Post-colonial literature has always been aiming to refuting the orientalists' distortion of East. The binary division West/East, Self/Other, and Centre/Margin heavily stereotyped debated in colonial texts, but course, attacked by post-colonial critiques authors. However, this paper tries shed light on an iconic way writing back Western hegemony Orient its peoples. Feminizing East texts is repre...

Several decades after formally attaining independence, many developing countries continue to trade disproportionately with the European countries that once ruled them. Earlier attempts to examine this phenomenon have relied on inappropriate statistical techniques. After reviewing the existing literature, this paper draws on insights from economic history as well as the theory of industrial orga...

For the past decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have emphasized the use of HIV/AIDS prevention models that explicitly incorporate theoretically-grounded, behavior modification models to establish its funding priorities for the US and its territories. This essay argues that this emphasis on behavior modification models raises a unique set of concerns for those conducting HIV/...

This article explores the relationship between infrastructure, uneven development, and displacement in Pakistan’s “Southern Punjab”. It focuses on three historical episodes spanning colonial era to present: (1) agricultural colonisation during colonial/early post-colonial period; (2) Great Indus Flood of 2010; (3) contemporary initiatives develop energy infrastructure Southern Punjab within fra...

While investment and popular enthusiasm have fuelled significant growth in the history of medicine since the 1980s, it remains by some metrics well outside of the historical mainstream. Yet developments in the history of medicine could offer traction to historians more generally. Through its close critical attention to power, embodiment and hegemonic institutions and knowledges, the history of ...

With his Primer nueva coronica y buen gobierno Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535–post 1616), the best known Andean early-17th century author of indigenous descent, created a comprehensive and complex work about the indigenous past and the colonial present of his time. Colonial language data and information in an Amerindian language, interpreted from within the writer’s framework as well as ...

In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial expansion. That is, we cannot address animal oppression or talk about animal liberation without naming and subsequently dismantling settler colonial...

The text starts with a supportive opinion on the concept of Global East, evaluating it as convincing and useful tool for development critical studies so-called post-communist or second world in wider global perspective. In remaining comments, several reasons possible problems broader implementation proposed are discussed. They include both resistance which could encounter Central Eastern Europe...

Functional specialization, or division of labour (DOL), of parts within organisms and colonies is common in most multi-cellular, colonial and social organisms, but it is far from ubiquitous. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the evolutionary origins of DOL; the basic feature common to all of them is that functional differences can arise easily. These mechanisms cannot explain the...