Guys Like Gauguin: A Legacy of Colonialism

The Legacy of Colonialism: Law and Women's Rights in India

The relationship between nineteenth century England and colonial India was complex in terms of negotiating the different constituencies that claimed an interest in the economic and moral development of the colonies. After India became subject to the sovereignty of the English Monarchy in 1858, its future became indelibly linked with that of England’s, yet India’s own unique history and culture ...

British Raj: The Legacy of Colonialism in India

Old Wolf, New Wool Suit: India, IT, and the Legacy of Colonialism

Information technology forms an intrinsic part of the current global imagination, a worldview that has recently been challenged. The challenge, however, has not been extended to IT, which is seen, for the most part, in a positive light. We use actor-network theory to explore whether there might indeed be some problematic aspects of global IT that deserve the attention of the IS community. By co...

The Bad Guys and the Good Guys in Petroleum Microbiology

There is more diversity among microorganisms such as bacteria than there is in the range of life from artichokes to zebras. Bacteria have successfully colonized virtually e very environment on earth because they can rapidly adapt to changing conditions, and use a large and varied number of nutrients to generate energy. How e ve r, until relat ively recently, the environments of many petroleum r...

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The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. Within this field, the notions of 'source domains' and 'target domains', 'invariance', 'mappings', and so forth have become a common, though not universal, vocabulary for discussing the lingu...