Postcolonial Literatures in English

Plasticity of Contemporary Racism: Postcolonial Model Anomalies and Emergence of Castles-Kosack 1973 Analysis

“…This reality is presented as a static and historical entity that, however, is only mentally dynamic when psychologically reproducing the feeling of inferiority. This perspective of the unconscious racism has been referred to as "subordinate knowledge" or "mind-in-context pattern" (see Brickman, 2018;Salter, Adams, & Perez, 2018;Vaughn, 2019), and it has been verified in recent investigations concerning racism (Bartels, Eckstein, Waller, & Wiemann, 2019).…”

Dekolonialisierung des Wissens

“…Dabei werden die eigenen Sprechpositionen der Subalternen abgesprochen und somit auch ihre Handlungsmacht abgewertet (u.a. : Bartels et al, 2019;Brunner, 2020;Crawley, 2022). Damit einher geht auch die Kritik an den westlichen Intellektuellen, die mit der Praxis hegemonialer Wissensproduktion »zu KomplizInnen in der beharrlichen Konstituierung des/der Anderen als Schatten des Selbst« (Spivak, 2008c, S. 41) werden.…”

Community-Based Monitoring Initiatives of Water and Environment: Evaluation of the Establishment Dynamics and Results

“…Another contributing factor to the lack of sense of local ownership may related to the findings of Bartels et al (2017) that depicts Maasai as an over-researched community. It has been argued that the large number of past research efforts in the Mara has not resulted in meaningful changes in livelihoods of local stakeholders (Bartels et al, 2017). Therefore, some local stakeholders may have perceived MMCO as yet another research project with no tangible benefits.…”