Imperial colonialism and shadow banking: Evidence from northeastern China, 1898–1911
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102001
Abstract: Abstract Using the history of northeastern China (1898–1911), this paper shows that imperial colonialism leads to specific lending patterns by contemporary firms and their debt-asset ratio. We further show that the debt-asset ratio mediates the… read more here.
Keywords: shadow banking; colonialism; imperial colonialism; northeastern china ... See more keywords
Colonialism, slavery and ‘The Great Experiment’: Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis of Le Morne and Bois Marchand cemeteries, Mauritius
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102335
Abstract: Abstract Slavery, colonialism and emancipation are important aspects of archaeological research in the Atlantic region, but the lifeways of colonial populations remain understudied in the Indian Ocean World. Here, we help to redress this imbalance… read more here.
Keywords: isotope analysis; colonialism; slavery; bois marchand ... See more keywords
Blackbeard's Sunken Prize: The 300-Year Voyage of Queen Anne's Revenge. MARK U. WILDE-RAMSING and LINDA F. CARNES-MCNAUGHTON, editors. 2018. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. xiv + 205 pp. $28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-14696-4052-5.
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DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2019.14
Abstract: approach that we can truly understand what colonialism is. In this way, the book reads like an update to previously published and widely comparative volumes on colonial encounters and culture contact. The volume is divided… read more here.
Keywords: contact; colonialism; chapter; case studies ... See more keywords
Kenton Storey. Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Pp. 298. $65 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.228
Abstract: acts of “unauthorized poetic reproduction [that were] foundational to colonial culture” (46). Chapter 3 discusses global Scottish migration and the ways in which the creation of a fabricated “Scottish dialect,” rendered in songs and ballads… read more here.
Keywords: colonial; colonialism; kenton storey; poetry ... See more keywords
A Singular Enlightenment: C. L. R. James, Anti-Colonialism, and Transatlantic Political Thought
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DOI: 10.1017/s0003055424000650
Abstract: This article formulates an original account of the Enlightenment through an interpretation of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins, a landmark work of transatlantic anti-colonial thought. It defends a dialectical account of the Enlightenment… read more here.
Keywords: enlightenment; enlightenment james; colonialism; singular enlightenment ... See more keywords
Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World. Fatemah Alzubairi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. 284. $110.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781108476928
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DOI: 10.1017/s0020743820000100
Abstract: even possible for al-Juwayni to think in these terms. The third part of the book focuses on al-Juwayni’s legal theory. In Chapters 5 and 6, Siddiqui demonstrates that al-Juwayni rejected previous scholarly attempts to provide… read more here.
Keywords: law; colonialism; cambridge; siddiqui ... See more keywords
Living on Edge: New Perspectives on Anxiety, Refuge and Colonialism in Southern Africa
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774317000312
Abstract: Archaeologies of colonialism have have called for exploring the culturally dynamic entanglements of people and objects while acknowledging the violence that accompanied these entanglements. Heeding these calls requires attention to how the state and state… read more here.
Keywords: new perspectives; archaeology; colonialism; living edge ... See more keywords
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis. By Serena Parekh. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272p. $24.95 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592721000384
Abstract: only to offer a new one in its stead. As she repeats throughout, “racialization and racial hierarchy” are “a function of colonialism—settler colonialism in our case” (pp. 40, 54). What results is the overextended claim… read more here.
Keywords: colonialism; settler colonialism; settler colonial; chattel slavery ... See more keywords
Genocide in the sculpture garden and talking back to settler colonialism
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DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2020.1744181
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore how Native American rhetoric of resistance exposes the settler colonial logics that constitute a hegemonic force in the greater social imaginary. Focusing on two sites—the Minneapolis Walker Arts Center’s… read more here.
Keywords: back settler; settler colonialism; colonialism; talking back ... See more keywords
“Ourselves Writ savage”: Disease, Desire, and Colonialism in Kuru Country
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DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2024.2372933
Abstract: This essay interrogates the intersections of colonialism, western science, and desire through an analysis of the outbreak of kuru in Papua New Guinea in the mid-20th century. I argue that cannibalism drew eyes to the… read more here.
Keywords: disease desire; colonialism; desire; writ savage ... See more keywords
Racism, colonialism and whiteness in development: insights from Pacific professionals following repatriation of white staff during Covid-19
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2024.2356608
Abstract: Abstract The sudden departure of foreign, mostly white, development staff from Pacific countries in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, created a ‘natural experiment’ where local staff continued to work but without the accompaniment… read more here.
Keywords: racism; colonialism; whiteness development; staff ... See more keywords