Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Stambul Comedy Exploration in Early 20th-Century Semarang: Meaningful Teaching about Colonialism
This study aims to analyze the results of exploring stambul comedy as part of Indies art in early 20th-century Semarang as an effort to implement meaningful learning about colonialism for students.
Syaiful Amin +3 more
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
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As climate change accelerates and the exploitation of the Earth and its peoples through the use of digital technologies deepens, what does it mean to demand decolonising in the context of data governance?
diane U+16DE
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Walking upright here : countering prevailing discourses through reflexivity and methodological pluralism : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Nursing at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand [PDF]
Knowledge development takes place in the context of competing political, social and economic frameworks that often reflect dominant group values, practises and ideologies.
DeSouza, Ruth Noreen Argie
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Period poverty, housing and food insecurity, and mental health among college students in Hawaiʻi
Abstract Objective To assess the prevalence and associations between period poverty and depressive symptoms among college students with food and/or housing insecurity in the University of Hawaiʻi system. Period poverty is an important public health concern within the USA and has been linked with poor mental health among university students in prior ...
Samantha Kanselaar +4 more
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Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India
Scholars have used the term data colonialism to designate the extractive, asymmetrical relationship between Big Tech corporations and countries in the global South.
Sagnik Dutta, Suruchi Mazumdar
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Quest of Data Colonialism and Cyber Sovereignty: India’s Strategic Position in Cyberspace
Shubh Gupta, Reeta Sony
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Data colonialism now: harms and consequences
Data colonialism is the latest stage of colonialism: instead of land, it grabs human life in the form of data. This data extraction is radically different in scale and depth from data extraction in the past.We get drawn into this data extraction in banal ways on platforms and on our devices, but this is only part of a much larger change in how business
Pereira, G., Couldry, N.
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Evaluating the Impact of Colonialism on Economic Development: A Counterfactual Analysis [PDF]
Did colonization a ect the patterns of development of the colonized territories. I draw attention to the importance of counterfactuals and claim that assessments of the colonial impact are contingent on the counterfactual employed.
Kaniyathu, Sunny John
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