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Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration

On_Culture
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions.
Heidrun Friese
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After postmemory: disappearance, necropolitics, and the crisis of witness in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper aims to explore how Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys changes our understanding of modern trauma theory and postmemory by looking at absence as opposed to memories of the events that rendered children absent.
Alaa Alghamdi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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From Necropower to Earthly Care: Rethinking Environmental Crisis through Achille Mbembe

Open Philosophy
This article critically engages with Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics to reframe the environmental crisis as a political and ethical issue rooted in colonial violence, extractive capitalism, and global structures of power.
Mpassi Alphée C. S.
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L’hétérocolonialité comme système-monde : généalogies et reconfigurations contemporaines

Genre, Sexualité et Société
This article proposes the concept of heterocoloniality as a world-system, articulating the historical and contemporary imposition of compulsory cisheterosexuality as a technology of colonial power, inseparable from devices of racial, territorial and ...
Estevão Rafael Fernandes
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Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how Rohingya people, legally admitted as refugees to the United States, become available as workers by being violently separated from their places of origin, from family members, and even their own bodies. We argue that resettlement releases labor from its attachments to places and people, thus making it available for ...
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Shae Frydenlund
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Perpetuating Civil Martyrdom: Exploring Erdoğan’s National Addresses on Historical Events

Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics
The piece of research investigates Turkish President Erdoğan’s addresses to the nation between 2014-2020, focusing on how they reflect a necropolitical populist style.
Kalina Ishpekova-Bratanova
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Land of cemetery: funereal images in the poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
This paper focuses on Musa Idris Okpanachi’s poetry: The Eaters of the Living (2007), From the Margins of Paradise (2012), and Music of the Dead (2016).
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
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A DREAM OF A NEW POLICE FORCE

Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2020
In Brazil, where history and reality are marked by slavery, racism, inequality and violence, the police function as a death machine. The blatant use of lethal force by the police in the country exposes the urgent need to revamp the structure of the ...
Íbis Silva Pereira
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"The Involved"

Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública
This work examines, from the perspective of gender necropolitics, the femicides of girls and young women that took place in 2018 amid urban violence on the outskirts of Fortaleza.
Maria Fernanda de Miranda Mota Gurgel do Amaral, Carla Mariana Café Botelho   +1 more
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