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	<description>Rethinking postcolonial in interstitial spaces.</description>
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		<title>Doctor Who: The Krotons</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/05/15/doctor-who-krotons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Craige Harris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plural Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcolonial science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Doctor Who episode The Krotons features what to viewers in our time will appear to be quite primitive and poorly-constructed robots as the key villains. If one can get past the appearance – perhaps by keeping in mind that the Krotons are supposed to be not robots but organic crystal-based life forms that are intellectually and technologically advanced, then one may be able to see beyond the low-budget costumes and appreciate the episode for what it is: a powerful statement about the use of education by colonial powers and more generally in order to reinforce rather than break down class divisions.]]></description>
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		<title>The (Im)Possible Witness of a Suicidal Life by Eugene McMullan</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/05/08/suicidal-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plural Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assimilation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media accounts of suicide tend to explain it as an effect of bullying. This is both helpful and limiting. It is helpful in moving us away from a view of suicide as ipso facto evidence of a psychological problem (sickness) or in the even older view, as a moral failing (sin). Psychological problems may in fact be present in some or many of the cases. In reference to the colonized it would seem to go with the territory, as Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver and others have argued. The better explanation where bullying is involved, however, is that the sense of desperation caused by the harassment itself, irrespective of the victim’s mental health (read: “resilience”), was so great that suicide seemed (or may have really been) the only way out. This account lifts the burden of stigma, and exonerates the youth of any moral culpability, which is right both in terms of compassionate practice—how is blaming a suicidal youth going to help?—and in terms of the larger analysis. From a queer, postcolonial and feminist perspective, it really isn’t their fault.

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		<title>Growing Up Different(ly): Space, Community and the Dissensual Bildungsroman in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, by Pramod K. Nayar</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/05/08/nayar_on_collin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 15:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JPN Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dystopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hunger Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What strikes one first about Suzanne Collins’ bestselling trilogy, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay (2008-2010), are the echoes from William Golding’s marvelously frightening The Lord of the Flies, Stephen King’s The Running Man and the TV Reality show, Survivor. It also recalls that iconic eighteenth century text about European/Western individualism, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which really is the ancestor of Survivor as well. Collins’ trilogy is set some time in the future when the United States has been destroyed and rehabilitated in the form of twelve outlying districts controlled by the Capitol, together called Panem, under the control of President Snow.]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfectly Queer Tactic by Hannah Hofheinz</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/04/27/perfectly-queer-tactic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plural Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymous Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[de-materialized speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embodiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a strange interchange reported by the American Civil Liberties Union a couple months ago. This past December, the Boston Police Department filed an administrative subpoena for identifying information connected with the Twitter account @p0isAn0N.  What catalyzed police attention of @p0isAn0N’s account was simply and only “the compiling of publicly available information from the internet, something anyone could have done, which is not illegal and does not constitute a threat.” Twitter, following its stated policies, informed the user, who sought to challenge the constitutionality of the subpoena in court. The following interchange occurred during the second hearing while the court was considering whether or not it would allow the challenge. The topic at hand was anonymity, the importance of first amendment protected anonymous speech for democracy, and the practicalities of performing anonymous speech in the 21st century.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal, eds. Cinema at the Periphery. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010), 280 pp.</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/04/27/mccormick_on_iordanova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JPN Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical media studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Theory and Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transnationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is a quiet revolution taking place at the intersection of film studies and postcolonial theory? Are we seeing a renewal of diasporic cinema and the production of innovative films in transnational contexts? Is the Hollywood hegemony slipping and the Eurocentric model redundant? After thirty years of ‘liberated’ international markets and unfettered ‘progress’ of globalization it is timely to take stock of the dialogues and debates being advanced in film studies and in the cinematic forum. A new collection of essays entitled Cinema at the Periphery seeks to explore some of these questions.

