Published: 2024-03-19

An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance

Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar

Argha Bhattacharyya, Saswat Samay Das
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The world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring...

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The Influence of Colonial Trauma on the Masculine Characteristics of Georgian Identity

Mzia Jamagidze
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The present paper explores two Georgian literary texts written at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the early stage of Sovietization:...

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“Against Forgetting”

Witnessing and Memory-Making in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office

Junaid Shah Shabir
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This paper investigates the witnessing and memory-making functions of the poetry of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali. Against the backdrop...

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Situating Traditional Political Systems in the Nigerian Federal Governance

Ufot B. Inamete
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The goal of this study is to examine how the precolonial political system impacts the postcolonial political system of the Federal Republic of...

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Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice

Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil

Sk Sagir Ali
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The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does...

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Imagining a New State

(Re)visiting Gandhian Model of Panchayati Raj in the Contemporary Discourse of Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism

Rangnath Thakur, Binod Mishra
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The famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the...

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Expansions of the Real

A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

Sten Moslund
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This article explores the challenges posed by the Anthropocene and climate change to human perceptions of reality and the need to revise...

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The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's Revolution is My Name

Nada Ayad
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Egyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...

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