Capitalism, culture, agency: Dependency versus postcolonial theory

Psychological Agency: Theory, Practice, and Culture

Ireland and Postcolonial Theory

The question at the heart of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory was Ireland a colony? is a simple one. How it is answered, however, has enormous repercussions for understanding just about every aspect of Irish history and society: culture, economics, politics, demographics and a whole array of everyday rituals, ranging from patterns of speech through the inhabiting of physical space to daily praye...

Postcolonial translation: theory and practice

PosTcolonIal sTudIes and TRanslaTIon TheoRy

What distinguishes postcolonial approaches to translation is that they examine intercultural encounters in contexts marked by unequal power relations. Herein lie their strengths as well as their weaknesses. Their major contribution has been to illuminate the role of power in the production and reception of translation. But it is not certain that the postcolonial framework can be applied to othe...

Agency Theory and Resource Dependency Theory: Complementary Explanations for Subsidiary Power in Multinational Corporations

In Bridging IB theories, constructs, and methods across cultures and social sciences