Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Colonialism

  1. Carr’s realism links utopia, power, and colonial critique
    How Carr's reflexive realism integrates utopian critique with realistic power assessment, with colonial modernity as foundational to understanding liberal internationalism's failures.
  2. Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
    Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.
  3. Colonial ties and African cultural proximity shape outward investment
    Colonial legacy and cultural proximity drive outward investment from Arab Maghreb Union countries, with distinct effects across greenfield investments and cross-border acquisitions, 2004–2022.
  4. GIS maps crop change in nineteenth-century eastern Africa
    GIS analysis of 1857-1876 explorer accounts reveals spatial and temporal patterns in maize, rice, and cassava adoption across inland equatorial eastern Africa along caravan routes.
  5. Coetzee's novel is read as exposing apartheid racial and colonial conflict
    Explore how Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K exposes apartheid's racial segregation and colonial oppression through spatial inequality and systemic deprivation in South African society.
  6. Review finds Hall rethinks race in Muslim West African history
    Critical review of Hall's reassessment showing racialized hierarchies developed within precolonial Sahelian Islamic societies, challenging Eurocentric narratives of race as solely colonial invention.
  7. Eastern Europe frames shape security narratives in Lithuania
    Analysis of Russian and Western meta-frames of Eastern Europe as information warfare tools, with examination of Lithuania's counter-framing strategy and regional security implications.
  8. African multilingualism conflicts with imported language theories
    Decolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies
  9. A model links colonial war, trade restrictions, and exclusive trading rights
    Game-theoretic model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, analyzing how metropolises compete for colonial control and demonstrating three equilibrium outcomes under different trade valuations.
  10. Guatemala's Economic Society was closed after challenging colonial rules
    Explore how Spain's Crown suppressed Guatemala's Economic Society for proposing indigenous reforms that challenged colonial law and social hierarchies in late 18th-century Spanish America.
  11. The Voice of Reform: Muslim Nesan and Muslim Society in Colonial Ceylon
    Analyzes Muslim Nesan newspaper's role in catalyzing social, educational, and religious reform among Tamil-speaking Muslims in colonial Ceylon from 1882 to 1889.
  12. From Autonomy to Instrument: Dehumanization in The Conscript
    Analysis of dehumanization and thingification in Hailu's anticolonial novel using postcolonial theory to examine colonialism's transformation of subjects into instruments.
  13. Lotuturu Hill holds layered memories of colonial and Amin-era rule
    Explore Lotuturu Hill in Northern Uganda as a material archive of political history from colonial rule through Idi Amin's regime, examining how local oral traditions intersect with official.
  14. Colonial whaling sharply reduced whale populations in Southern Africa
    Explore colonial whaling's devastating impact on Southern African cetaceans and marine ecosystems from the 1700s-1900s, examining environmental exploitation, indigenous displacement, and.