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“Does EMI Improve Students' English?” and Other Unanswerable Questions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Questions about EMI often begin from an apparently straightforward premise—does EMI improve students' English? This article argues that the question itself is the source of the main analytic problem. Using EMI as an exemplar of a wider problem in applied linguistics, we show why binary claims about language gain travel poorly across contexts ...
Timothy Hampson, Jim McKinley, Ikuya Aizawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Postcolonial futures: postcolonial literature and the Obama moment

Since the late 1970s the western academy has encouraged the development of postcolonial literary theory and the formulation of a postcolonial literary canon existing outside the prescriptive narratives of the ‘mother’ country and empire.
Baillie, Justine
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Postcolonial security, development and biopolitics: targeting women’s lives in Solomon Islands

, 2016
https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=3j5jCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=%22Biopolitics+and+Memory+in+Postcolonial+Literature+and+Culture%22&source=bl&ots=klMZ4mzlLM&sig=9BBmsQbvGUx90wNabGqNT3yL5Wc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-6I6euO_NAhVFJZQKHR8xB1MQ6AEIJjAC#v ...
Lacey, A
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The military in Nigeria\u27s postcolonial literature : an overview

, 2003
The paper is a survey of Nigeria’s postcolonial literature with a view to highlighting how writers through diverse ideological persuasions and aesthetic modes have captured people’s experience under military rule (from January 15, 1966 to May 29, 1999 ...
Gbemisola, Adeoti
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Philosophy of the imagination : time, immanence and the events that wound us in Wilson Harris’s Jonestown [PDF]

, 2013
This is a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing edited by Lorna Burns and Wendy KnepperIn his fictional recreation of the People’s Temple massacre, Jonestown, Harris presents us with a protagonist who counter-actualizes the trauma that ...
Burns, Lorna Margaret, Burns, Lorna Margaret; id_orcid   +1 more
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Toward an Anthroporelational Humanism: A Configuration of Zoocriticism in Vietnamese Postcolonial Literature

Journal of Language and Literature
Recently, posthumanism has emerged as a vital lens for elevating nonhuman voices in contemporary literature. However, in the Vietnamese postcolonial context, where the legacies of war and colonialism remain profound, fully displacing the human subject is
Hung Kieu, Phuong Uyen Phan La, Bui Kim Quynh Giang, Tuan Anh Pham   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mortal relationality: waria family care and the ethics of dying in Bali Relationnalité mortelle : soins familiaux des waria et éthique des mourants à Bali

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
wiley   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Exploited Edens: paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature [PDF]

This thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and ...
Deckard, Sharae Grace
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Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source