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J Sai Deepak’s India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. Bloomsbury 2021 J Sai Deepak的印度就是巴拉特:殖民、文明、宪法。布卢姆茨伯里派2021

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2236899

Anandaroop Sen

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Is being itself colonial? 存在本身就是殖民吗?

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2239011

George Hull

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“That other me, down and dreaming”: an animal perspective critique of decoloniality theory “另一个我，沉沦在梦中”:动物视角对去殖民主义理论的批判

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2220590

M. Glover

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The afterlife of apartheid: a triadic temporality of trauma 种族隔离的来生：创伤的三元暂时性

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2180215

P. Gobodo-Madikizela

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“You don’t say” “你不说”

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2162788

John Mowitt

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Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower 在种族疯狂和新自由主义理性之间:种族隔离生物权力的转喻传染

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2167425

Kiasha Naidoo

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Apartheid and the unconscious: an introduction 种族隔离与无意识：导论

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2184142

Ross Truscott, Maurits van Bever Donker, D. Hook

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Ausi told me: why cape herstoriographies matter 奥西告诉我:为什么她的故事很重要

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2172269

Rafaël Verbuyst

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The desire of apartheid 种族隔离的愿望

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2162787

D. Hook

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Housing struggles as political practice in post-apartheid Cape Town: reading Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession 后种族隔离时期开普敦作为政治实践的住房斗争:解读利文森的《交付即剥夺》

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Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02533952.2023.2203620

Bernard Dubbeld

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