Feminist postcolonial studies have widely recognised that postcolonial women writers from Africa, India and elsewhere in the (Third) world, intent upon speaking their identity through narrative, have been hard-pressed to write a space for themselves either within or even on the margins of the postcolonial nation. However, by engaging with their condition as women vis-à-vis that nation, or in re...

Abstract While many forms of violence shape the global world order, disciplines devoted to international politics are often content with reductionist concepts violence; knowledge and production more than not seen as altogether antithetical direct physical harm. At same time, entanglements have increasingly come into view in course ongoing (de-)colonial turn. After 30 years, Gayatri C. Spivak’s ...

Work on ethnic and nationalist violence has emerged from two largely nonintersecting literatures: studies of ethnic conflict and studies of political violence. Only recently have the former begun to attend to the dynamics of violence and the latter to the dynamics of ethnicization. Since the emergent literature on ethnic violence is not structured by clearly defined theoretical oppositions, we ...

Generally speaking, in the postcolonial literary theory the other is represented as the object of colonization. The O/other is inev itable, essential and important to the defining of the subject identity in both cases if we deal with the subordinate, marginalized and exploited other, or on the other hand with the Other who is itself the representation of the imperial discourse of power and in w...

objective: the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of sexual intimate partner violence (sipv) and to investigate its associated factors among women attending public obstetrics, genecology, and family planning health services of the city of marivan, iran. materials and methods: this multistage cluster sampling study recruited 770 women attending the public obstetrics, gynecology and...