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Decolonisation is not even a footnote: On the dominant ideologies and smokescreens in South African higher education

Transformation in Higher Education
The turn to democracy in South Africa brought hope for a higher education sector that would play a key role in tackling racial inequalities and injustices.
Savo Heleta, Isha Dilraj
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Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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The illusion of change: The unfulfilled promise of decolonisation in a South African private higher education institution

Transformation in Higher Education
While decolonisation discourse has surged in South African public universities, private higher education institutions (PHEIs) remain a significant, under-researched site of market-driven education. This study aimed to identify the structural and cultural
Prince Leburu
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Exploring patterns for social‐ecological success of ecosystem restoration worldwide

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is a crucial response to human‐induced land degradation, which threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functions, poses food and water insecurity and undermines livelihoods, cultural values and human–nature relationships. For restoration to be effective and equitable, it is essential to understand how social and ecological ...
Greta Bindernagel, M. Trinidad Torres‐Garcia, Manuel Pacheco‐Romero   +2 more
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Decolonising the Decolonisers? Of Ontological Encounters in the GMO Controversy and Beyond

Global Society, 2018
Calls for decolonising IR are often focused on the need to decolonise dominant epistemologies. This article explores whether a shift towards decolonising ontology is able to provide a more profound...
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Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group, Stacy Lynn Lucas, Aurora K. Kagawa‐Viviani, Bryceson Tugade, Penny Levin, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Tamara Sherrill, Jerry Koko, Michael Kantar   +8 more
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Two centuries of Begonia exploration in the Philippines: Progress and challenges associated with a megadiverse genus in the Global South

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Megadiverse genera represent the highest concentration of plant diversity, but these plants are also located primarily in countries in the Global South where huge gaps in botanical knowledge remain. This study summarized two centuries of Begonia collection records in the Philippines to show how historical events coincide with collection and taxonomic ...
Mark Angelo C. Bucay, EB Perez‐Bellen, Marjorie D. Delos Angeles, Danilo N. Tandang, Rosario R. Rubite, Kuo‐Fang Chung   +5 more
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Decolonising global health by decolonising academic publishing

BMJ Global Health, 2022
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Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches [PDF]

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that translation plays in the complex and necessarily incomplete process of decolonisation. In a world where translation has historically been

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Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
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