A vast literature across several academic disciplines studies the impact of colonial rule, but less attention has been paid to the consequences of decolonization. This paper uses a recently-constructed dataset on the fiscal history of African countries from 1900 to 2015 to analyze the impact of...

Management and organisation studies (MOS) increasingly recognises the interconnected and globalised nature of business dynamics, yet nuanced power disparities concerning stakeholders from the Global South often remain under-examined. Such power differentials can have ethical implications for...

Traditional perspectives on decolonization, particularly how European states like France and Britain viewed and analyzed through during the history is vulnerable to find out the Ottomans' sample's elements of decolonization from the past. This paper encourages moving beyond Eurocentric...

The different theoretical constructions around the conceptualizations of Buen Vivir and decolonial feminisms have been the subject of fervent debate at the beginning of the governmental periods of Evo Morales in Bolivia (2006 - 2019) and Rafael Correa in Ecuador (2007 - 2017) when Constitutional...

Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

After centuries of colonial subordination, Black and Brown ex-colonies are still fighting to achieve the fruits of decolonization. The traditional theory is that former colonies will emerge from the colonial period with the legal mandate and international recognition needed to chart their own...

Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

"This book draws together some of the most innovative studies in contemporary Southeast Asian research by social science scholars in the region. Themes include gender, popular culture, democratic struggle, climate change and environment, minority representation, wealth and marginalisation,...

"Is economics a neutral scientific field, or is it riddled with eurocentric biases that stem from its origins in the development of capitalism, colonialism, and slavery? This book makes the case that economics cannot extricate itself from its highly problematic imperial context without a...

Part 1: Introduction and Philosophical Foundations -- Chapter 1: Deneocoloniality vs. Decoloniality: A Conceptual Comparison -- Chapter 2: A Studied Criticism of Selected Major Works on Decoloniality -- Chapter 3: Revisiting Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah's Treatise of Neocolonialism -- Part 2:...

This special issue presents a collection of papers that make distinctions between decolonization and decoloniality and their impact on how spirituality is introduced in management research. While decolonization focuses on undoing the political and economic effects of colonialism, decoloniality...

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were...

Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized despotism” or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers....

Postkoloniales Counter-Mapping ist eine Methode, die sich seit einigen Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreut. Im Allgemeinen dient sie dazu, koloniale Spuren und Machtstrukturen in urbanen Räumen sichtbar zu machen und somit zur Dekolonisierung beizutragen. Bei dieser Form des Kartierens...

This essay, part of a forum on Claire Priest’s Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America, points toward a different framing for the history of property and credit in early America, one compatible with many of Priest’s finding but that trades off the theoretical elegance...

"The Petro-State Masquerade studies the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of the country's oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Jobson traces the processes by which early economic growth turned...

Postcolonialism constitutes a multiplicity of historico-theoretical modes of framing the manners in which political-economic and cultural phenomena, including accounting, are reproduced in confrontational spaces between colonised and colonisers. It offers different interpretive schemas for...

Decolonizing development : from Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch -- Development and social identities : race and caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar -- Memories of underdevelopment : Miguel Angel Asturias's chronicles on India.

Foreword / Malcolm Murfett -- Leadership in apartheid South Africa : the impact of Dr. Henrik Verwoerd and B.J. Vorster / J.E. Spence -- Lee Kuan Yew : from political insurgent to national manager / Michael D. Barr -- Fidel Castro : the eternal leader of a revolution or the leader of an eternal...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course-after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the...

Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice. The politics of housing unfold in disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Depending on...

The book chapter discusses the various leaders in postcolonial Egypt to understand their contributions to developing postcolonial Egypt. After the veiled independence, the first set of leaders in Egypt were surrogates of the imperial lords who had absolute power even when self-rule was granted....

Nigeria gained independence from the British in 1960, and by 1963, it became a republic. For the 61 years of independence, Nigeria has passed through civilian and military rule successions. Most of the time, self-rule had military leaders in control of governance. The British government did not...

In this chapter, we examine the role of charismatic leadership in postcolonial Tanzania. Primarily used in sociological and political analysis, the concept of charisma has been viewed as a central component in nation-building in postcolonial Africa. Based on a decolonial perspective, we discuss...