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Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2018
The author considers what postcolonial theory has to contribute to the sociology of race. Although there are overlaps, postcolonial theory and the sociology of race are not reducible to each other.
J. Go
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Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

Contemporary Sociology, 2018
Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory is a book that sociologists ought to read and discuss. Author Julian Go calls for a new postcolonial sociology, one that makes visible and ‘‘critically examines the culture and episteme of empire’’ (p. 19).
J. Itzigsohn
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understanding postcolonialism

2009
Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and violence. Much of the seminal work in postcolonialism has been shaped by currents in philosophy, notably Marxism and ethics.
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Postcolonial Differend

2006
"Home" has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. Salman Rushdie (East, West 93)
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Postcolonial

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature, 2019
The term postcolonial consists of 'post', which means after and 'colonial', which means colonialism. It can be concluded that postcolonial was the period after colonialism. Homi K. Bhabha was an outstanding figure in postcolonial studies. He was the main
Sukanya Banerjee
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‘Green Postcolonialism’ and ‘Postcolonial Green’

2010
In an article written in 2004 on the increasing traffic between eco-critical and postcolonial literary studies, Graham Huggan noted that the ‘green’ turn in postcolonialism was in effect a sign of the scholars’ admission that it was impossible to analyse modern imperialism and colonialism without engaging with the massive scale of environmental ...
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Postcolonialism

2009
AbstractThis article looks towards the influence of post-colonialism on literary theory. It discusses the reading of postcolonial text as a repository of sociological or historical information with its aesthetic dimension being put to one side as trivial and not essential to the communication of its social message.
Matt Mcguire, Nicolas Tredell
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Waiting in motion: mapping postcolonial fiction, new mobilities, and migration through Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Mobilities, 2018
While mobilities studies have often drawn on postcolonial theory, few studies draw on the unique contributions of postcolonial literature. This article charts new directions for mobilities studies and postcolonial literature through an analysis of Mohsin
Amanda Lagji
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Contextualizing Postcolonialisms and Postcolonial Theories

2011
Postcolonialism and postcolonial theory are contested terms with contested origins and associations. They work in the interface between economic and cultural processes, placing emphasis on how cultural/ epistemological assumptions frame relationships and injustices.
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

, 1993
Partha Chatterjee
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