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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Role of the Ottoman Geopolitics During the First World War by Burak Çınar

“…Thanks to the newly emerging fronts Ottoman forces drew many Russian and British Colonial divisions on its own divisions. Accumulation of the British divisions in Egypt; reinforcement of fronts emerged in Gallipoli, Palestine and Iraq; and opening a second front to Russia was by courtesy of the Ottomans. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…Currently « Kandire » is assimilated to the « land without evil » of the Bolivian Guaraní-Chiriguano. The analysis of colonial texts, however, reveals that the first mention of the term designates a concrete people called « the Candires », who can easily be associated with the Incas; the second « Candire » is assimilated to the idea of Paytiti; and, finally, the third use of the term relates to the « Candire » god of the Itatin Chiriguano. …”
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La descolonización de la economía política y los estudios postcoloniales: transmodernidad, pensamiento fronterizo y colonialidad global by Ramón Grosfoguel

“…Se discuten ademas los conceptos de «colonialidad del poder», «epistemologías fronterizas» y de «transmodernidad» para pensar no en «nuevas utopias» sino en «utopias otras» a partir de una cartografía distinta de las relaciones de poder global del «sistema-mundo Europeo/Euro-norteamericano moderno/colonial capitalista/patriarcal». El artículo argumenta la necesidad de usar este último concepto (aunque más extenso) y abandonar la categoría de «sistema-mundo capitalista» o «capitalismo global».…”
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Comunidades indígenas del trapecio amazónico colombiano: imaginarios sociales y turismo by Marta Lucía Vélez Rivas

“…La relación histórica de la sociedad mestiza hacia las comunidades indígenas, se expresa en relaciones de poder contruidas desde el pasado colonial, lo cual se materializa hoy en exclusión, desigualdad social, exotización y desconocimiento del Otro. …”
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Drywood Termite, Cryptotermes cavifrons Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) by Angela S. Brammer, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…The most economically significant termite in this genus, Cryptotermes brevis (Walker), commonly infests structures and was at one time known as the “furniture termite,” thanks to the frequency with which colonies were found in pieces of furniture. A member of the same genus that might be mistaken for C. brevis upon a first, cursory examination is C. cavifrons, a species endemic to Florida. …”
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Agrarian Problems in the New Republic by Barbara Karsky

“…Agrarian protest was a well known phenomenon of colonial North America. Yet the continued presence of organized rural protest in the years following the revolutionary war has divided scholars as to its significance. …”
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A Literary Turn in African Studies by Kelvin Acheampong

“…Although there are sometimes divergences among these patterns of thought, the salient point of convergence is their acknowledgement of coloniality as a problem haunting the world today, and of the task of decolonization/ decoloniality as unfinished. …”
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Drywood Termite, Cryptotermes cavifrons Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) by Angela S. Brammer, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…The most economically significant termite in this genus, Cryptotermes brevis (Walker), commonly infests structures and was at one time known as the “furniture termite,” thanks to the frequency with which colonies were found in pieces of furniture. A member of the same genus that might be mistaken for C. brevis upon a first, cursory examination is C. cavifrons, a species endemic to Florida. …”
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TEORIAS SOCIALES DEL SUR: hacia una mirada post-independentista by Adrián Scribano

“…Se parte de la caracterización de la situación colonial en la actualidad y sefiala algunos nodos de una posible agenda de discusión. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…Although the dominant narratives in the world of academia are from the vantage points of primarily white males from the West (Europe and the United States), there is an alternative narrative that is being discussed in many parts of the world that is challenging the colonial perspectives of the West. This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. …”
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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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An Evaluation Model for the Teaching Reform of the Physical Education Industry by Yuwei Sun, Miaomiao Jiang

“…The evaluation result is better than the previous ant colony model and is suitable for the evaluation of sports teaching reform.…”
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India by Catherine Lanone

“…Echoing foreign words become a pocket of rhythm and sound, the very matrix of a meaning that escapes colonial discourse and points towards a polyphony that remains pregnant with meaning.…”
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PASOS HACIA UNA DESCOLONIZACIÓN DE LO FESTIVO by JAVIER REYNALDO ROMERO FLORES

“…Nuestro argumento transita del momento colonial, en el que se produce la demonización de lo festivo, al momento republicano en el que, junto con lo anterior, también se desarrolla la mercantilización de lo festivo. …”
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Vejez, magia y feminidad en Balún Canán, de Rosario Castellanos by María América Luna-Martínez, Zoraida Ronzón-Hernández, Norma Baca-Tavira

“…Las siguientes líneas se proponen explorar las experiencias de la enigmática y envejecida Francisca Argüello, personaje secundario de Balún Canán, 2 quien tiene un papel relevante al develar las disputas entre el imaginario mágico-mítico de las culturas originarias y el pensamiento colonial de la élite terrateniente. Este personaje permite acercarnos a un tema hasta ahora no abordado en los estudios sobre la mencionada novela: el envejecimiento de las mujeres en la sociedad señorial mexicana de la primera mitad del siglo XX, así como las estrategias que se ponen en juego para enfrentar no sólo su condición añosa, sino los intensos cambios sociales que se experimentaron en Chiapas a raíz de las reformas cardenistas.…”
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