In her paper, "Adventure Tales, Colonialism, and Alexander Montgomery's Australian Perspective," Christine Doran discusses an early nineteenth-century example of Australian literature dealing with Southeast Asia. The text analysed is about Borneo, in a collection of short stories by Alexander Montgomery entitled Five-Skull Island and Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago, published in Melbourne ...

Disability as a marginalised subject position is not conspicuous in Postcolonial Studies, although it does constitute material presence and lived experience the Global South. Studies North often downplays social inequality diversity that direct result of inequalities perpetuated by centuries colonialism. This problematic for indigenous populations are disabled, their ‘agency’ left out both post...

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw what is known today as the Highland Clearances, which was in effect the forced migration of a large proportion of the population of the Scottish Highlands due to intensified sheep farming in the name of a more effective economic land use (Devine, 1999, pp.176-78). For the Gaelic speech community this meant ‘the removal of its heartland’ (Ma...

This paper addresses the institutional context and academic practices related to the production and use of literary theory and criticism in the Spanish universities, with a special focus on the role of theory in Spanish Anglistics in recent years. The paper assesses interdisciplinary communication, the impact of new theoretical paradigms (feminism, postcolonial Studies, etc.) in a specifically ...

Vikramaditya Prakash is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh, India , and an MA. and Ph.D. in History ofArchitecture and Urbanism from Cornell University. His research interest is in interdisclipinary architectural culture studies, focusing on the postcolonial architecture ofSouth Asia. I speak today as a...

This paper analyzes drivers and impediments to secondary school reform in Trinidad and Tobago during the period from 1999 to 2009. International assessment data suggested limited progress on improving system quality and equity. Several policy levers and barriers have been defined in current system reform theory. However, explanations for the failure or success of education reforms in Commonweal...