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Does Colonialism Exert a Long Term Economic Impact on Adult Literacy? [PDF]

open access: yes
Examining the reason for differences in adult literacy rates across countries, this study finds that colonialism exerts a long term negative economic impact on literacy rates of the colonised.
Arusha Cooray (University of Wollongong)
core  

Centering Care in Transformative Climate Change Education: A Theoretical Framework for Communal Learning Ecosystems

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research‐practice partnerships addressing climate change education face challenges navigating political resistance, epistemic tensions, and systemic inequities within schools and communities. Recent scholarship has outlined transformative climate change education (TCCE) as requiring the simultaneous transformation of curricula, pedagogies, and
Amal Ibourk, Deb L. Morrison
wiley   +1 more source

Transformative Pathways for Strengthening Climate‐Resilient Health Systems Among Indigenous Communities: Advancing Equity and Sustainability in Global Health

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most climate‐resilience health interventions are designed at the global level, with minimal attention to Indigenous communities' needs. The lack of consideration can lead to unintended harm and exacerbate health risks. This study aims to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely ...
Chrishma D. Perera   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Nation State, Resource Conflict, and the Challenges of “Former Sovereignties” in Nigeria

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2012
Opinion leaders in Europe have often expressed penitence over Europe’s colonial legacies. While these leaders rethink the roles of their nations in colonialism, human rights abuses arising from colonialism, and state formation elsewhere, the discourse ...
Ikechukwu Umejesi
doaj  

Beyond spatial bias: understanding the colonial legacies and contemporary social forces shaping biodiversity data

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters
With over 2 billion observations of species from across the earth, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has become an influential repository of information for not only ecologists, but also conservation scientists and policy makers.
Hilary Faxon, Melissa Chapman
doaj   +1 more source

Aboriginal Child Welfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
As the relationships between Canada’s Aboriginal peoples and the state undergo changes, the issue of Child Welfare is in the foreground; for it is around the well being, education and care of Aboriginal children that much of the painful historical ...
Blackstock, Cindy   +3 more
core   +1 more source

What can we learn from disability policy to advance our understanding of how to operationalise intersectionality in Australian policy frameworks?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely the result of one social identity; social identities, and their interaction with context and power relations, offer some protective factors, while marginalises others. Taking an intersectional approach to social policy has the potential to provide deeper insights in terms of identifying and ...
Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Ilan Katz
wiley   +1 more source

LEVERAGING OR EXPLOITING? BREAKING THROUGH DATA COLONIALISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM WHEN BUILDING A DIVERSITY-AWARE SOCIAL PLATFORM.

open access: diamond, 2023
Paula Marie Helm   +7 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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