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Episodes from a Colonial Present

January 2024

Publisher: Daraja Press
ISBN: 9781990263460

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Friedensau Adventist University

Lata Narayanaswamy

University of Leeds

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Postcolonial critique reveals the traces of the colonial past in every corner of our present lives and exposes the colonial violence inherent in global inequality. This collective comic project illuminates the coloniality of everyday life as well as the decolonising potential of everyday struggles in the spaces, discourses and practices of so-called global development.

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