This work first develops the idea of an American Separationist Mindset—a deeply rooted and often unthinking supposition that strict separation church state is only defensible church-state arrangement under Establishment Clause United States Constitution. Such a Mindset can make arguments for religious accommodationism difficult to be assessed openmindedly in contemporary constitutional discours...

This article examines controversies surrounding the implementation of the first colonial indigenous health service, the Assistance Médicale, in Cambodia. It characterizes individual and group behaviours in the immediate social conditions of colonial Cambodian society, as well as some of the paradoxes of the modernization narrative ascribed to the colonial science of this period. This discussion...

This article looks at how Kazakhstan’s heavy dependence on fossil fuels and its political context shape national discourse climate change. Based extensive analysis of the country’s strategic documents expert interviews, we argue that although economy relies fuels, government is keen to promote sustainable development attract international investments advance image as a ‘strong state’ for domest...

A researcher in the field of history pays attention to the science of the historiographies characteristics presented by different sects. The present study aimed to survey the most important features of Orientalist historiography in contemporary Iran. Based on the results, the components of colonial Orientalist historiography origins are as follows: the distortion and denial of Islam, the perver...

about Consuelo, a Puerto Rican girl who must learn to cope with her schizophrenic sister and dysfunctional family. Consuelo leaves Puerto Rico for New York near the end of the novel to escape the negative influences of her family. Both novels are worthy of examination for their portrayal of adolescent girls’ telling struggle to define their identities among cultural and gender boundaries impose...

The substantive issue of shaping local Chinese identity for social cohesion in the face of internal social disruption, external communist threats and international cold-war politics was one of the key policy challenges of the British colonial government. This article examines how education could support the formation and establishment of pro-British-government Chinese identities in colonial Hon...

this study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of joseph conrad’s lord jim. it is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. in other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in conrad’s novel. for the introduction, a brief review of conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

This study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. It is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. In other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in Conrad’s novel. For the introduction, a brief review of Conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...