Race, violence and biopolitics in Francophone postcolonial contexts

Epigenetic Biopolitics: Race, Population, and Environmental Health

Reading the US government’s current warning and advice regarding fish consumption, one would have little hint that race might be important in this environmental health matter. Issued jointly by the EPA and FDA, the advice aims to protect fetuses and young children from the harm that even low doses of methylmercury can cause to brain development (US FDA and US EPA 2004). Because fish is the main...

Violence and the postcolonial welfare state in France and Australia

Orientalism in Euro-American and Indian psychology: historical representations of "natives" in Colonial and postcolonial contexts.

The author examines the historical role of Euro-American psychology in constructing Orientalist representations of the natives who were colonized by the European colonial powers. In particular, the author demonstrates how the power to represent the non-Western "Other" has always resided, and still continues to reside, primarily with psychologists working in Europe and America. It is argued that...

Postcolonial feminist reading of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. Postcolonial feminism or the ‘Third World feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the Western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Adolescent Violence