Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Based on original archival documents, the essay interrogates these resistances to universalist ideas of technology and ontological assumptions embedded and perpetuated through the architecture of post-colonial “development” projects. This study serves as a first stepping stone towards further investigations into how Western homogenising technologies could be negotiated and challenged for a more pluralistic technological paradigm.   …”
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Pouvoir et légitimité des figures de l’Etat au Chili de 1810 à 1861 by Nathalie Jammet

“…It was also necessary to justify the movement to independence by ending with the colonial spirit. The equality of anyone to the law, which used to be a widespread ideal, motivated a re-organisation of the judicial power. …”
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La Révolte de Bû Ziyân en Algérie, 1849 by Julia Clancy-Smith

“…By way of conclusion, the author argues that the bloody repression of Bû Ziyân's revolt by the French army convinced religious notables, including Sufi elites, to search for accomodation with the colonial regime as early as 1850.…”
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Giant Sweetpotato Bug, Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae) by Susan E. Halbert

“… A large colony of Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) was found in late June 1995 on an Asian cultivar of sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) in Homestead, Florida, by Lynn D. …”
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Polyphasic taxonomy of Aspergillus section Sparsi by J. Varga, J.C. Frisvad, R.A. Samson

“…Aspergillus haitiensis sp. nov. is characterised by whitish colonies becoming reddish brown due to the production of conidial heads, and dark coloured smooth stipes. …”
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Conserver la biodiversité avec les ONG en Nouvelle-Calédonie: décolonisation ou délégation de gestion ? by Mélissa Nayral, Marie Toussaint

“…This includes skills transfers from France to this "non-decolonized former colony" (Demmer and Salomon, 2013) that have already allowed the emergence of the preservation of biodiversity as a major political issue. …”
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Les enjeux du végétal dans une ville du « Sud »  by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Naïma Brabra, Sigrid Giffon

“…The palm groves and rows of trees have been retreating with encroaching urbanisation, golf courses, tourist complexes and villas, ever since the colonial period and increasingly in recent decades. …”
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Storia e significati della Nerezza nel Sud della Tunisia: per una nuova prospettiva by Marta Scaglioni

“…On the contrary, today’s Tunisia is a “post-colonial” and “post-slavery” society, and slavery left a profound legacy onto contemporary racial dynamics. …”
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Reflexões a respeito da ideia de (r)existências do Sul by Júlia Figueredo Benzaquen

“…Dessa forma, a defesa aqui feita do conceito de (r)existências, em detrimento do conceito de movimentos sociais, vai no sentido de questionar uma gramática colonial da Sociologia, abarcar a pluralidade de resistências e se posicionar politicamente. …”
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Sobre o modelo decolonial: a importância do outro e a urgência de seu olhar by João Alberto Mendonça Silva, Josemar de Campos Maciel, Dolores Pereira Ribeiro Coutinho

“…This article is an exhibition about changing models of thought intended for Decolonial thinkers, questioning and provoking the massificator system that Latin American societies have lived since the Colonial process. The text is a part of research on development of models based on the promotion of communities and their protagonism, decreasing exogenous interference and promoters of simple speculative profit. …”
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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…Following forced settlement in Mission-run reservations which was completed in 1978, older geopolitical segmentations were replaced by a new distribution of this nomadic society in permanent and independent colonies. Loss of ancestral territory dismembered the former socio-political unit, ache gatu, which was a crucial component of ethnic identity for the Southern and Northern groups. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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La paradoja del monumento histórico o de la demolición del antiguo convento de Santo Domingo en Santafé de Bogotá. 1939-1947. by Liliana Rueda Cáceres

“…En la Bogotá de 1939 el antiguo convento de Santo Domingo, erigido en el siglo XVI y ocupado a partir del siglo XIX por la oficina de Correos y Telégrafos y otras dependencias oficiales, era uno de los últimos representantes en pie de la que había sido una verdadera “infraestructura de lo religioso” de la ciudad colonial. Este texto se centra en corroborar si en efecto el antiguo convento era un elemento representativo de una época, de una sociedad y de una tipología arquitectónica, condiciones que bien hubieran podido haberle garantizado su permanencia en calidad de monumento histórico y no como paradójicamente ocurrió, que antes bien, todas estas condiciones lo que contribuyeron fue a propugnar por su demolición.…”
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The Local, The Global, or Somewhere in Between? by Peter J. Verdin

“…Operating from the conceit that events like Africa Festival are “constructed cultural festivals,” this research looks at the way that these reinventions and reimaginings are reflective of implicit notions of authority, authenticity, power, and alterity, which have been shaped by globalization and colonial legacy. These assemblages are used in the creation of a particular form of heritage, that situates Africa Festival as a specific, localized space for cultural consumption, while simultaneously linking the festival to a larger, imagined global community. …”
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Restricciones y prejuicios en torno a las relaciones sentimentales y familiares de la comunidad esclava en tiempos de la independencia de Colombia by Roger Pita Pico

“…e ste artículo aborda la complejidad de la vida afectiva de la población esclava durante el proceso de i ndependencia de c olombia. e n términos generales, muchas de las limitaciones establecidas durante el periodo colonial siguieron vigentes, tanto en los vínculos familiares de los esclavos como en las relaciones sentimentales entabladas con el elemento blanco. a l final, fueron muy pocos los avances en esta materia debido a la posición asumida por los amos en defensa del sistema esclavista y de sus intereses como propietarios, y a la falta de compromiso por parte de las autoridades españolas y republicanas. …”
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Technical insights on adjustable velar extension and safety mechanism in Tübingen palatal plate for Pierre Robin sequence by Hemwati Nandan, Bert Braumann, Teresa Kruse, Michael Wolf, Pragjyoti Jha, Srinivas Gosla Reddy, Prasad Nalabothu

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Cosmovisión mágica y religiosidad protestante: una mirada a las tensiones y transiciones en el mundo Achagua y Piapoco by José Ignacio Bolaños-Motta, Enith Zulema Astaiza-Grande

“…El método desarrollado es la Etnografía, y a partir de realidades encontradas, mediante diálogo y observación; se derivan como resultado las categorías cosmovisión mágica y religiosidad protestante a través de las cuales se indica la existencia de un proyecto colonial religioso al interior de dichos pueblos étnicos.…”
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Changing Medium: The Contemporary Reception of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in Two Graphic Novels by Nathalie Martinière

“…Changing medium allowed them to revisit both the colonial past and the meaning of a novella like Heart of Darkness since both graphic novels perform an implicit criticism of the source text and serve to reexamine its controversial aspects in the 21st century. …”
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The Illicit Production and Consumption of Ògógóró in Coastal Yorùbáland and the Niger Delta by Dọlápọ` Z. Olúpàyímọ´

“…The article adopts the use of sources which include oral interviews with resource persons, police information and intelligence reports, newspaper publications and archival documents from the colonial period deposited in the National Archives, Ibadan. …”
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Colonialismo y alteridad: el debate racial y cultural en la conquista de Argelia by María Luisa Sánchez-Mejía

“…La raza, la religión y el estado de civilización fueron los ejes centrales de un debate que muestra las contradicciones y las fisuras de la política y de la sociedad francesas ante la cuestión colonial.…”
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