Onde estão as rosas? As mulheres no movimento agroecológico brasileiro e o feminismo decolonial by Marina Fernandes Bispo de Siqueira, Thiago William Pereira Barcelos, Gabriel Antonio Silveira Mantelli

“…Our research indicates that there is a dialogue of knowledge in the field of agroecological struggles and mobilized by women, whose objective is the resistance against coloniality, not always understood in these terms, and the consolidation of local knowledge.…”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…The paper taps into the lived ethos of abantu to argue that decolonisation as a reflection of the lifeways central to the cosmic rhythm is not far off even within the patriarchal, western-centric, colonial Africa. In this way, the ubiquity of the capitalist, instrumentalist, rational reason is routinely undermined as higher ideals are lived, heralding beauty in the desert.…”
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Agroindústria canavieira e formação territorial paulista: do engenho escravista à usina de açúcar e álcool (1530-1930) by Rodolfo A. M. Pelegrin

“…This article discusses the development of the sugar cane agroindustry and its relations with the territorial formation of São Paulo state, from the installation of the Portuguese colonial company to the constitution of the mill model that characterizes the sector in the 20th century. …”
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Tutti i colori del verde. Il ruolo del verde urbano nei processi di cittadinanza nella città di Bolzano by Roberta Raffaetà

“…This article analyses how the perception and the practices related to urban green in the city of Bolzano (north-Italy) are implicated in processes of citizenship and ethnic identity, with special reference to colonial invasion of the area since the end of first world war. …”
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Ruinscapes and Subversion of Temporalities in For the Mercy of Water by Şevket Sarper Dörter

“…I examine For the Mercy of Water’s representation of exploited, marginal rural space as a ‘ruinscape’ that manifests the palimpsestic overlay between linear time, industrial time, colonialism, and neoliberal globalization. I use the term “ruinscape” in the literary imagination, not as imagery of damaged space, but as spatial representation of the negative social, economic, and environmental processes across historical periods that interpenetrate each other. …”
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The Pattern of Social Changes in the Samin Community and Its Influencing Factors by Muhamad Arif, Abdul Ghofur, Dhanang Respati Puguh

“…First, there is a regressive pattern of social change in the Samin community during the colonial period, with the Dutch colonialists taking over teak forests in 1890, forcing the Samin community to leave the forest, becoming a closed society, and developing a unique tradition. …”
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Migrer et réveiller les Églises : Diversification des cultes chrétiens en Tunisie by Katia Boissevain

“…In this Muslim country where the history of the Churches is embedded in colonial history, playing host to African Christians contributes to complicate identity and religious affiliations. …”
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La revendication bretonne dans la littérature du IIIe Emsav : une inversion des valeurs by Tristan Loarer

“…By naming and fighting against the internal colonialism in progress in Brittany, this production known as the Kleiz ha Breizh/Left and Brittany wave, seems to have played an important role in the history of modern Brittany.…”
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Shifting Fatherhood and Gender: Negotiating Power and Sexuality in Yoruba by Oluwasola Daniels

“…Thus, with specific focus on Àkókó, this paper discusses gender in pre-colonial marital practices. It argues that while some of these practices made fatherhood fluid and accrued uncommon agency to women, others framed women in taboo and sexuality. …”
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Il y a un siècle, le mouvement pour le suffrage des femmes en Irlande by Máire Cross

“…It explains the reasons for the invisibility of the suffrage question even though many women took part in Irish social and political campaigns north and south in Ireland at a critical time in the relationship with her neighbour and colonial power, Great Britain. National questions shaped the struggle, the outcome of gender relations in partitioned Ireland and overshadowed the writing of history.…”
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Contra los «vicios y corruptelas» del foro tradicional, el funcionario militar by Alina Castellanos Rubio

“…Various examples, both normative and institutional, are mobilised to analyse the relationship between the two institutional imaginaries – the traditional and the liberal – in both the peninsula and the colonial Caribbean.…”
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Recycler les rebuts textiles. Organisation et savoir-faire dans le tri de la fripe à Lomé (Togo) by Sylvie Ayimpam

“…The article highlights a fundamental tension between global narratives that promote circular economies as ecological solutions and the harsh realities of the “dirty work” involved in textile sorting, which exposes socio-economic exploitation and "waste colonialism" dynamics. By situating the case of Lomé within a comparative framework, the article contributes to understanding structural inequalities in the textile recycling sector and challenges the promises of a green economy when faced with the realities of precarious labour.…”
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Rum, Gin and Maize: Deities and Ritual Change in the Gold Coast during the Atlantic Era (16th century to 1850) by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Samuel A. Ntewusu

“…This paper examines the incorporation of rum and gin as powerful spiritual drinks in pre-colonial Gold Coast, particularly in the context of state formation and warfare, and the growing importance of maize, side by side with the indigenous yam, as the food of gods. …”
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Development of the Understanding of Development: Critical Book Review of “Imagining the Post-Development Era” by Mehdi Hajamini, Mohammad Ali Aboutorabi

“…Meanwhile, perspectives of Dependency and Post-development regard other perspectives as a set of pessimistic, homological, and colonial theories, and called them “Theories of Western Development” and rejected them. …”
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Fifty years that changed the international status of the Portuguese language by Margarita Correia

“…To fulfil this objective, the paper presents significant factors that I consider to have been crucial to this dramatic change in the status of the Portuguese language: geopolitical changes, the post-colonial geolinguistic panorama, the growth of education and literacy, the use of Portuguese in international organisations, and economic growth. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…Without exception, all missionary orders engaged in producing these complex texts, which formed part of the typical literary genres of colonial literature. The historical nature of ecclesiastical chronicles fluctuated between furnishing exact information and omitting specific facts while displaying certain narrative strategies that served the ultimate goal of the Dominican friars. …”
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¿Materia de España ? Imaginarios nacionales y persistencia del estereotipo español en la cultura francesa (1898-1936) by Ferran Archilés Cardona

“…Between 1898 and 1936 (that is to say between the colonial disaster of the War of Cuba and the beginning of the Civil War) in French culture a stereotype of the Spanish was maintained, whose origins lie in the construction of the romantic myth in the 19th century. …”
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Et si la Grande Guerre commençait en 1911 ? L’entrée en guerre vue d’Alexandrie by Elena Chiti

“…In fact, the weakening of the Ottoman Empire was seen with anxiety, not only since 1914, but after the Italian invasion of Tripoli in 1911. This colonial occupation of an Ottoman province seems to be the real turning point. …”
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Disputed Translations from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (2015) Reconsidered: Some Notes on Gǝʿǝz Philology by Michael Kleiner

“… The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture in the fall of 2020. …”
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Le corps au cœur de la prison coloniale au Dahomey (1894-1945) by Bénédicte Brunet-La Ruche

“…With the conquest of West Africa in the late 19th century, the prison became the main penalty as much as a colonial management tool, far from metropolitan penitentiary principles. …”
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