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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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
White hallucinations	18
The Indigenous development assemblage and contemporary forms of elimination in settler colonial Australia	14
Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions	13
Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe	13
Postcolonial intellectuals: new paradigms	8
No ordinary company: Arnhem Land Fire Abatement (Northern Territory) Limited	7
‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians	7
Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms	6
The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room	6
The violence of analogy: abstraction, neoliberalism and settler colonial possession	5
Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	4
Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman	4
Gharbzadegi, colonial capitalism and the racial state in Iran	4
Decoding the cybaltern: cybercolonialism and postcolonial intellectuals in the digital age	4
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn?	4
Crossfire: postcolonial theory between Marxist and decolonial critiques	4
Postface	3
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?	3
Thought-crimes: dissent, disaffection and intellectual labour in contemporary India	3
False dilemmas and settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?’	3
Migration after empire: postcolonial masculinities and the transnational dynamics of subalternity	3
OMG settler colonial studies: response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is Settler Colonial Studies Even Useful?’	3
Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought	3
60,000 Years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts	2
De-worlding IR theory	2

Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human	2
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam	2
Antibiotic resistance, planetary health and the mimetic trap: a historical account of present-day sanitary, environmental and social crises	2
‘Sea-salt rides its currents to the city’: Lagos and the poetics of flooding	2
Poetry, Palestine and posthumanism	2
Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world	2
The politics of metaphor: traces of casteism and patriarchy in the work of Shah Abdul Latif	2
The Louvre going APESHIT: audiovisual re-curation and intellectual labour in The Carters’ Afrosurrealist music video	2
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession	2
British colonialism, Ireland and the ‘old firm’: postcolonial identities and contemporary Scottish football and society	1
Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking	1
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier	1
‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border	1
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia	1
Oceans, islands, closets and smells: decolonization through spatial metaphors	1
The politics of eviction and citizenship in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, India	1
Is settler colonial studies even useful?	1
Post-imperial spaces and alternative imaginaries of the human and nonhuman in Bong Joon Ho’s transnational films	1
‘Who Nigeria Epp?’: from muse to text, neo-Marxist appeal and alter/native canonicity of two Nigerian poets	1
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud	1
‘To unawaken’d earth’: Paul Carter’s archipelagic poetics of decolonization	1
Epidemic illusions and decolonial imaginings: a dialogic review essay	1
Precarious duniyas in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: life, death and repair in ‘ruin-worlds’	1
Colonialism and politics from the abyss	1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies	1
‘Because we are not apart, we are a part’: an interview with Vandana Singh	1
Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman	1
Voice and the metaphysics of protest	1
Between Algeria and the world: anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues	1
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone	0
Anamorphosis as colonial encounter: the case of Augustus Earle	0
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
Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow	0
On decolonization: praxis and thinking-feeling from the South	0
Empire remembered: the intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab’	0
Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being	0
Unsettled borders: the militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous land	0
The middle-class sensorium and ethnographic provocations in Angola From water to wine: becoming middle class in Angola , by Jess Auerbach, Toronto, University of Toronto	0
Correction	0
Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene	0
Postcolonial exigency: interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens	0
Reforming identities: Jews’ experience of German colonial expansion	0
Refiguring the postcolonial for precarious times: introduction	0
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân	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 H	0
Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century	0
Riddles and answers in ecological communication	0
Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative	0
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate	0
Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis	0

Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s	0
Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland	0
Disabling labour: race, disability and Indian indentured labour on Fijian sugar plantations, 1879–1920	0
Alternative medicine devices and the making of scientific herbal medicine in Ghana	0
Decolonization as a desiring machine: reinventing postcolonial appropriation	0
‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935	0
Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature	0
Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives	0
Debates on decolonization and postcolonialism in Kazakhstan	0
Where there are no islands	0
Imperial optics and colonial disability: missions to blind and deaf children in ‘the East’, c. 1880-1939	0
What should world literature do?	0
The climate of history in a planetary age	0
A ‘catastrophic consequence’: Fascism’s debate on the legal status of Libyans and the issue of mixed marriages (1938–1939)	0
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism	0
Walking with Foucault in Gaza Biopolitics of the more-than-human: forensic ecologies of violence , by Joseph Pugliese, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2020,	0
‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War	0
Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures	0
Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity	0
A case against abandoning resilience: loosening the grip on neoliberalism and reorienting the study of resilience	0
Towards inequality	0
Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country The children’s country: creation of a Goolarabooloo future in North-West Australi	0
Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures	0
Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization	0
Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain	0
Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana	0
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate	0
Fear of small disciplines: India’s battle against creative thought	0
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, Durham	0
Falling into history : a case for the restitution of Mbali tombstones and the revival of the realms of memory of the enslaved	0
Settler colonial conscripts: Mennonite reserves and the enfolding of implicated subjects	0
The Rwandan genocide: modernity and ambivalence	0
Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country	0
Glissant and the middle passage: philosophy, beginning, abyss	0
Penning the stakes: paper and the post/colonial music archive in Shanghai and Hong Kong	0
Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines	0
‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics	0
Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa	0
Correction	0
‘No better story to tell’: framing anti-colonialism in the aid exposé documentary	0
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People	0
Two realities, one state: the wombs of women in decolonial France	0
The author, the text, and the (post)critic: notes on the encounter between postcritique and postcolonial criticism	0
Representations of Edward Said	0
The everything everywhere war	0
Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Prescriptions for virtuosity: the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine ,	0
It’s about time: some notes on quantum history	0
Settler sidekick solidarity?: response to Lorenzo Veracini: ‘Is settler colonial studies even useful?’	0
Colonial design, postcolonial facade	0
‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago	0
Defend the brutes	0
Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana	0
The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom	0
Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project	0
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions	0
Indigenous rethinking challenging White academic privilege	0
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability	0
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib	0
Postcolonial revolutions and their afterlives: the theory and practice of the Lebanese New Left	0
Disability and postcolonialism	0
The taming of the public sphere	0
Getting closer	0
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)	0
Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities	0
The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age	0
Traversing space with Rabindranath Tagore	0