scholarly journals Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Governance ◽  
Governance Of Islam

scholarly journals Carcerality and the legacies of settler colonial punishment in Nairobi

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110418
Author(s):  
Annie Pfingst ◽  
Wangui Kimari
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
Colonial Governance ◽  
Colonial Settlement

From the beginning of its colonial settlement in Kenya, the British administration criminalized Kenyans. Even now, colonial modes of punishment, incarceration, closure, interrogation, curfew, confiscation, separation, displacement, and detention without trial are deeply embedded in the spatial and ideological arrangements of post-colonial Kenya. Initially assumed to herald a rupture from colonial modes of criminalization and punishment, the post-colonial period instead normalized them. Through ethnographic, scholarly, and visual encounters, the paper engages five interconnecting structures that engendered the legacy of a seamless system of control, containment, and punishment evident in the ‘afterlives’ of empire. These are settler colonialism, violence, racism, colonial corporeality, and capitalism. The paper attends to the violence and brutality that endures in the very geographies that were the urban targets of colonial siege and links the carceral practices of settler colonialism and the everyday post-colonial governance of Nairobi’s poor neighbourhoods, encounters with the debris and ruination of empire found in the material and spatial fabric of Mathare. We take up a critical encounter with colonial files to both discern the continuity and lineage of carceral practices and to disrupt the authorial totality and continuity the colonial archive files assembled. The paper includes archival and authored photographs:

scholarly journals The persistence of colonial constitutionalism in British Overseas Territories

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAKEEM O YUSUF ◽  
TANZIL CHOWDHURY
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Colonial Governance ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
The Uk

Abstract:This article argues that despite the UK Government’s exaltations of self-determination of its Overseas Territories, provisions of colonial governance persist in their constitutions. Further, it posits that such illustrations begin to answer the broader question of whether British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are modern day colonies. Such claims are not without merit given that 10 out of the 14 BOTS are still considered Non-Self-Governing Territories by the United Nations and have remained the target of decolonisation efforts. Drawing insights from post-colonial legal theory, this article develops the idea of the persistence of colonial constitutionalism to interrogate whether structural continuities exist in the governance of the UK’s British Overseas Territories. The analysis begins to unravel the fraught tensions between constitutional provisions that advance greater self-determination and constitutional provisions that maintain the persistence of colonial governance. Ultimately, the post-colonial approach foregrounds a thoroughgoing analysis on whether BOTs are colonies and how such an exegesis would require particular nuance that is largely missing in current institutional and non-institutional articulations of, as well as representations on, the issue.

The Masculinities of Post-colonial Governance: Bureaucratic memoirs of the Indian Civil Service

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 602-635
Author(s):  
INDERPAL GREWAL
Keyword(s):  
Civil Service ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
Colonial Governance

AbstractThis article examines the memoirs of Indian Civil Service officers as they continued to work in what became the Indian Administrative Service after independence. Rather than being understood solely as historical archives, these texts constitute a genre that can be called the ‘bureaucratic memoir’ which reveals masculinities that are both colonial and post-colonial. These memoirs, and their publication decades after independence reveal attempts by elites to preserve the power of the bureaucracy into subsequent decades. The texts hope to disavow but instead also reveal the patriarchal intimacies of these elites, even as these were challenged by charges of corruption and failure which emerged almost from the first moments of independence.

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