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From Apes and Thick Micks to the Fighting Irish

open access: yesJournal of Intercollegiate Sport, 2015
Despite the continuing controversy surrounding the use of Native American mascots, little attention is paid to the Fighting Irish mascot at the University of Notre Dame.
Meghan A. Conley, Billy Hawkins
doaj   +1 more source

Global Health Governance Cannot Keep Relying on the Development‐Goals Model to Effectively Address Health Inequalities Around the World

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are nearing their end in 2030, and it is highly unlikely that many of the SDGs would be met by the target date. This calls for the urgent need for an upgraded approach or a new strategy from the “development‐goals” model.
Funom Theophilus Makama
wiley   +1 more source

Platform as a Factor of Digital Imperialism in the Russian Information Space

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science
The digital imperialism is a modern dimension of classical economic imperialism and uses tools such as digital platforms to disseminate information and accumulate and call financial capital from countries of the periphery to the center.
Denis S. Martyanov, Galina V. Lukyanova
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Globalization on African Cultureand Politics

open access: yesJournal of International Studies, 2017
The world is undergoing the process of transition ranging from orthodox traditionalist to the modern colonial system of multipolar divergent domination of colonial agenda and later transcending to bipolar twin ideological dominance of western capitalist ...
Ibrahim Kawuley Mikail   +1 more
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Edward Said and the Margins [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Edward Said was the quintessential intellectual of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Commonly celebrated as the founding figure of postcolonialism, his critical oeuvre spans varied terrain. The very strength of his critique lies in these diverse
Thomas, Tom
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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

An Investigation into a Culturally Sensitive Manner of Teaching English as a Foreign Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
How to teach English globally has continued to be a relevant topic of discussion in the field of TESL, especially how to teach in a manner that is sensitive to the various sociocultural and historical factors surrounding the English language, as well as ...
Vaught, Julianna
core   +1 more source

(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic imperialism and colonial discourse in Elias Canetti's The Voices of Marrakesh: A post-colonial analysis

open access: yesMoroccan Journal of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
In the context of colonialism, Morocco like all the countries of the Orient has been portrayed through the lenses of many orientalist travelogues. These literary texts are for Said’s (1978) colonial discourses that objectified the ‘Other’, perpetuating ...
MOHAMED TAHAR ES SIDDIKI   +1 more
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