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Papers

(The TQCC of Postcolonial Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Rwandan genocide: modernity and ambivalence	20
Rock, water, life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa Rock, water, life: ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa , by Lesley Green, Durham	18
Interdisciplinary propositions for remaking collective anti-colonial research and pedagogical processes: engaging with Max Liboiron Pollution is colonialism , by Max Lib	13
Navigating the currents of colonial print cultures: perspectives on power, resistance, and identity	11
Archiving the audible debris of empire: on a mission between Africa and Britain	9
Translocality and the future: postcolonial connectivities in 1960s Ghana	8
Feeling the presence of Rayi or spirit children in Goolarabooloo Country The children’s country: creation of a Goolarabooloo future in North-West Australi	7
Hurt sentiments: secularism and belonging in South Asia	6
Beyond belief: secularism, religion and our muddled modernity	6
Postcolonial exigency: interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens	5
Reimagining the Plantation (ocene): Mulk Raj Anand’s Two Leaves and a Bud	5
Representations of Edward Said	4
Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being	4
Fragility as metaphor: disability, difference and postcoloniality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow	3
Do African postcolonial theories need an epistemic decolonial turn?	3
Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: the Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam	3
‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: anticolonial connectivity and resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ border	3
Under the Southern Cross: Helen Keller, disability politics, and apartheid South Africa	2
A ‘catastrophic consequence’: Fascism’s debate on the legal status of Libyans and the issue of mixed marriages (1938–1939)	2
Bà Bình in La Plaza de la Revolución: anticolonial connectivity, gendered archives, and ngoại giao nhân dân	2
Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate	2
Paired with the impaired: disability, disaster and the role of the nation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People	2
Resonating across an Anglican-Xhosa mission soundscape: a case study of instruments, bells, and processions	2
Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia	2
‘A paradise among leprosariums’: Hansen’s disease and affective containment in the Panama Canal Zone	2

Critical Dialogues is an occasional section of Postcolonial Studies that engages scholars in interdisciplinary conversations on seminal books that advance our understanding of the (post)	1
Music, empire, colonialism: sounding the archives	1
The togetherness of peoples: the genesis of a humanist agenda in a post-Westphalian age	1
Out of place, out of time: Gaddafi and the Palestinian resistance in the 1970s	1
Are tradition and modernity antagonistic? Ambedkar in and against the postcolonial project	1
Contesting the EU border: lessons and challenges from the Bosnian frontier	1
Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines	1
‘Re-Living the Early Days’: memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934–1935	1
Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland	1
Academic colonialism and marginalization: on the contentious postcolonial–decolonial debate in Latin American Studies	1
Dialectics of impairment: historical anxieties in late-colonial Bengali fictional narratives on disability	1
Writing from the gap: ‘gutter texts’, planetary manifestos and the domain of verse novel	1
Truth-telling about a settler-colonial legacy: decolonizing possibilities?	1
‘Because we are not apart, we are a part’: an interview with Vandana Singh	1
Imperial optics and colonial disability: missions to blind and deaf children in ‘the East’, c. 1880-1939	1
Settler colonial conscripts: Mennonite reserves and the enfolding of implicated subjects	1
Science and indigenous knowledge: the significance of the mātauranga Māori debate	1
Compact colonialism: U.S. neocolonialism in Micronesia in the early twenty-first century	1
The colonial difference in Hugo Grotius: rational man, slavery and Indigenous dispossession	1
Tongan coloniality: contesting the ‘never colonized’ narrative	1