According to Frantz Fanon, the psychological and social-political are deeply intertwined in colonial context. Psychologically, colonizers perceive colonized as inferior internalize this an inferiority complex. This reality is co-constitutive of by material relations power—the imaginary both creates created power. It also context that violence takes on significant political import: deployed rebe...

This article is a response to Paul Kelly's discussion of Lenin and Mao in Conflict, War Revolution: The problem politics international political thought (2022). Taking on postcolonial perspective, it analytically expands how the book theorizes violence by understanding capitalist colonial domination as paradigm war that structures pacified social relations politics. paper proposes pacification,...

This special issue is concerned with German theory, which is to say, theory generated in German cultural and linguistic spaces, in the territories claimed by the various German states over time, and among German-speaking emigrants and refugees. ‘Theory’ is defined here to encompass the space shared by philosophy, social theory, and cultural theory*/the theory-space that is most relevant for the...

Literary texts and kinds of research have reframed postcolonial experiences to capture several issues in society. On that note, Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians has chalked many successes gaining attention literary scholars subject text interpretation using varied approaches, except feminism. The aspect feminist is fundamental. thrust this paper analyse theory. Guided by three objectives, s...

in this study, the notions of homelessness and unhomeliness are studied in 2 novels by naipaul: half a life (2001) and magic seeds (2004). naipaul has been viewed by many postcolonial critics as an imperially complicit writer, for his controversial views of places and societies, particularly his disdain for non-western societies. this study examines whether the imperatives of the postcolonial c...