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At the Crossroads of Life and Death: The Body in Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
CrossroadsThis article aims to analyze the representation of embodiment in Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji (2020). Exploring the novel’s narrative, this paper argues that Emezi employs Igbo spiritual beliefs to dismantle gender taxonomy rooted in the ...
Karolina Kmita
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Review: Vijay Mishra, Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy. Bloomsbury, 2020
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2023 Ashwiny O. KISTNAREDDY
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Empire, Islam and the postcolonial [PDF]
, 2012 One of the most persistent criticisms of postcolonialism is that it promotes an antipathy to imperialism that tends to focus on the experience of European colonial empires and neglects other, non-western instances of imperial hubris.
S. Sayyid
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Reimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing Students
History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Teaching book history to twenty‐first‐century publishing students often proves a delightful challenge as some grapple with appreciating how this history is relevant to not only their pursuit of a career in the publishing industry but also the publishing industry generally.
Jocelyn Hargrave
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History, EarlyView.Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
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Oppression in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Memory in the Flesh: A Postcolonial Psychoanalysis
مجلة العلوم التربوية والدراسات الإنسانية سلسلة الآداب والعلوم التربوية والإنسانية والتطبيقيةThis study explores the psychological dimensions of oppression in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novel Memory in the Flesh, employing psychoanalytic literary theory as its primary analytical framework. Drawing on the theory of Sigmund Freud, the study investigates
Ahmed Taher Abdu Nagi +2 more
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State of the Field: Scientific Internationalism during the Cold War
History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a state‐of‐the‐field assessment of the historiography of scientific internationalism during the Cold War, focusing on three connected problems: the reconceptualization of science diplomacy, the emergence of ‘techno‐dissent’ and the ethical turn in the history of science and technology.
Doubravka Olšáková
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FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
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