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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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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
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Traveling Theory: The Legacy of Edward W. Said in Eastern Europe [PDF]
, 2015 This text is a pre-publication format made available for the University of Lodz online repository with the permission of the publisher, Éditions québécoises de l’oeuvre.This paper discusses the circulation of Edward W.
Nowicka, Magdalena
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Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy: Indonesia and the U.S.‐China Rivalry
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid the intensifying U.S.‐China rivalry, middle powers, especially those from the global south, are often portrayed in IR literature as strategic hedgers, expected to balance between major powers to preserve regional autonomy and stability. Yet many, like Indonesia, display contradictory foreign policy behaviour by rhetorically championing ...
Moch Faisal Karim
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Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
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Cadernos EBAPE.BRThis article analyzes, from a postcolonial perspective, ideas observed in the work of the Brazilian sociologist Alberto Guerreiro Ramos. To do this, first, we examine the basis of postcolonial theory, especially the general context where it emerged. Then,
Maria Fernanda Rios Cavalcanti +1 more
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Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent aid budget reductions among major donor countries have reignited debates over the future of international development cooperation, with several commentators warning of an impending collapse of the aid sector. Engaging with historical and critical development literature on aid cycles, donor motives, and the evolution of Official ...
Steffi Hamann
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The strategies of Decentralization and Hybridization in Nadine Gordimer`s July`s people
آداب الكوفةThe dichotomy of centre vs periphery is a central idea in postcolonial theory and an important model to describe the relationship between colonizer and colonized.
امير حسين, قاسم سرحان
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Progress and Poverty: Walter Rodney's Legacy
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The conventional view of human progress states that the more humanity makes progress, the less poverty is entrenched. But, global development is currently characterized by a persistent combination of economic progress and growing relative poverty. This endemic inequality has puzzled economists for years.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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Lychnos, 2009 This article gives no clear answer to what post- colonialism is, or to how it has been received in Sweden. Instead, it is argued that every generalising label made to signify a variety of situated attempts of explanation and understanding hides more ...
Klas Grinell
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