Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance
Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar
Abstract
The world witnessed one of the most devastating ethnic group exoduses in Southeast Asia in August 2017, with the Rohingya at its core. Enduring...
The Influence of Colonial Trauma on the Masculine Characteristics of Georgian Identity
AbstractThe present paper explores two Georgian literary texts written at the beginning of the twentieth century, at the early stage of Sovietization:...
“Against Forgetting”
Witnessing and Memory-Making in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office
Abstract
This paper investigates the witnessing and memory-making functions of the poetry of Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali. Against the backdrop...
Situating Traditional Political Systems in the Nigerian Federal Governance
AbstractThe goal of this study is to examine how the precolonial political system impacts the postcolonial political system of the Federal Republic of...
Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice
Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil
Abstract
The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does...
Imagining a New State
(Re)visiting Gandhian Model of Panchayati Raj in the Contemporary Discourse of Postcolonialism and Neoliberalism
Abstract
The famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the...
Expansions of the Real
A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
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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...
The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's Revolution is My Name
AbstractEgyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...