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“Colonial Problems, Transnational American Studies” [PDF]

, 2019
Excerpt from After American Studies: Rethinking Legacies of Transnational ...
Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey
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Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power

American Political Science Review
Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the distribution of power between precolonial domestic elites within nominally continuous institutions. We argue that colonial authorities will redistribute power toward elites that are the most
ALLISON S. HARTNETT, MOHAMED SALEH
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Dehumanism and Disposability [PDF]

, 2018
Singh draws our attention to the “mute objects” of Middlesex, particularly The Obscure Object’s silent Black maid, Beulah, who quietly supports the unfolding romance between Cal and The Object. Through careful attention to histories of people silenced by
Singh, Julietta
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Whiteness and Bodies Out of Place: A Critical Discussion of Early Childhood Educators’ Regulatory Language Practice in a Danish Context

Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk
This article sheds light on contemporary interconnections between colonialism, whiteness and notions of Danishness. It offers a critical perspective on the possible (side) effects of emphasising Danish language proficiency in everyday pedagogical ...
Nadia Norling Tshili Klarsgaard
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Garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature from the mid-1960s to the present

Studies in African Languages and Cultures
This article examines garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature through contemporary literary sources, and sixties-seventies poetry from two East African literary journals. After exploring East African examples of Foucault’s “oriental garden”,
Costanza Mondo
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Decolonial cities: Considering the potential of the periphery in Rio de Janeiro

Verbum et Ecclesia
Augustine has long set the ‘gold standard’ for any theology of the city. However, in the Americas, Thomas Aquinas’ De regimine principum exerts a greater practical and political influence as it was the basis for the instructions of Spanish and Portuguese
Graham G. McGeoch
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Bob Marley and Sepultura: Representations of War in Reggae and Metal Music

Diffractions
In 1976, Bob Marley adopted lyrics from Haile Selassie's United Nations Address (1963) in his song “War”, aligning the idea of war with diasporic sentiments, resistance, and postcolonialism.
Thales Reis Alecrim
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The non-perplexity of human rights [PDF]

, 2019
What do we (think we) speak about when we speak of Human Rights? Mostly we think that we speak of the fate of the vulnerable Human-being in her beingness in the world.
Nayar, Jayan
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From Lenin’s Imperialism to the Empire of Hardt and Negri: “Superior Phases” of Eurocentrism

Universitas Humanística, 2008
This article presents a critique of the book Empire by Hardt and Negri. The article is based on the author’s investigation of the decolonialization of the paradigms of economy-politics. The first part of the essay is a summary of the basic concepts used
Ramón Grosfoguel
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Postcolonialism Compared: Potentials and Limitations in the Middle East and Central Asia [PDF]

, 2002
Kandiyoti, Deniz
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