Contemporary Painting as Reflector of Yoruba Cultural Values by Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe

“…The study traces the origin of painting in Africa, from its earliest forms in African caves, shrines, and palaces, through the colonial and postcolonial eras to the present. Based on their contexts, eight (8) paintings that portray specific values of the Yorùbá and are ingrained with symbolic motifs, patterns and imageries are selected. …”
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Madagascar, 29 mars 1947, « Tabataba ou parole des temps troubles » by Valérie MAGDELAINE-ANDRIANJAFITRIMO

“…These fluctuating memories reveal to what extent the postcolonial present is still haunted by the colonial past. …”
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S’affirmer en tant qu’homme par la lutte : le genre comme outil politique pour les travailleurs maghrébins dans les années 1970 ? by Baptiste Feuillye

“…This social conflict was part of the protest movement against the Marcellin-Fontanet circulars in France, and more generally in an unprecedented period of mobilization of postcolonial immigrant workers in the early 1970s. This paper first addresses by which processes these Maghrebin workers were gendered and assigned to a marginal masculinity within French society. …”
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Aux origines de l’immigration marocaine en Midi-Pyrénées by Arthur Baylac

“…The available documentation about the regional Moroccan presence is still to be explored, but some of its elements highlight the role of tiny postcolonial Moroccan migrations in the development of the massive migratory flow which came after them starting in the mid-1960s. …”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It shows the practice of engagement by the Kegites through which identity can be textually constructed in ways that politicize self-representation and challenge discourses grounded in the colonial and postcolonial histories of the Yorùbá people. Through the discussion of themes such as ancestral presence, the aesthetics of orature, and the political significance of group or society (ẹgbé) ̣ among the Yorùbá, the paper seeks to showcase the presence of a characteristic of Yorùbá oral literature in which personal, cultural, economic, social and political issues become inseparable. …”
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O ESTADO ATUAL DA SOCIOLOGIA: algumas observações face ao próximo Congresso ALAS by Alain Caillé

“…Propõe então que se a sociologia quiser sobreviver terá de se abrir para as novas discussões como a dos postcolonial studies e subaltern studies, e também a dos gender studies e care studies, e aquelas teorias de importante dimensão moral como as do reconhecimento e do dom. …”
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The Falklands War on the British Screen: Plural Memories of an Occulted War by Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet

“…This filmography can be interpreted as a form of repentance for what is now often perceived as an upsurge of postcolonial hubris and raises the question of how to remember a war that is anything but heroic.…”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In Àfọ̀njá and Gáà that context is provided by the empire phase of Yorùbá civilization in which Yorùbá civilization was the dominant point of reference; in Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì ̀ the drama is situated in the context of postcolonial Nigerian city, in a nation that boasts large ethnic nationalities of which the Yorùbá are only one and in which Yorùbá culture is mediated by the postcolonial state with its symbol of the English language as the means of communication and its cultural spin offs. …”
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Réserve de Biosphère de Yangambi à l’épreuve de la cristallisation des pratiques locales de survie : une réponse à la faillite de l’État en République Démocratique du Congo ... by Justin Kyale Koy, Alphonse Maindo Monga Ngonga, David Andrew Wardell

“…The gains of local community development initiatives from the late colonial Belgian Congo period were not consolidated by the postcolonial State which abandoned them due to its own failures. …”
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From the Other Shore: Exploring Home and Spatial Duality in Leïla Sebbar’s Le silence des rives (Silence on the Shores) by Nassima Amirouche

“…The concept of spatial duality, as developed by Gaston Bachelard, provides a valuable framework for understanding the intricate relationship between exiles’ experiences of physical and psychological space. The postcolonial reading perspective also elucidates the complexity of (im)migrant subjectivity and the discourse of belonging. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…The cooperation between Prince and Strickland has been analysed as one the very first instances of a deep convergence betwen feminist and postcolonial interests. I argue that it would be even more infesting to include Pringle himself in the play of this ’interval’ between Prince’s martyred body and her voice. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Posthumanist Eco-consciousness by Sinan AKILLI

“…In a manner that would be unexpected of an author widely labeled as ‘a man of his times’—and therefore a pro-imperial propagandist—in postcolonial literary criticism, he was critical of the anthropocentric ways of western civilization. …”
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Introduction by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Helena Motoh

“… Recent decades have brought the topic of researching East Asian collections in Europe and the world to the forefront of research and academia. The colonial and postcolonial frameworks of collecting practices, the cultural and socio-political settings in which the collectors assembled their collections, as well as the history of displaying East Asian objects in museums and other institutions, were researched both in the political centres of those practices and on their peripheries. …”
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Educação do campo no Brasil: um discurso para além do pós-colonial? by Sônia Maria da Silva Araújo

“…El artículo identifica el campo de la educación como un fenómeno social que puede ser analizado con base en la teoría postcolonial. Sin embargo, se insiste en que esto no es posible sin un cambio en la matriz original de la teoría. …”
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Christoph Schlingensief im Spannungsfeld von Kunst und Realpolitik by Alexandra Vinzenz

“…Der kunsthistorische und theaterwissenschaftliche Blick, der methodische Ansätze der Postcolonial Studies mit einbezieht, trägt zur Verortung von Schlingensiefs Arbeiten bei.…”
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Expertise on the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: A Hybrid Cultural Boundary Approach by Mireille Manga Edimo

“…The analysis stems from a critical postcolonial perspective, while introducing the ‘hybrid’ cultural contexts, ‘hybrid’ institutional designs, and ‘virtual’ discursive spaces which acknowledge the specific cultural character of a case study in the Global South. …”
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Islamophobia without Islamophobes: New Strategies of Representing Imperialist versus Suicide Terrorist Necropolitics in Homeland and Syriana by Mahmoud Arghavan

“…This paper investigates the geopolitical context of the emergence of “suicide terrorism” to propose that terrorism in its various forms has less to do with religious ideologies in general and with Islamic faith in particular, and more to do with the colonial and neocolonial politics of Empire in the colonies, postcolonies and occupied territories by the U.S. army and its allies in the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…Mapping new administrative domains for integrating conservation and development, and defining rights in terms of both new policy and the citizenry governed thereby, have been central to postcolonial neoliberal environmental governance programmes known as Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM). …”
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How the Internet is Transforming the Bombay Poetry Scene by Manon Boukhroufa-Trijaud

“…This article explores the context of Bombay/Mumbai in an attempt to show how the city’s poetry scene was transformed once it went online. As the postcolonial city of Bombay turned into Mumbai – i.e. a modern-day megacity –, notable literary changes followed, from the dissolution of its traditional poetic scene – as poets dispersed to distant suburbs, neighbouring cities, or even abroad – to the disappearance of an already fragile ecosystem of publishing collectives. …”
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« L’Indépendance, c’est maintenant ! » Réflexion sur le soulèvement populaire en Algérie by Naoual Belakhdar

“…Since the 22nd of February 2019, Algeria is witnessing an unprecedented popular upheaval in its postcolonial history. Millions of Algerian citizens, from all genders, classes, ages and ideologies took to the streets across the whole national territory in order to oppose a 5th mandate of Abdelaziz Bouteflika and to ask for the departure of the entire system. …”
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