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Postkoloniální pohled na Finsko prizmatem literární vědy – historie, současná situace, kritická reflexe [PDF]
Gender a Výzkum, 2017 Postcolonial theories have been applied in various contexts all over the globe. The article deals with the ways postcolonial thought, especially in combination with gender concerns, has been used in Finnish literary studies. I look at the broader problem
Viola Parente-Čapková
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
Julian Go
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Postcolonialism and the study of anti-semitism [PDF]
, 2018 In recent years Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) has become a common point of reference for those within postcolonial studies—such as Paul Gilroy, Aamir Mufti, and Michael Rothberg—who wish to explore the historical intersections ...
Cheyette, Bryan
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Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation [PDF]
, 2018 Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki ...
Hsu, Hsuan L., Yazell, Bryan
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Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart +3 more
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(Re)connaissances anthropologiques du postcolonial
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2017 This article analyzes the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies in the global academic world in order to question the process of international knowledge transfer and institutionalization.
Julien Debonneville
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Amitav Ghosh and the Aesthetic Turn in Postcolonial Studies [PDF]
, 2011 This essay explores the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies in light of the literary works of Indo-Burmese author Amitav Ghosh. While a renewed interest in aesthetic theories is apparent throughout the humanities in the past decade, it is ...
Su, John
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African adventure and metropolitan dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Two on a Tower (1882) [PDF]
, 2019 Recent studies of late 19th-century imperialism have challenged postcolonial arguments for the existence of a uniform imperial culture in colonial Britain that unquestioningly supported its overseas expansionist agenda.
Jackson, R
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Feminist 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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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 Peter Hallward’s aggressively theoretical book, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific, offers a focused reconceptualisation of some of the critical terms in contemporary postcolonial discourse.
Jessica Schagerl
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