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On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics. [PDF]

Bioethics
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Salaymeh M, Shahvisi A, Jannesari S.
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Rediscovering Mahdi Elmandjra: Reflections on the Global South, Development, Technopolitics and Knowledge Production

Global Africa, 2023
Mahdi Elmandjra is a pioneer of futures studies in Africa and the Global South. Over half a century and throughout a long career in international institutions, Elmandjra was an engaged scholar who tackled burning issues such as neo- and post-colonialism,
Abdelkarim Skouri
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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From Racial Difference to Racial Indifference: The Neo-Liberal Narrative and Its Colonial Legacy Through the Example of Washington Black (2018) by Esi Edugyan

Current Swedish Archaeology, 2021
The present article centres on Washington Black—a neo-slave narrative whose eponymous hero documents his route from slavery to freedom. The novel offers insight into how the structural legacy of colonialism lives on in (neo-)liberalism, which is ...
Marta Fratczak-Dabrowska
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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MB 765 Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism [PDF]

, 2005
Required Reading 1. A package of readings from the following: a. Frantz Fanon: “Concerning Violence,” chapter 1 of The Wretched of the Earth: The Handbook for the Black Revolution that is Changing the Shape of the World. 1963. b.
Rynkiewich, Michael A.
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Colonialism, neo-colonialism, and anti-terrorism law in the Arab world /

, 2019
The threat of personal harm and destruction from terrorist attacks is nowhere near as great as in Arab nations. However, are counter-terrorism laws in the Arab world formulated and enforced to protect or oppress?
Alzubairi, Fatemah,
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Corruption and neo-colonialism in Latin America

Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University
Corruption is deemed one of the main drivers of development challenges in many countries, mainly in those territories that drag the shackles of colonialism. The roots of corruption in underdeveloped countries can be traced from Colonial times from South
Nubia Nieto
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Mobilities and Precarities: Navigating and Resisting Violence, Racialisation and Isolation

Genealogy
We live at a time when Anthropocentrism, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism, alongside wars, persecution and violence, are creating unsustainable modes of living and precarities that result in forced migration [...]
Rimple Mehta, Melissa Phillips
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