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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article I explore the case of the Mariana dam disaster in 2015 in Brazil seeking to contribute to reflections about the role of chemistry and chemistry education in environmental injustices. Drawing on stories about this disaster shared in the Dead River Podcast (2024), on wider literature and on other cases of environmental injustices
Haira E. Gandolfi
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Strategies for Colonizing Death: The Online Dead, Griefbots, and Transhumanist Dragons
ReligionsDigital immortality and transhumanist longevity proposals are currently researched and debated independently. This essay claims that both ideas represent two sides of the same cultural denial of death, reconceptualizing them as interconnected forms of ...
Raquel Ferrández
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Indian medical thought on the eve of colonialism [PDF]
, 2003 British colonial power decisively established itself on the Indian subcontinent between 1770and 1830. This period and the century following it have become the subjects of muchcreative and insightful research on medical history: the use of medical ...
Wujastyk, D
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Commemorating Colonialism in a Post-Colonial World
E-rea, 2012 Colonialists erected monuments, statues and other edifices to commemorate empire-building. Since the era of decolonisation, the construction of lieux de mémoire has continued, though now with commemoration of anti-colonialist nationalism and independence movements as well.
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary The paper explores how the deep historical roots of informal institutions influence current informal businesses. It proposes that both pre‐colonial institutions—the tradition of cousin marriage—and the subsequent shocks of colonization still impact the performance of informal firms. We theorize on how the effects of historical
Saul Estrin +2 more
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In Hungary Viktor Orban adds the EU to his lengthening list of ‘enemies of the state’ [PDF]
, 2012 Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban recently denounced the EU’s policies towards Hungary as ‘colonialism’, after the EU suspended nearly half a billion Euro in funding over its massive budget deficit.
Innes, Abby
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Imaginative Possibilities in the Ethical Space
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This chapter describes the history of the Disrupting the Disciplines movement and the methods for its implementation that have been explored over the years. It focuses primarily on how the technique has been developed at one institution (Mount Royal University) and on the ways that Disrupting interviews forefront the ethical space as creating ...
Gabrielle Weasel Head +2 more
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Decoding, Disrupting: An Email Conversation in Many Parts
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are the similarities and differences between Decoding the Disciplines and Disrupting the Disciplines? This chapter explores answers to this question through a series of email exchanges between the two co‐authors. Extensive commentary provides additional history and context for the evolving relationships between Decoding and Disrupting ...
Lee Easton, Joan Middendorf
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The Profitabality of Colonialism [PDF]
This paper develops an analytical framework for studying colonial investment from the perspective of neoclassical political economy. The distinguishing feature of colonial investment in this model is that the metropolitan government restricts the amount ...
Herschel I. Grossman, Murat Iyigun
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New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the territory currently known as Canada, the work of decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation within postsecondary institutions is understood as the work of all educators, both Indigenous and non‐Indigenous. Yet non‐Indigenous faculty often struggle to engage, if they engage at all.
Robin Attas
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