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Colonial differences in intercultural education: on interculturality in the Andes and the decolonization of intercultural dialogue [PDF]

, 2017
This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted
Aman, Robert
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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O passado revolucionário: descolonizando o direito e os direitos humanos [PDF]

, 2013
Combining a radical revision of the historical formation of occidental law with perspectives derived from decolonial thought, this paper advances a deconstruction of occidental law. That deconstruction is then brought to bear on human rights. Although
Fitzpatrick, Peter
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards decolonisation of primary school education in South Africa

South African Journal of Childhood Education
Background: Despite the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994, most black schools in the country still embrace coloniality through policies and practices.
Emmanuel S. Akinmolayan, Claudine A. Hingston, Udoh J. Akpan, Omolola A. Arise   +3 more
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Colonial, more widely distributed and less abundant bird species undergo wider population fluctuations independent of their population trend. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Understanding temporal variability in population size is important for conservation biology because wide population fluctuations increase the risk of extinction.
José J Cuervo, Anders P Møller
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Inflation, Race, and Legislation—The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973–2024

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol, Jim teWaterNaude, Barry Kistnasamy, Rodney Ehrlich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abyssalities against the grain: the clown circus without a future

Visualidades, 2015
By articulating Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ notion that the Western modern thinking is an abyssal thinking, we examine the functioning of such “abyssalities”, which hierarchize and turn knowledge and practices invisible, as well as operate the ...
Ludmila de Lima Brandão, Daniel Pellegrim Sanchez   +1 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Kolonialita jako druhá tvář modernity. K současné latinskoamerické postkoloniální kritice modernity [PDF]

Historicka Sociologie, 2012
The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano's notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoret- ical framework for critical reflection of modernity with an emphasis ...
Veronika Sušová-Salminen
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