This article examines development practices of residents, who are also migrants and citizens, living in informal settlements Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Using the analytical frame nexus between land, I problematize PNG’s national discourse urban context. By examining connections disconnections local practice international discourse, highlight how processes, land PNG intersect to spati...

This chapter traces how British and Dutch colonial officials gathered and organized knowledge on Islamic law in the British Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) and the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) respectively. Despite clear differences between the legal systems and administrative structures of the two colonies, colonial authorities shared a considerable amount of ...

Abstract When the Omicron variant of COVID–19 virus was identified in November 2021, western states responded by immediately imposing a travel ban on African countries bid to keep ‘the virus’ out their territories. Seen some as necessary step protect lives, bans caused visceral reliving among Africans colonial-era experiences shame, humiliation and degradation. We know that actors, during times...

Recent studies of post-war chronic disease epidemiology have generally focused on the histories of research in the USA and UK. Using the archival records of a major British funding body, the Colonial Medical Research Committee and its successor the Tropical Medical Research Board, this article demonstrates the advantages of bringing a post-colonial analytic to this historiography. It highlights...

Bacteria have developed sophisticated modes of cooperative behavior to cope with unfavorable environmental conditions. Here we report the e ect of antibiotic stress on the colonial development of Paenibacillus dendritiformis and P. vortex. We focus on the e ect of co-trimoxazole on the colonial organization of P. dendritiformis. We nd that the exposure to non-lethal concentrations of antibiotic...

Assessments of colonial medicine in India have, until now, focused almost exclusively on questions related to human health. This article shifts attention to the subject of animal health and reexamines existing hypotheses about colonial medicine in India from this new perspective. It looks at the linkages between veterinary medicine and the military and fiscal policies of the colonial state, arg...

In 1897 Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, appointed Patrick Manson (1844-1922) Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office.' Manson's assumption of that post opened the last fifteen years of his already notable professional life. His primary charge as Medical Adviser was not, as is commonly thought, to advise on policy matters; Manson's main, ifsomewhat less exalted, responsib...

This essay explores religion’s need for law, comparing the story told in Mitra Sharafi’s Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (2014)—about the virtual hijacking of British colonial law to serve the communal religious needs of Parsis in colonial India—to other contexts in which secular and religious legal systems have built symbiotic relationships, including in the United States and Thailand....