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Papers

(The TQCC of Postcolonial Studies is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate	20
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions	18
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession	13
Decolonial anxieties in a postcolonial world: an interview with Achille Mbembe	12
Deconstructing dualisms: understanding the postcolonial transformation of Chinese medicine Prescriptions for virtuosity: the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine ,	9
Defend the brutes	8
The Louvre going APESHIT: audiovisual re-curation and intellectual labour in The Carters’ Afrosurrealist music video	7
Music, archives, and colonial encounter in the Cold War: a case study from British Guiana	6
British colonialism, Ireland and the ‘old firm’: postcolonial identities and contemporary Scottish football and society	6
Travel and colonialism in 21st century romantic historical fiction: exotic journeys, reparative histories	6
Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia	5
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib	5
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People	4
A ‘catastrophic consequence’: Fascism’s debate on the legal status of Libyans and the issue of mixed marriages (1938–1939)	4
Translation and decolonisation: interdisciplinary approaches	3
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier	3
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate	3
Writing from the gap: ‘gutter texts’, planetary manifestos and the domain of verse novel	3
Decoding the cybaltern: cybercolonialism and postcolonial intellectuals in the digital age	2
Constructing theory from the ground up: a decolonial praxis	2
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability	2
Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities	2
‘The delirium of the dérive’: reflections on the poetics and politics of the archipelago	2
Writing rights: suturing Spivak’s postcolonial and de Sousa Santos’ decolonial thought	2
Anticolonial poetics: forging solidarities and imagining futures	2

Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature	2
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam	1
Antibiotic resistance, planetary health and the mimetic trap: a historical account of present-day sanitary, environmental and social crises	1
The long emancipation: moving toward Black freedom	1
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone	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
Postcolonial intellectuals: new paradigms	1
Historicizing Indic collectives’ ‘solidarities’ in the age of the Anthropocene	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
The intellectual as partisan: Sylvia Pankhurst and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia	1
Oceans, islands, closets and smells: decolonization through spatial metaphors	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
‘Because we are not apart, we are a part’: an interview with Vandana Singh	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
Rethinking or delinking? Said and Mignolo on humanism and the question of the human	1
‘To unawaken’d earth’: Paul Carter’s archipelagic poetics of decolonization	1
‘The francophone world was set ablaze’: Pan-African intellectuals, European interlocutors and the global Cold War	1
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân	1
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?	1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies	1
Reading Paul Carter’s decolonising governance: archipelagic thinking	1