Tag: Colonialism

Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.

Colonial ties and African cultural proximity shape outward investment
Colonial legacy and cultural proximity drive outward investment from Arab Maghreb Union countries, with distinct effects across greenfield investments and cross-border acquisitions, 2004–2022.

Coetzee’s novel is read as exposing apartheid racial and colonial conflict
Explore how Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K exposes apartheid’s racial segregation and colonial oppression through spatial inequality and systemic deprivation in South African society.

BRICS discourse challenges Western climate governance narratives
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in LawComparative legal discourse analysis of BRICS countries’ positions on state climate obligations, examining how epistemological contestation challenges Western dominance in global climate governance.

Guatemala’s Economic Society was closed after challenging colonial rules
Explore how Spain’s Crown suppressed Guatemala’s Economic Society for proposing indigenous reforms that challenged colonial law and social hierarchies in late 18th-century Spanish America.








