Journal article
Decolonising the imagined geographies of ‘witchcraft’
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Turning my frame of inquiry toward academia, I analyse academic presentations on topics of ‘witchcraft’ conveyed to majority-geographer, majority-white and majority-Northern audiences. I argue that (a) the imagined geographies of ‘witchcraft’ have been central to colonial Othering; (b) ‘witchcraft’ is often relegated to the academic periphery; (c) ‘witchcraft’ ontologies are plural, fluid and ambiguous and (d) ‘witchcraft’ is often defiant of academicisations. Given this milieu, scholars risk...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 292.2KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/23802014.2017.1338535
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 2-3
- Pages:
- 157-179
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-01
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2379-9978
- ISSN:
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2380-2014
- Source identifiers:
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939320
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- pubs:939320
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-08
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- Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Routledge at: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2017.1338535
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