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Institutional Racism: Colonialism, Epistemic Injustice and Cumulative Trauma
Institutional racism investigates the factors that created and maintain institutional racism through exploring the role of epistemicide, white frames, and white privilege in sustaining the illusionary status of equality and justice in a perpetrator ...
Ahmed, S.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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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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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Language Conflict In Algeria: From Colonialism To Post-independence: Book Review
The Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 2018 Benrabah’s Language Conflict in Algeria: From Colonialism to PostIndependence (2013) is an outstanding book in the Anthropological/Contact Linguistics and the Sociolinguistics of Algeria.
Sofiane Mammeri
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The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Community organizers addressing health issues use narrative strategy to shift public attitudes, build support for health‐affirming policies, and motivate collective action. Through a mixed methods research partnership with a power‐building organization, we evaluate how narrative power is leveraged to disrupt dominant ideas about the ...
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Does Colonialism Exert a Long Term Economic Impact on Adult Literacy? [PDF]
Examining the reason for differences in adult literacy rates across countries, this study finds that colonialism exerts a long term negative economic impact on literacy rates of the colonised.
Arusha Cooray (University of Wollongong)
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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