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Feminist 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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Imagining Bodies in the Work of Dionne Brand
Altre Modernità, 2009 This essay explores the interface between the re-writing of history and the re-writing of the history of sexuality in the poetry and fiction by the Caribbean-Canadian writer Dionne Brand.
Simona Bertacco
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
Human 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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Postcolonial perspectives on 'development' [PDF]
, 2012 The article deals with postcolonial works in the field of development theory and policy beyond the widely discussed post-development approaches. After identifying four analytical strategies typical for postcolonial studies, it examines the works in ...
Ziai, Aram
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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From medieval English to postcolonial studies [PDF]
, 2012 A brief account of the academic transition that I made beginning with my first academic post in Auckland, New Zealand where I was lecturer in Medieval English during the 1970s then moved to Oxford where I completed a D Phil in reformation sermons, then ...
Wilson, Janet M
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Deaf epistemologies as a critique and alternative to the practice of science: an anthropological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 IN THE LAST DECADE, and responding to the criticism of orientalism, anthropology has engaged in a self-critical practice, working toward a postcolonial perspective on science and an epistemological stance of partial and situated knowledge (Pinxten, 2006;
De CLERCK, Goedele
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Labour coercion and commodification: from the British Empire to postcolonial migration states
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023 Scholars of migration studies have only recently begun to focus on the interconnected histories of empire, postcolonialism, and human mobility. The existing literature presents a rather uncomplicated narrative of migration policy in a Global South ...
Kamal Sadiq, Gerasimos Tsourapas
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Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz +5 more
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Anthropologies hégémoniques et colonialité
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2009 This article discusses the articulation between anthropology and coloniality. Based on the distinction between hegemonic and subalternized anthropologies, we identify some of the mechanisms that introduce and consolidate hierarchies among different ...
Arturo Escobar, Eduardo Restrepo
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