“C’è l’Assaorta che ci aspetta...”. Geografi ed etnografi italiani tra i Saho d’Eritrea by Gianni Dore

“…They sought support for their research insisting that it would also be useful to colonial administrators. This essay takes into account the methodology of their inquiry, the colonial practices and sheds light on the complex and ambiguous relationship between researchers, colonial officers, local chiefs and inhabitants in the Akkälä Guzai region in that early stage of Italian colonial rule. …”
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Gilberto Freyre e a intelligentsia salazarista em defesa do Império Colonial Português (1951 - 1974) by João Alberto da Costa Pinto

“…<br>In this paper, I intend to analyze Gilberto Freyre's trajectory within the Salazarist Intelligentsia from 1951 onwards, a time of Salazar's statutory redefinitions of colonial administration. I also reflect upon how Freyre's theoretical model, Lusotropicalism, was appropriated as a key element for the internationalization of the ideological-institutional justification in defense of the maintenance of the Portuguese Colonial Empire.…”
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Women and the history of international thought by Owens, P

“…To illustrate what international studies can gain by pursuing a research agenda on historical women's international thought, I discuss a neglected, but at the time extremely important figure, in what might be called “white women's international relations,” the influential scholar of colonial administration, Lucy Philip Mair.…”

Rising of the Phoenix: Mitigating Political Risk through Knowledge Management—Behn, Meyer & Co., 1840–1959 by Yacob, Shakila

“…During the two world wars, all assets and properties of the Behn Meyer firm were systematically expropriated because of the introduction of the Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Act of 1914 and the subsequent imposition of a ten-year ban by the British colonial administration in the Malay Peninsula. However, Behn Meyer's resilience and flexible outlook, as demonstrated by its management of political risks during these tumultuous periods, enabled it to rebuild its business interests and reestablish a foothold in postcolonial Malaysia and the region. …”

The Spring Thunder. Revisiting the Naxal Movement in Indian Cinema by Sanghita Sen

“…As an organized political movement with speci c manifesto and vision of the nature of the state, the Naxal movement attempted to disrupt and dismantle the quasi- feudal Indian social structure and an oppressive Indian state that functioned still under colonial administrative regulation, as caretaker of interests of the powerful classes. …”
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Economic Functions of Monasticism in Cyprus: The Case of the Kykkos Monastery by Michalis N. Michael, Victor Roudometof

“…Next, it examines the changes in monastic possessions caused by the legislation enacted by the post-1878 British colonial administration. The legislation caused the loss of extensive land holdings and was the subject of extensive controversy.…”
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Female space in Singapore mosques by Syahirah Humaira Amrun

“…Through these conceptualisations, this thesis aims to fill in the gap in existing literature regarding female space in Singapore mosques through analysing the intersection of three key themes; the multiple articulations of Islamic feminism in Singapore, the ways in which post-colonial administrative policies have influenced the power dynamics in the Muslim community in Singapore; and lastly, the role of mosques as a collective and social space. …”
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Japanese Occupation Government Policy in Indonesia on Culture and Literature: A Case Study of Asia Raja Newspaper (1942-1945) by Maman S Mahayana

“…How is the real politics of the Japanese occupation government in carrying out its colonial administration in the colonies? With the underlying research on the Asia Raja newspapers (April 29, 1942 to September 7, 1945), this paper tries to reveal the political government of Japan in the socio-cultural and literature. …”
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Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history by Julie Morin-Rivat, Adeline Fayolle, Charly Favier, Laurent Bremond, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Nicolas Bayol, Philippe Lejeune, Hans Beeckman, Jean-Louis Doucet

“…Since 1885, less itinerancy and disturbance in the forest has occurred because the colonial administrations concentrated people and villages along the primary communication axes. …”
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Indigenous Knowledge and Public Education in Sub-Saharan Africa by Munyaradzi Mawere

“…In Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region, while the so-called indigenous communities have always found value in their own local forms of knowledge, the colonial administration and its associates viewed indigenous knowledge as unscientific, illogical, anti-development, and/or ungodly. …”
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Babri Mosque: a historic bone of contention by Islam, Arshad

“…After a thorough scrutiny of the available historical literature on the Mosque, this article argues that to regard it as the birthplace of the Hindu deity Rama is untenable and the notion was actually put into circulation by British colonial officials to serve British interests in the Indian subcontinent. Successive colonial administrations tried to strengthen their grip on South Asia by playing off one group against another in the name of caste, race, and, most importantly, religion. …”
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Contested Colonial Metrological Sovereignty: The Daching Riot And The Regulation Of Weights And Measures In British Malaya by Por, Heong Hong

“…Initiated by colonial administrators, the reform was both welcomed and resisted. …”
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Pemerkasaan pembangunan bangsa berasaskan acuan sendiri (Empowerment of race development based on their own mould) by Abdul Hamid, Solahuddin, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Nizho

“…Alternately colonialism over a long period was sup pressed, sorting and removing capabilities and the ability of the Malays in the current economy development. Colonial administration meddling in the government system has not developed economic development based on social justice as expected. …”
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Aménagement et préservation de la médina de Rabat entre 1912 et 1956 by Mylène Théliol

“…These regulations will be questioned, from 1935s, notably because of the fast increase of the population living in the medina which threatens the conservation of the Arab-Muslim city. The colonial administration will try then, until the end of Protectorate in 1956, to find solutions to demographic, social problems and of town planning with which the historical city is confronted from now on.…”
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Navigating the smallpox threat in colonial Fiji: Vaccination endeavours and historical challenges by Mumtaz Alam

“…Indeed, this paper examines the relationship between native and colonial administrations in tackling the spread of smallpox. …”
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Care and Connectivity in Labour Migration by Esben Leifsen, Alexander Tymczuk

“…Moreover, as forms of  organization and as  ideational relational structures, kinship systems have been considered to exist outside colonial administrations and economies, nation states and the market. …”
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“Fortuitous circumstances?” John Owen Smith and the art of nineteenth-century colonial wealth accumulation by Hendrik Snyders

“…This status allowed him a significant measure of influence within the colonial administration. Far from being the result of ‘fortuitous circumstances’ as claimed by some contemporary newspapers, colonial settler wealth was rather the result of deliberate social and economic action. …”
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Islam et nationalisme en Asie centrale au début de la période soviétique (1924-1937). L'exemple de l'Ouzbékistan, à travers quelques sources littéraires by Stéphane A. Dudoignon

“…His work, from 1924 until his death, is dominated by two central ideas: the political solidarity of Turkish and Muslim people in the ex-Russian Empire as well as the continuation by the Soviet regime in Central Asia of the politics of territorial plundering and economic segregation carried out by the colonial administration under the last Romanovs.…”
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Kalanga culture and the nature of resistance against the Native Land Husbandry Act of 1951 in colonial Zimbabwe by Thembani Dube

“…It looks at two Kalanga chiefs, Madlambuzi Ncube and Masendu Dube, who were deposed by colonial administrators in the 1950s and replaced by an Ndebele chief, Mpini Ndiweni. …”
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A Hospital Typology Translated: Transnational Flows of Architectural Expertise in the Clinique Reine Elisabeth of Coquilhatville, in the Belgian Congo by Simon De Nys-Ketels

“…Individual travel experiences, participation in colonial research missions, and direct personal contacts with other colonial administrations all played a role. Uncovering these alternative flows of expertise in the history of Coquilhatville’s Clinique sheds light on how colonial (hospital) architecture cannot simply be reduced to direct bilateral “export.” …”
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