Medicine and empire. Essay review.

Identities claimed , identi - ties assigned : Transgender subjectivities in Raymond ’ s The Transsexual Empire and Stone ’ s The Empire Strikes Back SOCIAL SCIENCES

Charles Syms In attempts to understand gender, whether by feminist scholars, sociologists, or biologists, the very identities through which transgender individuals situate their lives become continual sites of dispute. Through investigating the way in which various spaces in the academy and professional world employ power hierarchies to strip transgender people of agency in identity, it is poss...

Texts and Politics: Postcolonial Revaluations of two British Classics

The major argument of this essay is that Kipling treats the colonial subject as the "other," and Forster proves to be almost as pro-Empire as writers like Kipling. Nevertheless, A Passage to India is eloquent in rejecting British values and introducing Indian voices. This novel records a shift in attitude in terms of exposing the bitter realities about and attitudes of British imperialists. Des...

From Empire to Empathy? Clinical Collaborations Between the Global North and the Global South-an essay in conversation with Daniel Bonilla

The Kurdish Stance on Political and Social Power Structure of the Region

In the war between Ottomans and Safavids Dynasty, two thirds of Kurdistan area was separated from Iran, and joined the Ottoman territories. The Ottoman empire was defeated in World War I and Kurdistan was divided among Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and a small part joined the Soviet Russia, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Concerning the Kurdish governments which were established in Iran being led...

Sports Lodges in the Ottoman Empire Depicted in the Travel Book (Seyahat-Name) of Evliya Çelebi

Background. Sport lodges are institutions that are responsible for providing athletes with accommodation, food and training. Sport lodges had the same tasks as today's sports clubs and played a vital role in the institutionalization and development of sports within the borders of the Ottoman Empire. Evliya Çelebi is a prominent 17th century traveler. During his lifetime, he traveled throughout ...

Nursing empire: travel letters from Africa and the Caribbean

This essay analyses colonial nurses' travel letters, written from West Africa and the Caribbean between the turn of the century and 1920, in order to better understand the role of nurses in forming satellite versions of home. Though their primary function was to 'nurse empire' by helping to repair and maintain the bodies needed for imperial labour, nurses also contributed to written discourses ...