• Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Canarian Imagination: the Missing Flag 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique (History Workshop Journal, 04/2017)
      This paper explores the under-represented political experience of Canarians in transatlantic networks of anti-authoritarian and anti-colonial resistance in the late nineteenth century. Much of the relevant historiographic ...
    • Coetzee'sFoeand Borges: An Intertextual Reading 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique ; Galván, Fernando (Critique-studies in contemporary fiction, 2021)
      Foe(1986) is one of the most ambiguous and controversial novels written by J.M. Coetzee, and has been discussed extensively by criticism from a great variety of theoretical positions. This essay purports to contribute ...
    • Decolonising the state: subversion, mimicry and criminality 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique ; Birk Laursen, Ole; Ridda, María (Postcolonial Studies, 2020)
      Editorial de la Revista "Postcolonial Studies. vol. 23, nº 2"
    • Meditative Revolutions? A Preliminary Approach to US Buddhist Anarchist Literature 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique (Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, 12/2020)
      This article discusses the various shapes, inner structures and roles given to transformative and liberative practices in the work of US Buddhist anarchist authors (1960-2010). Unlike their Chinese and Japanese predecessors, ...
    • Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique (European Journal of English Studies, 2018)
      This essay explores the images emerging from the Syrian conflict through the genre of war documentaries by focusing on the performance of sovereignty. Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and Butler's performative ...
    • Rojava: a state subverted or reinvented? 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique (Postcolonial Studies, 02/04/2020)
      This article discusses how Rojava and its ‘Autonomous Administration’ simultaneously subvert and reinstate the state(s) they are fighting. Based on Abdullah Öcalan’s (b. 1948) conversion to libertarianism after his ...
    • Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan English Writers 

      Galván-Álvarez, Enrique (Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights, 04/2015)
      The literary production of the Tibetan English-speaking diaspora remains largely ignored in postcolonial studies, although it constitutes a good example of what Bill Ashcroft categorizes as ‘transnation’ (12), since it is ...