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The Postcolonial Galaxy or a Galactic Postcoloniality:

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2021
The Foucauldian notion of the “productive” component of power manifested in the semblance of autonomy in “transparent” subjects unsettles Francis Fukuyama’s aspirations about information technology that breaks the “monopoly over information.”  Knowledge of the colonial subject in the Foucauldian paradigm and its indispensable role in the manifestation ...
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Review: Britta Kalscheuer & Lars Allolio-Näcke (Eds.) (2008). Kulturelle Differenzen begreifen [Understanding Cultural Differences: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Concept of Transdifference]

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2009
The 20 articles in this volume discuss, from different methodological and theoretical perspectives, the term "transdifference," which was introduced by Helmbrecht BREINIG and Klaus LÖSCH. This work is based on the first volume "Differenzen anders denken,"
Elisabeth Schilling
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Postcolonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction describes how people around the world have increasingly challenged the idea that Western perspectives are the only ones that count. It examines the history of that challenge, outlining the ideas behind it, and exploring how the histories and cultures of the world can be rethought in new ...
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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