Modernity to Makarrata: Australia Through the Post-Colonial Lens

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

an introdction to post-colonial theory

post - colonial studies is among the new studies on third world countries. post - colonial studies analyses the colonial discourse with a new and critical approach. this article attempts to survey the current situation of third world countries through critical analysis of history and research on colonial governments, the problem of identity and cultural studies .

Viewing Cybercommunities through the Lens of Modernity: The Case of Second Life

The growth of cybercommunities is a notable social phenomenon. Empirical studies of cybercommunities have described new forms of social behaviour that call for deeper conceptual analysis. Drawing on evidence from our research in the cybercommunity Second Life, the authors examine the sociology of cybercommunities through the lens of Giddens’ abstract theories of modernity. In particular, the au...

Forging Global Perspectives through Post-colonial Young Adult Literature

national settings was higher than they expected, the novels were “culturally generic with the characters’ ethnicity used only for descriptive purposes rather than functioning to depict insights about the culture or cultural practice” (p. 566). Like Cart (2010), Koss and Teale (2009) found that “the majority of international countries and characters portrayed were white and European” (p. 569). T...