A recent issue of the new journal The Global South focuses on the relative absence of India-based voices in cultural theory dealing with India and postcolonialism. They ask, quite directly: Why, for example, do India-based scholars remain so woefully underrepresented in postcolonial and globalization studies, even as India itself has become the field’s most widely [...]
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Ex Plus Ultra post-colonialism
From the University of Sydney comes a new postgraduate journal Ex Plus Ultra, which means ‘nothing further beyond’. The journal sets out to question the categories of ‘colonial and ‘post-colonial’: There was no cataclysmic rupture heralding the arrival of the ‘post-colonial’ nor was the advent of colonialism defined, uncontested or in some cases even as [...]
