{"id":"https://openalex.org/W7204895879","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","title":"Flags Raised at Midnight: A Critical Survey Review of Decolonization and the Postwar Nation-State","display_name":"Flags Raised at Midnight: A Critical Survey Review of Decolonization and the Postwar Nation-State","publication_year":2026,"publication_date":"2026-09-02","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W7204895879","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22239091","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["datacite"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5120933120","display_name":"Zen Revista","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210124990","display_name":"Faculdades Guarulhos","ror":"https://ror.org/02s6maw65","country_code":"BR","type":"other","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210124990"]}],"countries":["BR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Revista, Zen","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculdade de Guarulhos (FG)"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculdade de Guarulhos (FG)","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210124990"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5148879253","display_name":"10 HISTORY","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210124990","display_name":"Faculdades Guarulhos","ror":"https://ror.org/02s6maw65","country_code":"BR","type":"other","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210124990"]}],"countries":["BR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"HISTORY, 10","raw_affiliation_strings":["Faculdade de Guarulhos (FG)"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6299-2008","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Faculdade de Guarulhos (FG)","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210124990"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210124990"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.0,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14141","display_name":"Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies","score":0.8428000211715698,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14141","display_name":"Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies","score":0.8428000211715698,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14395","display_name":"African history and culture studies","score":0.040300000458955765,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14123","display_name":"Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies","score":0.029500000178813934,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/decolonization","display_name":"decolonization","score":0.9990000128746033},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/independence-movements","display_name":"independence movements","score":0.6019999980926514},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/nation-building","display_name":"nation-building","score":0.4410000145435333},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/methodological-pluralism","display_name":"methodological pluralism","score":0.7850000262260437},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/evidence-synthesis","display_name":"evidence synthesis","score":0.4560000002384186},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/conceptual-definitions","display_name":"conceptual definitions","score":0.37299999594688416},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/research-agenda","display_name":"research agenda","score":0.3370000123977661},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/history-of-humanity","display_name":"history of humanity","score":0.531000018119812}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C135544838","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230533","display_name":"Decolonization","level":3,"score":0.7943999767303467},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.5622000098228455},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199033989","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1318295","display_name":"Narrative","level":2,"score":0.5364000201225281},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C108154423","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1469792","display_name":"Salience (neuroscience)","level":2,"score":0.5078999996185303},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C14224292","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13600188","display_name":"Conceptual framework","level":2,"score":0.5005000233650208},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C69721887","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2600316","display_name":"FLAGS register","level":2,"score":0.48539999127388},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779343474","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3109175","display_name":"Context (archaeology)","level":2,"score":0.4832000136375427},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C49831778","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879021","display_name":"Pluralism (philosophy)","level":2,"score":0.42719998955726624},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36289849","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34749","display_name":"Social science","level":1,"score":0.3725999891757965},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C99614261","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257663","display_name":"Conceptual history","level":3,"score":0.3594000041484833},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.357699990272522},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C35651441","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q625303","display_name":"Independence (probability theory)","level":2,"score":0.35740000009536743},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778568292","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7727275","display_name":"The Conceptual Framework","level":3,"score":0.34119999408721924},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.32580000162124634},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18762648","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42213","display_name":"Work (physics)","level":2,"score":0.3255999982357025},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C7991579","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17955","display_name":"Criticism","level":2,"score":0.3158000111579895},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C29598333","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50675","display_name":"Historiography","level":2,"score":0.3003999888896942},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95124753","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875686","display_name":"Environmental ethics","level":1,"score":0.2962999939918518},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.2935999929904938},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776050585","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7439360","display_name":"Scrutiny","level":2,"score":0.29280000925064087},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.2597000002861023},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C158154518","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7310970","display_name":"Relevance (law)","level":2,"score":0.25279998779296875},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2775945657","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381442","display_name":"Structuring","level":2,"score":0.2506999969482422}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":6,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22239091","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22239092","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239092","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239092","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22323603","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22323603","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22323603","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22323604","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22323604","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22323604","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22643348","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22643348","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22643348","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22643349","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22643349","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22643349","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.5281/zenodo.22239091","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22239091","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400562","display_name":"Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I67311998","host_organization_name":"European Organization for Nuclear Research","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I67311998"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"JournalArticle"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions","score":0.5473999977111816,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7206168178","https://openalex.org/W7204969710","https://openalex.org/W7207827068","https://openalex.org/W7206155486","https://openalex.org/W7204926454","https://openalex.org/W7214293359","https://openalex.org/W7206186916","https://openalex.org/W7206155560","https://openalex.org/W7204874721","https://openalex.org/W7204862062"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"article":[1,192],"presents":[2],"a":[3,142,146,197,203],"narrative":[4],"review":[5,50,123],"of":[6,15,17,46,55,74,98,153,159,181,209],"Decolonization":[7],"and":[8,37,62,69,83,100,105,148,178,183,202],"the":[9,13,49,52,56,59,71,77,84,96,107,128,149,154,157,179],"Postwar":[10],"Nation-State":[11],"in":[12,207],"context":[14],"History":[16,208],"Humanity.":[18,210],"The":[19,122,191],"literature":[20,129],"on":[21,42,186],"this":[22],"topic":[23,155],"has":[24],"expanded":[25],"substantially":[26],"over":[27],"recent":[28],"decades,":[29],"yet":[30],"it":[31],"remains":[32],"fragmented":[33],"across":[34],"subfields,":[35],"methods,":[36],"national":[38],"research":[39,114,173],"traditions.":[40],"Drawing":[41],"an":[43],"interpretive":[44],"synthesis":[45,176],"representative":[47],"contributions,":[48],"reconstructs":[51],"historical":[53],"development":[54],"area,":[57],"examines":[58],"conceptual":[60,162],"foundations":[61],"definitional":[63,182],"disputes":[64],"that":[65,87],"organize":[66],"its":[67,160],"debates,":[68],"maps":[70],"contemporary":[72],"landscape":[73],"research,":[75],"including":[76],"methodological":[78,136],"shift":[79],"toward":[80],"data-intensive":[81],"approaches":[82],"institutional":[85],"pressures":[86],"shape":[88],"publication":[89],"practice.":[90],"Particular":[91],"attention":[92],"is":[93,130,138,169,193],"given":[94],"to":[95,106],"role":[97],"decolonization":[99],"independence":[101],"as":[102,141,145,195],"organizing":[103],"themes,":[104],"conditions":[108],"under":[109],"which":[110,187],"findings":[111],"from":[112],"different":[113],"traditions":[115],"can":[116],"be":[117],"brought":[118],"into":[119],"productive":[120],"comparison.":[121],"identifies":[124],"three":[125],"synthetic":[126],"conclusions:":[127],"cumulatively":[131],"strong":[132],"but":[133],"organizationally":[134],"weak;":[135],"pluralism":[137],"better":[139],"understood":[140],"resource":[143],"than":[144],"defect;":[147],"growing":[150],"practical":[151],"salience":[152],"raises":[156],"stakes":[158],"unresolved":[161],"questions.":[163],"An":[164],"agenda":[165],"for":[166,200,205],"future":[167],"work":[168,185],"proposed,":[170],"emphasizing":[171],"integrative":[172],"designs,":[174],"transparent":[175],"practices,":[177],"protection":[180],"infrastructural":[184],"cumulative":[188],"progress":[189],"depends.":[190],"intended":[194],"both":[196],"reference":[198],"map":[199],"newcomers":[201],"provocation":[204],"specialists":[206]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-10-28T10:33:24.094632","created_date":"2026-09-02T00:00:00"}