Publications


Recent Publications by Group Members

Books

  • Alston, Richard. The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt . London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Ansari, Humayun. ‘The Infidel Within’: The History of Muslims in Britain, 1800 to the Present . London: C. Hurst, 2004.
  • Ansari, Humayun. Muslims in Britain. London: Minority Rights Group, 2002.
  • Ansari, Sarah. Life after Partition: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh, 1947–1962. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
  • Boehmer, Elleke. Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005.
  • Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors. 2 nd Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
  • Boehmer, Elleke. Empire, the National and the Postcolonial: Resistance in Interaction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.
  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theatre in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006.
  • Dodds, Klaus. Pink Ice: Britain and the South Atlantic Empire . London: I B Tauris, 2002.
  • Driver, Felix. Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire. Oxford and Malden, Mass : Blackwell, 2001.
  • Eaglestone, Robert. The Holocaust and the Postmodern. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Gilbert, Helen and Jacqueline Lo. Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • Khan, Yasmin. The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics and Violence in the Indian Subcontinent. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
  • Laidlaw, Zoë. Colonial Connections 1815–45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005.
  • Lambert, David. White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
  • Khatib, Lina. Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
  • Ramnarine, Tina K. Creating their Own Space: The Development of an Indian–Caribbean Musical Tradition. Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago: U of West Indies P, 2001.
  • Ramnarine, Tina K. Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora . London: Pluto, 2006.
  • Minca Claudio. Moroccan Dreams: The Postcolonial Re-enactment of a Spatial Laboratory of Modernity. London: IB Tauris, forthcoming.
  • Primorac, Ranka. The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe. London: IB Tauris, 2006.

Edited Books

  • Ansari, Sarah, and Vanessa Martin, eds. Women, Religion and Culture in Iran. Richmond: Curzon, 2002.
  • Baden-Powell, Robert. Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship . Ed. Elleke Boehmer. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Crang, Philip, Claire Dwyer, and Peter Jackson, eds. Transnational Spaces. London: Routledge, 2004.
  • Driver, Felix, and Luciana Martins, eds. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.
  • Driver, Felix and David Gilbert, eds. Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity . 2 nd Ed. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003.
  • Fricker, Karen and Ronit Lentin. Performing Global Networks. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
  • Gilbert, Helen, and Anna Johnston. In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
  • Lambert, David, and Alan Lester, eds. Colonial Lives across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
  • Simon, David, ed. Fifty Key Thinkers on Development. London: Routledge, 2005.
  • Minca, Claudio and T. Oakes, eds. Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism. Boulder, CO.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
  • Minca, Claudio, ed. Orizzonte Mediterraneo. Padua: CEDAM, 2003.
  • Parmar, Prabjhot. When Your Voice Tastes Like Home: Immigrant Women Write. Eds. Prabhjot Parmar and Nila Somaia-Carten.   Toronto: Second Story Press, 2003.
  • Primorac, Ranka, and Stephen Chan, eds. Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence. London: Routledge, 2006.

