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The Work of Postcolonial Game Studies in the Play of Culture

Open Library of Humanities, 2018
This article considers larger methodological questions of what political work is undertaken when scholars engage in postcolonial critiques of video games within academic intellectual frameworks. What is postcolonial game studies, and what is its purpose,
Soraya Murray
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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
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Postcolonial criticism as a cultural practice

Волинський благовісник, 2017
The article deals with the formation of postcolonial criticism as an interdisciplinary discourse that allows radically review the scientific concept of culture created among the Western scientific and theoretical outlook.
deacon Vitalyj Kuzin
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‘Postcolonial peace’ [PDF]

, 2011
For those familiar with Maori Studies, Ranginui Walker's Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou: Struggle Without End is one of those seminal texts that academics in the field return to time and time again.
Page, Tiffany, Hokowhitu, Brendan
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Postcolonial Hermeneutics: Concepts and Contribution to Understanding Socio-Religious Problems in Southeast Asia

IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018
Scrutiny of unequal power-relations between the “East” and the “West” in politics, culture, economy, and various aspects of life is the concern of postcolonial studies.
Novita Dewi
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &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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Postcolonial Studies in Spain [PDF]

, 2001
This article provides a general overview of the state of Postcolonial Studies in Spain at the present moment. After attempting a definition of the discipline, which is a minefield of ambiguities and contradictions, a brief outline of the history of this ...
Hand, Felicity
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Postcolonial and Transoceanic Life Writing

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2019
In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of this forum contribution: The study of life writing and postcolonial theory have had a long, intimate, and mutually constitutive relationship.
Katharina Fackler
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Postcolonial Studies in Spain

, 2021
This article provides a general overview of the state of Postcolonial Studies in Spain at the present moment. After attempting a definition of the discipline, which is a minefield of ambiguities and contradictions, a brief outline of the history of this ...
Hand, Felicity
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