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Auto-destruction or auto-reproduction?
Francosphères, 2019 This article addresses the literary aesthetics of extreme violence in Yasmina Khadra’s A quoi rêvent les loups. In Khadra’s descriptions of violence a flood of words erupt which graphically detail the horrors of the war in Algeria in the 1990s.
Julianna Blair Watson
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, 2017 In this article, I critically engage with and develop an alternative approach to ontological security informed by Jacques Lacan’s theory of the subject. I argue that ontological security relates to a lack; that is, the always frustrated desire to provide
M. Vieira
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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The postcolonial condition, the decolonial option, and the post-socialist intervention
Postcolonialism Cross-Examined, 2019 The starting point of my reflections on postcolonialism and its old and new discontents is the idea that postcoloniality should be regarded as a condition, a certain human existential situation whi ...
M. Tlostanova
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Radical Pluralization: Mobilizing the Multiple Self in Democratic Engagements
Constellations, EarlyView.
Hans Asenbaum, Taina Meriluoto
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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Provincializing Frankfurt: A Postcolonial Rereading of Habermasian Theory
Constellations, EarlyView.
Floris Biskamp
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology [PDF]
, 2015 Title: Planetary loves : Spivak, postcoloniality, and theology Author: Stephen D Moore; Mayra Rivera. Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Lai, Alan Ka Lun
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STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
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