Essays and Journal Articles

  • Alston, Richard. “Reading Augustan Alexandria.” Ancient West and East 1 (2002): 141–61.
  • Alston, Richard. “ The Revolt of the Boukoloi: Geography, History and Myth.” Organised Crime in the Ancient World . Ed. K. Hopwood. London: Duckworth, 1999. 129–53.
  • Ansari, Humayun. “Attitudes to Jihad, Martyrdom and Terrorism among British Muslims.” Muslim Britain: Communities under Pressure. Ed. Tahir Abbas. London: Zed Books, 2005.
  • Ansari, Humayun. “The Legal Status of Muslims in the UK.” The Legal Treatment of Islamic Minorities in Europe. Ed. Roberta Aluffi B.-P and Giovanna Zincone. Belgium: Peeters, 2004.
  • Ansari, Humayun. “Negotiating British Muslim Identity.” Muslim Identity in the 21st Century: Challenges of Modernity. Ed. M.S. Bahmanpour and H. Bashir. London: Institute of Islamic Studies, 2000.
  • Ansari, Sarah. “Pakistan, Partition and Gender: Shaping Pakistani Womanhood.” International Journal of Punjab Studies 6.1 (1999): 17–33.
  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. “Traditional and Popular Painting in Modern Java.” Archipel 69 (2005): 5–38.
  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. “Look at the Clouds: Migration and West Sumatran ‘Popular’ theatre.” New Theatre Quarterly 19.3 (2003): 214–29.
  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. “‘Multiculturalism’ and Performance in Colonial Cirebon.” The Indonesian Town Revisited. Ed. P. J. Nas. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2002. 348–73.
  • Crang, Philip, Ian Cook, and Mark Thorpe. “Tropics of Consumption: Getting with the Fetish of ‘Exotic’ Fruit?” Geographies of Commodity Chains . Ed. A. Hughes and S. Reimer. London: Routledge, 2004. 173–92.
  • Crang, Philip, and Ian Cook. “‘The World on a Plate’: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges.” The Consumption Reader. Ed. D. Clarke, M. Doel, and K. Housiaux. London: Routledge, 2003. 113–16.
  • Crang, Philip, and Claire Dwyer. “Fashioning Ethnicities: The Commercial Spaces of Multiculture”, Ethnicities 2 (2002): 410–30.
  • Dodds, Klaus and Kathryn Yusoff. “Settlement and Unsettlement in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Antarctica.” Polar Record 41.2 (2005): 141–55.
  • Dodds, Klaus. “The Great Trek: New Zealand and the British/Commonwealth 1955–58 Trans-Antarctic Expedition.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 33.1 (2005): 93–114.
  • Dodds, Klaus. “Post-colonial Antarctica: An Emerging Engagement.” Polar Record 42.1 (2006): 1–12.
  • Driver, Felix. “Distance and Disturbance: Travel, Exploration and Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14 (2004): 73–92.
  • Driver, Felix. “Geography’s Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge.” Society and Space: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 10 (1992): 23–40.
  • Eaglestone, Robert. “Levinas, Translation and Ethics.” Nations, Language and the Ethics of Translation. Ed. Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005. 127–38.
  • Eaglestone, Robert. “Truth, Aesthetics, History.” Critical Pasts: Writing Criticism, Writing History. Ed. Philip Smallwood. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2005.
  • Fricker, Karen. “Robert Lepage: Product of Québec?” Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity. Ed. Kiki Gounaridou. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 167–85.
  • Gilbert, David. “London of the Future: The Metropolis Reimagined after the Great War.” Journal of British Studies 43 (2004): 11–14, 91–119.
  • Gilbert, David, and Felix Driver. “Capital and Empire: Geographies of Imperial London.” GeoJournal 51 (2001): 23–32.
  • Gilbert, Helen. “Embodied Knowledges: Technologies of Representation in a Postcolonial Classroom.” Crucible of Cultures. Ed. Marc Maufort. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2002. 326–40.
  • Gilbert, Helen. “Black and White and Re(a)d All Over Again: Indigenous Minstrelsy in Australian and Canadian Theatre.” Theatre Journal 55.4 (2003): 679–98.
  • Gilbert, Helen. “Great Adventures in Nursing: Colonial Discourse and Health Care Delivery in Canada’s North.” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 7.1 (2003): http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v7i2/gilber.htm
  • Khan, Yasmin. “Asking New Questions about the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent.” History Compass 2 (2004): 1–10.
  • Khan, Yasmin. “The Arrival of Partition Refugees in Uttar Pradesh.” Contemporary South Asia 12.4 (2003): 211–22.
  • Khatib, Lina. “The Politics of Space: The Spatial Manifestations of Representing Middle Eastern Politics in American and Egyptian Films.” Visual Communication 3.1 (2004): 69–90.
  • Khatib, Lina. “The Orient and its Others: Women as Tools of Nationalism in Political Egyptian Cinema.” Women and Media in the Middle East. Ed. Naomi Sakr. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.
  • Laidlaw, Zoë. “‘Aunt Anna’s Report’: The Buxton Women and the Aborigines Select Committee, 1835–1837.” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 32.2 (2004): 1–28.
  • Laidlaw, Zoë. “Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire.” Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed David Lambert and Alan Lester.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 113–44.
  • Laidlaw, Zoë. “Das Empire in Rot: Karten als Ausdruck des britischen Imperialismus.” Kartenwelten: Der Raum und seine Repräsentation in der Neuzeit. Ed. Christof Dipper and Ute Schneider.  Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2006. 146–60.
  • Lambert, David. “‘As Solid as the Rock’: Place, Belonging and the Local Appropriation of Imperial Discourse in Gibraltar.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30.2 (2005): 206–20.
  • Lambert, David, and Alan Lester. “Geographies of Colonial Philanthropy.” Progress in Human Geography 28.3 (2004): 320–41.
  • Lambert, David, and Philip Howell. “John Pope Hennessy and the Translation of ‘Slavery’ Between Late Nineteenth-century Barbados and Hong Kong.” History Workshop Journal 55.1 (2003): 1–24.
  • Lambert, David. ‘ “Part of the Blood and Dream’: Surrogation, Memory and the National Hero in the Postcolonial Caribbean.” Patterns of Prejudice 41.3-4 (2007): 345–71.
  • Langer, Jessica. “Wanted on the Voyage: New Canadian Science Fictions.” AngloFiles 142 (November 2006): 21–27.
  • Langer, Jessica. “Searching for a Third Way: Mizoguchi Kenji’s Sisters of the Gion and Kamei Fumio’s Shanghai as Responses to Early- to Mid-20th Century Japanese Imperialism.” Asian Cinema 16:2 (Fall/Winter 2005): 221–28.
  • Mandelblatt, Bertie. “Where Ghosts and Tourists Dine: The Pure and the Hybrid in Louisiana Creole Cultures and Cuisines.” Public 30 (Winter 2004): 25–35.
  • Parmar, Prabjhot. “Trains of Death: Representations of the Railways in Films on the Partition of India.”  27 Down:New Departures in Indian Railway Studies. Ed. Ian J. Kerr. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007.  68–100.
  • Parmar, Prabjhot. “‘Moving forward though still facing back:’ Partition and the South Asian Diaspora in Canada.” Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Re-settlement. Eds. Anjali Gera-Roy and Nandi Bhatia. New Delhi: Pearson, 2007. 192-213.
  • Ramnarine, Tina K. “Music in the Diasporic Imagination and the Performance of Cultural (Dis)placement in Trinidad.” Island Musics. Ed. K. Dawe. Oxford: Berg, 2004. 153–70.
  • Ramnarine, Tina K. “Imperial Legacies and the Politics of Musical Creativity.” World of Music 46.1 (2004): 70-82.
  • Simon, David. “Separated by Common Ground? Bringing (Post)Development and (Post)Colonialism Together.” CEDAR Research Paper 42 (2005): http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/cedar/cedar-papers/paper42.pdf
  • Simon, David. “Dilemmas of Development and the Environment in a Globalising World: Theory, Policy and Praxis.” Progress in Development Studies 3.1 (2003): 5–41.
  • Simon, David. “Rethinking (Post)modernism, Postcolonialism and Posttraditionalism: South–North Perspectives.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16.2 (1998): 219–45.
  • Simon, David. “Separated by Common Ground.” Geographical Journal 172.1 (2006).
  • Minco, Claudio. ‘Lo sguardo, la duna, il deserto: la traduzione europea del paesaggio orientale’. Scritti in memoria di Ottavia Schmidt. Ed. Trevisan. Venice: Merifor, 2006.
  • Minco, Claudio. ‘Culture, paysage et modernitÈ’. Revue Geographique du Maroc 21 (2003): 7–20.

