Was Sor Juana a Sphinx? Monstrosity and the Poetics of Dedication in Her Transoceanic Enigmas by Víctor Sierra Matute

“…My article shows how, toward the end of her life, Sor Juana embraces and subverts discussions about her exceptional status and transatlantic identity, fostering a sense of transoceanic sorority among women writers of the colonial period.…”
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Voss, du roman de Patrick White au livret de David Malouf : simple adaptation ou transformation de l’imaginaire national ? by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…However, a closer study of the way in which Malouf writes his own homoerotic poetry into White’s narrative reveals that it subtly contributes to maintaining a truly “post-colonial” ambivalence within the apparent conventionality of the national celebration.…”
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William Walker y los frontereños en el norte de la Baja California, 1853-1854 by Mario Alberto Magaña Mancillas

“…La cual era heredera de una cultura colonial tardía centrada en las misiones, con sus indios y sus soldados. …”
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Notas introductorias sobre el populismo y la cultura política en el área andina de América Latina by H.C.F. Mansilla

“…Los elementos centrales de la cultura política y de la mentalidad colectiva del área andina se arrastran desde la época colonial. Han sufrido obviamente muchas alteraciones; la más importante ha sido la inducida por el proceso de modernización en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. …”
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Knowledge as cause and tool for resistance against large scale mining: heuristic cases in Ecuador by Cristina Espinosa

“…These questions are illuminated using the theoretical contributions provided by approaches such as the sociology of knowledge, Latin American de-colonial thought, and feminist contributions to the study of science, technology and society. …”
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Sur les traces du Géant Patagon. L’histoire de la collection Henry de La Vaulx du musée du quai Branly (1896-1897) by Paz Núñez-Regueiro, Julio Vezub

“…After a discussion of the historiography which makes explicit the methodology, the article, at the crossing of ethnology, history and museum studies, presents the « colonial », « anthropological » and « ethnographic » dimensions of the collections, and raises the problem of the historicity of both narratives and objects in a context of crisis for the Patagonian populations.…”
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Ghost Ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by J. C. Nickerson, C. L. Bloomcamp, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Field populations were confined to South Florida although active colonies had been reported as far north as Gainesville, in Alachua County (Bloomcamp and Bieman, personal communication) and Duval County, (Mattis et al. 2004). …”
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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…Torn between his admiration for the Zulu, which was to inspire him in his subsequent well-known works of fiction, and his belief that development of the colonies was essential for Britain, but also conscious that white domination was inescapable, he suggested a protectorate as being a lesser evil.…”
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La question de l’influence de la Qādiriyya sur les débuts du califat de Ḥamdallāhi, à l’épreuve de nouvelles sources by Bernard Salvaing

“…In their analysis of the movement launched by Aḥmad Lobbo in 1818, authors writing during the colonial period (such as Marty or Hampâté Bâ) projected to the past, in an anachronistic manner, the prominent role of Sufi brotherhoods as it had developed during their time. …”
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Anchored in Justice: Yorùbá Philosophy and the Politics of a Diverse State by Segun Gbadegesin

“…From the vicissitudes of the politics of nationalist struggles against colonial imposition to the politics of independence and nation-building, the core traditional values and philosophical outlook of each of the ethnic nationalities are discernible in their approaches to the issues that confront the new state. …”
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PENATAAN TAMAN KARTINI SEBAGAI HUTAN KOTA DI KOTA CIMAHI by Ika Kusumawati, Hilwati Hindersah

“… Cimahi has been known since the Dutch colonial period, in 1811, when the Governor-General Willem Daendeles made road from Anyer to Panarukan and right in Cimahi square now was made Loji (Pos Penjagaan). …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The aestheticization of space in the orientalist painting clearly shows the decoy of representation and lets the reader have a glimpse of the reality of colonialism through the cracks of the painting. The four elements are subservient to Conrad’s imaginary vision, whose purpose was to make his reader hear, feel, and see the truth “below the surface of the visible universe” (The Nigger of the Narcissus), “disclosed in a moment of illusion” (Lord Jim) as in a trompe-l’œil. …”
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Le rôle fondateur du paysage dans la création des villes coloniales marocaines by Mounia Bennani

“…This status of green city harks back to the creation of the modern colonial city during in the 1920s – a “landscape-city” that finds its foundations in its natural and historical heritage. …”
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Rethinking the Role of the Hatata of Zera Yaecob and the Hatata of Welda Heywat in Ethiopian Philosophy by Fasil Merawi

“…Through a critical engagement with these three defences of the treatises, the paper argues that such three articulations of the texts failed to properly examine the colonial world of knowledge production and religious reformation that animated the texts in the first place. …”
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Les statistiques localisées au Brésil : un kaléidoscope de catégories de territoires by Cathy Chatel, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

“…The large number of territorial categories of official statistics of present-day Brazil reveals a great wealth of data, provided they are not considered as a "turnkey" material for research.From a pre-statistical European model inherited from the colonial period, to the rationality of the state, then to the liberal and post-modern context that spread in the globalized world, the IBGE categories reveal the paradoxes due to the superposition of different points of view on how to characterize the urban space. …”
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La industria textil en América Latina by Claudio Belini

“…En los Andes y Mesoamérica, la producción de textiles era ya muy importante en tiempos prehispánicos y con-tinuó siéndolo durante los siglos de la dominación colonial. El surgimiento de los obrajes coloniales, las variaciones regionales de este desarrollo, los vínculos con el capital comercial, su papel en la conforma-ción de los mercados coloniales y su contribución al desarrollo del capitalismo fueron cuestiones que concitaron una gran atención de los latinoamericanistas. …”
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Identification and antibiotic susceptibility of catalase negative gram positive cocci isolated from dairy cows with subclinical mastitis by H. Hüseyin Hadimli, Zafer Sayın, Osman Erganiş, Kürşat Kav

“…Isolates were selected according to coloni morphological and haemolysis properties and were identified by VITEC 2.…”
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Florida's Bats: Florida Bonneted Bat by Holly K. Ober, Terry J. Doonan, Emily H. Evans

“…Additional concerns include the species’ small population size and restricted range, the small number of known colonies, their slow reproduction, and the relative isolation of separate populations of bonneted bats. …”
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Semi-field studies on biochemical markers of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) after exposure to pesticides and their mixtures. by Agnieszka Murawska, Ewelina Berbeć, Krzysztof Latarowski, Adam Roman, Paweł Migdał

“…Workers developed in the hive and were provisioned with to pesticides in concentrations corresponding to residues detected in pollen, honey, and/or nectar. Colonies were exposed daily to 0.5L for 7 days by feeding a sugar syrup containing a formulation of acetamiprid (250 ppb) (insecticide), glyphosate (7200 ppb) (herbicide), and tebuconazole (147 ppb) (fungicide) administered alone, in a binary or ternary mixture. …”
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GLOBALIZATION, POST-COLONIZING MIGRATION AND NEO-SLAVERY: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN STATES by Jonathan C. Madu

“…My paper argues that the process of decolonization, especially in Africa was incomplete and that former colonies were excluded from key economic decisions that came to have severe implications for their future attempts at developing their economies, which got worse with globalization. …”
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