Postcolonial Theory
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Most ―mainstream accounts of the West-East divergence gain theoretical inspiration from Max Weber and/or Karl Marx, and have therefore traced the ―rise of the West to the unique social processes that apparently fostered capitalism in... more
Not-guilty verdicts, mistrials, and impunity for the Bundy family and many of their supporters in the armed confrontations over public land use in Nevada and Oregon. Expanded access for private oil, gas, mining, and logging industries and... more
Federally-recognized tribes must adapt to many ecological challenges arising from climate change, from the effects of glacier retreat on the habitats of culturally significant species to how sea level rise forces human communities to... more
The dislocated, deterritorialized discourse produced by repatriates from formerly European colonies has remained overlooked in academic scholarship. One such group is the Eurasian “Indo” community that has its roots in the former Dutch... more
The indigene/settler question has been central to scholarly discourses on land ownership, ethnicity and identity in Nigeria. The legacies of the 1804 Jihad and the subsequent divide and rule colonial model of governance are extant in the... more
In contemporary classrooms, it is crucial for teachers to have a thorough understanding of sociological issues in education. Understanding Sociological Theory for Pedagogical Practices addresses sociological theory, highlighting its... more
Enacted February 24, 2014 and effective until August 1, 2014, Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act targeted Ugandans of minority sexual orientations and gender identities—many of whom self-identify as 'kuchu'—by imposing life sentences for... more
Enclosed is the syllabus and course notes from the upper division course I teach in PostModernism and Post-Marxist Critical Theory. It occurs to me that some of these essays--ranging from Horkheimer and Adorno, Baudrillard, Foucault, and... more
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
This paper will discuss the idea of modernism in territory as complex as India, with a focus on the city of Chandigarh. It will be examined how Chandigarh operates within the notion of national identity in India, and specifically, whether... more
Cette recension propose une lecture en deux volets des cinq essais qui constituent l'ouvrage de Mbembe, correspondant grossièrement à deux champs de contributions (économie politique et philosophie politique) qu'ils entendent combler.... more
This Ph.D. is an ethnographic-activist-based project. It first examines the genealogy of popular nationalist-statist and religious enforcements of postcolonial cisheteronormativity in Egypt through the examination of two case studies, the... more
Yep, fuck it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it.
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued.... more
In today’s globalisation, countries compete with each other in the same manner as the multinational corporations do. Recently, the term ‘nation-brand’ has appeared, together with a nation-brand index that tracks how a particular country's... more
The questions of body, identity and existence constitute the bedrock of the post-colonial literature. A fleet of intellectuals stand against the biased, colonial descriptions of the "colored colonies". Since the human body is not exempt... more
Tageldin’s book engages with postcolonial thought, foregrounding the distinctiveness of the French in Egypt. Rather than emphasize the difference between Briton and Indian in South Asia, this colonial encounter begins with Napoleon... more
This presentation will examine the history of Africans servants in Israeli, British and American films and examine why these problematic representations are still being consume by a global audience.
English version of interview with Annett Busch and Anselm Franke, curators of "After Year Zero" exhibition in MoMA Warsaw (summer 2015). This is EXTENDED VERSION of the conversation, so far unpublished
China's relations with the African continent continues to be misrepresented within the Western (North American and European) academe. This is due, in part, to the methodological and epistemological assumptions underpinning many research... more
Article Short Summary: This article examines the implications of using different theories concerned with social justice to interpret first generation Quechua (Indigenous) students’ voices for responsive education policy.
This paper analyses the human encounters with the alien other in Vandermeer's Annihilation and Burke's Semiosis with the help of post-colonial literary theory where it is argued that the human protagonists position themselves as superior... more
El pensador camerunés Achille Mbembe propone la noción de “necropolítica” para entender los procesos tanatopolíticos que se experimentan en los espacios periféricos del sistema-mundo moderno. Aunque el camerunés se apoya en las... more
This thesis intends to disentangle the various understandings of hybridity in peace-building, while pointing out the weaknesses of its claims. Instead of considering it as an alternative to liberal peace-building, this work regards... more
J. M. Coetzee’s Youth (2002), born in the heated times of the reconciliation of races in South Africa, has invited scholarship primarily on two areas: the problem of storytelling and the nature of place. Its predominant aspects,... more
O artigo tem como intenção analisar as associações comumente feitas entre representação e representatividade, que supõem que a representatividade entre produtores leva necessariamente à representação positiva de determinados grupos e... more