Coming Soon

  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. “Hybridity in Komedi Stambul.” Chewing the West. Ed. Doris Jedamski. Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi.
  • Cohen, Matthew Isaac. “A Chinese Pujangga from Surabaya? Yap Gwan Thay in an Age of Translation.” The History of Translation in Indonesia and Malaysia. Ed. Henri Chambert-Loire. Paris: Archipel.
  • Eaglestone, Robert. “Levinas, the Human, the Postcolonial.” Radicalizing Levinas. Ed. Peter Atterton and Matt Calarco. New York: SUNY Press.
  • Fricker, Karen. “The Zero Hour of Cultural (dis)Unity: The problem of Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s Zulu Time”. Globe: Revue internationale d’études québécoises. Special issue on “Arts de scène au Québec”. Ed. Erin Hurley. 2008.
  • Gilbert, Helen. “Ecotourism: A Colonial Legacy?” Five Emus to the King of Siam: Essays on Environment and Empire. Ed. Helen Tiffin. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Gyulay, Nicole. “Religion in V.S. Naipaul: Writing for the West.” The South Asian Review 26.1 (2005).
  • Gyulay, Nicole. “Destroying Other Worlds? Salman Rushdie’s Aporia of Religion.” Writing Spiritual Identities. 
  • Khatib, Lina. “Nationalism and Otherness: The Representation of Islamic Fundamentalism in Egyptian Cinema.” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006.
  • Laidlaw, Zoë. “Heathens, Slaves and Aborigines: Thomas Hodgkin’s critique of missions and anti-slavery.” History Workshop Journal 64. 1 (2007).
  • Langer, Jessica. “The Familiar and the Foreign: Playing (Post)Colonialism in World of Warcraft.” Worlds of Warcraft. Ed. T.L. Taylor and Jill Walker. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
  • Langer, Jessica. “Time, Space and Perception in Freya Stark’s Baghdad Sketches”. Bijon, Beatrice, ed. Narratives in English by Women Explorers Saint-Etienne: Saint-Etienne UP, 2007.
  • Minca, Claudio. “The Tourist Landscape Paradox.” Social and Cultural Geography 8.3 (2007).
  • Purssell, Andy. “Critical Responses: 1975-2000.” Conrad in Context. Ed Allan H. Simmons. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
  • Purssell, Andy. “‘The End of the Tether”: Conrad, Geography, and the Place of Vision’, The Conradian, 28:2 (2008).