This theoretical paper traces the reasons for the slow development of ‘home-grown’ management principles and practices in Nigeria to the effects of the internal conflicts that were generated by the policies of colonialism up to the mid-20 century. It argues that these conflicts had negatively affected the attitude of the local people within the social, economic and political institutions of soc...

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico. Blasting the Caribbean archipelago with 155-mile/h winds, this, in many ways, unnatural disaster exposed the brutal consequences of energy colonialism and an extractivist economy, as well as ongoing and increasing advocacy for decentralized solar infrastructure by many local residents and other renewables supporters. This pape...

The critical research agenda on smart cities has become increasingly interested in the political–economic relations between digital technologies and everyday urban life. It is now clear that city, quotidian activities have valorized as data, are produced, extracted circulated with little, if any, remuneration to those individuals from whom they been abstracted. Smart-city scholars often call th...

this article focuses on zadie smith’s the autograph manin anattempt to see whether smith is for the multiculturalist discourse orcriticizes it. to this end, two major themes of “identity” and “space” areexamined. it is argued that smith offers a counter-narrative to oppose ratherthan support multiculturalism. in fact, what is known as multiculturalistaspects of smith’s work is just a mere refle...