Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…Yet it also forms a vital undercurrent in Dickens’s Little Dorrit, a novel that fascinatingly brings in references to colonial guilt produced by the opium trade in China and the second opium war, which was waging when the novel was still being serialised, the Crimean War, and the Risorgimento. …”
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Islamophobia without Islamophobes: New Strategies of Representing Imperialist versus Suicide Terrorist Necropolitics in Homeland and Syriana by Mahmoud Arghavan

“…This paper investigates the geopolitical context of the emergence of “suicide terrorism” to propose that terrorism in its various forms has less to do with religious ideologies in general and with Islamic faith in particular, and more to do with the colonial and neocolonial politics of Empire in the colonies, postcolonies and occupied territories by the U.S. army and its allies in the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. …”
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Autobiographies of Spanish Refugee Children at the Quaker Home in La Rouvière (France, 1940) : Humanitarian Communication and Children’s Writings by Célia Keren

“…This paper attempts to present and tackle some of those, through the study of fifteen biographical notebooks written around 1940-1941 by Spanish refugee children who lived at La Rouvière in France, in a colony created and run by the American Quakers Friends Service Committee (AFSC). …”
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Mosquito Control and Beekeepers by Jamie Ellis, Jerry Hayes

“…ENY-149, a 3-page fact sheet by Jamie Ellis and Jerry Hayes, addresses the concern among beekeepers in Florida over mosquito control programs and how they may impact honey bee colonies. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, December 2008. …”
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Mosquito Control and Beekeepers by Jamie Ellis, Jerry Hayes

“…ENY-149, a 3-page fact sheet by Jamie Ellis and Jerry Hayes, addresses the concern among beekeepers in Florida over mosquito control programs and how they may impact honey bee colonies. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, December 2008. …”
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The Reverberations of the Covid-19-Hit International Diamond Market on Botswana by Kalo Makaloba

“… A semi-desert country in southern Africa, Botswana has historically never had any economic significance – a narrative supported by how the country became a British protectorate in 1885, as opposed to the normal trend at the time of being forced into becoming a colony. …”
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« La baraque [les camps], on y était ! » Faire la preuve administrative de son statut d’enfant de harki by Alice Baudy

“…To prove their eligibility, applicants for the program then try to find documents relating to the colonial and post-colonial period, as proof of membership of the group. …”
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A New Species of Ant Belonging to the Pheidole Pilifera Complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Robert E. Gregg

“…Among these specimens are samples of several colonies from Oregon which prove to be a new species. …”
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Modeling Multilevel Supplier Selection Problem Based on Weighted-Directed Network and Its Solution by Chia-Te Wei, Hong Zuo, Chang-Bing Jiang, Shu-fang Li

“…The results show that the ant colony algorithm is superior to the tabu search one as a whole, but the latter is slightly better than the former when network scale is small.…”
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Survey of Dermatophytes in Stray Cats with and without Skin Lesions in Northern Italy by Daniela Proverbio, Roberta Perego, Eva Spada, Giada Bagnagatti de Giorgi, Alessandra Della Pepa, Elisabetta Ferro

“…The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dermatophytes in stray cats with and without clinical lesions from different colonies in rural and urban areas of Milan and surroundings in northern Italy. …”
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Malvidin-3-galactoside from blueberry suppresses the growth and metastasis potential of hepatocellular carcinoma cell Huh-7 by regulating apoptosis and metastases pathways by Jie Lin, Jinlong Tian, Chi Shu, Zhen Cheng, Yunen Liu, Weisheng Wang, Ruihai Liu, Bin Li, Yuehua Wang

“…The results showed that Mv-3-gal inhibited the cell proliferation and colony formation ability, induced cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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A comparative study on disinfection effect of three different disinfectants for oral dental chair water lines (三种不同消毒剂对口腔综合治疗台水路消毒效果的比较)... by WANG Wenjuan (王文娟), LI Yajuan (李雅娟), LI Pei (李培), KONG Li (孔莉), WANG Ting (王婷)

“…Results The bacterial colony counts of pre-disinfection DUWLs had exceeded the standard ( all＞4500 cfu/mL). …”
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O nascimento da nação: Estado, modernização nacional e relações étnico-raciais entre o Império e o início da República by Ronaldo Sales

“…Having analyzed this relation, it is possible to understand that contemporary racism and authoritarianism are not pre-moderns or colonial heritage, but they are outcomes of the modernization process of Brazilian republican institutions.…”
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Perspectiva decolonial en el trayecto profesional de una docente formadora by Claudia Patricia Cosentino, Marcela Eva Lopez

“…El relato de nuestra docente formadora revela rasgos de la ineludible influencia colonial en la propia biografía educativa, manifiesta una progresión gradual de su desarrollo y transformación profesional, y resalta el valor de-colonizador de la investigación narrativa. …”
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Les territoires de l’alcool à Tunis et à Casablanca sous la période des Protectorats (1912-1956) : Des destins parallèles ? by Nessim Znaien

“…This chronology, specific to North African colonies, reflects more the Empire’s comprehensive management policies set forth by the French at that time.…”
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ATIVISMO TRANSNACIONAL, O ESTUDO DOS MOVIMENTOS SOCIAIS E AS NOVAS GEOGRAFIAS PÓS-COLONIAIS by Breno Bringel

“…Frente a este cenário interpretativo emergente, o artigo propõe aprofundar na reflexão de alguns aspectos teóricos e epistemológicos relativos ao ativismo transnacional e às intersecções entre o debate pós-colonial e o estudo dos movimentos sociais. Com este fim, o texto está dividido em três partes: na primeira parte propõe-se uma discussão epistemológica sobre o debate pós-colonial e a questão de como geramos conhecimento sobre/a partir/com os movimentos sociais; na segunda parte são exploradas três dimensões teóricas e políticas (espacialidade, tradução e difusão) que supõem um desafio central para uma interpretação não eurocêntrica das ações coletivas e movimentos sociais contemporâneos; finalmente, a modo de conclusão, as novas geografias pós-coloniais são problematizadas a partir de algumas considerações mais empíricas do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) do Brasil e do ativismo rural transnacional. …”
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“How difficult can it be?” A non-Indigenous ‘Asian’ Australian high school teacher’s AsianCrit autoethnographic account of dealing with racial injustice by Aaron Teo

“… Australia’s colonial past and subsequent propagation of the White Australia policy in the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 has meant that 'Whiteness' remains central to the national imaginary. …”
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Les mineurs devant le tribunal de première instance en Martinique (1937-1944) : enjeux et stratégies by Claire Palmiste

“…This paper gives an account of the complex interaction between ethnicity, gender, class and the necessity of maintaining order within a colonial context when the judge had to take a decision regarding a youngster’s offense. …”
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Les descriptions d’un banquet royal au Ndongo (Angola) en 1560 par le jésuite António Mendes : l’ambivalence des sources coloniales by Dora De Lima

“…Francisco de Gouveia was part of a Portoguese embassy composed of another Jesuit priest, two brothers and the future governor of the colony of Angola, Paulo Dias de Novais. The four missionaries accompanied the ambassador and left diverse evidence of this episode of relations with the Ngola. …”
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Honey Bee Tracheal Mite, Acarapis woodi (Rennie) (Arachnida: Acarina: Tarsonemidae) by Harold A. Denmark, Harvey L. Cromroy, Malcolm T. Stanford

“…Symptoms of this infestation were described as "bees crawling about unable to fly, and with wings disjointed; dwindling and mortality of colonies have been said to occur rapidly with colonies dying within a month." …”
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