Postcolonial Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Postcolonial Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions22
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate18
Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe13
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession13
Defend the brutes9
The Louvre going APESHIT: audiovisual re-curation and intellectual labour in The Carters’ Afrosurrealist music video8
Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Prescriptions for virtuosity: the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine , 8
Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana6
A tale that time forgot: contemporary jungle-adventure cinema, imperial power, and the tourist gaze6
British colonialism, Ireland and the ‘old firm’: postcolonial identities and contemporary Scottish football and society6
Travel and colonialism in 21st century romantic historical fiction: exotic journeys, reparative histories6
A ‘catastrophic consequence’: Fascism’s debate on the legal status of Libyans and the issue of mixed marriages (1938–1939)5
Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia5
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib4
Translation and decolonisation: interdisciplinary approaches4
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People4
Writing from the gap: ‘gutter texts’, planetary manifestos and the domain of verse novel3
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate3
Decoding the cybaltern: cybercolonialism and postcolonial intellectuals in the digital age3
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier3
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability3
Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis2
Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought2
Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature2
‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago2
Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities2
Rock, water, life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa Rock, water, life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa , by Lesley Green, Durham1
Oceans, islands, closets and smells: decolonization through spatial metaphors1
‘To unawaken’d earth’: Paul Carter’s archipelagic poetics of decolonization1
‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War1
Critical Dialogues is an occasional section of Postcolonial Studies that engages scholars in interdisciplinary conversations on seminal books that advance our understanding of the (post)1
Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies1
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone1
Antibiotic resistance, planetary health and the mimetic trap: a historical account of present-day sanitary, environmental and social crises1
Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures1
The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom1
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân1
Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human1
Walking with Foucault in Gaza Biopolitics of the more-than-human: forensic ecologies of violence , by Joseph Pugliese, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2020, 1
‘Because we are not apart, we are a part’: an interview with Vandana Singh1
Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country The children’s country: creation of a Goolarabooloo future in North-West Australi1
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia1
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam1
Postcolonial intellectuals: new paradigms1
Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak1
Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking1
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?1
Poetry, Palestine and posthumanism0
Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity0
The author, the text, and the (post)critic: notes on the encounter between postcritique and postcolonial criticism0
Imperial optics and colonial disability: missions to blind and deaf children in ‘the East’, c. 1880-19390
White hallucinations0
Hail the bog roll0
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud0
Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions0
Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines0
Empire remembered: the intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab’0
Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives0
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn?0
Colonialism and politics from the abyss0
Disability and postcolonialism0
The climate of history in a planetary age0
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: hidden histories and the scrambled temporalities of political affect0
New ways of solidarity with Korean comfort women: comfort women and what remains0
Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana0
Correction0
Postcolony and after: India's constitutional founding and its fading promise through the work of Sandipto Dasgupta0
It’s about time: some notes on quantum history0
Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain0
Unsettled borders: the militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous land0
Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project0
Settler colonial conscripts: Mennonite reserves and the enfolding of implicated subjects0
The middle-class sensorium and ethnographic provocations in Angola0
Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s0
Reading a 'porous' nation: Sri Lanka and the remnants of its civil war Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation , by Anoma Peiris, London, Routledge,0
Representations of Edward Said0
Precarious duniyas in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: life, death and repair in ‘ruin-worlds’0
A postcolonial relationship: challenges of Asian immigrants as the third other A postcolonial relationship: challenges of Asian immigrants as the third other , by Choi H0
Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being0
Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman0
‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–19350
Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms0
Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures0
‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border0
Falling into history : a case for the restitution of Mbali tombstones and the revival of the realms of memory of the enslaved0
Getting closer0
Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman0
Crossfire: postcolonial theory between Marxist and decolonial critiques0
‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians0
Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country0
Between Algeria and the world: anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues0
Post-imperial spaces and alternative imaginaries of the human and nonhuman in Bong Joon Ho’s transnational films0
What is ailing Africa? Practical philosophy in reinventing Africa0
The Rwandan genocide: modernity and ambivalence0
Debates on decolonization and postcolonialism in Kazakhstan0
Correction0
Disabling labour: race, disability and Indian indentured labour on Fijian sugar plantations, 1879–19200
Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century0
‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics0
Navigating the currents of colonial print cultures: perspectives on power, resistance, and identity0
Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow0
Child talks back0
Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization0
Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland0
Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world0
Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative0
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia0
What should world literature do?0
The everything everywhere war0
Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa0
Postface0
Where there are no islands0
Penning the stakes: paper and the post/colonial music archive in Shanghai and Hong Kong0
Indigenous rethinking challenging White academic privilege0
The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room0
The politics of eviction and citizenship in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, India0
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism0
Postcolonial exigency: interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens0
60,000 Years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts0
The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age0
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