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Faire rêver le monde avec Leïla Slimani (entretien)

open access: yesFrancosphères, 2023
L’écrivaine franco-marocaine Leïla Slimani a fait irruption sur la scène littéraire française avec son premier roman, Dans le jardin de l’ogre (2014), qui raconte l’histoire d’Adèle Robinson, une Parisienne de la classe moyenne supérieure qui a un goût ...
Adina Stroia
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
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An Eighteenth-Century Ecology of Knowledge: Patronage and Natural History

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014
This article analyses the construction and dissemination of natural-history knowledge in the eighteenth century. It takes the mapping and narration of Orkney as a case study, focusing on the local minister and amateur natural-historian George Low and his
Linda Andersson Burnett
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Décryptage de l’exposition ‘Le Modèle Noir’ au Musée d’Orsay, ou interroger l’évitement du passé colonial français par le biais de l’anonymat des corps noirs

open access: yesFrancosphères, 2021
“Le modèle noir, de Géricault à Matisse’ est une exposition organisée par Cécile Debray, Stéphane Guégan et Isolde Pludermacher, au musée d’Orsay entre le 26 mars et le 21 juillet 2019.
Jennifer Boum Make
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Book review: postcolonial media culture in Britain by Rosalind Brunt and Rinella Cere [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain is a refreshing and interesting text that introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates. Asiya Islam is concerned
Islam, Asiya
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Review essay: Disentangling feminisms from the cold war [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Feminist thinkers have long argued for the centrality of sexuality, gender and women to the Cold War. They have critiqued the sexual language of ‘deep penetration’ and ‘orgasmic whumps’ used to describe nuclear arms race technology and argued that ...
Bellows-Blakely, Sarah
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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Detecting a Literary Future in the Historical Past: The Gibraltar Case

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2015
Until the present millennium, very little creative literary writing in either English or Spanish had been published in the British colonial enclave of Gibraltar.
John A. Stotesbury
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