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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate	23
Arts of urban memory and repair	13
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions	13
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession	10
Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe	9
The Louvre going APESHIT: audiovisual re-curation and intellectual labour in The Carters’ Afrosurrealist music video	8
Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Prescriptions for virtuosity: the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine ,	8
Defend the brutes	8
Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana	7
A tale that time forgot: contemporary jungle-adventure cinema, imperial power, and the tourist gaze	7
Travel and colonialism in 21st century romantic historical fiction: exotic journeys, reparative histories	7
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People	6
Translation and decolonisation: interdisciplinary approaches	5
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib	4
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate	4
Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia	4
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability	3
Misreading the Rūḥ : Taha Abderrahmane, Enrique Dussel and the ethics of decolonial modernities	3
Writing from the gap: ‘gutter texts’, planetary manifestos and the domain of verse novel	3
Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought	3
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier	3
Decoding the cybaltern: cybercolonialism and postcolonial intellectuals in the digital age	3
The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom	2
Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis	2
Modernity and its disciplines	2

The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia	2
Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures	2
Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature	2
‘To unawaken’d earth’: Paul Carter’s archipelagic poetics of decolonization	2
‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago	2
Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities	2
Oceans, islands, closets and smells: decolonization through spatial metaphors	1
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam	1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies	1
‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics	1
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?	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
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	1
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân	1
Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene	1
Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking	1
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
‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War	1
Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country The children’s country: creation of a Goolarabooloo future in North-West Australi	1
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone	1
Postcolonial intellectuals: new paradigms	1
Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human	1
Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	1
The Israeli elephant in the settler-colonial room	0
The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age	0
Cheddi Jagan and Walter Rodney: the intellectual and political practices of decolonization and anti-imperialism	0
The middle-class sensorium and ethnographic provocations in Angola	0
60,000 Years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts	0
Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century	0
Disabling labour: race, disability and Indian indentured labour on Fijian sugar plantations, 1879–1920	0
Representations of Edward Said	0
Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being	0
A path to an otherwise	0
Multispecies relations, multispecies justice, and multispecies futurism	0
‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935	0
Postcolonial cosmopolitanism: rethinking global politics	0
Correction	0
Postcolonial responses to decolonial interventions	0
Anticolonial connectivity and the politics of solidarity: between home and the world	0
Getting closer	0
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia	0
Crossfire: postcolonial theory between Marxist and decolonial critiques	0
Colonialism and politics from the abyss	0
Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa	0
Disability and postcolonialism	0
The climate of history in a planetary age	0
If not liberation, then what?	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
New ways of solidarity with Korean comfort women: comfort women and what remains	0
Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain	0

Correction	0
The politics of eviction and citizenship in the Brahmaputra valley, Assam, India	0
It’s about time: some notes on quantum history	0
Out of the dark night: essays on decolonization	0
Debates on decolonization and postcolonialism in Kazakhstan	0
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud	0
The author, the text, and the (post)critic: notes on the encounter between postcritique and postcolonial criticism	0
Poetry, Palestine and posthumanism	0
Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland	0
From idealized justice to the hopeful politics of what ‘just is’	0
Child talks back	0
Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives	0
Walking a relational path towards Indigenous-led collaborative futures	0
Precarious duniyas in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: life, death and repair in ‘ruin-worlds’	0
Empire remembered: the intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab’	0
Where there are no islands	0
‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border	0
Indigenous rethinking challenging White academic privilege	0
Falling into history : a case for the restitution of Mbali tombstones and the revival of the realms of memory of the enslaved	0
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn?	0
Decolonizing education: learning from ancient South Asian pedagogies for human and planetary health	0
Penning the stakes: paper and the post/colonial music archive in Shanghai and Hong Kong	0
Imperial optics and colonial disability: missions to blind and deaf children in ‘the East’, c. 1880-1939	0
Navigating the currents of colonial print cultures: perspectives on power, resistance, and identity	0
‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians	0
The Rwandan genocide: modernity and ambivalence	0
Between Algeria and the world: anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues	0
Post-imperial spaces and alternative imaginaries of the human and nonhuman in Bong Joon Ho’s transnational films	0
What is ailing Africa? Practical philosophy in reinventing Africa	0
Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity	0
Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project	0
Unsettled borders: the militarized science of surveillance on sacred Indigenous land	0
The everything everywhere war	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
Correction	0
Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines	0
Hail the bog roll	0
Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative	0
Spaces of Multispecies Justice	0
Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country	0
Reified monuments, counter memorials and anti-memorials: contested colonial heritage in Melbourne – commemorating John Batman	0
Postcolonial and decolonial subaltern feminisms	0
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: hidden histories and the scrambled temporalities of political affect	0
What should world literature do?	0
Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow	0
Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana	0
Postface	0
Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s	0
Postcolony and after: India's constitutional founding and its fading promise through the work of Sandipto Dasgupta	0
Ends of worlds or the continuation of the planet? Postcolonial theory, the Anthropocene, and the nonhuman	0
Postcolonial exigency: interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens	0