Blue Note Records: The Biography by Richard Cook Pimlico, £10 Jazz scholar Cook's aim is to explore the "mystique" of the record label rather than provide a history. The story begins with 78s ...

Toronto scholar Jessica Langer has just published a fascinating book called Postcolonialism and Science Fiction. In this excerpt from the book’s introduction, she defines what that means, and explores ...

Uprisings across the Arab world may have ushered in a new era for many [AP] Note: Hamid Dabashi’s new book, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012) has just been published by Zed in London.

Perhaps more than any other field, postcolonial studies has, since its inception, been the site of anxious and often polemical debates about what have been perceived ­ even by many postcolonial ...

The uncertainty about the status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir has loomed large since 1947. Is Jammu and Kashmir a postcolonial state? Postcolonialism refers to a historical phase undergone by ...

For over a hundred years, the study of International Relations (IR) has been shaped by a handful of big ideas about how the world works. These ideas were developed in European and American ...

The field known collectively as “postcolonialism” – which encompasses various research approaches and discursive arenas – is currently under sustained attack. This is no accident. Many observers were ...

JPO’M: What is the central thesis of your new book? HD: That in the aftermath of European colonialism, a series of regimes came to power in which knowledge production was conducive to postcoloniality.