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The Dramaturgy of Power and Politics in Post-colonial Kenya
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2001 The main question pursued in this paper is how power is performed and manifested in some of the dramatic texts by post-colonial African writers, especially in the infamously dictatorial contexts such as Kenya.
G. Odera Outa
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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, 1978 "A Report to the Kansas Legislature by the Legislative Post Audit Committee, state of Kansas."; "December 22, 1978."Constitutes the annual report of the ...
Kansas. Legislative Post Audit Committee.
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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In fostering asset‐based literacy and language teaching in classroom and digital spaces, this study draws on OmoBerry, an educational YouTube channel, to demonstrate how educators can enact culturally inclusive digital multimodal language and literacy instructions with African immigrant youth.
Akinkunmi Oseni, Vaughn W. M. Watson
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
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The Thinker, 2022 Intellectuals are the threads that hold societies together. They form the basis upon which the making and unmaking of the future of societies are built.
Temitope Fagunwa
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Since its inception in the 1980s, postcolonial theory has greatly enriched academic perspectives on culture and literature. Yet, in the same way that colonial goods and services have long contributed to economic and political growth, postcolonial topics ...
Lindner, Oliver., Emig, Rainer.
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2. Colonialism and Post-Colonial Development
, 2017 This chapter examines the impact of colonialism on post-colonial political development. It first provides an overview of the post-colonial world, noting how politics in developing countries are influenced by their pre-colonial heritage as well as ...
James Chiriyankandath
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.In this collaborative autoethnography, we, as three university‐based language teacher educators in Türkiye, explore how our community of practice (CoP) acted as a catalyst in navigating our identity tensions, boosting our wellbeing and contributing to our agency.
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