Adoption, diffusion and appropriation of double entry book-keeping in Mexico and Spain by Bernardo Batiz Lazo, J. Julián Hernández Borreguero, J. Carles Maixé Altés, Miriam Nuñez Torrado

“…Although we fail to present evidence from Mexican private enterprise, we address the apparent contradictions while putting forward the idea that the history of “modern” accounting practice in Latin America should be framed by developments in its former colonial power. Our conclusion is that the history of Latin American accounting should be wary of extrapolating everyday practice by interpreting bibliographic material and proceed to pay greater attention to the appropriation of accounting technology through the examination of surviving company documents as well as informal educational practices amongst organizations based in Spain and its colonies.…”
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Black women’s naked bodies: Poetic and Political Axes of African Women’s Literature by Catarina Isabel Caldeira Martins

“…In African countries in general, colonial power found in black women’s naked bodies an axial instrument for the material and symbolic exercise of violence and appropriation. …”
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“Theorizing Our Place”: Indigenous Women’s Scholarship from 1985-2020 and the Emerging Dialogue with Anti-racist Feminisms by Elaine Coburn

“…I suggest that Indigenous women’s scholarly writing is concerned with resilience, or survival, resistanceor challenges to colonial power and relationships, and resurgence, or a turning-inward to renew Indigenous knowledges and practices. …”
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Catamarca: Peripheral periphery. Locus of en unciation and peripheral context construction by Silvia Carina Valiente

“…This dynamics, understood as the continuation of a pattern of colonial power, has operated shaping territories, subjectivities and nature, to which we will also add the way time is fragmented…”
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"A not completely satisfactory attempt" – peak discharges and rainfall-runoff relations for Javanese rivers between 1880 and 1940 by M. W. Ertsen

“…In the early 19th century, the Dutch colonial power started to build irrigation works. A main problem for Dutch irrigation engineers on Java was how to ensure that the structures they built remained intact. …”
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El derecho de autodeterminación y la cuestión del Timor Oriental. by Pedro Pinto Leite

“…He analyses the historial process, its relationship with the former colonial power and the activities, of the different political parties. …”
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Innovations pédagogiques pour l’intégration des langues nationales africaines dans l’éducation : quel état des lieux au Sénégal by Pierre Baligue DIOUF

“…In recent years, for many reasons, including academic failure, the poor performance of our educational systems in terms of quality, and the international mobilization of organizations such as UNESCO to promote universal Education for all, the question of the introduction of our languages into education, which has become an obvious fact for the former colonial power, is constantly fueling political, scientific and pedagogical-didactic debates. …”
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Os bastidores da Lei de Descolonização de Timor. Interação entre Portugal e os movimentos nacionalistas timorenses by Rui Graça Feijó

“…Often regarded as a unilateral act of Portugal, this bill was preceded by long conversations between the colonial power and the nationalist movements formed in May 1974. …”
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Saidian Inputs to a (De)Colonial Law: on revolutions and odalisques iconologies by Antonio Carlos Wolkmer, Ana Clara Correa Henning

“…We show that similar representations are found in the Western law, as a discourse of the colonial power exerted in the metropolis and also in the periphery, a discourse that still lives today and still finds resistance and opposition.…”
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Gendered and Racialised Border Security: Displaced People and the Politics of Fear by Maja Korac

“…This is done within the framework of a ‘coloniality of power’ (Quijano 2000b) perspective, understood as the ‘colonial power matrix’ (Grosfoguel 2011). This is how the location from which the current racialised and gendered politics of fear is being constructed. …”
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Les Syro-Libanais en Afrique Occidentale Française (A.O.F) des années 1880 à 1939 by Julien Charnay

“…Finally, this article focuses on how French colonial power in Africa used various ideologies to conceptualize and control foreign migration in Africa. …”
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Attempts to Decolonize Knowledge Production in Museum Practice by Jacqueline Grigo, Thomas Laely

“…They are criticized for reproducing neo-colonial power relations and knowledge orders through common representational practices. …”
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Collective Memories of Portuguese Colonial Action in Africa: Representations of the Colonial Past among Mozambicans and Portuguese Youths by João Feijó, Rosa Cabecinhas

“…Social representations of the colonization and decolonization processes among young people from a former European colonial power (Portugal) and from an African ex-colony (Mozambique) were investigated through surveys using open- and closed-ended questions about national history, focusing on the identity functions of collective memories. …”
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From the Inside Out: Gender Mainstreaming and Organizational Culture Within the Aid Sector by Michelle Lokot

“…It draws on feminist perspectives, the notion of the “deep structure” of organizations and the author’s own experiences to argue for the need to address gendered, racial and colonial power hierarchies within the organizational culture of INGOs. …”
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Félix Houphouët-Boigny, le « Big Boss » de la Françafrique by Tiémoko Diallo

“…It gradually became a pejorative neologism in the popular sense, “Françafrique”, referring to the shadows of a very unofficial French diplomacy through which private interests and suspicious friendships were unconditionally defended. to walk the talk, Houphouët-Boigny made the bet to link his destiny and that of his country to the old colonial power. He installed Françafrique as the norm for the simultaneous and concordant involvement of African political leaders with their French counterparts, up to the highest levels of the States. …”
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Pre‐colonial and colonial forest culture in the Presidency of Bengal by Somnath Ghosal

“…After the handover of the colonial power (1857), the British government realised the importance of forests for revenue generation and implemented several rules and regulations to control the ‘illicit’ timber felling. …”
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Recht sprechen über »besondere Gebilde« – die koloniale Gerichtsbarkeit und das Reichsgericht by Jakob Zollmann

“…First, the article highlights a number of colonial legal issues that were tried in German courts before the German Empire formally became a colonial power in 1884. It then analyses the structure of the so-called »non-native jurisdiction« in the German colonies as an element of colonial state order. …”
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Axes of the colonial educational policy in the Belgian Congo (1908-1960) Ejes de la política educativa colonial en el Congo Belga (1908-1960) by Marc DEPAEPE

“…Before the Congo’s independence his ancient colonial power, Belgium, developped an educative policy bases on the next hinges: concessions for the catholic missionaries, emphasis to primary school, preference to the autochthonous open languages, and paternalism like pedagogical base. …”
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Contested Memories in Contemporary France and Their Reflection in Rap Music by Alexandra Preitschopf

“…The singers’ condemnation of French colonialism becomes wrapped up in the Middle East conflict and Israel is portrayed as a new “colonial power.” By analyzing selected lyrics of recent French rap songs this article aims to explore the complex and sensitive intersection of post-colonial and Middle East politics and set the lyrics in the broader socio-political context of remembrance culture in France. …”
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A Decolonial History of African Female Education and Training in Colonial Asante, 1920-1960 by Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Helena Osei-Egyir

“…Using a decolonial lens, the paper challenges dominant narratives and uncovers hidden histories, highlighting the systemic exclusion of women from power and the perpetuation of colonial power relations. …”
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