‘Senses’: Assessing a Key Term inDavid Chidester’s Analysis of Religion by Johan M. Strijdom

“…Chidester’s analysis of the senses in European Christian discourses on the one hand, and in colonial and postcolonial African indigenous religion and imperial religious studieson the other hand, is compared and assessed. …”
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Dams, development and disposability: Eco-anxiety, precarity and submerging voices in Na. D’souza’s Dweepa by Goutam Karmakar

“…Abstract The construction of large dams in India has faced criticism for its neo-colonial and capitalist practices. This highlights the importance of accountability, the consequences of development discourse, and the tangible impacts on the lives of those affected by dams, development initiatives, displacement, and denial of compensation. …”
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The Indian Ocean and Swahili Coast coins, international networks and local developments by John Perkins

“…The distinctive coinage of the Swahili Coast (c. 800–1500) has for a long time been seen as a barbarized coinage on the edge of the Islamic world, a product of colonial settlements of Arabs and Persians. With new evidence becoming available, the towns have taken their place as flourishing African trading ports, homogenously developed from local villages. …”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…This creates a kind of proto-ecofeminist logic, as colonial metaphors are applied to the landscape but also to Tess’s enslaved body, while she toils on the machine, relentlessly exposed to the male gaze. …”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON NIGERIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY by Uti Harrison Onyeka, Ubong Ituen Ituen

“…This work examines briefly the history and origin of the Nigerian Military (Army) during the British colonial administration in Nigeria, the reasons for its establishment, the constabulary roles and functions the military performed and its modus operandi within the period under review and how it has continued to impact negatively on the civil-military relations in Nigeria. …”
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Les termitières, un univers de chasse (nord du Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…They are used by adult farmers using the surrounding areas of their plots.Among them, termite mounds’ hunters – namely here, the Gizigas from the Maroua region – remain a separate category associating knowledge about living termite mounds exploited once a year, during sexually matured winged adults’ swarming, and knowledge about dead termite mounds that have been given up by their colonies and become the refuge of a diverse, furry, priclkly and scaly animals. …”
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Introduction au dossier Regards sur le passé : 30 ans de la Société Francophone de Primatologie by Vincent Leblan, Victor Narat

“…It shows how primates always occupy a position of interface within the dualities that structure scientific knowledge: human/animal, civilized/wild, laboratory/field, colony/metropolis. The second part presents different ways to study the past of primate societies from a primatological point of view. …”
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Le fleuve Nakambé et le réservoir de Bagré : facteurs explicatifs des recompositions territoriales et des mobilités villageoises agraires et sanitaires en Pays Bissa (Burkina Faso)... by Elodie Robert

“…Indeed, this area long remained peripheral to the territorial organization in the Bissa region and was a synonym of health problems and insecurity. During colonial period, it was used as a refuge by the population. …”
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Transição do Brasil Império à República Velha by Marcelo Figueiredo

“…The slave-based monoculture and export-driven latifundium (large agricultural estate) has characterized Brazil as a colony. The major activity was in fact conducted in the rural areas. …”
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Pedro Boza (1660-1715) : au service de la justice dans la sierra zapotèque du Mexique by Thomas Calvo

“…He was a tiny cog in the great colonial machine, at best the teniente general of the governor (alcalde mayor). …”
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A Modal Ontology of Imagination by Julia de Boer

“…Everyday aesthetics has been accused of being ontologically and systematically juvenile for a variety of reasons, such as the rejection of some major claims of Kantian aesthetics, its relative newness, its disparate methodologies, and the theoretical and ethical difficulties of outlining a systematic apparatus without reimposing rationalist and colonial perspectives. While it is untrue that everyday aesthetics as a new sub-discipline lacks systematic rigour, another ontology of the everyday will be introduced here. …”
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Vaccines, Spas and Yellow Fever: Expert Physicians, Professional Honour and the State in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Darina Martykánová, Víctor M. Núñez-García

“…We approach this vast topic from a European perspective, tracing trans-imperial and transnational trends and including the colonial dimensions, as well as the interaction of European powers and subjects with extra-European states and peoples. …”
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Fondements du discours propagandiste arabe de la Grande-Bretagne au Maghreb pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1943) by Fayçal Cherif

“…It was an efficient and fearsome weapon to control the spirit of the Arab people’s opinion in general, especially that of the Maghrebians, who were often hostile to the British and French colonial policies in their regions. Certainly, radio programmes were preponderant as they were easily accessible but newspapers and leaflets were also used a lot in this psychological war. …”
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Ant-Mimicking Spiders: Strategies for Living with Social Insects by Fadia Sara Ceccarelli

“…In addition, this review expands on the strategies that ant-associating (in particular ant-mimicking) spiders have developed to minimise the costs of living close to colonies of potentially dangerous models. The main strategy that has been noted to date is either chemical mimicry or actively avoiding contact with ants. …”
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Neurasthenia, Civilisation and the Crisis of Spanish Manhood, c. 1890–1914 by Violeta Ruiz

“…Its main symptoms of aboulia and psychic passivity made it a condition that reflected the larger crisis of national identity in the wake of the loss of the last overseas colonies to the USA in 1898. As such, it argues that the disease served to define the parameters of proper bourgeois masculinity at a time when the status of Spain’s degree of civilisation was being questioned by the country’s elites. …”
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‘Groaning wicked like a maddening dog’: Bestiality, Modernity and Irishness in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Hélène Lecossois

“…Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, anxieties brought about by Ireland’s colonial modernity are given an especially powerful expression through an extensive recourse to animal imageries. …”
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Wellsina Mite Hemicheyletia wellsina (De Leon) (Arachnida: Acari: Cheyletidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Marjorie A. Hoy

“…Because there was no published information on this species as a natural enemy of orchid pests, colonies were initiated here to study its biology, maintained on two-spotted spider mite prey. …”
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Les Indiens d’Antananarivo, des citadins comme les autres ? by Catherine Fournet-Guérin

“…Descendants of a migratory movement that developed in a colonial Indian-oceanic context, these people are fully integrated into the urban space where they contribute to urban dynamics and develop practices and representations similar to those of the well-to-do Malagasy population. …”
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Les perspectives de la biodiversité en Afrique subsaharienne : repenser collectivement le modèle de gestion by Robert Kasisi

“…As the UN Decade for Biodiversity dawned by the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012 and the UN Biodiversity Strategic Plan moves forward, this article contextualizes biodiversity prospects in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the history of interactions between African communities and the environment, from the pre-colonial period to today. It provides a critical analysis of the current biodiversity conservation planning methodologies and pinpoints several inherent obstacles, including the neo-Malthusianism that dominates the thinking of certain wildlife experts. …”
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L’école musulmane algérienne de Ibn Bâdîs dans les années 1930, de l’alphabétisation de tous comme enjeu politique by Charlotte Courreye

“…The defence of Arabic language and Islam in colonial context gave a particularly political dimension to their action. …”
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