-government rights for indigenous peoples.
Krista, Thomason
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Colonialism, Politics and World of Islam in the Constitution Era [PDF]
سپهر سیاست, 2017 Undoubtedly, reasons behind the constitutional revolution occurrence should be partly sought outside Iranian borders. In this regard, European colonialism was a major cause, but colonialism failed to be only the issue of Iran and Iranians; rather ...
morteza shirody
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Hydro-political assessment of water governance from the top-down and review of literature on local level institutions and practices in the Volta Basin [PDF]
Water resource management / Governance / River basin development / Water law / Colonialism / Institutions / Social participation / Women / Water ...
Ampomah B. Y. +3 more
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The split of reason and the postcolonial backlash [PDF]
, 2011 Let’s not forget that 1492, one of the first landmarks of Modernity, was both the year of the conquest of the Americas and of the fall or of the Reconquista of Granada, both of inner and outer ethnic cleansing of the nation state; that the national state
Ivekovic, Rada
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The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila +5 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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In Hungary Viktor Orban adds the EU to his lengthening list of ‘enemies of the state’ [PDF]
, 2012 Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban recently denounced the EU’s policies towards Hungary as ‘colonialism’, after the EU suspended nearly half a billion Euro in funding over its massive budget deficit.
Innes, Abby
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