Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa by S. Fischer

“…The book of Proverbs is expounded upon with reflections on the ubuntu principle and the postcolonial-critical method Imbokodo. It is shown how folk sayings can be relevant for the transformation of South African university education and how biblical proverbs may transform folk proverbs. …”
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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“…I then argue that if Nigeria’s lackluster policy on population is taken into consideration, the implications of the Yorùbá, as well as other ethnic groups’, population philosophy will not only aggravate the Nigerian postcolonial predicament, but will eventually explode the population time bomb already ticking in Nigeria. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…After sixty years of a very unbalanced postcolonial status quo, the Kanak people rebelled in the 1980’s to put an end to their exclusion from social, economic, and professional equal opportunities and to the loss of their ancestral land. …”
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Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…Una teoría del ritmo (1921), the Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos carries out an interesting rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism to reorient the symbolic-abstract direction of Western thought, which seems to pave a new line of genealogical exploration of the question of mimesis in a postcolonial context. The aesthetic notion of rhythm, as well as shifting the discourse on mimesis from the visual to the acoustic-emotional dimension, nevertheless presents the characteristics and risks of what Scheler calls “unipathy” or contagion and acquires a particularly important significance when considered as the theoretical premise of the famous Vasconcelian essay The Cosmic Race (1925). …”
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‘Exotic Eroticism’: Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda by Julia Kuehn

“…A brief overview of recent postcolonial reassessments of the concept of ‘exoticism’, and of Butler's reinterpretation into the context of gender studies, precedes the close reading of the literary text.…”
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Maladie, médecine et migration au prisme de l’écriture migrante sino-française: une contribution à la médecine transculturelle? by Julia Pröll

“…Quoique les pièges de l’auto-orientalisme et de l’exotisme médical ne soient pas toujours évités par les auteurs en question, comme en témoigne surtout la stratégie du Writing-in, ce corpus d’écrivains, et avec lui le cadre théorique postcolonial dans lequel s’inscrira la présente étude, s’avère enrichissant pour les (Critical) Medical Humanities, un champ interdisciplinaire prenant actuellement son essor. …”
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‘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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Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Abu Lughod, Lila

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial.…”
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L’esclave du ms. H.6 et l’anthropologue romancier : In an Antique Land d’Amitav Ghosh, une utopie de l’archive by Claudine Le Blanc

“…As Subaltern Studies, Indian postcolonial studies developed a textual criticism of archival documents which soon met literature: as early as 1992 in Volume VII a study of the correspondence of a Jewish merchant of the twelfth century ("The Slave of MS. …”
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La molteplicità e la crisi by Stefania Consigliere, Cristina Zavaroni

“…Managed in a way that both conceals and naturalizes postcolonial geopolitical violence, current migratory flows bring the anthropological field in our backyards, facing us with unprecedented forms of crisis both among migrants and among operators. …”
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Chrześcijański feminizm w Afryce – kontynentalne dyskursy i lokalne praktyki by Anna Niedźwiedź

“…The paper refers to feminist and postcolonial theories as well as some more African-oriented topics developed in the Circle’s writings. …”
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THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by M. M. Lebedeva, M. V. Harkevich

“…The bases for the school may be found in Russian spiritual philosophy, the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, Russian cultural studies, postcolonial tradition of national historical science.…”
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Film Review: Jagun Jagun, Nigeria, 2023. Produced by Euphoria 360 Media. Netflix. 129 minutes, Yoruba (with English subtitles). No price reported. Directed by Tope Adebayo and Adeb... by Yemi Atanda

“…Generally, the film occludes the postcolonial thematic relevance in the modern political African leaders in their visionless Machiavellian ideology. …”
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Mythe et colonies dans l’Allemagne de Weimar by Catherine Repussard

“…Contemporary postcolonial scholars, whose approaches focus on the perception of the Other using a counter-gaze from the ‘peripheries’ towards the ‘centre’, are not alone in having endeavoured to deconstruct colonial thought. …”
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“Boring Photography”: American New Topographics, Socialist Boredom, and Post-Soviet Deadpan Photography by Victoria Musvik

“…I conclude that the reasons for this should be analyzed in the complex postcolonial context, which includes the acting out of collective trauma. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

“…After briefly surveying the colonial exploitation of the Roman heritage, the article delves into the postcolonial era, where Habib Bourguiba's regime used tourism as a lever for modernization and rapprochement with Europe, thus redefining Tunisia's geopolitical position. …”
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Le Guyana: "Land of Six Peoples" ou "One People, One Nation" ? by Léna Loza

“…Although top officials rejoice in the cohesiveness of Guyanese society, the latter is seemingly struggling to overcome the painful legacy of the colonial era. Examining postcolonial questions about Guyana entails transcending the traditional dichotomy "former colonizers/former colonized people." …”
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Cambiando las éticas y las políticas del conocimiento: lógica de la colonialidad y postcolonialidad imperial by Walter D. Mignolo

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Intimità sacra e nuove appartenenze nella devozione dei Mauriziani induisti a Santa Rosalia (Palermo) by Eugenio Giorgianni

“…The research subjects position their worship of the patron saint – as the deity of their arrival city – alongside their devotion to Hindu female goddesses, by drawing analogies between local devotional practices and the religious experiences of postcolonial Mauritius. The Santuzza and her sacred mountain (Monte Pellegrino) are adopted as divine mediators of the problems and desires arising from their mobility. …”
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La science-fiction française face au « grand cauchemar des années 1980 » : une lecture politique, 1981-1993 by Jean-Guillaume Lanuque

“…L’engagement reste cependant toujours vif à travers l’imagination de nouvelles utopies, souvent situées dans le tiers-monde, et l’appel à l’ouverture dans un contexte postcolonial.…”
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