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Postcolonial Memories and Emotional Dislocation in Zimbabwean Literature:  A Study of  Noviolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names

Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture
This study examines the intersection of colonial and postcolonial memories, gender, and emotional dislocation in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013).
Azetu Agyo, Martins Ogba, Materclaus Isah   +2 more
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Culture-Specific and Cosmopolitan Aspects of Christian Coexistence. A Postcolonial Perspective on Ecumenical Relations

Religions, 2022
This article wants to shed light on some of the cultural complexities of the ecumenical movement by putting it in conversation with postcolonial theory. It argues that the academic discourse of postcolonial theory and the ecclesial movement of ecumenism ...
Michael Nausner
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Marxism and postcolonial theory : what’s left of the debate? [PDF]

, 2015
This article provides an introduction to the special issue, ‘Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What’s Left of the Debate?’ It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both ...
Subir Sinha, Rashmi Varma, Varma, Rashmi, Sinha, Subir   +3 more
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A'mmomat and weshu processing as a mechanism of balancing gender power relations among the Kambaata community of Central Ethiopia

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that power in gender relations within the Kambaata people of central Ethiopia is expressed through relational, mutual, and complementary dynamics rather than domination or control. It critiques Western liberal feminist frameworks—especially those emphasizing rights, equality, and resistance—for their limitations in ...
Desta Lorenso
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Dialogues: Postcolonial Responses to Decolonial Interventions

, 2022
In the last decade, the terms ‘decolonial’ and ‘decoloniality’ have been deployed in an expansive manner and have gained increasing traction across many theoretical and political domains.
Smiet, Katrine, Colpani, Gianmaria, Mascat, Jamila   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Southern theory and its dynamics for postcolonial education [PDF]

, 2009
This paper discusses how the exploration of social texts and historical contexts from the global 'South', as put forward in Raewyn Connell's study 'Southern Theory' (2007), can improve the theoretical tools used in postcolonial education analysis ...
Hickling-Hudson, Anne R.
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source