Abstract Is Russia a neoimperial or postimperial state? In this paper, I compare two interpretations proposed by political commentators Marcel Van Herpen and Dmitri Trenin. holds that the Russian empire is literally being rebuilt, whereas Trenin believes just ceasing to be an empire. argue that, contrary popular belief, current war against Ukraine cannot interpreted as attempt restore This beca...

In her paper, "Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and U.S. Imperialism," Jennifer A. O'Neill argues that while it Twain's text is commonly viewed as an attack on monarchy and the Catholic church, one of the book's primary focuses is U.S. imperialism. In the scholarship of Twain's text some have acknowledged the text as a discussion of colonialism, most tend to see it as a...

class familiarity in imperial discourse can be combined to understand the nuances of colonial representations. Revisiting the Malay image, I argue that the medievalist convention of portraying the native as situated in intermediate evolution between savagery and Western civilization was crucial for imperialism. The Malay image shifted from the representation of orientals exhibiting incommensura...

This conversation reflects on the importance of transnational Black solidarity in a global moment where COVID-19 pandemic has exposed structural inequalities that sustain death and movement for lives focussed attention anti-Blackness. We reflect legacies past contemporary Black, Indigenous, People Colour activism role this played strengthening efforts to deal with colonialism, imperialism patri...

research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. the thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of ghana with the introduction of the use of english among ghanaians. the coexistence of both ghanaian languages and engli...