Revitalizing Urban Governance: Integrating Smart Growth and Decolonial Perspectives for Municipal Empowerment in Shaping Growth Across Egyptian Desert Landscapes by Anas Alhowaily

“…The primary objective is to identify the root causes of misguided urban growth management practices, arguing that mono-institutional and sectoral development is rooted in Egypt's quasi-colonial history preceding the NUCP. The research employs a comprehensive methodological approach, using descriptive qualitative methods to investigate the growth of emerging cities based on Smart Growth principles and quantitative analysis to assess population decongestion resulting from the NUCP. …”
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The Autobiography of My Mother: Narrative as an Access to Post/Colonial Trauma by Hülya YILDIZ

“…The study explores how Kincaid is using the loss of the mother as a mode of access into colonial history and how her ctional methodology reects the methods of trauma studies. …”
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Les féminismes, le voile et la laïcité à la française by Hourya Bentouhami

“…As such it is a condensed version of political significations and reveals those tensions internal to feminism which are reticent to, or opposed to, the inclusion in their discourse and practice of any consideration relating to the close link between colonial history on one hand, and the struggles and definitions of feminism on the other. …”
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Everybody Jumping on the Savannah Grass: How Carnival Became a Symbol of Trinidad and Tobago’s National Culture by Brittney Bahadoor

“…The goal is to add to the conversation that Carnival is not just a boisterous party on the island but also reflects the colonial history and diverse peoples and how it was able to modernize itself while sticking to these core values.     …”
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Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa: A Case Study of Yaws and Syphilis in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda by Paula Palanco Lopez, Salome Manyau, Justin Dixon, Eleanor MacPherson, Susan Nayiga, John Manton, Claas Kirchhelle, Clare I. R. Chandler

“…With this article we join in the global multidisciplinary efforts to tackle AMR, pointing out the often-overlooked role of colonial history in the circulation of antibiotic drugs, and opening a line of research that will provide valuable insights for the development of effective measures to prevent and reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance.…”
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Lights, Camera, Lumino-Politics: Lighting The Searchers, from Paraffin to LED by Pansy Duncan

“…This essay addresses this situation through a re-reading of John Ford's The Searchers (1956), a film whose ambivalent engagement with America's troubled settler-colonial history has seen it mortgaged to depth-oriented reading methods. …”
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Germany’s Colonial Policy in Contemporary German Social and Political Discourse by A. P. Sokolov, A. D. Davydov

“…Most initiatives are in the first stages of implementation and far from meeting the requests of African states. Germany’s colonial history, marked by both crimes against the local population and the infrastructure development of its controlled territories, is a potential resource for engagement with African countries. …”
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Bodies that Fester in the Holds of the “Coffin Ships”: Postcolonial Neo-Victorianism, Vulnerability and Resistance in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea (2003) by Mª Isabel Romero Ruiz

“…Set in the winter of 1847, it tells the story of the voyage of a group of Irish refugees travelling to New York trying to escape from the Famine. The colonial history of Ireland and its long tradition of English dominance becomes the setting of the characters’ fight for survival. …”
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Immigration Into the United Kingdom by Lukáš Nevěděl, Michaela Novotná

“…When analysing the immigration policy of the United Kingdom, it is important to be aware of two key factors which influenced it: the country’s location and its colonial history. As an island, the UK has developed a very strong system of border control while at the same time there is limited control within its borders which can be demonstrated e.g. by the absence of identity cards. …”
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Coercive Confinement and Irish Languages: Ó Cadhain, Behan, Heaney, Okorie by James Little, Radvan Markus

“…Due to the island’s colonial history, Ireland has a rich canon of confinement literature, but – largely as a result of this very same history – these literary works have often been studied through a binary cultural lens, reinforcing what Declan Kiberd has termed the ‘quarantine’ of Ireland’s literatures, with English kept on one side of the language fence, Irish on the other. …”
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An imagined reality — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable) by Nevarez, Jasmine

