It is hard to imagine what much of modern science would have looked like without colonialism. equally 19th- and 20th-century colonialism minus developments in science.To grasp the first point, one only has think Charles Darwin on board Beagle a five-year voyage that take him around world provide data drive his theory natural selection. The young man was brought as naturalist gentleman companion...

moments when it seemed possible for Latin American and Indian anti-colonial and subaltern theoretical writing to generate a mutually fruitful dialogue. This dialogue was directed towards the possibility of identifying the terrain on which the epistemological hegemony of Western Europe could be countered. Unlike the essay ‘Coloniality of Power and Subalternity’ that deals directly with the South...

American Indians must negotiate the cultural and psychological legacy of colonialism as they construct coherent, purposive individual and communal narratives. Analysis of the life stories of highly generative members of these groups who have emerged as leaders offers important insights for psychological adaptation in the context of the historical legacy of colonialism. Based on an interpretive ...

We investigate the role of initial conditions at colonial independence on economic growth in Africa in the post-independence period using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA). A key innovation in our estimation methodology is that we incorporate parameter heterogeneity in model averaging as well as try to mitigate the endogeneity problem present in growth regressions. In order to ensure that differen...