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The Koto as Coded Communication and Queer Expression: A Decolonial Reading of J.G. Spalburg’s Bruine Mina, de Koto-Missi

by Noa de Kievit
Colonial archives are never neutral repositories of the past. Rather, they are shaped by regimes of visibility and erasure that determine which subjects can appear as knowable historical actors and which lives remain partially absent from the historical record.

Democracy Goes to Die in Prisons? Resistance of Political Prisoners Against Autocratisation in India

by Sadaf Javed
With the global rise in authoritarianism, civil liberties across democracies are taking a hit. While most democratic governments have historically tried to suppress dissent or systemic change, the threshold of the state’s tolerance to criticism has significantly lowered in the last decades. India was once heralded as the world’s largest democracy.