BLUE THEOLOGY AND WATERSHED DISCIPLESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA

“…Watershed discipleship has the potential to offer a postcolonial interpretation of the great commission as the incarnational yet missional re-inhabiting of the places in which we reside. …”
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Mauritanie 1956-1963 : les multiples dimensions d’une indépendance contestée by Camille Evrard

“…This article aims to describe the contingent and painstaking character of the decolonization process and the complex conditions in which the empowerment of postcolonial elites took place, by going back to the period framing the independence of Mauritania, proclaimed in November 1960. …”
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Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…by drawing on interviews with diversity practitioners based in higher education in the United Kingdom and Australia. Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. …”
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Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Thought: Policy Considerations for Nigeria by Wale Olajide

“…I then argue that if Nigeria’s lackluster policy on population is taken into consideration, the implications of the Yorùbá, as well as other ethnic groups’, population philosophy will not only aggravate the Nigerian postcolonial predicament, but will eventually explode the population time bomb already ticking in Nigeria. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…After sixty years of a very unbalanced postcolonial status quo, the Kanak people rebelled in the 1980’s to put an end to their exclusion from social, economic, and professional equal opportunities and to the loss of their ancestral land. …”
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Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…Una teoría del ritmo (1921), the Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos carries out an interesting rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism to reorient the symbolic-abstract direction of Western thought, which seems to pave a new line of genealogical exploration of the question of mimesis in a postcolonial context. The aesthetic notion of rhythm, as well as shifting the discourse on mimesis from the visual to the acoustic-emotional dimension, nevertheless presents the characteristics and risks of what Scheler calls “unipathy” or contagion and acquires a particularly important significance when considered as the theoretical premise of the famous Vasconcelian essay The Cosmic Race (1925). …”
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‘Senses’: Assessing a Key Term inDavid Chidester’s Analysis of Religion by Johan M. Strijdom

“…Chidester’s analysis of the senses in European Christian discourses on the one hand, and in colonial and postcolonial African indigenous religion and imperial religious studieson the other hand, is compared and assessed. …”
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Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Abu Lughod, Lila

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial.…”
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La molteplicità e la crisi by Stefania Consigliere, Cristina Zavaroni

“…Managed in a way that both conceals and naturalizes postcolonial geopolitical violence, current migratory flows bring the anthropological field in our backyards, facing us with unprecedented forms of crisis both among migrants and among operators. …”
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Méditerranéïté et romanité en Tunisie : l’inquiétante étrangeté d’un patrimoine by Habib Saidi

“…After briefly surveying the colonial exploitation of the Roman heritage, the article delves into the postcolonial era, where Habib Bourguiba's regime used tourism as a lever for modernization and rapprochement with Europe, thus redefining Tunisia's geopolitical position. …”
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Le Guyana: "Land of Six Peoples" ou "One People, One Nation" ? by Léna Loza

“…Although top officials rejoice in the cohesiveness of Guyanese society, the latter is seemingly struggling to overcome the painful legacy of the colonial era. Examining postcolonial questions about Guyana entails transcending the traditional dichotomy "former colonizers/former colonized people." …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“… Question of identity remains one of the most important and debatable concept in the world of postcolonial theory especially when it is related to cultural identity of the diaspora. …”
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Interpretando la(s) cultura(s) después de la televisión: sobre el método by Lila Abu-Lughod

“…Las grandes preguntas, un estudio multisituado de la recepción, de los textos y de la producción de las novelas televisadas en Egipto, pueden servir para comprender la naturaleza de la cultura (reconociendo sus aspectos hegemónicos o ideológicos) y de las culturas (que resultan cosmopolitas en los lugares donde esto no se espera como en Egipto) en la postmodernidad postcolonial. …”
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Filming Up: Brazilian Elites Through an Ethnographic Lens by Alex Vailati, Walter Andrade

“…Social inequalities within and outside cinema production infrastructure allow the affirmation of several directors, who implicitly contest this postcolonial order through their production focused on empowered groups. …”
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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…This study applies deconstruction, a key theory in postcolonial studies, to analyze and reinterpret the meaning within Tiara Andini's popular Indonesian song, Maafkan Aku. …”
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Depictions of Human Trafficking and Exploitation in Contemporary Africa Using Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Trafficked and Apio Eunice Otuku’s Zura Maids by Johnson, Ocan, Denis, Sekiwu, Charles Nelson, Okumu

“…Using content analysis, the study engages critical discourse of postcolonial tenets understand the creation of inferiority complex, identity crisis, and cultural erosion among the colonized. …”
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New Area Studies as an Epistemological Framework: Some Reflections of Knowledge Production and Positionality by Marianela Barrios Aquino

“…In this paper, I argue that New Area Studies is useful as a lens through which to engage with decolonial and postcolonial critiques of the social sciences and humanities. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“…It employs hybridity, an aspect of postcolonial theory advanced by Homi Bhabha, as a theoretical framework to analyze the texts. …”
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Collective Awareness and Lyrical Poetry: The Emergence of Creole Literary Culture in the Archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe by Ewa A. Łukaszyk

“…It could be a way of overcoming the Eurocentric “chronopolitics” that remained valid also in the postcolonial studies, associating the decolonial processes, on the one hand, with the metropolis as a place where the decolonial thought took shape, and on the other, with the chronology, rhythms, and trends of its literary evolution. …”
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Cambiando las éticas y las políticas del conocimiento: lógica de la colonialidad y postcolonialidad imperial by Walter D. Mignolo

“…Desde una perspectiva de la modernidad/colonialidad, en este artículo se examinan las distinciones epistémicas y geopolíticas entre estudios postcoloniales y los estudios de la subalternidad, así como las diferentes genealogías y articulaciones geopolíticas entre lo postmoderno y lo postcolonial. Igualmente, se analizan el desplazamiento epistémico de la ego-política asociada al supuesto del sujeto cartesiano a la bio-política y geo-política ligadas a los movimientos históricos que han evidenciado la irreducible diferencia de los cuerpos y lugares del sistema mundo en la producción de conocimiento. …”
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