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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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Rwandan genocide: modernity and ambivalence	18
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	13
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib	13
Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain	8
Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana	7
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia	6
Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country The children’s country: creation of a Goolarabooloo future in North-West Australi	6
Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity	4
Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being	4
Postcolonial exigency: interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens	4
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn?	4
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud	4
Representations of Edward Said	4
Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow	3
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam	3
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People	3
‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border	3
Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia	2
Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa	2
Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland	2
A ‘catastrophic consequence’: Fascism’s debate on the legal status of Libyans and the issue of mixed marriages (1938–1939)	2
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân	2
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone	2
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate	2
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions	2

Imperial optics and colonial disability: missions to blind and deaf children in ‘the East’, c. 1880-1939	2
Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century	1
Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines	1
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
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability	1
Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative	1
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier	1
Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s	1
Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project	1
Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives	1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies	1
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?	1
Postcolonial intellectuals: new paradigms	1
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession	1
‘Because we are not apart, we are a part’: an interview with Vandana Singh	1
The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age	1
‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935	1
Settler colonial conscripts: Mennonite reserves and the enfolding of implicated subjects	1
Writing from the gap: ‘gutter texts’, planetary manifestos and the domain of verse novel	1
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate	1
Alternative medicine devices and the making of scientific herbal medicine in Ghana	1
Precarious duniyas in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: life, death and repair in ‘ruin-worlds’	0
White hallucinations	0
Crossfire: postcolonial theory between Marxist and decolonial critiques	0
Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country	0
Decoding the cybaltern: cybercolonialism and postcolonial intellectuals in the digital age	0
The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room	0
Colonialism and politics from the abyss	0
Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana	0
Child talks back	0
Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization	0
Oceans, islands, closets and smells: decolonization through spatial metaphors	0
Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene	0
What should world literature do?	0
Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought	0
Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world	0
Unsettled borders: the militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous land	0
60,000 Years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts	0
Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe	0
Debates on decolonization and postcolonialism in Kazakhstan	0
Traversing space with Rabindranath Tagore	0
‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War	0
Penning the stakes: paper and the post/colonial music archive in Shanghai and Hong Kong	0
British colonialism, Ireland and the ‘old firm’: postcolonial identities and contemporary Scottish football and society	0
Decolonization as a desiring machine: reinventing postcolonial appropriation	0
The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom	0
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: hidden histories and the scrambled temporalities of political affect	0
‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago	0
Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis	0
Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Prescriptions for virtuosity: the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine ,	0

Hail the bog roll	0
Disabling labour: race, disability and Indian indentured labour on Fijian sugar plantations, 1879–1920	0
Disability and postcolonialism	0
The politics of metaphor: traces of casteism and patriarchy in the work of Shah Abdul Latif	0
Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	0
Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman	0
The politics of eviction and citizenship in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, India	0
The middle-class sensorium and ethnographic provocations in Angola	0
Antibiotic resistance, planetary health and the mimetic trap: a historical account of present-day sanitary, environmental and social crises	0
Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human	0
What is ailing Africa? Practical philosophy in reinventing Africa	0
Post-imperial spaces and alternative imaginaries of the human and nonhuman in Bong Joon Ho’s transnational films	0
‘To unawaken’d earth’: Paul Carter’s archipelagic poetics of decolonization	0
The everything everywhere war	0
Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman	0
Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures	0
Indigenous rethinking challenging White academic privilege	0
Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature	0
Epidemic illusions and decolonial imaginings: a dialogic review essay	0
The Louvre going APESHIT: audiovisual re-curation and intellectual labour in The Carters’ Afrosurrealist music video	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
Getting closer	0
It’s about time: some notes on quantum history	0
‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics	0
De-worlding IR theory	0
Falling into history : a case for the restitution of Mbali tombstones and the revival of the realms of memory of the enslaved	0
Empire remembered: the intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab’	0
Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions	0
Postface	0
‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians	0
Reforming identities: Jews’ experience of German colonial expansion	0
Poetry, Palestine and posthumanism	0
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism	0
Defend the brutes	0
Correction	0
The author, the text, and the (post)critic: notes on the encounter between postcritique and postcolonial criticism	0
Between Algeria and the world: anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues	0
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia	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
Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms	0
Where there are no islands	0
Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking	0
Anamorphosis as colonial encounter: the case of Augustus Earle	0
Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities	0
Correction	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
Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures	0
The climate of history in a planetary age	0