“…Ewing create imagined realities that fill in the Black voices and narratives that have been lost throughout colonial history. Ewing’s poem, “1773,” presents a lost dialogue between past and present as it restores Black history.…”
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Pragmatic and cultural considerations of compliment responses among Malaysian-Malay speakers by Othman, Normala

“…Malaysia is a multicultural society with a colonial history. English is spoken widely in the country, side by side with several vernacular languages. …”
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Accepted or not: homosexuality, media, and the culture of silence in the Philippine society by De Leon, John Angelo, Jintalan, Joseph

“…This paper argues that Filipinos seem to lose acceptance of homosexuality on the matter of basic human right such as the right to marriage and legal union due to being considered as a predominant Catholic country with its long colonial history with the Spaniards. Furthermore, the paper argues that colonial and postcolonial perspectives play a bigger role on same-sex marriage discourses. …”
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The ideological struggle of multicultural nationalism: cultural identity in the 2014 Malaysian top-grossing movie the journey by Changsong, Wang, Yiming, Chen

“…This study attempts to discover how multiculturalism interacts with sub-state nationalism as portrayed in the Malaysian top-grossing film of 2014 – The Journey directed by Chiu Keng Guan.The nature of Malaysian society and its colonial history might suggest that cultural interaction among its three major races (Malays, Chinese, and Indians) is a norm, but this study argues that the culture of these three major races as portrayed in the fictional film is made up of “systems of representations”; such systems of representations do not reflect the intentions of the subjects, but rather, actively construct meanings as conditions and instruments, signifying practice in reality.The application of in-depth interviews (e.g., the film director and the screenplay writer) discovered cultural identity depicted in the film as always having a specific ‘positionality’ within their representation, and the ideological struggle of multicultural nationalism embedded in the film is considered ‘nonsubjective’.The authors believe that every culture is local, but no culture is autochthonous, and cultural identity illustrated in the film can be regarded as ‘uniqueness of the soil’.…”
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Gendered Representations in Eastern Cultural Production: Construct of the Indigenous Woman Gauri in Lagaan and the Impacts of Nationalism and Cultural Globalization on South Asian... by Hana Waisserová

“…Lagaan shows the problematic accounts of official colonial history, and it allows the rediscovery of suppressed personal histories via constructs of memory, fantasy, narrative and myth. …”
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Using ecumenical experiences to respond to new public life challenges by John Gaga, Gift Masengwe, Bekithemba Dube

“…The division within the Christian community is not a recent phenomenon but has existed throughout colonial history. The Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) serves as an umbrella organisation that aims at re-uniting Christian efforts of Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, and Indigenous traditions, in order to have a collective influence on democratic processes in Zimbabwe. …”
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Nation of Mechanics: Automobility, Animality, and Indigeneity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934) by Daniel Bowman

“…Up to this point, the (colonial) history of the automobile in the United States had Indigenous Americans positioned not in the driving seat but in the background, as primitive people who made up part of the scenery. …”
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Promoting Earth Buildings for Residential Construction in New Zealand by Don Amila Sajeevan Samarasinghe, Stephanie Falk

“…Despite New Zealand’s pre- and post-colonial history of earth construction, earth buildings as residential homes have not been well-received or popularised throughout present-day New Zealand. …”
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Contested meaning of the nation-state through historical border narratives A case study of the Batang Kanyau Iban, West Kalimantan by Iwan Meulia Pirous

“…This makes them appear to be ambiguous subjects who are torn between the two different historical timelines of British and Dutch colonial history (as well as postcolonial Malaysian-Indonesian history). …”
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Patient healthcare experiences in the Northwest Territories, Canada: an analysis of news media articles by Rhiannon Cooper, Nathaniel J. Pollock, Zander Affleck, Laura Bain, Nanna Lund Hansen, Kelsey Robertson, Susan Chatwood

“…Broadly, these experiences are rooted in the colonial history in the North. Understanding patient experiences and including Indigenous patients in health system decision-making can help focus policies and clinical care on cultural safety and equity.…”
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