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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Law, orientalism and postcolonialism: the jurisdiction of the lotus-eaters

, 2007
Book synopsis: Focusing on the ‘problem’ of pleasure Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism uncovers the organizing principles by which the legal subject was colonized. That occidental law was complicit in colonial expansion is obvious.
Haldar, Piyel, Piyel Haldar
core  

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

"Postcolonialism & Autobiography", Alfred Hornung & Ernspeter Ruhe (eds.)

Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, 2010
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Marta Segarra
doaj  

FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
wiley   +1 more source

Postcolonialism and development: New dialogues?

, 2006
Discusses several articles about postcolonialism and development published within the ...
Briggs, John, Sharp, Joanne
core   +3 more sources

Book review: Political contestation in the Middle East

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014
Review of the book: Álvarez-Ossorio, Ignacio (ed.). Sociedad civil y contestación en Oriente Medio y Norte de África. CIDOB, 2013. 296 págs. Izquierdo Brichs, Ferrán (ed.). El islam político en el Mediterráneo: Radiografía de una evolución. CIDOB,
Jordi Quero
doaj  

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Library: Considering the Movement in the Irish Colonial Contexts

Libri
Decolonization is a concept which has been rapidly gaining traction in the library community, particularly in England, the United States, and Australia.
Cooke-Escapil Louise
doaj   +1 more source

Transoceanic migration linkages: human mobility’s past and present between the Canary Islands and Latin America and the Caribbean

Espace populations sociétés
The intensity of migratory processes has been a characteristic common to many of the Earth's island spaces which, throughout history, have been projected outwards thanks to the special connectivity that originated the voyages of colonization and, later ...
Josefina Domínguez Mujica, Juan Manuel Parreño Castellano, Claudio Moreno Medina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source