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Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Studies, 2022
In this article, I conduct a study of what may be called the coloniality of biometric power. In recent years, scholars in social sciences and humanities have shown the continuities of colonialism and racism in the politics of biometric identification ...
Hidefumi Nishiyama
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The coloniality of power in postcolonial Africa: experiences from Nigeria

open access: yesThird World Quarterly, 2021
While the coloniality of power underpins the continuity of colonial situations in postcolonial Africa, (neo)liberal thinking attempts to dismiss its place in Africa’s contemporary challenges, blaming instead anti-colonial struggles and the quest for ...
Akinbode Fasakin
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Historical agency and the coloniality of power in postsocialist Europe

open access: yesAnthropological Theory, 2013
In this article, I analyse the ways in which coloniality as a racialized and racializing rationality of government and knowledge production shapes political and historical subjects in postsocialist Europe.
Dace Dzenovska
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Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?

2019
This chapter offers an alternative reading of settler colonial incarceration as sites of settler colonial repression and Indigenous refusal. We assert that research on the colonial prison suggests that Euro-north American understandings of the role of the prison offer a shaky foundation on which to construct a theory of carcerality under settler ...
Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
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Indonesian Perceptions of the Colonial Power

Itinerario, 1989
The changing cultural climate in Indonesia at the turn of the century can be demonstrated by the story of a young man, Achmad, who graduated from a Dutch senior high school (HBS) in 1899. He was the first native student to pass the final exams at the highest institution of learning (there was none at university level at the time) in Batavia, the ...
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Visualizing Colonial Power

Nuncius, 2021
Abstract The aim of this paper is to compare the ways in which some of Europe’s most important colonial museums displayed their exhibits—how colonial territories and colonial subjects were represented through visual exhibition, how the display cases were arranged, which objects and artefacts were presented and in what sequence—as the clearest ...
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Coloniality of Power and De/Coloniality of Power

Aníbal Quijano (1928–2018) was born in Yanama, Peru, and became involved in Marxist-socialist revolutionary politics at a young age. He was an active part of the conceptualization of dependence theory in the 1960–1970s and of the shaping of Latin American critical thought.
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Embedded Colonial Power

2017
In this chapter, we carry forward the work of Gonzales and Núñez by analyzing one specific component of the ranking regime—global ranking systems—to consider how they impact the recognition of knowledge, knowers, and the production of knowledge within academia—issues and activities that are at the heart of faculty work.
Leslie D. Gonzales, Chelsea Waugaman
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