Vie et œuvre d’Eugène Poilane (1888-1964) by Ariadna Burgos, Benoît Carré

“…In this article, we will illustrate part of this extraordinary naturalist's journey and his contribution to academic knowledge and to the understanding of the French colonial empire context in Indochina. The second article, which follows on from this one, illustrates the use of E. …”
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V Americe za války „před válkou“. Působení plk. gšt. Oldřicha Španiela v USA v letech 1939–1941 by Tomáš Jiránek

“…Shortly after the beginning of the war, colonel of the General Staff Oldřich Španiel was sent out to the USA to recruit among the local compatriot colonies and obtain the ranks for these units. The study deals with the ways of his work, co-operation with the local authorities, the relations among compatriots and the reasons why the results of the recruitment were relatively weak.  …”
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The wilderness wanderings: a theo-liminal pedagogy for mind decolonisation in African Christianity by C. J. Kaunda

“… This article argues that the current economic and political underdevelopment in the majority of African countries is a symptom of a profound metaphysical and intellectual crisis in the African person’s imagination and consciousness, a consequence of conceptual alienation wrought about mind colonialism. The process of decolonisation did not end with geopolitical liberation, but continues as liberation of the African mind and subjectivity. …”
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KAWASAN PEMUKIMAN VETERAN MAKASSAR PENEKANAN ARSITEKTUR KOLONIAL by Nurul Fadhilah SM, Wasilah Wasilah

“…This paper attempts to realize the region that brings together all the activities of veterans into a residential area with an emphasis Dutch colonial architecture as well as a symbol of appreciation to the members of veterans in Makassar based with elements of urban design.…”
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Bourguiba d’une prison l’autre by Antoine Hatzenberger

“…This article comes back to the periods of captivity which marked out Habib Bourguiba’s political history. Inscribed in the colonial geography of penitentiaries in South and North Tunisia, civil jails, military prisons, house arrests, as well as in the histories of Second World War and of the last struggle for independence, these periods are recomposed chapters of the history of the Tunisian national movement. …”
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Foraging Behavior of Odontomachus bauri on Barro Colorado Island, Panama by Birgit Ehmer, Bert Hölldobler

“…Polydomous nests may enable O. bauri colonies to enlarge their foraging areas.…”
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Réunir une documentation pour l’Art Brut : les prospections de Jean Dubuffet dans l’immédiat après-guerre au regard du modèle ethnographique by Baptiste Brun

“…For his project, Dubuffet adapted methods that were those of colonial ethnography and French ethnology. His relationship with the Oceania specialist Patrick O’Reilly in the second half of the 1940s was, within this context, exemplary.…”
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Bee louse, bee fly, braulid, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by James D. Ellis, C.M. Zettel Nalen

“…It describes this wingless fly that lives as a commensalist in western honeybee colonies — distribution, description, life cycle and behavior and management. …”
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Case Study of The Divine Shepherdess Painting by Megan Crouch

“…The painting was used in missionary work during the Spanish Colonial period in New Spain (1492-1821). A technical description of the painting’s construction materials and conservation issues are presented. …”
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Bee louse, bee fly, braulid, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by James D. Ellis, C.M. Zettel Nalen

“…It describes this wingless fly that lives as a commensalist in western honeybee colonies — distribution, description, life cycle and behavior and management. …”
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Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…Whether referring to the artificiality of its (post-)colonial construction or to the fragmentation of its sovereignty since 2011, the weakness of Libya’s statehood is a recurrent theme in policy and scholarly discourses. …”
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Urban fruit bats give birth earlier in the season compared to rural fruit bats by Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Mor Taub, Lee Harten, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Reut Assa, Omri Gal, Yossi Yovel

“…We sampled ten fruit bat colonies located in different urbanization levels, over 3 years. …”
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African biblical hermeneutics on the threshold? Appraisal and wayforward by M. Speckman

“…There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord prevents a crossing of the threshold. …”
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Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion by Birgit Meyer

“…Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge aboutreligion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category,but also to the study of religious Birgit Meyer58plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposedto approach as new postcolonial frontier zones. …”
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Michel foucault y la colonialidad del poder by Santiago Castro-Gómez

“…Al contrario de gran parte de los planteamientos asociadas a corrientes de los estudios postcoloniales y a algunas vertientes del enfoque de la modernidad/colonialidad, en este artículo se argumenta la relevancia una teoría heterárquica del poder inspirada en las Lecciones del College de France menos conocidas de Foucault para comprender las articulaciones en diferentes planos del sistema mundo moderno colonial.…”
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Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda by Ferhati Barkahoum

“…Based on personal experience as a researcher working on the margins, the social phenomena of the “tribal” prostitution of the Ouled Naïl in the Algerian Sahara, this field survey explores borders and taboos (prostitution, female celibacy), and some moral uncertainties concerning post-colonial society in Algeria.…”
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Ce que Charles Darwin doit à Joseph Banks by Le Guyader, Hervé

“…He actively intervened in acclimatization and varietal selection of plants and animals in Great Britain as in the future English colonies. Thus he built an intellectual environment which will promote the emergence of Charles Darwin’s thoughts.…”
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Conflit autour du marché des montagnards Khmirs dans les années 1870 : communauté, immunités et revendications d’autonomie by Fatma Ben Slimane

“…This research deals with the conflict between the government of the beys of Tunis and the Khmir mountain tribe in the 1870s, concerning their weekly market, Sūq al-Ahad, which was threatened both by new tax burdens and by the French colonial expansion in eastern Algeria. The archives of this conflict make it possible to favor a local approach, centered on the claims of the resource constituted by the market-place and thus to better explore the mobilizations of the actors and the arguments they put forward to defend what they saw as their rights, as well as the way they negotiated them in an increasingly restrictive context.…”
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Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain by John Coates

“…In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, several writers voiced their apprehensions about the state of the British Empire and the dangers they thought it faced by making comparisons between Britain and the Phoenician city of Tyre and the greatest of Tyre’s colonies, Carthage. This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

“…The collapse of the colonial system, the growth of national liberation movements, the entry of new forces that did not fit into the rigid framework of the Communist ideas about the revolutionary process, demanded realistic explanations of what was happening. …”
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