Charles Darwin: towards a bio-religious and colonial genealogy of evolutionary being.
While studies have examined Charles Darwin's wide social and political impact, they have not adequately centred the combined influence of colonial systems of human differentiation and religion within them. To address this, I draw from Sylvia Wynter's critique concerning how religious and colonial di...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 267 - 290 |
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