demise of postmodernism in the late 1980s served to disguise its mutation into various new branches, such as Postcolonialism, Queer Theory and Critical Race Theory, all of which followed naturally from the applied postmodern turn of 1989. More recently, its manifestations have become readily identifiable from the use of the word ‘Studies’, with Whiteness Studies, Fat Studies and Disability Studies being the most obvious examples. In all these cases, the activist element is front and centre; the goal is to reconstruct society in order to combat the oppression of minority groups. This is an
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