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Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human 反思还是断绝联系?赛义德和米尼奥洛关于人文主义和人的问题

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030595

K. Smiet

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Crossfire: postcolonial theory between Marxist and decolonial critiques 交火:马克思主义和非殖民主义批判之间的后殖民理论

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030587

G. Colpani

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Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought 写作权利:缝合斯皮瓦克的后殖民与德索萨·桑托斯的非殖民思想

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030596

S. de Jong

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引用次数: 3

Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe 后殖民世界中的非殖民焦虑:阿基利·姆本贝访谈

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2050587

Joseph Confavreux

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引用次数: 1

Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies 学术殖民主义和边缘化:关于拉丁美洲研究中有争议的后殖民-非殖民辩论

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030576

O. Rosenthal

引用次数: 1

Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions 对非殖民干预的后殖民反应

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2041695

G. Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat, K. Smiet

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引用次数: 6

Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 认识论上的大胆:采访Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030600

G. Spivak, G. Colpani, Jamila M. H. Mascat

引用次数: 2

Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms 后殖民和去殖民的次等女性主义

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030906

L. Ballestrin

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Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn? 非洲后殖民理论是否需要一个认识上的非殖民转向?

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2022.2030582

Josias Tembo

引用次数: 5

Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud 重新想象种植园(新世):穆尔克·拉吉·阿南德的《两片叶子和一个芽》

IF 1.3 3区社会学

Postcolonial Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-27 DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1996916

Jill Didur

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