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Postcolonial Networks brings together scholars, activists, and leaders with the urgency of a movement to foster decolonized relationships, innovative scholarship, and social transformation.

Postcolonial Networks Board

Postcolonial Networks Board

Margaret Robinson

About Margaret Robinson

A Mi'kmaq and a queer feminist scholar based in Toronto, I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1973. I was raised in Sheet Harbour, a small village (pop. 820) on the coast, 120km east of Halifax. For many of those years we lived without running water or plumbing. My parents were writers who encouraged reading and creativity. I am a member of Generation X, and a third wave feminist. The year I turned sixteen also saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crash of the Exxon Valdez, tanks rolling over students in Tienanmen Square, and the Montreal Massacre. My first sexual education class included a discussion about AIDS. The year I came out as bisexual the World Health Organization removed “homosexual” from their list of diseases, Nelson Mandela was freed from prison, and the world wide web was invented. I can't take credit for any of that. I currently live in Toronto, at the corner of Chinatown and Kensington Market, with my partner. We have two cats named Archie and Nero. In my spare time I write, paint, sew my own clothes, and try to change the world.

Review of Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo. A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles, Studies in Biblical Literature 147. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

September 27th, 2012|

Review of Rubén Muñoz-Larrondo. A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles, Studies in Biblical Literature 147. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. pp. xiv + 249. 
Reviewer: Martin William Mittelstadt, mittelstadtm@evangel.edu
I remember well my first introduction to the complex background of the New Testement world. As an undergrad in the early 1980s, I was encouraged […]

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Postcolonial Literature, Theory Readers: An Interview with Dr. Simi Malhotra and Sachin Londhe

September 20th, 2012|

Postcolonial Literature, Theory Readers: An Interview with Dr. Simi Malhotra and Sachin Londhe
One of the aims of Postcolonial Networks is to forge connections with postcolonial thinkers, groups and organizations across the globe.  This is a first interview for Postcolonial Networks, but we promise more to come.

With 816 members, Facebook’s Postcolonial Literature, Theory Readers (PLTR) group […]

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Review of Vítor Westhelle’s After Heresy: Colonial Practices and Post-colonial Theologies.

September 15th, 2012|

Review of
Vítor Westhelle. After Heresy: Colonial Practices and Post-colonial Theologies. Cascade Books, 2010. xix, 181 pages, bibl., index.
Reviewer: Tink Tinker, ttinker@iliff.edu
Vitor Westhelle has added a delightful addition to the ranks of post-colonial theology. It becomes immediately a must-read for all of us interested in this important discourse. For theology students this book can serve […]

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But we defended our land … We stood side by side … and won the fight for Canada by Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales

September 2nd, 2012|

A spit take with popcorn in a multiplex theatre is not a pretty sight. Fortunately, the movie my son chose to view was not as popular as some of the other blockbusters being screened on that day. What forced the popcorn from my mouth was the sudden exhalation of air prompted by the blatantly revisionist spectacle of the Canadian Government’s advertisement commemorating the start of the War of 1812 - The Fight for Canada (Anon. 2012).

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Review of Olúfémi Táiwò, How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010),

August 17th, 2012|

This is a complex work, highly recommended to scholars of post-colonialism, that leaves one with the same feeling one has when one reads V. Y. Mudimbe: an enormous amount of research and thought that brings order to disorderly passages in the history of African ideas.

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Review of R. Drew Smith’s Freedom’s Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances with Africa

August 5th, 2012|

"The book is an excellent read for those interested in postcolonial US-African relations from an ecclesiastical viewpoint. The articles are of particular interest to scholars of Black Theology and Black Church studies. A subtheme in many of the chapters is the involvement of African American missionaries and their influence on US and African Christianity."

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Review of Chris Shannahan’s Voices from the Borderland: Re-imagining Cross-Cultural Urban Theology in the Twenty-first Century

July 19th, 2012|

Voices from the Borderland demonstrates how interdisciplinarity is a necessary and efficient tool for a new urban theology. While it is an important reading to anyone engaged in the task of urban theology, it will be most interesting to scholars who explore the foundations, hermeneutics, and methods of the emerging theology of this globalized century.

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