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The Dramaturgy of Power and Politics in Post-colonial Kenya

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Tangled Up in Green: A Review of Policy Analyses of the European Green Deal

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Green Deal (EGD) was introduced as a transformative policy agenda for sustainability aiming to make Europe the first climate‐neutral continent in the world. While previous research has studied its transformative potential, there is no comprehensive review of that research.
Cecilia Enberg, Christian Ståhl
wiley   +1 more source

Adam Smith and Colonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the context of debates about liberalism and colonialism, the arguments of Adam Smith have been taken as illustrative of an important line of anti-colonial liberal thought. The reading of Smith presented here challenges this interpretation.
Armitage D   +24 more
core   +1 more source

Ayodele Awojobi as a Scholar-Activist: An Assessment of the Historical Mission of Intellectuals Towards an African Revolution

open access: yesThe 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
doaj  

HUNGER AND WAITING IN THIRD WORLD LITERATURE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Using colonial discourse and post-colonial theory as a point of reference, this article takes a look at colonialism as experienced in the so-called third world and see how the experience has helped shaped the literary production of the countries and ...
Akujobi, R.
core  

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing the wood for the trees: empire, nation-making and forest management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Seemingly operating in an inverse relationship to the declining area of actual forest, the vast wood of publications on the topic continues to grow (thereby likely adding to the deforestation of the books’ subject).
Beattie, James John
core  

Anthromes and terrestrial carbon

open access: yes
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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