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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
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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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Albert Memmi in the Era of Decolonization
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 This essay considers the reception of Albert Memmi's Decolonization and the Decolonized. Memmi himself observed that it is much harder to be a writer about postcolonialism than colonialism. Why would this be true?
Keally McBride
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman +3 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we will construct and analyze intersecting definitions of womanhood among middle‐class women living in Karachi, Pakistan. Women are agents of their lives and are not passive voices. In this paper, we present narratives of women who resist “societal” narratives of womanhood to live a life of their choosing.
Urooba Ahmed Fatima +7 more
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Creative Ecologies: Derek Walcott’s Postcolonial Ecopoetics
Forum, 2013 This essay explores the centrality of Derek Walcott’s poetics of nature to his creative imagination. Forensic attention to language illustrates how connections between the mind and its environments engage critical work at the intersection of ecocriticism
Emma Trott
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“Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Trauma and Postcolonialism”—Introduction
Humanities, 2015 This Special Issue aims to explore the complex and contested relationship between trauma studies and postcolonial criticism, focusing on the ongoing project to create a decolonized trauma theory that attends to and accounts for the suffering of minority ...
Sonya Andermahr
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2020 The provincial religions of the Roman Empire exhibited considerable diversity, reflecting the adoption and adaptation of Roman and non-Roman beliefs, traditions and deities.
Stephanie Moat
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Unsettling Stories: Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite [PDF]
, 2010 The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial ...
Kuttainen, Victoria
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
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