Many researchers agree that information and communications technologies are deeply implicated in the process of globalization. There is much less agreement, however, on what globalization means in particular situations and contexts. This paper places the development of a specific information system in a Third World country within the context of neo-colonialism and post-colonialism. It shows how...

In the course of his short literary life, Liu Na'ou travelled across four geographical areas: Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as five cultural domains: Taiwanese, Japanese, French, English and Chinese. The transnational facet of Liu's modernist writing is not merely literary or cultural but political and historical. The earliest modernist writing in China was initiated on the basis...

Does wealth persist over time despite historical shocks like colonisation? One strand of literature suggests no: Acemoglu et al. argue that colonisation brought bad institutions to most of sub-Saharan Africa that caused a ‘reversal of fortune’. Another strand of literature suggests the opposite: despite several centuries of colonialism in Latin America, Valencia and Caicedo argue, ‘persistence ...

Although archaeological studies of the historic past have long explored the dynamics of European colonialism, broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction, and sensuality have only recently become acknowledged as essential components of the “imperial project.” How can we better appreciate the material implications of human sexuality when we come to interpret these comple...

Francis Kariuki* Abstract Colonialism impacted the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of Africans in the most fundamental and radical way. With colonialism, a western legal tradition premised upon an Anglo-American jurisprudential thought was imposed on Africans. African values, norms and beliefs, which provided the normative and undergirding framework for conflict resolution, wer...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...