Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

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...

Although archaeological studies of the historic past have long explored the dynamics of European colonialism, broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction, and sensuality have only recently become acknowledged as essential components of the “imperial project.” How can we better appreciate the material implications of human sexuality when we come to interpret these comple...

Abstract This article argues that Armenian Studies can learn from and contribute to the fields of critical Indigenous studies settler colonial in generative ways, especially as those increasingly become global scope. After surveying recent scholarly discourses Studies, I illuminate pathways forward for interdisciplinary approaches study indigeneity, colonization, genocide, removal, dispossessio...

This paper critically explores the role of colonial discourse studies in exploring cultural imperialism. It discusses relevance this academic field to our current understanding ideological dimensions colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. Moreover, it outlines how related conceptualizations such as Orientalism, Said’s Orient Occident, hegemony, postcolonial theories are intrinsically link...

Scholars concerned with the European colonial period have been able to draw on a vast body of primary sources preserved in official archives. While the military may have been the ultimate arbitrators of their power, the colonial states were highly bureaucratic. They generated, and indeed depended upon, an unending flow of information that was collected, collated and archived as an organized bod...

In her article "The Pan-As world literature studies have been been an increasing preoccupation with literary networks the last century, the investigations have been restricted to the colonial world and the postcolonial states of the Western powers. The non Imperial Japan, colonial Korea, semi the margins as just passed over. Park recalibrates "center/periphery" models of world literature and pr...

Body size and temperature are fundamental drivers of ecological processes because they determine metabolic rates at the individual level. Whether these drivers act independently on individual-level metabolic rates remains uncertain. Most studies of intraspecific scaling of unitary organisms must rely on preexisting differences in size to examine its relationship with metabolic rate, thereby pot...

Colonial nurses were ideal agents of colonial medicine's supposed beneficence: while practising and teaching "hygiene", they also reinforced racial and cultural separation. In some cases, however, the nurses took their role as healers and teachers of local populations much more seriously than was authorized implicitly by their employer. This article analyses the circulation of original life wri...