Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics
Homi Bhabha’s writing on postcolonial agency foregrounds discursive subjection, yet retrieves subaltern subterfuge. It reconstructs a critical politics despite and because of hegemonic and orientalist representational systems. And it demonstrates the (im)possibility of a stable subject, but still manages to assert creative and performative agency. The article endeavours to analyse these feats and paradoxes, relying … Continue reading Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics →
The Right of Repatriation – Canadian Refugee Policy: The Case of Rwanda
This paper examines the principle of the right to repatriation and the Canadian dilemma in applying that principle in dealing with both refugees and the country from which they originally fled, Rwanda. It is particularly concerned with the right of individuals to be a member of a state and with the right to regain membership … Continue reading The Right of Repatriation – Canadian Refugee Policy: The Case of Rwanda →
Capitalism, Culture, Agency: Dependency Versus Postcolonial Theory
This article reads dependency alongside and against postcolonial theory in an attempt to reinvigorate and re-validate some of the insights of the former while at the same time supporting the latter’s current ascendancy in the field of Third World politics. It is argued that although dependency and post- colonial theory share some common territory — … Continue reading Capitalism, Culture, Agency: Dependency Versus Postcolonial Theory →
“A Post-Cold War Geography of Forced Migration in Kenya and Somalia”
Drawing on recent research in the Horn of Africa, emerging patterns of managing forced migration in the post-Cold War landscape are identified and analyzed. While camps continue to house refugees, tbe meaning and value of ‘refugee’ have changed dramatically since the Cold War. Efforts to prevent people from crossing political borders to seek safety are … Continue reading “A Post-Cold War Geography of Forced Migration in Kenya and Somalia” →
