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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
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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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Postkoloniale Impulse für die deutschsprachige Geographische Entwicklungsforschung [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2012 Postcolonial scholars are interested in mapping landscapes of power and identity. In doing so, they focus on the historic entanglements between North and South as well as on the unequal power relations and living conditions of the present.
J. Lossau
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Book review: postcolonial media culture in Britain by Rosalind Brunt and Rinella Cere [PDF]
, 2012 Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain is a refreshing and interesting text that introduces readers to postcolonial theory using the context of British media culture in ethnic minority communities to explain key ideas and debates. Asiya Islam is concerned
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“Refugee Literature”: What postcolonial theory has to say
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2018 In early July 2017, the biannual international symposium of the Scientific Interests Forum – Middle East and Muslim Worlds (Groupement d’Interets Scientifiques – Moyen Orient Mondes Musulmans; GIS ...
C. Gallien
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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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(Post)colonial trauma, memory, and history in Léonora Miano’s Contours of the coming day [Contours du jour qui vient] [PDF]
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2018 Canonical trauma theory has been employed to examine the literary inscription of trauma since its emergence in the 1990s. However, recent work in postcolonial trauma studies indicates that it is inadequate for responding to readings of trauma in non ...
Charlotte Mackay
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
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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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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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