We describe a new species of bent-toed gecko from a single specimen initially collected in 1924 by Malcolm Smith on Timor Island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago of Indonesia. Cyrtodactylus celatus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: small adult size; without spinose tubercles on the ventrolateral body fold and along the lateral margin o...

Colonial mentality is a term used widely by ethnic studies scholars and by the Filipino American community to refer to a form of internalized oppression among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The authors propose that colonial mentality is a construct that is central to the understanding of the psychology of contemporary Filipino Americans. Drawing on larger scholarship from postcolonial studie...

During the summer of 1998, Hubert O’Connor, a white Catholic bishop and former Indian residential school principal in British Columbia, participated in what a local magazine termed “a centuries-old native ceremony”: an indigenous healing circle. In 1991, O’Connor was indicted on criminal charges for sexual offences he had allegedly committed some thirty years earlier against five indigenous wom...

This study aimed to criticize modernism discourse in Indonesian high school history textbooks. It focused on (1) The textbooks’ as a national identity and (2) weaknesses of identity. A total six textbooks from 1975 the 1994 curriculum were examined using Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) developed by Martin Reisigl. DHA combines theory, method, methodology with empirical data-based practice. ...

Many independent nations with strong tourism economies have colonial pasts. In parts of Africa and Asia, former colonial powers have left post-colonial legacies of language, buildings, trade and diplomatic links, and government bureaucratic structures (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2007; Sharp, 2009; Zein-Alabdin, 2009). There are also strong postcolonial influences on tourism (Carrigan, 2011;...

This article explores the scientific and entrepreneurial incentives for malaria research in the tea plantations of north Bengal in colonial India. In the process it highlights how the logic of 'location' emerged as the central trope through which medical experts, as well as colonial administrators and planters, defined malaria research in the region. The paper argues that the 'local' emerged as...

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of colonial morphology of Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) organisms in pathogenicity in a mouse model of pulmonary infection. BCC strain C1394 was rapidly cleared by leukopenic mice after intranasal challenge, whereas a spontaneous variant (C1394mp2) that was indistinguishable from the parent strain by genetic typing persisted in the lungs ...

This study highlights the early history of development Islamic movements in Malaysia since colonial times. It looks at this from two important and overlapping angles: islah movement that brought about national consciousness aspirations for renewal tajdid, influence anti-colonial pioneering politics overseas archipelago. was qualitative nature terms literature review content analysis. The data c...

Postcolonial discourse written in the aftermath of colonial practice reverts British authors nineteenth and twentieth centuries during which venture was its highest peak. The colonialist that used to be cultural centre literatures English marginalised colonised peoples, their language culture; pushed it peripheries. However, postcolonial fiction writers who wrote colonization forces limits come...

In this contributory essay to the 2021 Special Section of PSLR spotlighting ‘Social Justice and COVID-19’, I attempt challenge portrayals novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as an ‘indiscriminate’ ‘equal opportunity’ assailant. doing so, endeavour bring fore a reading social injustices experienced during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that implicates not only systemic disadvantages inherited from apartheid...