Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) explores the intersection of nonhuman with 21st century issues pertaining to racial and ecological injustice, ethnic cleansing, environmental catastrophe migrant ecologies by way allegorising myth Manasa Devi (goddess snakes other venomous creatures). A postcolonial ecocritical lens helps analyse how novelist presents actors contest Western anthropocentric...

background the migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. dentists from over 120 countries migrate to australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. the aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (lse) of migrant dentists in australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration.   meth...

Background The migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. Dentists from over 120 countries migrate to Australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. The aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (LSE) of migrant dentists in Australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration.   Meth...

The authors suggest that postcolonial science studies can do more than expand answers to questions already posed; it can generate different questions and different ways of looking at the world. To illustrate, the authors draw on existing histories and anthropologies and critical theories of colonial and postcolonial technoscience. To move forward together, rather than remaining mired in regretf...

The EU-Turkey Deal of 2016 led to the enactment a restrictive and specific asylum process for Greek island Lesbos, making former Moria camp detention center thousands migrants who failed access international protection. Based on ethnographic evidence, I analyze propose that in Lesbos—a postcolonial border space under EU interference control—derives from colonial system white supremacy. historic...

postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. postcolonial feminism or the ‘third world feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

in his collection north, heaney mythologizes the contemporary history of the people of northern ireland through conflating the mythological history of the people of ireland, with the 1960s troubles in northern ireland. used by the modernist poets, the method of representing the contemporary history through recourse to mythology have been also favored by poets who have experienced colonial and p...

Decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory. Since then, trauma theory and postcolonial literary studies have been uneasy bedfellows, and the time has now come to take stock of what remains in postcolonial trauma studies from the original formulations of trauma theory, and see which furthe...