NEGATION, INCLUDING, GRADUAL OBLIVION: STATE STRATEGIES ON SOVIET HERITAGE IN GEORGIA, ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN by A. A. Tokarev

“…The article postulates clear differences between the study of postcolonialism and the post-Soviet space, and therefore the author presents his own operationalization of the "imperial heritage" study.The countries of the South Caucasus are compared based on the following criteria: a number of ethnic Russians as the main constituent of the Soviet people living in the country; a status of the Russian language; national symbols (statutes, architecture, Soviet state symbols, the hierarchy of military ranks), and political practices (functioning of the party systems, type of sovereignty, degree of freedom of speech and political competition).StudyingAzerbaijan,ArmeniaandGeorgiadifferently coming out of theUSSRand using the disintegration of theUSSRto construct their national narratives in accordance with their own ideas about the ways of development, the author finds a repetition of the Soviet system elements.Each of the states demonstrates a unique combination of “post-Soviet Soviet” phenomena. …”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“… [6] Pedro Alexis Tabensky 2008. The Postcolonial Heart of African Philosophy. South African Journal of Philosophy, 27, 285-295…”
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Portrayal of Tradition and Culture in the Novel the Moon also Sets by Osi Ogbu. by Tusiimeruhanga, Brendah

“…The Moon Also Sets by Osi Ogbu was a seminal work in postcolonial literature that delved into the complicated dynamics of tradition and culture in a transforming Nigerian society. …”
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Thabo Mbeki’s Decolonial Idea of an African in the African Renaissance by William Jethro Mpofu

“…It is my understanding that the African of the African Renaissance is one who has awakened to the task of undoing coloniality in the African postcolony. For instance, that an African has to declare that ‘I am an African’ in Africa, as Mbeki does, reflects the troubled and also troubling idea of being African in the African postcolony. …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…The paper hinged on the Marxist Sociology of Literature and Postcolonial approaches, it critically evaluates inept political leadership and corrupt practices. …”
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TRANSLATION IDEOLOGY OF FRENCH NOVELS INTO INDONESIAN IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PERIOD by Sajarwa Sajarwa

“…This study analyzes the differences in the expression of meaning of the colonial and postcolonial French novels and the ideology of translating French novels into Indonesian during the colonial and postcolonial periods. …”
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Bordel de bled, bordel au Bled : figures rurales de la prostitution au Maroc by Mustapha Qadéry

“…Because too many shortcuts are taken in the study of female prostitution in the Middle Atlas, this article, taking us back to colonial and postcolonial times, will attempt to portray the phenomena in a different manner. …”
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La place de la langue française dans la société cambodgienne contemporaine : enjeux linguistiques, identitaires et politiques by Raphaël Grosbois-Josse

“…The study illuminates the unique significance and role of the French language in the postcolonial context of Cambodia and its ramifications for education and Cambodian society as a whole.…”
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Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion by Birgit Meyer

“…Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge aboutreligion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category,but also to the study of religious Birgit Meyer58plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposedto approach as new postcolonial frontier zones. …”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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Caliban’s Dialectic: Decolonizing Thoughts for the Black Question in Latin America by Dana Rosenzvit

“…The location proposed is in the spatial epistemic fracture produced by the thinking of Frantz Fanon, seeking to create another postcolonial and decolonizing knowledge to address the tension between the presupposition of universality and the difference inherent to every nation-state in the current, unequal and combined world-system.…”
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Resistance and Christian Ethics in Africa by William I. Orbih

“…In engagement with African literature and decolonial studies on the one hand and liberation ethics on the other, this article proposes a Christian ethics for Africa, discussing resistance as both a moral imperative in postcolonial contexts and a constitutive of the Christian identity.…”
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Jeremy Belknap and the Origins of American Exceptionalism by Agnès Delahaye

“…His legacy is problematic, but it represents a crucial avenue of postcolonial inquiry, in which the structuring effects of exceptionalist historiography can be studied.…”
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La « Montagne raciale » : et après ? Parcours identitaires dans deux romans ghanéens contemporains by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Afro-American poet Langston’s Hughes’s challenge to the "Negro artist" in 1926—to run away from "the race towards whiteness" and climb the "racial mountain" in order to "discover himself and his people" reverberated throughout the colonial and later postcolonial world. Echoes of his plea have long been found in West African literary works concerned with restoring a positive image of the black self, but other "mountains" to be conquered have more recently come into view, especially in women’s writings. …”
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”Kyrkan förvaltar, äger 460 000 hektar av skapelsen” by Laila Jannok Björnström, Julia Kuhlin

“…The study is based on a qualitative content analysis of the recitals during the Ságastallamat 2 conference in October 2022 and draws, theoretically, on Ernesto Verdeja's model for reconciliation in postcolonial societies. Reconciliation, according to this model, includes critical reflection, symbolic and material recognition, as well as political participation. …”
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THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by M. M. Lebedeva, M. V. Harkevich

“…The bases for the school may be found in Russian spiritual philosophy, the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics, Russian cultural studies, postcolonial tradition of national historical science.…”
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Film Review: Jagun Jagun, Nigeria, 2023. Produced by Euphoria 360 Media. Netflix. 129 minutes, Yoruba (with English subtitles). No price reported. Directed by Tope Adebayo and Adeb... by Yemi Atanda

“…Generally, the film occludes the postcolonial thematic relevance in the modern political African leaders in their visionless Machiavellian ideology. …”
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Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa by S. Fischer

“…The book of Proverbs is expounded upon with reflections on the ubuntu principle and the postcolonial-critical method Imbokodo. It is shown how folk sayings can be relevant for the transformation of South African university education and how biblical proverbs may transform folk proverbs. …”
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‘Exotic Eroticism’: Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda by Julia Kuehn

“…A brief overview of recent postcolonial reassessments of the concept of ‘exoticism’, and of Butler's reinterpretation into the context of gender studies, precedes the close reading of the literary text.…”
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