Rereading Shaughnessy from a Postcolonial Perspective

Entering Heart of Darkness from a Postcolonial perspective - Teaching Notes

Rereading Houshang Shah's carpet with Western diplomats from the perspective of social semiotics

One of the rugs of Houshang Shahi, which has some different visual elements from other rugs in this category, is a rug called Houshang Shah with Western diplomats. The simultaneous presence of the mythical king of Iran and the foreigners in a modern dress in this rug, as well as how it can be related to the active elements of this text, is an issue that has been less considered so far. The main...

Information technology offshoring in India: a postcolonial perspective

In recent years India has become the information technology (IT) offshoring destination of choice for many Western organizations. From the perspective of vendor organizations in India, however, the IT offshoring phenomenon is more than just a business relationship with Western firms. It is also embedded within the context of the longstanding imbalances of power in the relationship between the W...

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...

Gaelic Scotland – A Postcolonial Site

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw what is known today as the Highland Clearances, which was in effect the forced migration of a large proportion of the population of the Scottish Highlands due to intensified sheep farming in the name of a more effective economic land use (Devine, 1999, pp.176-78). For the Gaelic speech community this meant ‘the removal of its heartland’ (Ma...