Decoding Islamophobia in contemporary society: the case of Houellebecq
Abstract What exactly is Islamophobia? How can we best define this cultural force and ideological technique? Is it an anachronistic cultural construct emerging out … Read more
Dr. Govand Khalid Azeez
Autonomy in the Caribbean Coast: neoliberalism, landless peasants, and the resurgence of ethnic conflict
Abstract A new wave of socio-political and economic challenges have undermined the exercise of self-determination and autonomy in the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. The … Read more
Beyond recognition: autonomy, the state, and the Mapuche Coordinadora Arauco Malleco
Abstract The initial resurgence of indigenous mobilization in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s was certainly driven by the framework of the ‘politics … Read more
Beyond Edward Said: An Outlook on Postcolonialism and Middle Eastern Studies
Abstract At the forefront of critically examining the effects of colonization on the Middle East is Edward Said’s magnum opus, Orientalism (1978). In the … Read more
Regaining pre-colonial sovereignty: the case of Miskitu resistance
Abstract This article explores the politics, discursive utterances and postures of an under-studied indigenous autonomist movement whose anti-colonial and anti-Western project demands to be … Read more
The Thingified Subject’s Resistance in the Middle East
Abstract Colonization, I postulate, has a far more profound effect on the colonized than conceptualized in Aimé Césaire’s postcolonial equation, colonization = thingification. Rather, … Read more
Epistemological blindness or violence: liberal multiculturalism and the Indigenous quest for autonomy
Abstract From 1960s onwards, liberal multiculturalism – from Iris M. Young’s notion of a ‘differentiated citizenship’ or what Rodolfo Stavenhagen terms ‘internal self-determination’ to … Read more
The Oriental rebel in Western History
Abstract Edward Said’s Orientalism through deconstructing colonial discourses ofpower-knowledge, postulates that colonization for the colonized has a particular ontological finality, reification. I contend here that the … Read more
Rethinking Islamism in Western Africa
Abstract What factors have caused and sustained Islamism in West Africa? In answering this historically relevant question, this article re-examines the dominant narratives and … Read more