Postcolonial literature: between hegemonic occidental decoding and reframing mechanisms by D. Hadjer DRIF & D. Antar OUSADI

“…and whether this literature accepted the concept of interaction and dissolution in the context of colonial power. Keywords: Post colonial literature, Western code, centre, margin, otherness…”
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Research in a Closed Political Context, COVID, and Across Languages: Methodological Lessons, Messages, and Ideas by Darzhan Kazbekova, Rebecca Schewe

“…Additionally, we argue that researchers in post-Soviet and post-colonial contexts must be particularly attuned to the challenges of cross-language research and the combination of local languages with the language of the colonial power. These lessons hold relevance for researchers working in a variety of contexts as they conduct research during times of disasters and geopolitical instability.…”
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The application of the principle uti possidetis juris to the dispute between Benin and Niger by Etinski Rodoljub

“…So, the Chamber emphasized that the uti possidetis juris principle requires not only that reliance be placed on existing legal titles, but also that account be taken of the manner in which those titles were interpreted and applied by the competent public authorities of the colonial Power, in particular in the exercise of their law-making power. …”
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Women in refuge: the marginalization of refugee women in a hierarchized international system by Rafaela Julich Morais

“…This marginalization occurs due to the colonial power relations that shape the globe in multiple hierarchies of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and migratory status, which categorize women who seek refuge in the South as well as in the Global North as inferior beings. …”
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Resistance and Street Theatre: Democratizing the Space and Spatializing the Democracy by Rahul Kamble

“…India’s independence and the acceptance of democracy were the result of simultaneous resistances against colonial power and the undemocratic, hierarchical, caste-class-ridden social structure. …”
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Twenty years of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP): results and prospects by Olga Wumbi Chiaka

“…Relations between its members today differ significantly from the traditional cooperation between the former colonial power (Portugal) and its former colonies, as Brazil and Angola are recognized regional leaders today and are classified as “emerging” powers. …”
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ATTEMPTS TO LEGITIMIZE POLITICAL POWER IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS FROM THE COLONIAL TO THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD by Nguyễn Văn Bắc

“…In this "wilderness", various actors from outside interfered in, or even invaded, this strategically important area - first the Cham people and Champa feudal dynasties, then the empire of Vietnam, the French colonial power, the Viet Minh (and their successors), and finally the South Vietnamese State and the United States of America. …”
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Commemorating Compassion, Countering Containment: The Female Wars on Terror Witnesses of Helen Benedict’s and Lynsey Addario’s Transcultural Narratives by Gerhard, Atalie

“…Through field research, including interviews, Benedict and Addario strive toward “authentic” reports of war, but their documentary aesthetics anticipate receptions that sensationalize pain and commodify colonial power asymmetries. This article also asks if demanding that subaltern woman testify to oppression commemorates depoliticized compassion or further precludes the participation of “others” from political spheres.…”
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Anthropology and image in colonial contexts: the scientific expedition to Spanish territories in the Gulf of Guinea (1948) by Luis Calvo Calvo

“…In this way, it not only contributed to consolidating the Spanish colonial vision and actions but also helped to confirm, scientifically, the subordination of the indigenous populations to the metropolitan colonial power. This article presents the details of the 1948 Expedition as well as the visual record generated. …”
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Maître ou esclave ? Jazz, ragtime et cake walk en Allemagne avant et après la Première Guerre mondiale by Pascale Cohen-Avenel

“…The novelty is rather geopolitical: in 1903, Wilhelm II’s Reich is a major colonial power, whose economic domination is about to outgrow the British Empire. …”
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Making Sense: Re-imagining Morung Culture and Translation of Ao-Naga Folksongs by Dr. Imchasenla

“…One such occurrence is the disintegration of the Morung, aunique traditional institution of learning that served as the important foundation of the Naga society.Hence, an attempt to re-imagine or re-write the culture of the Morung, which was hijacked by the Colonial power, becomes crucial to critique the colonial anthropological translation and provide a different reading drawing lessons from the translation ofAo-Naga folksongs.Here, the folksongs are translated to analyse the Ao-Naga folksongs, trace the historical trajectory and understand the nuances of the songs.It is an attempt to recapture the social-cultural values,history, polity, philosophy, religion and other practices pertaining to this traditional institution. …”
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The aboriginal intervention in colonial discourse: challenging white control of cross-racial intersubjectivity by Cerce, Danica

“…In their attempt to instil agency for the postcolonial Indigenous subject, they challenge what Sara Suleri (2003) calls “the static lines of demarcation” between colonial power and disempowered culture – the assumptions about such binary oppositions as domination and subordination, centre and margin, self and other, upon which the logic of coloniality often stands. …”
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Exploring Colonial mimicry in Affifudin Omar’s Paradoks by Nurhanis Sahiddan, Hashim Ismail, Tengku Intan Marlina Tengku Mohd Ali

“…Their Islamic beliefs function as a tool for resisting colonial discourse and emancipation from colonial power. This paper is an expansion of research in colonial mimicry and Malay literature to resist colonial discourse.…”
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Tangled Encounters with the Indian Other: by Zerin Alam

“…On the one hand, the women as English travelers represented colonial power, but on the other hand, their gender placed them within a secondary or weaker position within the power discourse. …”
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CONTEXTUALISING THE CONTESTED: XR AS EXPERIMENTAL MUSEOLOGY by Joanna Rivera-Carlisle

“…Using an external app for the British Museum as an example, this paper discusses the challenges arising from this intersection, including the entrenchment of immersive technologies in colonial power dichotomies, the risks of performative virtual interventions, and the conflicting agencies museums, companies, and individuals must navigate in this context. …”
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Collective Memories of Portuguese Colonial Action in Africa: Representations of the Colonial Past among Mozambicans and Portuguese Youths by Rosa Cabecinhas, João Feijó

“…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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Mimicry and the Native American ‘Other’ by Tia Byer

“…I analyse the survival of Native American Culture during late nineteenth-century assimilation, in Zitkála-Šá’s ‘The School Days of an Indian Girl’, and evaluate Homi Bhabha’s ground-breaking research in employing colonial mimicry to usurp colonial power discourses. When former colonial subjects appropriate the colonizer’s language, psychological barriers such as perceived native cultural inferiority transpire. …”
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UNDERSTANDING THE COLONIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE INDIGO REBELLION’S PEASANT by Niazul Islam

“…The first significant change brought in Bengal by colonial power was the change in land ownership. Because of the Permanent Settlement Act, land became a product of money-making in the colonial state. …”
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Images of the 'Exotic'? Gottfried Lindauer in the Context of European Portraiture by Karentzos, Alexandra

“…Within this exhibition glorifying colonial power, they were turned into objects displaying British scientific knowledge and prestige. …”
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The Troubled House: Families, Heritance and the Reckoning of Empire by Andrew J. May

“…Taken collectively, the family history of a domiciled British community in India reveals not just important blood ties, but critical associational links and shared characteristics that structure experience and enhance power. Colonial power must always be measured by its negative effects, but is also relational, situational, variable, commutable and resisted. …”
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