This article pivots around the work of early modern legal scholar Hugo Grotius to consider political stakes ontological assessments sea and water in context Dutch imperialism. It draws on links with land reclamation projects Netherlands, while at same time ties these urgent questions within contemporary critical ocean studies water, ontology, race. Suggesting a rethinking Grotius’s understandin...

the current research examines the role of postcolonial anddecolonization theories in the study of susan glaspell’s trifles, which hasalways been interpreted through feminism. application of postcolonial theoriesto this work is controversial; since neither the subject of the play, nor thesetting, nor the characters can be regarded as an instance of postcolonialliterature. this paper proves that ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africans were shocked by reports about high levels of corruption in procurement personal protective equipment (PPE) trusted government officials. These are evidence break trust social contract between and citizens, a serious indictment to their dignity, safety security. Corruption is glocal problem that impedes service delivery perpetuates poverty, inequality...

The signs and symptoms of disease do something more than signify the functioning of our bodies: they also signify critically sensitive and contradictory components of our culture and social relations. Yet, in our standard medical practices this social “language” emanating from our bodies is manipulated by concealing it within the realm of biological signs. I try to show this by means of a patie...

Wherever one is in North America, on Indigenous lands. Some peoples may have been exterminated or removed to other locations, and their contemporary presence not be highly visible, yet this remains land. Nevertheless, rarely do non-Indigenous individuals institutions consider the responsibilities that come with fact of being lands (cf. Asch, 2014). To a large extent, because settlers regard sta...