Gareth Griffiths

Biographic Data

ID183511
NAMEGareth Griffiths
GIVEN NAMESGareth
FAMILY NAMEGriffiths
SIGNATUREGRIFFITHS G
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Western Australia
ORCID0000-0002-9579-8021
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR17
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Postcolonial Studies

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKPostcolonial Studies2025

    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including: Anthropocene Biopolitics Decoloniality Ecocriticism Global South Postcolonial scien…

  • Parallel randomized controlled feasibility trials of the “Active Brains” digital intervention to protect cognitive health in adults aged 60–85

    Open AccessRosie Essery, Sebastien Pollet et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Introduction: Multidomain interventions to address modifiable risk factors for dementia are promising, but require more cost-effective, scalable delivery. This study investigated the feasibility of the "Active Brains" digital behavior change intervention and its trial procedures. Materials and methods: = 180) adults aged 60-85. Results: We collected 67.2 and 76.1% of our 12-month primary outcome (Baddeley verbal reasoning task) data for the "lowe…

  • Post-Colonial Studies

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKPost-Colonial Studies2013

    This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Po…

  • Post-Colonial Studies

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKPost-Colonial Studies2013

    This best selling key guide, now in its second edition, provides an essential key to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism; explaining what it is, where it is encountered and why it is crucial in forging new cultural identities. As a subject, post-colonial studies stands at the intersection of debates about race, colonialism, gender, politics and language. Key topics covered include: Borderlands Transnational literatures Ne…

  • L’Empire vous répond

    Open AccessBill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.EDITORBOOKL’Empire vous répond2012

    Voici la traduction en français d’un essai dont la version originale anglophone, The Empire Writes Back, a rencontré depuis sa parution en 1989 un écho considérable dans le monde des lettres et même au-delà. De façon stimulante, les trois chercheurs associés dans cette entreprise y ont en effet synthétisé et théorisé le concept devenu célèbre de post-colonialité. Celui-ci rend compte à la fois de l’impact déterminant des grandes colonisations eur…

  • Politics and Philosophy

    Mikko Lahtinen, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKPolitics and philosophy2009

    The main argument of the book is that for French philosopher Louis Althusser it was essential to reflect on how the conjunctural understanding of history and reality could offer a theoretical starting point for a subversive political strategy and intervention.

  • Coming to America

    Gareth GriffithsARTICLEJournal of the African Literature…2009

    (2009). Coming to America: ‘African Princes’ in America 1886 to the Present Day. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 123-143

  • The other Mr Wilberforce

    Gareth GriffithsARTICLEAfrican Identities2009References: 1

    This article considers role conflicts for Africans who occupied leadership positions in the colonial governance structure of the Sierra Leone Protectorate in the late nineteenth century. In particular it examines the source of conflicting identity issues for Western-educated or mission-converted indigenous leaders. It focuses these general issues through the example of the Rev. D.F. Wilberforce, who was both a missionary and a colonial appointee …

  • ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’

    Gareth GriffithsCHAPTERMissions and Empire (Oxford…2008

    This chapter examines the life stories and biographies of the colonized people and Christian missionary converts produced from 1870s to the 1920s in East and Central Africa. The close analyses of the recaptive life stories and conversion narrative reveal that the voices of the colonized subjects cannot be completely suppressed even in the most unfavourable circumstances. The text of the narratives also exposes the silenced voices of the converted…

  • Decision and Deliberation

    Open AccessPaul Strangio, David Clune et al.ARTICLELabour History2008

  • Mixed Messages

    Open AccessJamie S Scott, Gareth GriffithsEDITORBOOKMixed Messages2005

    This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textu

  • Mixed Messages

    Gareth Griffiths, J ScottBOOKMixed Messages2005

  • Post-Colonial Studies

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKPost-colonial studies2003

  • Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory

    David Chioni Moore, Bill Ashcroft et al.REVIEWSouth Atlantic Review1995

    Theorising Colonised Cultures and Anti-Colonial Resistance 2. Theorising the West: Theorising Gender 3. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Intellectuals and Institutions 4. Theorising Post-Coloniality: Discourse and Identity 5. Reading from Theory Bibliography

  • The Dark Side of the Dreaming

    Open AccessGareth GriffithsARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies1992

    There is clearly a new upsurge of comment on and interest in Aboriginal Australian culture, an interest manifested by the reissue of a number of classic texts and the publication of a number of significant new contributions to the field. The publication of Adam Shoemaker's account Black Words, White Paper: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988, the reissue of J.J. Healy's classic study Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, the publication in 1990 …

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Robert E Fox, Bill Ashcroft et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1991Cited by: 1

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths et al.BOOKEmpire Writes Back1989

    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture. The Empire Writes Back was the first major theoreti…

  • The toxic plant proteins ricin and abrin induce apoptotic changes in mammalian lymphoid tissues and intestine

    Open AccessGareth Griffiths, G D Griffiths et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1988

  • A Double Exile

    Gloria Harper Dickinson, Gareth GriffithsARTICLEASA Review of Books1980