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		<title>Pluralizing Identity and Identifying zir Plurality by Robyn Henderson-Espinoza</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/04/11/pluralizing-identity-identifying-zir-plurality-robyn-henderson-espinoza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of a plural identity is in contrast to the subtle (or perhaps not so subtle!) ways in which hetero-patriarchal colonial history sublimated indigenous ways of knowing and identity production. I wish to move into not only advocating but privileging the plurality of identities as a way to queer the post/colonial space and place that today’s earth’s bodies inhabit.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet, ed. The African Diaspora And The Disciplines. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), 376 pp.</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/03/27/review-tejumola-olaniyan-james-h-sweet-ed-african-diaspora-disciplines-bloomington-indiana-university-press-2010-376-pp/</link>
		<comments>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/03/27/review-tejumola-olaniyan-james-h-sweet-ed-african-diaspora-disciplines-bloomington-indiana-university-press-2010-376-pp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JPN Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaican music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race and culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rastafarianism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The field of African Diaspora Studies is growing and becoming increasingly more sophisticated. Although there is a perceived lack in the field’s “existing body of conceptual and definitional knowledge” (Sweet, 2010, p. 1) this welcome, theory-thick anthology, The African Diaspora And The Disciplines, provides a refreshing corrective. The book features several of the papers presented at a two-day, March 2006 conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) that was organized to investigate what the volume’s editors consider to be an axiomatic issue in African Diaspora Studies, namely, how diaspora is conceived, especially in a transdisciplinary (literature, religious studies, genetic biology, history, archaeological chemistry, et al.) and transnational (Jamaica, Europe, and South Africa, et al.) way.]]></description>
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		<title>Review of Benjamin Valentín, ed. In Our Own Voices: Latino/a Renditions of Theology. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010), 197 pp.</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/03/07/review-benjamin-valentin-ed-voices-latinoa-renditions-theology-maryknoll-n-y-orbis-books-2010-197-pp/</link>
		<comments>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/03/07/review-benjamin-valentin-ed-voices-latinoa-renditions-theology-maryknoll-n-y-orbis-books-2010-197-pp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JPN Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latino/a Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberation Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North American Theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Our Own Voices, edited by Benjamin Valentín, brings together a stellar group of U.S. theologians, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, to reflect on, reassess, and reformulate Christian themes and doctrines from a distinctively Latino/a theological perspective. Engaging biblical texts, Christian and non-Christian traditions, contemporary formulations of doctrines, as well as cultural and theoretical resources, In our Own Voices “seeks to contribute to the discussion of key theological concepts and doctrines within Latino/a theology specifically and in the field of theology more generally” (p. xiii). Six areas of theological reflection are addressed: the doctrines and symbols of God, creation, theological anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Nausner, &#8220;Hybridity and Negotiated Boundaries Even in Germany: Reflections on the Reception of Postcolonial Theory and Theology.&#8221; Journal of Postcolonial Networks Vol. 2, Issue 1 (February 2012): 1-30.</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/02/27/michael-nausner-hybridity-negotiated-boundaries-germany-reflections-reception-postcolonial-theory-theology-journal-postcolonial-networks-vol-2-issue-1-february-2012-1-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Craige Harris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bhabha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boundary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hybridity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intercultural theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postcolonial studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postcolonial Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Said]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spivak]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article attempts to shed light on the colonial legacy in German society today and to highlight instances of the arrival of postcolonial theory and theology in German academia. The invisibility of the colonial past in Germany is slowly coming to an end at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as demonstrated in the first part of the article. The new awareness is reflected in a growing number of activities highlighting Germany’s participation in the establishment of a colonial world order in the nineteenth century and the remaining effects of this participation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Review of  Christopher Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes (Paul in Critical Contexts; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2011), xvi+365 pp.</title>
		<link>http://postcolonialnetworks.com/2012/02/23/review-christopher-stanley-ed-colonized-apostle-paul-postcolonial-eyes-paul-critical-contexts-minneapolis-fortress-2011-xvi365-pp-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Robinson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[JPN Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible and Postcolonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblical Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical studies on Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pauline Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcolonial criticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given the obscurantism that often accompanies postcolonial criticism—as with other theory-dense frameworks—the mental gymnastics required to enter the discourse occasionally proves overwhelming to prospective students. In The Colonized Apostle: Paul through Postcolonial Eyes, editor Christopher Stanley has collected sixteen essays on the apostle Paul with a logical progression to form a less intimidating introduction to the topic. While it is difficult to identify any single thematic or textual strand that runs through all the essays—except perhaps ambivalence to the notion of Christianity’s “pure origins”—this diversity of topic proves conducive to the book’s appeal.]]></description>
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